KR20170141003A - LED Control System using Mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an LED control system using a mobile terminal. More specifically, a plurality of LED lamps is connected to a control means. A wireless communication means connected to the control means and the mobile terminal exchange control information with each other and can control a plurality of LED lamps. A sensor means can automatically control a plurality of LED lamps according to temperature, illuminance or environmental information. A separate management server stores the history of controlling a plurality of LED lamps, and performs statistical processing to provide it to a user. The LED control system includes a control unit, a mobile terminal, a sensor unit, an LED module, and a management server.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to an LED control system using a mobile terminal,

The present invention relates to an LED control system using a mobile terminal, and more particularly, to an LED control system using a mobile terminal, in which a plurality of LED lights are connected to a control means, It is possible to control a plurality of LED lights automatically according to temperature, illuminance or environmental information by a sensor means, a separate management server stores history in which a plurality of LED lights are controlled, To an LED control system using a mobile terminal.

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, an illumination device is installed at a certain position in an indoor or outdoor environment, and is a device that converts electricity into light by a supplied power source.

Lighting devices implemented by light emitting diodes (LEDs) are driven with less power consumption than ordinary lamps. In particular, LED lighting devices can be produced in a variety of ways by controlling the LED flashing sequence, emission color, and brightness of a plurality of LED lighting devices. Such LED lighting devices are mainly used for general lighting of interior decorations, mood lighting for directing a specific atmosphere, advertisement lighting of shops, and the like.

Typical LED lighting devices consist of an LED module that emits light of a certain color, a control circuit that controls the color of the light emitted from the LED module, and the blinking state. In addition, the control circuit of the LED lighting device includes a power supply unit for converting power supplied from the outside into voltage and current suitable for the LED module and the control circuit.

However, in the conventional technology related to the LED lighting device, in order to blink the LED module, the user directly controls the application of the wireless communication technology, or the LED lighting is produced by the program inputted by the sensor according to the surrounding environment, There is a lack of techniques such as statistical processing of a record in which the lighting is blinked and providing it to the user.

As a related art, Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1163739, entitled " LED lighting drive device ", comprises a rectification part for receiving an AC voltage from a power supply part and for rectifying the rectified voltage to a DC voltage, A current driver connected to the LED module, the current driver being connected to the LED module, the current driver being connected to the LED module and being turned on at a preset trigger voltage to turn on the current driver, A voltage regulating load formed between the low voltage limiter and the current driver for regulating a voltage applied to the LED module by distributing the rectified DC voltage and a voltage regulating load connected between the current driver and the voltage regulating load And a current controller for controlling a current flowing through the LED module.

Registration No. 10-1163739 2012.7.2. Enrollment

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to overcome the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of LED lights, which are connected to a control means, And a plurality of LED lights can be controlled automatically according to temperature, illuminance or environment information by the sensor means. A separate management server stores history in which a plurality of LED lights are controlled, To provide an LED control system using a mobile terminal.

The present invention relates to an LED control system using a mobile terminal, in which a user control signal for an LED module is received via wireless communication means, and the LED module is controlled according to a received user control signal, And controlling the LED module according to the LED module illumination sensor control signal generated by generating the LED module illumination sensor control signal according to the received peripheral environment information and receiving user control signal history information from the wireless communication means, The sensor control signal history information and the LED module illumination history information generated according to the ambient environment information from the sensor means to the management server, receives the LED module illumination statistical information from the management server, So that it can be provided to the mobile terminal by transmitting it to the wireless communication means Control means; Wireless communication means for receiving a user control signal for the LED module from the mobile terminal and transmitting the user control signal to the control means, receiving the LED module illumination statistical information from the control means, and transmitting the LED module illumination statistical information to the mobile terminal; A mobile terminal for transmitting a user control signal to the LED module to the wireless communication means and receiving the LED module illumination statistical information from the wireless communication means; Sensor means for generating peripheral environment information and transmitting the generated peripheral environment information to the control means; An LED module for receiving a user control signal or a sensor control signal from the control means and performing illumination; And user control signal history information, sensor control signal history information, and LED module illumination history information from the control means to generate the LED module illumination statistical information and transmit the generated LED module illumination statistical information to the control means And a management server.

The control unit may include: a usage time measuring unit that calculates an accumulated usage time of the LED module; a usage time measuring unit that generates a current adjustment signal when the cumulative usage time exceeds a predetermined time, And a current adjusting means for increasing the amount of current supplied to the light source.

At this time, the control unit allocates a unique address for distinguishing the LED modules, sets a zone to be controlled, maps unique addresses of the LED modules to each zone, The control unit transmits the control target item and the control target zone number to each of the LED modules so that the LED module can recognize the zone included in the zone based on the mapping information transmitted by the LED modules, The LED module determines whether the LED module belongs to the control subject zone according to the received control subject zone number and controls the lighting of the LED module according to the control subject item if it is determined that the LED module belongs to the control subject zone And a control means.

In this case, the mobile terminal is a terminal equipped with a lighting control application, and transmits a user's emotion control signal to the wireless communication means according to the execution of the lighting control application, receives the lighting control mode from the user through the lighting control application, And a function of collecting and analyzing basic information according to the inputted illumination control mode and transmitting a user emotion control signal for causing the LED module to have a specific color temperature or illumination according to the analysis result to the wireless communication means do.

In this case, the basic information collected by the mobile terminal includes information sensed through the sensor of the mobile terminal, information recorded in the mobile terminal, and information input by the user.

In this case, the illumination control mode is an emotional illumination mode, and the basic information analysis function extracts a predetermined emotion language based on at least one of a voice and a character used by the user, and is set for each extracted emotion language A function of measuring a linguistic emotion index by calculating a value of the biometric information or a value that is set in correspondence with a change of each biometric information or each biometric information based on the biometric information of the user detected through the sensor of the mobile terminal And a function of measuring the biological sensitivity index.

The sensor means may include a temperature sensor for sensing an ambient temperature, an illuminance sensor for sensing an ambient illuminance, and an operation sensor for sensing whether an object is operated within a predetermined distance.

In this case, the LED module includes a camera module, and the camera module photographs a moving image by a photographing control signal of the control unit at a position where the LED module is installed, and transmits the photographed moving image to the control unit .

According to the present invention, a plurality of LED lights are connected to the control means, and the wireless communication means and the mobile terminal, which are connected to the control means, exchange control information with each other and can control a plurality of LED lights. Or an LED control using a mobile terminal that can control a plurality of LED lights automatically according to environment information and store a history in which a plurality of LED lights are controlled by a separate management server, There is an effect of providing a system.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an LED control system using a mobile terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

Before describing the specific details for the practice of the invention, terms and words used in the specification and claims should be construed to enable the inventor to properly define the concept of a term in order to best describe its invention It should be interpreted as meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention.

It is to be noted that the detailed description of known functions and constructions related to the present invention is omitted when it is determined that the gist of the present invention may be unnecessarily blurred.

Hereinafter, an LED control system using a mobile terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of an LED control system using a mobile terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1, an LED control system using a mobile terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a control unit 100, a wireless communication unit 200, a mobile terminal 300, a sensor unit 400, An LED module 500, and a management server 600.

First, the control means 100 controls the LED lighting according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention. The control means 100 may be installed in the LED module 500 as a single module, It is possible.

The control unit 100 receives the user control signal for the LED module 500 through the wireless communication unit 200 and controls the LED module 500 according to the received user control signal to control the LED module 500 Blinking, color, illumination, and temporal lighting changes.

The control means 100 receives ambient environment information from the sensor means 400 in real time or at regular intervals, generates an illumination sensor control signal of the predetermined LED module 500 according to the received ambient environment information, And controls the blinking of the LED module 500, the color, the illumination, and the temporal illumination change by the control signal.

The control means 100 is configured to store the user control signal history information from the wireless communication means 200, the sensor control signal history information generated in accordance with the ambient environment information from the sensor means 400, the light history information of the LED module 500 To the management server 600, and the management server 600 stores, updates, processes, and generates such information as statistical information.

The control means 100 receives the illumination statistical information of the LED module 500 statistically processed by the management server 600 and provides the received illumination statistical information of the LED module 500 to the wireless communication means 200, 300). The LED module 500 illumination statistical information includes a blink time for each LED module 500, a power consumption amount for each LED module 500, a time-based user control signal, or a sensor control signal reception history.

The control means 100 includes a DC / DC conversion module that receives a DC voltage and converts it to a predetermined DC voltage to supply charging and driving power for each LED module 500, a charging / And a rechargeable battery that charges the power source.

In particular, the control means 100 may include an illumination adjustment means 110, which operates separately from the user control signal or sensor control signal to adjust the illumination of the LED module 500 Function can be performed.

The lighting control means 110 includes a usage time measuring means for calculating an accumulated usage time of the arbitrary LED module 500, a current control signal generating means for generating a current control signal when the cumulative use time exceeds a predetermined time, The current regulating means for increasing the amount of current applied to the power source 500 may be included.

As the use time increases, the current is controlled to increase the current, thereby preventing the brightness from decreasing as the use time accumulates and compensating the luminous flux so that the desired brightness can be maintained even if the LED module 500 is used for a long time have.

In addition, the control means 100 may include a zone control means 120 for controlling the efficient LED module 500. The zone control means 120 can exhibit an efficient function especially in the case of a streetlight lighting in which a plurality of LED modules 500 are installed in different zones. Each of the lights can be controlled on a group basis.

In the case of control of the zone control means 120, each LED module 500 communicates with the zone control means 120 via wireless communication, and each LED module 500 has a unique address 1 byte of identification information), and the zone control means 120 controls each LED module 500 based on this unique address.

Specifically, the zone control unit 120 allocates a unique address for distinguishing each LED module 500, sets a zone to be controlled, and then assigns a unique address of each LED module 500 to each zone And transmits the mapping information to each LED module 500. Each LED module 500 recognizes the area in which the LED module 500 is included based on the received information and stores the zone number. For example, when controlling the illuminance, if the illuminance information to be controlled together with the control object zone number is transmitted to each of the LED modules 500, each LED module 500 may obtain the control object zone number and illuminance information to be controlled If it is determined that the LED module 500 belongs to the control subject area, the LED module 500 adjusts its own illuminance, and accordingly, Items are grouped by section It can be adjusted.

The wireless communication unit 200 receives a user control signal for the LED module 500 from the mobile terminal 300 and transmits the user control signal to the control unit 100. The wireless communication unit 200 transmits illumination statistics information of the LED module 500 to the control unit 100 100 to the mobile terminal 300.

The wireless communication means 200 may be set as an external wireless communication module, but is not limited thereto.

The mobile terminal 300 is a user terminal that controls the illumination of the LED module 500 according to the present invention and transmits a user control signal for the LED module 500 to the wireless communication means 200 And receives illumination statistics information of the LED module 500 from the wireless communication means 200. [

Meanwhile, the mobile terminal 300 is a terminal equipped with a lighting control application, and may transmit a user control signal to the wireless communication means 200 according to the execution of the lighting control application so that the illumination of the LED module 500 may be executed, The lighting control application may be configured to perform emotional illumination.

The mobile terminal 300 receives the illumination control mode from the user through the illumination control application installed therein, collects and analyzes the basic information according to the inputted illumination control mode, and controls the LED module 500 according to the analysis result, And a function of transmitting a user emotion control signal to the wireless communication means 200 so as to have temperature and illuminance.

The basic information may include information sensed through the sensor of the mobile terminal 300, information recorded in the mobile terminal 300, information input by the user, information received from the peripheral electronic device, and the like.

The lighting control mode may have an emotional lighting mode for controlling the lighting according to the emotion of the user. When the illumination control mode is the emotional illumination mode, the function of analyzing the basic information is to extract predetermined emotional language based on at least one of the voice and the character used by the user, and set the value To measure the linguistic emotion index. Alternatively, based on the biometric information of the user sensed through the sensor of the mobile terminal 300, the biometric sensitivity index may be calculated by calculating a value set corresponding to each biometric information or a change of each biometric information.

The emotional illumination of the mobile terminal 300 will be described more specifically.

In the memory of the mobile terminal 300, various user data such as an operating system (OS), various applications (applications, application programs), and text messages and personal calendar information exchanged with other users are stored.

In particular, a lighting control application is installed in the memory of the mobile terminal 300 in accordance with the present invention, and a local communication module for communicating via the local area wireless communication network is provided. In addition, the mobile terminal 300 may include a camera for capturing an external image, a microphone for receiving voice, a temperature sensor for sensing temperature, a pressure sensor for sensing pressure, a position sensor for sensing position, And a humidity sensor for sensing the temperature of the liquid.

The illumination control application refers to a computer program installed and executed in the mobile terminal 300. [ The lighting control application may be downloaded to the mobile terminal 300 from another computer device such as a personal computer, or downloaded from an external server through the Internet.

The illumination control application receives the illumination control mode from the user, collects and analyzes basic information according to the input illumination control mode, and transmits the user's emotion control signal to the wireless communication means 200 according to the analysis result.

When the lighting control application transmits the user's sensibility control signal, the control means 100 controls the LED module 500 to have the corresponding color temperature or illuminance. The basic information that the lighting control application collects for analysis can be configured variously according to the lighting control mode. For example, information sensed through various sensors of the mobile terminal 300, information recorded in the mobile terminal 300 such as user data, information input by the user such as voice or text, information received from the peripheral electronic device And the like.

The lighting control application receives the lighting control mode from the user. The illumination control mode is for determining how to control the illumination, and may be variously configured as needed. For example, there may be an emotional illumination mode for controlling the illumination according to the emotion of the user.

The lighting control application may provide a user interface (UI) that allows the user to conveniently enter the lighting control mode. The user interface screen displays the emotional illumination mode item so that the user can select the emotional illumination mode item. At the user's option, the lighting control application operates in emotional lighting mode.

The illumination control application collects and analyzes the basic information according to the input illumination control mode, and transmits a user emotion control signal for causing the LED module 500 to have a specific color temperature and illuminance to the wireless communication means 200 according to the analysis result So that the control means 100 can receive it.

More specifically, the lighting control application collects at least one of a voice and a character used by the user as basic information by the analysis function, extracts the emotional language, and sets it for each extracted emotional language And the linguistic emotional index is calculated by calculating the value of the linguistic emotional index.

That is, a correspondence value is set for each emotional language representing various emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, stress, and free feeling, and the emotional language is extracted from the contents of the voice used by the user during a call or the transmitted / The linguistic emotion index can be measured by calculating the value set for the emotional language.

In addition, the illumination control application calculates values set corresponding to changes in each biometric information or each biometric information on the basis of various types of biometric information sensed by the sensor of the mobile terminal 300 by the analysis function, . ≪ / RTI >

For this purpose, the illumination control application can measure the biometric sensitivity index by maintaining biometric information or a value corresponding to the change, and calculating biometric information sensed by the sensor or a value corresponding to the biometric information. Examples of biometric information include expression, color, activity, pulse, heart rate, body temperature, touch pressure, and hand humidity. That is, it is possible to detect a facial expression from an image captured by a camera, to detect activity through a motion sensor, to detect a change in body temperature through a temperature (infrared) sensor, to detect a pulse through a pressure sensor, The user can sense the activity with which the user communicates with the outside.

The illumination control application may be configured to have various values according to the necessity or the calculation method of measuring the linguistic sensitivity index and the biological sensitivity index from values corresponding to each emotion language or values corresponding to each biometric information. For example, a value corresponding to each emotion language, a value corresponding to each biometric information, and a value set corresponding to a change (change in body temperature, etc.) of each biometric information may be simply added and subtracted and cumulatively calculated. Is greater than the reference value or the biometric information change exceeds the threshold value, a predetermined weight may be applied.

The lighting control application transmits the user's emotion control signal when the linguistic emotion index and the biological emotion index are calculated in the analysis. For example, when it is determined that the user's sensibility is good and when it is determined to be sad, an appropriate lighting control signal, that is, a user's sensibility control signal, is transmitted. Accordingly, the user can feel human satisfaction and comfort (psychological stability) due to the illumination change of the LED module 500.

In addition, the sensor means 400 transmits the generated peripheral environment information to the control means 100 periodically or in real time.

The ambient environment information includes the illuminance of the space in which the LED module 500 is installed, the temperature, and whether or not the object is in operation. To sense the environmental information, the sensor unit 400 includes a temperature sensor An illuminance sensor for sensing the ambient illuminance, and an operation sensor for detecting whether a human body or an object is operated within a predetermined distance.

The LED module 500 is an LED module that performs illumination according to a control signal of the control means 100 and receives a user control signal or a sensor control signal from the control means 100 and performs illumination accordingly.

A plurality of LED modules 500 may be installed and each LED module 500 may be of a different type to suit the characteristics of the installed place and may be set to receive a control signal from the central control means 100 .

The LED module 500 may include a camera module. The camera module photographs a picture or a moving picture in real time or periodically by a photographing control signal of the control means 100 at a position where the LED module 500 is installed, The photographed photograph or moving image is transmitted to the control means 100 through wireless communication and the control means 100 can transmit the photographed moving image to the mobile terminal 300 through the wireless communication means 200. [

By the function of the camera module, the user can control the illumination of the LED module 500, accurately check the current state of the place where the LED module 500 is installed, know whether the emergency situation has occurred, The advantages of the present invention can be improved.

The management server 600 may be a server of a service provider providing the control service according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention and may receive the user control signal history information from the wireless communication means 200, Related information of the LED module 500 such as the sensor control signal history information generated according to the surrounding environment information from the LED module 500 and the illumination history information of the LED module 500, And transmits illumination statistical information of the statistically processed LED module 500 to the control means 100.

The lighting statistics information of the LED module 500 may include a blink time for each LED module 500, a power consumption amount for each LED module 500, a user control signal for each time, or a sensor control signal reception history.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to preferred embodiments thereof, 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 as defined by the appended claims. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that numerous changes and modifications can be made without departing from the invention. Accordingly, all such modifications and variations are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

100: control means
110: Lighting control means
120: Zone control means
200: Wireless communication means
300: mobile terminal
400: sensor means
500: LED module
600: management server

Claims (8)

In an LED control system using a mobile terminal,
A user control signal for the LED module is received through the wireless communication means, the LED module is controlled according to the received user control signal, the ambient environment information is received from the sensor means, and the LED module illumination sensor And controlling the LED module according to the LED module illumination sensor control signal generated by generating a control signal, and further comprising: a sensor control signal generated based on user control signal history information from the wireless communication means, And the LED module illumination history information is transmitted to the management server, and the LED module illumination statistical information is received from the management server, and the received illumination statistical information is transmitted to the wireless communication means to be provided to the mobile terminal Control means;
Wireless communication means for receiving a user control signal for the LED module from the mobile terminal and transmitting the user control signal to the control means, receiving the LED module illumination statistical information from the control means, and transmitting the LED module illumination statistical information to the mobile terminal;
A mobile terminal for transmitting a user control signal to the LED module to the wireless communication means and receiving the LED module illumination statistical information from the wireless communication means;
Sensor means for generating peripheral environment information and transmitting the generated peripheral environment information to the control means;
An LED module for receiving a user control signal or a sensor control signal from the control means and performing illumination; And
User control signal history information, sensor control signal history information, and LED module illumination history information from the control means to generate the LED module illumination statistical information and transmit the generated LED module illumination statistical information to the control means (LED) control system using a mobile terminal including a server.
The method of claim 1,
Wherein,
A current control unit for generating a current control signal when the accumulated usage time is equal to or greater than a predetermined time and for increasing the amount of current applied to the LED module according to a generated current control signal, And an illumination control means for controlling the illumination of the LED.
The method of claim 1,
Wherein,
A unique address for identifying each of the LED modules is set, a zone to be controlled is set, a unique address of each LED module is mapped to each zone, mapping information is transmitted to each LED module, The module is able to identify the zone in which the module is included based on the received mapping information and store the zone number, and transmits the control target item and the control subject zone number to the LED modules, And a zone control means for determining whether the zone belongs to the zone to be controlled according to the zone number to be controlled and for controlling illumination of the LED module according to the zone to be controlled when it is judged to belong to the zone to be controlled, LED control system using mobile terminal.
The method of claim 1,
The mobile terminal comprises:
A user having a lighting control application installed therein and transmitting a user's emotion control signal to the wireless communication means according to the execution of the lighting control application, receives the lighting control mode from the user through the lighting control application, And transmitting a user's emotion control signal to the wireless communication unit to cause the LED module to have a specific color temperature or illuminance according to an analysis result.
5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the basic information collected by the mobile terminal includes:
Wherein the control information includes information sensed through the sensor of the mobile terminal, information recorded in the mobile terminal, and information input by a user.
5. The method of claim 4,
The illumination control mode is an emotional illumination mode,
The basic information analysis function is a function of extracting a predetermined emotional language based on at least one of a voice and a character used by a user, calculating a set value for each extracted emotional language, and measuring a linguistic emotional index And a function of measuring a biometric emotion index by calculating a value set corresponding to each biometric information or a change of each biometric information based on the biometric information of the user sensed through the sensor of the mobile terminal LED control system using mobile terminal.
The method of claim 1,
Wherein the sensor means comprises:
Wherein the LED control system includes a temperature sensor for sensing an ambient temperature, an illuminance sensor for sensing an ambient illuminance, and an operation sensor for detecting whether an object is operated within a predetermined distance.
The method of claim 1,
The LED module includes a camera module, and the camera module includes a function of photographing a moving image by a photographing control signal of the control unit at a position where the LED module is installed and transmitting the photographed moving image to the control unit LED control system using mobile terminal.

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