REMOTE CONTROL METHOD FOR SNOW REMOVAL AND DISASTER PREVENTION SYSTEM USING SMART PHONE

• US 20130252601A1
• Filed: 11/29/2011
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Joyful Future Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Joyful Future Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Seung-Hoon, Yu, Seung-Gu
• Application Number:
  US13/989,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20130252601A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/420
• CPC Class Codes: E01H 10/005 Permanently-installed devices for applying gritting or thawing materials, e.g. for spreading grit, for spraying de-icing liquids
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

Provided is a remote control method of a snow removal system using a smart phone, which remotely controls the system installed at a site while checking conditions of a road and the system in real time when improvement of a road surface is needed because a condition of the road surface deteriorates due to dusts, yellow sand, frozen snow on the road surface, etc. The remote control method includes: accessing a remote terminal device in real time; allowing the access of the authorized manager using the smart phone; transmitting data; driving a CPU of the remote terminal device with SMS data to output a data value; stopping operation of the pump; comparing data input or output values stored and set in the CPU and a memory; determining whether to continuously perform a current operation; obtaining collected information; and feeding back all of the processed results to the smart phone.

Claims

1. A method of remotely controlling a snow removal system using an external case (107), in which a body (103) storing a spraying agent (102), a pump (105), and a nozzle (106) are installed, a remote terminal device (200) that is installed in the external case (107) and recognizes SMS data to be driven, and a smart phone (500) that includes an application (501) for transmitting and receiving a data value in connection with the remote terminal device (200), the method comprising:

accessing a mobile communication network (400) with the smart phone (500) to access the remote terminal device (200) through a data communication unit (201) in the snow removal system installed at a site in real time;

determining whether a user accessed through the accessing is an authorized manager, and, when it is determined that the accessed user is not the authorized manger, blocking the access to the smart phone to allow the access of the authorized manager using the smart phone;

transmitting data by using the smart phone (500);

driving a central processing unit (CPU) of the remote terminal device (200) with SMS data, transmitted through the transmitting, to output a data value;

driving the pump (105) installed at the site to spray the spraying agent (102) through the nozzle 106, or stopping operation of the pump (105) to stop the spray of the spraying agent (102);

determining whether to spray the spraying agent (102) according to whether the pump (105) is driven, and comparing data input or output values stored and set in the CPU and a memory of the remote terminal device (200) to transmit detection information to the manager;

checking a data value, transmitted through the transmitting, with contents displayed by the smart phone (500) to determine whether an error occurs, and determining whether to continuously perform a current operation according to the determined result;

obtaining collected information to check an overall state of the remote snow removal system to input and transfer necessary contents as SMS data by using the smart phone (500); and

feeding back all of the processed results to the smart phone (500).

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing of the SMS data processed by the remote terminal device (200) comprises:

transmitting the SMS data from the smart phone (500) to receive the SMS data;

extracting a teleservice ID from the SMS data;

checking an application corresponding to the teleservice ID;

determining whether the application matches the teleservice ID, and, when there is a mismatch therebetween, stopping a service, or, when there is a match therebetween, allowing generation of application data;

generating new application data;

mapping the generated application to an application program of the control unit (206) of the remote terminal device (200); and

driving, when SMS data based on the application is received, the remote terminal device (200) with the SMS data to control driving of the pump (105) to control the spray of the spraying agent (102).

3. The method of claim 1, wherein in the remote terminal device (200), the control unit (209) selectively controls one or more selected from among a display element unit (202), a surveillance camera (204), a detection sensor (205), and a flow rate measurement sensor (210), and transmits external environmental information with an application of the smart phone (500) in real time.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein a control command executed by the controller (209) is executed through the CPU that receives the SMS data of the smart phone and has an integrated control function for a microprocessor or a microcomputer comprised in the control unit (206) of the remote terminal device (200), a programmable logic controller (PLC) that controls the pump (105) according to a programmed command input as data of the smart phone (500) side, and a remote terminal unit (RTU) that collects data output from the pump (105) and performs comparison control.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the remote terminal device (200) transmits signals, transmitted between a programmable logic controller (PLC) and a remote terminal unit (RTU) of the control unit (206), to the smart phone (500) through a human machine interface (HMI) to display an image or text corresponding to the signals.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the remote terminal device (200) transmits signals, transmitted between the PLC and RTU of the control unit (206), to the smart phone (500) through a human machine interface (HMI) to display an image or text corresponding to the signals.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the external environmental information transmits control and measurement information which comprises one or more of a contact impact on a structure of the snow removal system installed on a road, sound, light, an acceleration, a distance, a humidity, a temperature, and a flow rate of the spraying agent.

8. The method of claim 3, further comprising outputting a flow rate detected by the flow rate measurement sensor (210) to the control unit (206), and comparing and calculating the output value to check whether the spraying agent (102) is lost and robbed and an operation is normally performed based on a change amount of the flow rate by using the smart phone (500).

9. The method of claim 1, wherein,

the smart phone (500) comprises:

an application (501) transmitting SMS data to the control unit (206) through the data communication unit (201) of the remote terminal device (200);

a program operating system (OS) (502) comprising the application (501), and driving the remote terminal device (200);

a telephoney application interface (TAPI) (503) receiving data transmitted from the remote terminal device (200) by using an inter-process connection (IPC), extracting a teleservice identifier (ID) from the data, checking the application (501) corresponding to the data with the teleservice ID, generating data of the application (501) in a type enabling a service by the checked application (501) with user data included in the SMS data and the teleservice ID, and mapping the generated data to the checked application (501); and

a memory (504) storing and extracting transmitting and receiving data,

wherein the smart phone (500) control the remote terminal device (200).