KR101722712B1 - Provides a virtual fence system with a beacon - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a virtual fence providing system and method using a beacon.
It is installed in the same place as the venue to prevent entrance from the dangerous area, and provides information such as the number of visitors, direction of movement, population density, etc., and a beacon configured at a certain distance and information received and processed from the beacon A control center configured to control a visitor and promptly respond to an announcement and an emergent situation and a virtual center using a beacon including a beacon broadcasted from the control center and a portable terminal to be delivered to a visitor upon receiving emergency contents The present invention relates to a fence providing system for a fence.

Description

Technical Field [0001] The present invention relates to a virtual fence providing system using a beacon,

The present invention relates to a virtual fence providing system and method using a beacon. In detail, beacons are installed at a certain distance to a venue or a large shopping mall, and a building network is formed by a beacon to detect the position of a visitor located in the area, to limit dangerous areas, The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing a virtual fence using a beacon which can provide information to a visitor through a safe area and evacuate to a safe area.

Generally, in a large department store and a venue, a system for detecting customers and visitors using wireless communication devices is being developed. Recently, a beacon is used to control customers and visitors.

Accordingly, Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1062628 has filed a method and apparatus (hereinafter referred to as prior art document 1) for generating, transmitting, or using a beacon signal in a wireless terminal.

A method of operating a portable wireless terminal, the method comprising: transmitting a beacon signal including a sequence of beacon signal bursts, each beacon signal burst comprising one or more beacon symbols, each beacon symbol occupying a beacon symbol transmission unit, Wherein the beacon symbols are transmitted during each beacon signal burst, wherein the portable wireless terminal is a first wireless terminal and the first wireless terminal uses the same timing structure as the second wireless terminal, Is greater than the duration of the beacon transmission time period used by the first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal from the start of the timing structure used by the second wireless terminal, and the beginning of the timing structure used by the first wireless terminal and the second Less than the duration of the beacon reception time period used by the wireless terminal That is offset by an amount, and a bar filed a method of operating a portable wireless terminal.

However, the beacon is explained only in the transmitting / receiving device to the wireless terminal, and there is no contents about the safety management and statistics such as making the building network using the beacon and giving statistics of the visitor.

(Patent 0001) Korean Patent No. 10-1062638

In order to solve the problems of the prior art, a beacon is installed in a venue or a large shopping mall at a certain distance, a building network is formed by a beacon to detect the position of a visitor located in each zone, The present invention provides a virtual fence providing system using a beacon that can restrict visitors to a safe area by providing information to a visitor through a beacon when an emergency or an accident occurs.

The present invention also provides a system for dividing a visitor by a zone using a beacon and statistically placing visitors located in each zone.

In addition, the present invention forms a building network through a beacon, and when an emergency situation or an accident occurs, information corresponding to other visitors is transmitted to provide the control center and the visitor to quickly respond.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a virtual fence providing system and method using a beacon, the system including a plurality of beverages, such as a venue outside a venue, to prevent entry from a dangerous area, Direction, population density, and the like, and a control center configured to process and store information received from the beacon, to control the visitor, to announce information, and to quickly respond to an emergency situation, And a virtual fence providing system using a beacon including a portable terminal that receives announcement broadcasts and emergency contents transmitted from the control center and is delivered to a visitor.

In addition, a promotional beacon, which is installed in the event booth and promotes the event booth and measures the number and density of visitors located in the event booth, and a visitor who is located in the network formed between the public location beacons Directional and population density, and a virtual fence providing system using a beacon including a safety-sensitive beacon configured to protect and prevent a visitor from dangerous areas such as transformers, cliffs, etc. .

 Also, the publicity location beacon may further include a publicity building network formed by connecting the publicity location beacons adjacent to each other, wherein the publicity location beacon includes a virtual fence providing system using a beacon.

A method of providing a virtual fence using the beacon including the beacon, the control center, and the mobile terminal, the method comprising: (a) installing the beacon at a predetermined distance from the venue; (B) measuring in real time the location coordinates of a visitor located inside the event site; (c) controlling the outside of the event site and the danger zone; and (d) And a method of providing a virtual fence using a beacon including a step of coping at a center.

In the step (b), the distance between the publicity location beacon and the location detection beacon, which are closest to the visitor and located in four directions, is measured, and then the publicity location beacon And transmitting the information of the location-sensing beacon and the distance of the visitor to the control center.

In the step (c), when the visitor enters the first danger zone, the portable terminal sounds an alarm and a warning sound through the safety detection beacon, and when the visitor enters the second danger zone, And transmitting the corresponding information to the control center while the portable terminal makes an alarm and a beep sound through the beacon.

In the step (d), when an emergency situation or an accident occurs in the event site, the location and the accident type of the accident occurrence area are transmitted to the control center through the publicity location beacon and the location detection beacon, And a method of providing a virtual fence using a beacon including evacuating visitors to a safe area or an emergency exit by transmitting the location and location of an accident through the beacon.

In the present invention as described above, a beacon is installed at a certain distance to an indoor / outdoor event site, a large-scale mart or a multi-use facility, and a building network is formed through a beacon to detect the position of a visitor located in each zone, Restricted or evacuated to safe areas by providing information to visitors through beacons in the event of an emergency or an accident.

In addition, the present invention can be divided into zones by using beacons, and statistics of visitors located in each zone can be made.

In addition, the present invention forms a construction network through a beacon, and when an emergency occurs and an accident occurs, information corresponding to other visitors is transmitted and the control center and the visitor quickly respond to it.

1 is a configuration diagram of a virtual fence providing system using a beacon according to the present invention;
2 is a diagram showing a beacon layout of a virtual fence providing system using a beacon according to the present invention,
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing division by areas using the beacon of the present invention;
FIG. 4A is a schematic diagram showing that the beacon of the present invention detects the position of a visitor,
4B is a block diagram showing that the beacon of the present invention senses the position of a visitor,
FIG. 5A is a block diagram illustrating a visitor detecting a visitor through a beacon when a visitor enters a dangerous area according to the present invention. FIG.
FIG. 5B is an order block diagram showing that the visitor of the present invention is executed when the user enters a danger zone; FIG.
6A is a block diagram showing that the control center responds to the occurrence of an accident of the present invention,
FIG. 6B is a block diagram showing that the control center responds to the occurrence of a child in another embodiment of the present invention. FIG.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms and words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as limited to ordinary or dictionary terms, and the inventor should appropriately interpret the concepts of the terms appropriately It should be interpreted in accordance with the meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that it can be defined.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the present specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the technical ideas of the present invention are described. Therefore, It should be understood that various equivalents and modifications are possible.

 FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a virtual fence providing system using a beacon according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a beacon arrangement diagram of a virtual fence providing system using a beacon of the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 4A is a block diagram showing that the beacon of the present invention detects the position of the visitor, FIG. 4B is a block diagram showing that the beacon of the present invention detects the position of the visitor, FIG. FIG. 5B is a sequence block diagram showing that the visitor of the present invention is executed when a visitor enters a dangerous area. FIG. Fig. 6B is a block diagram showing that the control center responds to the occurrence of a child in another embodiment of the present invention. Fig.

As shown in FIG. 1, a virtual fence providing system using a beacon is installed in the same place as a venue to prevent a visitor from entering a dangerous area, and provides information such as the number of visitors, direction of movement, population density, A control center 200 configured to analyze and store information received from the beacon 100, to control a visitor, to quickly respond to announcements and emergency situations, And the portable terminal 300 configured to transmit the announcement and the emergency situation to the visitor at the control center 200.

As shown in FIG. 2, the beacon 100 includes a promotional position beacon 110 installed in the event booth for promoting the event booth and measuring the number and density of bang tourists located in the event booth, A location sensing beacon 130 arranged between the beacons 110 and measuring the moving direction and the population density of the visitors in cooperation with the publicity location beacon 110 and a location sensing beacon 130 for monitoring and protecting visitors from dangerous areas such as transformers, And a safety-sensitive beacon (150) configured for the beacon (150).

 In general, beacons are short range wireless communication devices based on Bluetooth 4.0 (BLE) protocol, capable of communicating with devices within a maximum distance of 70m, highly accurate enough to distinguish between 5 and 10cm units, and consuming power It is suitable for Internet implementation of things that all devices are always connected.

In addition, beacons have a longer usable distance than NFC and can provide a spatial user experience and provide indoor location information that was impossible with GPS technology.

The publicity location beacon 110 installed in each event booth senses the visitors in the event booth and detects the number and location of the visitors in the event booth in real time so that statistics can be provided at the control center 200, And the measured value is provided through the portable terminal 300 carried by the visitor.

In addition, the publicity location beacon 110 is configured to give a different unique number to each publicity location beacon 110 in order to control the entire event site in the control center 200, do.

The publicity location beacon 110 can be set separately from the control center 200 by a minimum of 1 m to a maximum of 50 m. Accordingly, the publicity location beacon 110 may include a publicity sensing network 112, And a publicity building network 114 in which at least three publicity location beacons 110 are connected and formed with one building network as a beacon 110 is connected.

The publicity sensing network 112 is a network indicating a range in which the publicity location beacon 110 can be sensed and performs a function of detecting a situation or a visitor occurring within a range sensed by the publicity location beacon 110.

The publicity building network 114 is a building network formed by connecting adjacent publicity location beacons 110. At least three publicity location beacons 110 are gathered to form a publicity building network 114. The publicity building network 114 includes a publicity building network 114, And the direction of movement to the control center 200.

The location sensing beacon 130 located at the center of the publicity building network 114 senses the current state of the visitor moving in the event site and the occurrence of an accident and collects visitor information in connection with the publicity location beacon 110, It is desirable to install this facility at the intersection or event hall of the dense event hall.

In addition, the position sensing beacon 130 may assign a unique number to each position sensing beacon 130 so that the position sensing beacon 130 can recognize the position by the corresponding unique number in the control center 200. In the control center 200, And a location establishing network 132 for indicating the range in which the location sensing beacon 130 detects the range of the location sensing beacon 130.

The location construction network 132 is a network configured to check a flow amount of a visitor moving in the event site and is configured to be able to measure a flow amount of a visitor and a population density for each area based on the publicity building network 114.

The safety detection beacon 150, which is configured outside the event site or is located outside the danger zone 170, such as a transformer, sinkhole, or cliff inside the event site, is a device configured not to enter the danger zone 170 of the visitor.

The safety beacon 150 is installed at a predetermined distance outside the event site and is formed in a shape that the outside of the event site is rounded so that visitors do not depart from the event site except for the entrance. ) Are connected to constitute a safety area boundary network 152 constructed by one network.

The safety area network 152 is a network formed by connecting the safety beacons 150. When the visitor departs from the safe area boundary network 152, the nearest safety beacon 150 is detected, ). ≪ / RTI >

 Hazardous areas (170) collectively refer to all threats to visitors, such as transformers, sinkholes, and cliffs located in or outside the venue.

The control center 200 receives signals from the beacon 100, analyzes and stores the beacons 100, measures the coordinates of the visitors through the plurality of beacons 100, generates an emergency situation, When entering, it controls the visitor through alarm and broadcasting.

The portable terminal 300 refers to a wireless communication terminal possessed by a visitor and is configured to be selected from a smart phone, a tablet, a smart pad, a notebook, and a communication terminal. In the present invention, a smart phone is selected and configured.

Here, although the present invention has been described as a venue, it is not limited thereto, and it is of course possible to install the venue in a large number of places such as a large mart, a large department store, a concert venue, a bus terminal, and an airport.

A method of providing a virtual fence using a beacon including a beacon 100, a control center 200, and a mobile terminal 300 includes classifying event sites into zones (S400) A step of measuring the location coordinates of the visitor in real time (step S500), a step of controlling the outside of the event site and the dangerous area (step S600), and a step of dealing with an emergency situation at the control center (step S700).

In step S400, the publicity location beacon 110 and the location detection beacon 130 are installed within the event site at a predetermined distance in step S410, (Step S420), the publicity location beacon 110 is activated (step S430)

The activated publicity location beacon 110 forms a publicity building network 114 formed by connecting adjacent publicity location beacons 110. The control center 200 classifies the regions based on the publicity building network 114 So that the visitor information can be systematically analyzed and archived (S450).

If the manager divides the beacon 130 into zones within the venue based on the beacon 130 in operation S460 and activates the beacon 130 in operation S470, (Step S480). The control center 200 is configured to classify the area based on the building network formed in the location sensing beacon 130 to systematically analyze and store visitor information (step S490) step).

As shown in FIG. 4, the step of measuring the location coordinates of the visitor in real time (step S500) is such that when the visitor enters the inside of the event hall (step S510), the visitor closest After selecting the beacon 100 to be located (Step S520), the distance between each selected beacon 100 and the visitor is measured.

The control center 200 transmits the measured values of the plurality of beacons 100 to the control center 200 in step S530 and determines whether the current visitor is located on the basis of the unique number of the beacon 100 and the distance to the visitor The coordinate values are calculated (step S540).

For example, as the visitor enters the event site, the beacon 110 closest to the visitor and located in four directions based on the visitor transmits the distance to the visitor and the unique identification number of the beacon 100 to the control center 200 In the present invention, three promotional beacons 110a, 110b and 110e and one positional sensing beacon 130a transmit distances and unique identification numbers to the control center 200.

5, the plurality of safety-detected beacons 150 installed outside the event site include a first hazardous area 172 and a second hazardous area (not shown) 174 are installed at regular intervals. When the visitors move to the outside of the event site, they are detected by the safety beacon 150, and are configured to transmit a location and a warning sound to the control center 200.

Specifically, when the visitor leaves the venue from the venue except for the entrance to the venue (step S610), the security detection beacon 150 installed in the primary dangerous area 172 enters the primary danger zone 172 And detects the visitor (step S620).

For example, a visitor located in the first hazardous area 172 senses the presence or absence of the visitor 210 on the safety-based beacon 150a closest to the visitor, and transmits the beacon 150a to the portable terminal 300 held by the visitor 210 To be transmitted.

Accordingly, the portable terminal 300 held by the visitor receives the information corresponding to the beacon 150a to alert the visitor to the first dangerous area 172 with a sound such as an alarm or a warning sound (Step S630).

Also. When the visitor enters the second dangerous area 174 after leaving the first dangerous area 172, an alarm or a warning sound sounds in the portable terminal 300 and the visitor enters the second dangerous area 174 ) To the user.

For example, when the visitor enters the second dangerous area 174 (step S640), the nearest safety-detected beacon 150b on the basis of the visitor senses the visitor and transmits the beacon to the portable terminal 300 held by the visitor At the same time, the control center 200 transmits the information that the visitor has entered into the second dangerous area 174 so that the control center 200 can cope with the alarm.

In addition, the control center 200 receiving the information from the safety detection beacon 150b dispatches security personnel to cope with visitors located in the second danger zone 174, so that the visitor no longer enters the danger zone 170 (Step S660). In this case, the user is allowed to move to the safe area or the event site.

Accordingly, a visitor located in the first hazardous area 172 or the second dangerous area 174 can escape from the dangerous area 170 (step S670).

On the other hand, in the case of an emergency, the countermeasure in the control center (step S700), as shown in FIG. 6A, when an emergency occurs in the event area, the alarm is detected through the beacon 100 and transmitted to the control center 200 (Step S710), the control center 200 recognizing the emergency state observes or tracks the emergency occurrence area to determine what type of accident has occurred (step S720).

The control center 200 recognizing the type of the accident transmits the contents of the accident type and the present accident point to the portable terminal 300 or broadcasting at step S730, dispatches a safety agent to the accident occurrence area at step S740, , Guides the user not to enter the accident area, and responds so that the user can quickly evacuate to the emergency exit area and the safe area (step S750)

6B, if a visitor loses a child in the event hall, the visitor who has lost a child is reported to the control center 200 through the portable terminal 300 (step S760) 200) of the child.

The control center 200 receiving the information of the child receives the personal information of the child through the beacon 100 or transmits the information to the portable terminal 300 owned by the visitor at the event site in step S770.

When the visitor who has received the information of the child has found the same child as the information sent from the control center 200 in the vicinity, the control center 200 reports the notification through the portable terminal 300 (step S780) Send security personnel to look for Mia.

However, the present invention is not limited to this. It is also possible to search for a corresponding loser through the beacon 100, or to search for the loser using the beacon 100 Of course, it is possible to find a child by using a monitoring device such as CCTV.

In this way, a zoned virtual fence providing system using the beacon 100 may be replaced with a beacon receiver in place of the beacon 100, and a system utilizing a specific code signal generated in the beacon receiver may be configured and operated .

That is, since the beacon receiver can be used in place of the portable terminal 300, the beacon receiver can be configured to detect and trace back from the control center 200 on the basis of a specific code signal generated in the beacon receiver, You can also configure and run a system that uses code.

Although the present invention has been described in connection with the preferred embodiments thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the present invention is not limited thereto, It is to be understood that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope of the appended claims.

100: Beacon 110: Public location beacon
112: publicity detection network 114: publicity building network
130: Position sensing beacon 132: Position building network
150: Safety detection beacon 152: Safety area boundary
170: Hazardous area 172: Primary hazardous area
174: Second danger zone 200: Control center
300: portable terminal

Claims (11)

A beacon which is installed at a place of multiple use places such as a venue outside the venue, stops the user from entering the dangerous area, provides information on the number of visitors, direction of movement, population density,
A control center configured to process and store information received from the beacon, control a visitor, promptly broadcast, and respond quickly to an emergency; And
And a portable terminal that receives the announcement broadcast and the emergency content transmitted from the control center and is delivered to the visitor,
The beacon includes:
A publicity location beacon that measures the number and density of visitors located in the event booth, and assigns a different unique number to the visitor to inform the mobile terminal of the event in which the event is located;
A location sensing beacon for measuring a moving direction and a population density of a visitor located in the network formed between the publicity location beacons; And
A safety detection beacon configured to protect and deter visitors from dangerous areas of transformers, cliffs;
A virtual fence providing system using a beacon including a beacon.
delete The method according to claim 1,
The public-
A virtual fence providing system using a beacon that includes a publicity detection network that sets a certain range and detects the number of visitors and the entire event booth.
The method according to claim 1,
The position-
And a location building network capable of searching for a wider range than the publicity location beacon.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the publicity location beacon and the location sense beacon comprise:
A virtual fence providing system using a beacon that further includes a public relations building network that acquires information of visitors in cooperation with each other.
The method according to claim 1,
The safety-
And a safety detection boundary network configured to monitor the entire event site by connecting adjacent safety detection beacons.
The method according to claim 1,
The beacon includes:
A system for providing a virtual fence using a beacon, which is used in place of a beacon receiver, and which can configure and operate a system utilizing a specific code signal generated by the beacon receiver.
A method for providing a virtual fence using a beacon including a beacon, a control center, and a mobile terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 7,
(a) installing the beacon at a predetermined distance from the venue and classifying the beacon according to the beacon;
(b) measuring in real time the location coordinates of a visitor located inside the event site;
(c) controlling the outside of the venue and the hazardous area;
(d) responding to an emergency situation at the control center,
In the step (c), when the visitor enters the first danger zone, the portable terminal makes an alarm and a warning sound through the safety detection beacon, and when the visitor enters the second danger zone, And transmitting the corresponding information to the control center while causing the portable terminal to sound an alarm and a warning sound.
9. The method of claim 8,
The step (b)
The method comprising the steps of: measuring a distance between the publicity location beacon and the location detection beacon, which are closest to each other and located in four directions with respect to a visitor, and then transmitting the information of the publicity location beacon and the location sensing beacon, And transmitting the distance to the control center.
delete 9. The method of claim 8,
The step (d)
When an emergency situation or an accident occurs in the event site, the location and the accident type of the accident occurrence area are transmitted to the control center through the publicity location beacon and the location detection beacon, A method of providing a virtual fence using a beacon comprising evacuating visitors to a safe area or an exit by transmitting a location.

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