Patent ID: 8653945

Claim:
An apparatus for managing the operation of a ship block, comprising: a ship block size and location measuring system, a transporter monitoring system, a block transportation monitoring system and a transportation lot number management system, wherein the ship block size and location measuring system includes a direction angle sensor, a range finder, a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader and a control system, wherein the control system includes a block size and location measuring server, a vector calculating module, a coordinate calculating module, a size and location extracting module and a memory module, wherein the direction angle sensor plays a role of measuring a direction angle of each edge of a block present at a specific location in a yard, the range finder plays a role of measuring a distance between a reference point and each edge of the block, and an RFID reader plays a role of recognizing locations of tags disposed at regular intervals in the yard where blocks are piled up, wherein the memory module plays a role of storing direction angle information of each edge of the block, measured by the direction angle sensor, and distance information between the reference point and each edge of the block, measured by the range finder, wherein the vector calculating module plays a role of calculating a vector value of the corresponding edge of the block by using the direction angle information and the distance information of a specific edge of the block, wherein the coordinate calculating module plays a role of calculating a coordinate of the specific edge of the block by using the location information of the tag and the vector value calculated by the vector calculating module, wherein the size and location extracting module calculates a distance between coordinates in a state where coordinates are set for all edges of the block by the coordinate calculating module, thereby extracting planar shape, size and location of the block of a polygonal shape.