KR20200105089A - Computer program for providing environment information based on user movement - Google Patents

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a program for providing environmental information according to user movement comprises the functions of: collecting environmental information and location information from a plurality of user terminals; calculating representative values of the environmental information for each of a plurality of geographically partitioned regions based on the environmental information and location information; and transmitting a representative value of environmental information previously calculated for a specific region to a user terminal entering the specific region.

Description

Program to provide environmental information according to user movement {COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION BASED ON USER MOVEMENT}

The present invention relates to a server for providing environment information according to a user's movement, and to a program capable of providing environment information analyzed with high reliability for an area to which a user enters.

In order to enjoy a comfortable and safe life, interest in the environment in which people live is increasing, and accordingly, various environments based on information about the indoor and outdoor environmental conditions, for example, dust concentration, temperature and humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, etc. Technology for monitoring contamination conditions is constantly being developed. Accordingly, it has become easier to monitor pollution of the environment based on acquisition of various information about the surrounding environment.

Environmental sensors that can be carried by general users have been widely developed, and technologies have been developed to collect and analyze environmental information in a centralized manner and provide them to users.

However, if the sensing sensitivity or reliability of the environmental sensor carried by the user decreases, the user has no choice but to obtain information with low reliability, and the information collected and analyzed in a centralized manner is data in a wide area. There was a problem that it did not properly reflect the environment of the area where the is located.

Therefore, there is a need for a technology that enables a user to receive environmental information of a current location with high reliability.

An object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art, and to provide reliable environmental information.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to analyze environmental information collected for each subdivided area and provide the result, so that a user can accurately receive environmental information of a current location.

On the other hand, another object of the present invention is to obtain a result value with maximized reliability in analyzing environmental information.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned will be clearly understood from the following description.

According to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, a program for providing environmental information according to a user's movement includes: a function of collecting environmental information and location information from a plurality of user terminals; A function of calculating representative values of environmental information for each of a plurality of geographically partitioned regions based on the environmental information and location information; And a function of transmitting a representative value of environmental information previously calculated for the specific region to a user terminal entering a specific region, wherein at least some of the functions of calculating representative values of environmental information for each of the plurality of regions include: It is stored in the medium in order to execute a function of providing environment information according to the movement of a user including functions divided into three sub-areas.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, since environmental information that has already been analyzed for a currently located region is provided according to a moving path of the user, the user can receive highly reliable environmental information.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, in calculating a representative value of environmental information for a specific region, by applying a high weight to highly reliable environmental information, the accuracy of environmental information analysis may be improved.

The effects of the present invention are not limited to the above effects, and should be understood to include all effects that can be inferred from the configuration of the invention described in the detailed description or claims of the present invention.

1 is a diagram schematically showing the configuration of a system for collecting and providing environmental information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a server for collecting and providing environment information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram illustrating a plurality of areas partitioned according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention may be implemented in various different forms, and therefore is not limited to the embodiments described herein. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and similar reference numerals are assigned to similar parts throughout the specification.

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

1 is a diagram schematically showing the configuration of a system for providing environmental information to a user according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user terminal 100 and a server 200 for collecting/providing environmental information.

The user terminal 100 may be implemented as a computing device having a communication function, and may be implemented as, for example, a mobile phone, a desktop PC, a laptop PC, a tablet PC, a smartphone, etc., but is not limited thereto.

The user terminal 100 according to an embodiment performs a function of transmitting the collected environmental information to the server 200 through a communication network.

Environment information is collected by an environment sensor mounted on the user terminal 100 or an environment sensor mounted on the external device 110.

When the environmental sensor is mounted on the user terminal 100, the user terminal 100 performs both functions of collecting environmental information and transmitting it to the server 200, and when the environmental sensor is mounted on the external device 110 In this case, the user terminal 100 performs a function of receiving environment information from the external device 110 and a function of transmitting the received information to the server 200.

When the environmental sensor is mounted on the external device 110, the external device 110 and the user terminal 100 can transmit and receive environmental information through a short-range wireless communication (for example, Bluetooth communication), but unlike this Information transmission/reception may be performed through a wired communication method.

The external device 110 may be implemented as a device including one or more environmental sensors, and may additionally include a circuit for charging the battery of the user terminal 100 and a power storage space.

The environmental sensor included in the user terminal 100 or the external device 110 may be implemented as a dust sensor, a carbon dioxide sensor, a temperature/humidity sensor, a noise sensor, a light intensity sensor, etc., but has a function of sensing information about the surrounding environment. Any device can be implemented with any sensor.

The environment information collection/providing server 200 receives environment information and location information from a plurality of user terminals 100.

The server 200 stores information obtained by dividing a certain geographic area into a plurality of areas. The region division may be performed by the server 200 or by an administrator of the server 200.

The server 200 may analyze environment information for each divided area based on environment information and location information received from the plurality of user terminals 100.

That is, environmental information for each area is collected and analyzed in the server 200. By doing so, an analysis result of the environmental information for each area can be derived in the server 200.

The server 200 transmits environment information previously analyzed for the second area to the user terminal 100 when a specific user enters the second area from the first area based on the location information of the user terminal 100. Functions.

By doing so, the user can receive, from the server 200, highly reliable environmental information analyzed based on information collected through a plurality of sensors for the second area, in addition to the environmental information acquired through the environmental sensor he or she possesses. There will be.

In addition, even if the sensing reliability of the environmental sensor held by the user is low or the user does not have the environmental sensor, the result of analyzing the reliable environmental information of the current location is transmitted according to the movement of the user terminal 100. I can receive it.

2 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of a server for collecting/providing environment information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the environment information collection/providing server 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a geographic area division unit 210, an environment information collection unit 220, an environment information analysis unit 230, and an environment information agent. Study 240 may be included.

The geographic area division unit 210, the environment information collection unit 220, the environment information analysis unit 230, and the environment information providing unit 240 may be program modules or hardware capable of communicating with external devices. Such program modules or hardware may be included in the environment information collection/providing server 200 or other devices capable of communicating with the environment information collection/providing server 200 in the form of operating systems, application program modules, and other program modules, and physically on various known storage devices. Can be saved. Meanwhile, such program modules or hardware include routines, subroutines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform specific tasks to be described later or execute specific abstract data types according to the present invention, but are not limited thereto.

The geographic area dividing unit 210 supports to geographically divide a predetermined area into a plurality of areas, or performs a function of directly performing the division.

Based on the location information or demographic information of the user terminal 100, the area-specific area can be divided relatively narrowly for an area with a large floating population, and the area-specific area can be divided relatively wide for an area with a small floating population. have.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a region division.

Referring to FIG. 3, a predetermined region may be divided into a plurality of regions adjacent to each other, that is, a first region to a third region A1 to A3, and each region is once again a plurality of sub regions S1 to S3. Can be divided into.

Although not shown in FIG. 3, when there is a large floating population in each of the sub-regions S1 to S3 or the area is large, the sub-regions S1 to S3 may be additionally divided into sub-concept regions.

The geographic area dividing unit 210 may store geographic information divided by itself or by an administrator.

Referring back to FIG. 2, the environment information collection unit 220 according to an embodiment receives environment information and current location information of the user terminal 100 from a plurality of user terminals 100.

Since the location information of the user terminal 100 is received together with the environment information, the environment information collection/providing server 200 can collect environment information for each area (A1 to A3) or sub-area (S1 to S3). do.

The environmental information analysis unit 230 according to an exemplary embodiment collects environmental information for each area (A1 to A3) and sub-area (S1 to S3) based on the environment information and location information received by the environment information collection unit 220. Analyze.

For example, by collecting environmental information received from the user terminal 100 for each area (A1 to A3), a representative value of the values collected for each area (A1 to A3) or sub area (S1 to S3) (e.g. For example, the average value) can be calculated.

According to an embodiment, a representative value of environmental information for each sub-area S1 to S3 may be calculated as follows.

M is a representative value of environmental information, and N is the number of user terminals 100 located in specific sub-areas S1 to S3 and transmitting environmental information.

Further, k is an environmental information value received from each user terminal 100, and α is a weight applied to each environmental information value.

The weight may be applied relatively high to an environment information value transmitted from the user terminal 100 having a high frequency of transmitting environment information. In addition, when the difference between the value of the environmental information transmitted in the past and the representative value calculated according to the above equation is less than the threshold range, a relatively high weight may be applied to the value of the environmental information received from the user terminal 100. have.

That is, the representative value M may be calculated by applying a high weight to the environmental information value transmitted from the user terminal 100 transmitting highly reliable environmental information.

Meanwhile, a representative value of environmental information may be calculated for each of the regions A1 to A3 including the plurality of sub regions S1 to S3.

According to an embodiment, the representative value of environment information for each area A1 to A3 may be calculated by Equation 1 above, but may also be calculated according to Equation 2 below.

L is a representative value of environmental information for each area (A1 to A3), n is the number of sub-areas (S1 to S3) in the target area for calculating the representative value (A1 to A3), and M is each sub-area (S1 to A3). It shows the representative environmental information value of S3).

β is a weight applied to the representative value of environmental information for each sub-region (S1 to S3).For example, the weight applied to the representative value of the environmental information in the sub-regions (S1 to S3) with a large number of collected environmental information Can increase.

Since the reliability of the representative values calculated based on a greater number of information is high, a high weight is given to the representative environmental information values of the sub-regions S1 to S3 having high reliability.

The environment information providing unit 240 according to an embodiment is the user terminal 100 newly entering each of the areas A1 to A3 or the sub-areas S1 to S3, and the corresponding areas A1 to A3 or the sub-area S1 To perform a function of transmitting the representative environmental information value of S3).

Referring to FIG. 3, if the user terminal 100 moves from the second sub-area S2 of the second area A2 to the first sub-area S1 of the third area A3 (in case a), The server 200, which is collecting the location information of the user terminal 100, enters the first sub-area S1 of the third area A3 and the first sub-area S1 at the same time as the user terminal 100 enters the first sub-area S1 of the third area A3. It is possible to transmit the representative value of the most recently calculated environmental information for. In addition, since the user terminal 100 has entered the third area A3 from the second area A2, a representative value of environment information for the third area A3 may also be transmitted.

On the other hand, when the user terminal 100 moves from the second sub-area S2 to the third sub-area S3 within the second area A2 (in case of b), the environment for the second area A2 The representative value of the information may not be transmitted, and only the representative value of the environment information for the third sub-region S3 of the second region A2 may be transmitted to the user terminal 100.

By transmitting and receiving only necessary information between the server 200 and the user terminal 100 in this manner, efficient information transmission/reception is possible, and communication traffic can be optimized accordingly.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, since the analyzed environment information is provided for the currently located area according to the user's moving path, the user can receive highly reliable environment information.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, in calculating a representative value of environmental information for a specific region, by applying a high weight to highly reliable environmental information, the accuracy of environmental information analysis may be improved.

The above description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes only, and those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains can understand that it is possible to easily transform it into other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. will be. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are illustrative in all respects and not limiting. For example, each component described as a single type may be implemented in a distributed manner, and similarly, components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is indicated by the claims to be described later, and all changes or modified forms derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalent concepts should be interpreted as being included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims (6)

A function of collecting environmental information and location information from a plurality of user terminals;
A function of calculating representative values of environmental information for each of a plurality of geographically partitioned regions based on the environmental information and location information; And
Including a function of transmitting a representative value of environmental information previously calculated for the specific area to a user terminal entering a specific area,
At least some of the functions for calculating the representative values of the environment information for each of the plurality of areas are stored in the medium to execute the function divided into a plurality of sub areas.
program.
The method of claim 1,
The function of calculating the representative value,
A function of calculating representative values of environmental information for each of the plurality of sub-areas; And
And a function of calculating a representative environmental information value for each of the plurality of regions based on the representative environmental information value for each sub-region.
Computer program.
The method of claim 2,
The function of calculating representative values of environmental information for each of the plurality of sub-areas,
Calculate the average value of the environmental information collected for each of the sub-areas, but based on the previous environmental information transmission period of the user terminal transmitting each environmental information or the difference between the value of the environmental information transmitted in the past and the calculated representative value, each user terminal It characterized in that it includes a function of applying different weights to the environmental information transmitted from
Computer program.
The method of claim 2,
The function of calculating a representative value of environmental information for each of the plurality of areas,
And a function of calculating an average value of the representative environmental information values for each sub-region, and applying different weights to the representative environmental information values for each sub-region based on the population density for each sub-region.
Computer program.
The method of claim 1,
The function of transmitting the representative value of the previously calculated environmental information,
And when it is determined that the user terminal enters another sub-area within the same area, a function of transmitting a representative value of environmental information of the newly entered sub-area.
Computer program.
The method of claim 1,
The function of transmitting the representative value of the previously calculated environmental information,
And when it is determined that the user terminal enters another sub-area within another area, a function of transmitting both a representative environmental information value of the newly entered area and a representative environmental information value of the sub-area.
Computer program.

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