Apparatus and method for changing alarm information in accordance with weather

• US 10,296,838 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2014
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: SK TechX Co., Ltd (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chang, Seok-Woong, Park, Won-Seok, Myung, Kwang-Min, Jeon, Jae-Sic
• Primary Examiner(s): Holmes, Michael B
• Application Number:
  US14/899,476
• Publication Number:
  US 20160148100A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,632 Days
• Field of Search: 706 12
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/26 Government or public services business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for changing alarm information based on weather, and more particularly to an apparatus and method for changing alarm information based on weather, which can collect locations, time and weather information for a path, routinely used by a user, and a destination and actively adjust alarm time based on a weather condition, which can measure the gap between a weather forecast and real-time observation data, determine whether a gap notification condition has been satisfied and provide notification to a user, and which can collect location information and weather information via a report message, determine the urgency level of a disaster situation and generate a disaster information list that enables the disaster situation to be effectively determined.

Claims

1. An apparatus for changing alarm information based on weather, comprising:

a path information generator configured to generate path information about a path routinely used by a user;

a data collector configured to;

check a location of the user and a time of a moment that the user is in a certain location during a period from an alarm time set by the user until the user is at a destination at predetermined intervals of a data collection period;

determine that the user is not at the destination when the user stays for a predetermined amount of time corresponding to a threshold value of an arrival counter that is greater than a number of the data collection period;

determine that the user is at the destination when the user stays for the predetermined amount of time corresponding to the threshold value of the arrival counter that is less than the number of the data collection period; and

check the location of the user and the time of the user when the user is determined not to be at the destination;

a weather information receiver configured to;

collect weather information utilizing weather forecasts corresponding to the location of the user and the destination;

collect the weather information at a time corresponding to the alarm time and at a time corresponding to an estimated time that the user is at the destination; and

collect the weather information when the user is determined to be at the destination;

a weather database configured to;

calculate an average movement time for each weather condition of a plurality of weather conditions by storing and analyzing the location of the user, the time and the weather information; and

an alarm updater configured to;

calculate a change in the alarm time based on the weather information and the average movement time for each weather condition of the plurality of weather conditions; and

adjust the alarm time by applying the change in the alarm time.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the weather information receiver is configured to calculate the estimated time that the user is at the destination based on the location of the user and the time.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the weather database is configured to:

calculate the average movement time for each weather condition of the plurality of weather conditions based on precipitation and rainfall; and

update the average movement time for each weather condition of the plurality of weather conditions whenever the location of the user, the time and the weather information are stored.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the alarm updater further comprises:

a display configured display a cause of the change in the alarm time to the user in a message form; and

a location calculator configured to measure the location of the user.

5. A weather information service device, comprising:

an inputter configured to;

receive a weather forecast in a first period; and

collect real-time observation data on a weather state in a second period;

a controller configured to;

set the second period to a shorter period than a predetermined period when a bad weather forecast is observed in the real-time observation data, wherein the bad weather forecast comprises at least one of rainfall, snowfall, strong winds or fog;

measure a gap between the real-time observation data and the weather forecast;

determine whether a gap alarm condition is fulfilled based on the gap;

measure the gap between the real-time observation data and the weather forecast based on at least one of temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, a direction of winds, a speed of the winds, snowfall, an amount of fog, or precipitation; and

determine whether the gap alarm condition is fulfilled based on at least one of a type of gap between the real-time observation data and the weather forecast, a size of the gap, a duration that the gap is sustained beyond a predetermined range, or a tendency of the gap; and

a communicator configured to generate and transmit an alarm corresponding to the gap alarm condition when the gap alarm condition is fulfilled.

6. The weather information service device of claim 5, wherein the controller is configured to:

determine whether the gap alarm condition is fulfilled based on a combination of at least two variables included in the gap.

7. The weather information service device of claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to determine whether the gap alarm condition is fulfilled based on a correlation between the gap and a tendency of actual weather that is analyzed using past data.

8. The weather information service device of claim 5, wherein the controller is configured to measure the gap during a period excluding a preset interval, wherein the preset interval comprises a time before the weather forecast is received and a time after the weather forecast is received.

9. A device for generating disaster information using weather information, comprising:

a message receiver configured to receive, from a terminal device, a report message, including location information and weather information to determine a disaster situation;

a weight calculator configured to;

calculate a weight by analyzing the weather information to determine urgency information of the disaster situation; and

calculate the weight by analyzing a bad weather condition including at least one of a typhoon, a windstorm, a flood, a drought, a heavy snowfall, hail, thunder, a high temperature, or a low temperature; and

a list generator configured to;

generate a disaster information list by assigning a priority to the disaster situation by applying the weight to the disaster situation and the priority to an area corresponding to the location information;

assign a higher priority to the disaster situation corresponding to a value of the weight; and

locate the disaster situation in a higher position of the disaster information list corresponding to the priority.