KR102488822B1 - System for providing auto car wash service using subscription - Google Patents

Abstract

An automatic car wash service provision system using a regular subscription is provided. The automatic car wash service provision system comprises: a user terminal registering a license plate number and a card number to apply for a regular subscription to a car wash service; an affiliated store terminal recognizing the license plate number and operating an automatic car wash device to provide the car wash service for which the regular subscription has been requested based on the license plate number; a regular subscription register unit registering as a user who has applied for the regular subscription to the car wash service when registering the license plate number and the card number on the user terminal; a transmission unit extracting the car wash service already mapped and stored to the license plate number and transmitting the same to the affiliated store terminal when the affiliated store terminal recognizes the license plate number; and a car wash service providing server including a completion unit that completes the car wash service when the automatic car wash device is operated via the affiliated store terminal. According to the present invention, there is no inconvenience for each member to wash his or her car while managing each affiliated automated store.

Description

Automatic car wash service providing system using regular subscription {SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AUTO CAR WASH SERVICE USING SUBSCRIPTION}

The present invention relates to a system for providing an automatic car wash service using regular subscription, and provides a system for driving an automatic car wash device to provide a car wash service subscribed to by regular subscription after recognizing a license plate number of a user who has selected regular subscription.

After Corona, the business paradigm is changing more rapidly from a sharing economy to a subscription economy. As the pleasure of sharing something changes to the perception that it is exposed to risks, the business model of the sharing economy is broken. is building The subscription economy refers to a business in which consumers pay a certain amount of money and receive desired products and services for a certain period of time. is included in the subject of subscription economy. Recently, subscription services that are safer and easier to use are spreading according to changes in consumption propensity and consumption patterns and the development of ICT technology.

At this time, a platform for subscribing to a vehicle or requesting parking and car washing has been researched and developed. In this regard, prior art, Korean Patent Publication No. 2022-0015345 (published on February 08, 2022) and Korean Patent Registration No. 10-2360518 (Announced on February 9, 2022), if the client has multiple subscriptions, the vehicle is not returned and the vehicle is used continuously based on the multiple subscriptions, and when the parking lot information is received from the user terminal, the car wash agent terminal After transmitting the information, a configuration for providing a car wash service and recording sales of a car wash attendant terminal is disclosed.

However, in the former case, although the term of subscribing to a vehicle is used, only the same configuration as the known technology is disclosed, such as sharing a vehicle such as rental, rental, lease, etc. In the latter case, it is only a configuration that mediates car washing, not a configuration that provides a regular subscription for car washing service, and is only a configuration that mediates one-time purchase. In addition, non-face-to-face service has become a necessity, not an option, in the post-COVID-19 era. Accordingly, it is required to research and develop a platform that can automatically operate an automatic car wash device in a non-face-to-face manner according to the type of car wash service subscribed to by using a car number at each affiliate after receiving a regular subscription for a car wash service.

In an embodiment of the present invention, when a user terminal selects a type of subscription, receives a card number and a vehicle number, registers as a member of the subscription, and recognizes the vehicle number at the affiliated store terminal, the user subscribes to the subscription After identifying the type of car wash, the result is delivered to the affiliated store terminal so that the corresponding carwash service can proceed, and when the automatic carwash device connected to the affiliated store terminal automatically drives the carwash to proceed with the carwash service, the number of car washes is counted, recorded, and completed. By processing, it is possible to provide an automatic car wash service providing system using a regular subscription, which manages each affiliated store unattended and allows each member to wash a car without any inconvenience. However, the technical problem to be achieved by the present embodiment is not limited to the technical problem as described above, and other technical problems may exist.

As a technical means for achieving the above-described technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention is a user terminal for registering a vehicle number and a card number to apply for a regular subscription for a car wash service, recognizing the vehicle number, and then registering the vehicle number. In the case of registering vehicle number and card number in the member store terminal and user terminal that drive the automatic car wash device to provide the car wash service for which subscription has been applied, the regular subscription register and member store terminal for registering as a user who has applied for regular subscription for car wash service Car wash service including a transmission unit that extracts the stored car wash service mapped to the vehicle number and transmits it to the affiliate store terminal when the vehicle number is recognized, and a completion unit that completes the car wash service when the automatic car wash device is operated via the affiliate store terminal Includes serving server.

According to any one of the problem solving means of the present invention described above, when the type of subscription is selected from the user terminal, the card number and vehicle number are received and registered as a subscription member, and the vehicle number is recognized at the affiliated store terminal, After identifying the type of subscription subscribed by the user, the result is transmitted to the affiliated store terminal so that the corresponding carwash service can proceed, and when the automatic carwash device connected to the affiliated store terminal automatically drives the carwash to proceed with the carwash service, the number of car washes By counting, recording, and processing completion, each affiliated store is managed unmanned, while each member does not have any inconvenience in washing the car.

1 is a diagram for explaining an automatic car wash service providing system using regular subscription according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a car wash service providing server included in the system of FIG. 1 .
3 and 4 are diagrams for explaining an embodiment in which an automatic car wash service using regular subscription according to an embodiment of the present invention is implemented.
5 is an operational flowchart illustrating a method of providing an automatic car wash service using regular subscription according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail so that those skilled in the art can easily practice the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention may be embodied in many different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. And in order to clearly explain the present invention in the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted, and similar reference numerals are attached to similar parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is said to be "connected" to another part, this includes not only the case where it is "directly connected" but also the case where it is "electrically connected" with another element interposed therebetween. . In addition, when a part "includes" a certain component, this means that it may further include other components, not excluding other components, unless otherwise stated, and one or more other characteristics. However, it should be understood that it does not preclude the possibility of existence or addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

As used throughout the specification, the terms "about", "substantially", etc., are used at or approximating that value when manufacturing and material tolerances inherent in the stated meaning are given, and do not convey an understanding of the present invention. Accurate or absolute figures are used to help prevent exploitation by unscrupulous infringers of the disclosed disclosure. The term "step of (doing)" or "step of" as used throughout the specification of the present invention does not mean "step for".

In this specification, a "unit" includes a unit realized by hardware, a unit realized by software, and a unit realized using both. Further, one unit may be realized using two or more hardware, and two or more units may be realized by one hardware. On the other hand, '~ unit' is not limited to software or hardware, and '~ unit' may be configured to be in an addressable storage medium or configured to reproduce one or more processors. Thus, as an example, '~unit' refers to components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components, and task components, processes, functions, properties, and procedures. , subroutines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuitry, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays and variables. Functions provided within components and '~units' may be combined into smaller numbers of components and '~units' or further separated into additional components and '~units'. In addition, components and '~units' may be implemented to play one or more CPUs in a device or a secure multimedia card.

In this specification, some of the operations or functions described as being performed by a terminal, device, or device may be performed instead by a server connected to the terminal, device, or device. Likewise, some of the operations or functions described as being performed by the server may also be performed by a terminal, apparatus, or device connected to the server.

In this specification, some of the operations or functions described as mapping or matching with the terminal mean mapping or matching the terminal's unique number or personal identification information, which is the terminal's identifying data. can be interpreted as

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

1 is a diagram for explaining an automatic car wash service providing system using regular subscription according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1 , an automatic car wash service providing system 1 using regular subscription may include at least one user terminal 100, a car wash service providing server 300, and at least one affiliate store terminal 400. . However, since the automatic car wash service providing system 1 using regular subscription shown in FIG. 1 is only an embodiment of the present invention, the present invention is not limitedly interpreted through FIG. 1 .

At this time, each component of FIG. 1 is generally connected through a network (Network, 200). For example, as shown in FIG. 1 , at least one user terminal 100 may be connected to a car wash service providing server 300 through a network 200 . Also, the car wash service providing server 300 may be connected to at least one user terminal 100 and at least one affiliated store terminal 400 through the network 200 . Also, at least one affiliated store terminal 400 may be connected to the car wash service providing server 300 through the network 200 .

Here, the network refers to a connection structure capable of exchanging information between nodes such as a plurality of terminals and servers, and examples of such networks include a local area network (LAN) and a wide area network (WAN: Wide Area Network), the Internet (WWW: World Wide Web), wired and wireless data communications networks, telephone networks, and wired and wireless television communications networks. Examples of wireless data communication networks include 3G, 4G, 5G, 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), 5th Generation Partnership Project (5GPP), Long Term Evolution (LTE), World Interoperability for Microwave Access (WIMAX), Wi-Fi , Internet (Internet), LAN (Local Area Network), Wireless LAN (Wireless Local Area Network), WAN (Wide Area Network), PAN (Personal Area Network), RF (Radio Frequency), Bluetooth (Bluetooth) network, NFC ( A Near-Field Communication (Near-Field Communication) network, a satellite broadcasting network, an analog broadcasting network, a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) network, etc. are included, but not limited thereto.

In the following, the term at least one is defined as a term including singular and plural, and even if at least one term does not exist, each component may exist in singular or plural, and may mean singular or plural. It will be self-evident. In addition, the singular or plural number of each component may be changed according to embodiments.

At least one user terminal 100 may be a terminal of a user who regularly subscribes to a car wash service using a web page, an app page, a program, or an application related to an automatic car wash service using regular subscription. To this end, the user terminal 100 may be a terminal of a user who requests a regular subscription service by inputting a license plate number and a card number and selecting a type of subscription. At this time, the types of regular subscriptions include dot subscriptions that allow car washing at only one affiliated store, local regular subscriptions that allow car washing at affiliated stores in a predetermined area, and carwashing at all affiliated stores connected to the platform of the present invention. It is obvious that the type of regular subscription may be updated according to an embodiment, but is not limited thereto. In the platform according to an embodiment of the present invention, in addition to regular subscription, there are services such as self-car wash advance reservation and QR car wash direct payment, so an embodiment of the present invention is not operated only in the case of regular subscription. Operations, configurations, and processes according to other embodiments of the present invention are disclosed in prior published patents of the present applicant, and thus are not described redundantly in one embodiment of the present invention.

Here, at least one user terminal 100 may be implemented as a computer capable of accessing a remote server or terminal through a network. Here, the computer may include, for example, a laptop, a desktop, a laptop, and the like equipped with a navigation system and a web browser. In this case, at least one user terminal 100 may be implemented as a terminal capable of accessing a remote server or terminal through a network. At least one user terminal 100 is, for example, a wireless communication device that ensures portability and mobility, navigation, PCS (Personal Communication System), GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), PDC (Personal Digital Cellular), PHS (Personal Handyphone System), PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), IMT (International Mobile Telecommunication)-2000, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)-2000, W-CDMA (W-Code Division Multiple Access), Wibro (Wireless Broadband Internet ) may include all types of handheld-based wireless communication devices such as terminals, smartphones, smart pads, tablet PCs, and the like.

The car wash service providing server 300 may be a server that provides an automatic car wash service web page, app page, program or application using a regular subscription. In addition, the car wash service providing server 300 registers at least one affiliated store terminal 400, selects the type of subscription in the user terminal 100, and inputs the vehicle number and card number, and registers it as a regular subscription member. It can be a server for storage. In addition, when the vehicle number is recognized in at least one affiliated store terminal 400, the car wash service providing server 300 checks whether or not the member is a registered regular subscription member and, if the member is a regular subscription member, determines which regular subscription service is selected. , That is, a server that checks whether a member can receive a car wash service at the affiliate store where the vehicle entered, and if the member can receive the car wash service, whether the daily usage limit has not been exceeded and returns the result to the affiliate store terminal 400 can If the result is approval, the affiliated store terminal 400 may drive an automatic car wash device (not shown) to correspond to the type of car wash service regularly subscribed to by the user terminal 100 . In addition, the car wash service providing server 300 recognizes the QR code or license plate number of the user terminal 100 to drive at least one IoT cleaning device (not shown) and then allows through the affiliated store terminal 400 It may be a server, and by counting the number of queues and stocked vehicles collected from at least one CCTV (not shown) and providing statistics on the number of visitors by day, by weather, and by date, it is possible to guide the user when free time is It may be a server that shares the number of real-time standby players.

Here, the car wash service providing server 300 may be implemented as a computer capable of accessing a remote server or terminal through a network. Here, the computer may include, for example, a laptop, a desktop, a laptop, and the like equipped with a navigation system and a web browser.

At least one affiliated store terminal 400 may be a terminal of an affiliated store that uses a web page, app page, program, or application related to an automatic car wash service using regular subscription. The affiliated store terminal 400 transmits data of at least one automatic car wash device, at least one IoT cleaning device, and at least one CCTV to the car wash service providing server 300, and transmits data of the car wash service providing server 300 to at least one It may be a terminal that transmits to an automatic car washing device, at least one IoT cleaning device, and at least one CCTV.

Here, at least one affiliated store terminal 400 may be implemented as a computer capable of accessing a remote server or terminal through a network. Here, the computer may include, for example, a laptop, a desktop, a laptop, and the like equipped with a navigation system and a web browser. At this time, at least one affiliated store terminal 400 may be implemented as a terminal capable of accessing a remote server or terminal through a network. At least one affiliated store terminal 400 is, for example, a wireless communication device that ensures portability and mobility, and includes navigation, PCS (Personal Communication System), GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), PDC (Personal Digital Cellular), PHS (Personal Handyphone System), PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), IMT (International Mobile Telecommunication)-2000, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)-2000, W-CDMA (W-Code Division Multiple Access), Wibro (Wireless Broadband Internet ) may include all types of handheld-based wireless communication devices such as terminals, smartphones, smart pads, tablet PCs, and the like.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a car wash service providing server included in the system of FIG. 1, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are an embodiment in which an automatic car wash service using regular subscription is implemented according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a drawing for explaining.

Referring to FIG. 2 , the car wash service providing server 300 includes a regular subscription unit 310, a transmission unit 320, a completion unit 330, a confirmation transfer unit 340, an information unit 350, a classification unit ( 360), a product confirmation unit 370, an IoT management unit 380, a statistics providing unit 390, and a QR output unit 391 may be included.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the car wash service providing server 300 or another server (not shown) operating in conjunction with at least one user terminal 100 and at least one affiliated store terminal 400 automatically uses regular subscriptions. When transmitting a car wash service application, program, app page, web page, etc., at least one user terminal 100 and at least one affiliated store terminal 400 transmit an automatic car wash service application, program, app page, You can install or open web pages, etc. Also, the service program may be driven in at least one user terminal 100 and at least one affiliated store terminal 400 by using a script executed in a web browser. Here, the web browser is a program that allows users to use the web (WWW: World Wide Web) service, and means a program that receives and displays hypertext described in HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language). For example, Netscape , Explorer, Chrome, and the like. In addition, an application means an application on a terminal, and includes, for example, an app running on a mobile terminal (smart phone).

Referring to FIG. 2 , the regular subscription registration unit 310 may register a user who has applied for a regular subscription for a car wash service when registering a vehicle number and a card number in the user terminal 100 . The user terminal 100 may apply for regular subscription to the car wash service by registering a vehicle number and a card number. If the user terminal 100 is a member who has used the car wash using the platform of the present invention before regular subscription and has not subscribed, since the date and location of the car wash are recorded, It is also possible to induce regular subscription by creating a comparison table by calculating the cost and the cost of single payment by period without regular subscription.

For example, assuming that the price of one automatic car wash ticket for Autostay Hanam Forest is 12,000 won, and user A washed his car once a week at Autostay Hanam Forest, he spent 48,000 won per month. That's it. In this case, since the automatic car wash regular subscription price is 34,500 won per month, it is possible to provide a phrase that says that you can save 13,500 won per month by purchasing a regular subscription. In addition, regular subscription members do not need to scan and enter the QR code at the affiliated store terminal 400 provided as a kiosk, so the automatic car wash device is operated immediately after entering. If it is confirmed after recognition, it is necessary to enter the automatic car wash device, so that the service can be differentiated between customers using the toll collection section and the high-pass section of the toll gate.

When the vehicle number is recognized by the affiliated store terminal 400 , the transmission unit 320 may extract and transmit the stored car wash service to the affiliated store terminal 400 . After recognizing the vehicle number, the affiliated store terminal 400 may drive the automatic car wash device to provide a car wash service requested for regular subscription from the vehicle number. At this time, the method of recognizing the vehicle of the user terminal 100 is not limited to the method of recognizing the vehicle number since various methods may be applied in addition to the method of recognizing the vehicle number.

At this time, in order to recognize the vehicle number, the first step is to find the license plate area where the vehicle number is written, and the second step is to read out the license plate number. Recently, as the number of electric vehicles increases, the background color of license plates is becoming more diverse, and as the number of vehicles increases, the number of letters also increases, resulting in misrecognition. In order for users who make regular subscriptions to feel that they are receiving differentiated services compared to users who make single payments, errors must not occur in the process of recognizing vehicle license plates. This is because if an error occurs, the user must go through the same process as a user who makes a single payment again. It is as if you bought a first class seat at a high price, but if you make it stand in the economy row instead of the first class row, the value of the first class seat is the same as that of the economy class.

Therefore, in one embodiment of the present invention, a model obtained through YOLO learning for detecting license plate area in CCTV and a model obtained through learning by constructing a CNN network for license plate recognition are used. These learning models are used to find a vehicle in the image input to CCTV, find the license plate area of the vehicle, and then recognize the vehicle number in the license plate. The YOLO learning model can be used to extract the license plate area, and through license plate image processing, it can undergo pre-processing to extract numbers and letters from the license plate, such as noise removal, binarization, and erosion boundary extraction. Vehicle number recognition can be used to recognize the numbers and characters of license plates as text using a CNN learning model using extracted letters and numbers.

<Vehicle license plate and character detection>

For vehicle license plate detection, after labeling the vehicle image using YOLO Marker, the created file can be learned through Darknet. At this time, it may be trained to detect only the license plate from the vehicle image. Since YOLO v4 has 3 anchors per grid, only boxes with a license plate probability of 90% or more are extracted from the three outputs, and the same license plate with a small probability is removed by applying the NMS (Non Maximum Suppression) algorithm. can Image preprocessing can use denoising, binarization, and erosion to extract Korean characters. Blur processing can be performed to remove noise, black and white images can be converted through binarization using the Ostu algorithm, and borders can be extracted to extract each number and letter of the license plate. Hangeul has consonants and vowels, so consonants and vowels must be connected to extract them as a single character, so consonants and vowels can be connected using erosion. Using the letter and numeric coordinates obtained through the boundary, bubble sorting is performed to recognize license plates in order, and then learning can be performed using a model learned by CNN.

At this time, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the license plate may be rotated according to the photographing position of the vehicle and aligned using coordinates in order to solve a case in which an error is recognized or an error occurs. That is, as shown in Table 1 below, the license plate can be aligned by finding the rotation angle of the license plate by using the Pythagorean theorem by finding the center point of the coordinates of the start number and the end number.

Delta_x = s_Centerx - e_Centerx
Delta_y = s_Centery - e_Centery
Degree = np.Degrees(np.ArcTan2(Delta_y, Delta_x)) - 180
Distance = np.sqrt((Delta_x ** 2) + (Delta_y ** 2))
Number_Center = ((e_Centerx + s_Centerx) // 2,
(e_Centery + s_Centery) // 2)
aligned_Distance = e_Centerx - s_Centerx
Scale = aligned_Distance /Distance

s_Center is the center coordinate of the starting point of the license plate number, and e_Center is the center coordinate of the point where the license plate number ends. Delta_x and Delta_y are the base and height of the right triangle, and Degree is the rotation angle of the license plate. In addition, Distance is the upper side, that is, the inclined horizontal length of the license plate, and Number_Center is the center point of the upper side, and the license plate is rotated by the rotation angle based on this center point to horizontally align the license plate. Finally, Scale is a parameter that compensates for an image whose size is reduced due to rotation. <Extracting Korean characters>

In one embodiment of the present invention, instead of recognizing the vehicle license plate in the entire image, a method of separating letters and numbers of the vehicle license plate and recognizing them in units of characters is used. At this time, since Hangul characters are separated into consonants and vowels, it is rather difficult to obtain the coordinates of characters composed of one syllable. In one embodiment of the present invention, three algorithms can be used to improve the recognition rate of Hangul characters with many misrecognitions. The first algorithm thickens the image by using erosion to connect consonants and vowels in a basic way. However, this has a limitation because it affects the number and has a problem of being connected to the number of other points. Therefore, by increasing the iter of erosion, most consonants and vowels can be attached without causing problems in other areas.

The second algorithm considers that consonants and vowels are somewhat smaller than the number domain, averages the domains of all objects and multiplies them for each object. Recognizes consonants and vowels and draws the coordinates of new Hangul characters. If the Korean character is not recognized even after the second algorithm attempt, if there is no Korean character by searching for the Korean character, the Korean character is located at the fifth position from the rear of the license plate, so the coordinates of that position can be detected and recognized again.

<Vehicle Number Recognition>

In an embodiment of the present invention, the background may be deleted and labeling may be performed by separating numbers and characters using an actual license plate document of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. For example, you can extract the characters from 0 to 34 and the numbers from 35 to 44, label them as integers, and one-hot encode the labeled integers. In an embodiment of the present invention, in order to sufficiently increase the training dataset and the test dataset, the dataset can be increased in the following way. reScale is the normalization of the image, Rotation_Range is the range to rotate the picture, Width_Shift_Range is the horizontal translation, Height_Shift_Range is the vertical translation, Shear_Range is the image distortion, and Zoom_Range is the image magnification parameter. This proliferation is for more robust recognition of letters and numbers slightly deformed according to the image state. The augmented training image can be used as an input for CNN.

The input image can be layered like a LeNet or AlexNet network structure while reducing the image size and increasing the number of filters. For example, the size of the feature map can be reduced through MaxPooling while increasing the number of filters of the feature map through convolution. In addition, at the output end of the CNN, softmax can be output by inputting to a fully-connected layer. With such a network configuration, a license plate can be learned and a learning result model can be stored. Of course, in addition to the above methods, general LPR, for example, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is used, or Easy OCR extracts a character area from an image, separates a character, and recognizes a character, or an image obtained through a segmentation process. By extracting feature points from , Tesseract OCR, which recognizes characters using deep learning techniques such as LSTM and template matching techniques, can be used, or simply YOLO can be used.

The completion unit 330 may complete the car wash service when the automatic car wash device is driven via the affiliated store terminal 400 . If the number of car wash services of regular subscription is limited to once a day, the user's vehicle that has been completed cannot be washed any more on that day. Of course, if a separate car wash is required, it can be induced to wash the car through a single payment, and at this time, a discount coupon can be given to prevent leaving the car wash platform. In this case, the automatic car wash device may be a touchless type car wash device that washes a car by spraying chemicals and water using at least one nozzle. Car wash systems can be classified into self-washing machines, door-type car washing machines, and tunnel-type washing machines according to operation methods, and automatic car washes include door-type car washing machines and tunnel-type washing machines. Depending on the configuration of the car washing system, it can be divided into contact type, non-contact type and hybrid type. The contact type refers to a device equipped with a brush, and the non-contact type refers to a device that has no brush and cleans only with high-pressure water and detergent. Contact type car washes currently on sale have a structure in which a vehicle enters and cleans the vehicle surface with a brush, so there is a high possibility of scratches. It cracks and leaves more scratches on the vehicle, which has the disadvantage of poor cleaning power. Accordingly, in one embodiment of the present invention, a non-contact car wash is used, and a multi-directional high-pressure rotating nozzle module with strong washing efficiency and three detergents that scan the surface of the vehicle to spray proximity high-pressure water at a certain distance and effectively remove organic and inorganic contamination Contamination can be effectively removed by using (acid, alkali, neutral).

The completion unit 330 may drive the automatic car wash device, drive the coffee machine, and allow the autonomous robot to stand by. Subscription members are customers who generate regular sales through regular payments, so as a differentiated customer service for them, self-driving robots or serving robots serve coffee from the coffee machine so that regular subscribers can enjoy coffee while cleaning in the drying zone. Allow delivery to the vehicle. At this time, since the drying zone is in a state where dust is blown by various air guns or vacuum cleaners, it is preferable to position the coffee in a serving robot with a cover and serve or place it in an autonomous robot that can open and close the lid. At this time, since the license plate number is recognized, it is possible to determine which section of the current regular subscription customer's vehicle is located in the drying zone using CCTV or an autonomous robot or serving robot.

When the member store terminal 400 recognizes the vehicle number, the confirmation delivery unit 340 recognizes and transmits the license plate recognition (LPR), and transmits the vehicle number to the user terminal 100 for the car wash service regularly subscribed. The result may be transmitted to the affiliated store terminal 400 after checking the remaining days, the affiliated store's unique identification code, and the number of car washes per day. If a user has subscribed to a store and visits another affiliated store, the user may go to another affiliated store if the user is treated the same as a single payment customer. Accordingly, in the case of going to another affiliated store after subscribing to a shop, the same service as that of a customer with a regular subscription, that is, a service by recognizing a vehicle number, may be provided at the same price as a single payment or at a discounted price. In this case, a recommendation may be made to recommend a regional regular subscription or integrated subscription.

When there are a plurality of automatic car wash devices connected to the affiliated store terminal 400, the guide unit 350 turns on a light emitting device located outside the automatic car wash device to be automatically operated among the remaining automatic car wash devices excluding the currently running automatic car wash device. When turned on, the location where the car wash service will start can be guided. If there are several lines in the queue, it may be difficult to know which line to stand in. Therefore, automatic car washes that are currently in operation or not in operation may be displayed so that the user can immediately drive the automatic car wash and enter the vehicle.

The classification unit 360 classifies the regular subscription into an integrated subscription available in at least one affiliated store terminal 400 connected to the car wash service providing server, a regional regular subscription available in a plurality of affiliated store terminals 400, and a single affiliated store terminal 400. ) can be classified as a subscription. Of course, it will be obvious that various types of regular subscriptions can be updated as described above.

When the vehicle number of the user terminal 100 is recognized by the merchant terminal 400, the product confirmation unit 370 checks which regular subscription is selected from among integrated subscription, regional regular subscription, and point subscription, and If the type of regular subscription previously mapped and stored is a regular subscription that is not applied in the affiliated store terminal 400 or exceeds the number of uses, the automatic car wash device may not be operated.

The IoT management unit 380 recognizes the license plate number of the user terminal 100 when the affiliated store terminal 400 drives at least one IoT cleaning device provided in a drying zone connected to the automatic car wash device. Driving may be permitted when the QR code is recognized using the QR code that is allowed or assigned to the user terminal 100 . Recently, there was a picture that became the talk of the town as an unmanned car wash villain, and the owner of the unmanned car wash captured a CCTV video of a foreign car owner who washed a car without paying by using water and washing chemicals at the sink without permission and uploaded it to the Internet. In this way, if someone else uses the portion that should go to each member without permission at the unmanned car wash, the damage is passed on to the member as a price increase as well as the platform. Power can be controlled so that it works only when the user is confirmed.

The statistics providing unit 390 analyzes the video taken from at least one CCTV connected to the affiliated store terminal 400 in real time to identify the number of vehicles in stock and the number of waiting vehicles for each affiliated store, stores and shares them as a log, and And the number of visitors by time period can be provided as statistical data. If only the real-time number of waiting cars is provided, it is impossible to predict how many cars there will be at the time the user is going. Accordingly, it is possible to predict how many vehicles are waiting and how much waiting time there will be on a corresponding date and time by using statistical data. For this, LSTM, which is excellent for analyzing time series data, can be used. In the case of car washing, it is highly affected by rainy conditions or cold weather conditions below zero, such as holidays, so context-aware algorithms can be used.

The QR output unit 391 may output a QR code of a product paid in the user terminal 100 when a preset gesture is input from the user terminal 100 . In this case, the preset gesture may be a gesture of shaking the user terminal 100 . The user terminal 100 having installed the application according to an embodiment of the present invention can hear a welcome message when approaching an affiliated store by a geo-fence, and accordingly, the welcome message from the user terminal 100 It is possible to wake up and automatically run the application of the present invention by At this time, the user of the user terminal 100 may output the QR code by taking an action of shaking the user terminal 100 left and right without pressing a button back and forth to output the QR code.

In addition, it is possible to measure the amount of wastewater generated in a car wash using a solar module and Zigbee or Wi-Fi. It may include an integrated wattmeter for measuring power consumption and at least one meter capable of measuring water consumption, wastewater generation, and chemical consumption. A digital format that can be transmitted by converting the measured value into a pulse signal can be applied. In addition, the measured wattage value and flow rate value can be transmitted using Zigbee wireless communication or wired method, and the measured wattage value and flow rate value are compared with the previously stored power value and flow rate value, and the measured value can be converted into a numerical value. . In this case, the control module may input an operation program into the data memory in advance, compare the measured value transmitted from the measuring device, and indicate the measured value including the compared value and the comparison value.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention matches each affiliated store terminal 400 with the water tank water level checking IoT equipment, interlocks with the screen of the affiliated store terminal 400, notifies the manager in case of water shortage, and each user terminal 100 You can control the entry and use of the car wash machine. In addition, communication between the automatic car wash and the car wash service providing server 300 can be advanced so that the current status of the car washing process and errors during car washing can be monitored in real time, and the vehicle alignment status before car washing starts can be checked through AI and electronic sensors. can guide you.

Hereinafter, an operation process according to the configuration of the above-described car wash service providing server of FIG. 2 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4 as examples. However, it will be apparent that the embodiment is only any one of various embodiments of the present invention, and is not limited thereto.

Referring to FIG. 3 , (a) the car wash service providing server 300 includes at least one affiliated store terminal 400 and is configured to recognize a QR code and drive an automatic car wash device or an IoT cleaning device. In addition, when applying for regular subscription in the user terminal 100, when selecting a type of regular subscription and registering a card number and vehicle number, information of a regular subscription member is made into a database. And, as in (b), when the user's vehicle enters the affiliated store, the affiliated store terminal 400 transmits the screen of the CCTV to the carwash service providing server 300 or only the vehicle number recognized by itself is sent to the carwash service providing server 300. ) is forwarded to The vehicle number is recognized by the car wash service providing server 300 or the affiliated store terminal 400, depending on which computing resources are distributed and how much the image analysis load is concentrated on the car washing service providing server 300. may vary.

In this way, when the vehicle number is tossed from the affiliated store terminal 400 or analyzed by itself, the car wash service providing server 300 determines whether the vehicle number is the vehicle number of a member who has subscribed for a regular subscription, and if so, determines whether the vehicle number is a regular subscription member who can receive a car wash service at the corresponding affiliated store. Yes, if this is also correct, it is checked whether the number of times per day is not exceeded, and finally, approval or not is transmitted to the affiliated store terminal 400 . The affiliated store terminal 400 directly drives the automatic car wash device using this, and when there are a plurality of automatic car wash devices, it is possible to specify and control to drive the automatic car wash device into which the vehicle of the user terminal 100 enters. When the vehicle of the user terminal 100 enters the drying zone after passing through the automatic car wash device, power is applied to the IoT cleaning device in the section where the vehicle of the user terminal 100 is located or a block is removed so that it can be driven. In addition, the car wash service providing server 300 shows not only the real-time number of waiting cars at each affiliated store, but also statistical values as shown in (d), so that at what time the car wash can be done without waiting and without being congested. You can also provide information.

The platform (AutoStay) according to an embodiment of the present invention as shown in FIG. 4a provides a regular subscription as shown in FIG. 4b, and uses a card to request a regular subscription as shown in FIGS. 4c and 4d in the user terminal 100. and register the license plate number to complete. Card registration may proceed as shown in FIG. 4e, and notes may be shown as shown in FIG. 4f. As shown in FIG. 4G, the platform according to an embodiment of the present invention provides various services such as self car wash, self QR car wash, automatic car wash, and automatic car wash subscription in addition to regular subscription, and as shown in FIG. It can provide ratings, provide weather and precipitation probabilities, and even offer a shake to open QR scan function. As shown in FIG. 4I , the automatic car wash device may be configured as a scan-type touchless automatic car wash, and may be installed in various ways such as a tunnel type, a door type, and a fixed type. As shown in FIG. 4J , the user may register a regular subscription in the application, visit an affiliated store, wash the car automatically, and then finish cleaning the interior in the drying zone. In addition, as shown in FIG. 4K, a base can be prepared and the types of regular subscriptions can be diversified to form a variety of customer groups, and each affiliated store can be built in the form of FIGS. 4L to 4O. As shown in FIG. 4p, new members may be recruited using viral marketing.

Matters not described in the method for providing the automatic car wash service using regular subscription in FIGS. 2 to 4 are the same as those described in the method for providing the automatic car wash service using regular subscription in FIG. 1 or from the description. Since it can be easily inferred, the following description will be omitted.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a process of transmitting/receiving data between components included in the system for providing an automatic car wash service using regular subscription of FIG. 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, an example of a process of transmitting and receiving data between each component will be described through FIG. 5, but the present application is not limited to such an embodiment, and according to various embodiments described above, It is obvious to those skilled in the art that a process of transmitting and receiving data may be changed.

Referring to FIG. 5 , when a vehicle number and a card number are registered in a user terminal, the car wash service providing server registers the car wash service as a user who has applied for regular subscription (S5100).

When the vehicle number is recognized by the affiliated store terminal, the car wash service providing server extracts the stored car wash service mapped to the vehicle number and transmits the extracted car wash service to the affiliated store terminal (S5200).

In addition, the car wash service providing server completes the car wash service when the automatic car wash device is driven via the affiliate store terminal (S5300).

The order between the above-described steps (S5100 to S5400) is only an example, and is not limited thereto. That is, the order of the above-described steps (S5100 to S5400) may be mutually changed, and some of the steps may be simultaneously executed or deleted.

Matters not explained in the method for providing the automatic car wash service using regular subscription in FIG. 5 are the same as those described in the method for providing the automatic car wash service using regular subscription through FIGS. 1 to 4 above, or from the description. Since it can be easily inferred, the following description will be omitted.

The method for providing an automatic car wash service using regular subscription according to an embodiment described with reference to FIG. 5 may be implemented in the form of a recording medium including instructions executable by a computer, such as an application or program module executed by a computer. can Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. Also, computer readable media may include all computer storage media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data.

The above-described method for providing an automatic car wash service using regular subscription according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed by an application basically installed in a terminal (this may include a program included in a platform or operating system basically installed in the terminal). It may be executed, or it may be executed by an application (ie, a program) directly installed in the master terminal by a user through an application providing server such as an application store server, an application or a web server related to the corresponding service. In this sense, the above-described automatic car wash service providing method using regular subscription according to an embodiment of the present invention is implemented as an application (ie, a program) that is basically installed in a terminal or directly installed by a user, and is implemented as a computer such as a terminal. It can be recorded on a readable recording medium.

The above description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes, and those skilled in the art can understand that it can be easily modified into other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. will be. Therefore, the embodiments described above should be understood as illustrative in all respects and not limiting. For example, each component described as a single type may be implemented in a distributed manner, and similarly, components described as distributed may be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is indicated by the following claims rather than the detailed description above, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and equivalent concepts should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.

Claims (10)

A user terminal registering a vehicle number and a card number to apply for a regular subscription to a car wash service;
an affiliated store terminal that recognizes the license plate number and drives an automatic car wash device to provide a car wash service requested for regular subscription from the license plate number; and
When registering the vehicle number and card number in the user terminal, a regular subscription register for registering as a user who has applied for a regular subscription for car wash service, and a car wash that is previously mapped and stored to the vehicle number when the member store terminal recognizes the vehicle number a transmission unit extracting the service and transmitting it to the affiliated store terminal, a completion unit completing the car wash service when the automatic car wash device is operated via the affiliated store terminal, and at least one affiliated store connected to the carwash service providing server for the regular subscription a car wash service providing server including a classification unit that classifies integrated subscriptions available in a terminal, regional subscriptions available in a plurality of affiliated store terminals, and store regular subscriptions available in a single affiliated store terminal;
An automatic car wash service providing system using a regular subscription comprising a.
According to claim 1,
The car wash service providing server,
When the member store terminal recognizes the license plate number, LPR (License Plate Recognition) is used to recognize and transmit the vehicle number, and the remaining days of the car wash service regularly subscribed in the user terminal with the license plate number, member store unique identification code, and day car wash After confirming the number of times, a confirmation transmission unit for transmitting the result to the affiliated store terminal;
Automatic car wash service providing system using a regular subscription, characterized in that it further comprises.
According to claim 1,
The car wash service providing server,
If there are a plurality of automatic car wash devices connected to the affiliated store terminal, turn on a light emitting device located outside the automatic car wash device to be automatically operated among the remaining automatic car wash devices excluding the currently running automatic car wash device to guide the location where the car wash service starts guide to do;
Automatic car wash service providing system using a regular subscription, characterized in that it further comprises.
delete According to claim 1,
The car wash service providing server,
When the vehicle number of the user terminal is recognized by the affiliated store terminal, it is checked which regular subscription is selected from among the integrated subscription, local regular subscription, and point subscription, and the type of regular subscription previously mapped and stored to the license plate number is a product confirmation unit that does not operate the automatic car wash device when the number of times of use is exceeded or is a regular subscription that is not applicable to the affiliated store terminal;
Automatic car wash service providing system using a regular subscription, characterized in that it further comprises.
According to claim 1,
The car wash service providing server,
When the affiliated store terminal drives at least one IoT cleaning device provided in the Drying Zone connected to the automatic car wash device, it recognizes the vehicle number of the user terminal and allows driving or a QR code assigned to the user terminal IoT management unit that allows driving when the QR code is recognized by using;
Automatic car wash service providing system using a regular subscription, characterized in that it further comprises.
According to claim 1,
The car wash service providing server,
Analyzes the video taken from at least one CCTV connected to the affiliated store terminal in real time to determine the number of vehicles in stock and waiting for each affiliated store, stores and shares them as a log, and provides the number of visitors by day and time as statistical data statistics provision department;
Automatic car wash service providing system using a regular subscription, characterized in that it further comprises.
According to claim 1,
The car wash service providing server,
When a preset gesture is input from the user terminal, a QR output unit for outputting a QR code of a product paid for by the user terminal;
Automatic car wash service providing system using a regular subscription, characterized in that it further comprises.
According to claim 8,
The automatic car wash service providing system using regular subscription, characterized in that the preset gesture is a gesture of shaking the user terminal.
According to claim 1,
The automatic car wash device,
An automatic car washing service providing system using a regular subscription, characterized in that it is a touchless type car washing device for washing a car by spraying chemicals and water using at least one nozzle.

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