JPH0295679A - Control device for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To speed up information acquisition as well as to make effective use of time required by judging information on the hall and cage calls from the inputted fixed-information of a storage medium so as to be registered, and thereby constituting the inputted information to be filed so as to be transferred to a storage medium read/write device. CONSTITUTION:When a storage medium is inserted into a storage medium read/write device 2 arranged at an elevator hall on the main elevator floor of a building, the hall and cage calls are registered on an elevator control means 7, and fixed information stored in the storage medium is concurrently transferred to an integral control system which monitors information from various kinds of equipments in respective departments or a personnel room 10 in the building so as to control it. In addition, it makes it possible to transmit various kinds of information which is transferred individually from the integral control system to the storage medium read/write device 2 so as to write it into the storage medium. It thereby makes possible to speed up information acquisition and to make effective use of time required for a person to arrive at his office or room.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Objective of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention provides a LAN ( Loca 1Area Network
k) relates to an elevator control device which is connected in a manner capable of transmitting information via the elevator control device.

(Prior Art) Recently, buildings such as offices and condominiums are becoming taller, and skyscrapers with 40 and 50 floors are becoming commonplace.

In such high-rise buildings, information from various devices installed in each department and each room in the building is collected via LAN to a control device installed in the monitoring room. Monitoring control systems are increasingly being employed.

(Problem to be solved by the invention) On the other hand, when using an elevator in a skyscraper, you register a hall call in the elevator hall at the main entrance/exit corner of the building, get on the elevator, and arrive at your office or room. It tends to take quite a while. Therefore, users are unable to make effective use of the time they spend waiting in the hall.

Or, I often spent my time in the elevator car doing nothing.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, by transmitting various information to individuals.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an elevator control device capable of speeding up information acquisition and effectively utilizing the time required to reach an office or a living room.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides operation control for elevators installed in buildings such as offices and condominiums to respond to hall calls and car calls. and a storage medium that is installed in an elevator hall at a main entrance/exit corner of the building, is connected to the elevator control means via an information transmission path, and reads and writes information when the storage medium is inserted. a reading and writing device;
The elevator control means is connected to a general control system that monitors and controls information from each department of the building or various devices in the living room, and the fixed information of the storage medium read by the storage medium reading and writing device is taken into the elevator control means. information transmitting means for transmitting the fixed information to the central control system when the fixed information is read and receiving information related to the owner of the storage medium transferred from the central control system; A function for discriminating hall calls and car call bills from the fixed information of the storage medium read by the writing device and registering them, and for filing information from the central control system taken in by the information transmission means. It has the function of transmitting data to the storage medium reading and writing device.

(Function) In the elevator control device having such a configuration, when a storage medium is inserted into the storage medium reading and writing device installed in the elevator hall at the main entrance/exit corner of the building, the elevator control means receives a hall call and a At the same time that a car call is registered, the fixed information stored in the storage medium is transmitted to the central control system that monitors and controls information from each department in the building or various devices in the room, and the fixed information stored in the storage medium is transmitted from the central control system to the It is now possible to transmit various information transferred to the addressee to the storage medium reading/writing device and write it to the storage medium, speeding up information acquisition and making effective use of the time it takes to arrive at the office or room. can.

(Example) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an example of the overall system configuration of an elevator control device according to the present invention. 1 is an elevator hall call button, 2 is a reading and writing device for a storage medium such as an IC card installed at a main entrance/exit corner of a building, 3 is an elevator car call button, and 4 is an elevator car. These hall call button 1, storage medium reading and writing device 2, and car call button 3 are connected to an elevator control computer 7 in an elevator machine room 6 via a communication terminal 5.

8a is a transmission terminal provided in the elevator machine room 6, and the aforementioned elevator control computer 7 is connected to the LAN 9 in the building via this transmission terminal 8a.

Reference numeral 10 indicates each department or room in the building, and a LAN 9 transmission terminal 8b is also provided for each department.
A high-performance telephone system 11 in each department, an input terminal device 12 to the LAN 9, etc. are connected to this transmission terminal 8b.

13 is a monitoring room of a building, for example, and a control computer 14 is installed in this monitoring room 13 to centrally control the LAN 9 via a transmission terminal 8C.

In the above configuration, the control computer 1 of the LAN 9
4 transmits information from the elevator control computer 7 and various devices 11 and 12 in each department 10 to each transmission terminal 8.
The data is taken in and controlled via a to 8C.

FIG. 2 shows an IC card 15 used as a storage medium inserted into the reading and writing device 2 of FIG. E2PROM (Electrically Erasar) whose contents can be rewritten
able ProgrammableRead 0n
This is a card using ly Memory).

As shown in Fig. 3, the recorded contents of this IC card 15 include the identification code of the department to which the owner of this card belongs, or the room number, and then the floor where the owner's office or room is located are recorded as fixed information. ing. Here, for example, the department code of the owner is 2113. The floor is recorded as the 21st floor.

FIG. 4 shows the format of information transferred from the control computer 14 of the monitoring room 13 when the IC card 15 of FIG. 2 is inserted into the card reading and writing device 2 of FIG. This format includes 0 to (n −
Up to 1) n messages are stored, and each message stores the time when the message was registered, the urgency of the message, the content, etc. For example, message (0) indicates that it was registered at 10:26 with an emergency level of 1, and the content is notification of an emergency meeting. Message (1) is a request for a registered phone call at 11:31 with emergency level 2. The above times are from telephone system 11 and input terminal device 12 in FIG.
The time when an input request to the AN 9 is made is added by a timer function in the control computer 14 of the LAN 9, and the degree of urgency can be input at the discretion of a human operator. In this case, the telephone system is such that if the person in question is not present, the person who picks up the phone manually enters the message addressed to the person and the level of urgency, and sends that information to the LAN9.
It may also be transmitted to.

Further, in FIG. 4, if the time portion of unregistered messages is set to FFFF, for example, it becomes easy to check how many valid messages are included.

FIG. 5 shows a car call table that temporarily stores floor data among the fixed information input from the card. This table is prepared in the elevator control computer 7, and is used for car calls as described later. used for automatic registration. Here, it is assumed that car call data on the 21st and 28th floors are stored.

Next, the operation of the elevator control device connected to the control computer 14 via the LAN 9 as configured above will be explained with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 7 to 11.

FIG. 7 shows a flowchart of the entire elevator control. Upon start, the RAM (Random Access
Step S1) executes an initialization routine such as initial clearing of various data stored in memory) and initial setting of various flag tables, and an elevator operation control routine (step S2).
). In this routine, a normal hall call or car call is input, and once the call is registered, a direction is selected for it, and after running, the deceleration command point is detected and decelerated, the elevator touches the floor, and the door opens. Execute all controls for.

Next, the process moves to a processing routine for reading information from the card and automatically registering hall calls and car calls (step S3).
The flowchart operation shown in FIG. 8(a) is executed.

First, it is determined whether an IC card is inserted into the card reading and writing device 2 shown in FIG. 1 (step 511).
, the fixed information from the card shown in FIG. 3 is read (step 512). When the fixed information read by this card reading and writing device 2 is taken into the elevator control computer 7, the fixed information stored in the card is read via this LAN emergency channel (for example, an interrupt for the LAN side). It is transferred to the LAN 9 through the transmission terminal 8a in the machine room 6 (step 813).

Next, in step 514, when the IC card 15 is inserted, it is checked whether the hall call on the first floor (the floor where the card reading and writing device 2 is installed) has already been registered, and if it has been registered, in step S17, the hall call is registered. If not, a hall call on the first floor is automatically registered (step 515).

If it has already been registered, here, as an example of a response to inputting the data of the IC card 15, the illuminated hall call lamp of 11jft is momentarily turned off (about 0.5 seconds) (step 517). In this way, the user can confirm that the data on the IC card 15 has been read, depending on whether the hall call is registered or the hall call lamp momentarily goes out.

Next, the floor is determined from the data input from the IC card 15, and the floor data is stored in the car call registration table in FIG. 5 (step 516). If the floor data of the first card inserted is the 21st floor and the data of the second card inserted is the 28th floor, then the data of 21.28 are stored sequentially as shown in FIG.

Next, as shown in FIG. 8(b), the elevator reaches the first floor, and it is determined whether the door has been opened and the user has entered car 4 (step 518), and if the above conditions are met. If so, determine whether the car call registration table is 〇 (
step 519).

The above conditions are for automatically registering a car call after confirming that the user has boarded the car on the first floor.
This can be achieved by checking the change in car load.

In step S19, it is determined whether the first value of the car call registration table in FIG.
Since this indicates that there is no manpower, the process returns to the main routine without doing anything, and if it is not 0, the car call data has been input from the IC card 15, so the car call registration table shown in FIG. The car calls are automatically registered one after another (step 520), and then the car call registration table is cleared to all 0s, and the process returns (step 521).

Here, it is assumed that when the IC card is inserted and the floor data is stored in the car call registration table of FIG. 5, the data is stored sequentially from the head of the car call registration table.

From the above explanation, when the IC card 15 is inserted, a hall call is automatically registered, or the instant hall call lamp goes out and a response is made to the data input from the IC card 15, and the fixed information from the card shown in FIG. After the car 4 is handed over to the LAN 9 and it is confirmed that the car 4 has arrived at the first floor and a user has boarded the car, the car call will be automatically registered.

Now, the data processing on the LAN side will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. LAN shown in Figure 1
The control computer 14 constantly monitors whether there is an input request from the telephone system 11 or the input terminal device 12 (step 530), and if there is a request for human input, it receives human input data (step 531). ). Thereafter, the received data is stored in the corresponding location of the message information file shown in FIG. 6 (step 532).

This message information file is categorized and organized by department code (or room number) and registration number.
This contributes to improving the search speed after the card is read.

In FIG. 6, first there is a department or room to which a person belongs as a major classification, and then the registrants within that department are recorded. Now, it is assumed here that there is one department from O to (1-1), and the first department (0) has m registrants from 0 to (m-1).

In addition, in each registration number part, there is a flag area that indicates whether there is a message for that registrant, and as shown in step S33 in FIG. Sets the message presence/absence flag of . For example, if this is set as "O" when there is no message and "1" when there is a message, it can be easily distinguished whether there is a message or not. Manpower requests from each terminal device occurred, and the 9th
When a message is stored by executing the flowchart shown in the figure, the message (0) is stored in the message storage area of the corresponding registration number in the message information file in Figure 6.
, message (1), message (2), and so on. Here, it is assumed that each message storage area has a format equivalent to each message table in FIG.
It is assumed that information such as the degree of urgency is set in step S32 in FIG.

In FIG. 6, the data is roughly categorized starting from the department to which the user belongs or the room he/she lives in, but it may also start from the floor, for example, thereby further improving the speed of information retrieval.

Next, when the message information file shown in Fig. 6 is being created, step S1 of Fig. 8 (a) is performed by inserting the card.
When the fixed information of the card is sent to LAN9 in step 3,
If there are messages for the owner, the LANQ side needs to urgently process these data and send the information back to the card. Therefore, in such a case, the processing is performed as an interrupt process, and the flowchart in FIG. 10 shows the operation.

In FIG. 10, when the interrupt processing routine is started on the LAN side, first in step 5201, the department code or room number in the data from the transferred card is the major classification code of the message information file in FIG. , that is, whether there is matching data. If there is matching data in step 5202, next, in the message information file shown in Figure 6, the registration number in the department code (or room number) that matches above matches the registration number input from the card. A search is made to see if there is data (step 5203). Here, if there is matching data, check the flag indicating whether there is a message within that registration number (step 5204).
), it is determined whether there are any more messages to output (step 5205). If there are messages to be output, all messages within the corresponding registration number in Figure 6 will be LA.
The messages are sequentially transferred to the elevator control computer 7 via N9 (step 5206), and then the transferred message files are cleared (step 5207).

At this time, if the message presence/absence flag is also cleared at the same time, the no-message state will continue until the next new message is input.

In the above explanation, if there is no message to be output at step 5205 in FIG. By doing so, it is possible to further improve services for users.

When the message information stored in the message file is transferred to the elevator control computer 7 as described above, this elevator control computer 7
The data transfer from the AN9 side is captured as an interrupt, and the 11th
Execute the processing routine shown in the figure. That is, when data is received from the LAN 9, it is stored in a table with a format similar to that shown in FIG. 2 and writes the contents of the message on the IC card (step 5102). At this time, although not shown in FIG. 11, in response to writing the message information on the IC card, the hall call lamp is turned on twice, for example, in the same manner as step S17 in FIG. 8(a). By turning off the light for a moment, the user can confirm that data has been written to the IC card.

In addition, in the following explanation, we have explained the case where the card reading and writing device 2 is located on the hall side, but if the elevator has just arrived at the first floor and the door is open, it will not be possible to use the card. The person may get into the car immediately, making it impossible to use the IC card at the hall side. Therefore, in preparation for such a case, a card reading/writing device 2 similar to that described above may be installed inside the car 4 so that various message information can be received from inside the car 4 as well.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, it takes a considerable amount of time to register a hall call on the departure standard floor like in a high-rise office building or high-rise condominium and to get on the elevator to go to your office or living room. In buildings where it takes a long time, we have made it possible to transmit various information on elevator usage in conjunction with elevator call registration, speeding up information acquisition and making the time it takes to get to your office or room more effective. It is possible to provide an elevator control device that can be used for

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an elevator control device according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a front view of a writable IC card used in the embodiment, and Fig. 3 shows the storage contents of the IC card. A configuration diagram showing an example, FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram showing message information written to the same IC card, and FIG.
Figure 6 is a configuration diagram of the car call registration table facilitated by the Ruri computer in Figure 6. Figure 6 is a configuration diagram of the message information file received by the LAN side control computer in Figure 1. Figures 7 to 11 are FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a flowchart for explaining the operation of the same embodiment. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Hall call button, 2... Card reading and writing device, 3... Car call button, 3... Car, 5...
...Communication terminal, 9...LAN, 10...Department or room, 11...Telephone system, 12...
Input terminal device, 13...Monitoring room, 14...1 computer on the LAN side, 15...IC card. Applicant's Representative Patent Attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 1 Figure Figure Figure (b) Figure

Claims (1)

[Claims] An elevator control means for controlling the operation of an elevator installed in a building such as an office or a condominium in order to respond to hall calls and car calls; A storage medium reading and writing device that is connected via an information transmission path and reads and writes information when a storage medium is inserted, and a control unit that monitors and controls information from various devices in each department or room of the building. When the fixed information of the storage medium connected to the control system and read by the storage medium reading and writing device is taken into the elevator control means, the fixed information is transmitted to the central control system and transferred from the central control system. information transmission means for acquiring information regarding the owner of the storage medium, and the elevator control means receives hall call and car call information from the fixed information of the storage medium read by the storage medium reading and writing device. It is characterized by having a function of identifying and registering these, and a function of filing information from the integrated control system taken in by the information transmission means and transmitting it to the storage medium reading and writing device. elevator control equipment.