KR20190090464A - Method For Auto Managing Oil Price Of Filling Stations And Oil Price Auto Managing System For The Same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses an oil price automatic management method and system for unifying and automatically changing the oil price of the gas stations installed in a plurality of gas stations, each of which manages the oil price indicator to display the oil price to the outside. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of automatically managing a price of oil: a server connected by a gas price indicator of a gas station and a communication network so that a variable oil price is automatically input and displayed on an oil price indicator of the gas stations when the oil price is changed. Transmitting to the oil price indicators of the gas stations through the communication network.
According to the present invention, since the oil price is automatically changed and managed in a plurality of gas stations to which the same oil price is uniformly applied, the oil price discrimination between gas stations due to the oil price change can be eliminated, It can be managed / notified in real time.

Description

Method for Auto Oil Price Management and Oil Price Auto Management System for The Same {Method For Auto Managing Oil Price Of Filling Stations And Oil Price Auto Managing System For The Same}

The present invention relates to a method and system for automatically managing oil prices by integrating and managing oil price display of gas stations, and more particularly, to automatically manage / display oil prices by integrating and managing oil price indicators installed at a plurality of gas stations. The present invention relates to a management method and a gas station automatic management system for the same.

In general, gas stations selling oil display prices of oil to be sold today so that drivers and pedestrians can easily see them. Therefore, an oil price indicator is installed at the gas station, the driver and pedestrians can easily check the oil price by looking at the organic indicator, and when the oil price of the gas station changes, the manager directly corrects the oil price displayed on the oil price indicator for each gas station. .

A general oil price display plate, or oil price indicator, which is used in recent years, includes a numeric display plate for displaying oil prices for each oil type, and the price of oil, that is, oil price, is displayed by a combination of numbers displayed on the numeric display plate.

Therefore, in the configuration of the oil price display, the number display plate must be provided with numbers from 0 to 9 for each unit. Therefore, a large number of numbers are required for the display of the oil price. It is cumbersome to manually change the number plate of each unit manually.

Recently, like the oil price display device disclosed in Korean Patent Publication No. 10-1503048, an all-light oil price display using a 7-segment display device has been developed and used, more specifically, a segment display device. LED segment display boards to which LEDs are applied as light sources are used for the oil price indicators.

However, in the case of the above-mentioned all-optical oil price indicator, the oil price should be inputted to the oil price indicator by an administrator operating the remote control directly, and in case of gas stations integrated with oil price, for example, gas stations, There is a problem such as not uniformly managed, and can not respond quickly to changes in oil prices.

Republic of Korea Patent Application Publication No. 10-2002-0075666, published October 5, 2002 Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 10-1503048, registered on March 10, 2015

An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic oil price management method capable of automatically changing oil prices of gas stations and managing oil prices at a uniform price, and an automatic gas station oil price management system therefor.

One embodiment of the present invention is an oil price automatic management method for unifying and automatically changing the oil price of each of the gas stations by managing an oil price indicator installed at a plurality of gas stations respectively to display oil prices externally. (A) transmitting, by the server connected by the oil price indicator of the gas stations and the communication network, the oil price information of the gas stations to the oil price indicator of the gas stations so that the oil price indicator of the gas stations is automatically input and displayed. It provides a method of automatically managing oil prices including.

Before the step (a), the server acquires the changed oil price information. For example, the server may obtain the changed oil price information by receiving the variable oil price or calculating the variable oil price.

After step (a), the oil price indicator receives the changed oil price information from the server through the communication network, and automatically outputs the variable oil price to the display unit of the oil price indicator.

Wherein the step (a) comprises: The server may include transmitting the changed oil price information to the oil price indicator via a POS system of each gas station connected to the oil price indicator by wire or wirelessly.

Another embodiment of the present invention is a main system including a server for integrated management of the oil price display of a plurality of gas stations; And an oil price indicator provided at each of the plurality of gas stations to display an oil price and connected to the main system by a communication network, wherein the server automatically unifies the oil prices displayed on the oil price indicators of the gas stations. Change and manage the display of oil price at the same price.

The server comprising: And an oil price management module configured to transmit the changed oil price information to the oil price indicators of the gas stations through the communication network so that the oil price is automatically input and displayed on the oil price indicators of the gas stations when the oil price managed by the server is changed.

The oil price automatic management system described above; Each of the gas stations may further include a POS system that is communicatively connected to at least one of the oil price indicator and the server of each gas station.

The automatic oil price management method and an automatic oil price management system for the same have the following effects.

First, according to the present invention, since the oil price is automatically changed and managed in a plurality of gas stations to which the same oil price is uniformly applied, the oil price discrimination between the gas stations due to the change in oil price can be eliminated, the oil price of the gas stations are integrated management Changes can be managed / notified in real time.

Second, according to the present invention, the inconvenience that the manager must reflect fluctuations in oil prices for each of the plurality of gas stations to which the same oil price is uniformly applied can be eliminated, and the oil price difference due to the difference in gas price management by each gas station or other reasons. This can reduce the feeling of discrimination or loss felt by gas station users.

Third, according to the present invention, since the control system (force system) and the oil price indicator of the individual gas station can be linked to reflect the change in oil price, and the oil sales volume and sales through the gas tanker can be aggregated, the oil sales volume and sales in response to the oil price change And inventory of inventory can be integrated and managed.

The features and advantages of the present invention may be better understood with reference to the drawings described below in conjunction with the following detailed description of embodiments of the invention, wherein:
1 is a flow chart schematically showing an embodiment of a method of automatically managing oil prices according to the present invention;
2 is a system diagram schematically showing an embodiment of an automatic oil price management system according to the present invention;
3 is a block diagram showing a specific configuration of the automatic price management system shown in FIG.
4 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of the server shown in FIG. 2; And
FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of the oil price indicator illustrated in FIG. 2.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention, in which the object of the present invention can be specifically realized, are described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In describing the embodiments, the same names and the same symbols are used for the same configurations, and additional description therefor will be omitted below.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention, and terms including ordinal numbers, such as "first" and "second", may include the same names. When describing the elements, they may be used to distinguish them, but do not define or limit the number of elements.

And when a component is said to be "connected" or "connected" to another component, a connection in which another component is present, although it may or may be directly connected to that other component. It should be understood that the term includes relations that are indirectly connected.

As used herein, the terms "comprise" or "have" mean that there is a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, and one or more other features. It is to be understood that the present invention does not exclude the existence of additional numbers, steps, operations, components, components, or a combination thereof.

One embodiment of the present invention relates to an oil price automatic management method for integrally managing oil price indicators respectively installed at a plurality of gas stations and displaying (output) of oil prices externally and automatically changing the oil prices of the gas stations. .

1 to 5, a method of automatically managing a price and an automatic price value management system according to the present invention will be described. Among the accompanying drawings, FIG. 1 is a flow chart schematically showing an embodiment of a method for automatically managing oil prices according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a system diagram schematically showing an embodiment of an automatic oil price managing system according to the present invention. 3 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the automatic price management system shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 4 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of the server illustrated in FIG. 2, and FIG. 5 is an indicator of oil price illustrated in FIG. 2. Figure is a schematic illustration of the configuration.

1 to 5, in the method of automatically managing the oil price, when the price of the oil sold at the gas stations, that is, the oil price, is changed, the oil price indicator 210 of the gas stations 20 is automatically inputted and displayed. Preferably, the server 100 transmits the changed oil price information to the oil price indicators of the gas stations through the communication network 30 (S100). The server 100 communicates with oil price indicators of the gas stations 20 and automatically manages oil price displayed on the oil price indicator 210.

More specifically, at least one oil price indicator 210 is installed for each pedestrian and / or vehicle driver to view gas stations 20 in which oil price is managed by the automatic oil price management system according to the present invention. The server 100 is connected to the oil price indicators 210 of the plurality of gas stations managed by the system according to the present embodiment and wired and / or wirelessly by the communication network 30, for example, the Internet network, the oil price indicator 210 The oil price information is transmitted / input (S10), and the oil price indicator 210 receives the oil price information from the server 100 and outputs the oil price (S20).

That is, the server 100 controls the oil price indicators 210 of the plurality of gas stations 20 through the above-described communication network 30, inputs oil prices to the oil price indicators 210, and supplies them to the oil price indicators 210. An oil price display control unit that integrates and automatically changes the displayed oil price.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the server 100 transmits oil price information to the oil price indicators 210 of the gas stations 20 to input oil price, and the oil price indicator 210 from the server 100. The inputted oil price may be output to the outside so that, for example, a passerby and / or a vehicle driver, etc., passing through a gas station under the oil price management of the server, may know the current oil price.

When the oil price fluctuates (S30), the oil price of which the server 100 is changed by the oil price indicator 210 of a plurality of gas stations, for example, directly operated gas stations, where the same oil price is uniformly applied by the server 100 Information is transmitted / input (S100) and the oil price indicators 210 are controlled to output the variable oil price to the oil price indicator (S200).

To this end, the server 100 obtains the oil price information corresponding to the variable oil price, that is, the changed oil price information (S40), and the changed oil price information is connected to the wired and / or wireless Internet network described above at the time of applying the variable oil price. The oil price indicator 210 is transmitted / inputted through the same communication network 30 (S100), and the variable oil price is output to the display unit 211 of the oil price indicator 210 (S200).

In other words, when the above-described oil price information, for example, the changed oil price information, is transmitted from the server 100 to the oil price indicator 210, the oil price indicator 210 is transmitted from the server 100 through the communication network 30. Receiving the changed oil price information, and outputting the variable oil price to the display unit 211 of the oil price indicator (S200) is performed.

The oil price information corresponding to the oil price output from the oil price indicator 210 to the outside, such as the above-described variable oil price, may be input to the server 100 through a communication network such as the Internet network, or may be connected to the server 100. The server 100 may obtain the oil price information corresponding to the oil price input through a user interface such as an input device, and the server 100 may determine an oil price factor, for example, an international oil price. Based on factors such as cost and tax for oil refining, oil price can be calculated through self calculation to obtain oil price information corresponding to the oil price.

The server 100 and the oil price display 210 may be communicatively connected through a current LET internet network such as a mobile network to perform the above-described transmission / information of the oil price information, and may be implemented as a Wi-Fi network. It may also communicate via a wireless access device (AP). Of course, the server 100 and the oil price indicator 210 may be connected by a wired cable, but the use of a wireless communication network is more convenient for system construction.

In the step of transmitting / inputting the oil price information (S100), the server 100 transmits the oil price information to the oil price indicator 210 via a management system of each gas station 20, for example, a POS system 220. And transmitting). In other words, when oil price information is input to the force system 220 connected to the oil price indicator 210 by wire or wirelessly, oil price information is also transmitted / input to the oil price indicator 210 connected to the force system and the oil price is displayed on the display unit. Is output to 211.

Of course, the force system 220 of each gas station 20 may receive the oil price information via the oil price indicator 210 of each gas station. Since the above-described POS system (Point of Sales System) is a well-known technique, an additional description thereof will be omitted, and the fuel system is connected to the POS system, and the same oil price as that of the oil price indicator is output to the instrument panel of the gas tankers. Therefore, the oil sales volume and sales may be counted at the same price as the oil price displayed on the oil price indicator 210.

The automatic oil price management system according to the present embodiment includes a main system 10 including a server 100 for managing the display of oil prices of a plurality of gas stations 20 and a plurality of gas stations 20. And an oil price indicator 210 connected to the main system 10 by the communication network 30.

An example of the main system 10 is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, and the server 100 uniformly manages and automatically integrates oil prices displayed on the oil price indicators 210 of the gas stations as described above. Change it. In other words, when the oil price managed by the server 100 changes, the server 100 displays the changed oil price information so that the variable oil price is automatically input and displayed on the oil price indicator 210 of the gas stations. It includes a oil price management module 110 for transmitting to the oil price indicators 210 of the gas stations 20 through.

Referring to FIG. 4, the server 100 may include the oil price management module 110 described above, a oil price processing module 120 for obtaining oil price information corresponding to individual oil prices, such as the changed oil price information described above, and oil price information. The communication module 130 for transmitting and communicating with the oil price indicator 210 and an input module 140 for receiving an input of data. Of course, when the server 100 calculates the oil price by its own calculation, the oil price calculation module may be provided in the server 100.

The automatic price management system may further include a force system 220 installed at each gas station and connected to the gas price indicator of each gas station by wire or wirelessly. Since wired / wireless communication technologies are variously known, additional descriptions thereof will be omitted, and examples of wired cables include RS232, RS422 communication lines, and other LAN cables.

Referring to FIG. 5, the oil price indicator 210 may include a display unit 211 that outputs oil price, and a control unit 212 for controlling the display unit 211. A communication unit 213 such as a modem for communicating with the server 100 is provided. The display unit 211 may display oil prices for each oil type, the first oil price display unit for displaying the price of gasoline, the second oil price display unit for displaying the price of diesel, and the third oil price display unit for displaying the price of kerosene And the like.

As an example of the display unit 211, a seven-segment display device may be applied to a segment display device, and an LED segment display to which an LED is applied as a light source is preferable in terms of utilizing the advantages of the LED. Since the segment display device itself is well known, such as a 7-segment display, additional description is omitted, and it is obvious that the example of the display unit 211 described above is not limited to the segment display device.

When the oil price is not automatically changed and managed due to a communication failure between the oil price display 210 and the server 100, an administrator may directly input the oil price to the oil price display 210 using the remote controller 300. The oil price indicator may be provided with a remote controller communication unit 214, for example, an infrared receiver.

As described above, the embodiments of the present invention have been described, and the fact that the present invention can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or scope thereof in addition to the embodiments described above can be realized by those skilled in the art. It is self-evident to.

Therefore, the above-described embodiments are to be considered as illustrative and not restrictive, and thus, the invention is not limited to the above description and may be modified within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.

10: main system 20: gas station
30: network 100: server
210: oil price indicator 211: display unit
212: control unit 213: communication unit
220: gas station management system (force system)

Claims (8)

As a method of automatically managing oil prices installed at a plurality of gas stations, the oil price indicator which displays oil prices on the outside is integrated and automatically changes the oil prices of the gas stations automatically.
When the oil price is changed, a server connected by the oil price indicator of the gas stations and the communication network to the oil price indicator of the gas stations through the communication network so that the variable oil price is automatically input and displayed on the oil price indicator of the gas stations Automatic price management method comprising the step of transmitting (a). The method of claim 1,
And before the step (a), the step of acquiring the changed oil price information by the server is performed. 3. The method of claim 2,
And the server receives the variable oil price or calculates the oil price to obtain the oil price information. The method of claim 1,
After the step (a), the oil price indicator receives the variable oil price information from the server through the communication network, and the step of automatically outputting the variable oil price on the display unit of the oil price indicator is performed. How to manage oil prices automatically. 5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
Wherein the step (a) comprises:
And transmitting, by the server, the changed oil price information to the oil price indicator via a POS system of each gas station connected to the oil price indicator by wire or wirelessly. . A main system including a server for managing the oil price display of the plurality of gas stations; And
An automatic oil price management system including an oil price indicator provided at each of the plurality of gas stations to display oil price and connected to the main system by a communication network:
And the server automatically changes the oil price displayed on the oil price indicators of the gas stations and automatically manages the display of the oil price at the same price. The method according to claim 6,
The server comprising:
The oil price management module includes a oil price management module for transmitting the changed oil price information to the oil price indicators of the gas stations through the communication network so that the variable oil price is automatically input and displayed on the oil price indicators of the gas stations when the oil price managed by the server is changed. Automatic management system. 8. The method according to claim 6 or 7,
And a POS system installed at each of the gas stations and communicatively connected to at least one of the oil price indicator of each gas station and the server.

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