KR20080071227A - System and method for managing articles - Google Patents

Abstract

A system and a method for managing articles are provided to transfer the articles easily to a recipient by using an automatic luggage locker for enabling the recipient, who enters an apartment, or a one-room or office building with an RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) card, to recognize whether the articles are kept in the automatic luggage locker. A luggage locker(110) keeps articles, generates/transmits RFID information of a recipient, and discharges the articles by receiving an authentication result including article storage information in response to the transmitted RFID information. An article management server(100) generates the article storage information by checking whether the article is delivered to a room number corresponding to the RFID information, generates the authentication result by performing recipient authentication in the luggage locker, and transmits the authentication result to the luggage locker. A display device(120) generates and transmits the RFID information to the article management server by reading an RFID card of the recipient, and receives and displays the article storage information generated from the article management server.

Description

System and Method for Managing Articles

1 is a view showing an unmanned article storage method according to the prior art.

2 is a view briefly showing the configuration of an article management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a block diagram schematically showing the internal configuration of the article management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of storing an article to be delivered to an article storage box according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for a recipient to find an article when the article is stored in an article storage box according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an article storage method for storing and retrieving articles, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for managing an unmanned article.

Recently, the amount of parcels and parcels is increasing due to the increase of internet shopping, apartments and automated studio buildings.

However, the delivery of parcels and parcels often occurs when the recipient is out of time in the residence and the delivery time of parcels and parcels. Thus, in the past, apartments, studios and office buildings have been left to management offices or come back after a telephone conversation with the payee.

In addition, the conventional locker is installed in the apartment, studio and office building unmanned by using the operating personnel or by using the number key to install and manage the cargo storage room at a certain place in the building so that the courier can later pick up the cargo in the absence Some cargo ships were operated.

However, it is difficult to realistically implement the operation personnel in all the lockers due to cost, personnel, etc., and when using the locks in the lockers, it is impossible to cope with the loss of locker keys or various situations in which the goods are exchanged. have.

As a conventional technique for improving such a problem, Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2005-0030784 'Unmanned article storage method and apparatus thereof' may be mentioned.

1 is a view showing an unmanned article storage method according to the prior art.

First, a signal indicating that the goods are to be entrusted is received through a service input unit receiving an input from a user entrusting the goods (S10), and a person who visits the goods receives an identification number corresponding to a communication means to use when searching for the goods (S20).

Opening the storage space for storing the article by the door opening and closing unit opening and closing the article storage space (S30), by detecting that the article is stored in the storage space to close the storage space by the door opening and closing unit (S40). If the information about the place where the storage space is located and the goods corresponding to the identification number is notified through the communication network (S50), and receives a signal that the goods will be found through the service input unit (S60), find the goods By using a communication means used by the person to go to a place corresponding to the article storage space and receives the forwarding number transmitted as an authentication signal (S70). When the received authentication signal corresponds to the identification number received in step S20 to open the storage space by the receiving door opening and closing to find the article (S80).

However, the unmanned article storage method of the prior art will notify the terminal of the person who visits the article that the article is stored through the Short Message Service. Therefore, when the terminal is located in a shaded area or in a communication environment where the strength of reception sensitivity is not good, a short message is not received so that it is not known whether the goods are stored or that it has been known for a long time. You will not be able to function.

In order to solve this problem, the present invention is to provide an unmanned article management system and method using a radio frequency identification (hereinafter referred to as "RFID").

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a product management method comprising: (a) receiving an input signal for storing an article and receiving and storing shipper information for a deliverer for storing the article; (b) receiving item storage information necessary to store the item; (c) receiving radio frequency identification (RFID) information of a recipient who will visit the article and determining whether there is an article stored in a lake corresponding to the radio identification code information; (d) transmitting the information on the stored article to a display device and outputting the information by voice or text; And (e) receiving the radio identification code information from the item storage box that stores the item, performing a recipient authentication process, and transmitting the information about the stored item to the item storage box, where And outputting the step.

An article management system according to an aspect of the present invention stores an article, generates and transmits a radio frequency identification (RFID) information of a recipient, and responds that the article is stored. An item storage box for receiving the authentication result including the information on the stored goods for discharging the product; Determine whether the goods exist in the lake corresponding to the RFID information, generate the stored goods information, and perform the authentication process for the recipient from the goods storage box to generate an authentication result including the stored goods information to the goods storage box An article management server for transmitting; And a display device that reads the RFID tag possessed by the recipient, generates the RFID information, transmits the RFID information to the article management server, and receives and outputs the generated stored article information from the article management server.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, it means that it can further include other components, without excluding other components unless specifically stated otherwise. In addition, the terms “… unit”, “… unit”, “module”, “block”, etc. described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which is hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software. It can be implemented as.

An article management system and method according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

2 is a view briefly showing the configuration of an article management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The article management system according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a article management server 100, a display device 120 and a delivery management server 130.

The goods management server 100 controls the goods storage box 110 connected by wire / wireless to store or take out goods. Here, the goods storage box 110 includes equipment for communication between the RFID reader and the goods management server 100 and an output device showing information of each goods storage box 110. The goods management server 100 transmits the information about the goods stored in the goods storage box 110 to the recipient's mobile communication terminal 160 through the short message service in cooperation with the base station 150.

The goods storage box 110 has an entrance for storing goods by a shipper outside the building, and an item outlet for a recipient to find the goods is formed inside the building, and a video camera is installed at each of the goods entrance and the item exit. .

The display apparatus 120 reads the RFID tag possessed by the recipient and transmits the generated RFID information to the article management server 100, and receives and outputs the stored article information indicating that the article is stored from the article management server 100. . Here, the RFID information includes information on the tenant such as ID, gender, residential lake, and the like.

The delivery management server 130 extracts information about a delivery management server 130 and a delivery certification number from a delivery certification request signal received from the goods management server 100 through the wireless network 140. Process the result, and in response, generates a delivery person authentication result and transmits it to the goods management server 100 through the wireless network 140. In addition, the delivery management server 130 controls a series of processes related to various delivery person authentication, goods delivery, etc. necessary for the delivery person to deliver the goods.

Next, the article management server 100 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

3 is a block diagram schematically showing the internal configuration of the article management server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Before explaining FIG. 3, the recipient's RFID card stores RFID information such as ID, gender, and lake.

The goods management server 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a delivery person authentication processing unit 102, a resident information storage unit 104, a goods management control unit 106, and a recipient authentication processing unit 108.

The shipper authentication processing unit 102 receives a shipper authentication request signal (including information on the delivery management server 130 and a shipper authentication number) from the goods storage box 110 and manages the delivery management server through the wireless network 140. Send to 130.

The delivery person authentication processor 102 receives a delivery person authentication result generated through the delivery person authentication process from the delivery management server 130. The delivery person authentication processing unit 102 receives and stores the delivery person information from the delivery management server 130 when the delivery person authentication is successful. Here, the shipper information includes a shipper's authentication number, a phone number and email information.

The tenant information storage unit 104 stores the recipient's residence lake, the recipient's telephone number, the recipient's RFID information, the shipper information, and the goods storage information. Here, the item storage information includes the item storage number, the recipient's residence lake, the item number and the maximum storage time for the item is stored in the item storage box (110).

When the goods management control unit 106 receives the goods storage information for storing the goods from the goods storage box 110, the goods storage request signal for controlling the storage of the goods in the goods storage box 110 generates a goods storage box 110. To send.

The goods management control unit 106 updates the shipper information and the goods storage information in addition to the addressee's residence lake stored in the tenant information storage 104.

The article management controller 106 receives the recipient's RFID information from the display device 120 and searches the tenant information storage unit 104 based on the received recipient's RFID information to determine whether the article exists in the lake corresponding to the recipient's RFID information.

The article management control unit 106 generates the stored article information (the recipient's RFID information and the article storage number in which the article is stored) indicating that the article is stored when the article exists in the lake corresponding to the recipient's RFID information. Send to 120.

When the recipient authentication processing unit 108 receives the recipient's RFID information from the goods storage box 110, the recipient authentication processing unit searches for the occupant information storage unit 104 based on the received RFID information and performs the recipient authentication process to include the stored goods information. The authentication result is generated and transmitted to the item storage box 110.

Next, a method of storing goods to be delivered to the goods storage box 110 using the goods management system will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of storing goods to be delivered to the goods storage box 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The goods storage box 110 receives a 'goods input selection' signal through the goods storage input / output device (S100). The goods storage box 110 receives the information and authentication number for the delivery management server 130 through the goods storage input and output device for the authentication of the delivery person when receiving the 'item input selection' signal to the delivery person authentication processing unit 102 It transmits (S102).

The shipper authentication processing unit 102 connected to the goods storage box 110 by wire / wireless requests the shipper authentication by accessing the delivery management server 130 through the wireless network 140 to authenticate the inputted authentication number ( 104). The delivery management server 130 performs a shipper authentication process based on the information and the authentication number of the delivery management server 130 to generate a 'shipper authentication success' or 'shipper authentication failure' signal to provide the shipper authentication processing unit. Transfer to 102 (S106).

When the shipper authentication processor 102 receives the 'shipper authentication successful' signal from the delivery management server 130 (when the shipper's authentication is successful), the shipper included in the 'shipper authentication successful' signal The child information is extracted and stored in the delivery information storage unit (S108, S110). Here, the shipper information includes a shipper's authentication number, a phone number and email information.

Subsequently, the goods storage box 110 receives a storage number selection signal, a payee residence lake input signal, an item number input signal, and a maximum storage time information to store the goods, and transmits them to the goods management control unit 106 (S112). Here, the box number selection signal means that the shipper selects an empty box number by using an output device of the goods box 110 that can know whether the goods are stored. Here, the recipient settlement lake input signal means that the shipper enters the lake where the recipient of the goods resides.

Here, the article number input signal means that the shipper inputs the article number. The maximum storage time information means inputting the maximum time that the article can be stored in the article storage box 110. Here, the maximum storage time information is used to notify the shipper using the shipper information stored in the goods management server 100 when the recipient does not find the goods.

The goods management control unit 106 generates a goods storage request signal for storing the goods in the goods storage box 110 when receiving the storage number selection signal, the address of the beneficiary residence lake input signal, the goods number input signal, and the maximum storage time. The article storage step is completed by transmitting to the article storage box 110 (S114).

The recipient can access the web service provided by the goods management server 100 and check the information about the goods stored in the goods storage box 110. In this case, the web service is provided as an image through a camera installed in each item storage box (110).

Next, Fig. 5 describes in detail how the recipient finds the article using the article management system.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for a recipient to find an article when the article is stored in the article storage box 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The display device (including the RFID reader) 120 at the entrance to the building reads the RFID tag possessed by the recipient, generates RFID information of the recipient, and transmits the RFID information to the article management controller 106 (S200).

The article management control unit 106 searches the tenant information storage unit 104 based on the recipient's RFID information and determines whether the article exists in the lake corresponding to the RFID information (S202 and S204).

If the goods management control unit 106 determines that the goods exist in the lake corresponding to the RFID information, the storage device information (recipient's RFID information and the item storage number in which the goods are stored) indicating that the goods are stored is generated and displayed on the display device ( 120) (S206). At this time, the display device 120 informs the recipient of the stored goods information by text or voice through the speaker and the monitor. That is, when the recipient touches the RFID card on the display device 120 at the entrance and exit of the building, the mail is output in voice and text through the speaker and the monitor. Then, when the recipient arrives at the exit of the storage box 110, the storage box 110 reads the RFID tag possessed by the payee through the RFID reader installed in the storage box 110 to generate the RFID information of the payee authentication processing unit Transmit to 108 (S208). Recipient authentication processing unit 108 performs the recipient authentication process based on the RFID information, if the authentication is successful, generates the stored goods information and transmits to the goods storage box (110) (S210).

The recipient can check the goods stored in the goods storage box 110 through the goods storage input and output device of the goods storage box 110 after performing the recipient authentication process normally.

Subsequently, when the storage box 110 receives the storage item information by performing the recipient authentication process normally, the article storage box 110 generates an article discharge signal for finding the article to move the article of the article box number to the exit (S212). The item storage box 110 determines whether the recipient finds the item or whether the item exists in the item storage box 110 for a preset maximum storage time (S214).

The goods storage box 110 generates a 'delivery failure' signal when the goods stored in the goods storage box 110 exist for more than a preset maximum storage time (when the recipient does not go to the goods), and the goods management server 100 Through the delivery management server 130 through, and stores the goods back to the item storage box (110) (S216).

In addition, when the goods stored in the goods storage box 110 does not exist for a predetermined maximum storage time (when the recipient visits the goods), the goods management server 100 generates a 'delivery success' signal By transmitting to the delivery management server 130 to inform the completion of the delivery (S218).

Embodiments of the present invention are not implemented only through the above-described apparatus and / or method, but may be implemented through a program for realizing a function corresponding to the configuration of the embodiments of the present invention, a recording medium on which the program is recorded, and the like. Such implementations may be readily implemented by those skilled in the art from the description of the above-described embodiments.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the scope of rights.

By the above-described configuration, the present invention can detect that the recipient of the RFID card is stored in the storage box when entering the apartment, studio and office building, and facilitates the delivery of goods using the automated storage box You can expect the effect.

Claims (9)

(a) receiving an input signal for storing the goods and receiving and storing shipper information for the shipper for storing the goods; (b) receiving item storage information necessary to store the item; (c) receiving radio frequency identification (RFID) information of a recipient who will visit the article and determining whether there is an article stored in a lake corresponding to the radio identification code information; (d) transmitting the information on the stored article to a display device and outputting the information by voice or text; And (e) receiving the wireless identification code information from the item storage box storing the item, performing a recipient authentication process, and transmitting the information on the stored item to the item storage box to output an emission signal for finding the item; Steps Article management method comprising a. According to claim 1, The shipper information comprises one or more of the shipper's authentication number, telephone number and email information. According to claim 1, And the item storage information includes a goods locker number, the addressee's residence lake, an item number, and maximum storage time information in which the goods are stored in the goods locker. Stores the goods, generates and transmits the recipient's Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) information, and receives the authentication result including the stored goods information indicating that the goods are stored in response. An item storage box for discharging the item; Determine whether the goods exist in the lake corresponding to the RFID information, generate the stored goods information, and perform the authentication process for the recipient from the goods storage box to generate an authentication result including the stored goods information to the goods storage box An article management server for transmitting; And A display apparatus that reads the RFID tag possessed by the recipient, generates the RFID information, transmits the RFID information to the article management server, and receives and outputs the generated stored article information from the article management server. Article management system comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein A delivery management server that processes a delivery certification process for the delivery certification request received from the goods management server, and then generates a delivery delivery authentication result including the delivery information to the delivery management server. Article management system further comprising. The method of claim 5, The article management server, A shipper authentication processing unit which receives a shipper authentication request from the goods storage box, processes a shipper authentication process in association with the delivery management server, and receives a shipper authentication result including the shipper information; Receives the goods storage information for storing the goods from the goods storage box, generates an item storage request signal for controlling to store the goods in the goods storage box and transmits to the goods storage box, the goods in the lake corresponding to the RFID information An article management control unit for grasping whether or not there exists; A tenant information storage unit which stores the settlement lake, the telephone number, the RFID information, the shipper information and the goods storage information of the payee; And Recipient authentication processing unit for receiving the RFID information and performing the recipient authentication process to transmit the authentication result including the stored goods information to the goods storage box Article management system comprising a. The method of claim 6, The article management control unit, And updating the shipper information and the item storage information in the addressee's residence lake stored in the tenant information storage unit. The method according to any one of claims 4 to 6, The article management server, Item management system, characterized in that for transmitting information about the goods stored in the item storage box through the short message service. The method according to any one of claims 4 to 6, And the stored article information includes the recipient's RFID information and an article storage number in which the article is stored.

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