GAS DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SMART PHONE

• US 20140349707A1
• Filed: 06/15/2012
• Published: 11/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Young-Ki Bang
• Original Assignee: Young-Ki Bang
• Inventors: Bang, Young-ki
• Granted Patent: US 9,167,100 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/12 responsive to undesired emission of substances, e.g. pollution alarms
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/002 with telemetering systems telemetering in general G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/40 using a wireless architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/47 using RFID associated with sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/823 where the data is sent when the measured values exceed a threshold, e.g. sending an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

Disclosed is a gas detection system and method using a smart phone. The gas detection system includes a sensor module detachably mounted to the smart phone and configured to detect and measure a combustible gas or a toxic gas; and a gas detection APP installed inside the smart phone and configured to acquire measurement data by detecting the combustible gas or the toxic gas and measuring the detected combustible gas or toxic gas through the drive of the sensor module, after automatically recognizing user information and location information by reading a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag indicating a user or a location of gas detection, using a contact unit having built therein an RFID reader inside the smart phone, wherein the smart phone transmits the user information, the location information and the measurement data acquired from the gas detection APP to an operation server through a communication network.

Claims

1. A gas detection system using a smart phone, comprising:

a sensor module detachably mounted to the smart phone and configured to detect and measure at least one of combustible gases consisting of LNG, LPG, CNG and Freon or at least one of toxic gases consisting of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide; and

a gas detection APP installed inside the smart phone and configured to acquire measurement data by detecting the combustible gas or the toxic gas and measuring the detected combustible gas or toxic gas through the drive of the sensor module, after automatically recognizing user information and location information by reading a tag embedded in the smart phone, i.e., a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag or a near field communication (NFC) tag indicating a user or a location of gas detection, using a contact unit having built therein an RFID reader or an NFC reader inside the smart phone, wherein the smart phone transmits the user information, the location information and the measurement data acquired from the gas detection APP to an operation server through a communication network; and

a database configured to receive the user information, the location information and the measurement data from the operation server, and store the received user information, location information and measurement data.

2. The gas detection system according to claim 1, wherein the operation server creates a processed data using the user information, the location information, and the measurement data, and transmits a warning message to wired and wireless terminals positioned at a location contained in information on a regional unit using the information on the regional unit previously set, centering on the location information.

3. The gas detection system according to claim 2, wherein if the detected gas is a combustible gas, the processed data include at least one of a gas type, a degree of danger, cautions, a gas handling method, countermeasures against an emergency case, simulated trainings, PR materials of public organizations, and general information on gas safety, as the special data,

wherein if the detected gas is a toxic gas, the processed data include at least one of information on the degree of harmfulness of the toxic gas, information on harmful gas, hazardous zones in the surroundings of life, a degree of drinking in the case of alcohol, health conditions according to drinking quantity, sharing of information on the hazardous zones, self-diagnosis in case of being exposed to a toxic gas, early measures on the hazardous zones, extraction of qualitative evaluation in the field of living environment, cautions related to health, and simplified self-diagnosis information, as the special data.

4. The gas detection system according to claim 1, wherein the smart phone comprises an image pickup unit that is configured to create an image data of a place where the gas detection and measurement is performed, and transmit the created image to the operation server data together with the user information, the location information and the measurement data.

5. A gas detection method using a smart phone, comprising:

a first step of driving a gas detection APP installed inside the smart phone, after attaching a sensor module to the smart phone;

a second step of allowing the gas detection APP to automatically recognize user information and location information by reading a tag embedded in the smart phone, i.e., a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag or a near field communication (NFC) tag indicating a user or a location of gas detection, using a contact unit having built therein an RFID reader or an NFC reader inside the smart phone;

a third step of allowing the gas detection APP to detect a combustible gas or a toxic gas by driving the sensor module;

a fourth step of allowing the gas detection APP to acquire measurement data by measuring the detected combustible gas or toxic gas through the drive of the sensor module; and

a fifth step of allowing the smart phone to transmit the user information, the location information and the measurement data acquired from the gas detection APP to an operation server through a communication network

6. The gas detection method according to claim 5, further comprising a sixth step of allowing the operation server to create a processed data using the user information, the location information and the measurement data, and transmit a warning message to wired and wireless terminals positioned at a location contained in information on a regional unit previously set, centering on the location information using the information on the regional unit