CN114580047A

CN114580047A - Queuing range generation device and queuing range generation method

Info

Publication number: CN114580047A
Application number: CN202111317837.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 鸟海渉; 藤原正康; 羽鸟贵大; 斋藤太地
Original assignee: Hitachi Ltd
Current assignee: Hitachi Ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-02
Filing date: 2021-11-08
Publication date: 2022-06-03
Also published as: JP2022088125A; JP7448465B2

Abstract

The invention provides a queuing range generation device and a queuing range generation method. Provided is a queuing range generation device which can generate a queuing range in a building in a usable manner. Is provided with: a determination unit that determines a queuing position of a person using the system based on building model data including structural information of the building, queuing data including information of a queuing start position of the person using the system, and per-person occupied area data indicating an occupied area of each person; and a generation unit that specifies a queuing range of a person using the system by taking the outline of the queuing position determined by the determination unit, and generates object data that represents the specified queuing range and is arrangeable in the building model data.

Description

Queuing range generation device and queuing range generation method

Technical Field

The present invention generally relates to the generation of queuing ranges in buildings.

Background

In recent years, solutions have been increasing in which Building Information Modeling (BIM) is taken as a representative, and all Information of a Building is integrated into 1 model, so that Information of the Building model can be used not only in design and construction of the Building but also in operation. In this case, for example, a technique described in patent document 1 is considered as a solution for information transmission for use in operation of an elevator.

Documents of the prior art

Patent document

Patent document 1: JP patent application publication No. 2018-005276

In building applications, queuing for elevator utilization often becomes problematic. From the viewpoints of the necessity of arranging lines, the operation of elevators, the operation of reception halls, the operation of robots, and the like, it is desirable to integrate the line-up range for the use of elevators into the building model data. However, in the conventional technique represented by patent document 1, there is no disclosure about a mechanism for generating and transmitting information of an assumed queuing range in use of an elevator.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and proposes a queuing range generating device and the like that can generate a queuing range in a building so as to be usable.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the present invention, a queuing range generating device for generating a queuing range of a person using a predetermined system provided in a building includes: a determination unit that determines a queuing position of a person using the system based on building model data including structure information of the building, queuing data including information of a queuing start position of a person using the system, and per-person occupied area data indicating an occupied area of each person; and a generation unit configured to specify a queuing range of a person using the system by taking an outline of the queuing position determined by the determination unit, and generate object data that represents the specified queuing range and is arrangeable in the building model data.

According to the above configuration, for example, by introducing object data indicating a queuing range into the building model data, the user of the building can easily grasp the queuing range assumed in the system of the building. Thus, the man-hours required for the necessity of queuing, the operation of the elevator, the operation of the reception hall, the operation of the robot, and the like can be reduced.

ADVANTAGEOUS EFFECTS OF INVENTION

According to the present invention, the range of queuing in a building can be easily utilized.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a queuing range generating apparatus according to embodiment 1.

Fig. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the building model data according to embodiment 1.

Fig. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the queue forming process according to embodiment 1.

Fig. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the building model data according to embodiment 1.

Fig. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the inflow ratio table according to embodiment 1.

Fig. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the queuing method according to embodiment 1.

Fig. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the queuing method according to embodiment 1.

Fig. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the queuing method according to embodiment 1.

Fig. 9 is a diagram showing an example of the queuing method according to embodiment 1.

Fig. 10 is a diagram showing an example of the queuing range generating apparatus according to embodiment 2.

Description of reference numerals

A queuing range generating device,

A storage part,

A calculation unit.

Detailed Description

(1) Embodiment 1

An embodiment of the present invention is described in detail below. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments.

The queuing range creating device according to the present embodiment, for example, calculates the number of waiting persons of an elevator assumed in a building (building), and then creates a queue of users corresponding to the number of waiting persons by using, as input, a position where the user starts queuing (hereinafter referred to as "queuing start position") and an area occupied by one user (hereinafter referred to as "per-person occupied area"). The present queuing range generating device creates a queuing range by taking the outline of the formed queuing, and generates an object that indicates the queuing range, that is, an object that can be placed on the building model (hereinafter, referred to as a "queuing range object").

According to the above configuration, for example, by introducing the queuing range object into the building model at the time point of the design of the building, the operator of the building can easily obtain information of the assumed queuing range. For example, when the user of the building cannot store the queue without winding the queue, the user can determine in advance that the traffic consolidation is further required at the time of planning. Further, for example, by introducing a queuing range object into the building model, a route avoiding queuing can be calculated in the route calculation of the robot.

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described based on the drawings. The following description and drawings are illustrative of the present invention and are omitted or simplified as appropriate for clarity of description. The present invention can be implemented in various other embodiments. Each constituent element may be a single or a plurality of constituent elements unless otherwise specified. In the following description, the same elements are denoted by the same reference numerals in the drawings, and the description thereof may be omitted as appropriate.

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a queuing range generating apparatus 100 according to embodiment 1.

The queuing range generating device 100 includes a storage unit 110, a calculation unit 120, an input/output unit 130, and a bus 140.

The storage unit 110 includes a storage device such as a main storage device such as a DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) or an SRAM (Static Random Access Memory), and an auxiliary storage device such as a hard disk drive or a flash Memory. The storage unit 110 holds building model data 111, queuing start position data 112, person-by-person occupied area data 113, and queuing range object data 114.

The arithmetic Unit 120 is mainly composed of a Central Processing Unit (CPU). The arithmetic unit 120 executes a plurality of processes. The processing executed by the calculation unit 120 is roughly divided into queue formation processing by the queue formation unit 121, queue range formation processing by the queue range formation unit 122, and arrangement processing by the arrangement unit 123.

Incidentally, the functions of the queue range generating device 100 (the queue forming unit 121, the queue range forming unit 122, the arrangement unit 123, and the like) may be realized by, for example, the arithmetic unit 120 reading out the program to the storage unit 110 and executing it (software), may be realized by hardware such as a dedicated circuit, or may be realized by combining software and hardware.

Further, 1 function of the queuing range generation apparatus 100 may be divided into a plurality of functions, or the plurality of functions may be aggregated into 1 function. Further, a part of the functions of the queue range generating apparatus 100 may be provided as another function, or may be included in another function. In addition, a part of the functions of the queuing range generating apparatus 100 may be realized by another computer that can communicate with the queuing range generating apparatus 100.

The input/output unit 130 includes an input unit 131 including an input device such as a mouse or a keyboard operated by a user, and an output unit 132 including an output device such as a display or a printer displaying a screen.

The bus 140 is a common circuit for performing data communication among the devices in the queuing range generating device 100.

The computer system constituting the queuing range generating apparatus 100 may be a plurality of computer systems connected via communication. For example, the storage unit 110, the calculation unit 120, and the input/output unit 130 may be implemented by different computer systems, and communication means for connecting the computer systems may be the bus 140.

< description of data >

Data used in the queue range generating apparatus 100 will be described with reference to fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a diagram showing an example of building model data 111 in which queuing range object (object) data 114 is arranged.

The building model data 111 is referred to as model data including at least structural information of a building. BIM data can be cited as representative building model data. The building model data 111 includes various kinds of space data (object data) such as steps, windows, pillars, ceilings, and escalators, in addition to the floor 201, the wall 202, and the elevator 203, for example.

The queuing start position data 112 is referred to as data indicating a queuing start position and a queuing direction in a system in which an elevator, a reception hall, or the like generates a waiting number of people.

The human-occupied area data 113 is referred to as data indicating an occupied area of one user when forming a queue (human-occupied area per one person). The human-occupied area data 113 can be set to 0.5m2, for example. When it is desired to form a queue with empty spaces from the viewpoint of avoiding infection of infectious diseases, the occupied area of each person may be increased. In addition, each human-occupied area does not need to be square, and may be rectangular, oval, or the like. The human-occupied area data 113 may be three-dimensional data or two-dimensional data in which the definition of the amplitude in the height direction is omitted.

The queue range object data 114 is data generated in the queue range forming process of the queue range generating apparatus 100. The line range object data 114 is data that is spatially digitized in a state where the largest range forming a line is drawn into the building model data 111 in a system where the number of waiting people is generated. The queue area object data 114 has at least an outer shape of a queue area as a structure, and may have information such as the number of waiting persons of the system, the average waiting time of the system, whether the queue hits a wall, an entrance (e.g., entrance of a building), and the like.

< description of treatment >

The queue formation process performed by the queue formation unit 121 will be described with reference to fig. 3. The queue formation processing includes the processing of step S301 to step S304.

First, the arithmetic unit 120 executes step S301. In step S301, the calculation unit 120 calculates the number of waiting persons in a system in which the number of waiting persons occurs, such as an elevator.

Here, an example of a method of calculating the number of waiting persons will be described with reference to fig. 4 and 5.

Fig. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the building model data 111. The building model data 111 includes entrance object data 401, destination space object data 402, elevator object data 403 (elevator 203), and the like.

The entrance object data 401 is object data indicating an entrance of a building. For example, when the building model part is a building model part of an office building, the destination space object data 402 is object data representing a space at a destination point of a person using an elevator, such as space data representing an office. The elevator object data 403 is object data representing an elevator. The elevator object data 403 includes information sufficient to calculate the transportation capacity of the elevator, such as the elevator staff and the elevator speed.

The calculation unit 120 first calculates, for the building model data 111, the number of persons in the building, which indicates how many persons are accommodated in the space, from the floor area of the destination space object data 402. The in-building personnel can be calculated by multiplying the floor area by the planned in-building personnel proportion in the building. The ratio of people in building is 1m²0.1 person, etc.

Next, the calculation unit 120 calculates the amount of traffic at a specific time from the obtained persons in the building. The amount of traffic per specific time can be calculated by multiplying the inflow rate per 5 minutes to the building crew as shown in the inflow rate table 500 of fig. 5, for example. The inflow proportion table 500 for the persons in the building may be calculated in advance by estimation from data of the past building and the like.

Next, the calculation unit 120 calculates the 5-minute conveyance capacity of the elevator based on the data of the person, speed, service floor, and the like obtained from the elevator object data 403. Then, the calculation unit 120 compares the transport capacity with the previously calculated traffic volume per 5 minutes, thereby calculating the number of waiting persons in the elevator. In this case, when a passenger drop-off (a passenger who has not been loaded yet) occurs in a certain 5 minutes, the calculation unit 120 may add the passenger drop-off amount to the traffic volume of the next 5 minutes.

The above is an example of the method of calculating the number of waiting persons. In addition to the calculation of the number of waiting persons, there is a method of calculating the number of waiting persons by inputting information obtained from the building model data 111 to a simulator of an elevator. With this method, on the one hand, an increase in the calculation time can be expected, and on the other hand, there is an advantage that the influence of the control parameters of the elevator on the number of waiting persons can be reflected accurately. The above is the description of step S301.

Next, the arithmetic unit 120 performs step S302. In step S302, the calculation unit 120 repeatedly executes step S303 and step S304 for the number N of waiting persons calculated in step S301.

In step S303, the arithmetic unit 120 sets the occupancy area for each person at the queuing position. The queuing position is the position in the queuing start position data 112 in the first step S303.

In step S304, the calculation unit 120 sets the next queuing position in the next queuing direction so as not to contact the set occupied area of each person. The next queue direction is the queue direction stored in the queue start position data 112, and may be switched to a different direction in the middle. For example, as shown in the queuing system of fig. 6, when queuing to a gap or a wall on the floor in the building model data 111, the calculation unit 120 may set the following queuing direction to a certain direction of the entrance object data 401.

The next queuing direction can be defined by partition (partition) object data 701 as shown in the queuing scheme of fig. 7, for example. The partition object data 701 may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional object data representing a partition, or may be object data such as a mark indicating a queuing direction on a floor.

The partition object data 701 or the next queuing direction of each point is set in the building model data 111 manually or automatically. In the case of automatic setting, for example, a queue width 802, a meandering queue width 803, and a meandering queue start position 804 are additionally input so as to form a queue trajectory 801 shown in the queue system of fig. 8. In this case, when the human-occupied area exceeds the range of the serpentine queue width 803 while the queue is being extended, the calculation unit 120 may generate the partition object data 701 in which the subsequent queue direction is bent.

The calculation unit 120 may set the next queuing position so as to avoid the specific space. For example, as shown in the queuing system of fig. 9, when the building model data 111 includes the passage object data 901 indicating the passage, the calculation unit 120 may determine the next queuing position so that the occupied area for each person is not provided in the passage. This makes it possible to form a queue without obstructing passage.

The above is an example of the queue formation processing. In addition to the above, for example, a method of extracting a queue by performing a human flow simulation using a cellular automaton may be used for the queue formation process. In this case, it is expected that the maximum queuing range can be calculated more accurately, instead of expecting an increase in calculation time. In the case of a traffic simulation, queuing logic such as that described above can be introduced, i.e. the queue is folded in the direction of the entrance, for example when it reaches a wall or the like; folding the queue through partitioning; queuing to avoid the path.

Next, the queuing range forming unit 122 will be described. The queue range forming unit 122 generates the queue range object data 114 by taking the appearance of the queue, which is the set of the human-occupied areas generated by the queue forming unit 121.

When the human-occupied area data 113 is two-dimensional data, the queue range forming unit 122 may generate the queue range object data 114 as a three-dimensional space object by taking the height of the space object whose layer height corresponds to the height, for example. On the other hand, even if each piece of human-occupied area data 113 is three-dimensional data, the queue range forming unit 122 may generate the queue range object data 114 as a two-dimensional queue range object by taking the outer shape of the bottom surface of each piece of human-occupied area data 113.

The generated queuing range object data 114 may include data such as a queuing start position, a set person-occupied area, the number of waiting persons, and an average waiting time. The average waiting time can be calculated during simulation when traffic simulation is used, using the average operation interval calculated when the conveyance capacity is calculated.

In addition, as shown in fig. 9, when the queue is divided by the passage object data 901 indicating the passage, the queue area object data 114 may be divided, or 1 object may be integrated when the external shape is taken.

The queue area object data 114 may include the partitioned object data 701 generated in the process of automatically forming the serpentine queue.

Finally, the arrangement portion 123 will be explained. The placement unit 123 performs a process of introducing the queuing range object data 114 generated by the queuing range forming unit 122 into the building model data 111. Further, the queuing range object data 114 includes information indicating a position in the building model data 111 so as to be able to be arranged in the building model data 111.

The above is a description of the processing in the present embodiment. According to the present embodiment, by introducing the queuing range object data, the partition object data, and the like into the building model data, it is possible to effectively use the building model data to study the necessity of queuing in actual building operation, study elevator operation, study reception operation, and study robot operation. This reduces the number of information acquisition steps and shortens the time required for the study of the operation of the building.

(2) Embodiment 2

In this embodiment, differences from embodiment 1 will be mainly described.

< Structure of queuing Range creating apparatus >

The configuration of the queue range generating device 1000 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to fig. 10.

The queuing range generating apparatus 1000 includes a storage unit 1010, a calculation unit 1020, an input/output unit 130, and a bus 140. Here, the contents of the input/output unit 130 and the bus 140 may be the same as those of embodiment 1.

The storage unit 1010 includes a storage device such as a main storage device such as a DRAM or an SRAM, a hard disk drive, or an auxiliary storage device such as a flash memory. The storage unit 1010 holds the building model data 111, the line start position data 112, the person-by-person occupied area data 113, and the line range object data 114, as well as line evaluation condition data 1011, line shape data 1012, and line method evaluation result data 1013.

The arithmetic unit 1020 is mainly composed of a CPU. The arithmetic unit 1020 executes a plurality of processes. The processing executed by the rough division arithmetic unit 1020 is roughly divided into the queue type generation processing by the queue type generation unit 1021, the queue formation processing by the queue formation unit 121, the queue type evaluation processing by the queue type evaluation unit 1022, the queue range formation processing by the queue range formation unit 122, and the arrangement processing by the arrangement unit 123.

< description of data >

The queue evaluation condition data 1011 is data indicating a condition to be satisfied by the queue. The queue evaluation condition data 1011 includes, for example, data indicating evaluation conditions such as whether or not a queue does not hit a wall, whether or not a queue does not hit a passage, and whether or not a queue does not hit an entrance. The queue evaluation condition data 1011 may include a plurality of data indicating evaluation conditions at the same time.

The queue shape data 1012 is data including various information related to formation of a queue (queue system). The queue shape data 1012 stores object data indicating a partition generated by parameters such as the position of the partition, the queue width 802, the serpentine queue width 803, and the serpentine queue start position 804.

The queue system evaluation result data 1013 is data indicating a result of evaluating whether or not the queue area object data 114 satisfies the queue evaluation condition data 1011. For example, the queuing method evaluation result data 1013 is data indicating a result of the queuing method evaluation unit 1022 evaluating whether or not the queuing range object data 114 hits a wall. The queuing-mode evaluation result data 1013 may be held in a form incorporated in the queuing-range object data 114.

< description of treatment >

First, the queuing method generation unit 1021 will be described. The queue method generation unit 1021 generates queue method data (queue shape data 1012) necessary for forming a queue. The queuing mode data is data for performing the following processing: folding the queue in the direction of the entrance when the queue reaches a wall or the like, folding the queue by zoning, queuing avoiding a passage, or the like. The generation of the queuing mode data may be performed by inputting a parameter manually or by determining a parameter automatically. In the case of automatically determining the parameters, the range of the parameters may be determined in advance, and the parameters may be determined therefrom.

For example, the queue method generating unit 1021 may receive input of object data representing the partition through the input unit 131 to generate the queue method data, or may receive input of parameters such as the queue width 802, the meandering queue width 803, and the meandering queue start position 804 to generate the object data representing the partition to generate the queue method data. For example, the queue method generation unit 1021 may generate the queue method data by changing the queue width 802 in a range of a predetermined queue width, may generate the queue method data by changing the meandering queue width 803 in a range of a predetermined meandering queue width, or may generate the queue method data by changing the meandering queue start position 804 in a range of a predetermined meandering queue start position.

The queue forming unit 121 forms a queue by continuously setting the person-occupied area for each person in accordance with the queuing method data generated by the queuing method generating unit 1021. The processing contents are the same as those of embodiment 1.

The queue system evaluation unit 1022 determines whether or not the queue generated by the queue forming unit 121 satisfies a predetermined evaluation condition based on the queue evaluation condition data 1011. The predetermined evaluation condition is, for example, an evaluation condition concerning the range of the queue, such as whether the queue reaches the entrance, whether the queue reaches the wall, or the like. In this case, when it is determined that the queue does not satisfy the predetermined evaluation condition, the queue type evaluation unit 1022 may display a screen (output a warning) indicating that the queue does not satisfy the predetermined evaluation condition, and end the processing in the queue type evaluation unit 1022. Alternatively, when the queuing method evaluation unit 1022 similarly determines that the queuing does not satisfy the predetermined evaluation condition, the processing returns to the queuing method generation unit 1021, and the processing may be performed again from the position where the queuing method generation unit 1021 generates the different queuing method data. The queue system evaluation unit 1022 stores the evaluation result in the queue system evaluation result data 1013.

The queue range forming unit 122 generates the queue range object data 114 by taking the appearance of the queue, as in embodiment 1. In this case, the queue range forming unit 122 may store the queue method evaluation result data 1013 in the queue range object data 114. When there are already a plurality of queuing method evaluation result data 1013 relating to queuing method data, the queuing range forming unit 122 may store all of them.

The arranging unit 123 performs a process of introducing the queuing range object data 114 into the building model data 111.

The above is a description of the processing in the present embodiment. According to the present embodiment, when a line hits a wall, entrance, passage, or the like, a warning is issued, or a different line arrangement mode that does not cause a problem is automatically presented. Thus, for example, by proposing a scheme of automatically performing winding-like queuing when the queuing hits a wall, the time for studying the queuing method can be shortened.

(3) Supplementary note

The above-described embodiments include the following, for example.

In the above-described embodiments, the case where the present invention is applied to the queue area generating device has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and can be widely applied to other various systems, devices, methods, and programs.

In the above-described embodiment, the queuing range object data 114 included in the building model data 111 may be data in a specific period (data when the number of waiting persons in the specific period is the maximum) or may be data at a specific time.

In the above-described embodiment, the queuing range object data 114 included in the building model data 111 may be data at 1 time or data at a plurality of times. When the building model data 111 includes the queuing range object data 114 at a plurality of times, it is possible to grasp a change in queuing with the elapse of time.

In the above description, information such as programs, tables, and files for realizing the respective functions can be stored in a memory, a storage device such as a hard disk or an SSD (Solid State Drive), or a recording medium such as an IC card, an SD card, or a DVD.

The above-described embodiment has the following characteristic structure, for example.

A queuing range generating device (for example, queuing range generating device 100, queuing range generating device 1000) generates a queuing range of a person using a predetermined system (for example, elevator, reception hall) installed in a building, the queuing range generating device including: a determination unit (for example, a queue formation unit 121, a calculation unit 120, queue range generation devices 100 and 1000, a circuit, and another computer capable of communicating with the queue range generation devices 100 and 1000) for determining a queue position of a person using the system based on building model data (for example, building model data 111) including structural information of the building, queue data (for example, queue start position data 112) including information of a queue start position of a person using the system, and person-occupied area data (for example, person-occupied area data 113) indicating an occupied area of each person; and a generation unit (for example, a queuing range forming unit 122, a calculation unit 120, queuing range generation devices 100 and 1000, a circuit, or another computer capable of communicating with the queuing range generation devices 100 and 1000) that specifies a queuing range of a person using the system by taking an outline of the queuing position determined by the determination unit, and generates object data (for example, queuing range object data 114) that represents the specified queuing range and can be arranged in the building model data.

The queue range generation device may include: an arranging unit (for example, the arranging unit 123, the calculating unit 120, the queuing range generating apparatus 100, a circuit, or another computer communicable with the queuing range generating apparatus 100) that arranges the queuing range object data in the building model data.

The queuing data includes information on the queuing direction of the person using the system. The determination unit obtains the number of waiting persons using the system, and determines the queuing position of the person using the system by setting an occupied area corresponding to the number of waiting persons in the queuing direction from the queuing start position.

For example, the determination unit may calculate the number of moving persons in the building based on object data indicating an entrance and object data indicating a destination space included in the building model data, and may calculate the number of waiting persons by comparing the transportation capacity calculated based on the object data indicating an elevator included in the building model data with the number of moving persons. According to the above configuration, for example, the queuing position can be determined without additional input. Further, for example, the determination unit may obtain the number of waiting persons by inputting information included in the building model data to a simulator of an elevator. According to the structure, the influence of the control parameters of the elevator on the waiting number of people can be accurately reflected.

According to the above configuration, the queuing position of the person using the system can be determined using, for example, the number of waiting persons calculated by the queuing range creating means or the number of waiting persons calculated by another computer.

The building model data includes object data indicating a predetermined object in the building (for example, a wall of the building, a gap in a floor of the building, a column of the building, or the like) and object data indicating an entrance of the building (for example, entrance object data 401). The determination unit determines whether or not the set occupancy region has reached the predetermined object when setting the occupancy regions 1 by 1 in the queuing direction from the queuing start position, and determines the queuing position of the person using the system by setting the occupancy regions in the direction of the entrance until the number of the set occupancy regions becomes the waiting number of persons when changing the queuing direction to the direction of the entrance when determining that the occupancy region has reached the predetermined object (for example, refer to fig. 3 and 6).

In the above configuration, when the set occupancy region reaches the predetermined object, the set occupancy region is changed in the direction toward the entrance, so that a natural queue from the entrance can be formed, and for example, a person using the system can smoothly join the queue.

The queue range generation device includes: a storage unit (for example,

storage units

110 and 1010, queuing

range generating devices

100 and 1000, a circuit, or another computer capable of communicating with queuing range generating devices 100 and 1000) stores object data indicating a partition defining an area permitted to queue in the building, and including information (for example, partition object data 701) of a queuing direction of a person using the system. The determination unit determines whether or not the set occupancy region has reached the partition when the occupancy region is set to 1 occupancy region by 1, and determines the queuing position of the person using the system by changing the queuing direction of the set occupancy region to the queuing direction of the partition when the occupancy region has reached the partition (see, for example, fig. 3 and 7).

The object data indicating the partition may be manually registered or may be automatically registered.

In the above configuration, since the queuing direction is changed by the partition, for example, a user of the building can reproduce a desired queue in the building.

As data for generating object data indicating the partition, the storage unit stores: data indicating the number of columns (e.g., queue width 802) in a queue for a person using the system described above; data indicating a queue start position (for example, a meandering queue start position 804) of the queue of the number of columns; and data indicating the width (for example, the meandering queue width 803) of the partition in which the queue direction of the queue of the number of columns is changed and the partition in which the queue direction of the queue of the number of columns is changed. The queue range generation device includes: after the queue of the number of columns reaches the queue start position, the partition generation unit (for example, queue formation unit 121, queue mode generation unit 1021,

calculation units

120 and 1020, queue

range generation devices

100 and 1000, a circuit, and another computer capable of communicating with the queue range generation devices 100 and 1000) generates, as object data (for example, partition object data 701 and queue shape data 1012) indicating the partitions, object data indicating the one partition including information on the queue direction of the other partition and object data indicating the other partition including information on the queue direction of the one partition, in order to form a queue of the number of columns in a manner of being bent in the one partition and the other partition, and stores the object data in the storage unit.

In the above configuration, since the object data indicating the partition is automatically generated, for example, the number of steps required to register the object data indicating the partition can be reduced.

The building model data includes object data (for example, passage object data 901) indicating a passage of the building. The determination unit determines the queuing position of the person using the system while avoiding the passage (see, for example, fig. 3 and 9).

In the above configuration, the queuing position is determined while avoiding the passage, so that queuing without blocking the passage can be realized.

The queue range generation device includes: an evaluation unit (for example, a queuing method evaluation unit 1022, an arithmetic unit 1020, a queuing range generation device 1000, a circuit, or another computer capable of communicating with the queuing range generation device 1000) for evaluating the queuing position determined by the determination unit, based on condition data (for example, queuing evaluation condition data 1011) indicating a condition for evaluating the queuing position determined by the determination unit; and an output control unit (for example, the queue forming unit 121, the calculation unit 1020, the queue range generating device 1000, a circuit, or another computer capable of communicating with the queue range generating device 1000) that outputs a warning based on a result of the evaluation by the evaluation unit. The output control unit outputs a warning when the evaluation unit determines that the queuing position determined by the determination unit does not satisfy the condition.

In addition, the output of the warning is not limited to the display. The output of the warning may be an audio output by a speaker, an output to a document, a printing to a paper medium by a printing apparatus, a projection to a screen by a projector, or other forms.

In the above configuration, since the warning is output when the queuing position does not satisfy the condition, for example, the user of the building can easily grasp the queuing that does not satisfy the condition.

The queue range generation device includes: an evaluation unit (for example, a queuing method evaluation unit 1022, an arithmetic unit 1020, a queuing range generation device 1000, a circuit, or another computer capable of communicating with the queuing range generation device 1000) for evaluating the queuing position determined by the determination unit, based on condition data (for example, queuing evaluation condition data 1011) indicating a condition for evaluating the queuing position determined by the determination unit; and an acquisition unit (for example, a queuing method generation unit 1021, an arithmetic unit 1020, a queuing range generation apparatus 1000, a circuit, or another computer capable of communicating with the queuing range generation apparatus 1000) that acquires queuing method data used for determining a queuing position in the determination unit. The determination unit determines a queuing position of a person using the system according to the queuing method data acquired by the acquisition unit. The obtaining unit obtains queuing method data different from the queuing method data when the evaluating unit determines that the queuing position determined by the determining unit does not satisfy the condition.

In the above configuration, for example, queuing that satisfies the condition can be realized by changing the queuing mode data until the queuing position satisfies the condition.

The condition data is data conditioned on the condition that the occupied area set by the determination unit does not reach a wall of the building, a passageway of the building, or an entrance of the building.

According to the above structure, queuing for avoiding collision with a wall, a passageway, and an entrance, for example, can be realized.

The generation unit includes at least 1 piece of information among a result of the evaluation by the evaluation unit (for example, the queue-type evaluation result data 1013), the number of waiting persons of the person using the system, and the average waiting time of the person using the system in the object data.

According to the above configuration, by including the information in the object data indicating the queuing range, for example, the operator of the building can refer to the result of the evaluation of the queuing, the number of waiting persons, the average waiting time, and the like, and thus, the study of the operation of the system becomes easy.

The above-described configuration may be appropriately modified, adapted, combined, or omitted without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Items included in a list in the form of "at least 1 of A, B and C" are intended to be understood to mean (a), (B), (C), (a and B), (a and C), (B and C), or (A, B, and C). Likewise, an item listed as "at least 1 of A, B or C" can mean (a), (B), (C), (a and B), (a and C), (B and C), or (A, B, and C).

Claims

1. A queuing range generating device for generating a queuing range of a person using a predetermined system provided in a building, the queuing range generating device comprising:

a determination unit that determines a queuing position of a person using the system based on building model data including structure information of the building, queuing data including information of a queuing start position of a person using the system, and per-person occupied area data indicating an occupied area of each person; and

and a generation unit configured to specify a queuing range of a person using the system by taking an outline of the queuing position determined by the determination unit, and generate object data that represents the specified queuing range and is arrangeable in the building model data.

2. A queuing range generation apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

information on the queuing direction of a person using the system is contained in the queuing data,

the determination unit acquires the number of waiting persons who use the system, and determines the queuing position of the person who uses the system by setting an occupancy region corresponding to the number of waiting persons in the queuing direction from the queuing start position.

3. A queuing range generation apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

including in the building model data object data representing a given object in the building and object data representing an entrance to the building,

the determination unit determines whether or not the set occupancy region has reached the predetermined object when the occupancy region is set to 1 occupancy region in the queuing direction from the queuing start position, changes the queuing direction to the direction of the entrance when the occupancy region has reached the predetermined object, and determines the queuing position of the person using the system by setting the occupancy region in the direction of the entrance until the number of the set occupancy regions becomes the waiting number of persons.

4. A queuing range generation apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

the queue range generation device is provided with: a storage unit that stores object data indicating a partition defining an area in which queuing is permitted in the building, the object data including information on a queuing direction of a person using the system,

the determination unit determines whether or not the set occupancy region has reached the partition when the occupancy region is set for 1 occupancy region by 1, and determines the queuing position of the person using the system by changing the queuing direction of the set occupancy region to the queuing direction of the partition when the occupancy region has reached the partition.

5. A queuing range generation apparatus as claimed in claim 4,

the storage unit stores, as data for generating object data representing the partition: data representing the number of columns in a queue of people using the system; data indicating a queuing start position of the queue of the number of columns; and data indicating the width of the partition in which the queue direction of the queue of the number of columns is changed and the width of the partition in which the queue direction of the queue of the number of columns is changed,

the queuing range generation device is provided with:

and a partition generating unit that generates, as object data indicating the partitions, object data indicating the one partition including information indicating a queuing direction of the other partition and object data indicating the other partition including information indicating a queuing direction of the one partition, in such a manner that the queue of the number of columns is formed by bending the one partition and the other partition after the queue of the number of columns reaches the queuing start position, and stores the object data in the storage unit.

6. A queuing range generation apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

the building model data includes object data representing a passage of the building,

the determination unit determines a queuing position of a person using the system while avoiding the passage.

7. A queuing range generation apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

the queue range generation device is provided with:

an evaluation unit that evaluates the queuing position determined by the determination unit based on condition data indicating a condition for evaluating the queuing position determined by the determination unit; and

an output control unit that outputs a warning based on a result of the evaluation by the evaluation unit,

the output control unit outputs a warning when the evaluation unit determines that the queuing position determined by the determination unit does not satisfy the condition.

8. A queuing range generation apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

the queue range generation device is provided with:

an acquisition unit that acquires queuing mode data used for determining a queuing position in the determination unit,

the determination unit determines a queuing position of a person using the system according to the queuing method data acquired by the acquisition unit,

when the evaluation unit determines that the queuing position determined by the determination unit does not satisfy the condition, the acquisition unit acquires queuing scheme data different from the queuing scheme data.

9. A queuing range generation apparatus as claimed in claim 7 or 8,

the condition data is data conditioned on the condition that the occupied area set by the determination unit does not reach a wall of the building, a passage of the building, or an entrance of the building.

10. A queuing range generation apparatus as claimed in claim 7 or 8,

the generation unit includes at least 1 piece of information among a result of the evaluation by the evaluation unit, the number of waiting persons of the person using the system, and the average waiting time of the person using the system in the object data.

11. A queuing range generating method for generating a queuing range of a person using a predetermined system provided in a building, the queuing range generating method comprising:

a determination unit that determines a queuing position of a person using the system based on building model data including structure information of the building, queuing data including information of a queuing start position of a person using the system, and per-person occupied area data indicating an occupied area of each person,

the generation unit specifies a queuing range of a person using the system by taking an outline of the queuing position determined by the determination unit, and generates object data that represents the specified queuing range and is arrangeable in the building model data.