System for managing check-in and collecting environmental information at accommodations, and method therefor
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Abstract
A system for managing check-in and collecting environmental information at accommodations, includes: an accommodations management server for managing room reservations and the check-in authorities of guests; and a room device which acquires identification information about a smart device to transmit same to the accommodations management server if a user's smart device is recognized, and which operates in a first mode or a second mode according to the authority information received from the accommodations management server.
Claims6
A system for managing check-in and collecting environment information of a shared accommodation, the system comprising:
- an accommodation management server configured to manage a room reservation and check-in authority of a guest;
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- a computing device comprising one or more units being configured and executed by a processor using algorithm, the algorithm which when executed, causing the processor to perform the one or more units, the one or more units comprising a smart device recognition unit, a communication unit, an environment information collecting unit, and a control unit,
- wherein the smart device recognition unit having a beacon is configured to recognize a smart device of a user, acquire identification information of the smart device, transmit the acquired identification information to the accommodation management server, and operate in a first mode or a second mode according to authority information received from the accommodation management server,
- wherein the environment information collecting unit includes a plurality of sensors, and each sensor is configured to measure a respective one of temperature information, humidity information, fine dust information, and chemical pollutant information of a room and a region thereof,
- wherein the control unit is configured to:
- in response to the user being the guest having authority to check in to a corresponding room, operate in the first mode of tracking a location of the guest to monitor a check-in state of the room and collecting environment information of the corresponding room and a region thereof to transmit the collected environment information to the accommodation management server;
- and in response to the user being a host of a corresponding room, operate in the second mode of tracking a location of the host to monitor a management state of the corresponding room and, upon determining that a management task is completed, notifying the accommodation management server that the corresponding room is available for check-in,
- wherein the computing device is configured to:
- in the first mode, operate each sensor to generate environment information including the respective one of temperature information, humidity information, fine dust information, and chemical pollutant information, and transmit the environment information of the corresponding room collected during operation in the first mode to the accommodation management server so that the environment information is provided to the smart device of the user through a reservation page of the corresponding room;
- and in the second mode, comprising (a) a check-in standby mode defining a case in which a reservation is completed and guests are waiting to check in, and (b) a reservation standby mode defining a case for before a reservation, stop operating each sensor to exclude a case in which ventilation or heating and cooling equipment is not in operation due to absence of a guest from the environment information.
A computer implemented method of managing check-in and collecting environment information of a shared accommodation, the method comprising:
- in response to recognizing, by a computing device, a smart device of a user, acquiring identification information of the smart device, and transmitting the acquired identification information to an accommodation management server;
- receiving authority information of the user from the accommodation management server;
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- in response to the user being a guest having authority to check in to a corresponding room, operating in a first mode, and in response to the user being a host of the corresponding room, operating in a second mode according to the authority information,
- wherein the computing device comprises one or more units being configured and executed by a processor using algorithm, the algorithm which is executed and causes the processor to perform the functions of the one or more units, the one or more units comprising a smart device recognition unit, a communication unit, an environment information collecting unit, and a control unit,
- wherein the smart device recognition unit having a beacon is configured to recognize the smart device of the user, acquire the identification information of the smart device, transmit the acquired identification information to the accommodation management server, and operate in the first mode or the second mode according to authority information received from the accommodation management server,
- wherein the computing device is configured to;
- in the first mode, operate a plurality of sensors, wherein each sensor is configured to generate environment information including a respective one of temperature information, humidity information, fine dust information, and chemical pollutant information, and transmit the environment information of the corresponding room collected during operation in the first mode to the accommodation management server so that the environment information is provided to the smart device of the user through a reservation page of the corresponding room;
- and in the second mode, comprising (a) a check-in standby mode defining a case in which a reservation is completed and guests are waiting to check in, and (b) a reservation standby mode defining a case for before a reservation, stop operating each sensor to exclude a case in which ventilation or heating and cooling equipment is not in operation due to absence of a guest from the environment information,
- wherein a user is a guest and the functions of the first mode are performed at least once, and
- wherein a user is a host and the functions of the second mode are performed at least once.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.