DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING EQUIPMENT

• US 20100026497A1
• Filed: 07/31/2009
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: CHOI, Yong Hoon, Park, Jong Heung, Jung, Hoon
• Granted Patent: US 8,188,864 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0008 General problems related to the reading of electronic memory record carriers, independent of its reading method, e.g. power transfer

Abstract

An equipment inspecting device for inspecting at least one piece of equipment positioned in an office from among a plurality of offices included in the equipment inspection target recognizes office information for indicating a position of an office, and searches office equipment information for indicating a previous state of at least one piece of equipment positioned in the office by using the office information. The equipment inspecting device transmits the searched office equipment information to the equipment information collecting device so that an equipment information collecting device for collecting at least one piece of equipment information corresponding to at least one piece of equipment may generate update information for indicating a state change of at least one piece of equipment. Also, the equipment inspecting device receives the update information from the equipment information collecting device, and updates office equipment information by using the update information.

Claims

1. A method for an equipment inspecting device to inspect at least one piece of equipment positioned in an office from among a plurality of offices included in an equipment inspection target, the method comprising:

recognizing office information for indicating a position of the office;

searching office equipment information for indicating a previous state of at least one piece of equipment positioned in the office by using the recognized office information;

transmitting the searched office equipment information to an equipment information collecting device that collects at least one piece of equipment information corresponding to the at least one piece of equipment;

receiving update information from the equipment information collecting device, the update information indicating a state change of the at least one piece of equipment; and

updating the office equipment information by using the update information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

the at least one piece of equipment information is stored in at least one radio frequency identification tag corresponding to the at least one piece of equipment.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein

the at least one piece of equipment information includes:

identification information for identifying the corresponding equipment;

position information for indicating a position of the corresponding equipment in the office; and

current usage information for indicating a current usage state of the corresponding equipment.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein

the recognizing of office information includes:

receiving building information for indicating an address of the building in which the office is positioned from the equipment information collecting device;

searching drawing information corresponding to the received building information from among a plurality of pieces of drawing information for indicating blueprints of at least one building in which the plurality of offices are positioned;

transmitting the searched drawing information to the equipment information collecting device; and

receiving the office information from the equipment information collecting device, the office information being generated based on the searched drawing information.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein

the recognizing of office information includes

receiving the office information from the equipment information collecting device having received the office information stored in an office radio frequency identification tag corresponding to the office.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein

the recognizing of office information includes

receiving the office information stored by the equipment information collecting device positioned in the office from the equipment information collecting device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising

generating history information for indicating a history for updating the office equipment information according to the update information.

8. A device for inspecting equipment corresponding to a plurality of offices included in an equipment inspecting target, the device comprising:

a communication server for inspecting equipment in cooperation with an equipment information collecting device and transmitting/receiving information to/from the equipment information collecting device through a radio frequency communication network, the equipment information collecting device collecting at least one piece of equipment information stored in at least one equipment radio frequency identification tag corresponding to at least one piece of equipment positioned in each office and generating update information for indicating a state change of the at least one piece of equipment;

an equipment information server for controlling a plurality of pieces of office equipment information for indicating a previous state of at least one piece of equipment positioned in each office corresponding to the plurality of offices; and

a control server for updating the office equipment information stored in the equipment information server according to the update information received from the equipment information collecting device through the communication server.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein

the equipment information server includes:

an office equipment database for storing the plurality of pieces of office equipment information; and

an equipment searcher for receiving office information for indicating a position of an office selected for inspecting equipment from among the plurality of offices from the equipment information collecting device through the communication server, searching office equipment information corresponding to the received office information from the office equipment database, and transmitting the searched office equipment information to the equipment information collecting device through the communication server.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein

the at least one piece of equipment information includes:

identification information for identifying the corresponding equipment;

position information for indicating a position of the corresponding equipment in the office; and

current usage information for indicating a current usage state of the corresponding equipment.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein

the update information is generated by comparing the at least one piece of equipment information received by the equipment information collecting device from the at least one equipment radio frequency identification tag and the office equipment information received from the equipment searcher.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein

the control server includes:

an information updater for applying the update information to a plurality of office equipment information stored in the office equipment database, and generating history information for indicating an update history of the office equipment information; and

a history database for storing the history information.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein

the equipment is inspected in cooperation with an equipment information collecting device realized with part of a mobile station positioned in the office.

14. The device of claim 13, further comprising a building drawing server including:

a drawing database for storing at least one piece of drawing information for indicating a design drawing of the at least one building so as to correspond to at least one piece of building information for indicating an address of at least one building in which the plurality of offices are positioned; and

a building searcher for receiving building information corresponding to a building in which the office is positioned from the equipment information collecting device through the communication server, searching drawing information corresponding to the received building information from the drawing database, and transmitting the searched drawing information to the equipment information collecting device through the communication server.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein

the office information is generated by using the drawing information received by the equipment information collecting device from the building searcher.

16. The device of claim 14, wherein

the office information is received by the equipment information collecting device from an office radio frequency identification tag corresponding to the office from among a plurality of office radio frequency identification tags corresponding to the plurality of offices.

17. The device of claim 12, wherein

equipment of the office is inspected in cooperation with an equipment information collecting device corresponding to the office from among a plurality of equipment information collecting devices corresponding to the plurality of offices.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein

the office information is stored in the equipment information collecting device corresponding to the office.