Rain shelter control system and method for doorway

A rain shelter control system for a vehicle having a plurality of doorways comprising:

• a rain shelter disposed at each doorway of a vehicle to be opened and closed;
• a driver unit for opening and closing the rain shelter;
• a rain sensor for detecting rain;
• an exterior signal transmitter provided for each doorway for periodically transmitting a request signal toward outside of the vehicle;
• a portable device held by a passenger of the vehicle and including a receiver unit for receiving the request signal, and a transmitter unit for transmitting a response signal outside automatically in response to the request signal;
• a receiver for receiving the response signal transmitted from the portable device;
• and
• a rain shelter opening/closing control unit for controlling the driver unit to open the rain shelter when the receiver receives the response signal and the rain sensor detects the rain,
• wherein the rain shelter opening/closing control unit is configured to determine the rain shelter to be opened by the drive unit based on to which exterior signal transmitter the portable device has responded.