KR20170001787A - Vending Machine System - Google Patents

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KR20170001787A
KR20170001787A KR1020150090450A KR20150090450A KR20170001787A KR 20170001787 A KR20170001787 A KR 20170001787A KR 1020150090450 A KR1020150090450 A KR 1020150090450A KR 20150090450 A KR20150090450 A KR 20150090450A KR 20170001787 A KR20170001787 A KR 20170001787A
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    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G07F7/08—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means
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Abstract

The present invention relates to a vending machine system using a beacon and, more particularly, to a vending machine system using a beacon which enables a user to use a vending machine without cash and/or a credit card by transmitting a query to a vending machine management server based on the received information from a beacon transmitter installed in a specific area, allowing the vending machine management server to identify the user terminal, granting permission for the user terminal to use a vending machine near the user terminal, and performing payment for a product, which the identified user desires, in the vending machine.

Description

{Vending Machine System}

The present invention relates to a vending machine system using a beacon, and more particularly, to a vending machine system that transmits a query to a vending machine management server based on information received by a user terminal from a beacon transmitter installed in a specific area, A vending machine system using a beacon capable of using a vending machine without cash or a credit card by identifying the vending machine, granting the use right of the vending machine near the user terminal, and processing the payment for the desired vending machine product by the identified user will be.

A beacon service for transmitting beacon information stored in a beacon transmitter to a user terminal in a coverage area in order to provide a location based service is being applied.

However, the conventional beacon service can provide push alarm and can collect marketing data. However, since the beacon service can be duplicated, there is a problem that the beacon service can not be expanded to the Internet, not a smart phone.

In addition, since conventional vending machines are authorized to use a vending machine only when the settlement is approved through cash or a card, it is difficult to use when the user does not have a cash card or a card, and an unspecified number of persons use the vending machine. It is difficult to obtain statistical data.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for transmitting a query to a vending machine management server based on information received by a user terminal from a beacon transmitter installed in a specific area, The present invention relates to a vending machine system using a beacon that can identify a vending machine and process the payment for a desired vending machine product so that the identified user can use the vending machine without using cash or a credit card.

In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides an automatic vending machine system using a beacon, which receives beacon information from a beacon transmitter through a beacon transmitter and a beacon transmitter installed at a nearby location or at a location where the automatic vending machine is installed, A user terminal installed with a user application for transmitting a query to a vending machine management server, and a user who identifies the user when there is a query request from the user terminal, identifies a vending machine linked to the beacon transmitter, And a vending machine management server for providing an interface for settlement.

Wherein the beacon transmitter comprises a local communication module for transmitting beacon information to a user terminal located within a surrounding coverage, a memory for storing beacon information and identification information, and periodically transmitting ID and RSSI values; The user application is automatically activated when the user terminal enters the coverage (coverage) of the signal and receives information transmitted by the beacon transmitter, thereby displaying the beacon information.

The user application is provided with an interface for transmitting beacon information and identification information of the user terminal to a vending machine management server and requesting a query to receive user-customized contents from the vending machine interlocked with the beacon transmitter.

The vending machine management server includes a vending machine management unit for managing the beacon transmitter and the vending machine integrally, a target identification unit for receiving a query of the user application and identifying the vending machine and the user, and a control application A UI control unit for providing an interface for product selection and settlement of the vending machine, and a database for storing and managing the beacon transmitter identification information, the vending machine identification information mapped thereto, the vending machine information, and the registered member information .

The vending machine management unit transmits the virtual beacon identification information to the beacon transmitter in order to enhance security and then checks whether the beacon transmitter is a duplicated beacon transmitter by comparing the received beacon identification information.

The target identification unit identifies the beacon transmitter and the user by comparing the identification information (ID) of the beacon transmitter and the identification information of the user terminal with the stored information in the database, and identifies the mounter that is mapped with the beacon transmitter .

The UI control unit provides product or service information provided from the identified vending machine to the user application, and instructs the vending machine to output the purchase item or service to the vending machine in accordance with the purchased product or service information input by the user And counts that the corresponding product or service is sold to the user when the purchase of the goods or service is completed through the vending machine, and stores and manages the user-based sales information.

As described above, according to the present invention, a beverage dispensing system using a beacon identifies a user of a dispensing machine and a nearby dispenser in a dispensing machine management server, so that a vending machine can be used as a portable terminal without having a cash or a credit card. The integrated use of credit cards, prepaid cards, and points can increase convenience of mileage use.

In addition, since the control button of the automatic vending machine, the bill counter, and the coin inlet can be removed, the complexity of the apparatus can be reduced, and the manufacturing and maintenance costs can be reduced An excellent effect of lowering costs is generated.

However, the conventional vending machine can not know who to sell, but the present invention is a technology that can recognize the user from the time of use to the time of settlement, and has a secondary advantage of providing contents such as advertisement and recommendation Have.

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram schematically showing an automatic vending machine system using a beacon according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of FIG.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, a beacon system using a beacon according to the present invention includes a vending machine, a beacon transmitter installed at a nearby location of the vending machine, a beacon transmitter, A user terminal installed with a user application for transmitting a query to a vending machine management server, a user identification unit for identifying the user when a query request is made from the user terminal, identifying a vending machine linked to the beacon transmitter, And a vending machine management server for providing an interface for payment.

The automatic vending machine is integrally managed through a vending machine management server, receives a product output providing command selected by the user terminal identified by the vending machine management server, and controls the output of the product to the outlet.

The vending machine may identify the vending machine through the identification information of the installed beacon transmitter.

The beacon transmitter plays a role of transmitting beacon information to a user terminal located in the periphery through short-range communication.

The beacon transmitter may include a local communication module for transmitting beacon information to a user terminal located in a surrounding area, and a memory for storing beacon information and identification information.

The short-range communication module may be a communication method such as DSRC, ultrasound, infrared, CDMA, LTE, WiFi, LiFi, etc. Depending on the method of transmitting the signal, a low-frequency beacon, an LED beacon, Beacons, and Bluetooth beacons. Among them, the beacon method using the Bluetooth low energy (BLE) technology is widely used because of the advantage that the power consumption can be minimized.

The beacon transmitter can store and transmit information to be transmitted in a memory. The beacon transmitter periodically transmits ID and RSSI values to the beacon transmitter. When the user terminal enters the coverage (coverage) of the signal, the beacon transmitter recognizes the information The user application is activated.

The user application is installed in the user terminal and is automatically activated when a beacon signal is received from the beacon transmitter to receive and display the beacon information.

Here, the beacon information may be information about goods or services provided by a vending machine provided with a beacon transmitter as information stored in a beacon transmitter. The contents may include all kinds of information necessary for using the automatic vending machine such as event information, coupon information, as well as information (product or service list, price, etc.) of goods or services provided by the vending machine.

Generally, there is a problem that it is difficult to reflect the coupon or discount information because the vending machine is sold to an unspecified number of people and only the goods and the price are displayed. However, since the present invention identifies the user using the vending machine, Information can be provided.

The beacon information is a technique generally applied to a conventional beacon service, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The user application provides an interface for selecting and providing goods or services provided from a vending machine linked to a beacon transmitter.

More specifically, when a user wants to select a desired product or service through a vending machine, the user application transmits beacon information and identification information of the user terminal to a vending machine management server to request a query.

For the query request, the vending machine management server identifies the beacon transmitter through the beacon information and the user through the user terminal identification information.

To this end, the vending machine management server includes a vending machine management unit for integrally managing the beacon transmitter and the vending machine, a target identification unit for identifying the vending machine and the user, and a target identification unit for identifying the user of the vending machine A UI control unit for providing an interface for selection and payment, and a database for storing and managing beacon transmitter identification information, mapped vending machine identification information, vending machine information, and registered member information.

Here, the vending machine information may include information such as a list of goods provided by the vending machine, a price of the goods, and a description of the related goods.

The vending machine management unit manages the beacon information transmitted to the beacon transmitter, and registers and registers the beacon transmitter and the vending machine integrally for identification.

Since the beacon transmitter can be installed in a one-to-one mapping with the vending machine, the vending machine can be identified from the beacon transmitter's beacon identification information.

Since the automatic vending machine is connected to the automatic vending machine management server via the Internet or LAN, the output of the product of the automatic vending machine can be remotely controlled.

The vending machine management section may include a security function for checking whether the beacon transmitter is a replicated transmitter.

More specifically, since the beacon transmitter has a problem of security because it is easy to duplicate, the virtual beacon identification information is transmitted to the beacon transmitter to enhance security, and then the received beacon identification information is compared to determine whether the beacon transmitter is a replicated beacon transmitter .

Since the beacon transmitter has a hierarchical structure including a UUID, a MAJOR ID, and a MINOR ID, the beacon transmitter generates virtual beacon identification information by changing at least one of the IDs, transmits the virtual beacon identification information to the beacon transmitter, compares the beacon identification information transmitted from the user terminal The beacon transmitter can be determined to be duplicated.

Meanwhile, the target identification unit identifies the beacon transmitter and the user by comparing the identification information (ID) of the beacon transmitter and the identification information of the user terminal with the stored information in the database, and identifies the vending machine mapped with the beacon transmitter.

Here, the user information may be registered when a user application is installed, and the user identification information may be registered as unique information capable of identifying a user terminal such as an ID and a telephone number.

If the user is identified according to the target identification unit, the UI control unit permits the user application of the user terminal owned by the user to interface with the product selection and settlement of the automatic vending machine, When the payment request is transmitted, a product selection and payment instruction is transmitted to the detector to control the automatic vending machine.

When the user selects a desired payment method for the product selected by the user, the UI control unit controls the payment to be processed accordingly.

The user application can pay for the credit card and the prepaid card in cooperation with the mobile wallet, and can provide an interface for the mobile phone settlement or the credit card payment in the absence of the mobile wallet.

Here, if the product is provided to the user from the vending machine, the UI control unit may store and manage sales information indicating that a specific product is provided to the user, and may be used to calculate various statistical data using the sales information.

Meanwhile, the UI control unit can provide an interactive interface by relaying the user application of the user terminal and the vending machine.

More specifically, when a vending machine is provided with a display unit and outputs a selected product by interactively selecting a product, content for selecting product information and a desired menu is displayed on the display unit of the vending machine, The menu is transmitted to the vending machine management server through the user terminal and the vending machine management server transmits the inputted menu to the vending machine to provide the interactive interface.

In other words, although it seems to provide an interactive interface by exchanging data with the user terminal and the automatic farming machine, in reality, the information that the vending machine management server is input between the user terminal and the vending machine is analyzed, To provide an interactive interface.

3 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a method of providing a vending machine using a beacon according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the beacon transmitter periodically or non-periodically transmits beacon information.

More specifically, the beacon transmitter can receive information to be transmitted from an external server, store it in a memory, and transmit the information. The beacon transmitter periodically transmits ID and RSSI values to the beacon transmitter.

Then, when the user terminal enters the signal coverage (coverage), the user terminal recognizes it and activates the user application.

The user application is installed in the user terminal and is automatically activated when a beacon signal is received from the beacon transmitter to receive and display the beacon information.

And the user application requests an interface for selecting a desired product from the vending machine interlocked with the beacon transmitter.

More specifically, when the user wishes to receive a desired product through the vending machine, the beacon identification information included in the beacon information and the identification information of the user terminal are transmitted to the vending machine management server through the user application and a query is requested.

For the query request, the vending machine management server identifies the beacon transmitter through the beacon identification information and the user through the user terminal identification information.

More specifically, the target identification unit of the vending machine management server identifies the beacon transmitter and the user by comparing the identification information of the beacon transmitter and the identification information of the user terminal with the information stored in the database, and identifies the vending machine mapped with the beacon transmitter do.

In this way, the vending machine where the user is located can be specified.

When the user is identified as described above, the UI control unit provides an interface for product selection and payment based on the product information being sold by the vending machine mapped to the vending machine ID.

More specifically, the UI control unit extracts the goods or service information provided by the specified automatic vending machine from the database and transmits the extracted goods or service information to the user application.

The user selects a desired product or service from a list of goods or services of the vending machine transmitted to the user application, and transmits the selected goods or service to the vending machine management server, and the UI control unit controls the product or the service selected by the user do.

When an interface for product selection and payment is provided as described above, the user selects a desired product and a desired payment method among the vending machine products and inputs payment.

When the desired goods and the payment means are transmitted to the UI control unit, the UI control unit processes payment according to the payment means and transmits a payment instruction of the selected goods to the automatic vending machine.

Here, the payment means may be a conventional payment means such as a mobile phone payment, a credit card payment, a check card payment, a prepaid gift certificate payment, a gift certificate payment, a point payment, etc. Depending on the payment means, Lt; / RTI >

The specific settlement method and processing are not only obvious but also deviates from the core of the present invention, so a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

When payment for the vending machine product is completed as described above, the purchase details of the product are stored in the database.

Therefore, the vending machine operator can check the sales of the vending machine by checking the database, and it is possible to manage the unit of time as well as the unit of time, and it is also possible to check the availability of the product.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

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A vending machine;
A beacon transmitter installed at or near a location where the vending machine is installed;
A user terminal installed with a user application for receiving beacon information via short-range communication from the beacon transmitter and transmitting a query to a vending machine management server;
And a vending machine management server for identifying the user when there is a query request from the user terminal, identifying an automatic vending machine interlocked with the beacon transmitter, and providing an interface for selection and settlement of goods or services provided by the automatic vending machine Vending machine system using beacon feature.
The method according to claim 1,
The beacon transmitter
A local communication module for transmitting beacon information to a user terminal located in a surrounding area, and a memory for storing beacon information and identification information, and periodically transmitting ID and RSSI values;
The user application
Wherein the beacon information is automatically activated when the user terminal enters the coverage (coverage) of the signal and receives the information transmitted by the beacon transmitter.
3. The method of claim 2,
The user application
And provides an interface for receiving beacon information and user identification information from a vending machine management server, requesting a query, and receiving user-customized content from a vending machine associated with the beacon transmitter.
The method according to claim 1,
The vending machine management server
A vending machine management unit for integrally managing a beacon transmitter and a vending machine;
A target identifying unit for receiving a query of a user application and identifying a vending machine and a user;
A UI controller for providing an interface for product selection and payment of the vending machine through the control application to the identified user at the server terminal and a UI controller for providing beacon transmitter identification information, mapped vending machine identification information, vending machine information and registered member information And a database for storing and managing the beacon.
5. The method of claim 4,
The vending machine management section
Wherein the virtual beacon identification information is transmitted to the beacon transmitter in order to enhance security, and then the received beacon identification information is compared to determine whether the beacon transmitter is a duplicated beacon transmitter.
5. The method of claim 4,
The target identifying unit
Wherein the beacon transmitter identifies the beacon transmitter and the user by comparing the identification information (ID) of the beacon transmitter and the identification information of the user terminal with the information stored in the database, and identifies the beacon transmitter and the mounter mapped with the beacon transmitter Vending system.
5. The method of claim 4,
The UI control unit
Providing the product or service information provided by the identified vending machine to the user application and transmitting the purchase product or service output command to the vending machine in accordance with the purchased product or service information inputted and transmitted by the user, And when the purchase of goods or services is completed through the vending machine, counts that the goods or services have been sold to the user, and stores and manages the user-based sales information.
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