Method, system, and door lock device for controlling door lock

A system for controlling a door comprising:

• a door lock device installed on the door and operating as a master of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) communication, comprising an external antenna installed outside the door, an internal antenna installed inside the door, and a control unit that controls opening and closing of the door;
• and
• a smart phone wirelessly connected to the door lock device using the BLE communication,
• wherein the control unit of the door lock device scans an advertising signal output from the smart phone, checks whether the smart phone is registered in the door lock device by using a smart phone ID included in the scanned advertising signal, checks whether strength of the scanned advertising signal is greater than a predetermined signal strength when the smart phone is registered as a result of the checking, compares strength of a signal RSSI out of the smart phone received through the external antenna installed outside the door in which the door lock device is installed with a strength of a signal RSSI in of the smart phone received through an internal antenna installed inside the door, when strength of the scanned advertising signal is greater than predetermined signal strength, authenticates whether the smart phone is a valid smart phone when the strength of the signal RSSI out of the smart phone received through the external antenna is greater than the strength of the signal RSSI in of the smart phone received through the internal antenna by a certain value RSSI diff or more, and opens the door when the smart phone is authenticated as the valid smart phone based on a result of the authenticating,
• wherein the door lock device includes a first BLE communication unit for performing BLE communication with the smart phone, and the smart phone includes a second BLE communication unit for performing BLE communication with the door lock device,
• wherein each of the external antenna and the internal antenna is a planar antenna having directivity, the planar antenna having a metal pattern on one side and a ground pattern on another side, an area of the ground pattern is larger than an area of the metal pattern, and the directivity is toward the outside of the door, and the external antenna shares the first BLE communication unit with the internal antenna, and
• wherein a difference RSSI diff between values of the signal RSSI out and the signal RSSI in is a difference in signal strength corresponding to a distance at which the smart phone is determined to be located outside the door.

A door lock device comprising:

• an external antenna installed outside a door and having directivity toward the outside of the door;
• an internal antenna installed inside the door and having directivity toward the outside of the door;
• a keypad for receiving a key input through a touch input;
• a first BLE communication unit that is wirelessly connected with a smart phone by using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) communication;
• and
• a control unit that controls opening and closing of the door,
• wherein the control unit scans an advertising signal output from the smart phone by being operated as a master when the keypad of the door lock device is touched, checks whether the smart phone is registered in the door lock device by using a smart phone ID included in the scanned advertising signal, checks whether strength of the scanned advertising signal is greater than a predetermined signal strength when the smart phone is registered as a result of the checking, compares a strength of a signal RSSI out of the smart phone received through the external antenna installed outside the door in which the door lock device is installed with strength of a signal RSSI in of the smart phone received through an internal antenna installed inside the door, when strength of the scanned advertising signal is greater than predetermined signal strength, authenticates whether the smart phone is a valid smart phone when the strength of the signal RSSI out of the of the smart phone received through the external antenna is greater than the strength of the signal RSSI in of the smart phone received through the internal antenna by a certain value RSSI diff or more, and opens the door when the smart phone is authenticated as the valid smart phone based on a result of the authenticating,
• wherein each of the external antenna and the internal antenna is a planar antenna having directivity, the planar antenna having a metal pattern on one side and a ground pattern on another side, an area of the ground pattern is larger than an area of the metal pattern, and the directivity is toward the outside of the door, and the external antenna shares the first BLE communication unit with the internal antenna, and
• wherein a difference RSSI diff between values of the signal RSSI out and the signal RSSI in is a difference in signal strength corresponding to a distance at which the smart phone is determined to be located outside the door.