KR20170119031A - A smart attendance management system and method at the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a fixed terminal connected to a user terminal in a classroom and connected to a user terminal through a local area wireless communication network in a system in which a server inputs user identification information and a database storing the user identification information, The server receives user authentication data from the one or more user terminals connected through the network, determines whether or not the user authentication data is authenticated through the fixed terminal, provides an authentication message to the user terminal through the fixed terminal, And provides a function blocking service interlocked with the attendance authentication.

Description

[0001] Smart attendance management system and method at the same [

The present invention relates to a smart attendance management system and method, and more particularly, to a system and method for providing a smart attendance check and function blocking service by reusing a used smart card or a used smart card in a classroom.

In college and other classes, it is common for the professor to check the attendance of the students at each class time and to reflect the attendance scores on the basis of the attendance.

Checking attendance at these lectures is troublesome for professors even when the number of attendees is small. Especially, in case of large-scale lectures of hundreds of people, it takes a considerable amount of time to check attendance because there are many attendees. The lecture time is not guaranteed, and the time and effort required by the number of students are required in order to assign the attendance score in grading.

In addition to the development of ICT technology, the electronic attendance system is a system for confirming attendance by using the ICT technology, escaping from the existing method of checking attendance through such a call. It is a system that is constructed so that it can be utilized.

Currently, an electronic paging system using a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) card is the most widely used. It consists of an RFID card, a reader (reader), and a server for processing the recognized data. Can be confirmed. However, the RFID method is a tagging waiting time for checking attendance when a large number of students are crowded at a certain time before the beginning of a lecture. This can interfere with the class due to lecture delays, etc., There is no problem of surrogate attendance.

In other ways, there is a system that authenticates attendance confirmation by logging in ID / password from a smartphone app. When students check their attendance using a smartphone, students can continue using the smartphone during lectures or class hours, In addition to the noise of telephone rings, message alarms, etc. during lectures depending on the use of telephone, text message, and internet, there is a problem that it disturbs the class due to the distracting class atmosphere due to frequent internet use.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2015-0073892 (published on July 1, 2015)

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been conceived to solve the problems as described above, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a Smart Attendant System at a small cost by allowing a smart phone that has been used or discarded in the classroom to be recycled as an NFC terminal or a BLE beacon terminal The purpose.

In addition, it is possible to provide a function blocking service during the class, so as to improve the concentration of the class.

To this end, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for connecting a user terminal to a user terminal, comprising: at least one user terminal for inputting user identification information; Wherein the server receives user authentication data from the one or more user terminals connected through the network and determines whether or not the user authentication data is authenticated and transmits an authentication message to the user through the fixed terminal, And provides a function blocking service that performs attendance authentication and is interlocked with the attendance authentication.

In addition, the fixed terminal may include a communication unit for transmitting / receiving data through short-range wireless communication with the user terminal, a control unit for executing an order of attendance check and function shutdown through the transmission / reception data, a power supply unit for supplying power, And a memory unit for storing command information and the like.

Also, the user terminal may include one or more learner terminals listening to lectures connected to the lecturer terminal through a LAN, and the function blocking service of the learner terminal may be controlled according to a setting condition of the function blocking service through the lecturer terminal .

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a service method in a system connected to a network via one or more user terminals for inputting user identification information and a database for storing the user identification information, the method comprising the steps of: And a fixed terminal connected to the short-range wireless communication network, the method comprising: (a) downloading and installing a service program connected to the server by the user terminal; (b) turning on the short-range wireless communication function when the user terminal is within a predetermined distance range or a predetermined time range within the classroom and turning off the short-range wireless communication function when the user terminal is out of the predetermined distance range or the predetermined time range; (c) when transmitting the user authentication data to the fixed terminal through the user terminal, the fixed terminal performs user authentication confirmation through data transmission / reception with the server, transmits user authentication success data to the user terminal, ; And (d) providing a function blocking service for the user terminal when the attendance authentication is performed in the step (c), and releasing the function blocking service at the end of the lecture, to provide.

In addition, the server may include a step of selecting whether to recycle the user terminal that has been revoked from the user terminal, and a step of registering the recycling registration of the user and the registered recycled user terminal as the fixed terminal information when the selection is made have.

The mobile terminal may further include a compensation step of providing a compensation or a coupon according to the fixed terminal information registration.

Preferably, the function blocking service in the step (d) is a lock setting function of the user terminal, and is a lock setting service in accordance with a lecture time range setting.

Preferably, the lock setting function in the step (d) is set together with the attendance authentication in the step (c).

The user terminal may include one or more learner terminals listening to a lecture connected to a lecturer terminal through a local area wireless communication network. In step (d), the function of the learner terminal according to a setting condition of a function blocking service through the lecturer terminal And the blocking service is controlled.

The present invention enables a smart phone to be used as an NFC terminal or a BLE beacon terminal by recycling a used smartphone in a classroom.

Through this, it is possible to provide attendance authentication and function blocking service during class, and it is possible to provide recycling of resources and a smart attendance system at a small cost.

These smart attendance systems allow schools, churches, cinemas, and so on to replace smart certification systems at low cost.

1 illustrates a smart attendance check and function blocking system in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 are diagrams illustrating a process of providing a smart attendance check and a function blocking service in the system of FIG.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG.

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

1 is a block diagram of a smart attendance check and function blocking system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1, the smart attendance check and function blocking system 100 according to the present invention comprises a plurality of user terminals 1041 to 104N, a service server 101 connected to a wired / wireless network, and a database 102, The fixed terminal 200, which is disposed in the user terminal 104 and a lecture room of a university or the like, is connected by short-range wireless communication. At this time, the service server 101 interworks with a fixed terminal 200 forming a short-distance wireless communication network such as Bluetooth communication to a plurality of user terminals 1041 to 104N connected through a wired / wireless network, Implement a blocking service.

At this time, the user terminal 104 is a terminal equipped with a smart attendance check and function blocking application program (hereinafter referred to as "app") provided by the service server 101, and is used by a student or a professor In order to form a short-range wireless communication network with the fixed terminal 200, a BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) Bluetooth module But is not limited thereto, and may be a Wi-Fi module, Zigbee communication, NFC, or the like.

In addition, the user terminal 104 may be a smart phone used by a plurality of students entering the classroom, or a smartphone of a professor. Accordingly, the plurality of user terminals 104 can recognize the data transmission / reception in the corresponding classroom (maximum distance of 100 m) so that attendance can be checked in the BLE mode with the fixed terminal 200, It is desirable that the terminal 200 is not limited to a device so that it can be connected to a user terminal held by hundreds of students simultaneously in a large scale lecture in a Bluetooth manner.

The fixed terminal 200 is a terminal capable of transmitting and receiving data arranged in each classroom, and is preferably a communication terminal such as a smart phone capable of Bluetooth communication with a BLE system with a plurality of user terminals 104 of hundreds or more. To this end, the fixed terminal 200, which can be configured in the simplest manner, includes a communication unit for transmitting / receiving data by Bluetooth communication with the user terminal 104 or near-field wireless communication by the NFC scheme, A power supply unit such as a battery for power supply, and a memory unit for storing command information received from the communication unit. Other components such as displays can be configured with minimum specifications, which makes it possible to recycle used smart phones, disused smart phones, and LCDs that have failed display windows in terms of recycling in terms of recycling. .

The plurality of user terminals 104 access the service server 101 through a wired / wireless network, download a smart attendance check and function blocking application provided by the service server 101, It is possible to perform a function blocking service that disables the service.

The service server 100 is connected to a database 102 storing attendance management and lecture information data composed of an authentication DB, a lecture DB, and an attendance DB, and is connected to a plurality of user terminals 104, And provides attendance management, smart phone function blocking, and attendance service at the request of the fixed terminal 200 connected to the local area wireless communication network.

The database 102 includes an authentication DB, a lecture DB, an attendance DB, and fixed terminal information, and can be updated by a user or an administrator. At this time, the authentication DB is a service member, and user identification information such as a user's ID, password, and student number can be stored. In addition, the lecture DB may store lecture information including lecture time information, lecture data information, and lecture room information of each of the students registered in the authentication DB. Also, the attendance DB may store attendance management information mapped to the identification information of the service member and the member information. In addition, the fixed terminal information may include information on each classroom and identification information of a fixed terminal installed in each classroom, and the fixed terminal may be provided with at least one in each classroom.

FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 are diagrams illustrating a smart attendance check and function blocking service process using the system of FIG.

Referring to FIG. 2, first, a plurality of user terminals 104 access the service server 101 through a user login, download and install a smart attendance check and function blocking application (S110).

In addition, as described above, the fixed terminal 200 has an advantage that it can be recycled by utilizing a low-end smart phone or a used smart phone. Accordingly, it may further include a step of selecting whether to recycle the used smart phone among the subscribers in the service subscribing step, and registering the recycling registration of the member subscribers and the registered smart phone as the fixed terminal 200 information at the time of selection have. This enables the recycling of smartphones and the like. In order to positively utilize the smartphone which is used for the fixed terminal 200 or the LCD malfunctioning, the smartphone may further include a rewarding step according to provision and registration of the recycling smartphone in the fixed terminal registration step. In the free registration, It can be utilized as zero.

Thereafter, when the user terminal 104 comes close to the class room where the fixed terminal 200 is installed (when the user terminal 104 enters a predetermined distance such as a radius of about 10 m from the fixed terminal) or stays in the classroom for a predetermined time (for example, (S120), the NFC communication function or the Bluetooth function of the user terminal 104 is turned on. On the other hand, when the user terminal is out of the class room where the fixed terminal 200 is installed for a predetermined time or more, the NFC or Bluetooth function is turned off. At this time, the user terminal does not turn off the NFC and the Bluetooth function if the function is previously turned on (S130). Here, whether or not the user terminal 104 enters or exits the classroom is determined by whether the user terminal 104 has arrived at the GPS coordinates or if the beacon terminal is installed in the fixed terminal 200, You can check if you arrive or stay in the classroom for a certain amount of time (less than a minute).

Thereafter, when the user terminal 104 transmits the user authentication data to the fixed terminal 200, the fixed terminal 200 transmits the user authentication success data to the user terminal 104, Authentication is performed (S140). At this time, if the fixed terminal 200 is in the form of an NFC terminal, attendance check is performed when a student touches his / her user terminal 104 to the fixed terminal 200. On the other hand, if the fixed terminal 200 is a beacon terminal, it transmits a beacon message (attendance authentication message) to the user terminal 104 of the service user. That is, when the fixed terminal 200 transmits only the beacon message and the service server 101 recognizes the ID and the password through the user terminal 104 to perform the user authentication, the service server 101 transmits a message for attendance authentication The fixed terminal 200 transmits the message to the authenticated user terminal 104 for the attendance authentication to the wireless Internet or mobile communication data. That is, when the user enters the room where the beacon is installed, the attendance authentication service can be provided by transmitting a beacon message.

Thereafter, when the attendance authentication is performed, the function block service for the user terminal 104 is performed (S150). At this time, the function blocking service can be performed through a lock setting function of a smart phone or the like. For example, you can provide a lock page in your app, allow you to select a day of the week on the lockdown page, and use the time selection buttons to set the start and end times for the lecture. It is preferable that the lock setting function is set together with the attendance authentication. Accordingly, at the same time as the lecture attendance check is performed, the smartphone lock setting is automatically set in the day of the week and the set time range. Therefore, when attendance authentication through the fixed terminal 200 is performed, The forced lock setting is made within the time.

In addition, the user terminal 104 can be divided into a lecturer terminal such as a professor or a lecturer terminal listening to a lecture. In addition to the function blocking service according to the lecture time setting, A function blocking service can be provided.

For example, if the instructor terminal in the user terminal 104 touches the fixed terminal (NFC terminal) 200 or the attendance authentication is performed through the fixed terminal 200 in the form of a beacon terminal, the Internet, text, The function blocking service of the learner terminal is started. At this time, the instructor terminals such as professors can set conditions such as specific functions on the lock setting page in the function cut-off service application, and the student terminal can set the specific functions such as the calculator and the Internet necessary for the class to be available.

Thereafter, when the instructor touches the fixed terminal 200 of the NFC terminal type through the instructor terminal or the lecture completion authentication service is performed through the fixed terminal 200 in the form of a beacon terminal, And can confirm the missed call and the Kakao Talk message and the like.

In addition, even if a touch or the like is not performed through the instructor terminal such as a professor, the smartphone lock function and the blocking function are automatically released when the set time of the lock function is ended.

Also, during the lecture break, if a function block release button is selected within a predetermined time range such as 10 minutes as a setting condition on a smartphone lock function page of a service app on a instructor terminal such as a professor, BLE, the function block service of the student terminal is immediately canceled. Thus, it is possible to set the control of the learner terminal of the lecturer terminal, so that the restriction of the use of the smartphone can be set within the lecture time range.

3, the user terminal 104 transmits user authentication data to the fixed terminal 200 (S210). At this time, the user authentication data may correspond to user identification information such as an ID, a password, a student number, and a telephone number.

Then, the fixed terminal 200 confirms the user authentication on the received user authentication data (S220). At this time, the fixed terminal 200 transmits the received user authentication data to the service server 101, and the server compares the user authentication data of the user terminal received from the fixed terminal with the user authentication data registered in the authentication DB And if it matches, it is checked as presence confirmation.

Thereafter, the function block service of the user terminal is provided according to the attendance authentication time (when the class starts).

Thereafter, the attendance completion check process is performed according to the end of the class time or the lecture completion. In the attendance completion check process, the authentication data is confirmed by the retransmission of the user authentication data (S230) and the transmission of the user authentication success data, Is completed (S240).

In the attendance authentication service process, the server performs user authentication by comparing the user identification information included in reception of the attendance confirmation request signal from the fixed terminal and the registered user identification information of the authentication DB, The lecture information of the user is retrieved from the lecture DB, the lecture information is provided to the user terminal through the fixed terminal, and when the attendance confirmation information is received through the fixed terminal, the learner possessing the user terminal is recognized as the attendance, And stores it in the attendance DB. In addition, the server performs absent processing for the members whose attendance confirmation information is not received until the lecture time exceeds a predetermined time for each lecture stored in the lecture DB, and stores it in the attendance DB.

In this way, the service server can grasp who is presently in the classroom through the user terminal. If a user who is present in the classroom uses the token message, ID and password for attendance authentication when the attendance authentication application is displayed, Checked. Then, along with attendance authentication, a user terminal function blocking service is provided during the class time so that the class can be concentrated.

In this way, it is possible to recycle the used or used smartphone in the classroom and use it as an NFC terminal or a BLE beacon terminal to provide attendance authentication and function blocking service during class, so that resources can be recycled, Can be improved. It also allows schools, churches, cinemas, and so on to replace smart certification systems at low cost.

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 present invention as defined by the following claims and their equivalents. Only. The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the detailed description and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents are to be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention do.

100: Smart attendance check and feature blocking system
101: service server
102: Database
104: User terminal
200: fixed terminal

Claims (9)

In a system in which a server is connected to one or more user terminals for inputting user identification information and a database for storing the user identification information,
And a fixed terminal installed in a classroom and connected to the user terminal via a short-range wireless communication network,
The server receives user authentication data from the one or more user terminals connected through the network, determines whether or not the user authentication data is authenticated, provides an authentication message to the user terminal through the fixed terminal, performs attendance authentication, And a function blocking service that is interlocked with the authentication. The method according to claim 1,
The fixed terminal includes a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data in a short distance wireless communication with the user terminal, a control unit for performing a command for checking presence and blocking of the function through transmission / reception data, a power supply unit for supplying power, And a memory unit for storing information and the like. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the user terminal comprises one or more learner terminals listening to lectures connected to a lecturer terminal through a local area wireless communication network,
And the function blocking service of the learner terminal is controlled according to a setting condition of the function blocking service through the instructor terminal. A service method in a system in which a server is connected to at least one user terminal for inputting user identification information and a database for storing the user identification information,
And a fixed terminal installed in a classroom and connected to the user terminal via a short-range wireless communication network,
(a) downloading and installing a service program by connecting the user terminal to the server;
(b) turning on the short-range wireless communication function when the user terminal is within a predetermined distance range or a predetermined time range within the classroom and turning off the short-range wireless communication function when the user terminal is out of the predetermined distance range or the predetermined time range;
(c) when transmitting the user authentication data to the fixed terminal through the user terminal, the fixed terminal performs user authentication confirmation through data transmission / reception with the server, transmits user authentication success data to the user terminal, ; And
(d) providing a function blocking service for the user terminal when the attendance authentication in the step (c) is performed, and releasing the function blocking service at the end of the lecture, wherein the smart attendance check and function blocking service Way. 5. The method of claim 4,
The server includes a step of selecting whether or not to recycle the user terminal that has been revoked from the user terminal, and a step of registering the recycling registration of the user and the registered recycled user terminal as the fixed terminal information when the selection is made Smart Attendance Check and Function Blocking Service Method. 6. The method of claim 5,
Further comprising a compensation step of providing a compensation or a coupon according to the fixed terminal information registration. 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the function blocking service in the step (d) is a lock setting function of the user terminal, and is a lock setting service according to the setting of a lecture time range. 8. The method of claim 7,
Wherein the lock setting function in the step (d) is set together with the attendance authentication in the step (c). 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the user terminal comprises one or more learner terminals listening to lectures connected to a lecturer terminal through a local area wireless communication network,
Further comprising the step of controlling the function blocking service of the learner terminal according to the setting condition of the function blocking service through the instructor terminal in the step (d).

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