KR20160068614A - Maintenance management for beacon device - Google Patents

Abstract

A beacon maintenance management server is provided. The beacon maintenance management server includes a maintenance determiner for determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on beacon maintenance information based on status information of the beacon device; And receiving and storing status information of the beacon device from the beacon device and the main node device constituting the network, determining a measure according to the maintenance of the beacon device, and managing at least one of the maintenance period and the action item to the administrator terminal And a beacon management unit for transmitting the beacon.

Description

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The present invention relates to maintenance management of a beacon device, and more particularly to a beacon device, a beacon maintenance management server, a beacon maintenance management system, a beacon maintenance management method, and a beacon maintenance management program The present invention relates to a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon.

Recently, with the rapid spread of smart devices including smart phones, the paradigm of the mobile communication industry is shifting from voice calls to applications. Particularly, since the location of the user terminal can be grasped, an application that can provide various services based on the location information of the user having the user terminal in real time has appeared.

The positioning of the user terminal has already been popularized by GPS-based technology outdoors, but limited in cases where GPS signals are not received, such as indoor or underground. In order to solve such a problem, methods using short-range communication have been proposed, and recently, beacon devices using low-power Bluetooth (BLE) communication have appeared.

Such a BLE beacon device must pairare between each BLE beacon device and the manager device in order to know the status information of each BLE beacon device. However, the individual pairing of the BLE beacon device and the manager device is very cumbersome to investigate various status information such as the battery level of each BLE beacon device, and thus can not be performed mechanically.

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In order to solve the problems of the related art as described above, one embodiment of the present invention provides maintenance management of a beacon device capable of monitoring a status of a beacon device and notifying a maintenance terminal or a management terminal of a maintenance item .

In addition, one embodiment of the present invention is to provide maintenance management of a beacon device that can monitor a status of a device and change a status variable of a beacon device in a beacon maintenance management server according to maintenance time.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a beacon maintenance management server is provided. Wherein the beacon maintenance management server comprises: a maintenance determiner for determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on beacon maintenance information based on status information of the beacon device; And receiving and storing the status information of the beacon device from the beacon device and the main node device constituting the network, determining a measure according to the maintenance of the beacon device, And a beacon management unit for transmitting at least one to the administrator terminal.

In one embodiment, the beacon management unit can search the management DB for the action items according to the maintenance, and determine the action items.

In one embodiment, the action may be a user action corresponding to battery replacement, equipment malfunction, or device illegal replacement.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a beacon maintenance management server is provided. Wherein the beacon maintenance management server comprises: a maintenance determiner for determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on beacon maintenance information based on status information of the beacon device; And receiving and storing the status information of the beacon device from the beacon device and the main node device constituting the network, and instructing the main node device to change the status variable of the beacon device according to the determined maintenance time To the beacon device through the beacon device.

In one embodiment, the status variable may include at least one of a transmission power of the beacon device, a transmission period, data included in a packet, an encryption key required to encrypt a packet, and a stop / start command of the beacon device. In one embodiment, the status information may include at least one of location, transmit power, battery power, temperature, CO level, and humidity.

In one embodiment, the maintenance determination unit may search the management DB for the maintenance time according to the status information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a beacon device is provided. The beacon device includes: a status information collecting unit for collecting a plurality of status information; And a packet generator for generating a packet including at least one of the plurality of status information and sequentially generating packets including different status information so that the plurality of status information are all transmitted.

In one embodiment, the beacon device may further include an encryption unit for encrypting the generated packet.

In one embodiment, the status information collector may collect status information including position, transmit power, battery power, temperature, CO level, and humidity.

In one embodiment, the beacon device may further include a state variable changing unit for changing a state variable according to an instruction to change the state variable received from the beacon maintenance management server through the main node device.

In one embodiment, the state variable may include at least one of transmission power, transmission period, data included in a packet, an encryption key required for encrypting a packet, and a device stop / start command.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a main node device that configures a network with a beacon device, receives status information from the beacon device, and transmits the status information to the beacon maintenance management server. The main node device extracts the status information from the packet received from the beacon device and controls to transmit all status information of the beacon device to the beacon maintenance management server; And a storage unit for storing the extracted state information.

In one embodiment, the main node device may further include a decryption unit for decrypting a packet received from the beacon device.

In one embodiment, the control unit extracts and stores at least one state information from packets sequentially received from the beacon device, and when all the state information is extracted, the control unit controls the beacon maintenance management server to transmit the state information at a time have.

In one embodiment, the controller may control the beacon device to transmit a change instruction of the status variable received from the beacon maintenance management server to the beacon device.

In one embodiment, the main node device may be a user terminal or a main node beacon device. According to another aspect of the present invention, a beacon maintenance management method is provided. The beacon maintenance management method includes receiving and storing status information of a beacon device from a beacon device and a main node device constituting a network in a beacon maintenance management server; Determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on the received status information of the beacon device; And a step of determining a measure according to the maintenance of the beacon device and transmitting at least one of the maintenance time and the measure to the administrator terminal.

In one embodiment, the transmitting step may search the management DB for a measure according to the maintenance, and determine the action.

In one embodiment, the action may be a user action corresponding to battery replacement, equipment malfunction, or device illegal replacement.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a beacon maintenance management method is provided. The beacon maintenance management method includes receiving and storing status information of a beacon device from a beacon device and a main node device constituting a network in a beacon maintenance management server; Determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on the received status information of the beacon device; And transmitting an instruction to change the state variable of the beacon device according to the determined maintenance time to the corresponding beacon device through the main node device.

In one embodiment, the status variable may include at least one of a transmission power of the beacon device, a transmission period, data included in a packet, an encryption key required to encrypt a packet, and a stop / start command of the beacon device.

In one embodiment, the beacon maintenance management method may further include, in the beacon device, changing a corresponding state variable according to an instruction to change the state variable.

In one embodiment, the beacon maintenance management method includes: collecting a plurality of status information in the beacon device; And generating a packet including at least one of the plurality of status information, and sequentially generating packets including status information that are different from each other such that the status information is all transmitted.

In one embodiment, the beacon maintenance management method may further include encrypting the generated packet.

In one embodiment, the collecting step may collect status information including at least one of location, transmit power, battery power, temperature, CO level, and humidity.

In one embodiment, the step of determining the maintenance time may be performed by searching the maintenance DB for the maintenance time according to the status information.

In one embodiment, the beacon maintenance management method includes: extracting and storing the state information from a packet received from the beacon device in the main node device; And transmitting all status information of the beacon device to the beacon maintenance management server.

In one embodiment, the beacon maintenance management method may further comprise, at the main node device, decrypting a packet received from the beacon device.

In one embodiment, the extracting and storing step may extract at least one state information from a packet sequentially received from the beacon device, and may be transmitted to the beacon maintenance management server at a time when all the state information is extracted . According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium on which a program to be executed on a beacon maintenance management server is recorded. The program comprising: a code for receiving and storing status information of the beacon device from a beacon device and a main node device constituting a network; A code for determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on the received status information of the beacon device; And a code for determining at least one of the maintenance time and the action to the manager terminal by determining a measure according to the maintenance of the beacon device.

In one embodiment, the code for transmission may be able to determine the action by searching the management DB for a measure of the maintenance.

In one embodiment, the action may be a user action corresponding to battery replacement, equipment malfunction, or device illegal replacement.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium on which a program to be executed on a beacon maintenance management server is recorded. The program comprising: a code for receiving and storing status information of the beacon device from a beacon device and a main node device constituting a network; A code for determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on the received status information of the beacon device; And a code for transmitting an instruction to change the state variable of the beacon device according to the determined maintenance time to the corresponding beacon device through the main node device.

In one embodiment, the status variable may include at least one of a transmission power of the beacon device, a transmission period, data included in a packet, an encryption key required to encrypt a packet, and a stop / start command of the beacon device.

In one embodiment, the status information may include at least one of location, transmit power, battery power, temperature, CO level, and humidity.

In one embodiment, the code for determining the maintenance time may be determined by searching the maintenance DB for the maintenance time for each state information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium on which a program to be executed in a beacon device is recorded. The program comprising: code for collecting a plurality of status information; And code for generating a packet including at least one of the plurality of state information and sequentially generating packets including state information different from each other such that the state information is all transmitted.

In one embodiment, the program may further comprise code for encrypting the generated packet.

In one embodiment, the collecting code may collect status information including at least one of location, transmit power, battery power, temperature, CO level, and humidity.

In one embodiment, the program may further include code for changing a corresponding state variable according to a change instruction of a state variable received from the beacon maintenance management server via the main node device.

In one embodiment, the state variable may include at least one of transmission power, transmission period, data included in a packet, an encryption key required for encrypting a packet, and a device stop / start command.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program executed in a main node device constituting a network with a beacon device. The program comprising: code for extracting and storing the state information from a packet received from a beacon device; And a code for transmitting all status information of the beacon device to the beacon maintenance management server.

In one embodiment, the program may further comprise code for decrypting a packet received from the beacon device.

In one embodiment, the code for extracting and storing extracts at least one state information from a packet sequentially received from the beacon device, and when all the state information is extracted, It can be transmitted to the server at a time.

In one embodiment, the program may further include a code for transmitting a change instruction of a status variable received from the beacon maintenance management server to the beacon device.

The maintenance management of the beacon device according to the embodiment of the present invention can monitor the status of the beacon device and notify the maintenance terminal or the maintenance terminal to the administrator terminal so that it is troublesome to grasp the individual status of the beacon device for maintenance Can be solved.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a maintenance schedule can be established by informing an administrator of a maintenance time for each state according to the current state of the beacon device, so that the maintenance of the beacon device can be efficiently managed.

One embodiment of the present invention can notify the manager of the maintenance action of the beacon device to promptly perform the maintenance action or change the status variable of the beacon device to optimize the maintenance.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the status variable of the beacon device can be changed through the beacon maintenance management server to efficiently manage the maintenance of the beacon device and to optimize the maintenance.

1 is a configuration diagram of a beacon device maintenance management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram of a beacon device for beacon device maintenance management according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram of a main node device for beacon device maintenance management according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a block diagram of a beacon device maintenance management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a block diagram of a management DB of a beacon device maintenance management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart of a beacon device maintenance management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. The present invention may be embodied in many different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and the same or similar components are denoted by the same reference numerals throughout the specification.

1 is a configuration diagram of a beacon device maintenance management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, a beacon device maintenance management system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1, a beacon device maintenance management system 10 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a beacon device 100, a main node device 200, a beacon maintenance management server 300, a management DB 350 ), And an administrator terminal (400).

The beacon device 100 may transmit its location information and status information for verifying the location of the user terminal to the beacon maintenance management server 300 through the user terminal. Alternatively, the beacon device 100 may be connected to the main node device 200 via wireless or wireline communication to configure the network.

The beacon device 100 will now be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a beacon device for beacon device maintenance management according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The beacon device 100 may include a status information collecting unit 110, a packet generating unit 120, an encrypting unit 130, and a communication unit 140, and may be a BLE beacon device.

The status information collection unit 110 may collect status information for collecting a plurality of status information and may collect status information including, for example, position, transmission power, battery power, temperature, CO level, and humidity . For example, the status information collecting unit 110 may collect various status information through a sensor module (not shown).

The packet generation unit 120 may generate a packet including status information collected by the status information collection unit 110. Here, the packet generator 120 may divide a plurality of state information and generate a plurality of packets each including divided state information. For example, a packet including at least one of a plurality of status information may be generated, and a packet including status information different from each other may be sequentially generated so that a plurality of status information is transmitted.

The encryption unit 130 can encrypt the packet generated by the packet generation unit 120. [ At this time, the encryption unit 140 may encrypt a packet generated in either one of a single-key encryption mode and a dual-key encryption mode. For example, in the case of the single key encryption scheme, the encryption unit 130 encrypts the packet generated using the fixed key. In this case, the same fixed key may be distributed to the main node device 200 in advance. In the case of the dual key encryption scheme, the encryption unit 130 first encrypts the random shared key using the fixed key, transmits the random shared key to the main node device 200, and then transmits the generated packet using the random shared key In this case, the main node device 200 can receive the encrypted random shared key while the same fixed key is distributed in advance.

In the present embodiment, the beacon device 100 includes the encryption unit 130. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the encryption unit 130 may be omitted.

The communication unit 140 may broadcast the packet generated by the packet generation unit 120 or the packet encrypted by the encryption unit 130 to the main node device 200. [ For example, the communication unit 140 may perform packet broadcasting using a low-power Bluetooth communication method, but the present invention is not limited thereto and can be performed by any short-range communication method such as WiFi. Alternatively, the communication unit 140 may receive an instruction to change the state variable from the beacon maintenance management server 300 through the main node device 200. [ This reception function of the communication unit 140 may be added only when the beacon device 100 includes the state variable changing unit 150. [

Alternatively, if maintenance of the beacon device 100 is not performed through the administrator terminal 300, that is, if maintenance of the beacon device 100 is managed through the beacon maintenance management server 300 The beacon device 100 may include a state variable changing unit 150 for changing a state variable according to an instruction to change the state variable received through the communication unit 140. [ Here, the state variable may include at least one of a transmission power, a transmission period, data included in a packet, an encryption key required to encrypt a packet, and a device stop / start command.

Referring back to FIG. 1, the main node device 200 may configure a network with the beacon device 100, and may receive status information from the beacon device 100 and transmit the status information to the beacon maintenance management server 300. Here, the main node device 200 may be a user terminal or a main node beacon device.

The main node device 200 will now be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a main node device for beacon device maintenance management according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The main node device 200 may include a first communication unit 210, a decryption unit 220, a control unit 230, a second communication unit 240, and a storage unit 250.

The first communication unit 210 may receive the broadcasted packet from the beacon device 100. [ For example, the first communication unit 210 may perform packet reception using a low-power Bluetooth communication method, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may be performed by any short-range communication method such as WiFi. Alternatively, the first communication unit 210 may transmit an instruction to change the state variable of the beacon device 100 received from the beacon maintenance management server 300 to the beacon device 100. This transmission function of the first communication unit 210 may be added only when the beacon maintenance management server 300 directly measures the maintenance of the beacon device 100. [ The decryption unit 220 can decrypt the packet received by the first communication unit 210. [ At this time, the decryption unit 220 can decrypt the extracted packet by either one of the single key encryption and the dual key encryption. For example, in the case of the single-key encryption method, the decryption unit 220 can decrypt the extracted packet using the fixed key previously distributed in advance. In the case of the dual key encryption scheme, the decryption unit 220 first receives the random shared key encrypted using the fixed key from the beacon device 100, and encrypts the random shared key using the random shared key in the beacon device 100 And can decrypt the packet using the received random shared key.

In the present embodiment, the main node device 200 includes the decryption unit 220, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the decryption unit 220 may be omitted.

The control unit 230 may extract the status information of the beacon device 100 from the packet received from the beacon device 100 or the decrypted packet. Here, since the beacon device 100 divides and transmits a plurality of pieces of status information, the control unit 230 can extract and store at least one status information from the packets sequentially received from the beacon device 100. When all the status information of the beacon device 100 is extracted, the control unit 230 can transmit all the status information of the beacon device 100 to the beacon maintenance management server 300 at a time.

Alternatively, when the maintenance of the beacon device 100 is managed through the beacon maintenance management server 300, the control unit 230 may issue an instruction to change the status variable received from the beacon replacement management server 300 To be transmitted to the beacon device (100).

And the second communication unit 240 can perform communication with the beacon maintenance management server 300. [ For example, the second communication unit 240 may perform communication with the beacon maintenance management server 300 by a long distance communication method such as a cellular network, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and the beacon group management server 300 and the WiFi Bluetooth communication method. Alternatively, the second communication unit 240 may receive an instruction to change the state variable for the beacon device 100 from the beacon maintenance management server 300. [ The function of receiving the change instruction of the state variable of the second communication unit 240 can be added only when the beacon maintenance management server 300 directly measures the maintenance of the beacon device 100. [

The storage unit 250 may store the state information extracted by the controller 230. The storage unit 250 may store at least one state information of the beacon device 100 or alternatively collectively configure all state information of the beacon device 100, 230). ≪ / RTI >

Referring again to FIG. 1, the beacon maintenance management server 300 may monitor the status information of the beacon device 100 and transmit the maintenance time or a corresponding action to the administrator terminal 400. Alternatively, The main node device 200 can transmit an instruction to change the status variable of the beacon device 100 according to the maintenance period to the corresponding beacon device 100. The management DB 350 can transmit data related to beacon maintenance management Can be stored.

Hereinafter, the beacon maintenance management server 300 and the management DB 350 will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. FIG. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a beacon device maintenance management server according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a management DB of a beacon device maintenance management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The beacon maintenance management server 300 may include a communication unit 310, a beacon management unit 320, and a maintenance determination unit 330.

The communication unit 310 may perform communication with the main node device 200 or the administrator terminal 400. For example, the communication unit 310 can perform communication with the main node device 200 or the administrator terminal 400 in a remote communication method such as a cellular network, but the present invention is not limited thereto, And can be performed using WiFi or Bluetooth communication with the terminal 400.

The beacon management unit 320 may receive a plurality of status information of the beacon device 100 from the main node device 200 and store the status information in the management DB 350. [ Here, the received status information may include at least one of the position, the transmission power, the battery power, the temperature, the CO level, and the humidity of the beacon device 100.

In addition, the beacon management unit 320 can determine a maintenance action according to status information of the beacon device 100. At this time, the beacon management unit 320 can search the management DB 350 for the action to be taken by the maintenance to determine the action. Here, the action may be a user action corresponding to battery replacement, equipment malfunction, or device illegal replacement.

In addition, the beacon management unit 320 may manage at least one of the maintenance period of the maintenance determination unit 330 and the determined action items, which will be described later, when the administrator plans maintenance of the beacon device 100, To the administrator terminal 400 so that the administrator terminal 400 can perform the operation.

Alternatively, in the case where the beacon maintenance management server 300 directly measures the maintenance of the beacon device 100, the beacon management unit 320 notifies the beacon device 100 of the beacon according to the maintenance time determined by the maintenance determination unit 330, The main node device 200 can transmit an instruction to change the state variable of the device 100 to the beacon device 100. [ Here, the status variable may include at least one of a transmission power of the beacon device 100, a transmission period, data included in the packet, an encryption key required for encrypting the packet, and a stop / start command of the beacon device 100. For example, in order to adjust the service area of the beacon device 100 according to the state of the beacon device 100, the beacon management unit 320 may change the transmission power determining the arrival distance of the signal transmitted from the beacon device 100 . At this time, if the beacon device 100 has a serious problem of interference with other WiFi signals or beacon signals, the beacon management unit 320 may change the state variables to reduce the transmission power of the beacon device 100. [

The maintenance determining unit 330 may determine the maintenance time of the beacon device 100 according to the beacon maintenance information stored in the management DB 350 based on a plurality of state information of the beacon device 100. [ At this time, the maintenance determination unit 330 can search for and maintain maintenance time according to the status information of the beacon device 100 from the management DB 350. FIG. For example, the maintenance determination unit 330 can determine the maintenance time for the battery by searching for the battery replacement time stored in the management DB 350 based on the battery condition of the beacon device 100. [

The management DB 350 may include beacon status information 352, beacon maintenance information 354, and maintenance action information 356. [ Here, the beacon state information 352 may be a plurality of state information received from the beacon device 100. The beacon maintenance information 354 may be beacon maintenance information for a plurality of received status information. The maintenance action information 356 may be information about the action taken by maintenance.

Referring to FIG. 1 again, the administrator terminal 400 may receive a measure according to the maintenance time or maintenance of the beacon device 100 from the beacon maintenance management server 300. FIG. Accordingly, the manager receives the maintenance information from the beacon maintenance management server 300 through the administrator terminal 400, thereby planning the prior maintenance for the beacon device 100 or performing the maintenance action immediately .

With this configuration, the beacon device maintenance management system 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention can monitor the status of the beacon device and notify the maintenance terminal or the maintenance terminal to the administrator terminal, It is possible to solve the troubles of individual state grasp, to establish a pre-maintenance plan, to efficiently manage the maintenance of the beacon device, to perform the maintenance action immediately, It can be optimized.

Hereinafter, a beacon device maintenance management method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a beacon device maintenance management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The beacon device maintenance management method 600 includes a step S601 to S608 of storing a plurality of pieces of status information, a step of determining beacon maintenance time and a measure of the beacon according to the status information, And S610) and transmitting a change instruction of the state variable to the corresponding beacon device (S611 and S612).

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 6, first, in the beacon device 100, a plurality of pieces of status information can be collected (step S601). At this time, state information including at least one of the position, the transmission power, the battery power, the temperature, the CO level, and the humidity of the beacon device 100 may be collected.

Next, a packet including at least one of the collected plurality of pieces of status information may be generated (step S602). At this time, a plurality of pieces of state information can be divided and a plurality of packets each including divided state information can be generated. For example, a packet including at least one of a plurality of status information may be generated, and a packet including status information different from each other may be sequentially generated so that a plurality of status information is transmitted.

Next, the generated packet can be encrypted (step S603). At this time, the encryption of the generated packet of the generated packet can be performed in either of a single key encryption or a dual key encryption. For example, in the case of the single key encryption method, the packet generated using the fixed key is encrypted. In this case, the same fixed key may be distributed to the main node device 200 in advance. In the case of the dual key encryption method, a random shared key is first encrypted using a fixed key, and then transmitted to the main node device 200, and then a packet generated using a random shared key is encrypted. In this case , The main node device 200 can receive the encrypted random shared key while the same fixed key is distributed in advance.

In the present embodiment, it has been described that packet encryption is performed. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and packet encryption may be omitted.

Next, the generated packet or the encrypted packet can be broadcast to the main node device 200 (step S604). For example, the broadcasting of such a packet can be performed by a low-power Bluetooth communication method, but not limited thereto, and may be performed by any short-distance communication method such as WiFi.

Next, the main node device 200 can decrypt the packet received from the beacon device 100 (step S605). For example, a packet can be received from the beacon device 100 in a low-power Bluetooth communication manner, but the present invention is not limited to this, and can be performed by any short-range communication method such as WiFi. At this time, decryption of the packet can be performed in either of a single key encryption or a dual key encryption. For example, in the case of the single key encryption method, the extracted packet can be decrypted using the fixed key previously distributed in advance. In the case of the dual key encryption scheme, a random shared key encrypted using a fixed key is first received from the beacon device 100, and a packet encrypted with a random shared key is transmitted from the beacon device 100 to the random You can decrypt using the shared key.

In the present embodiment, it has been described that the decryption of the packet is performed. However, the decryption of the packet is not limited to this, and the decryption of the packet may be omitted.

Next, state information can be extracted from the received packet or decrypted packet and stored (step S606). At this time, since the beacon device 100 divides and transmits a plurality of status information, at least one status information can be extracted from the packets sequentially received from the beacon device 100 and stored.

Next, when the main node device 200 communicates with the beacon group management server 300 after all the status information is extracted, all the status information of the beacon device 100 is transmitted to the beacon group management server 300 (Step S607). For example, if all the status information of the beacon device 100 is extracted, the main node device 200 collectively transmits all the status information of the previously stored beacon device 100 to the beacon maintenance management server 300 .

Next, the beacon group management server 300 can store the status information of the beacon device 100 received from the main node device 200 (step S608). At this time, the received status information may include at least one of the position, the transmission power, the battery power, the temperature, the CO level, and the humidity of the beacon device 100.

Next, the maintenance time of the beacon device 100 can be determined based on the status information of the received beacon device 100 (step S609). For example, the maintenance time of the beacon device 100 can be searched from the management DB 350 for each state information. For example, the battery replacement time stored in the management DB 350 may be searched based on the battery status of the beacon device 100 to determine the maintenance time for the battery.

At the same time, it is possible to determine a measure according to the maintenance of the beacon device 100 according to the status information. For example, it is possible to search the management DB 350 for a measure in accordance with the maintenance to determine the action. Here, the action may be a user action corresponding to battery replacement, equipment malfunction, or device illegal replacement. Next, at least one of the maintenance time and the action items may be transmitted to the administrator terminal 400 (step S610). That is, the manager can notify the manager terminal 400 to plan maintenance or take immediate action with reference to the maintenance time.

The beacon maintenance management server 300 transmits a maintenance action to the manager terminal 400 in the beacon device 100. However, the present invention is not limited to this, The maintenance state can be directly adjusted by changing the state variable of the system 100. In this case, after the maintenance time of the beacon device 100 is determined based on the state information of the beacon device 100 received in step S609, the state variable of the beacon device 100 according to the determined maintenance time A change instruction may be transmitted to the beacon device 100 via the main node device 200 (S611). Here, the status variable may include at least one of a transmission power of the beacon device 100, a transmission period, data included in the packet, an encryption key required for encrypting the packet, and a stop / start command of the beacon device 100.

Next, the beacon device 100 may change the corresponding state variable according to an instruction to change the state variable received from the beacon maintenance management server 300 (step S612).

The maintenance management method of the beacon device according to the embodiment of the present invention monitors the status of the beacon device and notifies the maintenance terminal or the maintenance terminal to the manager terminal, It can eliminate the hassle of grasping, can establish a pre-maintenance plan to efficiently manage the maintenance of the beacon device, and can take measures for maintenance immediately, optimizing the maintenance .

Such methods may be implemented by the beacon device 100, the main node device 200, and the beacon maintenance management server 300 as shown in FIG. 1, and in particular, a software program In which case these programs may be stored on a computer readable recording medium or transmitted by a computer data signal coupled with a carrier wave in a transmission medium or a communication network.

At this time, the computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. For example, ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD- , A floppy disk, a hard disk, an optical data storage device, or the like.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

10: Beacon Device Maintenance Management System
100: Beacon device 110: Status information collection unit
120: packet generation unit 130:
140: communication unit 150: state variable changing unit
200: main node device
210: first communication unit 220:
230: control unit 240: second communication unit
250: Storage unit 300: Beacon maintenance management server
310: communication unit 320: beacon management unit
330: maintenance judgment unit 350: management DB
352: Beacon status information 354: Beacon maintenance information
356: maintenance action information 400: administrator terminal

Claims (46)

A maintenance determining unit for determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on beacon maintenance information based on state information of the beacon device; And
Receiving and storing the status information of the beacon device from the beacon device and the main node device constituting the network, determining a measure according to the maintenance of the beacon device, And a beacon management unit for transmitting one of the beacons to the manager terminal. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the beacon management unit searches the management DB for the action items according to the maintenance and determines the beacon maintenance management server. The method according to claim 1,
The action is a user action corresponding to battery replacement, equipment malfunction, or device illegal replacement. A maintenance determining unit for determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on beacon maintenance information based on state information of the beacon device; And
Receiving the state information of the beacon device from the beacon device and the main node device constituting the network, and storing the state information of the beacon device according to the determined maintenance time, And a beacon management unit that transmits the beacon device to the beacon device. 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the status variable includes at least one of a transmission power of the beacon device, a transmission period, data included in a packet, an encryption key required to encrypt a packet, and a stop / start command of the beacon device. The method according to claim 1 or 4,
Wherein the status information comprises at least one of location, transmit power, battery power, temperature, CO level, and humidity. The method according to claim 1 or 4,
Wherein the maintenance determination unit searches the management DB for the maintenance time according to the status information to determine the beacon maintenance management server. A status information collecting unit for collecting a plurality of pieces of status information; And
And a packet generator for generating a packet including at least one of the plurality of state information and sequentially generating packets including state information different from each other such that all the plurality of state information are transmitted. 9. The method of claim 8,
Further comprising an encrypting unit for encrypting the generated packet. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the status information collection unit collects status information including at least one of a position, a transmission power, a battery power, a temperature, a CO level, and a humidity. 9. The method of claim 8,
Further comprising a state variable changing section for changing the state variable according to an instruction to change the state variable received from the beacon maintenance management server through the main node device. 12. The method of claim 11,
Wherein the status variable comprises at least one of a transmit power, a transmission period, data contained in a packet, an encryption key required to encrypt a packet, and a device stop / start command. A main node device that configures a network with a beacon device, receives status information from the beacon device and transmits the status information to the beacon maintenance management server,
The main node device,
A control unit for extracting the status information from the packet received from the beacon device and transmitting the status information of the beacon device to the beacon maintenance management server; And
And a storage unit for storing the extracted state information. 14. The method of claim 13,
And a decryption unit decrypting the packet received from the beacon device. 14. The method of claim 13,
Wherein the control unit extracts and stores at least one state information from packets sequentially received from the beacon device, and controls the beacon maintenance management server to transmit the at least one state information to the beacon maintenance management server when all state information is extracted. 14. The method of claim 13,
Wherein the control unit controls the beacon maintenance management server to transmit a change instruction of the status variable received from the beacon maintenance management server to the beacon device. 14. The method of claim 13,
Wherein the main node device is a user terminal or a main node beacon device. Receiving and storing status information of a beacon device from a beacon device and a main node device constituting a network in a beacon maintenance management server;
Determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on the received status information of the beacon device; And
Determining a measure according to the maintenance of the beacon device, and transmitting at least one of the maintenance time and the measure to the administrator terminal. 19. The method of claim 18,
Wherein the transmitting step searches the management DB for a measure according to the maintenance, and determines the measure. 19. The method of claim 18,
Wherein the measures are user actions corresponding to battery replacement, equipment malfunction, or device illegal replacement. Receiving and storing status information of a beacon device from a beacon device and a main node device constituting a network in a beacon maintenance management server;
Determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on the received status information of the beacon device; And
And transmitting an instruction to change the state variable of the beacon device according to the determined maintenance time to the corresponding beacon device through the main node device. 22. The method of claim 21,
Wherein the status variable includes at least one of a transmission power of the beacon device, a transmission period, data included in a packet, an encryption key required to encrypt a packet, and a stop / start command of the beacon device. 22. The method of claim 21,
Further comprising changing, in the beacon device, a corresponding status variable according to an instruction to change the status variable. 22. The method according to claim 18 or 21,
In the beacon device, collecting a plurality of status information; And
Generating a packet including at least one of the plurality of status information, and sequentially generating packets including status information that are different from each other such that all the status information is transmitted. 25. The method of claim 24,
And encrypting the generated packet. 25. The method of claim 24,
Wherein the collecting step collects status information including at least one of location, transmit power, battery power, temperature, CO level, and humidity. 22. The method according to claim 18 or 21,
Wherein the step of determining the maintenance time period comprises: searching the management DB for the maintenance time according to the status information. 22. The method according to claim 18 or 21,
Extracting and storing the state information from a packet received from the beacon device in the main node device; And
And transmitting all status information of the beacon device to the beacon maintenance management server. 29. The method of claim 28,
And at the main node device, decrypting the packet received from the beacon device. 29. The method of claim 28,
Wherein the extracting and storing step includes extracting at least one state information from a packet sequentially received from the beacon device and transmitting the state information to the beacon maintenance management server when all state information is extracted, . A computer-readable recording medium on which a program to be executed on a beacon maintenance management server is recorded,
The program includes:
A code for receiving and storing status information of the beacon device from the main node device constituting the network;
A code for determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on the received status information of the beacon device; And
And a code for transmitting at least one of the maintenance time and the action to the administrator terminal by determining a measure in accordance with the maintenance of the beacon device, media. 32. The method of claim 31,
Wherein the code for transmitting the beacon maintenance management program records the beacon maintenance management program by searching the management DB for a measure according to the maintenance and determining the measure. 32. The method of claim 31,
Wherein the action is a user action corresponding to a battery replacement, an equipment malfunction, or a device illegal replacement. A computer-readable recording medium on which a program to be executed on a beacon maintenance management server is recorded,
The program includes:
A code for receiving and storing status information of the beacon device from the main node device constituting the network;
A code for determining a maintenance time of the beacon device based on the received status information of the beacon device; And
And a code for transmitting an instruction to change the state variable of the beacon device according to the determined maintenance time to the corresponding beacon device through the main node device. . 35. The method of claim 34,
Wherein the status variable includes at least one of a transmission power of the beacon device, a transmission period, data included in a packet, an encryption key required for encrypting a packet, and a stop / start command of the beacon device. Readable recording medium. 35. The method of claim 31 or 34,
Wherein the status information includes at least one of position, transmit power, battery power, temperature, CO level, and humidity. 35. The method of claim 31 or 34,
Wherein the code for determining the maintenance time period is obtained by searching the management DB for the maintenance time according to the status information. A computer-readable recording medium on which a program to be executed in a beacon device is recorded,
The program includes:
Code for collecting a plurality of state information; And
And a code for sequentially generating packets including status information that are different from each other so as to generate a packet including at least one of the plurality of status information and all of the status information to be transmitted, A computer readable recording medium. 39. The method of claim 38,
Wherein the program further comprises code for encrypting the generated packet. ≪ Desc / Clms Page number 36 > 39. The method of claim 38,
Wherein the collecting code collects status information including at least one of position, transmission power, battery power, temperature, CO level, and humidity. 39. The method of claim 38,
Wherein the program further comprises code for changing a corresponding state variable according to a change instruction of a state variable received from the beacon maintenance management server via the main node device. 42. The method of claim 41,
Wherein the status variable includes at least one of a transmission power, a transmission period, data included in a packet, an encryption key necessary for encrypting a packet, and a device stop / start command. . A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program executed by a beacon device and a main node device constituting a network,
Code for extracting and storing the state information from a packet received from the beacon device; And
And a code for transmitting all the status information of the beacon device to the beacon maintenance management server. 44. The method of claim 43,
Wherein the program further comprises code for decrypting a packet received from the beacon device. 44. The method of claim 43,
The code for extracting and storing extracts at least one state information from a packet sequentially received from the beacon device, and when all state information is extracted, the code for transmission is transmitted to the beacon maintenance management server at a time Wherein the beacon maintenance management program is recorded on a computer-readable recording medium. 44. The method of claim 43,
Wherein the program further comprises a code for transmitting an instruction to change a status variable received from the beacon maintenance management server to the corresponding beacon device.

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