REAL TIME SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED HOME SAFETY MANAGEMENT

• US 20120053732A1
• Filed: 03/23/2011
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: PARK, Jeong Hyun
• Application Number:
  US13/069,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20120053732A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/275
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 19/005 combined burglary and fire alarm systems

Abstract

Disclosed is a real time system for integrated home safety management. The real time system for integrated home safety management includes: a plurality of sensors collecting information in the home and confirming energy usage used in the home; an integrated reading unit confirming the energy usage at a predetermined date to generate a first home status information corresponding to the energy usage; a safe management unit confirming, using the information in the home, whether abnormality symptom occurs and generating a second home status information corresponding to the abnormality symptom when the abnormality symptom occurs; and a gateway transmitting at least one of the first and second home status information to an affiliated system.

Claims

1. A real time system for integrated home safety management, comprising:

a plurality of sensors collecting information in a home and confirming energy usage used in the home;

an integrated reading unit confirming the energy usage at a predetermined date to generate a first home status information corresponding to the energy usage;

a safe management unit confirming, using the information in the home, whether abnormality symptom occurs and generating a second home status information corresponding to the abnormality symptom when the abnormality symptom occurs; and

a gateway transmitting at least one of the first and second home status information to an affiliated system.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors collects the information in the home of at least one of gas leakage, fire, robbery, entrance and exit, electricity leakage, water leakage, temperature, and humidity.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the integrated reading unit confirms the energy usage used in the home of at least one energy supply system of water, electricity, gas, heating or hot water at the predetermined date respectively, and transmits the energy usage to the at least one energy supply system.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the safe management unit warns people in or around the home of danger through an emergency bell or a warning lamp, when the abnormality symptom occurs.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a mail management unit reporting arrival of a mail to a personal terminal and opening or closing a mailbox according to control of the personal terminal to receive the mail.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the mail management unit reports receipt of the mail to the personal terminal when receipt of the mail is completed to transfer user signature to a terminal of a delivery person having delivered the mail.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the mail management unit includes at least one of a touch screen operating and displaying a mail management menu, a RFID reader sensing a RFID tag attached to the mail, a camera photographing the surroundings of a front door, and a sound sensor sensing sound of the surroundings.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the mail management unit confirms arrival of the mail through at least one of an operation of the mail management menu, sensing of the RFID tag, an image of the delivery person, and voice of the delivery person.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the gateway confirms the affiliated system to which the first and second home status information is to be transmitted using a code included in the first and second home status information.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the affiliated system includes at least one of a police station system, a fire station system, a personal terminal, a hospital system, a gas check system, a gas supply system, an electricity supply system, a hot water/heating supply system, and a water supply system.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the real time system communicates with a monitoring system compiling information including the home status information transmitted and received between the gateway and the affiliated system to make the information into database.

12. A real time method for integrated home safety management, comprising:

reading energy usage used in a home at a predetermined date;

confirming whether abnormality symptom occurs in the home using information sensed by at least one sensor;

dividing the read energy usage into information to be transmitted to energy suppliers and converting the divided information into home status information to transmit the home status information to the energy suppliers; and

transmitting the home status information corresponding to the abnormality symptom to affiliated system corresponding to the abnormality symptom when the abnormality symptom occurs.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising setting the predetermined date according to reading schedule of the energy suppliers.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the confirming includes:

comparing the sensed information with a predetermined reference; and

determining that the abnormality symptom occurs in the home when the sensed information is out of the predetermined reference.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the transmitting includes warning people in or around the home of danger through an emergency bell or warning lamp.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

monitoring whether a mail arrives when mail service is set by a user;

reporting an arrival of the mail to a personal terminal when the mail arrives at the home;

opening a mailbox to receive the mail and closing the mailbox according to control of the personal terminal; and

receiving confirmation signature for receipt of the mail from the personal terminal to transfer the confirmation signature to a terminal of a delivery person.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the monitoring includes monitoring whether a mail management menu on a touch screen is operated, whether a RFID reader senses a RFID tag attached to the mail, an image outside a front door, and sound outside of the front door.

18. A real time method for integrated home safety management, comprising

monitoring whether a mail arrives when mail service is set by a user;

reporting an arrival of the mail to a personal terminal when the mail arrives;

opening a mailbox to receive the mail and closing the mailbox according to control of the personal terminal; and

transferring confirmation signature for receipt of the mail from the personal terminal to a terminal of a delivery person having delivered the mail.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the transferring includes at least one of:

directly transferring the confirmation signature to the terminal of the delivery person by the person terminal; and

receiving the confirmation signature from the personal terminal to transfer the confirmation signature to the terminal of the delivery person.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the monitoring includes monitoring whether a mail management menu on a touch screen is operated, whether a RFID reader senses a RFID tag attached to the mail, an image outside a front door, and sound outside of the front door.