JPH0668390A - Vehicle operation control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily and speedily apply the on-vehicle machine of the vehicle operation control system to a rental car, an employee car, etc., without remodelling the vehicle. CONSTITUTION:The portable on-vehicle machine 12 is constituted by putting a GPS reception part 16, a radio mobile station part 17, a control part 18, a display part 19, a speaker 20, a power source part 21, and an operation code input switch board 22 in a case 15. A cigarette lighter plug 21a which is inserted detachably into the cigarette outlet of the vehicle is electrically connected to the power source part 21.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

The present invention relates to a GPS (Global Positioning System) for positioning the current position of a vehicle (vehicle position).
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle operation management system in which a receiving device and the like are installed in a vehicle, and more particularly, to a vehicle operation management system in which an in-vehicle device is improved.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a company that owns and operates a large number of automobiles such as a transportation business and a construction civil engineering business is required to have a vehicle operation management system that efficiently manages the operation of a large number of these vehicles.

This type of vehicle operation management system has an in-vehicle device mounted on the vehicle and a fixed station on the side of the operation management office. Necessary data is transmitted to the fixed station of the operation management office through mobile communication, and the fixed station side intensively monitors the operation status, work status, driver status, etc. of all vehicles in real time.

On the other hand, the fixed station provides operation information to all moving vehicles in a timely manner to ensure efficient operation of all vehicles.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a vehicle-mounted device 1 of this type in the related art. This is a work code input by operating a vehicle speed sensor 2 and a work code input switch 3 which are installed by modifying a general vehicle. An operation management recording device 5 that creates operation management data based on the signal and records it in the memory card 4,
A wireless mobile station 6 that transmits the vehicle speed pulse signal from the vehicle speed sensor 2 and the operation data from the operation management device 5 to a fixed station of an operation management office (not shown) via a wireless antenna 6a.
Have and.

Further, the wireless mobile station 6 receives instruction data regarding the operation from the office side fixed station via the antenna 6a.

The power supply of the operation management device 5 is supplied from the vehicle ACC power supply or the like via a dedicated harness. In addition, 24V from the vehicle battery is supplied to the wireless mobile station 6 by a dedicated DC / D.
It is stepped down to 12V by the C converter 7 and supplied.

[0008]

However, in such a conventional vehicle-mounted device 1, it is necessary to modify a part of the vehicle in order to receive power from the power source mounted on the vehicle and to attach the vehicle speed sensor 2 to the vehicle. In addition, the vehicle-mounted device 1 must be fixed to the vehicle.

Even if the operation management device 5 is a handy terminal or an electronic notebook type, after the vehicle is modified to attach the vehicle speed sensor 2, a dedicated connector is attached to the vehicle speed sensor 2. Need to be connected and fixed using.

Therefore, there is a problem that this type of conventional vehicle operation management system can be applied only to a vehicle equipped with the vehicle-mounted device 1 and cannot be applied to other vehicles.

In addition, in the transportation business, construction civil engineering business, etc., in addition to the vehicles owned by the company, it is routine to use subcontracted drivers and their own vehicles, or rental vehicles. However, the vehicle operation management system cannot be applied to all of these vehicles.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to make a so-called hire vehicle such as a rental vehicle easily and quickly by integrating an in-vehicle device into a portable structure. It is to provide a vehicle operation management system that can be applied.

[0013]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a portable type in which a vehicle-mounted device is integrated and has the following configuration.

That is, the present invention receives a navigation radio wave containing orbit and time data from a plurality of GPS satellites and positions the reception position of the navigation radio wave, and a GPS receiving device for receiving operation data to perform an operation related to vehicle operation. A vehicle operation management device that creates and records management data, and position data from the GPS receiving device and operation management data and voice from the vehicle operation management device are transmitted to a fixed station of an operation management office while the fixed station is also transmitted. And a wireless device that receives instructions and data necessary for operating the vehicle from the vehicle, and position data from the GPS receiving device is displayed on the map as the vehicle position, and an instruction from the office received by the wireless device. And a display device for displaying data in a vehicle operation management system in which the vehicle is equipped with a cigarette lighter outlet. Receiving device, fleet management system, as well as configuration freely configured and portable integrally the radio and the display device, characterized in that the receiving freely configured from the cigarette lighter outlet.

[0015]

Since various in-vehicle devices, such as a GPS receiver, which are to be mounted on a vehicle, are integrally configured to be portable, even a hire car such as a rental car can be carried in the passenger seat by the portable type. By simply mounting the vehicle-mounted device, the vehicle operation management system can be applied easily and quickly.

[0016]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an entire embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a vehicle operation management system 11 is shown.
Is a portable vehicle-mounted device 12 mounted on a vehicle, a fixed station 13 installed in an operation management office, and both of these 12, 13
And a wireless control station 14 for relaying or controlling wireless communication between them.

As shown in the external perspective view of FIG. 2, for example, the portable vehicle-mounted device 12 is configured to be portable by being integrated into one device, and a GPS receiver is housed in a box-shaped case 15. Unit 16, wireless mobile station unit 17, control unit 18 having a vehicle operation management function and a system control function,
For example, a display unit 19 such as an LCD (liquid crystal display device), a speaker 20, and a power supply unit 21 that appropriately supplies electric power to these 16 to 20 are incorporated.

Further, the case 15 has an entrance / exit 24 through which the LCD display 19a of the display unit 19, the work code input switch board 22, and the memory card 23 are put in / out on the front surface thereof.
While each is provided with a GPS receiver 1 on the back
A cord for electrically connecting 6 to the GPS antenna 16a,
The cords for connecting the wireless mobile station unit 17 to the radio antenna 17a and the cords for connecting the power source unit 21 to the cigarette lighter plug 21a are attached so as to be pulled out to the outside.

The GPS antenna 16a and the radio antenna 1
7a has strong magnets embedded in the outer bottoms thereof, and these bottoms are fixed to the outer surface of the roof of a vehicle, for example, by a magnetic attraction force. The cigarette lighter plug 21a is removably inserted into a cigarette lighter outlet of a vehicle (not shown) to receive power from the power source section 21 from a vehicle-mounted battery (not shown) while supplying power to an appropriate device of the portable vehicle-mounted device 12.

The GPS receiving unit 16 receives, for example, navigation radio waves transmitted from the four GPS artificial satellites 25 to the ground via the GPS antenna 16a, and displays the current position of the own vehicle (own vehicle position) in latitude, longitude and altitude. It is detected in real time.

That is, each of the GPS receiver 16 and each GPS satellite 25 has a sophisticated clock such as an atomic oscillator such as cesium inside, and the GPS satellite 25 sends the radio wave transmission time and the orbit information about the earth's orbit to the navigation radio wave. If you send as
By measuring the arrival time of the radio wave in the PS receiver 16, the distance between the two receivers, that is, the GPS satellite 25
The distance between the GPS receiver 16 and the GPS receiver 16 can be detected.
Further, if the distance from one GPS satellite 25 is known, the receiving point, that is, the position of the own vehicle will be present on any of the spherical surfaces centered on the GPS satellite.

Therefore, at least three GPS satellites 25
By receiving the same information from, the intersection of each spherical surface can be the receiving position, that is, the own vehicle position,
The current position can be detected by three-dimensional coordinates.

The greatest feature of this navigation is that it can detect the current position of the vehicle anywhere in the world.

On the other hand, the control section 18 operates the work code input switch board 22 for each operation work content division, so that when the work code is input, the work code and the vehicle-mounted device code (vehicle code) are automatically obtained. The operation management data such as time, time and course code are recorded in the memory card 23.

Further, the control unit 18 gives the vehicle position data and the operation management data from the GPS receiving unit 16 to the wireless mobile station unit 17, the display unit 19 and the speaker 20, respectively, and these vehicle position data is sent to the wireless mobile station unit. The wireless antenna 17a of 17 transmits wirelessly to the wireless mobile station 14, and the position of the vehicle is displayed on the map in the display unit 19 in an overlapping manner.

Further, the control section 18 causes the display section 19 to appropriately display information such as data and instructions necessary for vehicle operation from the fixed station 13 received by the wireless mobile station section 17, and voice information from the speaker 20. It is designed to be output by.

The wireless mobile station unit 17 is, for example, MCA (Multi
Channel Access) is a part of a wireless system and communicates between the mobile radio base station 23 of the fixed station 13 on the operation management office side via the radio control station 14 between radios having a specific ID code. It is a wireless communication system that is highly confidential due to the code.

The fixed station 13 on the side of the operation management office is composed of a host computer 27 for processing operation management data transmitted from the mobile radio base station 26 and wireless transmission data such as own vehicle position data, and a portable vehicle-mounted device 12. The card reader / writer 28 reads out the operation management data from the recorded memory card 23.

The host computer 27 reads out the operation management data from the card reader / writer 28 to create a daily business report or an appropriate slip, and at the same time, the host computer 27 and the operation management data from the wireless mobile station section 17 received by the mobile wireless base station 26. The vehicle position data is displayed on the display device 19 and is output to the printer 30 as needed.

When the host computer 27 reads the vehicle position from the mobile radio base station 26, the host computer 27 obtains the vehicle position from the map database 31 which stores a plurality of maps of various scales from the wide area map to the detailed map. The map including the map is read out and the position of the vehicle is displayed on the display device 19 on the map.

Further, the host computer 27 receives inputs of information such as operation information for grasping the positions and work states of all moving vehicles, work schedule change instructions, course guide change (route guidance), and road driving advice. Then, these pieces of information are transmitted from the mobile radio base station 26 to the radio control station 14.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

First, the driver of the vehicle is a portable vehicle-mounted device 1
2 is installed on a passenger seat of the vehicle and temporarily fixed, and the GPS antenna 16a and the wireless antenna 17a are placed on the outer surface of the roof of the driver's seat of the vehicle, and the magnetic attraction of the fixing magnet Temporarily fix it with force.

Next, the cigarette lighter plug 21a is inserted into a cigarette lighter outlet of a vehicle (not shown), and power is received by the power source section 21 to activate each section of the portable vehicle-mounted apparatus 12.
The GPS receiver 16 receives navigation radio waves transmitted from, for example, four GPS satellites 25 with the GPS antenna 16a and detects the current position of the vehicle (vehicle position). This vehicle position is further read by the control unit 18, and the display unit 1
9 is displayed on the map.

On the other hand, when the driver or the like inserts the memory card 23 into the card entrance / exit 24 and operates the work code input switch board 22 for each operation work division, the work code is automatically input. , Operation management data such as an in-vehicle device code (vehicle code), time, and course code are recorded in the memory card. At the same time, the operation management data and the vehicle position data are given to the wireless mobile station section 17 by the control section 18, and the wireless control station 14 together with the specific ID code from the wireless antenna 17a.
Is transmitted to the mobile radio base station 26 and is further amplified by the radio control station 14 and then received by the radio antenna 26a of the fixed station 13 having the specific ID code on the side of the operation management office.
Given to.

While the host computer 27 reads out the operation management data and the vehicle position data received by the mobile radio base station 26, it reads out a map including the vehicle position data from the map database 31 and displays the vehicle on the map. The position of the vehicle is displayed on the display unit 19 and the printer 30 prints it as necessary.

Therefore, the fixed station 1 on the side of the operation management office
On the third side, it is possible to grasp the status of all the moving vehicles and the driver in real time from the traveling distance, time, work code, course code, etc. of each vehicle in the operation management data.

Therefore, on the basis of such various data, the operation management office inputs the information such as work schedule change instruction, course guide (route guidance), and road driving advice to the host computer 27 in order to give it to each driver. To do.

Then, the information such as these instructions is given from the host computer 27 to the mobile radio base station 26, and is transmitted from the radio antenna 26a of the mobile radio base station 26 via the radio control station 14 to the radio antenna 17a of the portable vehicle-mounted device 12 and then to the radio. It is received by the mobile station unit 17. The information such as the instruction from the operation management office side received here is read by the control unit 18, displayed on the display unit 19, and output to the speaker 20 by voice.

Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the portable vehicle-mounted device 12 is constructed so that it can be carried around freely. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out operation management on the operation management office side, such as rental cars other than those owned by the company. By carrying the portable vehicle-mounted device 12 into the vehicle and temporarily fixing the vehicle-mounted device 12, the operation management office can grasp the status of all these vehicles in real time. For this reason, after comprehensively considering the conditions of all vehicles in operation, necessary information such as work schedule change display, course guide, road driving advice, etc. can be appropriately given to drivers on the road. .

As a result, the cargo loading efficiency of the vehicle can be improved, the operating cost such as the fuel consumption of the vehicle can be reduced, and the working environment of the driver can be improved and the safe driving can be instructed.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of another embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the map database 14 on the side of the operation management office is provided in the case 15 of the portable vehicle-mounted device 12 of the above embodiment. A small map database 32, which is a copy of a necessary part of the map stored in the, is stored, while a GPS receiver 33 and a GPS antenna 33a are also provided on the side of the operation management office to provide a so-called differential G.
The present embodiment is characterized in that the positioning accuracy is improved by adopting the PS positioning method, and the other points are the same as the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and therefore the portions common to the portions shown in FIG. The reference numerals are given to simplify or omit the description of the overlapping portions.

In this embodiment, since the small map database 32 is built in, the position of the vehicle detected by the GPS receiving unit 16 is changed from the small map database 32 to the control unit 18.
And read the location of the vehicle on this map
The portable vehicle-mounted device 12 can be provided with a so-called car navigation function by displaying the road condition, route guidance, etc. In addition, each map database 3
As 1, 32, a storage medium such as a memory card, a floppy disk, a hard disk pack, a CD / ROM or the like in which map information is stored may be brought in the vehicle, or a map in the map database 31 on the office side may be brought in. It may be configured to be stored in a required memory of the portable vehicle-mounted device 12 via the mobile communication systems 17 and 26.

[0045]

As described above, according to the present invention, various devices such as a GPS receiver that should be mounted on a vehicle are integrally configured and are portable, so that the device is not modified. Can be mounted on. Therefore, the vehicle operation management system can be easily and quickly applied to a so-called rental vehicle such as a rental vehicle by mounting the portable vehicle-mounted device on the passenger seat of the vehicle.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an embodiment of a vehicle operation management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the portable vehicle-mounted device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a device mounted on a conventional vehicle.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Vehicle Operation Management System 12 Portable In-vehicle Device 13 Fixed Station on Operation Management Office Side 14 Radio Control Station 15 Case 16 GPS Receiver 16a GPS Antenna 17 Radio Mobile Station 17a Radio Antenna 18 Control 19 Display 20 Speaker 21 Power Part 22 Work code input switch 23 Memory card 25 GPS satellite 26 Mobile radio base station 26a Radio antenna 27 Host computer 28 Card reader / writer 29 Display device 31 Map database

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A GPS receiver that receives navigation radio waves including orbit and time data from a plurality of GPS satellites and positions the reception position, and operation management data related to vehicle operation by receiving data related to operation work. While creating and recording the vehicle operation management device, while transmitting the position data from the GPS receiving device and the operation management data and voice from the vehicle operation management device to the fixed station of the operation management office,
A wireless device that receives instructions and data necessary for operating the vehicle from the fixed station, and position data from the GPS receiving device is displayed on the map as the own vehicle position, and the office that is received by the wireless device. In a vehicle operation management system in which a display device for displaying instructions and data from a vehicle is installed in a vehicle equipped with a cigarette lighter outlet,
A vehicle operation management system characterized in that a PS receiver, a vehicle operation management device, a wireless device, and a display device are integrally configured so as to be portable and power can be received from the cigarette lighter outlet.