JP2001344628A - Managing system for analyzing and totaling working time of automobile driver - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a managing system for efficiently analyzing and totaling working time which is capable of obtaining the working time of an automobile driver with a navigation state as an electrical signal. SOLUTION: By using the on-vehicle equipment of a digital navigation recording meter, the navigation data of a vehicle is fetched to a computer system as the electrical signal to prepare a working time database. In order to prepare the working time database, it consists of an analyzing database, analyzing software and the computer system. By making the analyzing database automatically recognize the working time of a managing object, erroneous totaling due to manual operation mistake, etc., is corrected and the working time is managed correctly and automatically.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a "constraint time" according to a "criterion for improvement of working hours of a car driver" for improving working conditions of truck drivers and the like.
It relates to a method of grasping "rest time" and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, to collect and manage the working hours of truck drivers and the like, "analog type operation recorder (hereinafter referred to as" tachograph ")", which records the operation status of a vehicle, is a three element operation "time". , "Speed" and "distance" are recorded on the circular recording paper shown in FIG. 1 in units of 24 hours, and after the operation is completed, the circular recording paper is removed from the vehicle and read manually.
The graph is divided into "loading time", "recreation time" and "body breathing time", and a working time record table shown in FIG. 2 is created. This work requires a great deal of labor, places a heavy burden on the driver and the operation manager, and involves enormous administrative costs.

[0003] Further, in order to collectively manage the restricted time in a month, the restricted time in a month is totalized and managed from a working time record table shown in FIG. In particular, regarding the total management of the restraint time of one day, a method of calculating from the start time and calculating based on 24 hours is adopted, and when there is a day when the start time changes, overlapping restraint time occurs, Need to be deducted from the tally,
It is very complicated and requires a person in charge who fully understands the contents in order to perform the tallying accurately by hand. In practice, this has caused a large burden on management.

[0004]

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to improve the working conditions of a car driver such as a truck driver. For improvement "(hereinafter referred to as improvement standard notification)
The burden of the driver and the operation manager is great for the total management of working hours according to the above, and the enormous cost is required for paperwork.

[0005] Further, if it is attempted to accurately process the tallying of the daily restraint time and the tallying of the monthly restraint time, it will be a huge burden for humans to manually work.

[0006]

The mechanical elements for solving the problems of the present invention include a device for transmitting vehicle operation data and the like as an electric signal to a recording medium (hereinafter referred to as "vehicle device") and a vehicle device. A recording medium that records data that can be obtained from a computer, a “reader” that captures an electrical signal such as operation data held in the recording medium into a computer device, and saves operation data and the like read by the reader to analyze data according to the present invention. It consists of a “computer device” and a “printing device” on which the base, analysis software, working time database and time totaling software operate.

[0007] The electrical signal data that can be obtained from the on-vehicle apparatus includes time, speed, distance data and three operations that are recorded at regular intervals within 60 seconds.
It is composed of accompanying data such as engine ON / OFF and steering wheel start / stop, and data obtained by the driver specifying the operation state at that time using operation buttons and ON / OFF electric signals (hereinafter referred to as operation data). .

[0008] It has been found that many problems can be solved by obtaining the above-mentioned operation data from a vehicle-mounted device by an electronic signal in a computer device and creating a working time database from an analysis database and analysis software according to the present invention. This has led to the present invention. In addition, "operating hours" with working hours database and time tallying software,
The “loading time”, “recreation time”, and “body breathing time” are totaled and explicitly displayed as shown in FIGS. 5, 6, and 7, so that working time management can be made more efficient. .

[0009] The analysis database according to the present invention is based on operation data, which is an electrical signal, based on driving time, rest time,
It has a function of automatically analyzing the breathing time and a function of restoring data when the driver forgets to press a button.
The function of creating a working time database by utilizing the function of the analysis database is analysis software,
The analysis database and the analysis software form the basis of the present invention as a whole and have been put to practical use.

[0010] It is time totaling software that has a function of totalizing the working time database created in the above processing and outputting it to a display screen or a printing device. Time (1 day) is a management target, and it has been found that the function of analyzing the overlapping time can be solved by the working time database and the time totaling software, and thus the present invention has been achieved.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a hardware device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Standards for the type of safety equipment for automobiles (No. 55, Heisei 1
This is based on the hardware configuration of a digital operation recorder based on March 31, 2000). FIG. 4 shows the device configuration and functions. The three-element operation data of time, speed and distance relating to a digital operation recorder (hereinafter referred to as digital tachometer) is used for creating a tachograph, and is completely different from the data according to the present invention.

The operation data taken from the vehicle-mounted device according to the present invention is recorded on a recording medium as a separate file different from the digital tachometer three-element operation data, and is recorded and stored in the external storage device of the computer device from the reading device. You.
The operation data is binary data, which is an electrical signal, and is converted into text data having a data structure shown in FIG. 7 by a general method to generate event data. The model data is shown in FIG. The present model data is obtained by extracting and displaying portions related to the present invention, and does not limit the present invention in any way.

The first analysis database according to the present invention is an event symbol database, the structure of which is shown in FIG.
0 shows the model. The event symbol and the time management item are registered in advance in the event symbol database, and after being taken in from the vehicle-mounted device, the converted event data and the time management item are associated with each other. This is one of the features. The second feature is that two or more time management items can be registered for an occurrence event. With this characteristic, an automatic recognition function of a time management item can be realized. The details will be described later.

The second database for analysis according to the present invention is a time management item database. FIG. 11 shows the data structure and FIG. 12 shows a model. The time management item database is also set and registered in advance, and is used for analyzing generated event data. One of the functions of the present time management item database is to automatically recognize a corresponding time management item from two or more time management items by condition management of the time management item. The second function is a function to rescue forgetting to press a button. These functions enable accurate management of working hours.

The time management items managed by the time management item database are not particularly limited and can be set arbitrarily. Generally, a driving time, a cargo handling time, a rest time, a rest time, and the like are assumed according to the improvement standard notification. The driving time is a time during which the vehicle is substantially operated. The cargo handling time is a time including the loading and unloading of the luggage, the luggage waiting time, and other maintenance times.
The rest time is a short rest time including a nap time between driving times. The specific contents are shown in the notification of improvement standards. The rest time is a completely free time as the life time of the driver including the sleep time. The restraint time is the time from the start time to the end time, and is the total time of the operation time, the cargo work time, and the break time.

In particular, regarding the restraint time, if a one-month standard is set and the restraint time is to be calculated over one month, if there is a day on which the start time has changed, the restraint time on that day and the previous day Contains overlapping time periods, it is necessary to subtract the overlapping portion in the calculation.

In view of the specialty of the management of working hours of a car driver as described above, a third database structure according to the present invention is a working time database shown in FIG. The model is shown in FIG. This database model shows a part according to the present invention, and does not limit addition of additional items. For example, it is natural that the vehicle number and the driver code are important.

The above-described event symbol database structure, time management item database structure, and working time database structure constitute a skeleton, and the present invention is practicable and effective.

Further, specific contents of the embodiment of the present invention will be described. The operation data according to the present invention recorded on the recording medium by the in-vehicle device includes long-term data of 1 to 7 days, and after one operation is completed, the recording medium is removed from the in-vehicle device and read by the computer device. Attach to the device,
The operation data is read out to an external storage device of the computer as an electric signal. The recording medium is initialized after reading, and is provided for the next operation. The recording medium forms a pair with the driver, and uses a recording medium in which a unique number that can identify the driver is set in advance.

Since the operation data as an electric signal read into the computer device is binary data, it is converted into a text format by a general method, and FIG.
The generated event data shown in FIG. 9 is created. The generated event data is used to create a working time database in accordance with the working time database creation processing flow of FIGS. The occurrence event data is arranged in time order, and the processing is read and processed in the order of occurrence of data.

The working time database creation process shown in FIG. 16 is one of processes that characterize the present invention. Using the event symbol of the generated event data as a search key, a previously registered event symbol database is searched, and the corresponding record is read. In this process, the time management item management method and control function are provided by associating which time management item corresponds to the event that occurred while driving the vehicle, and obtaining the occurrence time of the time management item. It was done. Furthermore, as a feature of the present invention, two or more time management items that can be set in the event symbol database are made possible. The effect produced by this function is that a condition can be selected from two or more time management items for one occurrence event during driving. In this processing, the function of automatically recognizing time management items according to the present invention is realized. FIG.
In the above, two cases are described, but the present invention is not limited to this.

Next, the function of the time management item database shown in FIG. 17 will be described. The time management item database shown in FIGS. 12 and 13 is searched using the time management items preset in the event symbol database as keys.
In the time management item database, an end event symbol for acquiring an end time of the time management item and a condition for establishing the time management item are set and registered in advance.
In the present invention, the time management item database realizes an automatic recognition function of forgetting to press an operation button and provides a function of determining whether the time management item is satisfied. The automatic recognition of forgetting to press the operation button can be realized by setting two or more end event symbols. FIG. 13 shows an example in which two end event symbols are set, but the present invention is not limited to this. The end event symbol is a first priority end event symbol, but it is possible to set as many end event symbols having a higher priority as necessary below the end event symbol.
The deemed termination event symbol provides a function of rescuing an erroneous operation in operation, and plays a practically important role in the present invention.

The determination based on the conditions for creating the time management item database in FIG. 17 is to determine the conditions for establishing two or more time management items set in the event symbol database. If the creation conditions are satisfied, a working time database is created. An automatic recognition function, which is an important function of the present invention, is provided by a selective automatic recognition function, which is an important function of the present invention, based on two or more time management items of the event symbol database and conditions for creating the time management item database.

As described above, the series of working time database creation processes shown in FIGS. 16 and 17 are performed by analyzing the event symbol database and the time management item database, which are analysis databases registered in advance according to the present invention. An object of the present invention has been attained by analysis software for executing a creation process.

The working time database created above is shown in FIG. 14 and its model is shown in FIG. It is an object of the present invention to provide a system for easily managing and counting the working hours of a car driver in accordance with the notification of improvement standards, and to provide a working time record table of FIG. 5 and a restraining time of FIGS. 6 and 7. It is nothing less than providing an aggregate table easily. The creation of the working time record table and the binding time totaling table, particularly the binding time overlapping correspondence totaling table shown in FIG. 7 according to the notification of the improvement standard can be realized by the present working time database.

The working time record table shown in FIG. 5 and the restraint time totaling table shown in FIG. 6 can be relatively easily realized by using the working time database shown in FIGS. 14 and 15 according to the present invention. Things. Hereinafter, the details of realizing the binding time overlap correspondence totalization table shown in FIG. 7 will be described.

According to the calculation method of the restraint time indicated in the standard for improvement of the working hours of the car driver (Improvement Standard Notification No. 4), the restraint time in one day is calculated from the start time. It is stipulated that 24-hour restraint time should be counted. Therefore, when calculating the restraint time for one month, if there is a day on which the start time has changed, the restraint time on that day and the previous day will include an overlapping time zone. It is explained that a part needs to be subtracted. In particular, in long-term operation from 4 to 7 days, the start time often changes, and it is unavoidable that the counting becomes complicated.
The above-described method according to the present invention has solved the cumbersome totalizing task at a stretch.

The present invention has been attained by processing the working time database according to the present invention in accordance with the restriction time overlapping correspondence totaling processing flow shown in FIG. 18 and FIG. FIG. 18 is a routine for checking the number of times of work n in one operation, and the start time and end time of each work. The working time database has a database structure that is arranged in chronological order in the time of occurrence of time management items. FIG. 19 shows a routine for checking the overlap of the constraint time and calculating the total. With the above processing, it is possible to accurately process the total management of the restraint time, and the present invention has been achieved with a working time database and time totaling software.

[0029]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a working time record table and a tachograph for comparison can be created immediately after a memory card is read into a computer, which has enormous effects in terms of management and office management. Created.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to manage working hours under actual conditions depending on the operation mode.
For example, when an operation using a ferry occurs, a ferry button can be set and time can be counted as a break time or a rest time.

Further, during the daily recording, forgetting to press a button occurs. For this reason, the inability to manage working hours is a major issue in practice. The presence of the automatic recognition function according to the present claim 2 enables almost accurate management of working hours, and works very effectively in practice.

In the invention according to claim 3, the management of the restraint time can be made more accurate, and a huge management cost (personnel cost) is required if processed manually, but the management accuracy and cost reduction effect are large. It is.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a chart sheet recorded on a conventional “analog type operation recording sheet”. (Commonly called tachograph)

FIG. 2 is a handwritten “working time record table” created with reference to the tachograph of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. It conforms to the equipment configuration of "Digital Operation Recorder" approved by the Ministry of Transport.

FIG. 4 shows the configuration and functions of the apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a “working time record table” according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a “constraint time summary table” according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a “binding time overlapping correspondence totaling table” according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 shows the structure of event data captured from the on-board device of the “digital operation recorder”.

FIG. 9 is a model of the “occurrence event data”.

FIG. 10 shows the structure of the “event symbol database” in the database structure for analysis (1) according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a model of the “event symbol database”.

FIG. 12 is an analysis database structure (2) according to the present invention, showing the structure of a “time management item database”.

FIG. 13 is a model of the “time management item database”.

FIG. 14 shows the structure of a “working time database” according to the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a model of the “working time database”.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart (1) of a “working time database” creation process.

FIG. 17 is a flow chart of a “working time database” creation process (2).

FIG. 18 is a flowchart (1) of a totaling process for handling overlapping restraint times.

FIG. 19 is a flow chart (2) of a tallying time overlapping countermeasure processing.

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Claims (3)

[Claims] When analyzing and managing the working hours of a vehicle driver, a computer device automatically analyzes electrical signals obtained from a vehicle-mounted device of a digital operation recorder, and creates a time-series working time database. Working time analysis total management system characterized by total management. 2. The working time analysis and totaling management system according to claim 1, wherein when working time is analyzed from the electric signal, the "operating time" and "rest time" are based on an analysis database in which the analysis procedure is made into a database. , An automatic recognition of "resting time", and an automatic recognition function of forgetting to press an operation button. 3. An analysis of working hours, characterized in that management of restraint hours is accurately processed based on a time-series working hours database created after analysis based on the analysis database according to claim 2. Aggregation management system.