KR20130123846A - An apparatus for plant growth management based on sns and the method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention enables a user to perform emotional communications with a plant to be cultivated via a social network service (SNS) and helps managing the growth of the plant by using the communicated emotional information. The present invention relates to an SNS based plant growth management apparatus and a method thereof for enabling a plurality of SNS users, for example, SNS followers, as well as a plant manager to have feelings of making conversation and communicating emotion with the plant by registering emotion information matched to a growth state of the plant at an SNS account matched to the plant. [Reference numerals] (110) Central processing unit;(120) Memory unit;(130) Sensor unit;(140) Switching unit;(150) Communication unit;(160) Power unit;(AA) Camera;(BB) Motor;(CC) Temperature controller;(DD) Light;(EE) Speaker

Description

SNS based plant growth management apparatus and method thereof {AN APPARATUS FOR PLANT GROWTH MANAGEMENT BASED ON SNS AND THE METHOD THEREOF}

The present invention relates to an SNS-based plant growth management apparatus and method thereof, and more particularly, to enable an emotional communication between a plant (crop) and a user to be cultivated through a social network service (SNS). And to provide an SNS-based plant growth management apparatus and method that can help the growth management of the plant by using the emotional information communicated.

Recently, the IT field is moving toward improving the quality of life of users as well as the utility of technology. In other words, based on the development of sensors, IT technology, which has been focused on accuracy, speed, and efficiency, is changing the paradigm with emotion, sympathy, and communication with humans. ) Is emerging as a major service.

In recent years, social network services (SNS) have been further activated in accordance with the proliferation of intelligent digital devices such as smart phones, and various applications that can communicate using the smart phones have emerged. For example, by enabling the mobile Internet through the smart phone, the communication method that has been conventionally used only in a one-to-one relationship (a relationship between people who have already known each other) has been changed into a communication method capable of communicating one-to-many.

As a result of the changing trend, more and more people are desiring to achieve communication between humans more recently than between humans and things (eg, plants, animals).

However, in the related art, there is only a technology for remotely monitoring and managing the crop cultivation environment using the Internet or a text message, and it is possible to feel a conversation between a user and a plant or an emotional exchange. There was no way. For example, in the related art, a state of a land (or a greenhouse) in which a plant is cultivated is detected to notify a user of the corresponding information (for example, water supply request information), or to automatically control a water supply device or an illumination device. That is, in the related art, by automatically notifying the user of the cultivation environment information of the crop using the Internet or a text message as a means so that the user himself can know what to do at present.

Background of the present invention is disclosed in Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 10-2010-0000626 (2010.01.06). The background art relates to a greenhouse environment automatic management system that automatically installs sensors and sensor networks inside and outside the greenhouse to automatically control crops, and automatically controls the cultivation environment. It is a technology aimed at enabling the monitoring and management of the remote, and by storing and managing the measured environmental data in association with the cultivated crop, enabling the history system of the cultivated crop.

An object of the present invention is to provide an SNS-based plant growth management apparatus and method for generating emotional information according to the growth state of a plant (or crop) as created to improve the above problems.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide an SNS-based plant growth management apparatus and method for registering the emotion information of a plant (or crop) in SNS in real time.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide an SNS-based plant growth management apparatus and method for allowing a user to have an emotional exchange with plants (or crops) through SNS.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide an SNS-based plant growth management apparatus and method for allowing a user to have a feeling of communicating with a plant (or crop) through SNS.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide an SNS-based plant growth management apparatus and method for enabling communication between plant growth management systems (or apparatuses) using wired / wireless communication methods.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide an SNS-based plant growth management apparatus and method for sharing sensing information (ambient environment information) detected by a plurality of plant growth management systems (or devices).

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide an SNS-based plant growth management apparatus and method for automatically accessing an SNS to register emotional information by using a wired / wireless communication method.

SNS-based plant growth management apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is a sensor unit for detecting the surrounding information of the plant, a memory unit for storing the growth condition information of the plant for determining the growth state of the plant, and the detected A central processing unit for comparing the surrounding information of the plant with the growth condition information of the plant to determine the growth state of the plant, and converting the determined growth state of the plant into emotional information that can be felt by a human; Accordingly, it is characterized in that it comprises a communication unit for registering the sensitivity information of the plant by accessing a predetermined SNS account through the Internet.

The sensor unit may be configured by combining one or a plurality of sensors for detecting temperature, humidity, illumination, water quality, dust, smoke, gas, or wind.

The memory unit may further store emotional information corresponding to the growth state of the plant, and the emotional information may be a combination of color, text, and image.

The memory unit further stores information of 'address of SNS', 'account ID', 'account password', and 'web page to register emotion information'.

The communication unit may communicate with the group plant growth management devices grouped to transmit and receive the detected peripheral information using a sensor configured in each device.

The communication unit may include at least one of a short range wireless communication module and a long range wireless communication module.

Characterized in that it further comprises an output unit for outputting the operating state of the plant growth management device as a sound or an image.

The central processing unit compares the optimum conditions or growth possible conditions necessary for the growth of the plant with the detected surrounding information, characterized in that it is determined whether the condition of the plant is suitable or unsuitable for growth.

The emotional information is characterized in that it includes information indicating the condition of the plant and information indicating the requirements related to the state.

In the SNS-based plant growth management method according to an aspect of the present invention, the first step of detecting the peripheral information of the plant, and the growth state of the plant by comparing the detected environmental information of the plant and the predetermined plant growth conditions information The second step of determining the; and the third step of converting the determined state of growth of the plant into emotional information that can be felt by humans, and automatically registers the emotional information of the plant by accessing a predetermined SNS account through the Internet It is characterized by comprising a fourth step.

The present invention relates to an SNS-based plant growth management apparatus and method thereof, so that the user who manages the plant growth does not need to separately build a separate growth management server, thereby reducing the system construction cost for plant growth management.

In addition, the present invention can create a SNS account corresponding to each plant even when there are many kinds of plants to manage, so that it is possible to collect and manage separate information for each plant, thereby reducing the maintenance cost of the system.

In addition, in the present invention, since the information registered in the SNS account is emotional information that a person can feel, not only a plant manager, but also a plurality of SNS users (eg, SNS followers) have a feeling of communicating with the plant and exchanging emotions. It is effective.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of an SNS-based plant growth management apparatus according to the present invention.
Figure 2 is an exemplary view for explaining the operation of the SNS-based plant growth management apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 is an exemplary view for explaining the operation of the SNS-based plant growth management apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 4 is a conceptual diagram for explaining the overall processing flow of the SNS-based plant growth management apparatus according to the present invention.
5 is a flow chart showing an information processing process of the plant growth management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described an embodiment of the SNS-based plant growth management apparatus and method according to the present invention. In this process, the thickness of the lines or the size of the components shown in the drawings may be exaggerated for clarity and convenience of description. In addition, the terms described below are defined in consideration of the functions of the present invention, which may vary depending on the intention or custom of the user, the operator.

SNS-based plant growth management apparatus according to the present invention can operate independently, a plurality of plant growth management apparatus may operate as a system in conjunction with each other. When the devices operate in conjunction with the system, one device may operate as a master and the other devices may operate as slaves. When operating as a system as described above, necessary environmental information (eg, sensing information) can be shared by wire and wireless communication between plant growth management devices.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the SNS-based plant growth management apparatus according to the present invention, the central processing unit 110, memory unit 120, sensor unit 130, switching unit 140, communication unit It comprises 150 and the power supply unit 160.

The central processing unit 110 detects peripheral information of plants to be managed to grow at specific time intervals using a sensor. For example, the ambient information may include temperature, humidity, illumination, water quality, dust, smoke, gas, wind, and time (night / day) information. The peripheral information may be directly detected from a plurality of sensors mounted in the plant growth management apparatus, and may communicate with other plant growth management apparatuses to transmit and receive necessary peripheral information.

In addition, the central processing unit 110 determines the state of the plant using the detected surrounding information (or surrounding environment information). That is, the central processing unit 110 may determine whether the state of the plant is suitable for growth by comparing the detected surrounding information with information on the optimum growth conditions (or growth possible conditions) required for plant growth. .

Here, the state of the plant is information indicating a degree suitable or unsuitable for plant growth from the surrounding information. The optimum conditions (or growth possible conditions) necessary for the growth of the plant are preferably stored in the memory unit 120 in advance. And one or more inappropriate growth conditions can be detected according to the determination of the state of the plant.

In addition, the central processing unit 110 converts the emotion information that can be felt by humans using the determined state of the plant. In order to convert the emotional information, the emotional information corresponding to each state may be stored in advance in the memory unit 120. In addition, the image related to the emotion information (eg, pictures, icons, emoticons) may be stored together. The more emotional information corresponding to the state is stored, the more the user can feel the sympathy with the person.

The emotion information may include emotion information indicating the state of the plant itself and emotion information indicating the requirements of the plant. For example, the emotional information indicating the state of the plant is 'cold', 'hot', 'dry', 'noisy', 'dirty', 'thank you', 'happy', 'tired', 'lonely' Contains one-dimensional emotional information such as And, the emotional information indicating the requirements of the plant, 'warm', 'cool', 'water', 'meet', 'I want to listen to music', 'bath', 'comment' Include emotional information required by a person (eg, plant manager), such as 'Turn off a light.'

In addition, the central processing unit 110 accesses the Internet through wired / wireless communication and registers the converted emotional information in an account of a predetermined SNS. At least 'SNS address', 'account ID', 'account password' information should be stored in the memory unit 120 in order to register the emotional information. The emotion information may be registered when a specific event related to growth occurs, and may be automatically registered at a predetermined specific time interval even if a specific event does not occur. The specific event may occur when the surrounding information of the plant is changed or becomes fatal to the growth of the plant.

As described above, the memory unit 120 includes information on optimal growth conditions (or growth conditions) of plants for determining the growth state of plants, emotion information corresponding to the determined state of plants, and emotion information. You can also store additional color and image information (eg photos, icons, emoticons, fonts).

In addition, the memory unit 120 may store information necessary for SNS registration of emotion information including 'address of SNS', 'account ID', 'account password', and 'web page to register emotion information'. The information may be set as a default by the manufacturer of the plant growth management device, or may be set or changed by a post-sales user (eg, a plant manager) by directly accessing the PC.

In addition, the memory unit 120 may store information related to control of the plant growth management device. The control-related information includes information detected through sensors, information to be processed when an event occurs, information for automatically controlling peripheral devices (eg, cameras, actuators, thermostats, lights, audio, speakers), and wired / wireless communication. Related protocol information can be stored. The information for automatically controlling the peripheral device is information for controlling the peripheral device according to the determined state of the plant when interfacing with the peripheral device.

The sensor unit 130 includes a plurality of sensors for detecting the peripheral information. For example, the sensor unit 130 may be configured by combining one or a plurality of sensors for detecting temperature, humidity, illumination, water quality, dust, smoke, gas, and wind. Of course, it may be configured to further include a sensor not described above.

The switching unit 140 may be configured as a system by grouping the plant growth management apparatus according to the present invention according to the switch combination. That is, according to the switch combination of the switching unit 140, the plant growth management devices in a specific area may configure a communication network (for example, a local area network). For example, the same code (for example, common code) may be set to devices that require system configuration using the switch combination. In addition, each plant growth management device may be used as a device ID (eg, device ID = common code + device-specific code) that can be distinguished from each other by adding a device-specific code to the common code.

When grouping the plant growth management device as described above, the central processing unit 110 may transmit and share the necessary peripheral information between each device and share.

The communication unit 150 may communicate with the plant growth management apparatuses under the control of the central processing unit 110, or access the Internet under the control of the central processing unit 110. In addition, a control signal may be output by wired / wireless connection to the peripheral apparatus 200 under the control of the central processing unit 110. The communication unit 150 may include a short range wireless communication module (not shown) such as Bluetooth, infrared rays, or RFID, and may include a long range wireless communication module (not shown) such as 3G or WiFi.

The power supply unit 160 supplies power to the plant growth management apparatus according to the present invention. The power supply unit 160 may include a power generation module (not shown) capable of receiving external power or generating electricity by itself, such as solar light or wind power. It may also include a battery (not shown) for storing the external power or the power generated by itself.

Although not shown in the drawings, an output unit (not shown) capable of outputting operating state information of the plant growth management apparatus according to the present invention may be further configured. The output unit may include a display unit (not shown) for outputting an operation state as an image and a sound output unit (not shown) for outputting an operation state as a sound. Therefore, the user can determine the normal operation (or malfunction) of the plant growth management apparatus based on the information displayed through the output unit (not shown).

Figure 2 is an exemplary view for explaining the operation of the SNS-based plant growth management apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention, more specifically, plants having similar growth characteristics using the plant growth management apparatus according to the present invention Is an illustration for explaining how to manage the group.

For convenience of description, a plurality of plants (eg, plants 1-1, plants 1-2, plants 1-n) having similar growth characteristics are grown in a specific region, and a plurality of plant growth management devices ( It is assumed that 100a to 100n) are installed at predetermined specific intervals. In addition, it is assumed that a predetermined specific plant growth management apparatus 100a of the plurality of plant growth management apparatuses 100a to 100n operates as a master and the other plant growth management apparatuses 100b to 100n operate as slaves.

The communication unit of the master 100a includes a communication module (not shown) for internet access, and the communication units of other slaves 100b to 100n include only a communication module (not shown) for communicating with the master 100a. Can be. By differently configuring the characteristics of the communication unit as described above it is possible to reduce the manufacturing cost of the plant growth management device.

In addition, the sensor unit of the plant growth management device (100a ~ 100n) may be composed of different sensors. For example, the sensor 100a may be configured in the master 100a, the sensor 2130b may be configured in the slave 100b, and the sensor 3130c may be configured in the other slave 100n. By changing the configuration of the sensor as described above, each plant growth management device (100a ~ 100n) can detect different peripheral information, it is possible to reduce the manufacturing cost.

Accordingly, the master 100a collects peripheral information detected from the slaves 100b to 100n. The determined plant information is determined by using the collected surrounding information and the surrounding information detected by the master 100a itself, and referring to the information stored in the memory unit 120. Convert to emotional information corresponding to the state of the group.

The master 100a registers the converted emotional information in the SNS account using the SNS account information stored in the memory 120.

As described above, in the present invention, when managing the growth of similar plant groups distributed in a wide area, the user (eg, plant manager, SNS followers) has a feeling of sympathizing with the plant groups by configuring the plant growth management system as a system. It can have, and also there is an effect that can reduce the growth management cost of the plant than the conventional.

Figure 3 is an exemplary view for explaining the operation of the SNS-based plant growth management apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention, more specifically, the growth characteristics in a specific region using the plant growth management apparatus according to the present invention It is an illustration for demonstrating the method of managing many other plants.

For convenience of description, a number of plants having different growth characteristics (eg, plants 1, 2, and plant n) are grown in a specific area, and separate plant growth management devices 100a to 100n are installed for each plant. Assume

The plurality of plant growth management apparatuses 100a to 100n may operate as a master or as a slave. For example, each plant growth management device 100a to 100n may operate as a master to collect surrounding information from another device, and operate as a slave to transmit surrounding information detected by the other device to the other device. Therefore, the communication unit of each plant growth management device (100a ~ 100n) may include both a communication module (not shown) for the Internet connection and a communication module (not shown) for communicating with other plant growth management device.

On the other hand, the sensor unit of each plant growth management device (100a ~ 100n) may be configured with different sensors as described above. For example, a sensor 1 (130a) is configured in the first plant growth management apparatus (100a), a sensor (2) 130b is configured in the second plant growth management apparatus (100b), and an n-th plant growth management apparatus (100n) is used. In this case, the sensor 3 130n may be configured. By varying the configuration of the sensor as described above, each plant growth management device (100a ~ 100n) can detect different peripheral information.

Accordingly, each plant growth management apparatus 100a to 100n may collect surrounding information detected from the other plant growth management apparatuses 100a to 100n. For example, the collectable ambient information may be commonly used information and may be information such as temperature, humidity, wind, dust, and smoke.

As described above, each plant growth management apparatus 100a to 100n which collects surrounding information determines the state of a specific plant (eg, plant 1, plant 2, plant n) by using the surrounding information detected by itself. The information stored in the memory unit 120 of each device is converted into emotional information corresponding to the determined state of each plant.

Each of the plant growth management apparatuses 100a to 100n uses the SNS account information stored in each memory unit 120 to convert the sentimental information into corresponding SNSs of the plant growth management apparatuses 100a to 100n. Register for an account (eg Account1, Account2, Account3).

As described above, in the present invention, when managing a plurality of plants having different growth characteristics in a specific area, each plant growth management device is configured as a system so that the necessary peripheral information can be shared, thereby reducing management costs. In addition, the user (eg, plant manager, SNS followers) has an effect of allowing the user to have a feeling of interaction with each of the plants.

4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating the overall processing flow of the SNS-based plant growth management apparatus according to the present invention.

As shown therein, the plant growth management apparatus according to the present invention uses the sensors 130a to 130n to provide the surrounding environment elements necessary for the growth of plants to be managed in a specific area (eg, garden, plastic house, roof, veranda). : Sense the temperature, humidity, water quality, wind, nutrition, dust, gas) (S101).

Then, the growth state of the plant is determined using the sensed environmental elements, and then converted into emotional information corresponding to the determined growth state (S102).

Then, the emotional information is registered in a specific SNS account preset through wired / wireless internet (eg, WiFi, 3G, 4G, LTE, telephone network) (S103). The emotion information may be registered using text and pre-stored images.

As described above, when the emotional information is registered in the SNS account (eg, Twitter, Facebook), the user (eg, plant manager, SNS follower) uses the SNS account using the PC 300 or a portable terminal 400 such as a smartphone. Emotional rapport with plants registered in

5 is a flow chart showing an information processing procedure of the plant growth management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

For convenience of explanation, it is assumed that information related to an SNS account (eg, information related to SNS access and information registration) is already stored in each plant growth management apparatus. As described above, some of the information may be changed by the user.

As shown, the central processing unit 110 detects whether a specific event occurs (S201). The specific event may occur periodically at a predetermined specific time.

When the specific event occurs, the surrounding information is detected through a sensor configured in each plant growth management device itself (S202).

Then, it is detected whether a communication group is set (S203). The communication group may be set to share the surrounding information detected through a sensor configured in each plant growth management device in another plant growth management device.

If a communication group is set according to the detection result (YES in S203), a communication network is set between the grouped plant growth management apparatuses (S204).

When the communication network is established between the plant growth management apparatus as described above, the peripheral information is transmitted and received to each other, and further gathers the peripheral information necessary for determining the state of the plant managed by each plant growth management apparatus (S205).

If the communication group is not set according to the detection result (NO in S203), growth conditions corresponding to each plant are compared using only the ambient information detected by the sensor configured in the plant growth management device itself in step S202 (S206). ). If the communication group is set according to the detection result (YES in S203), the growth conditions corresponding to each plant are compared using all the surrounding information collected in step S202 to step S205 (S206).

The growth state of the plant is determined using the comparison result of the growth conditions of each plant and the collected surrounding information (S207).

And it is converted to the emotional information corresponding to the growth state of the plant (S208). The emotion information is stored in advance in the memory unit 120, and is composed of a combination of color, text, and image. Even if the plants are grown in the same area, they can be converted into different types of emotional information according to their growth characteristics and conditions.

When the conversion is completed to the emotional information corresponding to the growth state of the plant as described above (S209), and then the converted emotional information is automatically registered in the SNS account (S210).

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated and described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments without departing from the spirit of the present invention as claimed in the claims. Anyone skilled in the art can make various modifications, as well as such modifications fall within the scope of the claims set forth.

100a ~ 100n: plant growth management device
110: central processing unit 120: memory unit
130: sensor unit 140: switching unit
150: communication unit 160: power unit
200: peripheral device

Claims (8)

In the SNS-based plant growth management device, the device,
A sensor unit for detecting ambient information of the plant including at least one or a combination of sensors for detecting temperature, humidity, light intensity, water quality, dust, smoke, gas, and wind;
A memory unit for storing plant growth condition information for determining a growth state of the plant;
A central processing unit for comparing the detected surrounding information of the plant with the growth condition information of the plant to determine the growth state of the plant, and converting the determined growth state of the plant into emotional information that can be felt by a human being;
A communication unit which registers the emotion information of the plant by accessing a predetermined SNS account through the Internet under the control of the central processing unit; And
An output unit capable of outputting an operation state of the plant growth management device as a sound or an image; SNS-based plant growth management device, characterized in that configured to include. The method of claim 1,
The memory unit emotion information represented by a combination of color, text or image corresponding to the growth state of the plant, 'SNS address', 'account ID', 'account password', 'web page to register the emotion information' information SNS-based plant growth management device, characterized in that further stores. The method of claim 1,
The communication unit includes at least one of a short range wireless communication module and a long range wireless communication module, and communicates between grouped plant growth management devices to transmit and receive the detected ambient information using a sensor configured in each device. Based plant growth management device. The method of claim 1,
Wherein the central processing unit SNS-based plant growth management device, characterized in that by comparing the optimum conditions or growth possible conditions necessary for the growth of the plant with the detected surrounding information to determine whether or not the condition of the plant suitable for growth. The method of claim 1,
The emotion information is SNS-based plant growth management apparatus comprising information indicating the condition of the plant and information related to the requirements. In the SNS-based plant growth management method, the method,
Detecting ambient information of the plant comprising at least one or a combination of sensors for detecting temperature, humidity, illuminance, water quality, dust, smoke, gas, or wind;
A second step of determining a growth state of the plant by comparing the detected surrounding information of the plant with preset growth condition information of the plant;
A third step of converting the determined growth state of the plant into emotional information that can be felt by a human being;
And a fourth step of automatically registering the emotion information of the plant by accessing a predetermined SNS account through the Internet. SNS-based plant growth management method characterized in that it comprises a. The method according to claim 6,
The emotional information includes information representing a condition of a plant and information representing a requirement related to the status, and the expression of the emotional information is expressed by a combination of color, text, or image plant growth management. Way. The method according to claim 6,
The surrounding information may be transmitted and received by communicating with the group of plant growth management devices, wherein the state of the plant is information indicating a degree suitable or unsuitable for plant growth from the surrounding information SNS-based plant growth How to manage.

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