JP2010275029A - Elevator monitoring system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator monitoring system capable of allowing a user of an elevator to favorably acquire the operational state of the elevator. <P>SOLUTION: The elevator monitoring system 10 comprises a monitoring center side server 30, a portable communication terminal device 14 and an information transmission unit. The portable communication terminal device has a transmission means for transmitting inquiry information on the operational state of an elevator including identification information on the elevator based on information acquired from the information transmission unit to the monitoring center side server via a network 8. The monitoring center side server has a reception means for receiving inquiry information on the operational state of the elevator including identification information of the elevator, and a transmission means which makes access to the database 40 with the operational state of each elevator being registered therein, specifies the elevator based on identification information of the elevator, and transmits the operational state of the elevator to the portable communication terminal device making an inquiry. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator monitoring system, and more particularly, to an elevator monitoring system that monitors operating conditions of a plurality of elevators.

  Currently, elevators are installed in various commercial facilities, and the elevators are regularly inspected by maintenance workers. As a technique related to the present invention, for example, Patent Document 1 discloses a system including a mobile communication terminal device and an elevator monitoring device, and the mobile communication terminal device is provided at an installation location of an elevator to be maintained and managed. Further, reading means for reading a two-dimensional code including information for specifying an elevator installation location, decoding means for decoding the two-dimensional code read by the reading means, and information obtained by decoding by the decoding means are transmitted. A configuration including a transmission unit is disclosed. And an elevator monitoring device is disclosed that has a receiving means for receiving information transmitted by the transmitting means of the mobile communication terminal device, and a display control means for performing display control of the information received by the receiving means. .

JP 2006-264889 A

  By the way, when the maintenance inspection of the elevator is performed, for example, the maintenance inspection may be performed in a facility where only one elevator car is provided. In such a case, when a delivery company or the like who does not know the operation status of the elevator, such as during a maintenance check, visits, it may be inconvenient because the package cannot be delivered immediately.

  The objective of this invention is providing the elevator monitoring system which enables the user of an elevator to acquire the driving | running state of an elevator more suitably.

  An elevator monitoring system according to the present invention is provided in a monitoring center side server for monitoring the operation status of a plurality of elevators, a mobile communication terminal device connected to the monitoring center side server via a network, and the monitoring center side server. An information transmission unit capable of transmitting information including the access destination information and the identification information of the elevator to the mobile communication terminal device, the mobile communication terminal device based on the information acquired from the information transmission unit Transmitting means for transmitting inquiry information relating to the operation status of the elevator to the monitoring center server via the network, and the monitoring center server including the identification information of the elevator from the mobile communication terminal device. Receiving means for receiving inquiry information about the driving status of each elevator and each elevator Transmitting means for accessing the database in which the driving status of the vehicle is registered, identifying the elevator based on the identification information of the elevator, and transmitting the operating status of the elevator to the mobile communication terminal device that has inquired It is characterized by that.

  Further, in the elevator monitoring system according to the present invention, the mobile communication terminal device is a mobile phone having a mail function, and the monitoring center side server includes an inquiry about the operation status of the elevator including identification information of the elevator from the mobile phone. It is preferable that information is received by mail packet communication, and the operation status of the elevator is transmitted to the mobile phone by mail packet communication.

  Further, in the elevator monitoring system according to the present invention, the mobile communication terminal device is a mobile phone having a mail function and a web page access function, and the monitoring center side server is connected to the mobile phone accessing the web page. On the other hand, the selection information for selecting whether the operation state of the elevator is necessary only once or whether the operation state of the elevator is necessary after that is transmitted by packet communication for web. If a response to the selection information is received from the mobile phone accessed to the web page by web packet communication, and if the operation status of the elevator is required only once for the selection information, the elevator E-mail packet to the mobile phone after the access to the web page is cut off. When the response to the selection information is sent only once by communication and the operation status of the elevator is required after that, the operation status of the elevator after the access to the web page is cut off It is preferable to transmit continuously to the mobile phone by mail packet communication.

  In addition, in the elevator monitoring system according to the present invention, when the answer to the selection information is that the operation status of the elevator is required thereafter, the operation status of the elevator after the access to the web page is cut off. When the mobile phone is sent once by packet communication for email, the email address of the mobile phone is registered in the database, and it becomes necessary to notify the operating status of the elevator again, the operating status of the elevator is It is preferable to transmit to a cellular phone by mail packet communication.

  In the elevator monitoring system according to the present invention, the information transmission unit has a two-dimensional code including access destination information to the monitoring center server and identification information of the elevator, and the mobile phone is included in the two-dimensional code. It is preferable to have means for acquiring the information.

  In the elevator monitoring system according to the present invention, the information transmission unit includes means for transmitting access destination information to the monitoring center side server and the identification information of the elevator by wireless communication, and the mobile phone includes the information transmission unit. It is preferable to have means for receiving information from the wireless communication.

  According to the elevator monitoring system having the above configuration, the mobile communication in which the operation status of each elevator is accessed, the elevator is specified based on the identification information of the elevator, and the elevator operation status is inquired. A monitoring center side server for transmitting to the terminal device is provided. Thereby, the user of an elevator can acquire the operating condition of an elevator more suitably.

In embodiment which concerns on this invention, it is a figure which shows an elevator monitoring system. In embodiment which concerns on this invention, it is a figure which shows the mode of the landing vicinity of the 1st floor of an elevator. In embodiment which concerns on this invention, it is the content displayed on the liquid crystal screen of a mobile telephone in the case of inquiring with mail based on the information acquired from the information transmission part. In embodiment which concerns on this invention, it is a flowchart which shows the procedure which monitors the monitoring object equipment. In the modification of the embodiment according to the present invention, the content is displayed on the liquid crystal screen of the mobile phone when inquiring on the web page based on the information acquired from the information transmission unit. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure which monitors the monitoring object installation in the modification of embodiment which concerns on this invention.

  Embodiments according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, the mobile communication terminal device is described as being a mobile phone. However, the mobile communication terminal device may be other than a mobile phone as long as it is connected to the monitoring center server via a network.

  Below, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the same element in all the drawings, and the overlapping description is abbreviate | omitted. In the description in the text, the symbols described before are used as necessary.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an elevator monitoring system 10. The elevator monitoring system 10 includes a monitoring center 20 that monitors a plurality of elevators 7, a mobile phone 14, and an information transmission unit 70. Hereinafter, one elevator 7 among the plurality of elevators 7 will be described.

  The elevator 7 includes an elevator control unit 2, a hoisting machine 3, a main rope 4, and a car 5. The elevator control unit 2 is a control device that is connected to the monitoring center-side server 30 via the network 8 and controls elements constituting the elevator 7 such as the hoisting machine 3. The hoisting machine 3 has a function of winding up the main rope 4 by the elevator control unit 2. The car 5 is a structure for the user 12 to get on, and has a space enough for a plurality of users 12 to get on.

  FIG. 2 is a view showing a state near the landing on the first floor of the elevator 7. At the landing on the first floor of the elevator 7, a landing door 58, a floor indicator 52, a landing button 62, a work tag 56, and an information transmission unit 70 are provided. The landing door 58 is a single door that opens when the user 12 gets in and out of the car 5. The floor indicator 52 is provided on the landing wall 54 above the landing door 58 and is a display for displaying the floor where the car 5 is currently located. The landing button 62 is provided on the right side of the landing door 58 on the landing wall 54 and is a push button for calling the car 5. The work tag 56 is a tag for notifying the user 12 that the maintenance work is in progress when the maintenance work of the elevator 7 is performed.

  The information transmission unit 70 is a guide plate provided on the left side of the landing door 58 on the landing wall 54. The information transmission unit 70 is provided with characters such as “Please use a two-dimensional code if you need guidance on the end of maintenance work” and a two-dimensional code 72, for example.

  The two-dimensional code 72 is a code in which access destination information to the monitoring center side server 30 and identification information of the elevator 7 are recorded. Here, the access destination information to the monitoring center side server 30 is the mail address of the monitoring center 20, and the identification information of the elevator 7 is assigned to identify each elevator 7 among the plurality of elevators 7. Information.

  Returning to FIG. 1 again, the monitoring center 20 includes a monitoring center server 30 and a recording unit 40. The monitoring center 20 has a function of collecting and monitoring the operation status of the elevator 7 to be remotely monitored.

  The monitoring center server 30 is connected to the mobile phone 14 via the network 8. When the inquiry information transmitted from the mobile phone 14 owned by the user 12 is acquired, the monitoring center side server 30 accesses the recording unit 40 and acquires the operation status of the elevator 7 that has made the inquiry. Then, the data is transmitted to the mobile phone 14 by mail packet communication via the network 8.

  The recording unit 40 is a database that records the operation status of each elevator 7 that is a facility to be remotely monitored. The recording unit 40 records an equipment monitoring program executed on the monitoring center side server 30.

  The mobile phone 14 possessed by the user 12 has a mail function by packet communication (in other words, mail packet communication) and a web page access function (in other words, web packet communication). The mobile phone 14 has a liquid crystal screen (not shown) that displays characters and the like by turning on the LED backlight. Further, the mobile phone 14 has a function of reading the two-dimensional code 72.

  The network 8 is a network for performing communication by packet communication in which a plurality of mobile phones 14 can share a transmission path and the like. On the network 8, communication is performed by dividing data into small packets by a packet processing device (not shown). For example, in the mobile phone 14, communication by mail (in other words, packet communication for mail) or website is performed. Access communication (in other words, web packet communication) is performed.

  Next, the operation of the elevator monitoring system 10 having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 shows the contents displayed on the liquid crystal screen of the mobile phone 14 when making an inquiry by e-mail based on the information acquired from the information transmission unit 70. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure for monitoring equipment to be monitored in the elevator monitoring system 10. Each procedure corresponds to each processing procedure when the monitoring center side server 30 executes the facility monitoring program recorded in the recording unit 40.

  The monitoring center side server 30 determines whether or not a mail from the mobile phone 14 owned by the user 12 has been received (S10). Specifically, when maintenance work is performed in an elevator 7, the user 12 who uses the elevator 7 operates the mobile phone 14 to read the two-dimensional code 72 of the information transmission unit 70. Then, when switching to the mail operation screen of the mobile phone 14, as shown in FIG. 2, the mail operation screen reflects the information recorded in the information transmission unit 70. Further, when a mail is transmitted by the packet communication for mail via the network 8 by the user 12, it can be received as an inquiry from the user 12 via the network 8. If it is determined that the inquiry from the user 12 has not been received, the process returns to S10 again.

  When it is determined that the inquiry from the user 12 has been received, the operation status of the elevator 7 is confirmed, and it is determined whether or not the maintenance work has been completed (S12). Specifically, when the identification information of the elevator 7 described in the mail transmitted by the mobile phone 14 of the user 12 is, for example, No. A1 as shown in FIG. 2, the recording unit 40 is accessed. The operation status of Unit A1 is confirmed, and it is determined whether or not the maintenance work has been completed. If it is determined that the maintenance work has not been completed, the process returns to S12 again.

  If it is determined that the maintenance work has been completed, a mail is transmitted to the mobile phone 14 inquired by the packet communication for mail via the network 8 (S14). Specifically, an e-mail is sent to the mobile phone 14 of the user 12 who has inquired about the operating status of the A1 unit, in which the maintenance work for the A1 unit has been completed.

  Thus, according to the elevator monitoring system 10, when the elevator 7 is under maintenance work, the user 12 can use the mobile phone 14 to send an email to the monitoring center side server 30. Then, when the maintenance work is completed, a mail about completion of the maintenance work of the elevator 7 that has made the inquiry is transmitted to the mobile phone 14 of the user 12 from the monitoring center side server 30. Therefore, the user 12 of the elevator 7 can acquire the operating condition 7 of the elevator more suitably.

  Next, a modified example of the elevator monitoring system 10 will be described. The modified example of the elevator monitoring system 10 and the elevator monitoring system 10 have substantially the same configuration and function, and the following description will focus on differences.

  The two-dimensional code 72 is a code in which access destination information to the monitoring center side server 30 and identification information of the elevator 7 are recorded. Here, the access destination information to the monitoring center side server 30 is access destination information (for example, URL) to the web page of the monitoring center 20, and the identification information of the elevator 7 is the plurality of elevators 7, respectively. This information is assigned to identify the elevator 7.

  The recording unit 40 records information to be provided when the mobile phone 14 accesses the web page of the monitoring center 20 via the network 8 by web packet communication. Furthermore, the recording part 40 records the content, when the answer with respect to the questionnaire with respect to the user 12 is registered on the web page. Furthermore, the recording unit 40 can record the e-mail address of the mobile phone 14 and the like.

  The monitoring center server 30 is connected to the mobile phone 14 via the network 8. Further, when the monitoring center side server 30 is accessing the web page of the monitoring center 20 by the mobile phone 14 via the network 8 via the packet communication for the web, the monitoring center side server 30 sends the questionnaire data for inquiry to the network 8. Via the web packet communication.

  Furthermore, when the inquiry information is acquired by registering the answer to the questionnaire on the web page by the mobile phone 14 that has transmitted the questionnaire data, the monitoring center side server 30 accesses the recording unit 40 and receives the inquiry. The operation status of the elevator 7 is acquired, and an e-mail is transmitted about the operation status of the elevator 7 by mail packet communication via the network 8.

  Here, the questionnaire data is used on the web page as the first questionnaire, for example, whether the number of times that information relating to the elevator 7 is required is limited to one time or whether it is necessary continuously thereafter. The person 12 is made to select. The questionnaire data is the second questionnaire, for example, whether the information that the user wants to know about the elevator 7 is related to the end of the maintenance work, is scheduled for future work, or is about the occurrence of a disaster. The user 12 is selected on the web page.

  Next, the operation of a modified example of the elevator monitoring system 10 having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 5 shows the contents displayed on the liquid crystal screen of the mobile phone 14 when making an inquiry on the web page based on the information acquired from the information transmission unit 70. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a procedure for monitoring equipment to be monitored in the elevator monitoring system 10. Each procedure corresponds to each processing procedure when the monitoring center side server 30 executes the facility monitoring program recorded in the recording unit 40.

  In the monitoring center side server 30, it is determined whether or not the web page of the monitoring center 20 is accessed from the mobile phone 14 owned by the user 12 (S20). Specifically, when maintenance work is performed in an elevator 7, the user 12 who uses the elevator 7 operates the mobile phone 14 to read the two-dimensional code 72 of the information transmission unit 70. Then, based on the access destination information to the web page of the monitoring center 20 recorded in the two-dimensional code 72, the mobile phone 14 is switched to the operation screen of the web page, and the web page of the monitoring center 20 is transferred via the network 8. Accessed by web packet communication. Then, the monitoring center side server 30 can determine that the user 12 has accessed the web page. If it is determined that the user 12 has not accessed the web page of the monitoring center 20, the process returns to S20 again.

  If it is determined that the user 12 is accessing the web page of the monitoring center 20, the questionnaire data is transmitted to the mobile phone 14 by packet communication for web via the network 8 (S22). For example, the liquid crystal screen of the mobile phone 14 of the user 12 to which the questionnaire data is transmitted becomes an operation screen on the web page reflecting the information shown in FIG. 5, and the user 12 answers the questionnaire. Thus, the inquiry information can be transmitted to the monitoring center side server 30 through the network 8 by web packet communication.

  After S22, it is determined whether an answer to the questionnaire is received from the user 12 (S24). If it is determined that the questionnaire has not been received, the process returns to S24 again. If it is determined that the questionnaire has been received, it is determined whether or not the number of times of information about the elevator 7 is limited to one (S26). Here, when there is an answer to the questionnaire, the monitoring center side server 30 performs processing assuming that there is inquiry information from the mobile phone 14.

  In S26, when it is determined that the answer to the questionnaire from the user 12 is limited to once, after the access to the web page by the mobile phone 14 is cut off, the information about the elevator is limited to once. A mail is transmitted (S28). For example, if the user 12 has selected that information regarding the completion of the maintenance work for the elevator 7 is necessary, the network 8 is accessed when the recording section 40 is accessed and the maintenance work for the elevator 7 is finished. Then, an e-mail message indicating that the maintenance work for the elevator 7 has been completed is transmitted to the mobile phone 14 by mail packet communication. In this case, the e-mail address of the mobile phone 14 inquired about is not recorded in the recording unit 40.

  In S26, when it is determined that the answer to the questionnaire from the user 12 is necessary after that, the access to the web page by the mobile phone 14 is cut off, and then the information on the elevator is continued. The mail is transmitted (S29). For example, if the information that the user 12 wants to know about the elevator 7 is “work end”, “schedule for future work”, and “occurrence of disaster” shown in FIG. When the maintenance work for the elevator 7 is completed, an e-mail message indicating that the maintenance work for the elevator 7 has been completed is transmitted to the mobile phone 14 by mail packet communication via the network 8. The mail address is recorded in the recording unit 40. Then, the monitoring center side server 30 obtains information on the occurrence of a disaster such as an earthquake in the area where the elevator 7 is installed when the information on which the future work schedule has been determined is acquired for the elevator 7. If acquired, the information is transmitted to the mobile phone 14 via the network 8 by mail packet communication.

  Thus, according to the modification of the elevator monitoring system 10, when the elevator 7 is under maintenance work, the user 12 registers the inquiry information on the web page in the monitoring center 20 using the mobile phone 14. be able to. When the maintenance work is finished, the monitoring center 20 sends an email about the completion of the maintenance work of the elevator 7 that made the inquiry. Further, when it is selected that information on the elevator 7 is continuously necessary on the web page, a schedule of maintenance work for the elevator 7 and the like in the future can be acquired by mail. Therefore, the user 12 of the elevator 7 can acquire the operating condition 7 of the elevator more suitably.

  In the above description, the information transmission unit 70 is described as having the two-dimensional code 72. However, the access destination information to the monitoring center side server 30 and the identification information of the elevator 7 are wirelessly transmitted by infrared communication or IC communication. You may do. At this time, the mobile phone 14 has a function of acquiring information from the information transmission unit 70 by wireless communication such as infrared communication or IC communication.

  2 Elevator control unit, 3 hoisting machine, 4 main rope, 7 elevator, 8 network, 10 elevator monitoring system, 12 users, 14 mobile phone, 20 monitoring center, 30 monitoring center side server, 40 recording unit, 52 floor Indicator, 54 hall wall, 56 work tag, 58 hall door, 62 hall button, 70 information transmission part, 72 two-dimensional code.

Claims (6)

A monitoring center server for monitoring the operating status of a plurality of elevators;
A portable communication terminal device connected to the monitoring center side server via a network;
An information transmission unit provided in the elevator and capable of transmitting information including access destination information to the monitoring center side server and identification information of the elevator to the mobile communication terminal device;
With
The mobile communication terminal device
Based on the information acquired from the information transmission unit, transmission means for transmitting inquiry information about the operation status of the elevator including the identification information of the elevator to the monitoring center side server via the network,
The monitoring center side server
Receiving means for receiving inquiry information about the operating status of the elevator, including identification information of the elevator, from the mobile communication terminal device;
A transmission means for accessing a database in which the operation status of each elevator is registered, identifying the elevator based on the identification information of the elevator, and transmitting the operation status of the elevator to the mobile communication terminal device that has inquired;
An elevator monitoring system comprising: The elevator monitoring system according to claim 1,
The mobile communication terminal device is a mobile phone having a mail function,
The monitoring center side server
Receive inquiry information about the driving status of the elevator including identification information of the elevator from the mobile phone by packet communication for mail.
An elevator monitoring system characterized in that the operation status of the elevator is transmitted to a mobile phone by packet communication for mail. The elevator monitoring system according to claim 1,
The mobile communication terminal device is a mobile phone having a mail function and a web page access function,
The monitoring center side server
A choice that allows the mobile phone accessed on the web page to select whether the elevator operating status is required only once or whether the elevator operating status is required continuously thereafter Send information via web packet communication,
Receive a response to the selected information from the mobile phone accessing the web page via packet communication for web,
When the answer to the selection information is limited to one time and the elevator operating status is required, the elevator operating status is sent to the mobile phone after the access to the web page is cut off. To send only once,
If the answer to the selection information is that the elevator operating status is required after that, the elevator operating status is continued by email packet communication to the mobile phone after the access to the web page is cut off. Elevator monitoring system characterized in that it is transmitted. The elevator monitoring system according to claim 3,
If the answer to the selection information is required for the operation status of the elevator after that,
Sending the operation status of the elevator once to the mobile phone after the access to the web page is cut off by packet communication for mail, registering the e-mail address of the mobile phone in the database, and again the operation status of the elevator The elevator monitoring system is characterized in that when it becomes necessary to notify the elevator, the operation status of the elevator is transmitted to the mobile phone by mail packet communication. In the elevator monitoring system according to any one of claims 2 to 4,
The information transmission unit has a two-dimensional code including access destination information to the monitoring center server and identification information of the elevator,
The cellular phone has means for acquiring information included in the two-dimensional code, and is an elevator monitoring system. In the elevator monitoring system according to any one of claims 2 to 4,
The information transmission unit has means for transmitting access destination information to the monitoring center side server and identification information of the elevator by wireless communication,
The cellular phone has means for receiving information from the information transmission unit by wireless communication.

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