KR20150057165A - Apparatus and method for monitoring moving means - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for monitoring a transportation to prevent crimes for a passenger who uses a transportation such as a taxi in advance. To achieve this, the apparatus for monitoring a transportation comprises: a driver authentication unit to authenticate and confirm a driver of the transportation; a communications unit to transmit driver information for a driver to a server and a user terminal of the passenger; and a destination setting unit to set the destination of the passenger. The communications unit receives abnormal state information for the transportation determined through path monitoring for the transportation by transmitting the moving path to the destination to the server in real time.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING MOVING MEANS [0002]

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for monitoring a moving means, and more particularly to a moving apparatus monitoring apparatus and method capable of preventing a crime against a passenger using a moving means such as a taxi in advance.

For a long time, crime against passengers is constantly occurring in public transportation. In these crimes, especially crime against the elderly or the passengers, especially women, is increasing, a countermeasure is needed. Such crimes against passengers are difficult to cope with because they can not be investigated and witnesses can not be secured due to the notification after a long time after the occurrence of the crime.

In recent years, various systems and methods for solving such problems have been developed. A common method among these methods is, for example, in the case of a taxi, by registering a taxi in safety, managing the information of the vehicle and the driver, and taking a method in which the user confirms whether or not to register the QR code. Also, a service based on LBS (Location Based Service) is provided for driving an app from a user terminal such as a smart phone and informing the acquaintance of the travel route of the user.

However, most of these services have some problems. For example, the problem is that replication is possible and services are started only when passengers have to perform manual procedures. That is, the QR code and display can be replicated sufficiently. For example, in the case of a passenger or a passenger who is not familiar with a smartphone such as a senior citizen, it is not easy to operate and set up an app. Particularly, when an attempt is made to report using a mobile phone while moving, it can be judged that a mechanical analysis through an automated method is preferable to a manual operation by a person, in the case where the actual situation is not properly performed.

In this connection, Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2011-0125878, titled " Taxi Monitoring Using a Two-Dimensional Bar Code with a Smartphone and a Resting and Returning Service ", exists.

The present invention provides a moving-unit monitoring apparatus and method capable of promptly recognizing such a problem and promptly responding to such a problem in the event that a passenger uses a moving means such as a taxi, assures safety, and real- It has its purpose.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a monitoring device for a moving vehicle, comprising: a driver authentication unit for identifying and authenticating a driver of a moving vehicle; A communication unit for transmitting driver information on a driver to a user terminal and a server of a passenger; And a destination setting unit for setting a destination of the passenger, wherein the communication unit transmits to the server a moving route to the destination in real time, and receives from the server an abnormality of the moving means determined through route monitoring of the moving means .

The driver authentication unit may authenticate the driver by inserting the driver identification means including the unique identifier of the driver and may block the operation of the vehicle when the driver identification means that is not matched to the movement means is inserted.

Also, the communication unit can communicate with the user terminal through a communication method including Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Wifi direct.

According to the moving means monitoring apparatus and method of the present invention, when the passenger is carried on a moving means such as a taxi, the driver information on the driver can be automatically grasped by the passenger.

In addition, according to the moving-unit monitoring apparatus and method of the present invention, the destination can be set mechanically so that it can not be inputted or changed by the driver arbitrarily, and it is possible to secure the trust in the routing by going through the procedure of confirming it to the user .

In addition, according to the apparatus and method for monitoring a moving means of the present invention, it is possible to determine whether there is an abnormality by comparing the position information with a path pattern to a predetermined destination, There is an effect.

1 is a block diagram of a secure home return system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 are flowcharts illustrating a process performed in a secure home system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Hereinafter, a repeated description, a known function that may obscure the gist of the present invention, and a detailed description of the configuration will be omitted. Embodiments of the present invention are provided to more fully describe the present invention to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, the shapes and sizes of the elements in the drawings and the like can be exaggerated for clarity.

Hereinafter, the relief return system 1000 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a secure home system 1000 of the present invention. The secure return system 1000 of the present invention can be configured to include the mobile monitoring device 100 and the user terminal 200 and the server 300. [ Description of each constitution of the relief return system 1000 of the present invention is made as follows.

The moving-unit monitoring apparatus 100 can perform various functions such as a driver's authentication, a destination setting for a passenger, and a path monitoring, which are devices attached to or installed in a vehicle such as a taxi, that is, a moving means. For this, the moving-unit monitoring apparatus 100 may include a driver authentication unit 110, a communication unit 120, and a destination setting unit 130.

The driver authentication unit 110 functions to confirm and authenticate a driver aboard a moving means such as a taxi. To this end, the driver authentication unit 110 can authenticate the driver by inserting the driver identification means including the unique identifier of the driver. Here, the driver identification means may be, for example, an identification card in the form of an electronic card. In addition, such driver identification means may be implemented by an RFID system. However, it should be understood that the driver identification means is not limited to the above-described kind. The driver authentication unit 110 identifies the driver stored in the driver identification means through the driver identification means and can determine whether the driver information is matched through comparison with the stored data. When the driver information matches the driver information, the driver authentication unit 110 determines that the correct driver is aboard the moving means and starts normal vehicle operation. Otherwise, the driver authentication unit 110 interrupts the operation of the vehicle so that the vehicle can not be operated.

The destination setting unit 120 functions to set the destination of the passenger. For this purpose, for example, the destination setting unit 120 may use the destination information input to the navigation system in conjunction with the navigation installed in the vehicle, or may automatically recognize and set the destination the passenger has spoken through the voice recognition function have.

For example, when the destination is set through navigation, the destination setting unit 120 may further perform the process of confirming the destination that is input through the navigation to the passenger again. When the destination setting unit 120 sets a destination through the voice recognition function, for example, when there is a pronunciation problem in the passenger or the passenger, the destination setting unit 120 sets the final The destination can be confirmed to the passenger. Accordingly, the destination setting unit 120 can reduce the number of cases where the destination can be set incorrectly.

The communication unit 130 performs communication with the user terminal 200 of the passenger when the passenger boarding the moving means. Specifically, when the passenger boarded the moving means, the communication unit 130 transmits the driver information confirmed through the driver authentication unit 110 to the user terminal 200 of the passenger. To this end, the communication unit 130 can communicate with the user terminal 200 through a communication method including Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Wifi direct. Here, Wi-Fi direct refers to a technique for transmitting a file between devices without an access point (AP), and a method of transmitting a file through 1: N communication between devices. When the user terminal 200 of the passenger receives the driver information through the communication unit 130, the user terminal 200 of the passenger can again transmit the received driver information to the server 300 to confirm whether or not the driver of the moving means is the correct one.

In addition, the communication unit 130 can transmit the current position information of the movement means tracked through various position tracking devices such as GPS and the sensor to the server 300 in real time. Accordingly, the server 300 can monitor the moving route to the moving route in real time, and can determine whether the moving route is out of the route to the destination. The communication unit 130 can receive the abnormality of the moving means determined by the server 300 again.

The user terminal 200 is a terminal carried by a user who is on a vehicle, that is, a terminal carried by a passenger. The user terminal 200 confirms the driver information of the passenger-carried vehicle when boarding the vehicle, Function. To this end, the user terminal 200 may include an operator confirmation unit 210 and a terminal communication unit 220.

The driver confirmation unit 210 functions to confirm the driver based on the driver information received through the communication unit 130 of the moving-unit monitoring apparatus 100 mounted on the vehicle. Specifically, the driver confirmation unit 210 transmits the received driver information to the server 300 via the terminal communication unit 220. At this time, the server 300 can notify the passenger whether or not the registered driver is correct for the moving means through the process of matching the received driver information with the moving means on which the passenger boarded. Accordingly, the passenger carrying the user terminal 200 can recognize that the driver who is currently driving the moving means is a normally registered driver.

The terminal communication unit 220 can be used for confirming the driver information and can be used for receiving confirmation information about the abnormality when the server 300 detects an abnormality with respect to the moving means.

The server 300 performs a function of confirming the driver of the moving means, determining whether the moving means is out of the path, determining abnormality, and checking and correcting the abnormality. The server 300 may include a driver matching unit 310, a server communication unit 320, an abnormality detection unit 330, and an abnormality checking unit 340.

As described above, the driver matching unit 310 functions to check whether the driver information on the moving means and the moving means match with respect to the moving means on which the passenger boarded. To this end, the driver matching unit 310 carries out a driver matching process by checking data stored in a separate storage unit (not shown). When the matching process is completed, the driver matching unit 310 transmits the driver matching information to the user terminal 200 through the server communication unit 320. [

The abnormality detection unit 330 functions to determine an abnormality with respect to the moving means on which the passenger boarded. Specifically, the anomaly detection unit 330 monitors the moving unit based on the current position information received from the moving unit, and can determine whether the moving unit is abnormal through the monitoring process. Specifically, the abnormality detection unit 330 can determine whether there is an abnormality in the moving means, such as a situation in which the moving means is not moved to any path, a moving means is moving too slowly, or a situation in which the moving means is moving away. For this purpose, the abnormality detection unit 330 can determine an abnormality with respect to the example of the preceding situation through the location information of the vehicle transmitted from the moving-unit monitoring apparatus 100. Here, in order to track the position of the vehicle, the abnormality detection unit 330 may interlock with the external system to further track the position of the vehicle. Specifically, the anomaly detection unit 330 can track the position of the vehicle in cooperation with, for example, cameras such as CCTV and the LBS system.

In addition to the above examples, for example, when the user terminal 200 detects a situation in which the moving-unit monitoring apparatus 100 is abnormally turned off, the user terminal 200 transmits the current status to the server 300 You can ask for a solution to the problem.

Such a function performed in the abnormality detection unit 330 may cause an overload in the server 300. [ Accordingly, the above-described functions of the abnormality detection unit 330 can be performed through the interlocking process with respect to each other in the mobile unit monitoring apparatus 100 and the user terminal 200, respectively.

The abnormality confirmation unit 340 performs a process of confirming to the driver and the passenger when the abnormality of the moving means is determined through the abnormality detection unit 330. [ Such a process may be performed, for example, by connecting to a management unit such as a taxi management company, manually determining whether there is an abnormality with respect to them through monitoring personnel, or transmitting a specific message to the mobile monitoring device 100 and the user terminal 200 And the confirmation process can be performed through a process of confirming the transmission. If there is no response from both the mobile unit monitoring apparatus 100 and the user terminal 200 in the checking process, the abnormality checking unit 340 monitors the vehicle through the current position information of the vehicle received in real time, And informs the police system of this situation and information.

In addition, the server 300 can perform the above-described processes through the big data analysis platform. That is, the transmission / reception data in the server 300 can be processed through a well-known big data analysis platform, i.e., a process of collecting and classifying data, a process of distributed storage of collected data, and a process of searching and analyzing desired data.

Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 2, a series of processes performed in the secure home system of the present invention will be further described. In the following description, the matters overlapping with those mentioned with reference to Fig. 1 are omitted for clarity of description. FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a process performed in a secure home return system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, a step S210 of confirming and authenticating the driver to the moving means is performed by the driver authentication unit of the moving-unit monitoring apparatus. In step S210, the driver identification unit including the unique identifier of the driver may be inserted into the driver authentication unit, and the identification and authentication process may be performed by confirming the unique identifier of the driver. Here, it should be understood that the driver identification means may be an electronic card type identification card as mentioned above, and the method may be implemented by an RFID method, but is not limited thereto and may be modified in various forms and methods.

In step S210, when the passenger boarded the moving means, the authenticated driver information is transmitted to the passenger so that the passenger can grasp the driver information on the moving means. To this end, the user terminal of the passenger can again receive the driver information and re-confirm the driver information. Since this process has been described in detail with reference to FIG. 1, further description is omitted for the sake of clarity.

Thereafter, step S220 of setting the destination of the passenger is performed by the destination setting unit of the moving-unit monitoring apparatus. Step S220 may be performed through, for example, destination input to navigation mounted on the moving means, or recognition of the voice pronounced by the passenger. In addition, in step S220, the destination setting unit performs a process of reconfirming the destination recognized by the passenger, thereby preventing an accident in advance, and preventing an error such as setting an incorrect destination.

Thereafter, a step of monitoring the path of the moving means moving toward the destination (S230) is performed by the abnormality detection unit of the server. To this end, the server receives position information corresponding to the current position of the moving means from the moving means. Here, the measurement of positional information can be measured through various sensors such as GPS, for example. In addition, step S230 may be performed in conjunction with an external system, for example, a CCTV and LBS system capable of tracking a position of a moving vehicle, thereby tracking the current position of the moving means.

Thereafter, the abnormality detecting unit of the server performs step S240 of checking whether an abnormal symptom is found with respect to the moving means. In step S240, the abnormal symptom may include, for example, a situation in which the moving means is not moved to any path, a moving condition in which the moving means moves too slowly, and a situation in which the moving path is deviated. In addition, step S240 may be performed in the mobile monitoring device and the user terminal in order to reduce the load on the server in another embodiment. If an abnormal symptom is detected in step S240, control is passed to step S260. Otherwise, control passes to step S250.

Step S260 is a step performed by the abnormality checking unit of the server, and is a step of checking the abnormal symptom detected in step S240 through a checking operation. Here, the confirmation operation may be performed, for example, by connecting to a management unit such as a taxi management company, manually determining whether there is an abnormality with respect to them through the monitoring personnel, And then confirming it. If there is no response from both the moving-unit monitoring apparatus and the user terminal, step S260 monitors the vehicle through the current position information of the vehicle received in real time, and informs the police system of such situation and information .

Step S250 is a step for confirming whether the moving means has reached the destination. Here, if it is determined that the moving means has reached the destination of the passenger, control is transferred to the end block. Otherwise, control passes to step S230 to re-execute the above-described processes.

Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 3, a series of processes performed in the secure home system of the present invention will be further described. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a process performed in a secure home return system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, a step S301 of authenticating a driver in the moving-unit monitoring apparatus 100 is performed. The step S301 may be carried out by inserting the driver identification means including the driver's unique identifier into the moving means monitoring device, as mentioned above with reference to Figs. 1 and 2 above. Such driver identification means may be, for example, an electronic card type identification and may be made through an RFID method, but is not limited to this type and manner.

Thereafter, the step S302 of transmitting the driver information from the moving-unit monitoring apparatus 100 to the user terminal 200 is performed. Here, step S302 may be performed through a communication technique such as, for example, LTE and Wi-Fi Direct. As mentioned above, the Wi-Fi direct method is a technology for transferring files between devices without an access point (AP), and shows a method of transferring files through 1: N communication between devices.

Thereafter, the user terminal 200 transmits the received driver information to the server 300 again. At this time, the server 300 matches the received driver information with the information about the traveling means on which the passenger boarded, and confirms whether or not the driver who is matched with the moving means has boarded the vehicle (S303) .

When this confirmation process is completed, step S304 of setting the destination of the passenger in the moving vehicle monitoring apparatus 100 is performed. As described with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the step S304 may be performed through interlocking with navigation mounted on the moving means, or may be set through speech recognition of the destination pronounced by the passenger. In addition, the step S304 can prevent the situation where the destination is erroneously set by erroneous input or the driver intentionally sets another destination by reconfirming the recognized destination to the passenger.

Thereafter, the destination information set in the moving-unit monitoring apparatus 100 is transmitted to the server 300 (S305), and the moving information of the moving means is transmitted in real time (S306).

Thereafter, the server 300 monitors the path to the moving means (S307), and a step S308 of determining an abnormality symptom with respect to the moving means through this monitoring process is performed. If an abnormal symptom is determined in step S308, for example, a situation in which the moving means does not move to any path, a moving means moves too slowly, And a step S309 of checking whether the user terminal 200 is abnormal is further performed. As described with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, step S309 may be performed by, for example, connecting a management unit such as a taxi management company to manually determine whether there is an abnormality with the monitoring personnel, 100 and the user terminal 200 and confirms the specific message. Through the step S309, the error of the false situation recognition can be greatly reduced.

If an abnormality is confirmed in both the moving-unit monitoring apparatus 100 and the user terminal 200 in step S309, for example, the vehicle is monitored through the current position information of the vehicle received in real-time, An action step S310 of notifying such situation and information to the Weihai police system is carried out.

The moving-unit monitoring apparatus and method according to the present invention can be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs; magnetic media such as floppy disks; Includes all types of hardware devices that are specially configured to store and execute magneto-optical media and program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions may include machine language code such as those generated by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that may be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. Such a hardware device may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

The teachings of the principles of the present invention may be implemented as a combination of hardware and software. In addition, the software can be implemented as an application program that is actually implemented on the program storage unit. The application program can be uploaded to and executed by a machine that includes any suitable architecture. Advantageously, the machine may be implemented on a computer platform having hardware such as one or more central processing units (CPUs), a computer processor, a random access memory (RAM), and input / output (I / . In addition, the computer platform may include an operating system and microinstruction code. The various processes and functions described herein may be part of microcommand codes or a portion of an application program, or any combination thereof, and they may be executed by various processing devices including a CPU. In addition, various other peripheral devices such as additional data storage and printers may be connected to the computer platform.

It is to be understood that the actual connections between system components or process functional blocks may vary depending on how the principles of the present invention are programmed, as some of the constituent system components and methods illustrated in the accompanying drawings are preferably implemented in software It should be further understood. Given the teachings herein, those skilled in the relevant art (s) will be able to contemplate these and similar implementations or configurations of the principles of the invention.

1000: safe home return system 100: moving means monitoring device
110: driver authentication unit 120: destination setting unit
130: communication unit 200:
210: driver identification unit 220: terminal communication unit
300: server 310: driver matching section
320: server communication unit 330: abnormality detection unit
340: abnormality confirmation unit

Claims (1)

A driver authentication unit for confirming and authenticating the driver to the moving means;
A communication unit for transmitting driver information on the driver to a passenger's user terminal and a server; And
And a destination setting unit that sets a destination of the passenger,
Wherein the communication unit transmits to the server a moving route to the destination in real time and receives an abnormality of the moving means judged through route monitoring of the moving means by the server, Device.

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