Patent ID: 8468065
Filing Date: 2013-06-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A laundry room management method using a laundry room management system including laundry room machines in a laundry room and used for performing at least one of a washing operation and a drying operation, payment devices mounted on each of the laundry room machines for collecting payment for operating the laundry room machines, a computer for managing operating information of the laundry room machines, and a communicator for intermediating operating information between the laundry room machines and the computer, the method comprising: a) assigning identification information including an identifier (ID) to the laundry room machines through the communicator in a state when no identification information is inputted to the laundry room machine, and storing said identification information in the laundry room machines, wherein the identification information assigned to the laundry room machine may be modified only after the laundry room machine is reset to have a state of no identification information inputted; b) setting, at the laundry room machines, information about the rate and operating conditions through the communicator, only after the identification information transferred to the laundry room machine from the communicator is matched with the identification information stored in the laundry room machine; c) performing a predetermined operation allowed by the setting of the rate and operating conditions according to an inserted payment after receiving information about insertion of the payment from the payment device, through the respective laundry room machine; d) recording operating information of the performed operation through the respective laundry room machine; and e) transmitting the recorded operating information to the communicator through the respective laundry room machine in response to a request of the communicator.