KR20210028945A - Method and server for controlling an elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are a method and server for controlling an elevator. Parking information on the parking of a vehicle is obtained using a sensor, user information on a user of the vehicle is obtained based on the number of vehicles, and an elevator to be used by the user is controlled based on the parking information and the user information.

Description

How to control elevator and server {METHOD AND SERVER FOR CONTROLLING AN ELEVATOR}

The following embodiments relate to a technology for controlling an elevator, and more particularly, to a technology for controlling an elevator based on parking of a vehicle.

Residents residing in each household on the second floor or higher of a multi-family housing or apartment complex such as villas and apartment complexes almost indispensably use elevators to and from their household floors. When a resident goes out and returns through an elevator, the resident presses the elevator call button installed at the elevator gate. If the occupant is carrying heavy luggage in both hands, pressing the elevator call button and waiting can be very cumbersome.

In Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2013-0020148 (published on September 17, 2014), the first reader that receives the information of the pass key and the information of the pass key are installed in a place closer to the elevator than the first reader. An elevator automatic call generating device including a second reader for receiving is disclosed. In addition, when the first reader receives the passkey information and the second reader determines that the passkey information is received, the elevator call or the operation of the call control unit that generates an elevator call signal and transmits it to the elevator controller. A pressing or touching motion for reaching the destination floor is eliminated, so that the convenience of the occupants is optimally promoted, and the waiting time for boarding the elevator is minimized or reduced.

Acquiring parking information regarding parking of the vehicle using at least one sensor, performed by a server controlling an elevator, according to an aspect-The parking information is the number of the vehicle and the location where the vehicle is parked. -, acquiring user information for a user of the vehicle based on the number of the vehicle, and controlling an elevator to be used by the user based on the parking information and the user information do.

The obtaining of the parking information may include generating information on a location where the vehicle is parked based on sensor information preset for the sensor.

The sensor information may include the number of floors on which the sensor is installed and the number of surrounding pillars.

The obtaining of the parking information includes: when the at least one sensor includes a camera, photographing the license plate of the vehicle using the camera, and recognizing the license plate of the photographed vehicle to obtain the vehicle number. It may include the step of obtaining.

In the obtaining of the parking information, when the at least one sensor includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader, acquiring the number of the vehicle by recognizing an RFID tag attached to the vehicle using the RFID reader It may include steps.

The elevator control method further includes transmitting a message for the elevator call to the user terminal of the user based on the user information, and receiving a reply to the message from the user terminal, the Controlling the elevator may include controlling the elevator based on the reply.

The reply includes timing information of the call of the elevator, and controlling the elevator based on the reply may include controlling the elevator to correspond to the timing of the call.

The user terminal may be a terminal installed in the vehicle.

According to another aspect, a server for controlling an elevator includes a memory in which a program for controlling the elevator is recorded, and a processor for executing the program, wherein the program includes at least one sensor for parking of the vehicle. Acquiring parking information-The parking information includes information on the number of the vehicle and the location at which the vehicle is parked -, Acquiring user information on the user of the vehicle based on the number of the vehicle And controlling an elevator to be used by the user based on the parking information and the user information.

The obtaining of the parking information may include generating information on a location where the vehicle is parked based on sensor information preset for the sensor.

The sensor information may include the number of floors on which the sensor is installed and the number of pillars.

The program further performs the step of transmitting a message for the elevator call to the user terminal of the user based on the user information, and receiving a reply to the message from the user terminal, and the elevator The controlling may include controlling the elevator based on the reply.

The reply includes timing information of the call of the elevator, and controlling the elevator based on the reply may include controlling the elevator to correspond to the timing of the call.

The user terminal may be a terminal installed in the vehicle.

1 is a schematic diagram of an elevator control system according to an example.
2 is a block diagram of a server controlling an elevator according to an exemplary embodiment.
3 is a flowchart of a method for controlling an elevator according to an exemplary embodiment.
4 is a flowchart of a method of acquiring parking information of a vehicle according to an example.
5 is a flowchart of a method of controlling an elevator through a user terminal according to an example.
6 illustrates an elevator control screen output to a user terminal according to an example.

Hereinafter, embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the scope of the patent application is not limited or limited by these embodiments. The same reference numerals shown in each drawing indicate the same members.

Various changes may be made to the embodiments described below. The embodiments described below are not intended to be limited to the embodiments, and should be understood to include all changes, equivalents, and substitutes thereto.

The terms used in the examples are used only to describe specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the embodiments. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In the present specification, terms such as "comprise" or "have" are intended to designate the presence of features, numbers, steps, actions, components, parts, or combinations thereof described in the specification, but one or more other features. It is to be understood that the presence or addition of elements or numbers, steps, actions, components, parts, or combinations thereof does not preclude in advance.

Unless otherwise defined, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which the embodiment belongs. Terms as defined in a commonly used dictionary should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the related technology, and should not be interpreted as an ideal or excessively formal meaning unless explicitly defined in the present application. Does not.

In addition, in the description with reference to the accompanying drawings, the same reference numerals are assigned to the same components regardless of the reference numerals, and redundant descriptions thereof will be omitted. In describing the embodiments, when it is determined that a detailed description of related known technologies may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the embodiments, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 is a schematic diagram of an elevator control system according to an example.

According to one aspect, a system for controlling an elevator includes a server 100, a camera 110 and an elevator 160. For example, the server 100 recognizes the vehicle 120 by photographing the vehicle 120 driven by the user 130 using the camera 110, and the elevator 160 for the convenience of the user 130 Can be controlled. Additionally, the server 100 may transmit information on the control of the elevator 160 to the user terminal 140 of the user 130 and control the elevator based on a command of the user terminal 140.

Hereinafter, a method of controlling an elevator will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 to 6.

2 is a block diagram of a server controlling an elevator according to an exemplary embodiment.

The server 200 includes a communication unit 210, a processor 220 and a memory 230. For example, the server 200 may be the server 100 described above with reference to FIG. 1.

The communication unit 210 is connected to the processor 220 and the memory 230 to transmit and receive data. The communication unit 210 may be connected to other external devices to transmit and receive data. Hereinafter, the expression “transmitting/receiving A” may refer to transmitting/receiving “information or data indicating A”.

The communication unit 210 may be implemented as a circuitry in the server 200. For example, the communication unit 210 may include an internal bus and an external bus. As another example, the communication unit 210 may be an element connecting the server 200 and an external device. The communication unit 210 may be an interface. The communication unit 210 may receive data from an external device and transmit the data to the processor 220 and the memory 230.

The processor 220 processes data received by the communication unit 210 and data stored in the memory 230. The “processor” may be a data processing device implemented in hardware having a circuit having a physical structure for executing desired operations. For example, desired operations may include code or instructions included in a program. For example, a data processing device implemented in hardware is a microprocessor, a central processing unit, a processor core, a multi-core processor, and a multiprocessor. , Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).

The processor 220 executes computer-readable code (eg, software) stored in a memory (eg, memory 230) and instructions induced by the processor 220.

The memory 230 stores data received by the communication unit 210 and data processed by the processor 220. For example, the memory 230 may store a program (or application or software). The stored program may be a set of syntaxes that are coded to control the elevator and executed by the processor 220.

According to an aspect, the memory 230 may include one or more volatile memories, nonvolatile memories and random access memories (RAM), flash memories, hard disk drives, and optical disk drives.

The memory 230 stores an instruction set (eg, software) for operating the server 200. The instruction set for operating the server 200 is executed by the processor 220.

The communication unit 210, the processor 220, and the memory 230 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 3 to 6 below.

3 is a flowchart of a method for controlling an elevator according to an exemplary embodiment.

According to one aspect, the following steps 310 to 330 may be performed by the server 200 described above with reference to FIG. 2.

In step 310, the server 200 acquires parking information regarding parking of the vehicle using at least one sensor. The parking information may include the number of the vehicle and information on the location where the vehicle is parked.

For example, at least one sensor may include a camera. A method of acquiring parking information using a camera will be described in detail below with reference to FIG. 4.

As another example, at least one sensor may include a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader. When at least one sensor includes an RFID reader, the server 200 may acquire a vehicle number by recognizing an RFID tag attached to the vehicle using an RFID reader.

The server 200 generates information on the location where the vehicle is parked based on sensor information preset for the sensor. For example, when a sensor is installed for each parking area, location information of a corresponding parking area may be associated with the sensor and stored in advance. Accordingly, when the sensor detects the parking of the vehicle, the detection result is transmitted to the server 200, and the server 200 may determine the parking position of the vehicle by identifying the sensor. The sensor information may include the number of floors on which the sensor is installed and the number of surrounding pillars.

In step 320, the server 200 acquires user information about the user of the vehicle based on the number of the vehicle. For example, basic information on residents of a building may be previously stored in the server 200. As for the basic information, the user's occupied location (dong, lake), vehicle number, and user terminal information are correlated with each other. Accordingly, when the vehicle number is obtained, information on the occupied location of the user and the user terminal corresponding thereto may be obtained.

In step 330, the server 200 controls the elevator to be used by the user based on the parking information and the user information. When a plurality of elevators exist in a building, the server 200 may determine a target elevator in consideration of the location where the vehicle is parked and the user's occupied location. For example, among elevators that can reach the user's occupied position, an elevator closest to the position where the vehicle is parked may be determined as the target elevator.

The server 200 may move the elevator to the floor where the user is located so that the user can board the elevator immediately after getting off without calling the elevator separately.

4 is a flowchart of a method of acquiring parking information of a vehicle according to an example.

According to one aspect, the step 310 described above with reference to FIG. 3 may include the following steps 410 and 420. The following embodiments may be applied when at least one sensor includes a camera.

In step 410, the server 200 may photograph the license plate of the vehicle using a camera.

In step 420, the server 200 acquires the number of the vehicle by recognizing the photographed license plate. For example, the server 200 may recognize the license plate using an algorithm that recognizes the license plate in the image.

When a camera is installed for each parking area, an image photographed by a camera that detects vehicle parking may be transmitted to the server 200, and the server 200 acquires location information preset in the corresponding camera, and Based on the vehicle number can be obtained.

5 is a flowchart of a method of controlling an elevator through a user terminal according to an example.

According to one aspect, after step 320 described above with reference to FIG. 3 is performed, the following steps 510 and 520 may be further performed, and step 330 may include step 530. have.

In step 510, the server 200 transmits a message for the elevator call to the user terminal of the user based on the user information. For example, a message may be transmitted to a user terminal through an application managed by the server 200.

For example, the user terminal may be a smartphone carried by the user. As another example, the user terminal may be a terminal installed in a vehicle.

In step 520, the server 200 receives a reply to the message from the user terminal. The user may interact with the server 200 through an interface of an application executed by the user terminal. The user may generate the desired timing of the elevator call as timing information, and the reply may include timing information of the call.

In step 530, the server 200 controls the elevator based on the reply received from the user terminal. The elevator can be controlled to correspond to the timing of the call. For example, when a user wants to call an elevator at a specific time, the elevator may be controlled so that the elevator arrives at that time.

6 illustrates an elevator control screen output to a user terminal according to an example.

An application for calling an elevator may be installed in the user terminal. The user can call the elevator to the desired location through the application. In addition, information on an elevator controlled by the server 200 may be provided through an application.

When the server 200 controls an elevator for a user, the control of the elevator may be changed according to the user's request. For example, the user can reject an elevator call or adjust the timing at which the elevator is called.

The apparatus described above may be implemented as a hardware component, a software component, and/or a combination of a hardware component and a software component. For example, the devices and components described in the embodiments include, for example, a processor, a controller, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a digital signal processor, a microcomputer, a field programmable array (FPA), It may be implemented using one or more general purpose or special purpose computers, such as a programmable logic unit (PLU), a microprocessor, or any other device capable of executing and responding to instructions. The processing device may execute an operating system (OS) and one or more software applications executed on the operating system. Further, the processing device may access, store, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to the execution of software. For the convenience of understanding, although it is sometimes described that one processing device is used, one of ordinary skill in the art, the processing device is a plurality of processing elements and/or a plurality of types of processing elements. It can be seen that it may include. For example, the processing device may include a plurality of processors or one processor and one controller. In addition, other processing configurations are possible, such as a parallel processor.

The method according to the embodiment may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be specially designed and configured for the embodiment, or may be known and usable to those skilled in computer software. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tapes, optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, and magnetic media such as floptical disks. -A hardware device specially configured to store and execute program instructions such as magneto-optical media, and ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine language codes such as those produced by a compiler, but also high-level language codes that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operation of the embodiment, and vice versa.

As described above, although the embodiments have been described by the limited embodiments and drawings, various modifications and variations are possible from the above description to those of ordinary skill in the art. For example, the described techniques are performed in a different order from the described method, and/or components such as systems, structures, devices, circuits, etc. described are combined or combined in a form different from the described method, or other components Alternatively, even if substituted or substituted by an equivalent, an appropriate result can be achieved.

200: server
210: communication department
220: processor
230: memory

Claims (15)

Performed by the server controlling the elevator,
Acquiring parking information about parking of the vehicle using at least one sensor, the parking information including the number of the vehicle and information on the location where the vehicle is parked;
Acquiring user information for a user of the vehicle based on the number of the vehicle; And
Controlling an elevator to be used by the user based on the parking information and the user information
Containing,
Elevator control method.
The method of claim 1,
The step of obtaining the parking information,
Generating information on a location where the vehicle is parked based on sensor information preset for the sensor
Containing,
Elevator control method.
The method of claim 2,
The sensor information includes the number of floors on which the sensor is installed and the number of surrounding pillars,
Elevator control method.
The method of claim 1,
The step of obtaining the parking information,
When the at least one sensor includes a camera, photographing a license plate of the vehicle using the camera; And
Acquiring the number of the vehicle by recognizing the license plate of the photographed vehicle
Containing,
Elevator control method.
The method of claim 1,
The step of obtaining the parking information,
When the at least one sensor includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader, obtaining the vehicle number by recognizing an RFID tag attached to the vehicle using the RFID reader
Containing,
Elevator control method.
The method of claim 1,
Transmitting a message for the call of the elevator to the user terminal of the user based on the user information; And
Receiving a reply to the message from the user terminal
Including more,
The step of controlling the elevator,
Controlling the elevator based on the reply
Containing,
Elevator control method.
The method of claim 6,
The reply includes timing information of the call of the elevator,
Controlling the elevator based on the reply,
Controlling the elevator to correspond to the timing of the call
Containing,
Elevator control method.
The method of claim 6,
The user terminal is a terminal installed in the vehicle,
Elevator control method.
A computer-readable recording medium containing a program for performing the method of claim 1.
The server that controls the elevator,
A memory in which a program for controlling an elevator is recorded; And
Processor that executes the above program
Including,
The above program,
Acquiring parking information about parking of the vehicle using at least one sensor, the parking information including the number of the vehicle and information on the location where the vehicle is parked;
Acquiring user information for a user of the vehicle based on the number of the vehicle; And
Controlling an elevator to be used by the user based on the parking information and the user information
To do,
server.
The method of claim 10,
The step of obtaining the parking information,
Generating information on a location where the vehicle is parked based on sensor information preset for the sensor
Containing,
server.
The method of claim 11,
The sensor information includes the number of floors and pillars on which the sensor is installed,
server.
The method of claim 10,
The above program,
Transmitting a message for the call of the elevator to the user terminal of the user based on the user information; And
Receiving a reply to the message from the user terminal
Do more,
The step of controlling the elevator,
Controlling the elevator based on the reply
Containing,
server.
The method of claim 13,
The reply includes timing information of the call of the elevator,
Controlling the elevator based on the reply,
Controlling the elevator to correspond to the timing of the call
Containing,
server.
The method of claim 13,
The user terminal is a terminal installed in the vehicle,
server.

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