Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
  • B61D41/00—Indicators for reserved seats; Warning or like signs; Devices or arrangements in connection with tickets, e.g. ticket holders; Holders for cargo tickets or the like
  • B61D41/04—Indicators for reserved seats
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
  • B61D33/00—Seats
  • B61D33/0007—Details; Accessories
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61L—GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
  • B61L15/00—Indicators provided on the vehicle or train for signalling purposes
  • B61L15/0072—On-board train data handling
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G06Q10/00—Administration; Management
  • G06Q10/02—Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
  • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
  • G08B5/00—Visible signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems, remote indication of seats occupied
  • G08B5/22—Visible signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems, remote indication of seats occupied using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission
  • G08B5/221—Local indication of seats occupied in a facility, e.g. in a theatre
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61L—GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
  • B61L15/00—Indicators provided on the vehicle or train for signalling purposes
  • B61L15/009—On-board display devices
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61L—GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
  • B61L27/00—Central railway traffic control systems; Trackside control; Communication systems specially adapted therefor
  • B61L27/40—Handling position reports or trackside vehicle data

Definitions

• the invention relates to a system with a set of
• Transport companies have to change the seating arrangement of a transport unit and adapt it to the passenger volume. As seating arrangements change, the number of seats, tables and their seats also change
• EP 2 071 536 A2 discloses a method for the remote-controlled numbering of chairs or tables arranged side by side in a row. Each chair or table has an electronic display device and an interface that can be influenced via a remote control.
• Remote control hands over a seat number to a fringe chair This is displayed by the display device and passed by once increased or decreased to the next chair or table.
• the present invention is based on the problem to provide a system with a set of passenger seat devices in a transport unit and a control unit, in which the labeling of seats is changeable.
• the system has a
• Communication unit for data exchange between the set and the control unit and the control unit detects a current seating arrangement depending on data of the set.
• control unit receives data from the set of a plurality of passenger seat devices from the communication unit, the control unit detects the current seat layout and can set a new seat layout based on the current seat layout.
• Seating arrangement can be changed quickly and in a simple manner by the skilled person without wasting a great deal of time and labor for the marking of seats.
• the marking of the seats in a new seating arrangement of a transport unit is made almost automatically by the system.
• Such a system offers operators of transport companies, in particular railway operators, a high degree of flexibility in the marking of seats.
• the system also serves to detect a misadjustment and can report this to the specialist personnel.
• the control unit is preferably arranged in the transport unit.
• it can be part of a tax system, which at least components on the land side
• An advantageous embodiment of the invention results from a system in which the control unit, the data of the set based on data stored in the control unit
• the data of the sentence are matched with a seat arrangement stored in the control unit.
• the evaluated data is forwarded to at least one passenger seat device of the set, preferably several passenger seat devices.
• the data of the sentence are matched with a seat arrangement stored in the control unit.
• Sentence about the current seating arrangement and the processing together with data stored in the control unit allow to quickly and with a little effort to make a new labeling of the seats.
• the communication unit expediently has at least one communication means on the side of the set of passenger seat devices and at least one interface on the side of the control unit, wherein the
• Communication means and the interface are provided for data exchange.
• several, e.g. all passenger seat devices are provided for data exchange.
• the communication means of several passenger seat devices can also for
• control unit is via a
• passenger seat devices of the sentence each have a
• Radio unit trained communication means which is provided for establishing a radio connection with the radio interface.
• the radio unit of a passenger seat device may establish a connection with the control unit or a second passenger seat device and exchange data.
• the data between the passenger seat device and the radio interface or between the passenger seat devices are wirelessly transmitted among each other, for example based on a so-called ZigBee, Bluetooth or WLAN
• Passenger seat devices may further be wired.
• the passenger seat devices each at least one display device and at least one or more seats and / or table include.
• the passenger seat device has a seat and a display device assigned or assignable to the seat, which displays an identification of the seat during operation.
• the control unit can also address a single seat and mark individually.
• Another embodiment of the passenger seat device comprises a table, several adjacent to the table
• Seats and associated display device This can indicate in the operation labels for the individual seats or a general marking for the entire table and seating group.
• the system according to the invention makes it possible to realize seating arrangements which were not yet foreseeable at the time of planning the transport unit.
• the display device is a display that is integrated in the seat. It may alternatively or additionally extend - in particular continuously - at least over a substantial part of the transport unit.
• the display is divided into several display areas, the display areas each one
• Passenger seat device can be assigned.
• An "essential part" of the transport unit advantageously represents a length in which the seats of the transport unit are accommodated, or at least 50%, preferably at least 75% of the length of the transport unit.
• the display device is
• the data of the sentence preferably contains at least
• Identification of a particular passenger seat device in the set may be a physical address, eg serial number or WLAN MAC address.
• the evaluated data includes a
• Camouflage unit can only be made mechanically and the specialist personnel other activities such.
• the seat identification may include a seat number or any specified unique character. It should be a systematic passenger identification easy to understand by the passenger. Furthermore, it is proposed that the data of the sentence comprise at least position data from which a position of at least one of the passenger seat devices in the
• Transport unit can be determined.
• This position data can be position information, for example coordinates, which are transmitted to the control unit.
• Passenger seat devices provided, provides an advantageous embodiment of the invention that the position data the
• Passenger seat device include.
• the control unit sensibly evaluates the position data.
• To determine the position of the signal propagation time field strength or signal strength, algorithms such as WLAN-based positioning can be used.
• the technology used must be sufficiently accurate
• determining the position of the passenger seat device advantageously serves the above-mentioned radio interface as a reference point in the transport unit.
• one or more radio interfaces are expediently mounted at previously predetermined locations.
• the data stored in the control unit comprise reservation data.
• This structure allows the control unit to match the data of the set with the reservation data.
• the display device may in addition to a
• Information can be reservation data provided by the
• the passenger seat device may comprise a power supply unit.
• the power supply unit converts kinetic energy into electrical energy.
• the kinetic energy is one of the transport unit on the
• Energy is used to operate the communication unit and the display device. Excess energy can be stored in an energy store, e.g. Battery, capacitor, stored and retrieved when needed.
• an energy store e.g. Battery, capacitor
• the conversion of kinetic into electrical energy offers a great advantage.
• the passenger seat device can be powered autonomously and a connection of the seats to a space-based power supply is not required.
• An elaborate wiring between seat and transport unit can be omitted. This saves further costs and effort in the construction of the transport unit.
• the transport unit may be part of a rail vehicle with a large seating arrangement in which each one
• Transport unit may be designed in particular as a rail vehicle or association of rail vehicles.
• Transport unit wherein the display is divided into a plurality of display areas and each display area of a passenger seat device is assigned.
• FIG. 2 a system according to the invention shown schematically
• Fig. 3 shows a method according to the invention schematically
• Fig. 1 shows a transport unit 400 with a set of passenger seat devices 100 in a seating arrangement, two radio interfaces 200 and two inputs and
• a passenger seat apparatus 100 may include a seat and associated display device 120 (see FIG. 2) for displaying a seat identifier.
• a further embodiment of one of the passenger seat devices 100 may be a table and connected to each other wirelessly
• the transport unit 400 preferably has two
• Radio interfaces 200 the so in the
• Transport unit 400 are arranged that each
• Passenger seat device 100 for example by the
• Range of a radio interface 200 is reached.
• a radio interface 200 at a predetermined location e.g. near a single and a
• Output area 401 mounted.
• FIG. 2 shows one of the passenger seat devices 100, the radio interface 200 and a control unit 300.
• the FIGS Passenger seat device 100 includes a radio unit
• the communication means 110 and the radio interface 200 are provided for establishing a radio link with each other.
• the radio interface 200 receives and transmits data from the passenger seat device 100 and forwards received data to the control unit 300. Transmission of the data to and from the control unit 300 may be both
• the radio interface 200 may include functionality of a wireless access point (WLAN access point).
• WLAN access point wireless access point
• Passenger seat device 100 and radio interface 200 are components of a communication unit 115, which is used for data exchange between the set of
• Passenger seat devices 100 and the control unit 300 is provided.
• the control unit 300 is a central unit and realized as a software and / or hardware component in the transport unit 400 or externally. It comes with data of a
• the control unit 300 is intended to detect a current seating arrangement.
• the set of passenger seat devices 100 of the transport unit 400 sends data to the control unit 300.
• the data of the set contain addressing data AD (see FIG. 3) with at least one address of the transmitting one
• Passenger seat device 100 and also position data from which the control unit 300, the position of the transmitting passenger seat device 100 is determined.
• Position data correspond for example
• the control unit 300 creates a current seating arrangement from the data of the set.
• the current seating arrangement is adjusted in the control unit 300 with data stored in the control unit 300.
• the data stored in the control unit 300 may be data stored by the reservation system.
• each passenger seat device 100 is assigned one or more seat identifiers uniquely in an association. In the assignment, each address becomes one
• Control unit 300 is evaluated data via the
• Radio interface 200 forwarded to the passenger seat devices 100 in the transport unit 400.
• the address of a passenger seat device 100 is a physical address and identified within the
• Transport unit 400 clearly the passenger seat device 100.
• the address may include a serial number or a WLAN MAC address. She is not for a passenger
• the seat identification may consist of a seat number or any systematic identification easily understood by the passenger.
• Information can be reservation data provided by the
• the communication means 110 of a passenger seat device 100 is - as already discussed above - provided for data exchange between this and the radio interface 200. It also serves to communicate several
• Communication means 110 wirelessly transmits data
• the technology used must provide a sufficiently accurate location of the passenger seat device
• the display device 120 may be associated as a stand-alone display of a passenger seat device.
• the display device 120 as a display may include a plurality
• Passenger seat devices 100 be assigned, in which case the display is divided into display areas.
• Display areas have a defined size and are located at the appropriate passenger seat device 100 matching locations.
• the display areas are also referred to as so-called “virtual displays", the one
• Information displayed on the display device 120 for the passenger can be information regarding a
• the power supply unit 130 may be a so-called
• the Energy Harvester which converts kinetic energy into electrical energy.
• the kinetic energy is a driving movement generated during installation or transmitted from the transport unit to the passenger seat device, in this case kinetic energy of the transport unit.
• the electric power is used to operate the communication unit and the display device. Excess energy gets in an energy storage, such as battery, capacitor stored and retrieved as needed. Due to the conversion and
• PD position data
• step Sl the current seating arrangement.
• the control unit 300 matches the current seat arrangement with the reservation data RD stored by the reservation system in the control unit 300.
• control unit 300 creates an assignment Z in which each passenger seat device 100 has one or more
• the other information is reservation data which contains additional information about the reservation.
• Passenger seat devices 100 receive the assignment.
• the assignment Z allows the display device 120 that is appropriate for the passenger seat device 100

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