MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VINYL GREENHOUSE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING THEREOF

• US 20160349769A1
• Filed: 07/06/2015
• Published: 12/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ARAM Solution Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: ARAM Solution Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, JUN
• Application Number:
  US14/791,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20160349769A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/1917 using digital means
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

The present invention relates to a vinyl greenhouse management system and a processing method thereof. The vinyl greenhouse management system of the present invention includes a plurality of sensor terminals provided at a vinyl greenhouse, a control device configured to receive various sensed information about an environmental condition of the vinyl greenhouse from the sensor terminals so as to control a status of the vinyl greenhouse, a vinyl greenhouse management server connected with the control device and configured to collect the sensed information, and a user terminal and a manager terminal configured to monitor or remote control the status of the vinyl greenhouse as being linked with the vinyl greenhouse management server. The vinyl greenhouse includes a heating film on a partial surface of a structure. In the heating film, a plurality of heating patterns and a plurality of circuit patterns are formed of conductive ink on a surface of a polymer film by using the printed electronics. The sensor terminals are electrically connected with the control device through the circuit patterns so as to transfer the sensed information. In response to the sensed information of the vinyl greenhouse, power supply from the control device to the heating patterns may be performed or stopped. According to the present invention, the heating film can be mass-produced at a low cost, and a status of the vinyl greenhouse can be monitored and remotely controlled in real time.

Claims

1. A vinyl greenhouse management system comprising:

a heating film formed by printing conductive ink on a polymer film into a plurality of heating patterns and a plurality of data transfer lines by using the printed electronics and provided at a part of vinyl of a vinyl greenhouse;

a plurality of sensor terminals respectively fixed and provided at different positions on a frame of the vinyl greenhouse and electrically connected with the data transfer lines of the heating film so as to measure various sensed information about an environmental condition of the vinyl greenhouse;

a control device configured to receive the sensed information measured by the sensor terminals through the data transfer lines and compare the sensed information with predetermined reference information and control a power to be supplied to the heating pattern when the sensed information is out of a predetermined range;

a vinyl greenhouse management server connected to the control device through a communication network and configured to collect the sensed information from the control device and correct and analyze the sensed information; and

a user terminal configured to receive the sensed information corrected and analyzed by the vinyl greenhouse management server through the communication network and monitor and remotely control a status of the vinyl greenhouse in real time.

2. The vinyl greenhouse management system of claim 1, wherein the sensor terminal includes:

a sensor unit including a sensor configured to measure at least one of a weight of snow accumulated on the vinyl greenhouse, a temperature around the vinyl greenhouse, an air volume around the vinyl greenhouse, and an amount of light within the vinyl greenhouse;

a first storage unit configured to store the sensed information corresponding to the sensor;

a first communication unit connected with the data transfer lines and configured to transfer the sensed information to the control device; and

a first control unit configured to control the sensor unit, the first storage unit, and the first communication unit.

3. The vinyl greenhouse management system of claim 2, wherein the control device includes:

a second storage unit configured to store the reference information about each of a weight of accumulated snow, an ambient temperature, an ambient air volume, and an internal brightness about an environmental condition of the vinyl greenhouse and the sensed information measured by the sensor terminals in real time;

a power supply unit configured to supply a power of the control device and supply a power to the heating patterns of the heating film;

a second communication unit configured to receive the sensed information from the sensor terminals and transfer the sensed information to the vinyl greenhouse management server; and

a second control unit configured to control the second storage unit, the power supply unit, and the second communication unit and compare the sensed information with the reference information so as to supply power or stop supplying power from the power supply unit to the heating patterns.

4. The vinyl greenhouse management system of claim 3, wherein the vinyl greenhouse management server includes:

a third communication unit provided to enable mutual data communication between the control device and the user terminal through the communication network;

a third storage unit interconnected with the control device and the user terminal through the communication network and configured to store a vinyl greenhouse management program for monitoring the status of the vinyl greenhouse in real time and remotely control the power supply to the heating patterns;

a database configured to store at least collected data corresponding to the sensed information and analyzed data generated by analyzing the collected data; and

a third control unit configured to control the third communication unit, the third storage unit, and the database, supply the collected data and the analyzed data to the user terminal through the communication network, and, when remote control information is generated from the user terminal, transfer the remote control information to the control device to implement the vinyl greenhouse management program.

5. A processing method of a vinyl greenhouse management system, comprising:

providing a heating film formed by printing conductive ink on a polymer film into a circuit pattern including a plurality of heating patterns and a plurality of data transfer lines by using the printed electronics at a part of vinyl of a vinyl greenhouse, electrically connecting a plurality of sensor terminals respectively fixed and provided at different positions on the vinyl greenhouse and configured to measure various sensed information about an environmental condition of the vinyl greenhouse with the data transfer lines of the heating film, and comparing the sensed information with predetermined reference information corresponding to the sensed information so as to monitor a status of the vinyl greenhouse and remotely control power supply to the heating film through a user terminal; and

supplying power or stopping supplying power to the heating patterns of the heating film according to a result of the comparison between the sensed information and the reference information.

6. The processing method of claim 5, further comprising:

correcting and analyzing the sensed information so as to enable the user terminal to determine whether or not a remote control is needed while monitoring the status of the vinyl greenhouse and resetting the reference information according to the result of the determination.