Internet-of-things system for public transportation service and method of operating same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9723428-B2
Application number	US-201514602399-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 22, 2015
Priority date	Jan 22, 2014
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

An Internet-of-Things (IoT) system for public transportation service and a method of operating the same are disclosed. The IoT system includes on-vehicle devices, a management server, a plurality of bus stop access points (APs), and a wired/wireless bus stop access point (AP) communication network. The on-vehicle devices are mounted within a bus, i.e., a public transportation means. The management server is connected to the bus over an Internet, i.e., a wireless communication means. The plurality of bus stop APs are short distance communication APs, and are each provided in each bus stop at which the bus stops and configured to enable information to be exchanged between the bus stop and the bus. The wired/wireless bus stop AP communication network connects the plurality of bus stop APs. The management server performs Internet access processing to connect the bus stop AP communication network and an external terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An Internet of things (IoT) system for public transportation service, the IoT system comprising:
on-vehicle devices mounted within a bus as a means of public transportation;
a management server connected to the bus over an Internet as a means of wireless communication;
a plurality of bus stop access points (APs) as a means of short distance communication APs, the plurality of bus stop APs provided at respective bus stops and configured to enable information to be exchanged between the respective bus stops and the bus; and
a wired/wireless bus stop access point (AP) communication network configured to connect the plurality of bus stop APs;
wherein the management server performs Internet access processing to connect the bus stop AP communication network and an external terminal,
wherein the on-vehicie devices send an IPv6 uPrefix, which is upper 64 bits of an IPv6 address, to a passenger terminal.

2. The IoT system of claim 1 , wherein the on-vehicle devices comprise:
a bus stop AP communication unit configured to communicate with the bus stop APs through which information is exchanged between the bus stops and the bus;
an entrance tag reader configured to read tag information from the passenger terminal when a passenger carrying the passenger terminal gets on the bus;
an exit tag reader configured to read the tag information from the passenger terminal when the passenger gets off the bus; and
an on-vehicle AP configured to be connected to the bus stop AP communication unit, the entrance tag reader and the exit tag reader, collect the tag information from the passenger terminal, manage the collected tag information, form a network along with one or more passenger terminals, and control packet communication with the management server.

3. The IoT system of claim 2 , wherein the on-vehicle AP is further configured to form a network with respect to one or more passengers on the bus using tag information of the passengers who have not got off the bus after getting on the bus by referring to tag information read by the entrance tag reader and the exit tag reader.

4. The IoT system of claim 1 , wherein the management server comprises:
a control unit;
a communication interface (IF) configured to connect the management server to the bus stop AP communication network and the Internet for connecting on-vehicle APs provided in respective buses and the external terminal;
a bus database (DB) configured to receive information about the buses from the on-vehicle APs and store the received information; and
a passenger DB configured to store passenger information including tag information provided by passenger terminals of passengers on the bus.

5. The IoT system of claim 2 , wherein:
when the bus enters a bus stop,
the on-vehicle AP disposed on the bus sends a vehicle ID, including a line ID and bus ID of the bus, to the bus stop AP via the bus stop AP communication unit;
the bus stop AP that has received the vehicle ID provides information about the bus stop to the on-vehicle AP by sending a bus stop ID corresponding to the line ID to the on-vehicle AP;
thereafter, when the passenger who carries the passenger terminal gets on the bus, the entrance tag reader reads a tag ID from the passenger terminal and then provides the tag ID to the on-vehicle AP;
the on-vehicle AP sends the IPv6 13 uPrefix, and a vehicle ID, including the line ID and bus ID of the bus, to the passenger terminal;
wherein the on-vehicle AP assigns a passenger ID to identify the passenger terminal of the passenger who has got on the bus and sends the passenger ID along with the IPv6 13 uPrefix and the vehicle ID; and
wherein the passenger terminal of the passenger who has got on the bus is configured to perform Internet packet communication with the management server via the on-vehicle AP using the Ipv6 13 uPrefix, the vehicle ID, and the passenger ID as an Ipv6 address.

6. A method of providing service to a passenger terminal of a passenger on a vehicle in a method of operating an IoT system for public transportation service, the method of providing service comprising:
when the passenger who carries the passenger terminal gets on the vehicle, reading, by an entrance tag reader, a tag ID from the passenger terminal and sending, by the entrance tag reader, the tag ID to an on-vehicle AP;
generating, by the on-vehicle AP, a passenger ID that is used to identify the passenger terminal of the passenger on the vehicle;
sending, by the on-vehicle AP, the generated passenger ID, a vehicle ID, and an IPv6 13 uPrefix to the passenger terminal via the entrance tag reader;
hashing, by the passenger terminal of the passenger who has got on the vehicle, the IPv6 13 uPrefix, the vehicle ID, and the passenger ID;
generating, by the passenger terminal of the passenger who has got on the vehicle, an IPv6 address of the passenger terminal using results of the hashing; and
performing, by the passenger terminal, Internet packet communication with a management server via the on-vehicle AP using the generated IPv6 address.

7. A method of collecting information about a bus and a bus stop in a method of operating an IoT system for public transportation service, the method of collecting information comprising:
previously registering a vehicle ID, including a line ID and bus ID of the bus, with a bus DB of a management server;
when the bus enters the bus stop, sending, by an on-vehicle AP disposed on the bus, the vehicle ID, including the line ID and bus ID of the bus, to a bus stop AP via a bus stop AP communication unit;
sending, by the on-vehicie AP, an IPv6 uPrefix, which is upper 64 bits of an IPv6 address, to a passenger terminal;
sending, by the bus stop AP having received the vehicle ID, the received vehicle ID and a bus stop ID to the management server over the bus stop AP communication network; and
updating, by the management server, the received vehicle ID and bus stop ID, and storing, by the management server, the updated vehicle ID and bus stop ID in the bus DB.

8. A method of collecting information about a passenger terminal in a method of operating an IoT system for public transportation service, the method of collecting information comprising:
when a passenger who carries the passenger terminal gets on a vehicle, reading, by an entrance tag reader, a tag ID from the passenger terminal and providing, by the entrance tag reader, the tag ID to an on-vehicle AP;
generating, by the on-vehicle AP, a passenger ID that is used to identify the passenger terminal of the passenger who has got on the vehicle;
sending, by the on-vehicle AP, the generated passenger ID, a vehicle ID, and an IPv6 13 uPrefix to the passenger terminal via the entrance tag reader;
sending, by the on-vehicle AP, information about the vehicle ID, the passenger ID, and the tag ID of the passenger to a management server; and
storing, by the management server, the received information in a passenger DB; and
when the passenger gets off the vehicle after getting on the vehicle,
reading, by an exit tag reader, the tag ID from the passenger terminal, providing, by an exit tag reader, the read tag ID to the on-vehicle AP, and sending, by the on-vehicle AP, information about the vehicle ID, the passenger ID and the tag ID of the passenger to the management server; and
deleting, by the management server, the received information from data stored in the passenger DB.

9. A method of making an inquiry about information about a passenger terminal and also providing an additional service in a method of operating an IoT system for public transportation service, the method of making an inquiry about information about a passenger terminal and also providing an additional service c

Assignees

• Electronics & Telecommunications Res Inst

Inventors

• Park Jung-Soo
• Hong Yong-Geun
• Shin Myung-Ki

Classifications

• H04W4/42

  for mass transport vehicles, e.g. buses, trains or aircraft · CPC title

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04W4/80 Primary

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• H04W4/70

  Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] · CPC title

• G06Q30/0265

  Vehicular advertisement · CPC title