KR20230003988A - Method and system for controlling entrance to public facilities using Covid-19 self-diagnosis kits - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for managing an entrance to a multi-use facility using a coronavirus-19 self-test kit. The present invention comprises: an external information recognition unit which recognizes information presented from the outside and transmits the information to a facility management server; the facility management server which processes the information transmitted from the external information recognition unit into quarantine data in a predetermined format and transmits the data to a government-designated server; an information display unit which displays the information under the control of the facility management server; and the government-designated server which stores the quarantine data transmitted from the facility management server and individually certifies whether users are infected or not. According to the present invention, the present invention controls whether to enter the multi-use facilities on the basis of diagnosis results of coronavirus-19 infection by breaking away from uniform restrictions on business hours or the number of people for all multi-use facilities, thereby greatly reducing losses which happen to operators of multi-use facilities.

Description

Method and system for controlling entrance to public facilities using Covid-19 self-diagnosis kits}

The present invention relates to a method and system for managing access to multi-use facilities using a self-diagnosis kit for COVID-19, and more specifically, to construct a quarantine system using a self-diagnosis kit that allows users to directly diagnose whether or not they are infected with the virus. By doing so, a multi-use facility access control method that can reduce irrational losses of multi-use facility operators due to quarantine guidelines such as uniform business hours restrictions or limiting the number of people in multi-use facility during large-scale infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and system.

Due to the recent global spread of coronavirus infection (COVID-19), interest in and importance of effective quarantine at the individual, regional, and national level is growing.

On the other hand, the global GDP loss due to COVID-19 is estimated to reach 5.6 trillion dollars (KRW 6205.92 trillion), and it is reported that the loss of companies and the self-employed is significant in Korea.

In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Republic of Korea has established quarantine guidelines that limit the number of people and business hours of multi-use facilities, and is implementing quarantine measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Due to restrictions on business hours and number of people in multi-use facilities in accordance with these quarantine guidelines, the sales of stores in multi-use facilities have decreased significantly compared to before the corona crisis.

However, the above quarantine guidelines control access to multi-use facilities in an uncertain way that makes it difficult to accurately determine corona infection, such as simple body temperature measurement. There is a problem that the uniform business hours and restrictions on the number of people make multi-use facility operators, most of whom are self-employed, unilaterally and irrationally bear losses.

Republic of Korea Patent Registration No. 10-2139341 (published on July 23, 2020)

The present invention is to provide a method and system for constructing a digital quarantine network using a self-diagnosis kit that can be used by individuals.

The present invention is also to provide a method and system for determining whether or not a user entering and exiting a multi-use facility is infected with COVID-19 by a self-diagnosis kit, and storing and managing this infection information.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and system allowing free access to all multi-use facility stores within the validity period of the self-diagnosis result by authenticating the diagnosis result by the self-diagnosis kit.

The technical problems of the present invention are not limited to the technical problems mentioned above, and other technical problems not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the description below.

In order to solve the above problems, an access control system for multi-use facilities using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an external information recognition unit that recognizes information presented from the outside and transmits it to a facility management server; A facility management server that processes the information transmitted from the external information recognition unit into quarantine data in a predetermined format and transmits it to a government designated server, an information display unit that displays information under the control of the facility management server, and transmission from the facility management server It may include a national agency-designated server that stores quarantine data and certifies whether or not each user is infected.

The external information recognizing unit may include a means for recognizing a QR code and a means for recognizing a diagnostic kit reading line.

Quarantine data transmitted from the facility management server to the government agency designation server may include at least user information, facility information, and diagnostic kit reading line information.

The national institution designation server may determine whether or not the corresponding user is infected based on the readout line information, and then transmit the result to the terminal of the user or the facility management server.

In order to solve the above problems, a method for managing access to multi-use facilities using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of recognizing a user's QR code by an external information recognition unit installed in a multi-use facility; The step of recognizing the QR code of the diagnostic kit by the information recognition unit, the step of recognizing the reading line information of the diagnostic kit by the external information recognition unit, and the step of recognizing the user's QR code information by the facility management server installed in the multi-use facility The step of transmitting the QR code information and the read line information of the national agency to a server designated by a government agency, the step of the designated server of a national agency determining whether or not the corresponding user is infected by the information on the read line, and the national agency designated server making the determination It may include transmitting a result to the user's terminal.

The method may further include transmitting, by the government agency designation server, the determination result to a facility management server that has requested an inquiry about whether or not the user is infected by transmitting the QR code of the user.

The configuration and function of each of these solutions will become more apparent from the detailed description for carrying out the invention to be described later based on the accompanying drawings.

According to the method and system for managing access to multi-use facilities using the COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to each embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to build a digital quarantine network using the self-diagnosis kit that can be used by individuals.

In the present invention, the self-diagnosis kit can also check whether or not a user who enters and exits a multi-use facility is infected with COVID-19, and stores and manages this infection information.

In the present invention, a government agency can manage to allow free access to all multi-use facility stores within the validity period of the self-diagnosis result by authenticating the diagnosis result by the self-diagnosis kit.

The present invention also avoids uniform business hours restrictions or restrictions on the number of people for all multi-use facilities, and controls access to multi-use facilities based on the diagnosis result of COVID-19 infection, thereby greatly reducing the losses of many multi-use facility operators. can be reduced

The effects of the present invention are not limited to the effects mentioned above, and other effects not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the description below.

1 illustrates a multi-use facility access control system using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates a process in which an infection test using a self-diagnosis kit and a report of the test result are performed in the system of FIG. 1 .
3 illustrates a process of searching for previous inspection results when a user visits another multi-use facility in a method for managing access to a multi-use facility using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram for explaining detailed configurations of servers 100 and 200 included in a multi-use facility access management system using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The foregoing and additional inventive aspects are embodied through embodiments described with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the embodiments described below are merely illustrative and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention only to the described embodiments.

In addition, the components of each embodiment may be combined in various ways within the embodiment or between the embodiments as long as there is no contradiction with other references or mutually, and specific descriptions of known functions or components related to the present invention are described. If it is determined that this may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description will be omitted.

In addition, when a part "includes" a certain component, it means that this component is necessarily included regardless of other components, and the possibility of including other components is not excluded.

In addition, throughout the specification, when a part is said to be “connected” to another part, this is not only the case where it is “directly connected”, but also the case where it is “electrically connected” with another element in between. include Furthermore, throughout the specification, a signal means an electrical quantity such as voltage or current.

In addition, the flow charts shown in the drawings are only illustratively shown in order to obtain the most desirable results in practicing the present invention, and of course, other steps may be added or some steps may be deleted.

Hereinafter, a method and system for managing access to a multi-use facility using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

1 illustrates a multi-use facility access control system using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the multi-use facility access management system using the COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a facility management server 100, a scanner/QR reader 110, a display device 120, It may include a test device 130 and a national institution designation server 200.

The scanner/QR reader 110 is an external information recognition unit that recognizes various types of information provided from the outside, and recognizes or photographs a QR code generated by a user terminal or printed on a diagnostic kit, a reading line of a diagnostic kit, etc. It is an input means for transmitting to the facility management server 100. A QR reader, an optical character reader (OCR), or a camera may be used as a means for recognizing the external information.

The facility management server 100 includes unique personal information of users of multi-use facilities (hereinafter referred to as 'facility') (hereinafter referred to as 'user') acquired through the external information recognition unit. It can read the identification code information of the self-diagnosis kit, the information of the identification code of the self-diagnosis kit, and the COVID-19 self-diagnosis result.

To this end, software capable of reading a QR code input through a QR scanner, an OCR scanner, or a camera, diagnostic kit reading line information, and image information of a diagnostic kit reading line may be installed in the facility management server.

The facility management server 100 can be selected and configured among POS, Tablet, KIOSK, and smart phone. In the description of the present invention, the display and scanner are separated from the facility management server, but the display and scanner Of course, it can also be configured as an all-in-one device integrally formed with the facility management server.

The facility management server 100 may store facility information, visit time, facility user personal information, and corona test results in its own database, and transmit the information to a national agency-designated server and store the information in the database of the national agency-designated server. You can do it.

The self-diagnosis kit may include a test device 130, an extraction solution tube, a nozzle cap, and a sterilization rod.

The test device 130, that is, the body of the corona diagnosis kit, may include a sample drop site, a result window, and a printed QR code.

The sample instillation site is the part where the extracted sample mixture is injected.

There is a reading line on the result window, and when the sample mixture is injected into the sample drop site, the presence or absence of a control line or test line in the reading line indicates whether or not the infection is present.

The QR code of the inspection device 130 includes manufacturer, expiration date, year and month of production (YYMM), and serial number information, and is configured so that it is not duplicated and managed in the server, so that problems such as duplication and omission do not occur. there is

In addition, compared to conventional barcodes, QR codes can contain a large amount of data information while maintaining a short and small code size, and have an error recovery function that allows data information to be restored even if parts of the code are contaminated or damaged. It is suitable for writing as an identification code of a device for inspection.

The extraction solution tube serves to mix the sample taken by the inspector, and the nozzle cap is a cap of the extraction solution tube and is shaped like a nozzle so that it can be easily injected into the sample droplet of the test device.

A sterile rod is inserted along the nasal septum of the examiner, and a sample is collected from the nasopharynx.

Facility users themselves insert a sterilized rod along the nasal septum, rotate the sterilized rod 3 to 4 times when the sterilized rod comes into contact with the nasopharynx, pull it out of the nostril, and insert the sterilized rod with the nasopharyngeal sample into the extraction solution tube. After mixing, take out the sterilization rod and cover the extraction solution tube with the nozzle cap to close it.

If the sample mixture of the extraction solution tube with the nozzle cap is vertically injected into the test device 4 drops at a time every 30 seconds, the result of corona infection will appear on the reading line after about 15 minutes.

The result of corona infection (negative, positive, invalid) is determined in the following three ways according to the reading line of the test device.

(1) Negative: When only the control line appears

(2) Positive: When both the control line and the test line appear

(3) Invalid: In case the control line does not appear or only the test line appears

The scanner/QR reader 110 may scan an identification QR code individually assigned to the facility user smartphone 130 or the device 310 for examination. In addition, since the reading line of the sample device must be read, not only a QR code scanner but also an OCR scanner or camera can be added. In addition, if necessary, various identification codes and identification tags can be recognized using RFID and NFC technologies.

The OCR scanner for querying the reading line can be replaced with an optical device for taking pictures, such as a camera, and the inspection result of the self-diagnosis kit can be determined by software for analyzing the photographed reading line.

Instead of using a QR code scanner or OCR scanner separately, you can use a combined scanner that can scan both OCR and QR codes.

The QR code of a facility user may include personal information (name, phone number, date of birth), etc.

The display device 120 is connected to the facility management server 100 and can display information on the identification code of the self-diagnosis kit and the result of self-diagnosis of the corona.

In addition, the display device 120 can display various information including inspection methods, inspection locations, etc., and can also display information on the facility management server or information transmitted from the government agency designation server.

The national agency designation server 200 refers to a server designated or operated by a national agency such as the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and collects, aggregates, and manages user information and corona test results delivered from multiple facility management servers.

The government agency designation server 200 can be connected to a plurality of facility management servers, and information sharing and exchange are performed in real time through network communication between servers.

In addition, the information in the database of the national agency designation server 200 can be specified by setting groups by region, age, gender, and date according to the needs of the manager, and can be classified by group according to various criteria and synthesized to generate various statistics. .

Through group statistics composed of graphs, charts, Excel files, etc., trends in corona infection can be seen in real time, and accordingly, there is an advantage in systematically establishing countermeasures to prevent the spread of corona.

Hereinafter, with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3 , a method of entering a multi-use facility using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit will be described.

FIG. 2 illustrates a process in which an infection test using a self-diagnosis kit and a report of the test result are performed in the system of FIG. 1 .

Referring to FIG. 2, when a customer visits a multi-use facility (1), the operator or employee (hereinafter collectively referred to as the operator) of the facility provides the customer with a self-diagnosis kit to check whether the customer is infected and control access. Provide (2).

Customers who have received the self-diagnosis kit take a sample themselves (3) and submit it to the facility operator, and the facility operator drops the tube of extraction solution containing the sample onto the sample drop site of the test device to start the test (4).

It currently takes about 15 minutes from the start of the test to completion, and a timer may be operated (5) to check the elapse of this time. The corona diagnostic kit used at this time may be a product having a QR code or the like printed on the body of the device for examination.

The facility management server acquires customer information and device information by scanning the QR code containing customer (user) information and the QR code of the inspection device before or after the inspection, and after the inspection is completed, the reading line of the inspection device is OCRed. It can be recognized as an infection or taken with a camera to determine whether or not it is infected.

It is also possible, of course, that the determination of whether or not to be infected is performed by a government designated server rather than a facility management server, and the facility management server receives only the result.

In each step, the facility management server can link and store the customer's QR code information, the QR code information of the inspection device, the unique information for identifying a multi-use facility, and the infection determination result information. At this time, the customer's QR code information may include a name, phone number, date of birth, etc., and the QR code information of the inspection device may include a manufacturer, expiration date, year of manufacture (YYMM) and serial number.

Thereafter, the facility management server combines customer-specific information, diagnostic kit-specific information, multi-use facility-specific information, and infection determination result information to prepare data for transmission and transmits the data to a server designated by a government agency.

The government agency designation server can store corona inspection information, facility user (customer) information, and multi-use facility information received from the facility management server in a database, and transmit the processing results to the facility management server or user's terminal.

The national institution-designated server can obtain various statistical data using information obtained from facility management servers at the regional or national level, and accordingly, it becomes possible to establish a more reasonable and flexible national quarantine policy.

If necessary, a prize lottery function may be assigned to a server designated by a government agency in order to activate a self-diagnosis test. When the prize lottery function is granted in this way, the government designated server may notify each winning user terminal of the prize winning fact after performing the prize lottery function.

In each of the above steps, the facility management server can output inspection result determination information or necessary guidance on the display screen.

If the test result by the above self-diagnosis kit is negative, the customer is allowed to enter the multi-use facility, and if it is positive, the customer is not allowed to enter and a visit to a screening clinic for precise diagnosis may be recommended. If the test result is invalid, it can be retested using another diagnostic kit.

3 is a method for managing access to multi-use facilities using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention, when a user who has been tested in a previous multi-use facility visits another multi-use facility to view previous test results It shows the process.

Referring to FIG. 3, when a customer who has completed an inspection at a previous multi-use facility visits another multi-use facility within an effective time (eg, 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, etc.), the access management method is to present QR information It may include step 510, inquiry request step 520, inquiry result transmission step 530, and result output step 540.

The QR information presentation step 510 is a step of presenting smartphone QR information of a customer (facility user) to a facility operator.

Inquiry request step 520, after the facility management server recognizes the customer's QR code by the scanner, it provides the personal information of the recognized QR code to the government agency-designated server to request an inquiry on previous inspection results for infection. It is a step.

In the query result transmission step 530, the national agency designation server searches the database to see if there is an inspection record using the QR code information, and then transmits the result to the facility management server.

The result output step 540 is a step in which the facility management server outputs the inquiry result received from the national agency designation server to the display screen.

The query result may include information on infection status, valid time information, and the like.

According to the present invention, it is possible to efficiently secure electronic access list information and COVID-19 self-diagnosis test information from a government agency-designated server, and various statistical data can be obtained using the information thus obtained, which makes it more reasonable and flexible. It becomes possible to establish a national quarantine policy that works as a

In addition, by breaking away from the existing uniform business hours restrictions or quarantine guidelines of limiting the number of people, more sophisticated and flexible quarantine is possible, thereby preventing the spread of infection through multi-use facilities and dramatically reducing losses for multi-use facility operators. be able to reduce

4 is a diagram for explaining detailed configurations of servers 100 and 200 included in a multi-use facility access management system using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4 , each server (integrated into 300) included in the system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a processor 310, a memory 320, a storage 330, and a communication interface 340.

The storage 330 may store programs including commands for processing each step of the method for managing access to public facilities using the COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention described above.

The program may be a single program or may be a plurality of programs in which processing steps are divided into several functions.

The program is executed by the processor 310, and some instructions or data may be temporarily stored in the memory 320 while being executed by the processor 310.

Although not shown, the multi-use facility access management system using the COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the processor 310, memory 320, storage 330, and communication interface 340, respectively. A plurality of computing devices may be connected through a communication network.

In this case, in the storage 330 of each computing device, a plurality of programs including instructions for processing each step of the method for managing access to multi-use facilities using the COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit described above are divided and stored in each storage 330. And, each processor 310 may execute programs stored in the storage 330 of each computing device.

As described above, the multi-use facility access control method using the COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to each embodiment of the present invention can be written in a program, and the codes and code segments constituting the program can be easily deduced by a programmer in the related field. It can be. In addition, the program related to the method for managing access to multi-use facilities using the COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit according to each embodiment of the present invention is stored in an information storage medium (hereinafter, computer-readable storage medium) readable by an electronic device such as a computer. and can be read and executed by the electronic device.

The computer readable storage medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and configured for the present invention or those known and usable to those skilled in computer software. Examples of computer-readable storage 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. - includes hardware devices specially configured to store and execute program instructions, such as magnetic media, and ROM, RAM, flash memory, etc. The medium may be a transmission medium such as a light or metal wire including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal designating a program command, a data structure, or the like, or a waveguide. Examples of program instructions include high-level language codes that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter, as well as machine language codes such as those produced by a compiler. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention.

The user terminal according to the present invention is a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a cellular phone, a PCS (Personal Communication Service) phone, a hand-held PC (Hand-Held PC), a CDMA-2000 (1X, 3X) phone, and a WCDMA (Wideband CDMA) It may include a phone, a dual band/dual mode phone, a global standard for mobile (GSM) phone, a mobile broadband system (MBS) phone, or a satellite/terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) phone. .

As used herein, the term "system" includes any apparatus, apparatus, and machine for processing data, including, for example, a processor, computer, or multiple processors or computers. A processing system includes, in addition to hardware, all elements that form an execution environment for a computer program, such as, for example, code constituting processor firmware, a protocol stack, a database management system, an operating system, or a combination of two or more thereof. can do. A computer program, also known as a program, software, software application, script or code, may be written in any form of programming language, including compiled or interpreted language or a priori or procedural language, and may be a stand-alone program, module, component, or sub-program. It may be implemented in a variety of forms including a routine form as well as other units suitable for use in a computer environment.

The system may be implemented by hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof. When implemented using hardware, an ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) or DSP (digital signal processor), DSPD (digital signal processing device), PLD (programmable logic device), FPGA (field programmable gate array), etc., including modules, procedures, or functions that perform the above functions or operations when implemented using firmware or software Firmware or software may be configured to do so.

An electronic device such as a user terminal includes a communication unit and a processor. The communication unit is a component for performing communication with the server. For example, the communication unit may support various communication methods such as BT (BlueTooth), BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), WI-FI (Wireless Fidelity), Zigbee, and the like. However, it is not limited thereto, and any communication standards may be used as long as wireless communication with the server is possible. Alternatively, the communication unit may include a communication interface capable of wired communication with an external device. For example, the communication unit may include a communication interface such as HDMI, MHL, USB, RGB, D-SUB, DVI, and the like. Also, the electronic device may receive multimedia data by being connected to an external device. In this case, the electronic device may be connected to an external device through a communication interface such as HDMI, DP, Thunderbolt, USB, RGB, D-SUB, DVI, and the like, and the communication unit may include all wired communication interfaces. In addition to the wired communication interface described above, the communication unit may include interfaces of all communication standards capable of wired communication with an external device or server.

The processor may include a central processing unit (CPU), a micro controller unit (MCU), a micro processing unit (MPU), A controller, an application processor (AP), a communication processor (CP), or one or more of an ARM processor may be included, or may be defined as such terms. In addition, a processor may be defined as processing It can be implemented in the form of SoC (System on Chip), LSI (large scale integration), and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) with built-in algorithms.

The memory and the storage are storage units for storing programs and data, and may store program commands for processing and controlling a system and data during and after processing. The storage unit includes read only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), flash memory, static RAM (SRAM), and HDD. (Hard Disk Drive), SSD (Solid State Drive), etc.

Although the present invention has been described as above, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains will recognize that it can be implemented in other forms while maintaining the technical spirit and essential characteristics of the present invention. .

The scope of the present invention will be defined by the claims, but all changes or modifications derived from configurations equivalent thereto, as well as configurations directly derived from the claims, are also included in the scope of the present invention. should be interpreted as being

100: facility management server
110: scanner (external information recognition unit)
120: display device
130: customer smartphone QR code
140: device QR code for inspection
200: government designated server
300: server
310: processor
320: memory
330: storage
340: communication interface

Claims (7)

an external information recognition unit that recognizes information presented from the outside and transmits it to the facility management server;
a facility management server that processes the information transmitted from the external information recognition unit into quarantine data in a predetermined format and transmits the data to a government agency designation server;
an information display unit displaying information under the control of the facility management server; and
a national institution-designated server that stores quarantine data transmitted from the facility management server and authenticates whether or not each user is infected;
Including, a multi-use facility access management system using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit.
According to claim 1,
The external information recognition unit includes a means for recognizing a QR code and a means for recognizing a diagnostic kit reading line.
According to claim 2,
Quarantine data transmitted by the facility management server to the government agency-designated server includes at least user information, facility information, and diagnostic kit readout information. .
According to claim 1,
The national institution designation server determines whether or not the corresponding user is infected by the readout line information and transmits the result to the user's terminal or the facility management server, characterized in that, a multi-use facility using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit access control system.
According to claim 1,
The national institution-designated server has a prize lottery function, a multi-use facility access management system using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit.
recognizing a user's QR code by an external information recognition unit installed in a multi-use facility;
recognizing the QR code of the diagnostic kit by the external information recognizing unit;
Recognizing the read line information of the diagnostic kit by the external information recognizing unit;
transmitting QR code information of the user, QR code information of the diagnostic kit, and readout line information to a server designated by a government agency by a facility management server installed in a multi-use facility;
determining whether or not the corresponding user is infected based on the readout line information, by the national agency designation server; and
transmitting, by the national agency designation server, the determination result to the terminal of the user;
Including, a method for managing access to multi-use facilities using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit.
According to claim 6,
Multi-use facility using a COVID-19 self-diagnosis kit, further comprising the step of the national agency designation server transmitting the determination result to a facility management server that has requested an inquiry on whether or not the user is infected by transmitting the QR code of the user. How to manage access.

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