KR20080052310A - The system, apparatus and method for informing traffic accident - Google Patents

Abstract

A system, an apparatus, and a method for informing a traffic accident are provided to process quickly a car accident by automatically originating a call to an accident processing center when a traffic accident occurs. An impact sensing unit(100) is installed in a vehicle and outputs impact data sensed in the vehicle. A GPS navigation unit(110) transmits data to the impact sensing unit. A mobile communication terminal(120) transmits the data to the GPS navigation. The GPS navigation includes an accident determination unit(113) for determining a car accident on the basis of the impact data received from the impact sensing unit, and a traveling information collection unit(115) for collecting vehicle traveling information according to a determining result of the accident determination unit and outputting the vehicle traveling information to the mobile communication terminal. The mobile communication terminal includes an accident processing unit(123) for outputting the vehicle traveling information received from the GPS navigation to an accident center server.

Description

Traffic accident notification method, device and system {THE SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INFORMING TRAFFIC ACCIDENT}

The present invention relates to a traffic accident notification method, apparatus and system, and more particularly, to a method, apparatus and system for automatically informing a disaster center, such as a police station, a hospital, of a traffic accident occurrence.

The present invention is derived from the research conducted as part of the IT new growth engine core technology development project of the Ministry of Information and Communication and the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications Research and Development. Adaptive Embedded OS Technology Development].

Many vehicles are now equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation. GPS navigation stores information about the vehicle's current location, speed, and route, and alerts the user. In addition, many people now have mobile communication terminals (such as mobile phones). The needs of users using mobile communication terminals are diversified day by day, and in response to these demands, a large number of mobile communication terminals are now able to communicate wirelessly with peripheral devices. Such wireless communication technologies include infrared communication (IrDA), Bluetooth, Bluetooth, Wireless Lan, and WiBro (Wireless Braodband).

Meanwhile, traffic accidents are increasing rapidly every year due to the increase in vehicles. In particular, accidents that occur in places where human traffic is rare or where traffic is low in traffic are difficult to deal with quickly. In addition, when the occupant is injured a lot due to a traffic accident and can not quickly inform the accident situation to the hospital or police station, it may cause a risk of life of the occupant.

Accordingly, there is a need for a method for quickly transmitting information on a traffic accident to a disaster center using a GPS navigation mounted on a vehicle, a mobile communication terminal of a passenger, and the like.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method, apparatus and system for collecting vehicle operation information such as the current position and speed of a vehicle and transmitting it to a disaster center such as a police station or a hospital when a traffic accident occurs.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method, apparatus, and system for automatically making a call to a disaster center such as a police station or a hospital when a traffic accident occurs, so as to facilitate the convenience of a user in an emergency situation.

In addition, another object of the present invention, also, another object of the present invention can be understood by the following description and an embodiment of the present invention.

To this end, the traffic accident notification method according to the present invention, (a) detecting the impact of the vehicle to determine whether the accident of the vehicle based on the detected shock; (b) collecting vehicle driving information of the vehicle when an accident occurs; And (c) transmitting the collected vehicle driving information to a predetermined disaster center server through a mobile communication terminal.

In addition, the traffic accident notification device according to the present invention, an accident determination unit mounted on the GPS navigation, to determine whether the accident of the vehicle based on the shock data received from the shock detection unit; And a driving information collecting unit configured to collect vehicle driving information of the vehicle and output it to a mobile communication terminal when an accident occurs as a result of the determination of the accident determining unit.

In addition, the traffic accident notification system according to the present invention, the shock detection unit is installed in the vehicle, and outputs the shock data detected in the vehicle; GPS navigation capable of data transmission with the impact detector; And a mobile communication terminal capable of transmitting data with the GPS navigation, wherein the GPS navigation comprises: an accident determination unit determining whether an accident of the vehicle occurs based on the shock data received from the shock detection unit; And a driving information collecting unit for collecting vehicle driving information of the vehicle and outputting the driving information of the vehicle to the mobile communication terminal when an accident occurs as a result of the determination of the accident determining unit. The mobile communication terminal includes the vehicle driving information received from the GPS navigation. It includes an accident processing unit for outputting a predetermined disaster center server.

As described above, the present invention has an advantage that the vehicle accident information can be promptly processed by automatically collecting vehicle driving information and transmitting the vehicle driving information to a disaster center when a traffic accident occurs. In addition, the present invention has the advantage that can be facilitated by the user in emergency situations by automatically making a call to the disaster center when a traffic accident occurs.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram of a traffic accident notification system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, the configuration and operation of a traffic accident notification system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1.

Traffic accident notification system according to an embodiment of the present invention, the impact detection unit 100, GPS navigation 110, the mobile communication terminal 120.

The shock detection unit 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is installed in a vehicle and outputs the shock data detected by the vehicle to the GPS navigation 110 by wire or wirelessly. The impact data may be an impact force that is a magnitude of a force applied to a vehicle or an impact amount that is a product of the impact force and the time when the impact force is applied. In this case, the impact sensor 100 may not merely collect shock data but may use an intelligent sensor that may determine whether an accident is based on the detected shock data. When the intelligent sensor is used in the shock detection unit 100 as described above, the shock detection unit 100 outputs information on whether an accident occurs to the GPS navigation 110 instead of outputting shock data.

The GPS navigation 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication module 111, an accident determining unit 113, a driving information collecting unit 115, and a driving information recording unit 117.

The communication module 111 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention outputs shock data received from the shock detector 100 to the accident determiner 113.

The accident determination unit 113 according to an embodiment of the present invention determines whether an accident of the vehicle occurs based on the shock data received from the shock detection unit 100. When determining whether an accident occurs in the vehicle, the vehicle may be preset to determine whether an accident occurs only when the vehicle is driving at a predetermined speed or more. When it is determined that an accident has occurred in the vehicle, the accident determining unit 113 drives the driving information collecting unit 115. On the other hand, as described above, when the impact detection unit 100 can determine whether the accident itself, the accident determination unit 113 receives the data that the accident occurred from the impact detection unit 100 is operated The information collecting unit 115 is driven.

The driving information collector 115 according to an embodiment of the present invention collects vehicle driving information. The vehicle driving information includes a position, a speed, an acceleration, a driving direction, and a vehicle number of the vehicle previously input.

In addition, the driving information collecting unit 115 according to an embodiment of the present invention may collect vehicle driving information for a predetermined time immediately before an accident when collecting vehicle driving information. For example, when the user has previously set the amount of vehicle driving information to be collected at the occurrence of an accident to 5 minutes, the driving information collecting unit 115 collects vehicle driving information for the last five minutes immediately before the accident. This is done with reference to the vehicle driving information stored in the driving information recording unit 117.

In addition, the driving information collecting unit 115 according to an embodiment of the present invention, outputs the collected vehicle driving information through the communication module 111, the collected vehicle driving information is infrared communication, WiBro, Bluetooth, wireless It can be printed using a LAN.

The driving information recording unit 117 according to an embodiment of the present invention stores vehicle driving information, and a time at which the vehicle driving information is stored may be predetermined by a user.

Meanwhile, the mobile communication terminal 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication module 121 and an accident processing unit 123.

The communication module 121 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure receives vehicle driving information from the GPS navigation 110 and outputs it to the accident processor 123.

When the vehicle driving information is received, the accident processor 123 according to an embodiment of the present invention outputs the received vehicle driving information to the designated disaster center server 130. The designated disaster center server refers to a server capable of receiving and calling data provided by a disaster center such as a police station, a hospital, or a fire station that a user has designated in advance to notify of an accident. At this time, when the mobile communication terminal 120 is in the call incoming / outgoing, the vehicle operation information output is impossible, the accident processing unit 123 terminates the call incoming / outgoing state that is being performed, the vehicle operation information is assigned to the disaster center Output to the server 130. In addition, the accident processing unit 123 may make a call to the designated disaster center server 130 after outputting the vehicle driving information, and whether or not to make a call to the disaster center server 130 may be predetermined by the user. If there are a plurality of designated disaster center servers 130, a call is made to any one of the predetermined disaster center servers 130 in advance.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of collecting vehicle driving information when a traffic accident occurs according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, a process of collecting vehicle driving information when a traffic accident occurs according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

If shock data is received from the shock sensor 100 in step 200, the flow proceeds to step 202.

In step 202, the accident determination unit 113 determines whether an accident of the vehicle has occurred based on the received shock data, and if the accident has occurred, proceeds to step 204, otherwise proceeds to step 200.

If the shock detection unit 100 can directly determine whether an accident occurs based on the shock data, the accident determination unit 113 generates an accident from the shock detection unit 100 in steps 200 to 202. In the case of receiving information on whether or not to proceed to step 204.

In operation 204, the driving information collecting unit 115 collects vehicle driving information and proceeds to operation 206. In addition, the driving information collecting unit 115 may collect driving information for a predetermined time immediately before an accident when collecting vehicle driving information.

In operation 206, the driving information collecting unit 115 outputs the collected vehicle driving information through the communication module 111.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of transmitting vehicle driving information collected when a traffic accident occurs to a disaster center server according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 and 3, a process of transmitting vehicle driving information to a disaster center server when a traffic accident occurs according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

If vehicle driving information is received through the communication module 121 in step 300, the flow proceeds to step 302.

In step 302, the accident processing unit 123 determines whether the mobile communication terminal 120 is in / calling, proceeds to step 304 if the call is in / out, and proceeds to step 306 otherwise. .

In step 304, the accident processing unit 123 terminates the call incoming / outgoing state of the mobile communication terminal 120, and then proceeds to step 308.

Meanwhile, in step 306 where the mobile communication terminal 120 determines that the mobile communication terminal 120 is not calling / outgoing at step 302, the accident processing unit 123 transfers the received vehicle driving information to the designated disaster center server 130. After the transfer proceeds to step 308.

If, in steps 304 to 308, the vehicle operation information can be transmitted to the designated disaster center server 130 even when the mobile communication terminal 120 is in a call / incoming call, the call of the mobile communication terminal 120 The received vehicle driving information is transmitted to the designated disaster center server 130 without terminating the incoming / outgoing state.

In step 308, the accident processing unit 123 makes a call to the designated disaster center server 130. If there are a plurality of designated disaster center servers 130, a call can be made to any one of the preset disaster center servers 130, and whether or not to make a call to the disaster center server 130 can be determined in advance by the user. Can be. For example, if the designated disaster center server is two police station servers and a hospital server, the vehicle operation information transmission is made in both places, and the call origination is any one of the predetermined disaster center server (for example, the police station server). )

In the above description of the present invention, a specific embodiment has been described, but various modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be defined by the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalent of claims and claims.

1 is a block diagram of a traffic accident notification system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of collecting vehicle driving information when a traffic accident occurs according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of transmitting vehicle driving information collected when a traffic accident occurs according to an embodiment of the present invention to a disaster center server.

Claims (16)

(a) detecting a shock of the vehicle and determining whether an accident of the vehicle occurs based on the detected shock; (b) collecting vehicle driving information of the vehicle when an accident occurs; And (c) transmitting the collected vehicle driving information to a predetermined disaster center server through a mobile communication terminal; Traffic accident notification method comprising a. The method of claim 1, (d) if there are a plurality of designated disaster center servers, calling a predetermined server Traffic accident notification method comprising more. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) comprises: Determining whether an accident of the vehicle occurs when the vehicle travels at a predetermined speed or more; Traffic accident notification method comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) comprises: If the mobile communication terminal cannot transmit the vehicle driving information because the mobile communication terminal is calling / incoming, transmitting the vehicle driving information after ending the call origination / incoming state Traffic accident notification method comprising a. The method of claim 2, wherein step (d) Determining whether to call the call according to a predetermined user setting; Traffic accident notification method comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle driving information, At least one of a position, a speed, an acceleration, a driving direction, and a vehicle number of a vehicle previously input; Traffic accident notification method. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle driving information, Any one of the vehicle operation information at the time of the accident or during the preset time immediately before the accident Traffic accident notification method. Mounted on GPS navigation, An accident determination unit determining whether an accident of the vehicle occurs based on the shock data received from the shock detection unit; And As a result of the determination of the accident determination unit, in the event of an accident, driving information collection unit which collects vehicle driving information of the vehicle and outputs it to a mobile communication terminal. Traffic accident notification device comprising a. The method of claim 8, wherein the accident determination unit, Determining whether an accident of the vehicle occurs when the vehicle is traveling at a predetermined speed or more Traffic accident notification device. A shock detector installed in the vehicle and outputting shock data detected by the vehicle; GPS navigation capable of data transmission with the impact detector; And Mobile communication terminal capable of the GPS navigation and data transmission Including but not limited to: The GPS navigation, An accident determination unit determining whether an accident of the vehicle occurs based on the impact data received from the impact detection unit; And A driving information collecting unit for collecting vehicle driving information of the vehicle and outputting the driving information of the vehicle to the mobile communication terminal when an accident occurs as a result of the determination of the accident determining unit; The mobile communication terminal, And an accident processing unit for outputting the vehicle driving information received from the GPS navigation to a predetermined disaster center server. Traffic accident notification system. The method of claim 10, wherein the accident determination unit, Determining whether an accident of the vehicle occurs when the vehicle is traveling at a predetermined speed or more Traffic accident notification system. The method of claim 10, wherein the accident processing unit, When there are a plurality of designated disaster center servers, a call is made to any one server set in advance. Traffic accident notification system. The method of claim 10, wherein the accident processing unit, If the mobile communication terminal cannot transmit the vehicle driving information because the mobile communication terminal is calling / incoming, transmitting the vehicle driving information after ending the call origination / incoming state. Traffic accident notification system. The method of claim 12, wherein the accident processing unit, The call is made according to a predetermined user's setting regarding the call origination. Traffic accident notification system. The method of claim 10, wherein the vehicle driving information, At least one of a position, a speed, an acceleration, a driving direction, and a vehicle number of a vehicle previously input; Traffic accident notification system. The method of claim 10, wherein the vehicle driving information, Any one of the vehicle operation information at the time of the accident or during the preset time immediately before the accident Traffic accident notification system.

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