KR20190056730A - Method and apparatus for managing sensor using building drawing image - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method which can effectively arrange and manage a sensor by using a building drawing image and an apparatus thereof. The apparatus for managing a sensor comprises: a drawing acquiring unit acquiring a drawing image showing a structure of a building located at an address by using an address code indicating the address; an area acquiring unit acquiring area information on a plurality of areas included in the building by using the drawing image; and a sensor mapping unit mapping a plurality of sensors to the plurality of areas by using the area information.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for managing a sensor using a building drawing image,

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for managing a sensor using a building drawing image.

In general, environmental conditions result from the interaction of many physical factors including temperature, relative humidity, air flow, ventilation, lighting, noise, vibration, dust, electromagnetic phenomena, air ions, have. These physical factors influence the formation of environmental conditions, especially the quality of life for humans. Among these physical factors, temperature, carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), dust, etc. are variously related to health, thermal comfort, and air quality.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop an environmental monitoring system that can monitor the indoor environment (eg, temperature, carbon monoxide concentration, carbon dioxide concentration, etc.).

However, the existing environmental monitoring system that monitors the indoor environment of the building using the sensor can only monitor the state of the building roughly and can not monitor the state of each zone in detail in each building in the building.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for monitoring the state of each zone in each building in a building in detail.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for efficiently arranging and managing sensors using a building drawing image.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a sensor management apparatus is provided. The sensor management apparatus comprising: a drawing acquiring unit acquiring an image of a drawing showing a structure of a building located at the address, using an address code indicating an address; A zone acquiring unit acquiring zone information on a plurality of zones included in the building using the drawing image; And a sensor mapping unit for mapping the plurality of sensors to the plurality of zones using the zone information.

The zone acquiring unit may acquire the zone information including the zone name and the size of the plurality of zones using the zone identifier and the zone boundary indicated in the drawing image.

The sensor mapping unit may be configured to place the image of the drawing on a reference block frame including MxN blocks (where M and N are natural numbers), and then to block the blocks occupied by the plurality of zones for each of the plurality of zones And map at least one of the plurality of sensors to at least one block corresponding to the first of the plurality of zones.

Wherein the sensor mapping unit converts the size of the drawing image into a predetermined reference size, divides the converted drawing image into MxN blocks (where M and N are natural numbers) blocks, Determine the blocks occupied by each of the zones, and map at least one of the plurality of sensors to at least one block corresponding to the first zone of the plurality of zones.

Wherein the sensor management apparatus monitors an environmental condition of the plurality of zones by using sensor data collected from the plurality of sensors and controls an apparatus for controlling an indoor environment of the building by using the plurality And a monitoring unit for controlling each zone.

The sensor management apparatus monitors the environmental conditions of the plurality of zones using sensor data collected from the plurality of sensors, and provides a monitoring unit for visually expressing the environmental conditions of the plurality of zones and providing the environment status to the user terminals in real time .

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a sensor management method of a sensor management apparatus. The sensor management method includes: obtaining a drawing image showing a structure of a building located at the address, using a zip code indicating an address; Using the drawing image, obtaining zone information on a plurality of zones included in the building; Mapping the plurality of sensors to the plurality of zones using the zone information; And monitoring the status of the plurality of zones using sensor data collected from the plurality of sensors.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, sensors can be efficiently and systematically arranged and managed using a building drawing image.

In addition, according to the embodiment of the present invention, since a commonly used zip code is used as a search key, the present invention can be easily applied to a currently provided real estate service platform and the technical field to which the present invention is applied can be extended .

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the status of a plurality of zones included in a building can be monitored for each zone using sensor data collected for each zone. Also, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to automatically control an indoor environment control device (for example, a cooling / heating device, a temperature control device, a humidity control device, or an air purification device) based on the monitoring result of each zone.

1 is a diagram of a sensor management system, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a view showing a building structure.
3 is a diagram illustrating a sensor management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating a method by which a sensor management apparatus manages a sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a diagram illustrating a method for determining a block occupied by a zone, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a diagram of a computing device, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

In the present specification, duplicate descriptions are omitted for the same constituent elements.

Also, in this specification, when an element is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected or connected to the other element, May be present. On the other hand, in the present specification, when an element is referred to as being "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that no other element exists in between.

Furthermore, terms used herein are used only to describe specific embodiments and are not intended to be limiting of the present invention.

Also, in this specification, the singular forms "a," "an," and "the" include plural referents unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

Also, in this specification, the terms " comprise ", or " have ", and the like are used to specify that there is a feature, a number, a step, an operation, an element, a component, But do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, parts, or combinations thereof.

Also, in this specification, the term 'and / or' includes any combination of the listed items or any of the plurality of listed items. In this specification, 'A or B' may include 'A', 'B', or 'both A and B'.

1 is a diagram of a sensor management system, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. 2 is a view showing a building structure.

The sensor management system 1000 may include a sensor management device 100, a sensor database device 200, a user terminal 300, and a web server 400.

The sensor management apparatus 100 manages a plurality of sensors and monitors the state of the building (e.g., temperature, gas concentration, etc.) using sensor data collected from a plurality of sensors. Here, the sensor may be a temperature sensor for sensing the room temperature, a carbon dioxide sensor for measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the room air, a carbon monoxide sensor for measuring the concentration of carbon monoxide in the room air, or the like. The sensor can be manufactured in a very small size through a micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) process. The sensor can transmit the measured sensor data to the sensor management apparatus 100 through wired or wireless communication. Sensors can transmit data to other sensors through inter-sensor communication.

The sensor management apparatus 100 can use the building address code to request the sensor database apparatus 200 for a drawing image corresponding to the building address code. The sensor management apparatus 100 can use the drawing image acquired from the sensor database apparatus 200 to acquire information on the area included in the building. The sensor management apparatus 100 can use the zone information to map the sensor to the zone.

The sensor database device 200 may store zone information, block information, sensor information, sensor data, drawing images, and the like. The sensor database apparatus 200 can provide the stored information to the sensor management apparatus 100. [ The sensor information may include a sensor identifier, a sensor type, a sensor position, and the like. The zone information includes information about a number of zones (eg, bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, balconies, etc.) included in a building (eg, an apartment, an officetel, a studio, a residence, a villa, E.g., zone name, zone size, zone location, etc.). The block information may include information (e.g., a block number, a block index, and the like) about blocks occupied by each zone among a plurality of blocks arranged in two dimensions. At least one sensor may be mapped to at least one block corresponding to one zone (e.g., bedroom).

The drawing image may be an image of a drawing (e.g., a floor plan, a plan, a structural diagram, etc.) representing a building structure (e.g., a building structure within a building). As illustrated in FIG. 2, the drawing image shows the structure, location, size, etc. of a zone (e.g., bedroom, living room, kitchen, balcony, bathroom, etc.). The sensor database apparatus 200 can obtain a drawing image from the drawing providing server DS10. Specifically, the sensor database apparatus 200 requests building information (for example, a drawing image, an area, a door structure, a bedroom number, a bathroom number, and the like) to the drawing providing server DS10, Lt; / RTI > Drawing Provisioning Server (DS10) is available for Naver Real Estate (http://land.naver.com), Next Real Estate (http://realestate.daum.net), Real Estate 114 (www.r114.com), KB Real Estate (http: //nland.kbstar.com) and the like. The sensor database apparatus 200 may be connected to the drawing providing server DS10 via a wired / wireless network.

For example, the sensor database device 200 may store information about the zone-sensor mapping as shown in Table 1 below in the database.

Building Address Code area block sensor Sensor data 05369 Bedroom 1 BL (A11, B11), BL (A12, B11), BL (A11, B10) (A13, B11) SN1a, SN2a, SN3a, SN4a, SN1b, SN2b, SN3b, SN4b, SN1c, SN2c, SN3c, SN4c ... Bedroom 2 BL (A11, B2), BL (A12, B2), BL (A13, B2), BL (A11, B3) SN5d, SN6d, SN7d, SN8d, SN5e, SN6e, SN7e, SN8e, SN5f ... Bedroom 3 BL (A4, B2), BL (A5, B2)
BL (A4, B3), BL (A5, B3) SN1g, SN2g, SN3g, SN4g,
SN1h, SN2h ... kitchen BL (A8, B1), BL (A9, B1)
BL (A8, B2), BL (A9, B2),
BL (A10, B2) SN5i, SN6i, SN7i, SN8i, SN9i, SN1j, SN2j, SN3j ... ... ... ... ... 04354 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

The sensor database device 200 may store zone-sensor mapping information by address code indicating the building address. In Table 1, the case where the address code indicating the building address is a postal code is illustrated. Hereinafter, the present invention will be described by taking the case where the address code is a postal code. However, this is only an example, and the present invention can be applied even when the address code is a code different from the zip code.

Specifically, the sensor database device 200 can store a zone structure of a building located at an address corresponding to a zip code, and includes blocks occupied in each zone, sensors mapped to each zone, and sensors Sensor data can be stored.

For example, the sensor database device 200 may store the area structure of the building (e.g., bedroom 1, bedroom 2, bedroom 3, kitchen, etc.) located at the address corresponding to zip code 05369, Blocks can be stored for each zone. In Table 1, eight blocks (e.g., BL (A10, B10), BL (A11, B10), BL (A12, B10), BL (A13, B10) SN2a, SN3a, SN4a, SN1b, SN2b, SN4b, SN4b, SN4b, SN4b, SN4b, SN3b, SN4b, SN1c, SN2c, SN3c, SN4c) are mapped. BL (,) denotes block coordinates. The sensor database device 200 may store the sensor data collected by the twelve sensors for bedroom 1.

In another example, the sensor database device 200 may store zone information, block information, sensor information, and sensor data of a building located at an address corresponding to Zip Code 04354.

The blocks occupied by each zone will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

The sensor database device 200 may store information received from the sensor management device 100 (e.g., zone information, block information, sensor information, etc. in Table 1).

On the other hand, all or some of the functions of the sensor database apparatus 200 may be performed by the sensor management apparatus 100. [ Alternatively, some of the functions of the sensor management device 100 may be performed by the sensor database device 200. The sensor management apparatus 100 may be connected to the sensor database apparatus 200 via a wired / wireless network.

The sensor management apparatus 100 may provide the state of the building to the user terminal 300 or the web server 400. [ Specifically, when the sensor management apparatus 100 receives a building status request from the user terminal 300 or the web server 400, the sensor management apparatus 100 determines a building state (e.g., fire risk level, room temperature, Room air pollution, indoor gas concentration, sensor status, etc.) can be provided for each zone. The sensor management apparatus 100 can provide the building state to the user terminal 300 or the web server 400 in real time and visually express the building state using a graph, (400). The user terminal 300 includes a display device, and may be a smart phone, a notebook, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a tablet PC, or the like capable of wireless communication. The sensor management apparatus 100 may be connected to the user terminal 300 or the web server 400 via a wired / wireless network.

The sensor management apparatus 100 monitors a building state (e.g., a state in each zone) based on sensor data collected for each zone, and generates a warning message about the building state when the building state satisfies the predetermined warning condition . For example, the sensor management apparatus 100 can generate an alarm signal when the value of the building state (e.g., temperature value, gas concentration, etc.) calculated based on the sensor data is out of a predetermined threshold range.

The sensor management apparatus 100 controls a device (e.g., a cooling / heating device, a temperature control device, a humidity control device, or an air purification device) that controls an indoor environment of a building based on a building state can do. For example, when the value of the building state (e.g., temperature value, gas concentration, etc.) calculated based on the sensor data of each zone is out of a predetermined threshold range, (For example, an air conditioner, a temperature control device, a humidity control device, or an air purification device) so as to be within a critical range. If the value of the building state is not changed to a value within the critical range within a predetermined time even though the sensor management device 100 controls the indoor environment control device, the sensor management device 100 generates a warning message Lt; / RTI >

3 is a diagram showing a sensor management apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. 4 is a diagram illustrating a method by which a sensor management apparatus 100 manages a sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention. And Figure 5 is a diagram illustrating a method for determining a block occupied by a zone, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

Specifically, the sensor management apparatus 100 may include a drawing obtaining unit 110, a region obtaining unit 120, a sensor mapping unit 130, and a monitoring unit 140.

The drawing acquiring unit 110 may acquire a drawing image (e.g., a floor plan, a design plan, and the like) representing a structure of a building located at an address using a building address code (e.g., a zip code) indicating an address (SlOO). Specifically, the drawing acquiring unit 110 may transmit a drawing image request message including a building address code to the sensor database apparatus 200. [ The sensor database device 200 can use the building address code included in the drawing request message as a retrieval key to retrieve the drawing image corresponding to the building address code. In the case where the building address code is a commonly used zip code, the present invention can be easily applied to existing real estate service platforms, and the technical field to which the present invention is applied can be extended.

The area acquiring unit 120 acquires the area information on the plurality of areas included in the building (e.g., a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a balcony, and the like) using the drawing image obtained by the drawing acquiring unit 110 Area name, zone size, zone location, etc.) (S200).

Specifically, the zone acquiring unit 120 can acquire the zone names of a plurality of zones using zone identifiers (e.g., zone names) shown in the drawing image. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 2, a living room area is indicated with a 'living room', a bedroom area is indicated with a 'bedroom', a kitchen area marked with a 'kitchen', a balcony area with a 'balcony' Is displayed. The zone acquiring unit 120 can identify the zones in the drawing image by using the zone identifiers 'living room', 'bedroom', 'kitchen', 'balcony' and the like shown in the drawing image.

The area acquiring unit 120 can acquire the size and position of a plurality of zones using the zone boundaries (e.g., zone border lines) shown in the drawing image. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 2, a thick black frame line is displayed at the boundary of the living room area, a thick black frame line is displayed at the boundary of the bedroom area, a thick black frame line is displayed at the boundary of the kitchen area And a thick black frame line is displayed at the boundary of the balcony area. The area obtaining unit 120 can determine the size (or range) of each zone in the drawing image by using a thick black frame line shown in the drawing image.

The sensor mapping unit 130 may map a plurality of sensors to a plurality of zones using the zone information acquired by the zone acquisition unit 120 (S300).

Specifically, the sensor mapping unit 130 places the image of the drawing on the reference block frame including M × N blocks (where M and N are natural numbers), and then determines the blocks occupied by each zone by each zone . The size of the drawing image may be the same regardless of the area of the building. Alternatively, the size of the drawing image may vary depending on the area of the building concerned. For example, a drawing image for a building having an area of 40 square meters may be smaller than a drawing image for a building having an area of 60 square meters.

The sensor mapping unit 130 can directly use the drawing image without adjusting the size of the drawing image. Alternatively, the sensor mapping unit 130 may use the drawing image after adjusting the size of the drawing image. For example, when the size of the drawing image obtained by the drawing obtaining unit 110 is not proportional to the building area, the sensor mapping unit 130 may enlarge or reduce the size of the drawing image in proportion to the building area have. The reference block frame may have a size corresponding to a predetermined building area (e.g., 60 pyeong).

As illustrated in FIG. 5 (a), the reference block frame may include MxN blocks. Each block has block coordinates (e.g., BL (A1, B1), BL (A10, B5), etc.). As illustrated in FIG. 5 (b), the drawing image can be placed on the reference block frame. For example, the sensor mapping unit 130 may include eight blocks (e.g., BL (A10, B10), BL (A11, B10), BL (A12, B10) B10), BL (A10, B11), BL (A11, B11), BL (A12, B11), and BL (A13, B11). If some area other than the entire area of one block is present within a specific area, the sensor mapping unit 130 may determine whether to include the block in the area through various methods. For example, when a part of the area of the block BL (A9, B11) other than the entire area of the block BL (A9, B11) exists in the first zone of the bedroom, the sensor mapping unit 130 If the block BL (A9, B11) occupies 50% or more of the block BL (A9, B11) and occupies the block BL (A9, B11) . ≪ / RTI >

Or the sensor mapping unit 130 converts (e.g., enlarges or reduces) the drawing image obtained by the drawing obtaining unit 110 into a predetermined reference size (for example, an image size corresponding to 40 square meters) The blocks of XxY blocks (X and Y are natural numbers) and the blocks occupied by each block of XxY blocks can be determined for each block.

The sensor mapping unit 130 may map at least one sensor to at least one block corresponding to each zone. For example, in the example of FIG. 5 (b), the sensor mapping unit 130 includes eight blocks (e.g., BL (A10, B10), BL (A11, B10) A plurality of sensors (for example, SN1a, SN1a, SN1a, SN1a, SN1a, SN1a, SN1a, SN1a) are connected to the nodes A12, B10, A13, B10, A10, B11, SN2a, SN3a, SN4a, SN1b, SN2b, SN3b, SN4b, SN1c, SN2c, SN3c, SN4c). At least one sensor may be mapped to one block. Based on this mapping relationship (e.g., the zone-sensor mapping table of Table 1), sensors can be placed in each zone.

The sensor database apparatus 200 can store the sensor data collected from the plurality of sensors by each zone or each block by using the mapping relationship (e.g., the zone-sensor mapping table in Table 1).

The monitoring unit 140 may monitor the status of each zone (e.g., fire risk, indoor temperature, indoor air pollution, indoor gas concentration, sensor status, etc.) using sensor data collected from a plurality of sensors (S400 ). The monitoring unit 140 may provide the state of each zone calculated on the basis of the sensor data of each zone to the user terminal 300 or the web server 400. The monitoring unit 140 may output a warning message according to the building state calculated based on the sensor data of each zone. The monitoring unit 140 controls the indoor environment control device (e.g., the cooling / heating device, the temperature control device, the humidity control device, or the air purification device) based on the building state calculated based on the sensor data for each zone . For example, the monitoring unit 140 can monitor the environmental condition of each zone by using the sensor data collected from a plurality of sensors, and can control the indoor environment control device in each zone based on the environmental condition of each zone have. For example, the monitoring unit 140 can visually express the environmental status of each zone and provide the environment status to the user terminal in real time.

6 is a diagram of a computing device, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. The computing device TN100 of Figure 6 may be a sensor management device 100, a sensor database device 200, a user terminal 300, or a web server 400, etc., as described herein.

In the embodiment of FIG. 6, the computing device TN100 may include at least one processor (TN 110), a transceiver (TN 120), and a memory (TN 130). Further, the computing device TN100 may further include a storage device TN140, an input interface device TN150, an output interface device TN160, and the like. The components included in the computing device TN100 may be connected by a bus (TN170) and communicate with each other.

The processor TN110 may execute a program command stored in at least one of the memory TN130 and the storage device TN140. The processor TN110 may refer to a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), or a dedicated processor on which methods according to embodiments of the present invention are performed. The processor TN110 may be configured to implement the procedures, functions, methods, and the like described in connection with the embodiments of the present invention. The processor TN110 may control each component of the computing device TN100.

Each of the memory TN130 and the storage device TN140 may store various information related to the operation of the processor TN110. Each of the memory TN130 and the storage device TN140 may be constituted of at least one of a volatile storage medium and a nonvolatile storage medium. For example, the memory TN130 may be configured with at least one of a read only memory (ROM) and a random access memory (RAM).

The transceiver apparatus TN120 can transmit or receive a wired signal or a wireless signal. The transceiver apparatus TN120 can be connected to a network to perform communication.

On the other hand, the embodiments of the present invention are not only implemented by the apparatuses and / or methods described so far, but may also be realized through a program realizing a function corresponding to the configuration of the embodiment of the present invention or a recording medium on which the program is recorded And such an embodiment can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art from the description of the embodiments described above.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but, on the contrary, And falls within the scope of the invention.

Claims (7)

A drawing acquiring unit acquiring an image of a drawing showing a structure of a building located at the address, using an address code indicating an address;
A zone acquiring unit acquiring zone information on a plurality of zones included in the building using the drawing image; And
A sensor mapping unit for mapping the plurality of sensors to the plurality of zones using the zone information,
. The method according to claim 1,
The area acquiring unit may acquire,
Using the zone identifier and the zone boundary indicated in the drawing image, to obtain the zone information including the zone name and the size of the plurality of zones
Sensor management device. The method according to claim 1,
The sensor mapping unit,
Placing the image of the drawing on a reference block frame containing MxN blocks (where M and N are natural numbers), then determining the blocks occupied by the plurality of zones for each of the plurality of zones, At least one of the plurality of sensors is mapped to at least one block corresponding to a first zone
Sensor management device. The method according to claim 1,
The sensor mapping unit,
And converting the size of the drawing image into a predefined reference size, dividing the converted drawing image into MxN blocks (where M and N are natural numbers), and allocating each of the MxN blocks And mapping at least one of the plurality of sensors to at least one block corresponding to a first zone of the plurality of zones
Sensor management device. The method according to claim 1,
Monitoring environmental conditions of the plurality of zones by using sensor data collected from the plurality of sensors and controlling the indoor environment of the building according to the plurality of zones based on the environmental conditions of the plurality of zones part
Further comprising: The method according to claim 1,
A monitoring unit monitoring the environmental conditions of the plurality of zones using sensor data collected from the plurality of sensors and visually expressing the environmental conditions of the plurality of zones to provide the user terminals with real-
Further comprising: A sensor management method for a sensor management apparatus,
Obtaining a drawing image showing a structure of a building located at the address, using a zip code indicating an address;
Using the drawing image, obtaining zone information on a plurality of zones included in the building;
Mapping the plurality of sensors to the plurality of zones using the zone information; And
Monitoring the status of the plurality of zones using sensor data collected from the plurality of sensors
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