KR20210003644A - Injurious animals monitoring system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an injurious animal monitoring system which recognizes and monitors an injurious animal damaging farms including livestock farms, and effectively alerts the same. According to the present invention, the injurious animal monitoring system comprises: a plurality of monitoring devices detecting an injurious animal and providing detection information to a service control device; a service control device determining a location of the injurious animal based on monitoring information provided from the monitoring device and providing determination information for a user located in a hazardous area of the injurious animal; and a service terminal alerting the user to riskiness of the injurious animal in conjunction with the service control device.

Description

Pest animal monitoring system {INJURIOUS ANIMALS MONITORING SYSTEM}

The present invention relates to a harmful animal monitoring system that recognizes and monitors harmful animals that cause damage to farms, including livestock farms, and efficiently alerts them.

Currently, harmful animals are a big social problem. The term harmful animals has been used as a term to refer to animals or insects that mainly carry infectious diseases such as rodents such as rats and insects such as ticks, mosquitoes, and cockroaches. However, in recent years, harmful animals form a herd over a long period of time, causing damage to crops or fruit trees, such as sparrows, magpies, jaws, straight-headed copper, crows, etc. Wild animals or remains, including pigeons, which damage cultural properties or damage to property or life such as building erosion due to local overcrowding, such as wild pigs, moles, magpies that damage power facilities such as electric poles, etc. It is understood as a concept encompassing wild animals.

Regarding countermeasures against harmful animals, Patent Registration No. 10-1975477 (name: combat method using IoT intelligent harmful animals and bird control devices using IoT deep learning cameras and drones), Registration Patent No. 10-1937597 (name: Harmful Drone for combating animals and its flight method), Registration Patent No. 10-1505410 (name: ultrasonic generator for combating harmful animals), Registration Patent 10-1501767 (name: harmful animal monitoring system and method), Registration Patent No. 10-1936306 ( Name: harmful animal control equipment and a method for controlling harmful animals using the same) and Patent Registration No. 10-1911312 (name: a method and a method for eradicating harmful animals having a super-directional speaker rotating in the direction of a sensed sound).

However, conventional devices and methods have a problem that a large-scale and expensive system is required, and the effect obtained is limited.

The present invention has been created in view of the above circumstances, and has a technical object to provide a harmful animal monitoring system that can effectively cope with harmful animals over a wide area with a simple configuration.

A harmful animal monitoring system according to the present invention for realizing the above object detects a harmful animal and provides the detection information to a service control device, and based on the monitoring information provided from the monitoring device, a harmful animal A service control device that determines the location of and provides the determination information to users located in a hazardous area of harmful animals, and a service terminal that alerts users to the danger of harmful animals in connection with the service control device. It is characterized by being.

In addition, the service control device is characterized in that it executes a harmful animal alert based on the location information of the service terminal.

In addition, in the system, the user registers his/her location information to the service control device, and the service control device executes a harmful animal alert based on the location information registered by the user.

In addition, the monitoring device is configured with a thermal image input means, and the service control device determines a harmful animal based on a thermal image provided from the monitoring device.

In addition, the monitoring device is configured to further include a real image input device, and the service control device is characterized in that it provides thermal image or real image information to the service terminal.

In addition, the service control device is characterized in that the position of the harmful animal is determined based on monitoring information from two or more monitoring devices.

In addition, the service control device is characterized in that it generates the movement path and movement time information of the harmful animal based on the monitoring information from the monitoring device, and provides risk prediction information to the user based on the movement path and time information. do.

According to the present invention having the above-described configuration, risk information and risk prediction information are provided corresponding to the location where the service user is located. Accordingly, it is possible to effectively respond to the user's risk due to harmful animals.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a harmful animal monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the monitoring device 1 in FIG.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. However, the embodiments described below are illustrative of one preferred embodiment of the present invention, and examples of these embodiments are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.

1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a harmful animal monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The harmful animal monitoring system includes a detection device (1: 1-1, 1-2...., 1-n) for detecting a harmful animal. The sensing device 1 is preferably installed at a high altitude position, such as a power transmission tower or a telephone pole. The sensing device 1 has a certain viewing angle and captures an image within a jurisdiction. In addition, in a preferred embodiment, the sensing device 1 generates a warning signal to warn when a subject suspected of being a harmful animal exists in the captured image. The sensing device 1 is preferably arranged and installed so that the viewing angles overlap with the other sensing devices 1.

The sensing device 1 is coupled to the service control device 3 via a communication network 2 such as a LAN or WiBro, for example. The service control device 3 controls and manages the entire system. Although not specifically shown in the drawings, the service control device 3 includes a database. The database stores location information for each sensing device 1 and location information for service users. Further, the database preferably stores discrimination information on harmful animals to be detected. At this time, the discrimination information may include all information useful for discriminating harmful animals, such as image information, audio information, or movement characteristic information of a harmful animal. The service control device 3 uses information provided from the monitoring device 1 It determines whether or not there is a risk, and provides appropriate information to service users based on this.

A plurality of service terminals 5: 5-1, 5-2. ..., 5-n are connected to the service control device 3 through a communication network 4 such as a WiBro or a mobile network. The service terminal 5 is for service users to use the harmful animal monitoring system. As the service terminal 5, an alarm device that is simply installed indoors of the service user and outputs an alarm sound to the service user in accordance with an alarm signal from the service control device 3 may be employed. In addition, as the service terminal 5, a communication terminal that can be used by a user, such as a smart phone or a personal digital assistant (PDA), may be preferably employed. Hereinafter, a case of employing a smart phone as the service terminal 5 will be described as an example.

In the service terminal 3, an application called an application or an application, that is, a client program, is installed. The application will be downloaded by the user from the service control device 3 or installed appropriately through other suitable means, such as the App Store or Google Play. The application provides the service terminal 5 with a connection function to the service control device 3, a member registration and authentication function, a service location registration function, a service execution function and an output function of multimedia information, and the user can appropriate these functions. It provides a user interface function for easy use and selection.

2 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the monitoring device 1. The monitoring device 1 includes a thermal image input unit 11 and a real image input unit 12. The thermal image input unit 11 is configured with a thermal imaging camera composed of a plurality of infrared sensors or combinations thereof. This detects infrared rays emitted from the subject and provides thermal image data corresponding thereto. The real image input unit 12 is configured with an image sensor or a general image camera. This detects visible light emitted or reflected from the subject and provides real image data corresponding thereto. Image information captured by the thermal image input unit 11 and the real image input unit 12 is provided to the control unit 13.

The control unit 13 interlocks with the service control device 3 and controls the entire monitoring device 1. The control unit 13 extracts the temperature information of the subject based on the thermal image information provided from the thermal image input unit 11, and controls the service when a subject having a temperature that falls within the body temperature range of a harmful animal exists among the imaging information. Provides to the device (3). In addition, thermal image information or real image information is provided to the service control device 3 at the request of the service control device 3. At this time, video information is compressed and transmitted as necessary.

In the above configuration, preferably, the thermal image input unit 11 and the real image input unit 12 employ the same resolution. When there is a difference in the resolution of both input units 11 and 12, the control unit 13 By processing the image data, data change processing can be performed so that the resolutions of both image data, that is, thermal image data and real image data, are matched. And for this, the control unit 13 may be provided with an image processing means. The image processing means is preferably comprised of a program. Matching the resolution of the thermal image data and the real image data is for easily synchronizing the object in the thermal image and the object in the real image, if necessary. And this process can be configured to be performed by the service control device 3.

In the drawing, the data transmission/reception unit 14 is for data transmission/reception between the monitoring device 1 and the service control device 3. And the power supply unit 15 is for supplying operating power to the monitoring device (1). As the power supply unit 15, a battery or a solar cell may be employed. Also. When the monitoring device 1 is installed in a power transmission tower or a telephone pole, the power supply unit 15 may preferably employ a configuration in which an induced current is generated from a transmission line to supply operating power to the monitoring device 1.

In addition, the monitoring device 1 may be provided with a microphone or the like that inputs a peripheral voice signal of the device and generates it as an electric signal, if necessary. And at this time, the control unit 13 transmits the voice signal to the service control device 3 according to the request of the service control device 3, and the service control device 3 uses the received voice signal for recognition of a harmful animal. Will be

Next, the operation of the system configured as described above will be described. When the service user wants to use the harmful animal monitoring service, the service mode is selected after running the application of the service terminal 5. At this time, the service mode selectable by the user includes a residential area monitoring mode and an active area monitoring mode. The user can selectively execute the residential monitoring mode and the active area monitoring mode, or both modes can be executed simultaneously.

The residence monitoring mode is for the user to monitor the appearance of harmful animals in his/her residence. In order for a user to monitor a residence, first select a residence monitoring mode using an application, and input his/her residence address according to the guidance of the service control device 3. And when the user activates the service through the application, the residence monitoring mode is executed.

The active site monitoring mode is for monitoring the approach of harmful animals around the user when the user engages in outdoor activities such as hiking. In order for users to monitor their residence, they first select the residence monitoring mode using the app and then activate the corresponding service. In the active site monitoring mode, the service terminal 5 provides its own location information to the service control device 3 every predetermined time, and the service control device 5 executes the monitoring of harmful animals based on the location information.

In FIG. 2, the monitoring device 1 detects whether an object that may be a harmful animal exists based on image information captured and input through the thermal image input unit 11. As described above, the infrared sensor is provided in the thermal image input unit 11. The infrared sensor detects the infrared wavelength emitted from the object, and generates a thermal image of the object based on the intensity of the infrared wavelength. If a harmful animal is captured by the thermal image input unit 11, shape information based on the body temperature of the harmful animal will be displayed as appropriate image information. The control unit 13 first determines an object that may be a harmful animal based on the gray level information of the image data provided from the thermal image input unit 11, and transmits the thermal image information of the object together with the determination signal. 3).

When a determination signal is received from the monitoring device 1, the service control device 3 searches a database based on thermal image information therefrom to determine whether the subject is a harmful animal. In addition, at this time, the service control device 3 may request transmission of voice information to the monitoring device 1 in order to determine an object. When it is determined that the object is a harmful animal, the service control device 3 determines the location information of the harmful animal. As described above, the monitoring device 1 monitors a certain overlapped range with other monitoring devices 1 adjacent thereto. The service control device 3 preferably calculates the position of the harmful animal relatively accurately using the image pickup information from the plurality of monitoring devices 1. When the determination of the location of the harmful animal is finished, the service control device 3 issues an alert to the user existing in the danger area. At this time, the user can manipulate the service terminal 5 to request image information of the harmful animal from the service control device 3. When a user requests real or thermal image information of a harmful animal, the service control device 3 requests transmission of the image information to the monitoring device 1 based on this. By providing the image information provided from the monitoring device 1 to the service terminal 5, the user can visually check the type and location of harmful animals and their own location.

In addition, in another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the service control device 3 accumulates movement information and time information of harmful animals based on the monitoring information from the monitoring device 1, and provides risk prediction information to the user based on this. Can provide.

The embodiments according to the present invention have been described above. However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention.

1: monitoring device, 2, 4: communication network,
3: service control device, 5: service terminal,
11: thermal image input device, 12: real image input device,
13: control unit, 14: data transmission/reception unit,
15: Power unit.

Claims (7)

A number of monitoring devices that detect harmful animals and provide the detection information to a service control device,
A service control device that determines the location of a harmful animal based on the monitoring information provided from the monitoring device, and provides the determination information to a user located in a danger area of the harmful animal; and
A harmful animal monitoring system comprising a service terminal interlocking with a service control device to alert a user of the danger of a harmful animal. The method of claim 1,
The service control device is a harmful animal monitoring system, characterized in that for executing a harmful animal alert based on the location information of the service terminal. The method of claim 1,
A harmful animal monitoring system, characterized in that the user registers his/her location information in a service control device, and the service control device executes a harmful animal alert based on the location information registered by the user. The method of claim 1,
The monitoring device is configured with a thermal image input means,
The service control device is a harmful animal monitoring system, characterized in that to determine the harmful animal based on the thermal image provided from the monitoring device. The method of claim 1 or 4,
The monitoring device is configured to further include a real image input device,
The service control device is a harmful animal monitoring system, characterized in that to provide the thermal image or real image information to the service terminal. The method of claim 1,
The service control device is a harmful animal monitoring system, characterized in that the position of the harmful animal is determined based on monitoring information from two or more monitoring devices. The method of claim 1,
The service control device generates the movement path and movement time information of the harmful animal based on the monitoring information from the monitoring device, and provides risk prediction information to the user based on the movement path and time information. Animal surveillance system.

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