Traffic information providing method and device and traffic information receiving method and device

• US 20090109058A1
• Filed: 05/06/2008
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KWON, Kee Koo, BAE, Jang sik, KIM, Kyu hyung, KIM, Gwang Su
• Application Number:
  US12/149,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20090109058A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/905
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/123 indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, tramstransmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968

Abstract

The traffic information providing device receives traffic information corresponding to a bus stop or a platform at which the traffic information providing device is positioned from a management server for collecting traffic information from at least one public transportation means, and broadcasts the received traffic information to the traffic information receiving device that is provided within a predetermined distance from the traffic information providing device by using the ZigBee or wireless sensor network that is a wireless personal area network (WPAN). The traffic information receiving device receives traffic information from the traffic information providing device by using the ZigBee or wireless sensor network, filters the same according to a filtering condition input by the user, and outputs traffic information desired by the user.

Claims

1. A method for receiving traffic information by a traffic information receiving device that is provided within a predetermined distance from a traffic information providing device that is installed at a predetermined position on a route of predetermined public transportation means, the method comprising:

receiving traffic information on the predetermined public transportation means from the traffic information providing device through a wireless personal area network;

receiving a filtering condition;

extracting predetermined traffic information from the traffic information based on the filtering condition; and

outputting the extracted specific traffic information.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the wireless personal area network with the traffic information providing device is established;

receiving channel information on the wireless personal area network broadcast by the traffic information providing device when the wireless personal area network is not established; and

establishing the wireless personal area network based on the channel information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein

the filtering condition includes at least one of destination information and public transportation means identification information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein

the wireless personal area network is a ZigBee or wireless sensor network.

5. A method for providing traffic information by a traffic information providing device that is provided at a predetermined position on a route of predetermined public transportation means, the method comprising:

receiving the traffic information from a management server for collecting traffic information from the predetermined public transportation means; and

broadcasting the traffic information through a wireless personal area network.

6. A traffic information receiving device provided within a predetermined distance from a traffic information providing device that is installed at a predetermined position on a route of a predetermined public transportation means, the traffic information receiving device comprising:

a receiver for receiving traffic information of the predetermined public transportation means from the traffic information providing device through a wireless personal area network;

an input unit for receiving a filtering condition;

a filter for extracting predetermined traffic information from the traffic information based on the filtering condition; and

an output unit for outputting the extracted traffic information as at least one format of text, voice, and image.

7. The traffic information receiving device of claim 6, wherein

the filtering condition includes at least one of destination information and public transportation means identification information.

8. A traffic information providing device provided at a predetermined position on a route of predetermined public transportation means, the traffic information providing device comprising:

a receiver for receiving the traffic information from a management server for collecting traffic information of the predetermined public transportation means; and

a transmitter for broadcasting the traffic information by using a wireless personal area network.

9. The traffic information providing device of claim 8, wherein

the transmitter periodically broadcasts channel information of the wireless personal area network.