KR20080104417A

KR20080104417A - Method and system of managing and monitering conference rooms

Info

Publication number: KR20080104417A
Application number: KR1020070036384A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 김종배
Original assignee: 엠디에스 네트웍스(주)
Priority date: 2007-04-13
Filing date: 2007-04-13
Publication date: 2008-12-03

Abstract

A method for reserving/managing a conference room and a system therefor are provided to perform the reservation and management for all of the conference rooms within a company, efficiently. A system for managing conference rooms comprises the followings: a video acquisition device such as a camera, CCTV or sensor etc. which monitors the used states of conference rooms; a Zigbee transceiver(20) for transmitting the monitored results to a Zigbee router(100); and a server(200) for managing a reservation system which can control the opening and closing of door locks of the conference rooms.

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MANAGING AND MONITERING CONFERENCE ROOMS}

1 is a schematic diagram of a meeting room management system according to the present invention;

2 is a view showing the configuration of a monitor mounted in a conference room according to the present invention;

10: meeting room

13: door

14: Image Capture Device

15: control unit

16: ZigBee Transceiver

17: display unit

19: detection sensor

20: monitor

100: ZigBee Router

The present invention relates to a method and system for managing a conference room, and more particularly, to a technology for managing a conference room use state and reservation using a local area wireless communication network. In order to efficiently use space in a company building, each department of the company adopts a method of preparing a plurality of conference rooms and dividing them by time sharing instead of independently preparing a conference room.

In general, in order to efficiently manage a meeting room, a department that wants to use the meeting room reserves a space in advance by writing down a desired time on a reservation sheet hanging on the door of each meeting room. Alternatively, the management department accepts the reservation request of the applicant who wishes to use it, and adjusts the time and the meeting room. In a typical enterprise, the user computer connected to the server under the corporate communication network is groupware or I am making a reservation for a conference room using a messenger.

However, in reality, at the same time as using the above room reservation system, a person who wants to use the conference room tends to run directly to the conference room to check whether it is vacant. There is a tendency.

In this case, the groupware on the company communication network is reported to be in a vacant state that does not use the corresponding conference room, but is actually occupied by the person who uses it without making a reservation. In addition, the company's reservation system records that certain conference rooms will be used for a certain period of time, but if the scheduler does not use the conference room due to a change of schedule, the reservation system will not notify the cancellation. Sometimes a reservation is made and you are in a vacant state. In other words, even if the conference room is not used, if it is reserved in the reservation sheet, the department may not be able to use the conference room.

In addition, the meeting room reservation department may end the meeting earlier than the scheduled time, and the meeting room may be in a vacant state. In addition, the meeting room may not use the meeting room due to a sudden accident even if the meeting room is reserved. In addition, there may be a conflict with the reservation department when occupying and using a specific meeting room without pre-booking the meeting room.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems of using a conference room, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method and a system for efficiently making reservations and management so that all of a plurality of conference rooms in a company can be used efficiently. To provide.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a conference room for remotely managing a reservation and management of a plurality of conference rooms through an in-house communication network, and a user operating a client program on a user computer to reserve the conference room and grasp a conference room status. A management system, wherein each of the conference rooms includes a monitor to display a current use state and a reservation state of the conference room, and the monitor collects conference room status information including an occupied state of the conference room or a locked state of the door. Or a control unit which receives the meeting room status information collected from a sensor and transmits the meeting room status information to a Zigbee transceiver, and controls an operation of the image acquisition device, a sensor, a door lock, and a display of the monitor; Receives the conference room status information delivered by the control unit and transmits it to a ZigBee router, and receives a command from the server from the Zigbee router wirelessly and transmits a ZigBee transceiver for transmitting to the control unit, the ZigBee router to the server It provides a meeting room reservation system characterized in that the TCP / IP communication is connected via a LAN, and communicates with the Zigbee transceiver of the electronic board installed in each of the meeting rooms.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings Figures 1 and 2 will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the meeting room management system according to the present invention. The present invention manages the reservation and use of the conference room using a messenger or groupware commonly used in the company communication network in the company, and the management of the conference room is managed by a local area network using a ZigBee (ZigBee) router do.

1 is a view schematically showing a conference room management system according to the present invention. According to the present invention, the usage status of the conference room is monitored by an image capturing device such as a camera or a CCTV or a detection sensor so that the ZigBee transceiver 20 transmits to the ZigBee Router 100. The client program installed on the user's computer allows the user to check the current usage and reservation status of the conference room. In addition, according to the reservation system managed by the server 200, the command to control the opening and closing of the door lock of the conference room and to transmit to the sensor or the image acquisition device, wirelessly via the ZigBee router 100 for TCP / IP communication with the server. Delivered.

Referring to FIG. 1, each of the conference room exterior walls is provided with a monitor 20 indicating whether a conference room is used, and the monitor includes a ZigBee transceiver module to perform near field communication with the ZigBee router 100. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, monitor 20 may be equipped with blue and red lamps to indicate in use or vacancy.

The ZigBee Router 100 according to the present invention is connected to the server 200 via a LAN to perform TCP / IP communication, and the user computer 300 disposed in a department within a company connected through the LAN is The groupware client program provides a messenger or conference room reservation software to make a reservation, browse the reservation status, or monitor the current conference room status.

In each department, the user can click the reservation program of the meeting room from the menu of the groupware on the user's computer 300 to reserve the desired conference room and the use time, and can obtain the current status of the conference room and reservation information.

On the other hand, the door lock (not shown) installed in the door 13 of the meeting room 10 is associated with the monitor 20, the control unit mounted on the monitor 20 to the subscriber only during the scheduled time To control the opening and closing of the door. To this end, the door may be provided with an ID identification device for identifying the user's identity.

In addition, the sensor installed in the meeting room 10 determines whether or not the vacancy of the meeting room and reports to the control unit of the monitor 20, the Zigbee communication unit mounted on the monitor 20 transmits the current state of the meeting room to the Zigbee router 100. .

As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the monitor 20 may be equipped with a blue or red LED lamp indicating whether the vacancy, and may be equipped with a display panel such as a PDP or LCD to display the reservation status and usage status. In addition, when a conference room is vacant, a corporate image advertisement may be displayed on the display panel.

2 is a view showing the configuration of a monitor mounted in a conference room according to the present invention. 2, the monitor 20 according to the present invention controls the door lock opening and closing of the meeting room, and exchanges the meeting room management information with the control unit 15 for controlling the signal from the sensor 19 that detects whether the meeting room is vacant The Zigbee transceiver 16 is provided. In addition, the display unit 17 may display meeting room reservation information and other contents. In addition, as a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an image acquisition device 14 such as a camera or a CCTV may be provided to transmit a conference room situation as an image through the Zigbee transceiver 16.

The foregoing has outlined rather broadly the features and technical advantages of the present invention to better understand the claims of the invention which will be described later. Additional features and advantages that make up the claims of the present invention will be described below. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the conception and specific embodiments of the invention disclosed may be readily used as a basis for designing or modifying other structures for carrying out similar purposes to the invention.

In addition, the inventive concepts and embodiments disclosed herein may be used by those skilled in the art as a basis for modifying or designing other structures for carrying out the same purposes of the present invention. In addition, such modifications or altered equivalent structures by those skilled in the art may be variously evolved, substituted and changed without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention described in the claims.

As described above, the present invention enables the user computer connected to the LAN network to monitor the reservation status of the conference room on the groupware and make reservations, and furthermore, the real time status of the conference room can be reported in real time through the Zigbee local area network communication, and the door lock can be directly accessed. It is possible to control the meeting room.

Claims

A meeting room management system for remotely managing a reservation and management of a plurality of conference rooms through an in-house communication network, and a user operating a client program on a user's computer to reserve the conference room and grasp the status of the conference room. It is equipped with a current state of use and reservation status of the meeting room, the monitor

Receives the meeting room status information collected from the image acquisition device or sensor that collects the meeting room status information including the occupied state of the meeting room or the locked state of the door and transmits the meeting room status information to a Zigbee transceiver, and the image acquisition device, sensor, or door A control unit controlling an operation of the lock and a display of the monitor; And

ZigBee transceiver to receive the status information of the conference room delivered by the control unit to a ZigBee router, and to wirelessly receive a command from the server from the ZigBee router to deliver to the control unit

And a Zigbee router connected to the server via a LAN to perform TCP / IP communication, and to communicate with a Zigbee transceiver of the electronic board installed in each conference room.