KR101707999B1 - Closed smart mailbox management system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for managing a closed-type smart mailbox which may be open by only an authorized person. The system comprises: a family member information registration unit which receives information about a family member capable of opening or closing his or her own generation mailbox from a family member information terminal, and which registers the received information in a DB; and a family member information transmission unit which sends the information about the registered family member to the control device of the closed-type smart mailbox of a house where the registered family member lives, family member information transmission unit sending the information along with information about the information terminal of a mailperson who is responsible for the closed-type smart mailbox so that the control device uses the information in order to control the locking device of the mailbox of each household when the information terminal of the registered family member or the information terminal of the registered mailperson approaches.

Description

CLOSED SMART MAILBOX MANAGEMENT SYSTEM}

The present invention relates to a closed smart mailbox management system, and more particularly, to a closed smart mailbox management system capable of being opened only by an authorized person.

Multi-generational buildings such as apartments and villas are equipped with multi-generational mailboxes that are easily accessible by family members and postal service providers, such as the common entrance. The multi-generational mailbox is a continuous arrangement of a plurality of individual mailboxes. Therefore, postal delivery can be facilitated by postal mailers dividing postal items into multi-generational mailboxes without visiting individual households. In addition, each household member can easily receive postal items when entering the common entrance.

In response to the digital age, many notices and bills have been converted into e-mails and sent by e-mail. However, most of the notices and bills are still sent by paper mail, and in particular, the mail for notifying the election and the government policy is sent simultaneously by e-mail and paper mail. Thus, the mailbox for receiving paper mails in this way will continue to be used for a while and its importance will still be high.

On the other hand, leakage of personal information by mail and crime are on the rise. It is to steal mail placed in the mailbox and to extract personal information contained therein or to extort important documents and exploit them for crime. In addition, there is a case in which a certain generation of household members is being out for a long time when the mail is left in the mailbox for a long time, thereby exploiting the crime.

Therefore, it is necessary to have a security-enhanced multi-family mailbox to securely receive personal mail through the mailbox, and to prevent the abuse of crime by the presence of mail or mail in the mailbox. In other words, a smart mail box which can prevent the outflow of personal information by allowing only the postal mailman and the household member who have been given the right of authority to open and close the mailbox only, and further prevents unnecessary advertisement shear and dirt from being input .

Furthermore, it is necessary to develop a mail box that can enjoy convenience in use by both mailers and household members by combining mobile devices and IoT technology,

Especially, in the case of registered mail, it is necessary to develop a system in which the postal delivery agent repeatedly repeats the generation when the mail recipient is absent, more efficiently solves the problem, and the mail delivery can be normally performed even when the address of the mail recipient is changed .

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Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a closed type smart mail box which can open and close a closed smart mail box to prevent loss of mail items, A smart mailbox management system,

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a closed smart mailbox management system capable of preventing a mail delivered to an address before address change from being delivered to an address of a changed address even when the address of the mail recipient is changed.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for delivering registered mail to a normal recipient without having to return to the mail delivery carrier even when the recipient is not required to receive the registered mail, And to provide a closed smart mailbox management system.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a closed smart mailbox management system capable of notifying a registered member of a household when a mail is input into a self-mail box,

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a closed smart mailbox management system capable of sending mail through a mailbox without visiting a post office.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a server-type closed smart mailbox management system,

A household member information registration unit for receiving information of a household member capable of opening and closing the own household mailbox, from a household member information terminal and DB-registered;

Information of a registered household member is transmitted to a control device of a closed smart mailbox of a residential house of a registered household member together with information terminal information of a mail carrier managing the closed smart mailbox, A household member information transmitting unit for controlling a locking device of a mailbox for each household when accessing an information terminal of a household member's information terminal or a registered mailman;

A mail arrival notification unit for receiving the mail item detection information generated when the mail item is input into the closed smart mailbox and for receiving the mail item arrival information to the household member information terminal of the household identification information included in the mail item input detection information; And a second electrode,

Furthermore, when an address change request is received from the information terminal of the registered household member, the address change information before and after the change is transmitted to one or more of the information terminal of the mail delivery carrier, the control device, And an update processing unit.

The server type closed smart mailbox management system described above,

And a billing processor for processing the billing according to the type and the area of the mail item selected by the household member when the mail item is requested from the information terminal of the registered household member,

Mail address location information providing unit for providing location information of the mail to be mailed to an information terminal of a mail delivery carrier managing a closed smart mailbox of a household in which charged postal matter is stored.

Furthermore, the server-type closed smart mailbox management system described above,

And an electronic signature request unit for requesting an electronic signature to the household member information terminal when the mail item requiring the recipient electronic signature is received from the delivery mail item and DB-registering the electronic signature transmitted in response to the request,

The household member information registration unit can transmit the information of the received household member to a government office server or a communication company server and register members only when the household member authentication is completed.

The IoT-based closed mailboxes for each generation, which can interoperate with the server type closed smart mailbox management system described above,

One or more closed-type generation-by-generation mailboxes in which the door is opened and closed under the control of the locking device,

A mail detection sensor for detecting the input of mail and the removal of the input mail into the mailbox for each household,

And a control device for unlocking or locking the doors of the mailboxes of the respective generations,

A communication unit for transmitting and receiving information to and from the information terminal of the closed type smart mailbox management system of the server type through the communication network, the information terminal of each household member, and the mail information provider;

A storage unit for registering generation information of each household and information terminal information of a mail delivery source transmitted from the closed type smart mailbox management system of the server type;

It is checked whether or not the household member information transmitted from the mailbox management app installed in the household member information terminal or the mailman information terminal matches the information registered in the storage unit and controls one or more doors of the mailbox for each household And a controller.

Further,

A first communication unit which is one of a wired / wireless communication module for transmitting / receiving information to / from the closed type smart mailbox management system of the server type;

And a second communication unit for short distance wireless communication with the information terminal of the household member and the information terminal of the mail delivery carrier.

The controller comprising:

Type mail box management system for generating mail item insertion detection information including generation identification information using the mail box in which the mail item detection signal is generated when the mail item detection signal is input from the mail item detection sensor disposed in each of the mailboxes for each generation, And a transmission control unit.

The control device may be implemented as a gateway, and the gateway may further include a Bluetooth module for short distance wireless communication with the information terminal of the household member and the information delivery terminal of the mail delivery source.

According to the above-mentioned problem solving means, since the closed smart mailbox according to the embodiment of the present invention can open the mailbox door of each household only by the user who has been granted the use authority, it is possible to prevent the illegal advertisement or the insertion of the leaflet, There is an advantage that the mail can be prevented from being lost.

Further, the household member using the closed smart mailbox according to the embodiment of the present invention can easily change the address through the application installed in the information terminal of his / her household, so that even if the user moves his / It is possible to obtain an effect that the mail can be normally received.

In addition, when mail arrives at the mailboxes of the respective generations constituting the closed smart mailbox according to the embodiment of the present invention, the information is notified to the information terminals of the registered household members of the households of the households, so that the household members can conveniently receive the mail In addition,

A household member who desires to send mail can advantageously perform settlement by mailing his or her information terminal by using his / her information terminal and send mail conveniently at a residence.

Further, according to the present invention, like the registered mail, the electronic signature of the mail recipient can be received and stored through the information terminal of the mail recipient, so that it is possible to reduce the inconvenience that the mail sender repeatedly visits the household due to the absence of the mail recipient, It is possible to dramatically improve work efficiency, reduce the workload of postal delivery workers, and maximize work efficiency.

1 is an illustration of a peripheral connection relationship of a closed smart mailbox 100 and its management system 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of a closed smart mailbox management system 300 of FIG. 1; FIG.
3 is an electrical block diagram of the closed smart mailbox 100 of FIG. 1;
Figs. 4 to 15 are exemplary structural configurations of a closed smart mailbox 100 in Fig. 1; Fig.
16 is an exemplary information transmission flow for explaining a part of the operation of the closed smart mailbox 100 and its management system 300 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

It is to be understood that the specific structural or functional description of embodiments of the present invention disclosed herein is for illustrative purposes only and is not intended to limit the scope of the inventive concept But may be embodied in many different forms and is not limited to the embodiments set forth herein.

In addition, the embodiments according to the concept of the present invention can make various changes and have various forms, so that the embodiments are illustrated in the drawings and described in detail herein. It should be understood, however, that it is not intended to limit the embodiments according to the concepts of the present invention to the particular forms disclosed, but includes all modifications, equivalents, or alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.

In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

First, FIG. 1 illustrates a peripheral connection diagram of a closed smart mailbox 100 and its management system 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a closed smart mailbox 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is connectable with a server-type closed smart mailbox management system 300 through a wired / wireless communication network.

The closed smart mailbox 100 is a closed mailbox, and is a mailbox which is provided for the number of households of a single household or a multi-family house. In the following description, an embodiment of the present invention will be described on the assumption of a mailbox installed in a multi-family house. In this case, the individual mailbox assigned to each household to distinguish the mailbox installed at the entrance of the apartment house from the mailbox for every household is referred to as a mailbox for each household, and the set of mailboxes for each household installed at the entrance of the apartment is referred to as a smart mailbox . The reference numbers of household mailboxes and closed smart mailboxes are commonly used as 100. Of course, a mailbox installed in a single-family house (home only for first-generation residents) may be called a smart mailbox.

The closed smart mailbox 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention maintains the closed state in the normal state by opening and closing the door (open / closed (closed)) under the control of the lock device, It is a smart mailbox designed to open and close the mailbox door.

The authorized person may be the postal carrier responsible for the mail delivery service and the household member of each household. The authorized person can expand as needed.

The closed smart mailbox 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention can be controlled to open and close the door by communicating with an information terminal of household members residing in each household of the mail delivery carrier and the apartment house. In addition, the closed smart mailbox 100 can detect when a mail item is input or input into a mailbox of each household, and transmits the mail to the closed smart mailbox management system 300 to transmit the mail to the registered household member . The electrical and mechanical characteristics of the closed smart mailbox 100 will be described later.

On the other hand, the closed smart mailbox management system 300 for managing the closed smart mailbox 100 distributed in the apartment house receives the information of each household member of the apartment house corresponding to the service user, registers the information in the internal DB, And sends the information of the household member who is responsible for the apartment house to the closed smart mailbox 100. In addition, the closed smart mailbox management system 300 notifies the household members of the mail when the mail has been delivered to the household, and when the signer of the legitimate registered mail such as registered mail is required, It also receives the request, receives it, and registers and manages it. The configuration and operation of the closed smart mailbox management system 300 will also be described later.

A mailbox management application (App), which is necessary for the implementation of the present invention, is installed in the household information terminals 400 and 410 and the mail delivery source information terminal 500 shown in FIG. Through these apps, each generation member can register his / her information (at least address, name, terminal information, etc.) in the closed smart mailbox management system 300, change the address, Payment can be made easily, and the fact of delivery of the mail can be notified. Most importantly, by owning an information terminal, you can open and close individual mailboxes for each household assigned to you.

Lastly, the public office server (or the communication company server 200) described in FIG. 1 is a server necessary for authenticating whether a person requesting registration of household members truly lives in the household. Therefore, the name of the government office or the communication company is not important, and any server that can authenticate a person who requests registration of a household member as a household member of the household can be utilized for the implementation of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the configuration of the closed smart mailbox 100 and its management system 300 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 2 and FIG.

FIG. 2 illustrates a detailed configuration of a closed smart mailbox management system 300 of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 illustrates an electrical configuration block of a closed smart mailbox 100 of FIG.

Referring to FIG. 2, a closed smart mailbox management system 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention,

A household member information registration unit 310 for receiving information (household name, information terminal identification information) of household members capable of opening and closing the own household mailboxes from the household member information terminals 400 and 410 and registering them in the DB 370,

Information of registered household members is transmitted to the control device of the closed smart mailbox 100 of the house where the registration household resides, and information of the information carrier 500 of the mail carrier managing the closed smart mailbox 100 And a household information transmitting unit 320 for transmitting the household information together with the terminal identification information.

With this configuration, the closed smart mailbox management system 300 basically allows each household member to open a mailbox allocated to his / her household through his / her information terminal, and the mail carrier can also access the closed smart mail box You can open it all. This operation will be described in more detail in Fig.

Furthermore, the closed smart mailbox management system 300 receives the mail item detection information (including at least generation identification information) generated when mail is input into the closed smart mailbox 100, from the control device, And a mail arrival notification unit 330 for transmitting the mail arrival information to the household information terminal of the household identification information included in the mail input detection information.

In order to block the registration of the false household members, the household member information registration unit 310 may transmit the information of the received household member to the government office server 200 or the communication company server so that the household member information is registered in the DB 370 only when the household member authentication is completed .

The closed smart mailbox management system 300 including the above-described configurations can notify the information delivery status of the mail to the information terminals 400 and 410 of the household member when the mail is input to the household mailbox registered with the household member.

As a variant embodiment, the closed smart mailbox management system 300 comprises:

More specifically, when an address change request (including change address information) is received from the mailbox management app installed in the information terminals 400 and 410 of the registered household members from the information terminals 400 and 410 of the registered household members, And an address change update processing unit (340) for transmitting the address information to at least one of the information terminal (500) of the mail delivery source, the control device, the mail delivery classification branch station (250) have.

The household members who have been registered by the address change update processing unit 340 voluntarily report the changed address to the closed smart mailbox management system 300 when the address is changed so that mail items to be delivered to or delivered to the previous address are stored in the newly- . ≪ / RTI >

As another modified embodiment, the above-described closed smart mailbox management system 300 requests an electronic signature to the household member information terminal 400 or 410 when mail items requiring a recipient electronic signature among the delivery mail items inputted into household mailboxes are received, And an electronic signature requesting unit 350 for registering the digital signature transmitted in response to the request in the DB 370.

Whether or not the mail has been input into the mailbox for each household can be known through the mail detection sensor installed in each mailbox for each household. Whether or not the mail has been received is also determined by detecting the mail input through the mail detection sensor, . The electronic signature registered in the DB 370 can be used as evidence for receipt of the registered mail. Upon receipt of the mail receipt completion information, the digital signature requesting unit 350 writes the mail receipt completion information in the mail receipt delivery address book (DB) of the household, and prepares for the responsible material that may occur later.

Furthermore, as yet another alternative embodiment, the closed smart mailbox management system 300 described above,

A billing processing unit 360 for relaying the billing according to the type and the area of the mail item selected by the household member in the household member mailbox management app when the mail item is requested from the information terminal 400 or 410 of the registered household member .

More specifically, household members can request mail delivery through a household mailbox management application. If you send mail like this, the Household Mailbox Management app will display a window that allows you to enter the type of mail you want to send (regular mail, registered mail, international mail, courier, etc.), region, Present it to household members through the mailbox management app for household members. The information input through the input window is transmitted to the billing processing unit 360. The billing processing unit 360 not only presents the mailing fee based on the input information, but also presents various currently known payment means. When a payment means, for example, a prepaid point, a credit card, a wire transfer, a mobile phone payment, or the like is selected by the household member, the billing is relayed according to the selected payment method and the result is stored in the DB 370, To the customer.

Each household member completes the mailing and billing settlement from the home to the household postal office without visiting the post office by the charge processing unit 360 and then transmits the postal matter to each household's mailbox or the closed smart mail box, Type smart mailbox, it is possible to send the mail more conveniently since only the responsible mail carrier can receive it.

In order to provide a better service, the mail arrival notification unit 330 transmits the mailing information to the information terminals 400 and 410 of the household members who have requested the sending of the mail item when the mail item having been charged by the charge processing unit 360 is normally sent It is possible.

The fact that the completed mail is normally mailed can be verified by the mailman collecting the mail merely from the mail box when the mailman confirms the mail by the separate mail scanning equipment when the mail is received at the mailbox.

Meanwhile, the above-mentioned closed smart mailbox management system 300 is a system for managing a closed smart mail box 100 in which charged mail items are stored, and a mail server for providing the location information of the mail items to the information terminal 500 of the mail- The location information providing unit 380 may be further included to promptly collect the mail.

As a variant embodiment, the charge may be designed to be processed in the closed smart mailbox 100, although it may be relayed or imposed in the closed smart mailbox management system 300.

Hereinafter, the closed Smart Mailbox 100 based on the IoT will be described with reference to FIG. 3 illustrating an electrical construction block of the closed Smart Mailbox 100,

First, the closed smart mailbox 100 capable of short-range wireless communication with the information terminals 400 and 410 of the registered household members and the information terminal 500 of the mail delivery center is controlled by the lock device so that the door is opened to / and,

Mail detection sensors S1, S2, ..., Sn for detecting the input of mail and the removal of the input mail into the mailbox for each household,

And a controller for unlocking or locking the doors of the mailboxes of the respective generations,

A communication unit 170 for transmitting and receiving information to and from a server 300 of a server type, a smart mail box management system 300 of a server type, information terminals 400 and 410 of each household member, and an information terminal 500 of a mail-

A storage unit 180 for registering householder information for each household and information terminal information of a mail delivery source sent from the server-type closed smart mailbox management system 300,

It is searched whether or not the household member information transmitted from the mailbox management app installed in the household information terminal 400 or 410 or the mailman information terminal 500 matches the information registered in the storage unit 180, And a controller 175 for opening and closing one or more doors of the mailbox.

The communication unit 170 includes a first communication unit, which is one of a wired / wireless communication module for transmitting / receiving information to / from the server-type closed smart mailbox management system 300,

And a second communication unit for short distance wireless communication with the information terminals 400 and 410 of the household members and the information terminal 500 of the mail delivery source. The first communication unit may be implemented as a gateway (G / W), and the second communication unit may be implemented as a Bluetooth (BT) module.

Furthermore, the control device may further include a Bluetooth module (BT) for short distance wireless communication with the information terminal 400 of the household member and the information terminal 500 of the mail delivery source.

The control device may be installed in the closed smart mailbox 100 located in the apartment house 1, if necessary, and may be installed and operated in accordance with necessity, or may be installed in a gateway (G / W) And may include a plurality of controllers 175 for controlling the locks of the individual mailboxes.

On the other hand, when the mail detection signal is input from the mail detection sensors S1,, and Sn disposed in each of the mailboxes of each generation, the controller 175 detects mail insertion detection information including generation identification information using the mailbox in which the mail detection signal is generated And controls transmission to the server-type closed smart mailbox management system 300.

Hereinafter, the mechanical configuration of the closed smart mailbox 100 having the above-described electrical configuration and each mailbox for each household will be described in detail. The mechanical configuration of each mailbox for each generation, which will be described below, is only an example necessary to explain the structure and operation of the present invention, and may be modified in various forms.

Figures 4 to 15 illustrate the mechanical configuration of the closed smart mailbox 100 of Figure 1.

First, as shown in FIG. 1, a closed smart mailbox 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a plurality of mailboxes 100 for each generation, which are combined vertically, horizontally, and vertically to form one multi-family mailbox.

As shown in FIG. 6, the mailbox 100 for each household includes a mailbox body 110, a mailbox postoffice 120, and a mailbox frontoffset 130.

As shown in FIG. 7, the mailbox body 110 is a rectangular barrel having front and rear openings, and includes upper and lower side walls 111 and 112 facing each other and left and right side walls 113 and 114 facing each other . A first protruded rail (115) is formed in the longitudinal direction on the outer side of one of the upper and lower side walls (111, 112) facing each other, and the other of the upper and lower side walls A first groove-like rail 116 is formed in the longitudinal direction corresponding to the first groove-like rail 115. Two first protruded rails 115 are formed on the upper sidewall 111 and two first grooved rails 116 are formed on the lower sidewall 112 in this embodiment.

Therefore, the plurality of the mailbox body 110 can be assembled to each other in the vertical direction by using the coupling between the first protruding rail 115 and the first groove-like rail 116. A second protruding rail 117 is formed on the outer side of one of the left and right side walls 113 and 114 facing each other in the longitudinal direction and the other of the left and right side walls 113 and 114 And a second groove-shaped rail 118 is formed in a shape corresponding to the second protruding rail 117. One second groove type rail 118 is formed on the left side wall 113 and one second projection type rail 117 is formed on the right side wall 114 in this embodiment.

Therefore, the plurality of the mailbox body 110 can be assembled to each other in the left-right direction using the coupling between the second protruding rail 117 and the second groove-shaped rail 118.

As shown in FIG. 5, the mailbox main body 110 is assembled together in the up, down, left, and right directions to provide a smart mailbox for multi-generations. When the main body 110 of each mailbox is assembled, it is preferable to assemble the exterior finish 151, 152, 153, 154 as shown in FIG. In this case, grooved or protruding rails corresponding to the first and second protruding rails or the first and second grooved rails may be formed on the exterior finishing materials 151, 152, 153, and 154, have.

On the front and rear sides of the left and right sidewalls 113 and 114 of the mailbox body 110 are formed insertion engaging recesses 119 for assembling the mail box front plate 130 and the post box rear plate 120, respectively. A post-mailbox rear plate 120 is provided so as to close the open rear side of the mailbox main body 110 as described above.

As shown in FIG. 8, an insertion protrusion piece 121 for insertion and fastening is inserted into the insertion concave groove 119 of the box body 110 and protrudes forward. The insertion protrusion piece 121 of the post box rear plate 120 is inserted into the upper space of the insertion concave groove 119 of the box body 110 and then moved to the lower side of the post box 120, 120 are inserted and fixed in the lower space of the insertion concave groove 119 of the box body 110.

A variety of methods can be applied to the coupling structure of the insertion protrusion piece 121 and the insertion concave groove 119. In this embodiment, the post box rear plate 120 and the mailbox body 110 are detachably assembled to each other , And may be fastened in an integral type which can not be attached or detached depending on circumstances.

On the other hand, a mailbox front plate 130 is provided so as to close the open front of the mailbox body 110. 9 and 10, the mail box front plate 130 has a box front plate main body 131, a loading section opening / closing door 132, a drawer opening / closing door 133, a first locking portion 134, A locking portion 135, a mailbox controller 136 for each household, a power supply line, and the like. The mailbox controller 136 for each household can be deleted when one controller 175 included in the controller described with reference to FIG. 3 can control all locking devices of each mailbox. Also, although the input unit opening / closing door 132 and the opening portion opening / closing door 133 are provided in the drawing, it is also possible to design such that only one door is provided to input and exit the mail.

As shown in Fig. 10, an insertion protrusion piece 131a for insertion and fastening is inserted into the insertion concave groove 119 of the mailbox body 110 to protrude rearward from the front surface of the mailbox front plate main body 131 . The coupling structure of the insertion protrusion piece 131a of the mailbox front plate main body 131 and the insertion coupling groove 119 is the same as the coupling structure of the insertion protrusion piece 121 of the post box rear plate 120 and the insertion coupling groove 119 Do. 11, a mail item input portion 131b is formed in an upper portion of the mailbox front full-plate main body 131, and a mail-out portion 131c, which is an open space, is formed in the lower portion of the mail- .

The input portion opening and closing door 132 is provided to open and close the mail input portion 131b as shown in Fig. 12, and the upper portion of the opening portion opening and closing door 132 is hinged to the mail front front plate body 131, (See Fig. 15). In the state shown in Fig.

For reference, the input unit opening / closing door 132 is a door used when a postal delivery agent inputs mail. A first locking plate 132a having a first locking hole 132b is formed while being bent in a horizontal direction at a lower end of the opening portion opening and closing door 132. A first locking plate 132a is formed in the first locking hole 132b, When the locking rod 134a of the first locking part 134 is released from the first locking hole 132b and the lock rod 134a of the first locking part 134 is inserted from the first locking hole 132b, (132) is in the unlocked state. The drawer opening and closing door 133 is provided to open and close the mail drawer 131c and the drawer opening and closing door 133 is hinged to the mailbox front plate main body 131 at a lower end thereof, It can be converted into a state of rotating toward the front (see Fig. 15).

The drawer opening / closing door 133 is a door used when a household member draws mail, and the drawer opening / closing door 133 is provided with a handle 133c for pulling it forward. At the upper end of the drawer opening / closing door 133, a second lock plate 133a having a second lock hole 133b is formed while being bent in a horizontal direction.

When the lock rod 135a of the second lock portion 135 is inserted into the second lock hole 133b to be described later, the drawer opening / closing door 133 is locked and the second lock hole 133b, When the lock rod 135a of the lock lever 135 is disengaged, the drawer opening / closing door 133 is unlocked. The first locking part 134 and the second locking part 135 are provided on the rear surface of the mailbox front plate main body 130. The first locking part 134 is provided with a locking rod 134a for locking or unlocking the closing part opening and closing door 132. When the power is supplied, the locking rod 134a is retracted to open the closing part opening / closing door 132 And when the power is not supplied, the lock rod 134a advances to turn the input unit opening / closing door 132 into a locked state. The control device controls the solenoid actuator to control the opening of the door opening / closing door 133 and the opening / closing door 132 as shown in FIG.

The second lock portion 135 is provided with a lock rod 135a for locking or unlocking the lock portion 135. When power is supplied, the lock rod 135a is retracted, And when the power is not supplied, the lock rod 135a is advanced to convert the opening portion opening / closing door 133 into a locked state. Reference numerals 141, 142, 143, and 144, which are not shown in the drawings, indicate power connection terminals for power supply when a controller is provided in each mailbox for each household.

The post box main body 110 having the above-described mechanical configuration is coupled to the post box rear board 120 and the post box main body 110 to which the post box rear board 120 is coupled is connected to the adjacent mailbox main body 110, The joining of the exterior finishing materials 151, 152, 153, and 154 to the mailbox body 110 coupled to each other and joining the previously prepared mailbox case front plate 130 to the mailbox body 110 for each household The production of the closed smart mailbox 100 is completed as shown in Fig.

The closed smart mailbox 100 and its management system 300 according to the embodiment of the present invention and each household information terminal 400 and 410 and mail distributor information terminal 500 interoperate with each other to deliver and receive mail The process will be explained. For convenience of description, it will be assumed that each mailbox 100 for each household has only one door, and it is assumed that the mailbox 30 having the mail input port is included in the closed smart mailbox 100 do. Mailboxes are mailboxes that can only be controlled by the Mailman.

16 illustrates an information transfer flow chart for explaining a part of the operation of the closed smart mailbox 100 and its management system 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 16, a household member who intends to use the closed smart mailbox 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention and a mail delivery carrier download and install a mailbox management application on their information terminals. The mailbox management application can be downloaded from the administrator of the closed smart mailbox management system 300 or the operation server of the post office.

After each household member residing in a multi-family house (multi-family house) provided with a closed smart mailbox 100 installs a mailbox management app on their information terminals 400 and 410, the app is executed to transmit household member information to a closed smart mailbox management system (Step S10). The household member information may include an address, a name, an information terminal identification information, etc., of a household member, and may be transmitted by one person together.

The household member information registration unit 310 of the server type closed smart mailbox management system 300 registers household member information transmitted from the household member information terminals 400 and 410 in the DB 370 in step S12. Of course, the information (information terminal identification information, name, etc.) of each local mail delivery carrier is registered and used in the DB 370 in advance. It is preferable that the household member information registration unit 310 selectively registers the information of household members authenticated through the government office server 200 or the communication company server in order to prevent registration of a fraudulent household member.

When the household member information is registered, the household member information transmitting unit 320 of the closed smart mail box managing system 300 transmits information of the registered household member to the control device of the closed smart mailbox 100 of the house where the registered household member resides (Step S14), together with the information of the information delivery terminal 500 of the postal delivery agent in charge of the closed smart mailbox 100.

The controller 175 configuring the control device of the closed smart mailbox 100 stores the generation source information of each household and the information of the mail delivery source transmitted in the above manner in the storage unit 180 (step S16).

When the closed smart mailbox 100 installed in each apartment house stores the information of the household members constituting each household and the information of the mail carrier responsible for the mailbox 100, And communicates with the information terminals existing within a possible range to open the door of the mailbox only to registered, i.e., authorized persons.

For example, if the mailman arrives within the communication unit 170, i.e., the Bluetooth communication radius installed in the closed smart mailbox 100 with his / her information terminal 500 installed with the mailbox management application, the controller 175 transmits the Bluetooth communication It is determined whether or not the identification information of the information terminal 500 of the postal delivery agent obtained in step S18 is stored in the storage unit 180, and it is determined whether the information is the registered mail delivery source (step S18).

As a result of the determination, if the registered mail delivery source is confirmed, the controller 175 controls the lock devices 185 and 190 of the closed smart mailbox 100 to open all the doors (step S20). More precisely, the door is unlocked in such a state that the door can be opened.

By keeping the locking devices 185 and 190 in the locked state as described above, it is possible to prevent the illegal advertisement or the insertion of the leaflet, prevent the lost mail item from being lost, The postal mailer can normally put the mail sent to each household into the mailbox 100 for each household.

The controller 175 receives the mail detection signal from the mail detection sensor Sn installed for each generation (step S22). When the postal matter detection signal S1 is received by the mail detection sensor S1, , The mail item detection information including the generation information is generated and transmitted to the closed smart mailbox management system 300 (step S24).

The mail arrival notification unit 330 of the closed smart mailbox management system 300 refers to the generation identification information included in the mail input detection information and transmits the mail arrival information to the information terminal 400 of the household member )do. The household member can recognize that mail has arrived at his / her household mailbox 100.

When a household member who has been notified of the arrival of a mail arrives at the place where the household mailbox 100 is located by carrying her own information terminal 400 and accesses the home office information terminal 400 and the control device 300 existing in the closed smart mailbox 100, And transmits and receives the information terminal identification information of household members by Bluetooth communication with the internal communication unit 170.

The controller 175 checks in step S28 whether the accessed household member is a registered household member. If the member is a registered household member, the controller 175 releases the locking device of the mailbox 100 for each household belonging to the identified household member and opens the door (step S30) . When the household member closes the door again after bringing in the mail from the own household mailbox 100, the controller 175 controls the closing of the door again according to the door opening / closing detection signal, and the mail item is carried out through the mail detecting sensor Sn If it is determined that the delivered mail is normally delivered to the recipient, the mail receipt completion information is transmitted to the smart mailbox management system 300 (step S32).

When the mail receipt completion information is received, the electronic signature requesting unit 350 of the closed smart mail box management system 300 records and stores the mail receipt in the mail receipt delivery receipt (DB) of the corresponding household (step S34) Prepare for the material.

If signatures are required, such as registered mail, among the mail items received by household members, the electronic signature requesting unit 350 provides the mail information requiring the digital signature to the information terminal 400 of the household member who propagated the mail arrival Request a digital signature together. The electronic signature request is displayed to household members through a mailbox management application installed in the information terminal 400 of the household member. When the signature is completed in the displayed electronic signature window, the electronic signature request is fed back and stored in the reception mail receipt of the corresponding household provided in the DB 370 (Step S36).

As described above, the closed mailbox management system 300 according to the embodiment of the present invention transmits the household member information and the mail carrier information to the closed smart mailbox 100 based on the IoT provided in the shared house, Only the carrier can open or close the doors of the self-contained or closed smart mailbox 100,

Further, the closed mailbox management system 300 receives the information and the electronic signature necessary for managing the history of the mail through the closed smart mailbox 100 and the mailbox management application, and records the received information in an integrated manner.

Although not shown in FIG. 16, since the closed mailbox management system 300 is provided with the address change update processing unit 340, a household member who has provided the household member information to the closed smart mailbox management system 300 can not change his or her address The registration address can be changed through the mailbox management application installed in the information terminal 400 of the user.

When the address change request is received, the address change update processing unit 340 transmits the generation address information before and after the change to the information terminal 500 of the postal mail delivery source or the closed smart mail address The mail addressed to the control device constituting the mail order distribution classifying server 250, the server of the mail order classification server 250, or the information terminal of the shipping classification office, As shown in FIG.

Therefore, a household member who has changed his or her address can change his / her address simply through the application, thereby obtaining the normal mail of his or her mail which may be delivered to the previous address.

Household members of households with closed smart mailboxes 100 can also send mail without visiting a post office. For example, the household member selects the type and area of the outgoing mail through the mailbox management app installed in the information terminal 400 of the household member. The type of the mail item to be mailed and the area selection information are transmitted to the charge processing unit 360 of the closed smart mailbox management system 300 so that the charge processing unit 360 charges the mail according to the kind of the mail item and the area selection information, The settlement can be relayed to the external settlement agency. Since the billing method can use one of various methods known in the art, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

On the other hand, if a family member who has made a payment for the mailing fee by the method described above inserts the mail item into the self-generated mailbox 100 or a separately prepared mailbox, the postal mail location information of the IoT-based closed smart mailbox management system 300 The providing unit 380 provides the location information of the mail item to the information terminal 500 of the mail delivery source who manages the closed smart mailbox 100 storing the charged mail items. Upon accessing the closed smart mailbox 100 provided by the mail carrier, the door of the corresponding mailbox 100 is opened by the method described in steps S18 and S20 of FIG. 16, so that the mail can be received.

Therefore, household members who want to send mail can benefit from the convenience of sending mail from their residence. In the embodiment of the present invention, only postal matter is assumed, but it is also possible to send the delivery goods by adjusting the mailbox size.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the closed type smart mailbox management system 300 shown in FIG. 3 is described as a server-type closed smart mailbox management system 300. However, the closed smart mailbox management system 300 shown in FIG. The closed smart mail box 100 based on the IoT shown in FIG. 3 capable of sending and receiving can be bundled and named as a closed IOT-based closed smart mail box management system.

While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Accordingly, the true scope of the present invention should be determined only by the appended claims.

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CLAIMS 1. A closed smart mailbox management system connectable via a communication network with a closed smart mailbox in which at least one or more generational mailboxes for each household are openable and closable under the control of a locking device,
A household member information registration unit for receiving information of a household member capable of opening and closing the own household mailbox, from a household member information terminal and DB-registered;
Information of a registered household member is transmitted to a control device of a closed smart mailbox of a residential house of a registered household member together with information terminal information of a mail carrier managing the closed smart mailbox, And a household member information transmitting unit for controlling the locking device of each mailbox when the information terminal of the household member or the registered mailman approaches the information terminal of the household member. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: receiving, from the control device, mail item detection information generated when a mail item is input into a mailbox for each household constituting the closed smart mailbox, and transmitting the mail item detection information to the household ID information terminal And a mail delivery notification unit for delivering mail delivery information to the closed mailbox management system. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, when an address change request is received from the information terminal of the registered household member, the generation address information before and after the change is transmitted to at least one of the information terminal of the mail carrier, And an address change update processing unit which transmits the address change update request to the smart mail management server. The billing system according to claim 1, further comprising: a billing processor for relaying the billing according to the type and area of the mail item selected by the household member when the mail item is requested from the information terminal of the registered household member Smart mailbox management system. 5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising: providing a postal mail position information providing unit for providing positional information of the postal mail to an information terminal of a mail delivery carrier managing the closed smart mail box storing the postal- Type smart mailbox management system. The closed smart mailbox management system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the household member information registration unit transmits information of the received household members to a government office server or a communication company server, and registers members only when the household member authentication is completed. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising: requesting an electronic signature to the household member information terminal when mail items requiring a recipient electronic signature among the delivery mail items input into each mailbox for each household constituting the closed smart mailbox are received; And a digital signature requesting unit for DB-registering the electronic signature transmitted in response to the electronic signature request.

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