KR102510107B1 - Smart Office Seat Occupancy And Monitoring System Using Network - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a smart office variable seat occupancy and monitoring system using a network. In the smart office variable seat occupancy and monitoring system using a network according to the present invention, organization information of a user using a smart office, address information of a personal computer corresponding to the user, extension number corresponding to the user, installed in each seat When a user connects a personal computer to a database that stores port numbers and a port installed in each seat of the smart office, address information of the personal computer is obtained using a simple network management protocol (SNMP), and the obtained address information and a controller for transmitting the port number to an authentication server, an authentication server for determining whether or not a user occupies a seat based on the database, and a kiosk for displaying the seat arrangement of the smart office and a user currently occupying a seat.
As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to contribute to building a smart office environment capable of increasing user collaboration and communication through flexible seat occupation anytime and anywhere by utilizing network SNMP.

Description

Smart Office Seat Occupancy And Monitoring System Using Network

The present invention relates to a smart office seat occupancy and monitoring system using a network, and more particularly, to a smart office seat using a network that allows users to conveniently occupy seats and monitor occupied seats using network SNMP technology. It is about occupancy and monitoring systems.

As the adoption of smart work, a concept that enables work regardless of time and place, increases with the development of IT, government agencies and companies that want to introduce smart work culture through changes in the office environment are increasing. Due to changes in the office environment due to the smart work culture, the government is promoting a law revision with a plan to introduce a quality rating system for physical spaces to promote smart work. Accordingly, there is a need for a system capable of unmanned management and access security in the field where autonomous (variable) seats are implemented instead of fixed seats in smart work centers and smart office environment offices.

Therefore, in recent years, offices using the smart office variable seat reservation system using kiosks are increasing.

However, although various technologies related to seat reservation systems have been developed, there is a problem in that seats must be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis by using an agent or application required for reservation, or used after arriving before others and requesting a seat.

To overcome this problem, a system for reserving seats through the web or mobile was introduced, but it had a problem of poor usability due to invisible competition among users who wanted to occupy preferred seats.

The conventional kiosk reservation system compensates for the disadvantages of the web or mobile reservation system with an on-site reservation system, but there is a problem in that the number of seats installed by the user at a specific time is greater than the number of seats or when a failure occurs, confusion in the seating arrangement occurs.

The background technology of the present invention is disclosed in Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2017-0078063 (published on July 7, 2017).

The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a smart office variable seat occupancy and monitoring system using a network that allows users to conveniently occupy seats and monitor occupied seats using network SNMP technology.

According to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving this technical problem, in the smart office variable seat occupancy and monitoring system, organization information of a user using a smart office, address information of a personal computer corresponding to the user, and information corresponding to the user When a user connects a personal computer to a database that stores extension numbers and port numbers installed in each seat and a port installed in each seat of the smart office, the address information of the personal computer is retrieved using a simple network management protocol (SNMP). A control unit that obtains and transmits the obtained address information and the port number to an authentication server, an authentication server that determines whether or not a user occupies a seat based on the database, and a seat arrangement of the smart office and a user who currently occupies a seat can be displayed

The authentication server may authenticate the user by comparing the address information of the personal computer received from the control unit with user information stored in the database, and deliver the user's approval status to the user's personal computer in the form of a message.

When the authentication of the user is successful, the authentication server may transmit an authentication alarm message to the user's personal computer and transmit the approval message to the kiosk and control unit.

When receiving the user's approval message from the authentication server, the control unit converts the extension number of the phone connected to the corresponding seat to the extension number of the corresponding user, and the title and name of the user corresponding to the electronic nameplate installed in the corresponding seat are displayed. can be converted to display.

The database may store reservation information for a collaboration zone in which a plurality of seats are grouped and installed so that users can collaborate.

The authentication server, when more than 50% of the seats included in the collaboration zone are occupied by users of a specific group reserved in advance, when users of other groups connect personal computers to ports installed in the remaining seats of the collaboration zone A seat occupancy prohibition message can be delivered to the user's personal computer.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to contribute to building a smart office environment capable of increasing user collaboration and communication through flexible seat occupation anytime and anywhere by utilizing network SNMP.

In addition, according to the present invention, a seat can be automatically occupied by connecting a personal computer to a port installed in a corresponding seat, even if a seat is not reserved in the system in advance, so that the user can conveniently use the corresponding seat.

1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a smart office seat occupancy and monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is an exemplary diagram for explaining a seat configuration of a smart office according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a view for explaining each seat of a smart office according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 4 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the smart office seat occupancy and monitoring system 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 with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention may be implemented in many different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. In addition, 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 certain component is said to "include", it means that it may further include other components without excluding other components unless otherwise stated.

Then, with reference to the accompanying drawings, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail so that those skilled in the art can easily practice it.

First, the configuration of a smart office according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3 .

1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a smart office according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the seat occupancy and monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a control unit 110, an authentication server 120, a database 130, and a kiosk 140.

And, as shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of seats 160 are arranged inside the smart office 100, and each seat 160 has a port 150, a phone 210 and an electronic nameplate 220 It is installed.

When the user connects the personal computer 200 to the port 150 installed in each seat of the smart office, the controller 110 uses the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to address the personal computer 200. Information is obtained, and the acquired address information and port number are transferred to the authentication server 120 .

Then, the authentication server 120 determines whether the user occupies the seat based on the database 130.

The database 130 stores organization information of a user using the smart office, address information of a personal computer corresponding to the user, extension number corresponding to the user, and port number installed in each seat.

And, the kiosk 140 has a touch screen and sound. graphic. It is an unmanned comprehensive information guidance device that provides efficient information to users, such as voice service and video implementation, by utilizing advanced multimedia devices such as communication cards. The kiosk 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention is installed outside the smart office and displays the seating arrangement of the smart office and user information currently occupying the seat on the screen.

Hereinafter, a smart office according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail using FIGS. 2 and 3 .

2 is an exemplary view for explaining a seat configuration of a smart office according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a seat of the smart office shown in FIG. 2 .

To explain the smart office 100 in more detail through FIG. 2, the smart office is an office equipped with a work space and a remote conference facility, and can freely set a seat rather than an assigned seat to handle work. It refers to an IT-based office that enables

In particular, the smart office may further include a collaboration zone 300 in which a plurality of seats are continuously arranged for joint collaboration so that users performing collaborative work can freely express their opinions.

Here, the collaboration zone 300 is an open type work space in which no partition is installed, and in particular, a beam projector or the like may be further installed to facilitate collaboration.

And, as shown in Figure 2, each seat has a built-in port (150).

To describe the seats installed in the smart office through FIG. 3 in more detail, the phone 210 and the electronic nameplate 220 are connected through the ports 150 installed in each seat 160.

When a user connects the personal computer 200 to the port 150, the control unit 110 obtains the address information of the personal computer connected to the port 150 from the port 150 using network SNMP technology, and sends it to the authentication server 120. send to

Here, the network SNMP technology refers to a protocol technology for managing a network by automatically collecting various information on a regular basis from each host on the network in a TCP/IP-based network.

In addition, the port 150 is a physical connection used to connect peripheral devices of the computer, and is installed for each individual seat, and the phone 210, electronic nameplate 220, and personal computer installed in each seat are connected to the authentication server 120. ) to be connected.

The personal computer 200 is a portable user terminal, such as a notebook computer, a workstation, a palmtop computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a web pad, a mobile communication terminal, etc., that can be wired or wirelessly networked. It can be implemented as a device that can access and exchange information.

In addition, a phone 210 is connected to each seat, and the control unit 110 converts the user's own extension number to the phone of the corresponding seat through the IP-PBX when the authentication server 120 completes user authentication.

At this time, an IP-PBX (Internet Protocol Private Branch Exchange) consists of one or more SIP phones/VoIP phones and an IP PBX server, and is a telephone exchange that transmits voice and video through a data network.

And, the electronic name plate 220 is a device for displaying the user's title and name, and may display the current date and time, seat number, name, usage time, and the like.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a control method of a smart office according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the user entering the smart office connects the user's personal computer 200 to the port 150 installed in the seat 160 by wire (S410).

As soon as the personal computer 200 is connected to the port 150, the address of the personal computer 200 is transmitted to the authentication server through the port 150 (S420).

Here, the address of the personal computer 200 represents a unique Media Access Control (MAC) address of a LAN card installed in the computer.

Also, since the MAC address is a unique number possessed by the device, unlike the IP address, it does not change unless the device is replaced or network components are replaced.

When data is transmitted to the authentication server 120 in step S420, the authentication server 120 compares the transmitted data with data stored in the database 130 (S430).

Here, the authentication server 120 compares the user data entered into the authentication server 120 with the information stored in the database 130, and sends an approval status to the control unit 110 and the kiosk 140 in the form of a message. do.

In addition, the database 130 stores the user organization information, the address information of the personal computer 200 corresponding to the user, the extension number of the phone 210 corresponding to the user, and the port 150 number installed in each seat. Reservation information for the zone 300 may be further stored.

Accordingly, the authentication server 120 determines whether the received address information matches the user information stored in the database 130.

If the data compared in step S430 does not match the data stored in the database, the authentication server 120 transmits an unapproved message for user authentication to the control unit 110 (S440).

That is, the fact that the user received an unapproved message means that data stored in the database 130 in the authentication server 120 does not match information on the personal computer 200 of the accessed user.

When the data compared in step S430 matches the data stored in the database, the authentication server 120 transmits an approval message for user approval to the control unit 110 (S450).

When the control unit 110 receives the approval message in step S450, the control unit 110 displays the seat occupancy status on the kiosk 140 installed outside the smart office 100 so that other users can check it (S460).

At the same time, the control unit 110 changes the phone 210 and the electronic nameplate 220 installed in the existing seat 160 to suit the user who has accessed them so that they can be operated (S470).

In addition, the controller 110 transmits an approval message to the personal computer 200 of the user connected to the corresponding seat 160, so that the user of the seat 160 recognizes whether or not the user has approved.

In particular, the control unit 110 is composed of equipment or software, and may be installed in the authentication server 120 or pre-installed in the personal computer 200 and utilized.

In this way, according to an embodiment of the present invention, it can contribute to building a smart office environment that can increase user collaboration and communication through flexible seat occupation anytime and anywhere by utilizing network SNMP.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a seat can be automatically occupied by connecting a personal computer to a port installed in a corresponding seat without making a seat reservation in the system in advance, so that the user can conveniently use the corresponding seat.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. Therefore, , The true technical scope of protection of the present invention should be determined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

100: smart office, 110: control unit,
120: authentication server, 130: database,
140: kiosk 150: port,
160: seat 200: personal computer,
210: phone, 220: electronic nameplate,
300: collaboration zone

Claims (6)

In the smart office seat occupancy and monitoring system using a network,
A database for storing organization information of users using the smart office, address information of personal computers corresponding to the users, extension numbers corresponding to the users, and port numbers installed in each seat;
When a user connects a personal computer to a port installed in each seat of the smart office, address information of the personal computer is obtained using a simple network management protocol (SNMP), and the obtained address information and the port number are transmitted to the authentication server. control unit that transmits
It is determined whether the user occupies a seat based on the database, the user is authenticated by comparing the address information of the personal computer received from the control unit with the user information stored in the database, and a message is sent to the user's personal computer to determine whether or not the user is approved. A certificate server delivered in the form of
Includes a kiosk for displaying the seat arrangement of the smart office and the user currently occupying the seat,
The authentication server,
When the authentication of the user is successful, an authentication alarm message is transmitted to the personal computer of the user, and an approval message of the user is transmitted to the kiosk and the control unit;
The control unit,
Upon receiving the corresponding user approval message from the authentication server, the extension number of the phone connected to the corresponding seat is converted into the extension number of the corresponding user, and the seat occupancy is converted so that the title and name of the corresponding user are displayed on the electronic nameplate installed in the corresponding seat. and monitoring system. delete delete delete According to claim 1,
The database
A seat occupancy and monitoring system that stores reservation information for collaboration zones where multiple seats are grouped and installed so that users can collaborate. According to claim 5,
The authentication server,
If more than 50% of the seats included in the collaboration zone are occupied by a specific group of users reserved in advance,
A seat occupancy and monitoring system that transmits a seat occupancy impossible message to the user's personal computer when a user of another group connects a personal computer to the port installed in the remaining seats in the collaboration zone.

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