JP2016038608A - Terminal, terminal control method, program, and article distribution confirmation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a terminal that enables a third party to confirm whether an article is delivered to a customer or not.SOLUTION: A terminal comprises: a communication unit for transmitting information to another terminal; a position calculation unit for calculating a current position of the terminal itself; a reading unit for reading information stored in a wireless tag attached to an article; a determination unit for determining whether a transfer of an article with a wireless tag attached should be monitored or not on the basis of the current position calculated by the position calculation unit and positional information that is stored in the wireless tag and indicating a place to which the article with the wireless tag attached should be transferred; and a notification unit for notifying the other terminal via the communication unit of the transfer of an article of which the transfer is monitored if the terminal cannot detect a radio signal from the wireless tag attached to the article of which the transfer is monitored.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a terminal, a terminal control method, a program, and an article distribution confirmation system. In particular, the present invention relates to a terminal including a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader, a terminal control method, a program, and an article distribution confirmation system.

  Providing customers with products such as product samples and catalogs is one of the important corporate activities. In many cases, an article is provided to a customer by bringing a necessary article under the customer by a person in charge.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a print document management system that obtains information about a delivery destination person in charge and notifies the document creator when a print document is delivered to a person other than a predetermined person. The system disclosed in Patent Document 1 stores information related to a distribution destination of the document in a wireless tag mounted on the print document, and detects erroneous delivery of the print document using the information.

  Patent Document 2 discloses a monitoring device that determines transfer of an article depending on whether or not a wireless tag attached to the article can be detected.

JP 2008-262379 A JP 2008-234115 A

  Each disclosure of the above prior art document is incorporated herein by reference. The following analysis was made by the present inventors.

  As described above, the provision of an article to a customer is often performed by a person in charge bringing the article under the customer. However, there may be situations where the person in charge has not visited the customer or has forgotten to deliver the necessary goods to the customer even if the customer is visited. In this case, the person in charge of the person in charge cannot confirm the fact that the person in charge has not handed over the article designated by the supervisor.

  The technique disclosed in Patent Document 1 is a technique for detecting erroneous delivery of a printed document within the same company. In the technology disclosed in Patent Document 1, the information about the sensor attached to the terminal to which the printed document is actually delivered is compared with the information registered in the server, so that erroneous delivery of the printed document is prevented. Detected. Therefore, since there is no information about the above-mentioned sensor in the customer who the person in charge visits, even if the technology disclosed in Patent Document 1 is applied, the boss can recognize that the person in charge has not handed the article to the customer. The system cannot be built.

  Patent Document 2 discloses a technology related to a system in which the parties that deliver and receive an article have the same portable terminal and confirm the presence of the article at each terminal. Therefore, the technology disclosed in Patent Document 2 cannot be applied to a business activity in which a person in charge visits a customer and provides goods.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a terminal, a terminal control method, a program, and an article distribution confirmation system that allow a third party to confirm whether or not an article has been delivered to a customer.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, a communication unit that transmits information to another terminal, a position calculation unit that calculates the current position of the device itself, and information stored in a wireless tag attached to the article is read. The wireless tag is based on a reading unit, a current position calculated by the position calculating unit, and position information indicating a location to which an article to which the wireless tag is attached is transferred and stored in the wireless tag. A determination unit that determines whether to monitor the transfer of the attached article, and the transfer is monitored when a wireless signal from a wireless tag attached to the article monitored for the transfer is not detected. And a notification unit that notifies the other terminal of the transfer of the article to be transmitted via the communication unit.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, a communication unit that transmits information to another terminal, a position calculation unit that calculates the current position of the device itself, and information stored in a wireless tag attached to the article is read. A position control unit, comprising: a reading unit, a position indicating a current position calculated by the position calculation unit, and a location to which the wireless tag is attached and information stored in the wireless tag Determining whether to monitor the transfer of the article attached with the wireless tag based on the information, and the wireless signal from the wireless tag attached to the article monitored for the transfer is not detected. In this case, a terminal control method is provided, including a step of notifying the other terminal of the transfer of the article whose transfer is monitored via the communication unit.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, a communication unit that transmits information to another terminal, a position calculation unit that calculates the current position of the device itself, and information stored in a wireless tag attached to the article is read. A program that is executed by a computer that controls a terminal including a reading unit, and that transfers a current position calculated by the position calculation unit, and information stored in the wireless tag and attached with the wireless tag A process for determining whether or not to monitor the transfer of the article attached with the wireless tag based on position information indicating the location to be made, and a wireless signal from the wireless tag attached to the article monitored for the transfer And a process for notifying the other terminal of the transfer of the article whose transfer is monitored to the other terminal via the communication unit.
This program can be recorded on a computer-readable storage medium. The storage medium may be non-transient such as a semiconductor memory, a hard disk, a magnetic recording medium, an optical recording medium, or the like. The present invention can also be embodied as a computer program product.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, it includes a first terminal and a second terminal that communicates with the first terminal via a network, and the second terminal is a current position of the own device. A position calculation unit that calculates a value, a reading unit that reads information stored in a wireless tag attached to an article, a current position calculated by the position calculation unit, and information stored in the wireless tag, the wireless tag A determination unit that determines whether to monitor the transfer of the article with the wireless tag based on position information indicating a location to which the article to which the article is attached is transferred, and an attachment to the article to be monitored for the transfer. An article distribution confirmation system comprising: a notification unit that notifies the first terminal of the transfer of an article whose transfer is monitored when a wireless signal from the wireless tag is detected is not provided. The

  According to each aspect of the present invention, a terminal, a terminal control method, a program, and an article distribution confirmation system that allow a third party to confirm whether or not an article has been delivered to a customer are provided.

It is a figure for demonstrating the outline | summary of one Embodiment. It is a figure showing an example of 1 composition of an article distribution check system concerning a 1st embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of an internal structure of a person in charge terminal. It is a figure which shows an example of the database constructed | assembled in the memory | storage part. It is a figure for demonstrating the external appearance of articles | goods. It is a figure for demonstrating the external appearance of articles | goods. It is a figure which shows an example of the article attribute information stored in a wireless tag. It is a figure which shows an example of operation | movement of a person in charge terminal. It is a figure for demonstrating the information transmission toward the supervisor terminal from the person in charge terminal.

  First, an outline of an embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. Note that the reference numerals of the drawings attached to the outline are attached to the respective elements for convenience as an example for facilitating understanding, and the description of the outline is not intended to be any limitation.

  As described above, a terminal that allows a third party (such as a supervisor in charge) to check whether an article has been delivered to a customer is desired.

  Therefore, the terminal 100 shown in FIG. 1 is provided as an example. The terminal 100 includes a communication unit 101 that transmits information to other terminals, a position calculation unit 102 that calculates a current position of the device, a reading unit 103 that reads information stored in a wireless tag attached to an article, Based on the current position calculated by the position calculation unit 102 and the position information indicating the location where the wireless tag is attached and the information stored in the wireless tag, the transfer of the article with the wireless tag is performed. The determination unit 104 that determines whether or not to monitor and the transfer of the article monitored for transfer when the wireless signal from the wireless tag attached to the article monitored for transfer is not detected. And a notification unit 105 that notifies other terminals via 101.

  The person in charge who visits the customer brings the terminal 100 together with the goods to be delivered to the customer. A radio tag is attached to the article, and the radio tag stores position information regarding a place where the article is delivered. The terminal 100 periodically checks the current position, and compares the current position with position information obtained from the wireless tag. As a result of the comparison, if the two match, the terminal 100 determines that the article is an article to be delivered to the customer at the current location, and authorizes the article to be monitored for managing the transfer. Furthermore, when the terminal 100 becomes unable to receive a wireless signal from the wireless tag attached to the monitoring target article, the terminal 100 determines that the monitoring target article is provided to the customer, and notifies the other terminal (for example, the boss Notification to the terminal used). That is, the supervisor of the person in charge can confirm whether or not the article has been delivered to the customer as intended.

  Hereinafter, specific embodiments will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.

[First Embodiment]
The first embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of an article distribution confirmation system according to the first embodiment. Referring to FIG. 2, the article distribution confirmation system includes a person-in-charge terminal 10, a supervisor terminal 20, and a plurality of articles 30-1 to 30-n (n is a positive integer, the same applies hereinafter). The In the following description, when there is no particular reason to distinguish the articles 30-1 to 30-n, they are simply referred to as “article 30”.

  The person-in-charge terminal 10 is an information processing apparatus used by a person in charge such as a maintenance engineer (customer engineer) or a sales person who visits a customer. The person-in-charge terminal 10 is, for example, a mobile phone, a smartphone, a notebook personal computer, or the like.

  The person-in-charge terminal 10 has a communication function and a function of transmitting data to the supervisor terminal 20 via a network such as the Internet. The person in charge carries the person-in-charge terminal 10 and brings the article 30 to a meeting place with the customer (for example, a meeting room in the customer's company).

  The boss terminal 20 is an information processing apparatus used by a boss who is in charge of visiting a customer. The boss terminal 20 has a function of displaying data received from the person-in-charge terminal 10 via the network. The boss terminal 20 is usually installed in a company building to which the boss and the person in charge belong.

  The article 30 is an article that the person in charge brings to the meeting place with the customer. The article 30 is, for example, a product catalog, proposal, estimate, technical data, sample product, and the like. Articles to be delivered to the customer include paper materials, devices, parts such as replacement parts, storage media, and the like.

  A wireless tag is affixed or embedded in each article 30. The wireless tag attached to the article 30 stores data related to article attribute information determined according to the type of article. The article attribute information is information relating to a place where the article 30 with the wireless tag is delivered (a place where the article 30 is transferred), time, and the like. Details of the article attribute information will be described later.

  The person in charge delivers necessary items from the items 30 brought to the customer.

  An outline of the operation of the article distribution confirmation system will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, the person in charge or his / her boss makes advance preparations when the person in charge visits the customer. Specifically, the person in charge or the boss inputs article attribute information to each of the wireless tags attached to the article 30 that the person in charge brings to the meeting place with the customer. At that time, the person in charge or the like writes the article attribute information in the wireless tag using the writing function of the wireless ID reader / writer.

  In addition, the person in charge or the boss inputs information on the article 30 that the person in charge needs to give to the customer (hereinafter referred to as transfer article information) to the person-in-charge terminal 10. For example, the person in charge or the like relates to the articles 30-1 and 30-2 when the articles 30-1 and 30-2 among the n articles brought by the person in charge need to be handed over to the customer at the visited site. The transfer article information is input to the person-in-charge terminal 10.

  When the advance preparation is completed, the person in charge brings the article 30 to the meeting place with the customer. The person-in-charge terminal 10 determines whether the necessary article 30 has been delivered to the customer based on the transferred article information and the article attribute information obtained from the wireless tag attached to the article 30.

  When the person-in-charge terminal 10 determines that the necessary article 30 has been correctly delivered to the customer, the person-in-charge terminal 10 transmits information including that fact to the supervisor terminal 20. The boss who operates the boss terminal 20 confirms that the necessary article 30 has been delivered to the customer by confirming the information transmitted from the person-in-charge terminal 10.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of an internal configuration of the person-in-charge terminal 10. Referring to FIG. 3, the person-in-charge terminal 10 includes a display unit 201, an input unit 202, a communication unit 203, a position calculation unit 204, a time calculation unit 205, a wireless tag reader 206, a control unit 207, and a storage. Unit 208. Each unit shown in FIG. 3 is connected to each other by an internal bus.

  The display unit 201 includes a display device such as a liquid crystal panel, and is a means for displaying information. The input unit 202 is configured to include an operation device such as a touch panel, and is a means for inputting the operation of the person in charge.

  The communication unit 203 is a means for transmitting information to the superior terminal 20 via the network. Specifically, the person-in-charge terminal 10 is a wireless local area network (LAN) standardized by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.11a / b / g / n or the like, or LTE (Long Term Evolution). The information is transmitted to the supervisor terminal 20 using mobile communication standardized by, for example. However, the communication method by the communication unit 203 is not intended to be limited, and other standards may be used, or a form of wired connection to the network may be used.

  The position calculation unit 204 includes a GPS (Global Positioning System) antenna and the like, and is a means for calculating the current position of the person-in-charge terminal 10 from the GPS signal.

  The time calculation unit 205 is a means for calculating the current time. The time calculation unit 205 may calculate the current time using a counter including an oscillator or the like, or may calculate the current time using time information included in the GPS signal. Alternatively, the time calculation unit 205 may acquire the current time from a time synchronization server on the network.

  The wireless tag reader 206 is a means for receiving a wireless signal (IC tag signal) emitted from a wireless tag attached to the article 30.

  The control unit 207 controls the entire person-in-charge terminal 10 and controls each unit shown in FIG. The control unit 207 includes a determination unit 301 and a notification unit 302. Details of operations related to the control unit 207 including the determination unit 301 and the notification unit 302 will be described later. The control unit 207 can also be realized by a computer program that causes a computer mounted on the person-in-charge terminal 10 to execute processing of the control unit 207, which will be described in detail later, using the hardware thereof.

  The storage unit 208 stores information necessary for the operation of the control unit 207. The storage unit 208 has a database that stores the transferred article information.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a database constructed in the storage unit 208. Referring to FIG. 4, the database constructed in the storage unit 208 has an article provision position field, an article provision time field, and an article identification information field.

  In the article provision position field, position information of a place where the article 30 is delivered to the customer is registered. For example, referring to FIG. 4, coordinates including latitude and longitude are registered in the article provision position field. Note that the information registered in the article provision position field is not limited to coordinates composed of latitude and longitude, and may be an address of a place where the customer meets. That is, the value registered in the article provision position field may be in any format as long as it is information that uniquely determines the location where the article 30 is delivered to the customer. The value (position information) registered in the article provision position field functions as information for identifying the customer who delivers the article 30.

  In the article provision time field, time information related to a time zone during which the article 30 is delivered to the customer is registered. For example, referring to FIG. 4, a time zone in which the person in charge and the customer meet is registered in the article provision time field. The value (time information) registered in the article provision time field functions as information for more accurately identifying the partner (for example, the person in charge of the customer company) who delivers the article 30.

  For example, the person in charge and the boss are employees of company A. Company B is a customer of Company A. In this case, it can be determined that it is necessary to deliver the article 30 to the company B based on the value registered in the article provision position field. However, the person in charge does not know to which person in charge of the company B the article 30 should be delivered only by the value registered in the article provision position field. Therefore, the value (time information) registered in the article provision time field is used.

  In the article provision time field, a schedule regarding a meeting between the person in charge of the company A (person in charge of bringing the article 30) and the person in charge of the company B (person in charge of receiving the article 30) can be registered. Even within the site of the same company B, the person in attendance is usually different if the meeting time is different. Therefore, by using the value registered in the article provision time field, it is possible to accurately identify the partner to whom the article 30 is delivered.

  Information for specifying the article 30 is registered in the article specifying information field. For example, referring to FIG. 4, if the article 30 is a paper material, the fact and the number of pages are registered. Alternatively, the type of the article 30 such as a sample article or a maintenance part may be registered in the article specifying information field. The value registered in the article specifying information field functions as information for identifying the article 30.

  FIG. 5A is a plan view showing an example of the appearance of the article 30. A wireless tag 31 is attached to each of the articles 30. Specifically, the wireless tag 31 is affixed to the surface (paper or thin plastic sheet) of the article 30 to be delivered from the person in charge to the customer.

  FIG. 5B is a diagram illustrating an example of a cross section between A1 and A1 illustrated in FIG. Referring to FIG. 5B, the wireless tag 31 is attached to one side of the paper or plastic sheet (the surface of the article 30) using a fixing material such as an adhesive. Further, a protection sheet 32 made of paper, a plastic sheet, a metal sheet or the like is attached so as to cover the surface of the attached wireless tag 31, and the wireless tag 31 is sealed while being protected. Or as shown in FIG.5 (c), you may affix the protective sheet 32 so that the whole surface of the articles | goods 30 may be covered not only on the wireless tag 31. FIG.

  FIG. 6A is a perspective view showing an example of another appearance of the article 30. When the article 30 has a three-dimensional shape such as a sample product or a part, the wireless tag 31 may be embedded in the article 30.

  FIG. 6B is a diagram illustrating an example of a cross section between A2 and A2 illustrated in FIG. Referring to FIG. 6B, a space for embedding the wireless tag 31 in a part of the three-dimensional article 30 is created, and the wireless tag 31 is attached and fixed to the bottom surface of the space using a fixing material such as an adhesive. . In order to protect the embedded wireless tag 31, a protective sheet 32 made of paper, plastic sheet, metal sheet or the like is attached to the opening above the wireless tag and sealed.

  Even if the article 30 has a three-dimensional shape, as shown in FIGS. 5A and 5B, the wireless tag 31 may be attached to the surface of a sample article or the like.

  The wireless tag 31 stores article attribute information regarding the article 30 to which the tag is attached.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of article attribute information stored in the wireless tag 31. In FIG. 7, the number after the hyphen following the reference numeral 31 of the wireless tag corresponds to the number for identifying the article 30 shown in FIG. For example, a wireless tag attached to the article 30-1 is represented as a wireless tag 31-1.

  The article attribute information is configured by associating at least an article providing position, an article providing time, and article specifying information. Since these pieces of information are not different from the values registered in the fields constituting the database related to the transferred article information described with reference to FIG. 4, the description thereof is omitted.

  The wireless tag 31 may be either a passive tag or an active tag. As long as the wireless tag 31 can store article attribute information and the distance between the wireless tag reader 206 and the person-in-charge terminal 10 is within a predetermined range, the presence of the wireless tag 31 may be detected. However, the wireless tag 31 is desirably thin and small (the area including the antenna is small).

  Note that the predetermined distance at which the wireless tag reader 206 can detect the wireless tag 31 is appropriately adjusted in accordance with the actual operation of the article distribution confirmation system. Specifically, the presence of the article 30 with the wireless tag 31 is detected when the person in charge is at hand, and the presence is not detected when the person leaves the person in charge and goes to the customer. Set to distance.

  Further, since the information written in the wireless tag 31 does not need to be known by the customer, the information written in the wireless tag 31 is determined according to a predetermined rule so that the contents of the information cannot be understood even if it is read as it is. It may be replaced with a character string or a data string. The RFID tag reader 206 on the reading side grasps the meaning and information by comparing the read information with a predetermined rule. The information written in the wireless tag 31 may be encrypted according to a predetermined rule. In this case, the wireless tag reader 206 may decrypt the read information according to a predetermined rule and grasp the meaning and information. Further, from the viewpoint of security, it is desirable that communication between the wireless tag 31 and the wireless tag reader 206 is encrypted. As described above, the information written in the wireless tag 31 is encrypted so that the meaning is unknown even if it is read as it is, or the communication between the two is encrypted, so that the customer is written in the wireless tag 31. Information cannot be referenced.

  The operation of the person-in-charge terminal 10 will be described.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of the operation of the person-in-charge terminal 10.

  In step S <b> 101, the determination unit 301 acquires the current position from the position calculation unit 204.

  In step S <b> 102, the determination unit 301 confirms whether an entry having an article provision position field that matches the current position exists in the database constructed in the storage unit 208. The fact that the value of the current position matches the value of the article providing position field means that the values of both are substantially the same, and does not allow a slight error.

  When there is an entry in which both match (step S102, Yes branch), the determination unit 301 shifts the process to step S103. If there is no matching entry (step S102, No branch), the determination unit 301 returns to step S101 and continues the process.

  In step S103, the determination unit 301 extracts an entry having an article providing position field that matches the current position. For example, assume that the current position of the person-in-charge terminal 10 is (X1, Y1). In this case, referring to FIG. 4, the determination unit 301 extracts two entries of number 1 and number 2.

  In step S <b> 104, the determination unit 301 acquires the current time from the time calculation unit 205.

  In step S105, the determination unit 301 confirms whether or not there is an entry having an article provision time field including the current time among the entries extracted in step S103.

  If there is an entry including the current time (step S105, Yes branch), the determination unit 301 transitions the processing to step S106. If there is no entry including the current time (step S105, No branch), the determination unit 301 returns to step S101 and continues the process.

  In step S106, the determination unit 301 extracts an entry having an article provision time field including the current time. For example, the current time is 13:10. In this case, the determination unit 301 extracts the entry of number 1.

  In step S <b> 107, the determination unit 301 acquires article attribute information from the wireless tag 31 attached to the article 30 via the wireless tag reader 206. For example, it is assumed that the article attribute information shown in FIG.

  In step S108, the determination unit 301 determines whether the transferred article information corresponding to the entry extracted in step S106 matches the article attribute information acquired in step S107. Specifically, the control unit 207 determines the value of each field (article provision position field, article provision time field, and article identification information field) extracted in step S106 and the article attribute acquired from each wireless tag 31. Information values (article provision position, article provision time, article identification information) are compared. In the above example, the transferred article information of the entry managed by the number 1 matches the article attribute information obtained from the wireless tag 31-1 of the article 30-1.

  When the transferred article information matches the article attribute information (step S108, Yes branch), the determination unit 301 sets the article 30 corresponding to the article attribute information as a monitoring target article (step S109). When the transferred article information and the article attribute information do not match (step S108, No branch), the determination unit 301 returns to step S101 and continues the process.

  In step S109, the control unit 207 may notify the person in charge using the display unit 201 or the like that the article 30 set as the monitoring target article exists. At that time, it is preferable that the person-in-charge terminal 10 displays the article specifying information of the article 30 set as the monitoring target article on the display unit 201. The person in charge can check whether the paper material needs to be delivered to the customer or the sample product by visually recognizing the display unit 201. Alternatively, when the person-in-charge terminal 10 has a speaker or a vibrator, the person-in-charge may be notified of the setting of the article to be monitored using predetermined sound or vibration. By notifying the person in charge of the setting of the monitoring target article, the person in charge can recognize the presence of the article 30 that needs to be delivered to the customer, and can deliver the necessary article 30 to the customer more reliably.

  In step S <b> 110, the notification unit 302 determines whether or not the wireless signal emitted from the monitoring target article is not received via the wireless tag reader 206.

  When the radio signal is not received (step S110, Yes branch), the notification unit 302 moves the process to step S111. When the wireless signal can be received (step S110, No branch), the notification unit 302 continues to monitor the wireless signal via the wireless tag reader 206.

  In step S <b> 111, the notification unit 302 transmits data including information that the monitoring target article has been delivered to the customer to the supervisor terminal 20 via the communication unit 203. Here, the person-in-charge terminal 10 determines that the article 30 (monitored article) that needs to be delivered to the customer has been delivered from the person in charge to the customer when the process proceeds to step S111. Therefore, in step S111, the person in charge terminal 10 transmits to the boss terminal 20 that the article 30 has been correctly delivered to the customer.

  At the time of information transmission in step S111, the notification unit 302 transmits the information regarding the location and time at which the monitored item is delivered to the customer, and transmits the information to the supervisor terminal 20. Since the boss who operates the boss terminal 20 can also obtain the position information calculated by the GPS function, the boss can grasp the location (position information) where the article is separated from the person in charge. In addition to the location information, information that can be confirmed by the boss includes information such as whether the customer specified by the boss matches the specified article, and whether the article is delivered at the time specified by the boss. Can be obtained.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining information transmission from the person-in-charge terminal 10 to the boss terminal 20. As shown in FIG. 9 (a), when the article 30 (monitored article) exists within a predetermined range centering on the person-in-charge terminal 10, and the radio signal can be detected, the person-in-charge terminal 10 Determines that it has not been given to the customer. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 9B, when the article 30 is out of the predetermined range and the wireless signal cannot be detected, the person-in-charge terminal 10 determines that the article 30 has been delivered to the customer and informs the supervisor of that fact. It transmits to the terminal 20.

  As described above, the person-in-charge terminal 10 according to the first embodiment uses the wireless tag attached to the article 30 at the place (providing place) and the time (scheduled time) for delivering the article 30 brought under the customer. The article attribute information is read from 31. The person-in-charge terminal 10 identifies the article 30 to be delivered to the customer by comparing the read article attribute information with the transferred article information. The person-in-charge terminal 10 sets the specified article 30 as a monitoring target article, and determines that the article has been delivered to the customer in response to the non-detection of the wireless signal emitted by the wireless tag 31 attached to the monitoring target article. Thereafter, the person-in-charge terminal 10 transmits to the supervisor terminal 20 that the article has been delivered to the customer.

  By using the person-in-charge terminal 10 according to the first embodiment, the boss who gives an instruction to the person in charge can appropriately confirm whether or not the specified date and goods are given to the customer. Depending on whether or not the wireless reader (person in charge terminal 10) carried by the person in charge at the designated customer position (address) can detect the wireless signal emitted by the wireless tag 31 attached to the article, This is to confirm whether or not the information has been correctly provided. That is, the person-in-charge terminal 10 can initially receive a radio signal from the radio tag 31 attached to the article 30 (at the start of the meeting) at the designated location and time. After that, when an article is handed over to the customer after leaving the person in charge, there is a distance between the radio tag 31 attached to the article and the person in charge terminal 10, and the person in charge terminal 10 can receive a radio signal. Disappear. The person-in-charge terminal 10 regards this non-detection of the radio signal as a movement of the article (the possession of the article is a transfer from the person in charge to the customer), and determines that the article has been successfully delivered to the customer.

  Further, the boss can grasp in real time not only the information on whether or not the article 30 has been correctly delivered to the customer, but also the location and time at which the article has been delivered. Therefore, if the person in charge does not give the article to the customer, the person in charge can be contacted and prompted to give the necessary article to the customer. In other words, even if the materials that should be distributed by the boss cannot be distributed to the customer due to the person's disappointment or misunderstanding, the boss senses that the materials are not distributed in a timely manner. Can call attention.

<Modification>
The configuration of the article distribution confirmation system shown in FIG. 2 is an exemplification, and various modifications can be made.

  In the first embodiment, the article to be monitored is determined using the article providing position, the article providing time, and the article specifying information. However, the article providing time and the article specifying information may not be used. For example, if the customer has a small number of employees or one employee, the goods to be delivered to the customer can be sufficiently specified by the article provision position.

  In the first embodiment, an example of constructing a database that stores transferred article information in the storage unit 208 inside the person-in-charge terminal 10 has been described. However, the database may be constructed in a server on the network.

  The article provision time field and the article provision time may include information related to the date when the article is delivered. By introducing the date into the article provision time, the person in charge or the like can make advance preparations other than the day of visiting the customer.

  In the first embodiment, the transfer article information input to the person-in-charge terminal 10 is compared with the current position, but the transfer article information may not be used. For example, each time the current position is acquired, the monitoring target article may be set by acquiring information from the wireless tag 31 and comparing the current position with the article providing position described in the wireless tag 31. However, by referring to the transferred article information input to the person-in-charge terminal 10, frequent access to the wireless tag 31 is suppressed, and the power consumption of the person-in-charge terminal 10 can be suppressed.

  The person-in-charge terminal 10 desirably has not only a wireless reader function but also a wireless tag writer function. If the person-in-charge terminal 10 has a wireless tag writer function, the person in charge can write the article attribute information on the wireless tag in advance, which improves convenience.

  The person-in-charge terminal 10 may notify the person-in-charge when the article 30 to be set as the monitoring target article cannot be found at the location and time when the article 30 is delivered to the customer. Specifically, the execution of the process of step S106 in FIG. 8 is the same situation that the presence of the article 30 that needs to be delivered to the customer at the current position and the current time is registered in the person-in-charge terminal 10. In such a situation, if there is no article 30 in which the transferred article information and the article attribute information match among the articles 30 brought (step S108, No branch), the person in charge carries the necessary article 30. There is no possibility. If this is the case, the person in charge receives a notification from the person-in-charge terminal 10 so that the person in charge takes necessary measures (such as bringing the necessary items 30 to other persons, apologizing to the customer, etc.) ) Can be taken.

  The person-in-charge terminal 10 according to the first embodiment calculates the current position using a GPS signal. However, there is a possibility that a meeting will be performed in a place where radio waves emitted from GPS satellites do not reach. In consideration of such a case, the position calculation unit 204 may use the position information calculated in the past as the current position when the current position cannot be calculated based on the GPS signal. Alternatively, the position calculation unit 204 may determine the valid period of the position information calculated in the past, and may not use the position information calculated outside the valid period for calculating the current position.

  Alternatively, if the person-in-charge terminal 10 has an assist GPS function and can receive GPS signals from some of the GPS satellites necessary for position measurement, the current position is determined using the assist GPS function. It may be calculated.

  In addition, the person-in-charge terminal 10 may calculate the current position based on the position of the base station of the mobile communication network as well as the current position based on the GPS signal. For example, the position calculation unit 204 may calculate the current position using radio wave intensity from a plurality of base stations. The result of transmission power control used for a mobile phone or the like may be used as the radio wave intensity. That is, when the transmission power from the person-in-charge terminal 10 is weak, it is determined that the base station is near, and when the transmission power is strong, it is determined that the base station is far away.

  If the person-in-charge terminal 10 has a wireless LAN function, the current position may be calculated using wireless LAN connection information. Specifically, the position calculation unit 204 may use the position information of the connected wireless LAN base station ascertained in advance as the current position.

  A part or all of the above embodiments can be described as in the following supplementary notes, but is not limited thereto.

[Appendix 1]
A communication unit that transmits information to other terminals;
A position calculation unit for calculating the current position of the device;
A reading unit that reads information stored in a wireless tag attached to the article;
The article attached with the wireless tag based on the current position calculated by the position calculation unit and the position information indicating the location where the article attached with the wireless tag is transferred, which is information stored in the wireless tag A determination unit for determining whether to monitor the transfer of
When the wireless signal from the wireless tag attached to the article whose transfer is monitored is not detected, the other terminal is notified of the transfer of the article whose transfer is monitored via the communication unit. A notification unit;
Comprising a terminal.
[Appendix 2]
A time calculation unit for calculating the current time;
The wireless tag stores time information indicating a time for transferring an article to which the wireless tag is attached,
The terminal according to supplementary note 1, wherein the determination unit further uses the current time and the time information to determine whether or not to monitor the transfer of the article with the wireless tag.
[Appendix 3]
The wireless tag stores first specifying information for specifying an article to which the wireless tag is attached,
The determination unit specifies the first specifying information and an item that is input by a user and instructed to be transferred in determining whether to monitor the transfer of the item with the wireless tag. The terminal according to supplementary note 1 or 2, further using the second specific information.
[Appendix 4]
The terminal according to supplementary note 3, further comprising a storage unit that stores at least the position information and the second specific information in association with each other.
[Appendix 5]
The terminal according to any one of appendices 1 to 4, wherein the notification unit notifies the other terminal of a location and / or time at which the article whose transfer is monitored is transferred.
[Appendix 6]
The terminal according to any one of appendices 1 to 5, wherein the wireless tag is attached to the surface of an article or embedded in the article.
[Appendix 7]
The terminal according to any one of appendices 1 to 6, wherein the position calculation unit calculates a current position of the device using a GPS (Global Positioning System) signal.
[Appendix 8]
If the current position cannot be calculated using the GPS signal, the position calculation unit sets the current position calculated in the past as the current position of the own apparatus, or uses the assist GPS function to determine the current position of the own apparatus. The terminal of appendix 7, which calculates
[Appendix 9]
The terminal according to any one of appendices 1 to 6, wherein the position calculation unit calculates a current position of the own apparatus using a position of a base station of a mobile communication network.
[Appendix 10]
The terminal according to any one of appendices 1 to 6, wherein the position calculation unit calculates a current position of the own apparatus using position information of a wireless LAN (Local Area Network) base station that is grasped in advance.
[Appendix 11]
A communication unit that transmits information to other terminals;
A position calculation unit for calculating the current position of the device;
A reading unit that reads information stored in a wireless tag attached to the article;
A method of controlling a terminal comprising:
The article attached with the wireless tag based on the current position calculated by the position calculation unit and the position information indicating the location where the article attached with the wireless tag is transferred, which is information stored in the wireless tag Determining whether to monitor the transfer of
When the wireless signal from the wireless tag attached to the article whose transfer is monitored is not detected, the other terminal is notified of the transfer of the article whose transfer is monitored via the communication unit. Process,
A method for controlling a terminal, including:
[Appendix 12]
A communication unit that transmits information to other terminals;
A position calculation unit for calculating the current position of the device;
A reading unit that reads information stored in a wireless tag attached to the article;
A program for causing a computer to control a terminal comprising:
The article attached with the wireless tag based on the current position calculated by the position calculation unit and the position information indicating the location where the article attached with the wireless tag is transferred, which is information stored in the wireless tag The process of determining whether to monitor the transfer of
When the wireless signal from the wireless tag attached to the article whose transfer is monitored is not detected, the other terminal is notified of the transfer of the article whose transfer is monitored via the communication unit. Processing,
A program that executes.
[Appendix 13]
A first terminal;
A second terminal communicating with the first terminal via a network;
Including
The second terminal is
A position calculation unit for calculating the current position of the device;
A reading unit that reads information stored in a wireless tag attached to the article;
The article attached with the wireless tag based on the current position calculated by the position calculation unit and the position information indicating the location where the article attached with the wireless tag is transferred, which is information stored in the wireless tag A determination unit for determining whether to monitor the transfer of
A notification unit for notifying the first terminal of the transfer of the article whose transfer is monitored when a wireless signal from a wireless tag attached to the article whose transfer is monitored is not detected;
An article distribution confirmation system comprising:
Note that the form of Supplementary Notes 11 to 13 can be expanded to the form of Supplementary Note 2 to the form of Supplementary Note 10, similarly to the form of Supplementary Note 1.

  In addition, each disclosure of the cited patent document is incorporated herein by reference. Within the scope of the entire disclosure (including claims) of the present invention, the embodiments and examples can be changed and adjusted based on the basic technical concept. In addition, various combinations or selections of various disclosed elements (including each element in each claim, each element in each embodiment or example, each element in each drawing, etc.) within the scope of the entire disclosure of the present invention. Is possible. That is, the present invention of course includes various variations and modifications that could be made by those skilled in the art according to the entire disclosure including the claims and the technical idea. In particular, with respect to the numerical ranges described in this document, any numerical value or small range included in the range should be construed as being specifically described even if there is no specific description.

10 Person in charge terminal 20 Boss terminal 30, 30-1 to 30-n Article 31, 31-1 to 31-n Wireless tag 32 Protective sheet 100 Terminal 101, 203 Communication unit 102, 204 Position calculation unit 103 Reading unit 104, 301 Determination unit 105, 302 Notification unit 201 Display unit 202 Input unit 205 Time calculation unit 206 Wireless tag reader 207 Control unit 208 Storage unit

Claims (10)

A communication unit that transmits information to other terminals;
A position calculation unit for calculating the current position of the device;
A reading unit that reads information stored in a wireless tag attached to the article;
The article attached with the wireless tag based on the current position calculated by the position calculation unit and the position information indicating the location where the article attached with the wireless tag is transferred, which is information stored in the wireless tag A determination unit for determining whether to monitor the transfer of
When the wireless signal from the wireless tag attached to the article whose transfer is monitored is not detected, the other terminal is notified of the transfer of the article whose transfer is monitored via the communication unit. A notification unit;
Comprising a terminal. A time calculation unit for calculating the current time;
The wireless tag stores time information indicating a time for transferring an article to which the wireless tag is attached,
The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit further uses the current time and the time information to determine whether to monitor the transfer of the article with the wireless tag. The wireless tag stores first specifying information for specifying an article to which the wireless tag is attached,
The determination unit specifies the first specifying information and an item that is input by a user and instructed to be transferred in determining whether to monitor the transfer of the item with the wireless tag. The terminal according to claim 1 or 2, further using the second specific information.   The terminal according to claim 3, further comprising a storage unit that stores at least the position information and the second specific information in association with each other.   The terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the notification unit notifies the other terminal of a location and / or time at which the article whose transfer is monitored is transferred.   The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the wireless tag is attached to the surface of an article or embedded in the article.   The said position calculation part is a terminal as described in any one of Claims 1 thru | or 6 which calculates the present position of an own apparatus using a GPS (Global Positioning System) signal. A communication unit that transmits information to other terminals;
A position calculation unit for calculating the current position of the device;
A reading unit that reads information stored in a wireless tag attached to the article;
A method of controlling a terminal comprising:
The article attached with the wireless tag based on the current position calculated by the position calculation unit and the position information indicating the location where the article attached with the wireless tag is transferred, which is information stored in the wireless tag Determining whether to monitor the transfer of
When the wireless signal from the wireless tag attached to the article whose transfer is monitored is not detected, the other terminal is notified of the transfer of the article whose transfer is monitored via the communication unit. Process,
A method for controlling a terminal, including: A communication unit that transmits information to other terminals;
A position calculation unit for calculating the current position of the device;
A reading unit that reads information stored in a wireless tag attached to the article;
A program for causing a computer to control a terminal comprising:
The article attached with the wireless tag based on the current position calculated by the position calculation unit and the position information indicating the location where the article attached with the wireless tag is transferred, which is information stored in the wireless tag The process of determining whether to monitor the transfer of
When the wireless signal from the wireless tag attached to the article whose transfer is monitored is not detected, the other terminal is notified of the transfer of the article whose transfer is monitored via the communication unit. Processing,
A program that executes. A first terminal;
A second terminal communicating with the first terminal via a network;
Including
The second terminal is
A position calculation unit for calculating the current position of the device;
A reading unit that reads information stored in a wireless tag attached to the article;
The article attached with the wireless tag based on the current position calculated by the position calculation unit and the position information indicating the location where the article attached with the wireless tag is transferred, which is information stored in the wireless tag A determination unit for determining whether to monitor the transfer of
A notification unit for notifying the first terminal of the transfer of the article whose transfer is monitored when a wireless signal from a wireless tag attached to the article whose transfer is monitored is not detected;
An article distribution confirmation system comprising:

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