Patent ID: 8676266

Claim:
A system for controlling a mobile communication Base Station (BS) antenna, comprising: a plurality of antenna systems each installed in a BS; and a remote control system for monitoring and controlling the plurality of antenna systems, wherein each of the antenna systems comprises: an antenna module including a radiation plate and a radiation device for transmitting and receiving radio signals for a mobile communication service; a vertical tilting driver for vertically tilting the antenna module; a horizontal steering driver for rotating the antenna module; a sensor unit for sensing an inclination and horizontal rotation of the antenna module; a transceiver for transmitting data sensed by the sensor unit to the remote control system and receiving a control signal from the remote control system, and a controller for controlling an operation of the antenna system according to the remote control signal received from the transceiver, and wherein the remote control system comprises: a BS monitoring information DataBase (DB) server for accumulating the sensed data received from the plurality of antenna systems on a BS basis and an antenna system basis; and a remote control center for outputting control signals to the antenna systems to monitor the antenna systems remotely; wherein the sensor unit includes a camera module installed in the antenna system, for capturing an image of a service area of the antenna system, and the sensed data includes still image or moving picture data captured by the camera module; and wherein the controller of the antenna system controls storing an image captured during an initial installation of the antenna system as a reference image in a memory, compares an image captured later under a use environment with the reference image, and controls the vertical tilting driver and the horizontal steering driver to correct positioning of the antenna module if the difference between the later-captured image and the reference image is beyond a predetermined threshold.