KR20170072505A

KR20170072505A - Sunshade controlling system

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Publication number: KR20170072505A
Application number: KR1020150180737A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 문준
Original assignee: 문준
Priority date: 2015-12-17
Filing date: 2015-12-17
Publication date: 2017-06-27

Abstract

A canopy control system is provided. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a canopy control system includes: a communication unit for receiving weather information from outside; An information generation unit for generating occupancy information; And a controller for controlling the position of the awning based on the weather information and the occupancy information.

Description

[0001] SUNSHADE CONTROLLING SYSTEM [0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a sunshade control system, and more particularly, to a sunshade control system capable of automatically controlling a sunshade.

Various types of shades (or blinds) are used, such as venetian blinds, roller shades and honeycomb shades. Such awning is installed for privacy protection, mining, heating, etc., such as reducing the amount of light entering the room through the window and blocking the eyes from the outside.

On the other hand, conventional shades need to be manually adjusted by the user, which reduces convenience. For example, when the brightness of offices and houses due to the sunlight needs to be adjusted, there is a troublesome problem to the user because the shade should be adjusted every time zone. Especially, since the weather changes every moment, it was necessary to judge the adjustment of the canopy at that time. Accordingly, the user decided to manually open the canopy.

However, it is very troublesome for the person to continuously control the opening and closing of the awning, and the work concentration in the office is lowered. Especially when there is no person in the office, there is a problem that the opening / closing of the canopy can not be controlled.

Korean Patent Publication No. 2010-0065439 (Published on Jun. 17, 2010)

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a canopy control system that can automatically control the position of a canopy by obtaining weather information and confirming presence or absence of occupants.

The problems to be solved by the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned problems, and other matters not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a canopy control system including: a communication unit for receiving weather information from outside; An information generation unit for generating occupancy information; And a controller for controlling the position of the awning based on the weather information and the occupancy information.

The apparatus may further include a driving unit for moving the awning.

The driving unit may include a driving motor for providing a driving force to the awning and a motor drive for driving the driving motor.

The apparatus may further include a position recognition unit for recognizing the position of the awning.

In addition, the control unit may request the weather information in real time on the network based on the occupancy information.

Also, the control unit may request real-time weather information on the degree of cloudiness, the presence or absence of precipitation, and the temperature.

The information generating unit may include a moving body detecting sensor for detecting movement of an object to generate the occupant information.

The information generating unit may include an image sensing sensor that captures an indoor image and analyzes the image to generate the occupant information.

Further, the information generating unit may communicate with the portable terminal through the communication unit to generate the presence information.

The communication unit transmits the building management information transmitted from the building integrated management system for managing the building to the control unit, and the control unit can control the position of the awning based on the building management information.

Other specific details of the invention are included in the detailed description and drawings.

According to the present invention, by automatically controlling the awning, it is possible to reduce glare caused by external light of the user, discomfort such as heat, and the like.

In addition, energy can be saved in building by linking with building lighting, air conditioning and air conditioning system.

1 is a block diagram of a canopy control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of a configuration to which a canopy control system according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention, and the manner of achieving them, will be apparent from and elucidated with reference to the embodiments described hereinafter in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. Is provided to fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art, and the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout the specification.

Although the first, second, etc. are used to describe various elements, components and / or sections, it is needless to say that these elements, components and / or sections are not limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one element, element or section from another element, element or section. Therefore, it goes without saying that the first element, the first element or the first section mentioned below may be the second element, the second element or the second section within the technical spirit of the present invention.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of illustrating embodiments and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. In the present specification, the singular form includes plural forms unless otherwise specified in the specification. As used herein, the terms "comprises" and / or "made of" means that a component, step, operation, and / or element may be embodied in one or more other components, steps, operations, and / And does not exclude the presence or addition thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein may be used in a sense commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Also, commonly used predefined terms are not ideally or excessively interpreted unless explicitly defined otherwise.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1, the canopy control system 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit 110, an information generation unit 120, a control unit 130, a driving unit 140, a position recognition unit 150, . &Lt; / RTI > For example, the canopy control system 100 controls the position of the canopy 5 using the weather information received from the outside in the communication unit 110 and the occupant information generated in the information generation unit 120, can do. Here, the sun shade 5 is a structure for blocking light, and may include blinds, curtains, and the like.

The communication unit 110 receives weather information from the outside via the network 50. Here, the weather information can be received from the external information providing server 10 or the like. The weather information may include the altitude of the sun, the intensity of the sunlight, the amount of solar radiation, and the like, as well as other weather information that can be measured and analyzed, as well as information such as cloudiness, precipitation, and temperature. The communication unit 110 can perform wireless communication as well as wired communication through the network 50. The wireless communication can be both near-field wireless communication and long-distance wireless communication, and Bluetooth, Zigbee, Near Field Communication (NFC), and Wibree can be used for short-range wireless communication. Wireless LAN, Wireless MAN, WiMAX, Long Term Evolution (LTE), and the like can be used for communication. Of course, it should be apparent to those skilled in the art that other communication schemes may be used without being limited to such communication schemes.

At this time, the information providing server 10 may be a dedicated server or a web site for providing weather information. Dedicated server means a logical or physical storage server for storing information such as an Oracle DBMS of Oracle, an MS-SQL DBMS of Microsoft, a SYBASE DBMS of Sybase, etc. But it should be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited thereto. Also, it may be a site including a web page that provides weather information in real time such as Google (Google) and Naver (Naver). It should be understood that the network 50 includes not only a wired network but also a wireless network. The network 30 may be the Internet or the like.

The information generating unit 120 generates occupant information. Here, the occupant refers to a person located inside a space such as an office or a room where a canopy is installed. Such occupancy information can be generated using a moving body detection sensor, an image detection sensor, a portable terminal, or the like.

For example, the information generating unit 120 may include a moving body detecting sensor, which detects the movement of an object by receiving light reflected by the moving body detecting sensor, or detects an infrared ray or the like from a person, Can be detected.

Also, the information generating unit 120 may include an image sensor, and the image sensor may capture the indoor image and analyze the image to generate the occupant information. Specifically, a feature extracting process for obtaining an image by an image sensor such as a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) or a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) and extracting visual characteristic information of an object to be detected from the image, The occupant can be detected using the feature. For example, the image is binarized and labeled to determine the shape of the object. Binarization All pixels in an image are represented only in black and white. As a criterion for this, a pixel having a low value based on a predetermined threshold value may be expressed as a black pixel and a pixel having a high value. The predetermined threshold value may be an average of brightness values of all the pixels, or iterative selection, two peak method, or the like. Then, the labeling operation is used to determine if the object is a human shape. Alternatively, a method of using a learning machine such as AdaBoost or SVM (Support Vector Machine) and a non-learning method using vector similarity of extracted features, The learning method and the non-learning method can be appropriately selected and used.

In addition, the information generating unit 120 can communicate with the portable terminal 200 to generate occupant information. As shown in FIG. 2, the portable terminal 200 can communicate with the canopy control system 100 via the network 50. The portable terminal 200 can be a variety of communication devices such as a general mobile communication terminal, a terminal capable of 2G / 3G / 4G, a WiBro wireless network service, a PDA, a smart phone, An 802.11 wireless LAN network card, or the like. The portable terminal 200 may be an information communication device such as a computer or a notebook computer having a wireless LAN access interface that can use GPS data in addition to the mobile communication terminal, or a device including the same.

Specifically, the portable terminal 200 can perform wireless communication with the canopy control system 100 via the network 50. [ Here, wireless communication may be both long-range wireless communication and short-range wireless communication, but short-range wireless communication is preferable, and wireless communication such as Bluetooth, Zigbee, NFC (Near Field Communication), Wibree, A communication method can be used. For example, Bluetooth is a short-range wireless communication standard, which controls various electronic and information communication devices wirelessly within a radius of 10 to 100 m, uses a frequency of 2.45 GHz, uses a frequency of 2.4 GHz, It controls the connection of various devices wirelessly with a communication speed of 1Mbps to a distance of about 10m. Of course, it should be apparent to those skilled in the art that other wireless communication schemes may be adopted without being limited to the above-described short-range wireless communication.

In addition, beacons, RFIDs, and the like can be installed in an office or the like to generate occupant information. Such a beacon or RFID is also connected to the network 50 to detect a person going in or out of the office and transmits the information to the information generating unit 120 through the communication unit 110. The information generating unit 120 transmits the beacon information, Can be generated.

The control unit 130 controls the position of the awning based on weather information and occupancy information. Specifically, the control unit 130 generates a control signal and controls the operation of the driving unit 140 to open and close the awning.

For example, when there is no occupant, the control unit 130 may control to open the awning 5 so that light enters the room. In addition, when there is an occupant, the control unit 130 can appropriately open and close the canopy 5 based on the weather information. Since the weather changes every moment, it is advantageous to receive the weather information in real time. For this, the control unit 130 can request weather information in real time via the network 50 based on occupant information. That is, in the case where there is an occupant, the control of the canopy 5 is required. Therefore, the controller 130 accesses the external information providing server 10 through the communication unit 110 to receive the weather information in real time, . For example, the control unit 130 may request real-time weather information on the degree of cloudiness, the presence or absence of precipitation, and the temperature. The control unit 130 determines the opening / closing degree of the awning according to the weather information. For example, when light is insufficient, the control unit 130 may control the driving unit 140 to open the awning 5, and the control unit 130 may appropriately control the driving unit 140 according to circumstances .

The driving unit 140 is connected to the awning so as to move the awning. The driving unit 140 may include a driving motor (not shown) for providing a driving force to the awning and a motor drive (not shown) for driving the driving motor. The driving motor is connected to the awning so as to transmit the power for opening and closing the awning to the awning. The motor drive converts the control signal of the controller 130 into a control command of the driving motor to drive the driving motor. The driving unit 140 may be controlled in operation by an external remote controller (not shown), and may include an infrared receiving circuit, an RF receiving circuit, and the like in order to receive a signal of the remote control.

The position recognition unit 150 recognizes the position of the awning 5. The control unit 130 can open or close the window 5 completely or open or close the window 5 appropriately according to the amount of light or the like and thus the position of the window 5 can be controlled by the operation of the controller 130 As shown in FIG. The position recognition unit 150 recognizes the position of the awning 5 so that the control unit 130 can operate the awning 5 efficiently. The position recognition unit 150 may be a position sensor (not shown) for sensing the position of the window 5, a camera (not shown) for photographing the window 5 and analyzing the position of the window 5, . Here, the image analysis using the camera has been described above, so it is omitted.

Referring again to FIG. 2, the canopy control system 100 can communicate with the building integrated management system 300 as well as the portable terminal 200 via the network 50. More specifically, the communication unit 110 can receive the building management information transmitted from the building integrated management system 300 that manages the building, and the building management information received by the communication unit 110 is transmitted to the control unit 130 do. The control unit 130 may control the position of the awning 5 based on the building management information. Here, the building management information may include information on the angle of the building, such as lighting information of the building, air conditioning and heating information, and air conditioning information.

For example, the on-off information of the fluorescent lamp in the room where the awning 5 is installed is received from the building integrated management system 300 through the communication unit 110, and the control unit 130 controls the on- It is possible to determine opening and closing of the door 5. In addition, when the room is being cooled, the control unit 130 closes the window 5 to shut off the light, thereby reducing the cooling energy.

The sunshade control system 100 is interlocked with the building integrated management system 300 via the network 50, thereby reducing the energy consumption of buildings, homes, etc., and at the same time providing a pleasant mining and warming effect to occupants.

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, You will understand. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive.

100: Shading control system
110: communication unit 120: information generating unit
130: control unit 140:
150:

Claims

A communication unit for receiving weather information from outside;
An information generation unit for generating occupancy information; And
And a control unit for controlling the position of the awning based on the weather information and the occupancy information.

The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising a driving unit for moving the awning.

3. The method of claim 2,
The driving unit includes:
A drive motor for providing driving force to the sunshade,
And a motor drive for driving the drive motor.

The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising a position recognizing section for recognizing a position of the sunshade.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
And requests the weather information in real time via the network based on the occupancy information.

6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein,
A shade control system that requests real-time weather information on cloudiness, precipitation, and temperature.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the information generating unit comprises:
And a moving body detection sensor for detecting the movement of the object and generating the occupancy information.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the information generating unit comprises:
And an image sensing sensor for capturing an indoor image and analyzing the image to generate the occupancy information.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the information generating unit comprises:
And communicates with the portable terminal through the communication unit to generate the occupancy information.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
The building management information transmitted from the building integrated management system for managing the building is transmitted to the control unit,
Wherein,
And controls the position of the awning based on the building management information.