Apparatus and method of controlling digital appliances based on parking management

• US 8,390,432 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2009
• Issued: 03/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Oh, Bong Jin, Moon, Kyeong Deok, Bae, Yu Seok
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehood, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): BEE, ANDREW W.
• Application Number:
  US12/505,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20100156608A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,324 Days
• Field of Search: 340/286.01, 340/286.02, 340/994, 340/10.5, 700/276, 700/275, 455/3.06
• US Class Current: 340/10.5
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/30 using a wired architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/43 using wireless personal area networks [WPAN], e.g. 802.15, 802.15.1, 802.15.4, Bluetooth or ZigBee
• 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

An apparatus for controlling digital appliances based on parking management is disclosed. The apparatus includes an interface unit, connected to a control terminal through a wired/wireless communication network, for providing an interface for establishing a home network service environment that is dependent upon information about incoming or outgoing vehicle; a storage unit for storing the home network service environment established by the interface; and an appliance controller for controlling the digital appliances based on the home network service environment stored in the storage unit, upon receipt of the information about incoming or outgoing vehicle.

Claims

1. An apparatus for controlling digital appliances based on parking management, comprising:

an interface unit, connected to a control terminal through a wired/wireless communication network, for providing an interface for establishing a home network service environment that is dependent upon information about an incoming or outgoing vehicle;

a storage unit for storing the home network service environment established by the interface unit;

an appliance controller for controlling the digital appliances based on the home network service environment stored in the storage unit, upon receipt of the information about the incoming or outgoing vehicle; and

an occupant recognizing module for identifying the presence of an occupancy user who is at home,

wherein the appliance controller controls the digital appliances by checking the presence of other occupancy user, prior to controlling the digital appliances pursuant to the home network service environment stored in the storage unit; and

wherein the identification of the occupancy user at home is made by a digital door lock having ID information on the occupancy user, and the occupant recognizing module recognizes the usage of the digital door lock in the entrance of the occupancy user and provides the occupancy user'"'"'s ID information recognized from the digital door lock to the appliance controller.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interface unit provides the control terminal with information on the home network service environment stored in the storage unit in response to a request from the control terminal through the wired/wireless communication network.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interface unit provides an interface for adding, eliminating, or changing information on the home network service environment stored in the storage unit.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a setting unit for automatically establishing the home network service environment based on the information about incoming or outgoing vehicle, by storing digital appliance control commands made by the user at his or her home when his or her vehicle arrives in or exits out of a parking place and then analyzing usage patterns of the user on the basis of the commands.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information about the incoming or outgoing vehicle is generated by identifying one of a radio identification mark, an RFID tag or a vehicle'"'"'s license number attached to the vehicle in the entrance of a collective housing area or in a parking place.

6. The apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the identification of the occupancy user at home is further made by an ID card having ID information on the occupancy user, and the occupant recognizing module recognizes the usage of the ID card in the entrance of the occupancy users and provides the occupancy user'"'"'s ID information recognized from the ID card to the appliance controller.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the identification of the occupancy user at home is further made by a USIM (universal subscriber identity module) card installed in a mobile phone, and

wherein the mobile phone periodically communicates to the appliance controller to inform of the occupancy user'"'"'s information on the USIM card in the entrance of the occupancy user.

8. A method for control of digital appliances based on parking management, comprising:

providing a control terminal with an interface for establishing a home network service environment that is dependent upon information about an incoming or outgoing vehicle;

storing the home network service environment established by the interface in a storage unit;

controlling the digital appliances based on the home network service environment stored in the storage unit, upon receipt of the information about the incoming or outgoing vehicle; and

checking the presence of an occupancy user, prior to said controlling the digital appliances based on the home network service environment stored in the storage unit,

wherein the checking the presence of the occupancy user at home is made by recognizing the usage of a digital door lock having ID information on the occupancy user in the entrance of the occupancy user.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

displaying information on the home network service environment stored in the storage unit on the control terminal in response to a request from the control terminal;

providing the control terminal with a function of adding, eliminating, or changing the displayed information; and

updating the information stored in the storage unit upon receipt of a request for addition, elimination, or change from the control terminal.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

establishing the home network service environment by analyzing a control pattern of the user taken to control the digital appliances when the user takes a vehicle in or out of the parking place.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the checking the presence of the occupancy user at home is further made by recognizing the usage of an ID card having ID information on the occupancy user in the entrance of the occupancy user.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the checking the presence of the presence of the occupancy user at home is further made by recognizing a USIM (universal subscriber identity module) card installed in a mobile phone in the entrance of the occupancy user.