JPH10336329A - Whereabouts confirmation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain the whereabouts confirmation system by which people that have taken refuge in many shatters confirm whereabouts of each other on the occurrence of a disaster or the like. SOLUTION: The system is configured with a disaster prevention system server 1 installed to an administration side and citizen information terminals placed a plurality of locations respectively through interconnection of a communication network. The citizen information terminal 7 receives personal information including information relating to the family from a citizen card 8 distributed to citizens for usual administration service and sends the personal information and location information of the citizen information terminal to the disaster prevention system sever 1. The disaster prevention system server 1 registers the personal information and the location information and searches the information relating to the family and transmits the registered information to each citizen information terminal 7 when the location of some of the family is registered.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for confirming the location of evacuees at the time of an emergency or the like, and in particular, people who have evacuated to a number of evacuation shelters to accommodate victims at the time of an emergency or the like The present invention relates to a location confirmation system suitable for being used to make it possible for people in other evacuation centers and the like to confirm the locations of people in places other than the above and to enable mutual communication.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the event of an emergency, many evacuation shelters are set up and many people evacuate to evacuation shelters, or stations other than evacuation shelters, convenience stores, public halls, welfare facilities,
You will be evacuating to places near sports facilities and city halls. However, at the time of such an emergency disaster, a family cannot always evacuate to one evacuation center or the like, and a situation arises in which family members evacuate to different places.

Conventionally, in such a case, even if it is desired to contact each other, it is impossible to contact each other because they do not know where they are. In some cases, it was difficult to use telephones or the like, and it was difficult to confirm each other's safety and keep in touch.

[0004]

As described above, people who have evacuated to many evacuation shelters in the event of an emergency disaster,
Even if you want to know the safety of family members, acquaintances, etc., if you do not know where those people are evacuated and normal communication methods are not available, you can communicate with mobile phones, workplaces, homes, etc. I could not confirm each other's safety and communicate with each other.

An object of the present invention is to enable people who have evacuated to a large number of evacuation shelters and people who have evacuated to public facilities other than the evacuation shelters to confirm each other's location at the time of an emergency disaster or the like. An object of the present invention is to provide a location confirmation system.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the above object is achieved by connecting a disaster prevention system server installed on the administrative side and a citizen information terminal provided at each of a plurality of places by a communication network. Location check system,
The citizen information terminal allows the user to input personal information including information about the family, transmits the personal information and the information on the location of the citizen information terminal to the disaster prevention system server, and the disaster prevention system server transmits the personal information and the information on the location. This is achieved by searching for information about the family and transmitting the registered information to the citizen information terminal if the location of any of the family is registered.

[0007] The object of the present invention is to input the personal information without contact from a citizen card distributed to citizens for ordinary administrative services. This can be achieved by making it possible to register a message at the same time and output it together with the location registration information to a citizen information terminal.

[0008] Further, the object is that the place where the citizen information terminal is provided is an evacuation center, a station, a convenience store,
Achieved by being a city hall, public hall, sports facility, welfare facility, etc.

[0009] Further, the personal information and the location information registered in the disaster prevention system server can be searched based on input information such as a name from a citizen information terminal, and the location of the location can be obtained. This can be achieved by enabling a map indicating the following to be output to a citizen information terminal.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a location confirmation system according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a location confirmation system according to one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an example of the shape of a citizen information terminal, and FIG. 3 explains various shapes of a citizen card. FIG. 1 to 3, 1 is a disaster prevention system server, 2 and 3 are evacuation shelters A and B, 4 is a station, 5
Is a convenience store, 6 is a public facility, 7 is a citizen information terminal, 8 is a citizen card, 9 is a dedicated line, 21 is a housing, 22
Is a display, 23 is a camera, and 24 is a microphone.

The location confirmation system according to one embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 includes a disaster prevention system server 1 installed at a center such as a city hall as an administrative side, and a number of evacuation centers A.
2, B3, station 4, convenience store 5, or
A large number of citizen information terminals 7 installed in public facilities 6 such as a city hall, a public hall, a sports facility, and a welfare facility are connected to each other via a communication line such as a dedicated line 9 or a communication network.
The communication line using the dedicated line 9 may be a public communication network such as a telephone network, but in order to perform reliable communication even in an emergency,
A wireless communication line, a satellite communication line, or a communication network that is highly resistant to disasters is preferable.

[0013] Disaster prevention system server 1 as administrative device
Does not show the details, but similarly to a normal information processing system, a CPU, an input device, a database,
It is provided with a secondary storage device, a memory, a printer, a display, a communication control device for controlling transmission and reception of information to and from a large number of citizen information terminals 7, and the like.

As shown in FIG. 2, the citizen information terminal 7 is provided with a CPU, an input device, a secondary storage device and the like in a housing 21 formed in a vertically long box shape so that it can be placed anywhere. , A memory, a printer, and a display. And the characteristic point of this citizen information terminal 7 is
The point is that a camera 23, a microphone 24, and a speaker (not shown), which function when the terminal 7 is used for location confirmation as described later, are provided. The terminal 7 of the illustrated example has an input device using a touch panel on the display 22 to simplify the configuration of the terminal itself. Although not shown, a card reading / writing mechanism capable of reading / writing information from / to the citizen card 8 without contact is provided.

The citizen information terminal 7 shown in FIG. 2 is of a stationary type which is installed at a predetermined place. The citizen information terminal 7 is a small laptop computer which can be driven by a battery. A wireless communication mechanism,
A non-contact card reading / writing mechanism for the citizen card 8 can be provided so that it can be carried anywhere. Thus, when a disaster occurs, the citizen information terminal 7 can be carried to a place where people are gathering, and the service for confirming the location of the people according to the present invention can be provided to the people.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the citizen card 8 distributed to each of the citizens to receive ordinary administrative services is used for location confirmation.
The citizen card 8 is usually formed in a flexible sheet shape, and is configured as an IC card having a CPU, a memory, and the like therein. In addition, in the memory of the citizen card 8, in addition to information necessary for administrative services, as personal information, addresses, names, ages, names of family members living together, relationships, etc., and friends, acquaintances, Information such as the names of people who want to know their location, such as their boss, is stored.

This personal information can be obtained by contacting the citizen information terminal 7 with the citizen card 8 in a non-contact manner when operating the citizen information terminal 7 to confirm the location of a family member, acquaintance, etc. The information is read by a card reading / writing mechanism that reads and writes information from and to the card 8. In addition,
When the citizen card 8 is used for ordinary administrative services, it is necessary to have the user input a personal identification number or the like in order to protect personal information when the citizen card 8 is lost. Since the present invention relates to emergency processing, it is possible to read personal information without inputting a personal identification number.

The citizen card 8 is always carried by the citizen, so that it is possible to confirm the location according to the embodiment of the present invention at the time of an emergency or the like. Therefore, it is desirable that the citizen card 8 is always carried. For this reason, the citizen card 8 is usually created as a business card size rectangular card as shown in FIG. 3 (a), but the citizen card 8 has various shapes so that the citizen can easily carry it. The shape may be, for example, an elliptical shape, a small star shape (also included in a coin purse) as shown in FIG. In addition, the function of the citizen card 7 can be provided in a pendant as shown in FIG. 3C so that the citizen card 7 is always worn. Further, as shown in FIG. 3D, the belt of the watch can have the function of a citizen card, or the bracelet can have the function of a citizen card.

In the location confirmation system according to the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above, the people who have evacuated to the place where the citizen information terminal 7 is installed are provided with the citizen card 8 held by the person.
And the citizen information terminal 7 to register the place where one is currently present, and inform the family etc. in other places of the place where one is located, and photograph one's own image with the camera 23,
By inputting a message using the microphone 24, a family or the like in another place is notified of their safety. The operation of the entire system will be described below using a specific example.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the citizen information terminal 7 during the processing of the location confirmation system according to one embodiment of the present invention. The processing operation of one embodiment will be described.

(1) The citizen information terminal 7 is usually used for administrative services for citizens, and normally displays an administrative service menu on the display 22 as shown in FIG. When the user touches a touch panel provided on the display 22 and selects one of the menus, the menu is provided to the user. In the example shown in FIG. 4A, six menus are illustrated, but the menus 2 to 6 can be used by anyone without a citizen card. When this menu is selected, the menu of "1 Certificate issuance" requests a citizen card and ID information such as a personal identification number registered in advance for identity verification, and identity verification is performed. Post-processing is continued. The process in this case and the process when another menu in FIG. 4A is selected are not directly related to the present invention, and are well-known processes. Is omitted.

When the menu is displayed, it is preferable to display a refreshing background such as a clear sky. Also,
On each of the display screens to be described later, it is preferable to display a background that softens the stress of an emergency, for example, a background of a natural scene such as a sea of coral reefs and a fresh green mountain.

(2) When an emergency disaster occurs, the citizen information terminal 7
The administrator of FIG. 4 inputs a predetermined command to the display 22 of the citizen information terminal 7 as shown in FIG.
The emergency information service menu as shown in (b) is displayed. If another command is input from this state, the display returns to the original display screen shown in FIG. 4A. In the example shown in FIG. 4B, “1 location confirmation”, “2 traffic information”, “3 medical institution information”, “4
"Evacuation site information" is shown, and the user can obtain various types of information required in an emergency by selecting one of these menus.

Since the embodiment of the present invention is for confirming the location of people who have evacuated to various places at the time of a disaster, the description will be continued here assuming that the "1 location confirmation" menu is selected.

(3) In the state where the display as shown in FIG. 4 (b) is being performed, when the user selects the "1 location confirmation" menu, the display 22 of the citizen information terminal 7 is selected.
Is displayed as shown in FIG. According to the instructions displayed by the user, the citizen card is sent to the citizen information terminal 7
Over, for example, near the display 22,
The contactless card reading / writing mechanism for the citizen card 8 in the citizen information terminal 7 includes an address, a name, an age, a name of a family living together, which are personal information in the citizen card 8,
The connection is read, and information on acquaintances, friends, etc. is read. In this case, if the citizen card 8 is configured as a watch belt or bracelet, as already described,
The card reading / writing mechanism reads the personal information in the citizen card 8 at the same time when the user selects the menu of “1 location confirmation”.

(4) Thereafter, the citizen information terminal 7 transmits the read personal information of the user and the preset installation location information (location of the user) of the own terminal to a communication line such as a dedicated line 9. To the disaster prevention system server 1 to inquire whether the location from the user's family has already been registered. Until there is a response from server 1, citizen information terminal 7
As shown in FIG. 4 (d), the display indicates that the user is waiting for a reply, and displays an animation or the like in the gray part shown in the drawing so that the user does not feel the waiting time to be long.

On the other hand, the disaster prevention system server 1 stores the received personal information and the location in the secondary storage device of the server itself, and checks whether the location of the person's family has already been registered. Whether or not the search is performed is searched by searching the secondary storage device based on the information on the family included in the personal information. After that, disaster prevention system server 1
Sends a response indicating that the personal information and the location are registered and a search result to the citizen information terminal 7.

(5) The citizen information terminal 7 responds to the response from the disaster prevention system server 1 as shown in FIG.
Displays that the location of the user has been registered. This display
After about 5 seconds, the display automatically indicates the next search result.

(6) As shown in FIG. 4 (f), when the location of the user's family has already been registered from some citizen information terminal, the name and location ( Evacuation centers, etc.) are displayed along with the registered date and time,
If not registered, only that name will be displayed. If there is a person who has left a message at the time of registration of the location, for example, an icon as shown in the figure is displayed next to the name of the person to indicate that the message is left. With this display,
Now, a user who has registered his / her location can confirm that his / her family is safe at another location, and can know who has not yet registered his / her location.

In the display of FIG. 4 (f), a "map" button is displayed beside the display of the location (evacuation site, etc.), and "send message" and "print" are displayed at the bottom of the screen. , "End" button is displayed. Here, when the user selects the “end” button, the display screen returns to the state shown in FIG. 4B, and the process ends. Also,
When the "print" button is selected, the contents of the display screen shown in FIG. 4F are printed out.

(7) When an icon indicating that a message is left is selected in the state where the display of FIG. 4 (f) is being performed, the message is left as shown in FIG. 4 (g). In this example, a video of a person, in this example, Norio Sato, is displayed, and a voice message is output. This allows the user to know the contents of the message from the family.

In the display of FIG. 4G, buttons of "return", "watch again", and "end" are displayed at the bottom of the screen. Here, if the user selects the "end" button, the display screen returns to the state shown in FIG. 4B to end the processing, and if the "view again" button is selected, a message is displayed again. The display of the video of the left person and the output of the message by voice are repeated. Also,
When the "return" button is selected, the display returns to the state of the display screen shown in FIG.

(8) When the user selects the "send message" button while the display of FIG. 4 (f) is being performed, a display screen is displayed as shown in FIG. 4 (h). The user is prompted to input a video and a message that the user wants to send to the family. On this screen, buttons of “return”, “record”, and “end” are displayed at the bottom of the screen. Input of a video and a message is possible for, for example, 20 seconds. When the user selects a “record” button, recording of a video and a voice becomes possible, and the citizen information terminal 7 temporarily outputs these messages to its own terminal. After storing the data in the secondary storage device in the server 1, the data is transmitted to the disaster prevention system server 1 and registered in the secondary storage device in the server 1. After that, "end" by the user
When the button is selected, the display screen returns to the state of FIG. 4 (b) to end the processing, and when the “return” button is selected, the display screen returns to the state of the display screen shown in FIG. 4 (f). .

(9) When one of the buttons of “map” is selected by the user in a state where the display of FIG. 4F is being performed, as shown in FIG. A map of the corresponding location (evacuation site, etc.) is displayed. This allows the user to see an accurate map of the place where his / her family, acquaintances, etc. are located. On this screen as well, buttons "return", "print", and "end" are displayed at the bottom of the screen, and when the button "print" is selected, the displayed map is printed out. When the user selects the “end” button, the display screen returns to the state shown in FIG. 4B to end the processing, and when the “return” button is selected, the display screen returns to the state shown in FIG. Return to the state of the display screen shown in FIG.

According to the embodiment of the present invention described above, in the event of an emergency or the like, people who have evacuated to each evacuation center need only input personal information to the citizen information terminal installed at the evacuation site in a simple manner. You can register your location in a disaster prevention system server such as a disaster prevention center. At that time, you will be notified of the results of a search to see if there is a family that has already been registered. You can know where you are.

In the above-described embodiment of the present invention, the registration of one's own location and the confirmation of the locations of family members, acquaintances, and the like stored in the citizen card 8 are described. In order to confirm the location of an acquaintance or the like who has not been stored in the storage device, it is possible to make a modification. In this case, for example, FIG.
After "1 Location Confirmation" is selected in (b), a screen for selecting a family member or an acquaintance is displayed, and when the "acquaintance" is selected, the name and the like are input, and disaster prevention is performed based on the name. What is necessary is just to search the information of the registered people registered in the system server 1 and output the search result to the citizen information terminal.

[0037]

As described above, according to the present invention, people who have evacuated to a large number of evacuation shelters and people who have evacuated to public facilities other than the evacuation shelters at the time of an emergency disaster, etc. You can check the location.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of a location confirmation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an example of the shape of a citizen information terminal.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating various shapes of a citizen card.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the citizen information terminal while a process of the location confirmation system according to the embodiment of the present invention is in progress.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Disaster prevention system server 2, 3 Evacuation shelter A, B 4 Station 5 Convenience store 6 Public facilities 7 Citizen information terminal 8 Citizen card, 9 Dedicated line 21 Housing 22 Display 23 Camera 24 Microphone

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A location confirmation system in which a disaster prevention system server installed on the government side and citizen information terminals provided at a plurality of places are connected by a communication network, wherein the citizen information terminal includes a family, The user is required to input personal information including information about a friend, acquaintance, boss, or other person who wants to know his / her location, and transmits the personal information and information on the location of the citizen information terminal to the disaster prevention system server. In addition to registering the personal information and the information on the location, the information on the family is searched, and if the location of any family member is registered, the registered information is transmitted to the citizen information terminal. Location confirmation system. 2. The location confirmation system according to claim 1, wherein the input of the personal information is performed in a contactless manner from a citizen card distributed to citizens for ordinary administrative services. 3. The personal information terminal according to claim 1, wherein at the time of inputting the personal information, a message based on video information and audio information can be registered at the same time, and can be output to a citizen information terminal together with the location registration information. Location confirmation system. 4. The place where the citizen information terminal is provided,
Evacuation centers, stations, convenience stores, city halls, public halls,
4. The location confirmation system according to claim 1, wherein the location confirmation system is a sports facility, a welfare facility, or the like. 5. The personal information and the location information registered in the disaster prevention system server can be searched for based on input information such as a name from a citizen information terminal. The location confirmation system according to any one of the above. 6. The location confirmation system according to claim 1, wherein a map indicating the location of the location can be output to a citizen information terminal.