JPH09167299A - Article delivery vehicle mobile station, delivery management command station, and article delivery management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optimum system which can deliver the articles to plural delivery destinations on every shortest route. SOLUTION: At least a single article delivery vehicle mobile station 1 is prepared together with a delivery management command station 3. The station 1 reads the delivery destination data on plural articles to be delivered by a bar code reader 11 to encode them and transmits the encoded data to the station 3 in an article delivery mode. The station 3 decodes the delivery destination data received from the station 1 and decides the shortest delivery route to above-mentioned plural delivery destinations on a map based on a map data base 33 to transmit these decided routes to the station 1. The station 1 displays the shortest delivery routes at a map display part 14 and delivers plural articles.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an article delivery management system for delivering an article to a plurality of destinations via a shortest route to the plurality of destinations, and an article delivery vehicle suitable for the system. Mobile station and delivery management command station.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional example similar to this kind of article delivery management system, there is known a vehicle guidance apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-194599. This device has a display device and guides a user to a predetermined destination based on a map displayed on the display device. A wide-area map storage unit that stores map information of a wide area including the destination. A destination area map storage means for storing map information on the destination and guided objects around the destination, and the display device using information from the wide area map storage means or the destination area map storage means And display switching control means for displaying a map on the display.

[0003]

In this device, only a destination and a target which is a main landmark around the destination are simply represented on the destination area map. Since the map is switched to the surrounding area map to go to the destination according to the simplified map display, it is possible to go to the destination reliably and easily while reading the map to the destination clearly and easily.

However, this device can be applied only to a single destination, and it is necessary to provide the vehicle with a large-capacity storage device such as a destination periphery map storage unit and a wide area map storage unit.

[0005] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an article delivery system which is most suitable for a delivery system for delivering a plurality of articles to a plurality of delivery destinations and which can perform delivery to a plurality of delivery destinations by the shortest route. To provide a management system.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an article delivery vehicle mobile station suitable for the above article delivery management system, which does not require a large-capacity storage device for map data. Things.

The present invention is also a delivery management command station suitable for the above-mentioned article delivery management system, and has a search function of a shortest distance delivery route for connecting a plurality of delivery destinations with the shortest route on a map. The purpose is to provide a delivery management command station.

[0008]

According to the present invention, there is provided a bar code reader for reading delivery destination data represented by a bar code attached to an article to be delivered, and a bar code reader read by the bar code reader. A channel codec that encodes the destination data and decodes the coded data transmitted from the command station; and a code transmitted from the command station while transmitting the coded destination data. Wireless unit for receiving encoded data, a map display unit for displaying the shortest distance route data included in the encoded data transmitted from the command station, and a CPU for controlling each unit. Thus, a mobile station for an article delivery vehicle is obtained.

According to the present invention, a radio unit for transmitting / receiving data to / from a mobile station for an article delivery vehicle, and a coded delivery destination sent from the mobile station for an article delivery vehicle A channel codec that decodes data and encodes data to be transmitted to the article delivery vehicle mobile station, and stores map data of a plurality of regions predetermined for searching for a shortest delivery route. The plurality of delivery destinations are referred to by the shortest route on the map by referring to the map database based on the map database and the plurality of delivery destination data transmitted from one of the article delivery vehicle mobile stations. A computer unit for determining a shortest delivery route to be connected and outputting the data as data to be transmitted to the article delivery vehicle mobile station; Delivery management command station is obtained which is characterized in that a U.

[0010] According to the present invention, the article delivery vehicle mobile station further includes at least one article delivery vehicle mobile station and the delivery management command station. The delivery destination data of the article to be encoded is encoded and transmitted to the delivery management command station, and the delivery management command station receives the plurality of articles to be delivered from one received article delivery vehicle mobile station. Decoding the delivery destination data and determining a delivery shortest distance route for connecting the plurality of delivery destinations on a shortest route on a map while referring to the map database, and transmitting the route to the article delivery vehicle mobile station. An article delivery management system characterized by outputting as data to be obtained is obtained.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In FIG.
The mobile station 1 is mounted on an article delivery vehicle and has a barcode reader 11 for reading delivery destination data represented by a barcode attached to an article to be delivered, and a delivery destination read by the barcode reader 11. A channel codec 12 for encoding data and decoding the encoded data transmitted from the command station 3;
A radio unit 13 for transmitting the coded delivery destination data and receiving the coded data transmitted from the command station 3, a delivery shortest distance route included in the coded data transmitted from the command station 3 Map display unit 14 for displaying data, and CPU for controlling each unit
And 15. Barcode reader 11 and CPU 1
5 is connected via an interface 16. C
The PU 15 also has a RAM 17 as a temporary storage device. The mobile station 1 transmits and receives necessary data to and from the command station 3 via the relay station 2.

The command station 3 decodes the coded delivery destination data sent from the mobile station 1 and a radio unit 31 for transmitting and receiving data to and from the mobile station 1, A mobile station, a channel codec 32 for coding data to be transmitted to one mobile station, a map database 33 for storing map data of a plurality of regions predetermined for searching for the shortest route for delivery, The mobile station 1 determines a delivery shortest distance route for connecting the plurality of delivery destinations on the map by the shortest route with reference to the map database 33 based on the plurality of delivery destination data transmitted from the mobile station 1. It comprises a computer unit 34 for outputting data to be transmitted to the computer, and a CPU 35 for controlling the above-mentioned units. The computer unit 34 is connected to the CPU 35 via the converter 36, and can be sufficiently handled by a personal computer. Like the CPU 15, the CPU 35 has a built-in RAM (not shown). The map data stored in the map database 33 is divided into a plurality of regions and stored so as to cover all possible areas of the delivery service.

It should be noted that a bar code label is attached to the article to be delivered, and the delivery destination data represented by the bar code of this bar code label needs at least the address and name of the delivery destination and the article name. Computer section 34
On the basis of such delivery destination data, it searches which region of the map data it corresponds to, and also searches for the corresponding point in the searched map data.

The operation will be described with reference to FIG. When loading an item to be delivered to the item delivery vehicle, the delivery destination data is input as the item information from the bar code label attached to the item by the bar code reader 11 (step S1).
1) Yes. This input is performed for all the articles to be delivered, but the articles to be delivered are selected in advance so that all the articles to be delivered fall in one area or several adjacent areas on the map database 33. I have. This article information is encoded by the channel codec 12 controlled by the CPU 15 (step S12). The coded delivery destination data is transmitted to the command station 3 via the relay station 2 by the wireless unit 13 controlled by the CPU 15 (step S13). Needless to say, ID data for identifying the mobile station 1 is also attached to the encoded delivery destination data.

In the command station 3, a plurality of coded destination data received by the radio unit 31 (step S14) are decoded by the channel codec 32 controlled by the CPU 35 (step S15). The decoded plurality of delivery destination data are sent to the computer unit 34 through the converter 36. The computer unit 34 searches the map data for a plurality of delivery destination data from the mobile station 1 after identifying the ID data indicating the mobile station 1 (step S16). This search is an operation of reading the map data of the corresponding area from the map database 33 based on the delivery destination data, and further searching for the location of the address of the delivery destination data in the map data. Such a search is performed for all the delivery destination data from the mobile station 1 and plotted on a map of one area, and a travel route for connecting the shortest distance is searched (step S17).
To determine the shortest route for delivery. In the case where the delivery destination extends over two areas, the shortest delivery route is also performed on the map data of the two areas. The computer unit 34 converts the data indicating the shortest distance route and the delivery destination determined as described above together with the map data into the converter 3.
6 and output as map data. Map data is
The data is encoded by the channel codec 32 controlled by the CPU 35 (step S18), and further transmitted from the wireless unit 31 (step S19). Of course, ID data indicating the mobile station 1 is added to this map data.

The map data transmitted from the command station 3 is received by the radio unit 13 (step S20) and decoded by the channel codec 12 (step S21). C
The PU 15 confirms that the map data decoded by the identification of the ID data is data addressed to the own station, and then displays the map data on the map display unit 14 (step S22).

FIG. 3 schematically shows an example of map data displayed by the map display section 14 with a part thereof omitted. The target buildings and facilities are displayed on the map along with the roads, the destinations are black rectangles A, B, C, and D (actually, the names of the destinations, etc.), and the shortest distance route is indicated on the road by a broken line. Is displayed.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, the shortest delivery route can be displayed as image data on the display unit of the mobile station at the time of delivery of a plurality of articles, so that the article can be efficiently delivered. Delivery can be done.
In addition, the mobile station does not require a large-capacity storage device for storing map data, and is mounted on an article delivery vehicle, so that the configuration of the mobile station having a limited installation space can be made more compact.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an article delivery management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the system shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of a map display unit shown in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 mobile station 2 relay station 3 command station 11 bar code reader 12 channel codec 13 radio unit 14 map display unit 15 CPU 16 interface 17 RAM 31 radio unit 32 channel codec 33 map database 34 computer unit 35 CPU 36 converter

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A bar code reader for reading delivery destination data represented by a bar code attached to an article to be delivered, and encoding the delivery destination data read by the bar code reader and issuing a command. A channel codec for decoding coded data transmitted from a station, and a radio unit for transmitting the coded destination data and receiving the coded data transmitted from the command station, Movement for goods delivery vehicles, comprising: a map display unit for displaying shortest delivery route data included in the coded data transmitted from the command station; and a CPU for controlling each of the units. Bureau. 2. A radio unit for transmitting / receiving data to / from a mobile station for goods delivery vehicles, and decoding and coded delivery destination data sent from the mobile stations for goods delivery vehicles. A channel codec for coding data to be transmitted to the article delivery vehicle mobile station, and a map database storing map data of a plurality of regions predetermined for searching for the shortest delivery route. A shortest delivery distance for connecting the plurality of destinations by a shortest route on a map by referring to the map database based on a plurality of destination data transmitted from one of the article delivery vehicle mobile stations; A computer unit for determining a route and outputting it as data to be transmitted to the article delivery vehicle mobile station; and a CPU for controlling the respective units. And a delivery management command station. 3. An article delivery vehicle mobile station comprising at least one article delivery vehicle mobile station according to claim 1 and a delivery management command station according to claim 2; The delivery destination data of a plurality of items to be delivered is coded and transmitted to the delivery management command station, and the delivery management command station transmits the plurality of delivery items from one received product delivery vehicle mobile station. The delivery destination data of the goods to be decoded is decoded, and the shortest distance route for connecting the plurality of delivery destinations with the shortest route on the map is determined while referring to the map database. An article delivery management system for outputting as data to be transmitted to the article.