KR20120058640A - Laundry management system and method using laundry specialty store using RFID - Google Patents

Abstract

The laundry management system uses RFID tags to professionally manage chains of laundry shops to carry out a large number of laundry tasks through a laundry factory. By automatically performing to prevent sorting errors and to reduce labor costs, merchants to propose a way to operate a laundry shop that can save the time lost to find laundry or the customer's laundry.
In particular, the RFID code is generated to be suitable for the laundry service, not simply to distinguish the laundry, and the code is a merchant code (4-6) and a unique code (7-20) of the tag that produce and supply the tag. Produced by fixing at the point of time, consisting of a code that can change the code (4-6) for the washing process of the laundry, the laundry factory recognizes only the code for the washing process to classify the laundry, and the laundry is finished When sorting for delivery to the affiliated store, it recognizes only the merchant code and sorts and delivers the laundry so that most of the work in the factory that is currently manually made can be automated, and the process is never performed according to the laundry. It is possible to prevent serious damage to laundry, so it can be applied to full-fledged RFID in the laundry industry. To provide a successful model.

Description

Laundry management system and method using laundry specialty shop using RFID {omitted}

The present invention enables efficient and accurate laundry service by utilizing RFID in the whole work to fully realize the special advantages of RFID as a substitute for a simple laundry management code in the laundry industry, thereby saving labor cost and time according to automation. The present invention relates to a system which makes it possible to make the probability of a problem of clothing damage due to a lost laundry and an error of a washing procedure close to 0%.

Background of the Invention and Prior Art

In particular, in the early stages of the introduction of RFID, it was expected that the technology would be a perfect replacement for bar codes, and it was expected to be transferred to the system of RFID in a short time. It has been analyzed that the number of patent applications related to is reduced, which is due to the fact that there are no successful BMs and there is a strong question about the effect.

In any service industry, in order for new technology to be put into practice, it is absolutely impossible to use it if the error rate exceeds 5%, and if it exceeds 1%, the introduction may be considered, but the benefit should be worth the stress. When it reaches 0.1%, it can be said that the state which can be introduced has been reached, and the ultimate should approximate 0%.

Currently, the laundry industry manages by attaching a tag with a laundry management code printed on paper that is hard to tear even if it gets wet. It can be estimated that the introduction of RFID will have a vague effect, but the specific effect has not been verified. Since the price of the tag is higher than the number tag, he is hesitant to introduce it. Also, the patent on RFID in the laundry field is mainly focused on the manufacture of RFID tags that can withstand harsh environments such as washing and ironing. The detailed comparison is omitted.

However, the most serious tag price and recognition rate failure among these realistic problems are specially manufactured and reused to have the best performance under the premise that the tag is reused instead of disposable. In addition to tag cost of 10 won per case, the existing recognition failure rate can be challenged by almost 0.1%, and the present work is to propose a way to automate almost the tasks that are mainly handled by hand in the laundry industry. It is.

As described above, the laundry industry has little advantage to introduce the RFID method in place of the existing numeric code method. Also, in order for the new technology to be put into actual work, the error occurrence rate can be used less than 0.1%. The RFID code has not begun to be introduced because it can never be implemented by using a disposable RFID tag that is slightly higher than the price of a printed tag.

In order to actively solve this realistic problem, RFID was installed at the entrance of the factory while applying RFID to the laundry business based on the recovery and reuse through the conversion of ideas, and challenging the recognition failure rate of 0.1%. To prevent errors, the separators installed at each job and the outlets automatically perform the work that the person was doing to prevent sorting errors and reduce labor costs, and the merchant takes time to find the laundry lost or the customer's laundry. It is to suggest a way to run a laundry shop that can save you.

1 is a general overview of the present invention
Figure 2 is a flow chart of the procedure for receiving laundry at the merchant
Figure 3 is a flow chart of the processing of the laundry in the laundry factory
Figure 4 is a flow chart of the process of returning laundry at the merchant
5 is a view of the configuration of the laundry management tag (R tag)
Figure 6 data structure of the washing process DB
Figure 7 is a data structure of the laundry management DB
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503R tag
It is wrapped with special cloth with the tag of Figure 5 and contains an RFID tag inside, and the outside is a tag marked with a barcode and a number.
503 Merchant Code
A code for managing a merchant in a laundry specialty store that is given a code based on the process of collecting and delivering laundry.
503 Laundry Code
It is designed to perform the laundry procedure by grouping the codes by code in the washing process DB that summarizes the washing process of laundry.

The code should be generated to be suitable for the laundry service, not simply to distinguish the laundry. The code is a merchant code (4-6) and the unique code (7-20) of the tag. It consists of a code that can be fixed to the manufacturing process, and the code for changing the laundry process (4-6), the laundry factory recognizes only the code for the laundry process to classify the laundry, and finished the laundry Later, when sorting for delivery to the merchant, it recognizes only the merchant code and sorts and delivers the laundry so that most of the work in the factory that is currently manually made can be automated and also prevents the process that should never be performed according to the laundry. This can prevent serious damage to the laundry.

In addition, it is possible to check whether there are any missing items in real time by using the RFID tag at the stage of the shipment of the laundry, the factory shipment, and the delivery to the merchant, and if the loss occurs, the lost work stage can be inquired immediately. Since it is not simply a replacement for the numeric code, a complex technique is required, and in addition to the illustrated, it will be appropriately combined or separated to suit the situation, and thus will be applied to the method and apparatus according to the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. This will be described in detail.

Figure 1 is a general overview of the present invention the laundry operation by collecting the laundry and the merchant (105) that is requested to wash the laundry from the server 102 and the customer 106 interlocked with the system 101 for the laundry management of the laundry specialty store Laundry factory 104 to perform the, is composed of a wired / wireless communication network 103 for transmitting information about each subject.

The merchant 105 registers the laundry after attaching the R tag containing the RFID tag to the laundry after receiving and receiving the laundry from the customer 106, and when registering, the laundry process according to the nature of the laundry and the request of the client. If you select the DB laundry service, the washing process code is selected, and the washing process code is added to the merchant code and the unique code fixed to the R tag, stored, moved to the factory, and the washing process code of the R tag is read to the workplace. After the classification is completed, the washing operation is completed, and the delivery is classified and classified based on the affiliate code, and then configured to be delivered to the affiliated store. Inquiry is made through the communication network 103.

2 is a flowchart of a procedure for delivering laundry to a laundry factory when a customer requests 201 as a work flow related to a procedure for receiving laundry at a merchant, and when a customer requests a call to request 201 laundry. 202 visits the customer's request area (204) and collects, and when visited to the merchant (202) receives the laundry at the store (203) after receiving a list of laundry requested by the receipt containing a barcode or numeric code After arranging, provide it to the customer (205), attach the R tag to the collected laundry (206), and if the customer is already registered (207), query the customer information (208), and if it is new (207) After registering the information (211), the customer information is displayed on the order screen (210), scan the barcode on the receipt or enter a numeric code to enter the receipt code of the receipt (213), and enter the collected laundry information (214) after washing After selecting the information and inquiring the washing process code (215) and then read the information of the tag registered in the existing R tag (217) to extract the merchant code and unique code and combined with the washing process code R modified integrated code generated by R If the tag is input 218 and there are more laundry items collected (219), the information is repeatedly inputted from step 214 of inputting the laundry information, and when all the collected laundry information is registered (219) After registering the information in the laundry management DB (221) and the laundry reception DB (222) (220), the contents of the registration are sent together with the reception code by SMS (223), and the laundry is stored in a warehouse to be shipped to the factory. With the goods receipt 224, the reception process is completed.

However, if the receipt is separately printed on the system, the receipt can be provided by arranging the contents upon receipt of the laundry. In this case, the code of the receipt is automatically generated, so the step of inputting the receipt of the receipt will be omitted. .

Figure 3 is a flow of the process of the laundry in the laundry factory for the process from the laundry to the laundry factory 301 to the delivery (326), the laundry 301 arriving at the factory laundry on the conveyor at the entrance If you raise (302), the RFID reader installed at the entrance reads the R tag to check the laundry arrives (303), and if there is a difference between the laundry to arrive (329) immediately informs the merchant about the information about the non-arrivals If the notification is to be sent with the laundry on the next day to be sure (330), and if it arrives normally (329), the separator containing each RFID reader installed for each laundry sector on the conveyor read the washing process code of the R tag (305), If the code is not a normal work code or a "00000" code or a code that does not exist (306), the laundry expert classifies the laundry process so that the expert can check it again. After selecting the code (308), after reading the information of the tag registered in the existing R tag to extract the merchant code and unique code and input the modified integrated code generated by combining with the washing process code into the R tag (309) Put it back on the conveyor to reclassify (305), and if the normal work code (306) to automatically sort the laundry by laundry sector (307), and move the sorted laundry to the workplace by sector RFID reader installed at the entrance of the laundry R After the tag has been read and checked again (310), if it is not laundry in the workplace (311), it is immediately reclassified and moved to the workplace (313), and the classification is correct (311). When the operation is performed (312), and the laundry is completed on the conveyor of the exit (314), the RFID reader installed at the exit reads the R tag to the laundry management DB to complete the work for the laundry Lock (315), and if the delivery separator containing each RFID reader installed on the conveyor in each region reads the affiliate code of the R tag (317), and the affiliate code to be separated (318), the laundry is classified and counted by delivery area ( 319), and after reading the R tag with the RFID reader 320 or the portable RFID reader 323 installed at the regional outlet, and checking the sorted laundry once again (321), if there is an error in the classification of the delivery area (322). After displaying the error article (327), the laundry is again loaded on the conveyor (328) to sort the laundry again, and if it is normally sorted (322), the registered laundry is registered for the classified laundry (324), and the waiting delivery vehicle Departure from the delivery to the respective merchants through 326 is to complete the work of the laundry factory.

Figure 4 shows the procedure from the merchant to the customer to deliver or return the laundry to the customer as a flow of work on the procedure of returning the laundry, the laundry arrives at the merchant (402) in the state of receiving the R tag read Check and register (403), if there is a difference between the arrival of the goods (405) immediately notify the non-arrivals to be resent the next day (407), if it arrives normally (405) check the list of the laundry arrived (406) If all the requested laundry is not arrived (408) to confirm whether only the first arrival of the laundry will be delivered first (410) and if the first delivery is the appropriate laundry (411) and if the whole laundry arrived (408) After tidying up the laundry (409), the customer is notified by SMS that the laundry has arrived (414), if the customer visits (415) is delivered from the merchant (416) and delivered If desired (415) visit the customer (417) to deliver the laundry (416), the customer is signed the receipt confirming receipt of the laundry (418) and the completion of the work (419) to register the completion of the delivery. If the part of the requested laundry is not arrived (408), if the partial delivery is not appropriate (411) until the rest arrives (412), and if the rest of the laundry arrived (413) and shipped according to the procedure If not all of the laundry still arrives (413), it is determined whether the first delivery or the first delivery is appropriate laundry (410) to select the delivery or storage.

Figure 5 is a view of the configuration of the laundry management tag (R tag), a small code made of water and heat resistant fiber outside (501) by printing a unique code with a bar code and a numeric code (502) and also as a barcode or number It is made by making it possible to inquire, and sealed 504 by inserting a special RFID tag 503 that can withstand water and heat in the pocket, and is designed to be picked up by a stapler or the like on the laundry (505). The text and diagrams use the name R.

Here, the production of the R tag is first printed on the outside of the small pocket made of water and heat-resistant fibers 501 with a barcode and a numeric code, and then put the barcode 502 sealed and produced after 504, each When requesting an R tag from a merchant, the production system reads a barcode through a barcode reader after searching the merchant code, generates a fixed code (merchant code + unique code) by entering a unique code, and the washing process code to be changed is "00000. "To initialize and store the integrated code in the R tag and produce it and supply it to the merchant.

However, since the RFID tag and the fiber used here are produced by many companies in various forms, the tag and the fiber resistant to water and heat can be selected and used, so the RFID tag and the fiber itself are not specified.

Figure 6 is a data structure of the washing process DB is configured by combining the contents of all operations that can be carried out in the laundry factory, but by giving a different code so that completely different operations such as water washing and dry cleaning can be completely distinguished, It is important to avoid mistakes that seriously affect your laundry.

In addition, the washing process code prevents RFID readers at the entrance of each workplace from performing tasks that can cause serious problems with laundry. In addition, the cost of work is affiliated with the head office of a laundry company that operates a laundry factory. It will be charged to you.

Fig.7 The data structure of the laundry management DB can be retrieved from the reception, and can be inquired consistently from the reception of the affiliated store to the receipt of the affiliated store. The laundry reception DB is created for each item of the laundry. It is used as a key value that can be retrieved, and the laundry fee will be managed by the consumer price DB as the income received by the customer for each laundry, and SMS will be sent to the mobile phone number retrieved from the customer DB using the customer management code. .

However, since the laundry reception DB, the customer DB, and the consumer price DB are not essential parts of the patent, a detailed description of the structure of the DB will be omitted.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the scope of rights.

Claims (1)

Server linked with the system for laundry management of the laundry shop,

A laundry shop that collects laundry and performs laundry by collecting a laundry from a customer.

Laundry management system consisting of wired / wireless communication networks delivering information on each subject

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