KR20220108930A - System and method for managing cable installation work quantity - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for cable installation work volume management. The work volume management apparatus includes: a user response unit, when receiving a site image related with cable installation from a user terminal, transmitting design information corresponding to the site image to the user terminal, and transmitting performance information about cable installation generated based on the design information from the user terminal; an image recognition unit analyzing tag information corresponding to a tag captured to be included in the site image to determine the design information corresponding to an installation location of a real object to which the tag is attached; and a work volume management unit generating work volume information of a worker corresponding to the user terminal by using the performance information. Therefore, the present invention is facilitating cable installation status management.

Description

{System and method for managing cable installation work quantity}

The present invention relates to a cable installation workload management apparatus and method.

In offshore structures such as ships and offshore plants, electric devices and switchboards are installed in large quantities, and cables connecting them are also installed in large quantities.

In order for offshore structures to be manufactured in a timely manner, not only the timely installation of electrical equipment, but also effective management of the installation status of cables is very important.

However, in relation to the installation of cables in offshore structures, various technologies for selecting the optimal route for cables to be installed and for counting the amount of cables are being developed, but technologies for efficiently monitoring and managing the installation status of cables have not been developed. .

For this reason, at the manufacturing site of the offshore structure, as illustrated in FIG. 1 , the operator manually creates a route where the installation work is completed among routes that are the installation work unit of the cable with reference to the design drawing, and the work The current status of cable installation and the work performance of each worker are managed in such a way that a manager such as a class leader collects the work load of the workers in the office and organizes it in the form of an Excel file.

However, it is very cumbersome to collect the work amount of the workers in the form of an Excel file after each worker manually records the work performance in the unit of route, and there is a problem in that inaccurate results may be generated.

Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 10-2007-0020350

The present invention allows each operator to select and input the cable installation performance in route units by referring to design information at the cable installation site, thereby making it easy to aggregate the workload of each operator and manage the cable installation status. It is to provide an installation workload management apparatus and method.

Objects other than the present invention will be easily understood through the following description.

According to an aspect of the present invention, when a field image related to cable installation is received from a user terminal, design information corresponding to the field image is transmitted to the user terminal, and cable installation generated based on the design information from the user terminal a user correspondence unit for receiving performance information related to; an image recognition unit that interprets tag information corresponding to a tag captured and included in the field image, and determines the design information corresponding to an installation location of a real object to which the tag is attached; And by using the performance information, there is provided an apparatus for managing the amount of work related to cable installation including a work amount management unit for generating work amount information of an operator corresponding to the user terminal.

In the display unit of the user terminal, the 3D design model included in the design information may be displayed by being superimposed on the corresponding real object in an augmented reality technique using the tag. Here, the design information further includes route information for dividing the installation path of each cable into an installation work unit, and a route identifier corresponding to each route information is displayed on the display unit of the user terminal, and the user The terminal may generate the performance information to correspond to the route identifier selected by the operator from among the displayed route identifiers, and may provide it to the user correspondence unit.

When a plurality of cables to be installed having the same route information exist, a plurality of cable identifiers corresponding to the route identifiers may be further displayed on the display unit. The user terminal may generate the performance information to correspond to the route identifier and cable identifier selected by the operator from among the displayed route identifiers and cable identifiers and provide the generated information to the user correspondence unit.

The display unit of the user terminal may be limited to display only the route identifier corresponding to the pre-stored work quota information for the worker.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for managing an amount of work related to cable installation performed in a work amount management apparatus, the method comprising: receiving a field image related to cable installation from a user terminal; analyzing tag information corresponding to a tag captured in the field image and determining design information corresponding to an installation location of a real object to which the tag is attached; transmitting the design information determined to correspond to the installation location to the user terminal; receiving performance information on cable installation generated using the design information from the user terminal; and using the performance information to generate work amount information of an operator corresponding to the user terminal is provided.

Other aspects, features and advantages other than those described above will become apparent from the following drawings, claims, and detailed description of the invention.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, by allowing each worker to select and input the cable installation performance by route by referring to the design information at the cable installation work site, the effect of facilitating the counting of the work amount of each worker and the management of the cable installation status there is

1 is a view showing a method for counting the amount of cable installation work according to the prior art.
Figure 2 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of the device for managing the amount of work related to cable installation according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 is a view for explaining a cable installation workload registration process according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 4 is a flow chart showing a cable installation workload management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Since the present invention can have various changes and can have various embodiments, specific embodiments are illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the detailed description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to a specific embodiment, it should be understood to include all modifications, equivalents and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of an apparatus for managing the amount of work related to cable installation according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a view for explaining a cable installation workload registration process according to an embodiment of the present invention to be.

Referring to FIG. 2 , the apparatus for managing the amount of work related to cable installation 110 may include a user response unit 112 , an image recognition unit 114 , a workload management unit 116 , and a storage unit 118 .

The user correspondence unit 112 is connected to the user terminal 130 through a communication network, and communicates with the user terminal 130 so that the operator can register performance information regarding the cable installation work at a location such as a cable installation site.

Specifically, the user response unit 112 receives an image of a field in which an arbitrary real object in the cable installation site (eg, the cable support 210, etc.) is photographed from the user terminal 130 through a communication network, image recognition Design information corresponding to the site location recognized by the unit 114 is provided to the user terminal 130 .

The user terminal 130 may be, for example, a portable device having a communication function and a camera function, such as a smart phone, a tablet PC, a notebook computer, and the like. The user terminal 130 may transmit a field image captured as a still image or a field image that is a preview image captured in the preview mode to the workload management apparatus 110 .

In this case, the design information, such as a three-dimensional design model, for example, may be processed so as to be displayed overlapping a real object such as the cable support 210 by an augmented reality technique on the display unit of the user terminal 130 operated in the preview mode. Of course, it is natural that only the design information corresponding to the recognized site location may be displayed in a conventional display method independently displayed on the design information display screen.

In addition, the user correspondence unit 112 may receive the performance information regarding the cable installation work from the user terminal 130 . As will be described later, the operator may input performance data using design information displayed through the display unit of the user terminal 130 .

If there is a tag attached to a real object in the field image received from the user terminal 130, the image recognition unit 114 may recognize the field location corresponding to the field image using the tag information interpreting the tag. have.

A barcode, a two-dimensional barcode, etc. may be printed on the surface of a tag attached to a real object such as a cable support 210 or a cable tray, and the image recognition unit 114 corresponds to the tag information stored in advance in the storage unit 118 . It is possible to recognize the site location corresponding to the field image by using the information on the installation location of the real object.

When the site location corresponding to the site image is recognized, the image recognition unit 114 reads out design information corresponding to the recognized site location from among the design information previously stored in the storage unit 118 and uses the user correspondence unit 112 to read the design information. to be provided to the user terminal 130 .

At this time, the image recognition unit 114 uses, for example, predetermined reference information such as the installation location and installation angle of the tag recognized in the field image, the three-dimensional design model included in the design information by the augmented reality technique is virtual As graphic information, it may be processed to be displayed on the display unit of the user terminal 130 by being superimposed on a real object.

When the performance information is received from the user terminal 130 , the workload management unit 116 may update and store the workload information of the worker with reference to the received performance information and the job allocation information corresponding to the worker. Also, the workload management unit 116 may update and store cable installation status information based on the workload information of a plurality of workers.

In FIG. 3, when a worker uses the user terminal 130 at the cable installation site to photograph the cable support 210, which is a real object to which the target 215 is attached, design information ( 250) is exemplified. In FIG. 3 , reference numeral 220 denotes a cable tray, and 230 denotes a cable.

The design information displayed on the display unit of the user terminal 130 relates to the location of the field corresponding to the photographed tag 215, and the three-dimensional design model is displayed overlaid with a real object in an augmented reality technique, or is set to be displayed independently. can The design information displayed on the display unit of the user terminal 130 may be moved or rotated through the operator's touch and slide operation.

One or more route identifiers for cables may be displayed on the display unit of the user terminal 130 together with the three-dimensional design model.

The operator may cause the performance information to be generated by using the route identifier displayed on the display unit of the user terminal 130 . That is, the operator selects the route identifier corresponding to the section where the cable installation work is completed from among the route identifiers that display the cable installation route to be divided into installation work units, and selects a preset button (for example, a button to register performance) By selecting , the performance information may be transmitted to the workload management device 110 .

At the cable installation site, a cable is installed to connect the first electric device and the second electric device to each other. However, in general, the cable installation work for connecting the first and second electrical devices to each other is often not completed at once or in one day.

Accordingly, the entire installation path of the cable connecting the first and second electrical devices is divided into installation work units called routes as a logical concept, and the amount of work for cable installation work is managed in units of routes. . Route information including coordinate information for a start point and an end point of each route may be previously stored in the storage unit 118 as design information.

That is, the cable connecting the first and second electric devices can be managed as a set of a plurality of routes logically divided to be continuous, and the first and second electric The installation status of cables connecting devices can be managed.

Among the design information displayed corresponding to the field image through the display unit of the user terminal 130 , the route identifier may be limitedly displayed only with the route identifier corresponding to the work quota information of the worker. The processing for causing the route identifier to be displayed in a limited manner may be performed by one or more of the user correspondence unit 112 , the workload management unit 116 , and the like.

Who the worker is, for example, the user terminal 130 may be recognized in advance by an authentication procedure when the user terminal 130 connects to the work amount management device 110 and the communication network, and the work quota information for each worker is stored in the storage unit 118 can be stored in advance.

When the operator selects a specific route identifier among route identifiers displayed together with the 3D design model on the display unit, the user terminal 130 may generate corresponding performance information and transmit it to the workload management apparatus 110 . The work amount management unit 116 may recognize that the cable installation work for the route corresponding to the route identifier selected by the work artist has been completed with reference to the performance information.

Of course, if a plurality of cable installation tasks in the same route corresponding to one route identifier are set as work quota information for the worker, design information including the route identifier and a plurality of cable identifiers is displayed on the display of the user terminal 130 . may be displayed through

In this case, the operator may select a route identifier and one or more cable identifiers together to correspond to the contents of the completed cable installation work, and the corresponding performance information may be transmitted to the workload management device 110 .

The storage unit 118 may store design information, tag information corresponding to each real object, authentication information for each worker, work quota information for each worker, workload information of each worker, cable installation status information, and the like.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a cable installation workload management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4 , in step 410 , the workload management apparatus 110 receives a field image from the user terminal 130 connected through a communication network. Here, the site image may be, for example, a still image of a real object to which the tag 215 is attached within a cable installation site, or a preview image captured in a preview mode.

When the workload management device 110 is connected to the user terminal 130 through a communication network, an authentication procedure for recognizing who the worker is may be performed.

In step 420, the workload management device 110 recognizes the site location corresponding to the site image by using the tag information interpreting the tag 215 included in the site image, and provides design information corresponding to the recognized site location to the user. It is transmitted to the terminal 130 .

In the display unit of the user terminal 130 , the design information may be displayed overlaid with, for example, a real object and an augmented reality technique, or may be processed to be displayed independently.

In addition, on the display unit of the user terminal 130, the design information may be processed so that a route identifier for distinguishing each route that is a cable installation work unit is displayed in correspondence with the three-dimensional design model. In this case, it is natural that only the root identifier corresponding to the work quota information of the worker may be selectively displayed.

A route is a division of the entire installation path of one cable to be installed into an installation work unit, and one cable installed to connect to each other with the first and second electrical devices consists of one or more routes, and the cable installation work is performed in each route unit The amount of work related to Route information including coordinate information for a start point and an end point of each route may be previously stored in the storage unit 118 as design information.

In step 430 , the amount of work management device 110 receives performance information regarding the cable installation work of the worker from the user terminal 130 .

The operator selects a route identifier corresponding to the route where the cable installation work is completed from among route identifiers displayed together with the three-dimensional design model on the display unit of the user terminal 130 , and the corresponding performance information is transmitted to the workload management device 110 . can make it happen

Here, if a plurality of cable installation tasks in the route corresponding to one route identifier are set as work quota information for the worker, design information including the route identifier and a plurality of cable identifiers is transmitted through the display unit of the user terminal 130 . It can also be displayed. In this case, the operator may select a route identifier and one or more cable identifiers together to correspond to the contents of the completed cable installation work, and the corresponding performance information may be transmitted to the workload management device 110 .

In step 440, the work amount management device 110 stores the work amount information of the worker by using the work quota information and the received performance information corresponding to the worker. In addition, the workload management apparatus 110 may generate cable installation status information by using the workload information of a plurality of workers.

It goes without saying that the above-described cable installation workload management method may be implemented as a software program, an application, etc. embedded in a digital processing device, and may be performed as an automated procedure according to a time-series sequence. Codes and code segments constituting the program or the like can be easily inferred by a computer programmer in the art. In addition, the program is stored in a computer readable media, read and executed by the computer to implement the method.

Although the above has been described with reference to the embodiments of the present invention, those of ordinary skill in the art can variously modify the present invention within the scope without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention described in the claims below. and may be changed.

110: work amount management device 112: user response unit
114: image recognition unit 116: workload management unit
118: storage 130: user terminal
210: cable support 215: tag
220: cable tray 230: cable
250: design information

Claims (5)

When a field image related to cable installation is received from a user terminal, design information corresponding to the field image is transmitted to the user terminal, and a user receiving performance information about cable installation generated based on the design information from the user terminal counterpart;
an image recognition unit interpreting tag information corresponding to a tag captured in the field image and determining the design information corresponding to an installation location of the real object to which the tag is attached; and
Using the performance information, the workload management apparatus for cable installation including a workload management unit for generating the workload information of the operator corresponding to the user terminal. The method of claim 1,
In the display unit of the user terminal, the three-dimensional design model included in the design information is processed to be displayed overlaid on the corresponding real object in an augmented reality technique using the tag,
The design information further includes route information for dividing the installation path of each cable into an installation work unit, and a route identifier corresponding to each route information is displayed on the display unit of the user terminal,
The user terminal generates the performance information to correspond to the route identifier selected by the operator from among the displayed route identifiers and provides the generated information to the user correspondence unit, the work amount management apparatus for cable installation. 3. The method of claim 2,
If there are a plurality of cables to be installed having the same route information, a plurality of cable identifiers corresponding to the route identifiers are further displayed on the display unit,
The user terminal generates the performance information to correspond to the route identifier and cable identifier selected by the operator from among the displayed route identifiers and cable identifiers, and provides the generated information to the user correspondence unit. 3. The method of claim 2,
The display unit of the user terminal is limited to display only the route identifier corresponding to the pre-stored work quota information for the worker, the work amount management apparatus for cable installation. In the workload management method related to the cable installation performed in the workload management device,
Receiving a field image related to cable installation from a user terminal;
analyzing tag information corresponding to a tag captured in the field image and determining design information corresponding to an installation location of a real object to which the tag is attached;
transmitting the design information determined to correspond to the installation location to the user terminal;
receiving performance information on cable installation generated using the design information from the user terminal; and
A work amount management method for cable installation comprising the step of generating work amount information of an operator corresponding to the user terminal by using the performance information.

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