KR20160074084A - Commute management service for small start-up enterprise without pc - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a smartphone-based employee attendance management service. The service makes it possible to manage employee attendance in a small startup and a work environment without a PC and to conveniently record attendance and absence without a separate action by letting a smartphone carried by a user automatically recognize a unique wireless communications identification number of a workplace. Moreover, it is possible to provide information on the employee attendance to the user as visual data such as a graph by using the smartphone. A method of managing employee attendance includes the steps of: having a mobile device carried by a user search for an available wireless communication; recognizing an identification address of the searched wireless communication; checking whether an identification address provided to a predetermined place is equal to the currently recognized identification address of the wireless communication; and determining whether an employee is present or not.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a smartphone-based time and attendance management service suitable for small start-up and PC absence environments,

Relates to smartphone-based time and attendance management services, and more specifically to services that manage employee attitudes using smartphones in small start-up and PC absence working environments.

The number of small-scale enterprises with less than 5 employees in Korea is about 256,000 (based on individual business operators and 2010 National Statistical Office's national business survey), and the number of SMEs is seven times that of the US and three times that of Japan. There is no commute service for business sites. Conventional commute check service is mainly PC based and fingerprint reader based service, and these two check services have limitations to use in small start up and PC absence business environment. First, the PC groupware based commute check service has a limitation that it is possible to pay surplus attendance between employees in the absence of the manager because the burden of paying the unnecessary supplementary services to the small business sites and the individual identification function are weak. In addition, the cost of the commuter check service based on the fingerprint reader is about 400,000 won, which is difficult to introduce in a small workplace, and the convenience of inquiry and the aesthetics of the UI deteriorate because it is read in the form of Excel. Furthermore, the biggest problem is that fingerprint recognition should be done again when entering the office, such as entrance to the bathroom. In addition to the hassle, in the emotional environment where autonomy is a strong point in start-up compared to large companies, .

Therefore, it is necessary to use the commute service which can not only use the PC but also can confirm the personal identification and arrive at the workplace, and can concentrate on the commute function and provide it at a low price.

Korean Utility Model Publication No. 20-375932, published on March 11, 2005.

According to one embodiment, it is possible to provide a smartphone-based time and attendance management service system capable of efficiently managing the commute time of a worker using a smartphone of a user without a PC for a small start-up business. It is possible to provide a time and attendance management service system that is convenient and cost-competitive by identifying the wireless communication provided only in the business place through the user's smartphone.

Furthermore, it is possible to provide a time and attendance management service system that can prevent a check of an agent's commute by a person, reflecting the characteristics of a smart phone that the user always carries.

According to one aspect, there is provided a method comprising: retrieving a currently available wireless communication by a mobile device carried by a user; Recognizing the searched wireless communication identification address; Checking whether an identification address of a wireless communication provided at a predetermined location matches an identification address of the currently recognized wireless communication; And determining a user's attitude according to the result of the checking.

According to one embodiment, it is possible to check the commute by employee by identifying the unique number of the wireless communication in the workplace in the absence of the personal PC by using the application in the smart phone carried by the user. In addition, according to the characteristics of the smartphone strongly attributed to a specific user, it is possible to prevent other employees from actively checking the substitute work, thereby keeping the reliability of the commute record high.

Providing the status of commuting to and from the entire staff as the UI of the smartphone can enhance the intuitiveness of the user who uses the attendance management service system.

1 illustrates a user screen for designating a wireless communication modem in an administrator mode for employee attendance check according to one embodiment.
FIG. 2 illustrates a user screen for searching wireless communication in a workplace according to an embodiment.
FIG. 3 illustrates a user screen capable of commuting a commute by using wireless communication of a searched workplace according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 illustrates a user screen for adding a new employee in a time and attendance management service application according to an exemplary embodiment.
FIG. 5 is a graph showing the state of attendance of individual employees according to an embodiment.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation flow of a time and attendance management service application according to an embodiment.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to or limited by the embodiments. Like reference symbols in the drawings denote like elements.

The terms used in the following description are chosen to be generic and universal in the art to which they are related, but other terms may exist depending on the development and / or change in technology, customs, preferences of the technician, and the like. Accordingly, the terminology used in the following description should not be construed as limiting the technical thought, but should be understood in the exemplary language used to describe the embodiments.

Also, in certain cases, there may be a term chosen arbitrarily by the applicant, in which case the meaning of the detailed description in the corresponding description section. Therefore, the term used in the following description should be understood based on the meaning of the term, not the name of a simple term, and the contents throughout the specification.

The number of smartphone users in Korea is high at 30 million users (as of January 2013 by the Korea Communications Commission), and the penetration rate of WiFi by business sites also increased sharply with the spread of wireless Internet telephony. Therefore, if time and attendance management service is provided using pre-built network environment and user device, it can be a more economical and user-friendly service. Specifically, in one embodiment, an application for recognizing a unique number (Mac address) of a Wi-Fi device on a smart phone and checking a commute on the smartphone is provided as an intermediary. This can be an appropriate and highly leveraged attempt at the current technology level and environment.

According to an exemplary embodiment, an application for recognizing the unique number of a Wifi device in a smart phone and using an application that enables commuting can be used for a small-sized start-up and a PC absence business environment, . Specifically, an application including a commute check function can be installed in a personal smartphone carried by each employee in order to enable commute check by employees in an environment where personal PCs are not available. A smartphone application that has a commute check function can recognize the connection status of a specific Wifi, that is, the Wifi provided at a business site, thereby enhancing the accuracy of location identification of a business site. In addition, it is possible to prevent substitute attendance activities such as log-in to a PC of a co-worker among employees in a workplace environment where a personal PC exists. Smartphones have a strong dependence on individuals who use them, so it is difficult to loan them to others.

Meanwhile, the smartphone-based time attendance management service according to one embodiment can provide the user with intuitive graphical representation of the current state of attendance of the employee. In the case of existing groupware, since the commute status is displayed in the form of numbers in the form of a list, the UI of the entire staff can not be easily understood at a glance, so that the intuitiveness can be improved by providing a graphical display for overcoming this limitation.

In one embodiment, the "go to work" button is activated only when the Mac address of the Wifi registered in the smartphone matches the Mac address actually connected at the time of work in the workplace, and the work can be checked easily. Smartphones are generally carried around by individuals, so it is virtually impossible for others to check attendance on their behalf. In addition, if the position is not constant, and the salesperson is not required to check the commute time correctly, he or she can use the GPS to manage the commute. In addition, it provides a time-based graph that allows the attendance status to be seen at a glance, such as tardiness, to facilitate the management of the employee's attendance at work.

1 illustrates a user screen for designating a wireless communication modem in an administrator mode for employee attendance check according to one embodiment. The screen showing the administrator mode can register the wireless communication environment of the business place in the user's smartphone setting. After selecting the company in administrator mode and selecting the Mac address of the currently connected Wifi, you can save it as a work mediator of the company. Employees can then easily commute to their Mac address without having to manually enter a complicated Wifi Mac address by simply selecting the company name on their smartphone. Furthermore, when the Wifi environment of the business site is changed, the Mac address can be easily changed through the administrator mode shown in FIG.

FIG. 2 illustrates a user screen for searching wireless communication in a workplace according to an exemplary embodiment. When the employees are not connected to the Wifi registered in the company account, they are requested to access the Wifi. At the bottom of the screen, you can access Wifi in the workplace through the button "Connect Wifi". In addition, the user screen is intuitively structured so that it is the same as the diary system, and the commute record can be confirmed in units of TODAY, WEEKLY, or MONTHLY. It is possible for the manager to provide confirmation unit (day, week, month) to easily identify the status of attendance of the entire staff, and to display identification information that can intuitively identify the employee. An employee or manager who is a user can select a tap to see the worker's attendance by day, and the default setting is today. If you select the week tab, you can check the weekly attendance information together with the employee list. If you select the month tab, you can also check the monthly attendance information together with the employee list. In FIG. 2, user information such as a photograph, a name, a rank, and the like are indicated together. In particular, by posting photos of employees' faces, it is possible to increase their intuition. In addition, information such as a user's absence, outline, etc. is displayed together so that it is easy to intuitively know the cause when the user is absent.

FIG. 3 illustrates a user screen capable of commuting a commute by using wireless communication of a searched workplace according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. When employees are connected to a Wifi registered in a company account, they can check their work at the bottom of the screen using the button "Check Attendance". The smartphone is equipped with wireless communication function, it searches for the Wifi that is currently available in real time and automatically connects it. Therefore, the attendance management can be performed only by a simple act of pushing the button of the smart phone which the user as an employee comes to work and has no special action. The user screen of FIG. 3 displays the information on the commute status of all the employees as clearly as in the user screen of FIG. Therefore, if there are tasks in which a large number of employees collaborate, it has the additional effect of confirming the status of the attendance of other employees and proceeding with reference thereto.

FIG. 4 illustrates a user screen for adding a new employee in a time and attendance management service application according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in FIG. 4, it is possible to approve employees who have applied for the T & M management service, and can easily change the Wifi Mac address when it is necessary to change the Wifi Mac address due to the replacement of the modem device. Due to the nature of small start-up companies, there may be frequent changes in personnel composition. Even if existing employees change their smartphones, it may be necessary to change the registration / deletion of employees in the attendance service. In addition, if a business is relocated for a reason such as termination of a building lease, the T & A management service should be able to change the Mac address, which is the unique identification number of the business. The time and attendance management service according to an exemplary embodiment may include a configuration for easily applying / approving user registration in order to actively cope with such fluctuations and a configuration for simply processing the change of stored information.

FIG. 5 is a graph showing the state of attendance of individual employees according to an embodiment. Both administrators and employees can view the current employees' attendance at the time of day, and can visually recognize the patterns related to time and attendance through the calendar interface, thus presenting indicators that can be utilized effectively in making policy decisions for time and attendance. In other words, the manager can check the current status of the entire staff in real time, but it is also necessary to check the current status of individual employees. The time attendance management service according to one embodiment can provide a graph showing at a glance the current state of attendance for individual employees, that is, the reasons for absence of the daily commute time indication and the absent absence. In FIG. 5, identification information of individual employees such as a photograph of a face, a name, a rank, a number of working days, the number of paid vacation days used, and the number of days of unpaid leave used are posted. In addition, it can post the whole time and attendance information in the form of a calendar on a monthly basis, and it is possible to check daily attendance information when selecting the day. The present state of the present situation uses a visual figure to enhance intuitiveness. For example, when you are absent, you can mark it as a red circle, and only a part of the circle along the time of perception can be displayed in red. In addition, when the worker arrives at work earlier than the predetermined work time, only a part of the circle can be displayed in blue on the corresponding day.

Detailed records can be viewed and edited for a specific employee from the manager's perspective. The status of attendance of specific employees can be viewed at a glance in the calendar interface at a glance, and monthly comprehensive status can be viewed at a glance. It is also possible to view and modify the status of attendance of the entire staff as data. Time and attendance management data can be retrieved by date and month for the entire staff, and data adjustment is possible if there is a reason for a specific date of a specific staff member. FIG. 5 is illustrative and may provide various forms of information.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation flow of a time and attendance management service application according to an embodiment. In the following, the numbers in parentheses correspond to the numbers shown on the upper left of the block showing each step of FIG. 6, and will be described in detail in each step. First, run the Wifi modem setup. Check whether there is a Wifi modem found in the executed setting, and if there is no Wifi modem, proceed to step (1) for adding Wifi modem. This corresponds to the initial setting of the time and attendance management service application and is intended to store the wireless communication environment of the workplace. Press the Add Wifi Modem button. If you press the Add button in step (1), you will go to the Wifi modem add setting window (2). Check if the connected Wifi is correct and if the connected Wifi corresponds to the user's business Wifi, click Add Wifi step (6) to end the addition and move back to the Wifi setting window (10). The Wifi setting window means the Wifi setting page in the mobile phone. If it is determined that the connected Wifi does not correspond to the user's Wifi in the step of confirming whether the Wifi is reconnected, the process proceeds to step (4) to check the MAC address, and if it is confirmed that the Wifi is registerable, do. Here, the name refers to a name that can be identified by a user such as a company name, and the process proceeds to a step 20 of pressing the addition button after creation to complete the setting.

Go back to the beginning, run the Wifi modem setup, check if there is a Wifi modem to find, and go to step 3 to select Wifi modem if it is correct. After checking whether the selected Wifi modem is to be deleted, if it is desired to delete it, go to step 5 to press the delete button, confirm the deletion (8) through the notification window, and then complete the setting. However, if it is determined that the selected Wifi modem should be deleted, if it is not desired to delete the selected Wifi modem, proceed to step 7 for checking the Wifi, check the MAC address (11), check whether it is connected to the MAC address again, Move to the window (10). In this case, users can try to connect Wifi through the Wifi setting page on the smartphone. If it is connected to the checked MAC address, the process goes to the checking step (13). As an initial setting, all employees are set to allow work and confirm that they will keep their initial settings, and if they are maintained, proceed to the step of pressing "Complete" button to complete the setting. If the user does not want to keep the initial setting, the process proceeds to the individual setting step 14 and moves to the individual staff setting window (15, 16, 17 or 18) Finish setting.

It is a matter of course that the time and attendance management service application may operate according to the above-described flow, and the steps of operating according to the implementation may be different.

According to one embodiment, a smartphone-based time attendance management service can create a niche market for time attendance management targeting a small business. In the existing market environment, which was able to manage stable time and attendance only by purchasing the whole groupware, it provides a low-cost application of 0.5 USD per person per month specializing in commuting function, so it can be used for small shops, restaurants and coffee shops , It is possible to create an efficient time attendance service market.

Also, according to one embodiment, it is possible to overcome the limitation of the PC-based commute check service. In the case of commuting service based on groupware, there is a possibility of substitute check, which is disadvantageous in that it is difficult to effectively manage time and attendance in a PC groupware environment because the possibility of a small business where a representative is vacated may become larger, By using smartphones that are difficult to lend, we can achieve the highest efficiency in the personal identification sector. And, it can overcome the limit of the commute check service based on the fingerprint recognizer. In the case of the fingerprint reader-based commute check service, the initial introduction cost is consumed at about 400,000 won, the accessibility of the UI is deteriorated at the time of going out of the office, etc., and the convenience of the UI is deteriorated by inquiring through Excel, It does not exist separately and the manager can easily manage time and attendance from the outside, which can increase the efficiency of time attendance management of the enterprise.

It is possible to create a niche market and increase the work efficiency of the company by providing time attendance service for not only small businesses but also salespeople. In the case of the existing commuter check service market, it was based on PC-based groupware or fingerprint reader. Therefore, it was not easy to manage the attendance of the salesperson who frequent the sales car business. For that reason, many companies have to visit the salesperson There were many customs to leave after work. However, in the case of applying one embodiment, the operation of leaving the location together with the location report from the outside through the registration of the smartphone device for 1 person without such unnecessary action will come back to the company Can be replaced by the advantage of "increasing the efficiency of the company's work".

The apparatus described above may be implemented as a hardware component, a software component, and / or a combination of hardware components and software components. For example, the apparatus and components described in the embodiments may be implemented within a computer system, such as, for example, a processor, a controller, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a digital signal processor, a microcomputer, a field programmable array (FPA) A programmable logic unit (PLU), a microprocessor, or any other device capable of executing and responding to instructions. The processing device may execute one or more software applications that are executed on an operating system (OS) and an operating system. The processing device may also access, store, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to execution of the software. For ease of understanding, the processing apparatus may be described as being used singly, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the processing apparatus may have a plurality of processing elements and / As shown in FIG. For example, the processing unit may comprise a plurality of processors or one processor and one controller. Other processing configurations are also possible, such as a parallel processor.

The software may include a computer program, code, instructions, or a combination of one or more of the foregoing, and may be configured to configure the processing device to operate as desired or to process it collectively or collectively Device can be commanded. The software and / or data may be in the form of any type of machine, component, physical device, virtual equipment, computer storage media, or device , Or may be permanently or temporarily embodied in a transmitted signal wave. The software may be distributed over a networked computer system and stored or executed in a distributed manner. The software and data may be stored on one or more computer readable recording media.

The method according to an embodiment may be implemented in the form of a program command 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. Program instructions to be recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the embodiments 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; Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the embodiments, and vice versa.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. For example, it is to be understood that the techniques described may be performed in a different order than the described methods, and / or that components of the described systems, structures, devices, circuits, Lt; / RTI > or equivalents, even if it is replaced or replaced. Therefore, other implementations, other embodiments, and equivalents to the claims are also within the scope of the following claims.

Claims (1)

Retrieving a currently available wireless communication by a mobile device carried by the user;
Recognizing the searched wireless communication identification address;
Checking whether an identification address of a wireless communication provided at a predetermined location matches an identification address of the currently recognized wireless communication; And
Determining a user's attitude according to the confirmation result;
And a time management system.

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