KR102410613B1 - Solitary person care system with automatically updating priority according responding speed of call guardian - Google Patents

Abstract

A single-person care system is published whose priorities are automatically updated in response to the responsiveness of the contact carer. A single person care system according to an aspect of the present invention includes a wired/wireless communication network; an environmental data collection device disposed in a house where a single person lives and collects environmental data of the single person; a management server that receives the environmental data collected by the environmental data collection device through the wired/wireless communication network, analyzes the degree of risk of the person living alone based on the environmental data, and generates a danger alert; and a plurality of contact guardian terminals portable by a plurality of contact guardians registered in the management server, the plurality of contact guardian terminals capable of receiving the danger alert generated from the management server through the wired/wireless communication network do. In this case, the management server manages the priority of the plurality of contact guardians for the single person, and the priority of the plurality of contact guardians is updated in response to the reaction speed of the contact guardians to the danger alert.

Description

SOLITARY PERSON CARE SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING PRIORITY ACCORDING RESPONDING SPEED OF CALL GUARDIAN

The present invention relates to a care system for a single person, and more particularly, to a care system for a single person in which the priority of a contact guardian is automatically updated.

Today, our society is increasingly becoming a nuclear family and aging population. Accordingly, the number of single-person households, such as the elderly living alone, is increasing significantly. And, it is common for a significant number of people living alone to have a plurality of guardians.

Meanwhile, the national and local governments are developing various care systems for single people in response to the increase in the number of people living alone. One of them is a system that identifies the danger status of a single person, notifies a danger alert to registered contact guardians, and decides actions for a single person in consultation with the contact guardian with the highest priority among them.

However, the priority of contact guardians for living alone may change depending on circumstances. In this case, in order to change the priority of the designated contact guardian, there is a hassle of having to apply separately.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a care system for a single person whose priorities are automatically updated in response to the reaction speed of the contact guardian.

One aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object relates to a care system for a single person. A single person care system according to an aspect of the present invention includes a wired/wireless communication network; an environmental data collection device disposed in a house where a single person lives and collects environmental data of the single person; a management server that receives the environmental data collected by the environmental data collection device through the wired/wireless communication network, analyzes the degree of risk of the person living alone based on the environmental data, and generates a danger alert; and a plurality of contact guardian terminals portable by a plurality of contact guardians registered in the management server, the plurality of contact guardian terminals capable of receiving the danger alert generated from the management server through the wired/wireless communication network do. In this case, the management server manages the priority of the plurality of contact guardians for the single person, and the priority of the plurality of contact guardians is updated in response to the reaction speed of the contact guardians to the danger alert.

According to the care system for a single person of the present invention configured as described above, the priority of the contact guardians is automatically updated in response to the reaction speed of the contact guardians to the danger alert sent from the management server.

A brief description of each figure used in the present invention is provided.
1 is a view showing a care system for a single person according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the management server of FIG. 1 in detail.
FIG. 3 is a view for explaining an updater of priority of contact guardians in the guardian management module of FIG. 2 .
4 is a flowchart for explaining a method of driving a care system for a single person according to the present invention.

In order to fully understand the present invention, the operational advantages of the present invention, and the objects achieved by the practice of the present invention, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings illustrating preferred embodiments of the present invention and the contents described in the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described herein and may be embodied in other forms. Rather, the embodiments introduced herein are provided so that the disclosed subject matter may be thorough and complete, and that the spirit of the present invention may be sufficiently conveyed to those skilled in the art.

And, in understanding each drawing, it should be noted that the same members are denoted by the same reference numerals as much as possible. Also, in the following description, numerous specific details, such as specific process flows, are set forth in order to provide a more general understanding of the present invention. However, it will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In addition, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations determined to unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention will be omitted.

Meanwhile, in the present specification, reference signs are added within < > together with the same reference signs for components that perform the same configuration and action. In this case, these components are collectively referred to as reference numerals. And, when it is necessary to distinguish them individually, '< >' is added after the reference sign.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail.

1 is a view showing a care system for a single person according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1 , the care system for a single person of the present invention includes a wired/wireless communication network 100 , an environment data collection device 200 , a management server 300 , and a plurality of contact guardian terminals 400<1> to 400<10> ) is provided.

The environmental data collection device 200 is disposed in a house where a single person lives and collects environmental data ENDATA of the single person.

In addition, the management server 300 receives the environmental data ENDATA collected by the environmental data collection device 200 through the wired/wireless communication network 100, and based on the environmental data ENDATA, the person living alone Analyze the risk of And, when it is analyzed that the degree of risk of the single person is greater than or equal to a certain level, the management server 300 generates a danger alert (ALR).

As such, a method of analyzing the degree of risk of a person living alone using the environmental data ENDATA may be implemented in various ways.

As an example, a method of analyzing a power consumption pattern for each home appliance by measuring the total power consumption of a single household, and analyzing a risk level of a single person based on the analyzed power consumption pattern for each home appliance may be applied.

In this method, a non-instructive load monitoring (NILM) technique, etc. may be used as a technique of measuring the total power consumption of a single household and analyzing a power consumption pattern for each home appliance. Since this technique can be implemented by installing only the power consumption measuring sensor in a single-person household, high efficiency can be achieved at low cost.

Specifically, if a machine learning algorithm such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) or Bayesian Network (BN) is used for the data collected from the power consumption measuring sensor, which home appliance is being used can be identified. And, the degree of risk of a single person can be analyzed through the identified home appliances currently in use in the home of a single person.

Preferably, the environment data ENDATA includes 'toilet use information'. In general, everyone physiologically uses the toilet several times a day or more. Therefore, the 'toilet use information' is very effective in understanding the 'risk of living alone' including the health status of the person living alone.

More preferably, the environmental data ENDATA includes the temperature, humidity, illuminance, and air component (eg, the concentration of CO2) of the single-living house, and in this case, the 'risk of the single-living person' is the Temperature, humidity, illuminance, and air components are also reflected and determined.

Also, preferably, the management server 300 transmits a confirmation request signal (SCN) to the person living alone. In this case, the 'risk of living alone' is determined by reflecting whether or not the confirmation response signal (SRS) of the single person is transmitted in response to the confirmation request signal (SCN). That is, through the transmission of the confirmation response signal (SRS) of the single person to the confirmation request signal (SCN), the management server 300 is not exposed to a dangerous state that the health status of the single person is imminent. It can be confirmed to some extent that it is not.

And, it is preferable that the management server 300 secures 'health data' of the person living alone. In this case, the 'health data' of the single person is reflected together with other factors to determine the 'risk level of the single person'. This is because, when determining the 'risk level of a single person', the allowable range of other factors may be set differently according to the 'health data' of the single person.

In addition, the management server 300 is configured to manage the priority of a plurality of contact guardians for the single person.

Each of the plurality of contact guardian terminals 400<1> to 400<10> is portable by the contact guardians registered in the management server 300 . In addition, each of the plurality of contact guardian terminals 400<1> to 400<10> may receive the danger alert (ALR) generated from the management server 300 through the wired/wireless communication network 100 , , it is also possible to provide a response to the danger alert (ALR) to the management server (300).

In this case, the management server 300 updates the priority of the plurality of contact guardians in response to the response rate (PRS) of the contact guardians to the danger alert (ALR).

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the management server 300 of FIG. 1 in detail. Referring to FIG. 2 , the management server 300 specifically includes a guardian management module 310 , a single person communication module 330 , a risk analysis module 350 , and a guardian communication module 370 .

At this time, the control module 390 of the management server 300 controls the guardian management module 310 , the single person communication module 330 , the risk analysis module 350 , and the guardian communication module 370 . .

The guardian management module 310 manages the priority of a plurality of contact guardians for the single person. In this case, the guardian management module 310 updates the priority of the plurality of contact guardians in response to the response rate (PRS) of the contact guardians to the danger alert (ALR).

In this case, the reaction rate (PRS) of the contact guardians may be determined based on arrival information of the contact guardians to the single-family home. In this case, it is preferable to use the location information of the guardian terminal 400 as the arrival information.

As another method of determining the response rate (PRS) of the contact guardians, with respect to the danger alert (ALR) provided from the management server 300 , the transmission rate of the response signal (XRS) of the guardian terminals 400 . It can also be checked through .

As such, when the response rate (PRS) of the contact guardians to the danger alert (ALR) for the single person is fast, it means that the interest in the single person among the registered contact guardians is high.

FIG. 3 is a view for explaining an updater of priorities of contact guardians in the guardian management module 310 of FIG. 2 .

In this specification, it is assumed that there are 10 contact guardians for the person living alone.

And, before the updater, it is assumed that the respective ranking scores of the contact guardian <1> to the contact guardian <10> are 100, 95, 92, 89, 85, 83, 80, 77, 74, 71 points. In this case, the priority of the contact guardian before the updater is in the order of the contact guardian <1> to the contact guardian <10>.

At this time, it is assumed that the contact guardian <3> is the first, the contact protector <5> is the second, and the contact protector <7> is the third in response speed (PRS) for the corresponding danger alert (ALR).

In this case, the ranking score of the contact guardian <3> who responded first is increased by 10 points, the ranking score of the contact guardian <5> who responded second is increased by 5 points, and the contact guardian <7 who responded third The ranking score of > is increased by 3 points.

Accordingly, after the updater, the ranking score of the contact guardian <3> is changed to 102 points, the ranking score of the contact guardian <5> is changed to 91 points, and the ranking score of the contact guardian <7> is changed to 82 points.

As a result, the priority of the contact guardian <3> is automatically changed from 3rd to 1st, and the priority of the contact guardian <5> is automatically changed from 5th to 4th.

Next, the driving method of the care system for a single person of the present invention is summarized.

4 is a flowchart for explaining a driving method of the care system for a single person according to the present invention.

First, in step S100 , environmental data ENDATA is collected by the environmental data collection device 200 installed in the single-living house of a single person.

In step S200 , the 'risk level of a single person' based on the environmental data ENDATA is analyzed by the risk analysis module 350 of the management server 300 .

In step S300, when the 'risk of living alone' is above a certain level, a danger alert (ALR) is sent to the registered guardian terminals 400<1> to <10> of the contact guardians.

In step S400, the reaction rate (PRS) of the registered contact guardians for the danger alert (ALR) is checked.

And, in step S500, in the guardian management module 310 of the management server 300, the priority of the plurality of contact guardians is based on the response rate (PRS) of the contact guardians to the danger alert (ALR). is updated

As a result, according to the care system for a single person of the present invention, the priority of the contact guardians is automatically updated in response to the reaction speed of the contact guardians to the danger alert sent from the management server.

The device described above may be implemented as a hardware component, a software component, and/or a combination of the hardware component and the software component. For example, devices and components described in the embodiments may include, for example, a processor, a controller, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a digital signal processor, a microcomputer, a field programmable array (FPA), It may be implemented using one or more general purpose or special purpose computers, such as a programmable logic unit (PLU), microprocessor, or any other device capable of executing and responding to instructions. The processing device may execute an operating system (OS) and one or more software applications running on the operating system. A processing device may also access, store, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to execution of the software. For convenience of understanding, although one processing device is sometimes described as being used, one of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the processing device includes a plurality of processing elements and/or a plurality of types of processing elements. It can be seen that can include For example, the processing device may include a plurality of processors or one processor and one controller. Other processing configurations are also possible, such as parallel processors.

The software may include a computer program, code, instructions, or a combination of one or more thereof, and independently or in combination ( collectively) can command the processing unit. The software and/or data may be any kind of machine, component, physical device, virtual equipment, computer storage medium or apparatus, to be interpreted by or to provide instructions or data to the processing device. , or may be permanently or temporarily embody in a transmitted signal wave. The software may be distributed over networked computer systems and stored or executed in a distributed manner. Software and data may be stored in one or more computer-readable recording media.

In addition, the method according to the embodiment may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be specially designed and configured for the embodiment, or may be known and available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tapes, optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, and magnetic such as floppy disks. - includes magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specially configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine language codes such as those generated by a compiler, but also high-level language codes that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the embodiments, and vice versa.

As described above, although the embodiments have been described with reference to the limited embodiments and drawings, various modifications and variations are possible from the above description by those skilled in the art. For example, the described techniques are performed in an order different from the described method, and/or the described components of the system, structure, apparatus, circuit, etc. are combined or combined in a different form than the described method, or other components Or substituted or substituted by equivalents may achieve an appropriate result.

Accordingly, the true technical protection scope of the present invention should be determined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

Claims (9)

In the care system for living alone,
wired and wireless networks;
an environmental data collection device disposed in a house where a single person lives and collects environmental data of the single person;
a management server that receives the environmental data collected by the environmental data collection device through the wired/wireless communication network, analyzes the degree of risk of the person living alone based on the environmental data, and generates a danger alert; and
A plurality of contact guardian terminals portable by a plurality of contact guardians registered in the management server, the plurality of contact guardian terminals capable of receiving the danger alert generated from the management server through the wired/wireless communication network, ,
the management server
Manage the priority of the plurality of contact guardians for the single person, wherein the priority of the plurality of contact guardians is updated in response to the reaction speed of the contact guardians to the danger alert. .
The method of claim 1, wherein the environment data is
Includes toilet use information,
The risk of living alone is
A care system for single people, characterized in that the toilet use information is reflected as the highest weight.
The method of claim 2, wherein the environment data is
Including the temperature, humidity, illuminance, and air components of the single-family house,
The risk of living alone is
The single person care system, characterized in that it is determined by reflecting the temperature, humidity, illuminance, and air components of the single house as well.
The method of claim 1, wherein the management server
sending a confirmation request signal to the person living alone;
The risk of living alone is
The single person care system, characterized in that the determination is made by reflecting whether or not the confirmation response signal for the single person living alone in response to the confirmation request signal is transmitted.
The method of claim 1, wherein the risk of living alone is
The single person care system, characterized in that it is determined by reflecting the health data of the single person.
The method of claim 1, wherein the management server
a guardian management module that manages the priority of a plurality of contact guardians for the single person, and updates the priority of the plurality of contact guardians by monitoring the reaction speed of the contact guardians to the danger alert;
a communication module for a single person communicating with the environment data collection device;
a risk analysis module for generating a risk alert by analyzing the degree of risk of the single person based on the environmental data; and
A care system for a single person comprising a guardian communication module that communicates with the plurality of contact guardian terminals.
The method of claim 1, wherein the reaction rate of the contact guardians is
The single person care system, characterized in that it is determined based on the arrival information of the contact guardians to the home living alone.
The method of claim 7, wherein the arrival information is
A single person care system, characterized in that according to the location information of the guardian terminal.
The method of claim 1, wherein the reaction rate of the contact guardians is
The care system for single people, characterized in that it is determined based on the transmission speed of the response signal of the guardian terminals.

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