JP2002109111A - System and method for retrieving equipment position information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide equipment position information retrieval system and method capable of easily and quickly searching for the position information of equipment provided in facilities. SOLUTION: A comic magazine position information retrieval system 1 is provided with a comic magazine coffee shop 2, Web servers 4 and 5 connected to the Internet 3, a database 6, a base station 8 that communicates with the server 4 through a packet communication network 7 and a portable telephone set 9 as a portable terminal for communicating with the base station 8 by radio. The coffee shop 2 is provided with many comic magazines 10 as furniture on shelves 11. The Web server 5 has a processing part 15 for retrieving and reading the data of the database 6. A retrieval condition inputted from the telephone set 9 is transmitted to the server 5 through the base station 8, the network 7, the server 4 and the Internet 3. The processing part 15 of the server 5 retrieves a comic magazine 10 corresponding to the retrieval condition from the database 6, reads the shelf number on which the corresponding comic magazine 10 stands and transmits the shelf number to the telephone set 9.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system and a method for retrieving positional information of equipment provided in a facility, and more particularly to a system for retrieving desired positional information of equipment in a facility having a large number of equipment. And methods.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a large store, a large number of commodities are displayed on a vast site, so that customers have difficulty finding desired commodities therefrom. Similarly, in a coffee shop having tens of thousands of comic books (hereinafter referred to as a comic cafe), the shape of the comic books is almost the same, not to mention the number. I was struggling. For this reason, the customer had no choice but to search the bookshelves one by one or ask a clerk. However, since the clerk is also involved in the food and beverage service, the time for searching for a book for the customer could not be spared, and the inexperienced clerk could not cope. Even if bookshelves were classified by publisher or author, finding the desired comic book from many bookshelves required a great deal of time and effort. Therefore, if the customer is unable to find the desired comic book himself, the customer is inconvenienced at the coffee shop,
Alternatively, there is a possibility that the user may feel that the product lineup is poor.

[0003] On the other hand, a comic book shop may not be provided with a desired comic book, and in that case, the time and labor required to search for the comic book are wasted. In addition, some manga cafes may charge depending on the customer's stay time,
For customers, the time spent looking for comic books was lost time, so customers felt more expensive in coffee shops where it was difficult to find comic books.

[0004] Such an example is not limited to a manga cafe, but also has a similar problem in a facility equipped with a large number of equipment (eg, a rental video store, a rental CD store, a library, etc.). Also, a company or office may have a huge number of business files, and employees may need a lot of time to find the desired file on which shelf. there were. This is even more difficult for inexperienced employees, which has led to a decrease in work efficiency.

[0005] In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-242702 discloses a product position guidance system in a large store.

[0006] The product guidance system comprises a product search terminal provided in a store. The product search terminal includes a storage unit that stores information such as a display position of a product, and a reading unit that reads data from a storage medium such as a floppy (registered trademark) disk.

[0007] The customer who visits the store operates the input section of the product search terminal, so that the display position of the desired product is displayed on the display section. On the other hand, since it takes time to enter product information that the user wants to find after visiting the store, the customer can obtain a product code in advance using a personal computer (PC) at home. In that case, the customer accesses the host computer of the store from the personal computer at home, selects the product while viewing the product information, and writes the product code of the product on the recording medium. Then, by bringing the recording medium to the store and inserting it into the product search terminal, the display position of the previously selected product can be displayed.

[0008]

However, in the system described in the above publication, the customer performs the same operation at home, although the input work at the store is reduced. Moreover,
Since the trouble of storing the product code retrieved at home in the recording medium and bringing it to the store is newly added, the overall labor of the customer is increasing.

[0009] Further, even when the product search terminal is directly operated,

[0010] As described in the paragraph, it is not realistic in terms of cost for the store to prepare the product search terminals by the number of customers. Therefore, when a store has one product search terminal, if one customer uses the product search terminal, the other customers will have to wait to use the product search terminal. In this case, it may be faster for the customer to search for the product by himself. for that reason,
Many customers have the problem of causing inconvenience.

On the other hand, it is necessary for a store to purchase a product search terminal, and maintenance and management of the terminal requires labor. Also, in a store where customers come and go, a large number of merchandise search terminals will be introduced in order to keep customers from waiting as described above. As a result, there is a problem that the initial introduction cost of the system increases.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for retrieving location information on equipment that can easily and quickly search for location information on equipment provided in a facility.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a position information search system and method which can introduce a system at low cost without using a dedicated terminal.

[0014]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for retrieving position information of equipment provided in a facility, comprising: at least classification information and position information of the equipment; A web server that is connected to the Internet and has a processing unit that retrieves position information of equipment corresponding to the classification information from the database; and a search condition that is accessible to the Internet and searches for the equipment. And a mobile terminal having a display unit for displaying a search result, wherein the mobile terminal wirelessly transmits a search condition to a base station, and the web server transmits the search condition transmitted from the mobile terminal. The processing unit receives the condition via the base station and the Internet, and the processing unit stores the equipment of the classification information corresponding to the predetermined search condition as a data. Search from the base, where appropriate equipment is present and transmits via the Internet and the base station reads out the positional information of the equipment from the database to the mobile terminal.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the portable terminal is a portable telephone having an Internet access function. According to a third aspect of the present invention, the classification information includes at least one of a name of the equipment, a code number of the equipment, and a type of the equipment.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the position information includes character information indicating a location of the equipment. According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the character information includes a number of a shelf on which equipment is arranged. According to the invention described in claim 6, the position information includes a map indicating a location of the equipment. According to the invention described in claim 7, the database further stores equipment state information, and the processing unit transmits the searched equipment state information.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, the status information includes information indicating whether equipment is being lent out. According to the ninth aspect of the present invention,
The equipment is characterized by including at least one of a product for sale, a product for rental, a product for display, and a purchased product.

According to the invention described in claim 10, the facility includes any one of a cartoon cafe, a store, a company, an office, a restaurant, a rental store, a library, and a school.

According to the eleventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a book position information search system, comprising: a database for storing at least a name of a book and position information of a shelf; A web server having a processing unit that retrieves shelf position information from the database; and
A mobile phone having an input unit for inputting search conditions for searching for the book and a display unit for displaying search results;
The mobile phone transmits the input search condition to the base station wirelessly, the web server receives a predetermined search condition transmitted from the mobile phone via the base station and the Internet, and the processing unit A book having a name corresponding to the predetermined search condition is searched, and if there is a corresponding book, the position information of the shelf of the book is read from the database and transmitted to the mobile phone via the Internet and a base station. It is characterized by the following.

According to the twelfth aspect of the present invention, the database includes at least one of a book name, a code number, and a genre.

According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, the position information includes at least one of a shelf number and a map indicating the position of the shelf.

According to a fourteenth aspect of the present invention, in the method for searching for positional information of equipment provided in a facility, a predetermined condition for searching for the equipment is input from a portable terminal accessible to the Internet. Transmitting the predetermined condition to the base station by radio, the base station transmitting the predetermined condition to a web server via the Internet, and searching a database for equipment of classification information corresponding to the predetermined condition. Performing the step, determining whether or not there is equipment of the corresponding classification information, reading the position information of the equipment from the database if the corresponding equipment is present, the Internet and the position information The method includes a step of transmitting the position information to the portable terminal via the base station and a step of displaying the position information on the portable terminal.

According to the fifteenth aspect of the present invention, a method for searching for positional information on equipment includes a step of receiving predetermined search conditions input from a portable terminal via the Internet, and a step of receiving classification information corresponding to the search conditions. The step of retrieving the equipment from the database, the step of determining whether the equipment of the corresponding classification information is present, and the step of reading the position information of the equipment from the database when the corresponding equipment is present, Transmitting the position information to the mobile terminal via the Internet.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the database includes at least one of a name of the equipment, a code number of the equipment, and a type of the equipment.

According to the seventeenth aspect of the present invention, the position information includes character information indicating a location of the equipment. According to an eighteenth aspect of the present invention, the character information includes a number of a shelf on which equipment is arranged. According to the invention described in claim 19, the position information includes a map indicating the location of the equipment. According to the invention of claim 20, a process of receiving a predetermined search condition input from a mobile terminal via the Internet, a process of searching a database for equipment of classification information corresponding to the search condition from a database, A process of determining whether there is equipment having classification information to be performed, a process of reading the position information of the equipment from the database if the corresponding equipment exists, and transmitting the position information to the mobile terminal via the Internet. It is intended to be a computer-readable recording medium that stores a program for executing a process of transmitting.

According to the above invention, the user accesses the web server on the Internet using the portable terminal and transmits a predetermined search condition, so that the positional information of the desired equipment is stored in the portable terminal of the user. Sent to. Regardless of where the user is, it is possible to obtain the position information of the equipment.

This system can be used for a facility equipped with a large number of equipment, such as a cartoon cafe, a store, a company, an office, a restaurant,
Applicable to rental stores, libraries or schools. In a manga cafe, you can search for the location information of a desired comic book, in a library, you can search for the location information of a desired book, and in a company, you can search for the location information of a desired file. .

[0028]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a comic book location information retrieval system 1 of a comic book cafe. As shown in FIG. 1, the location information search system 1 includes a cartoon coffee shop 2 as a facility,
Web servers 4 and 5 connected to the Internet 3;
The system includes a database 6, a base station 8 that communicates with the server 4 via the packet communication network 7, and a mobile phone 9 as a mobile terminal that wirelessly communicates with the base station 8.

The comic book shop 2 has a large number of comic books 10 as equipment on a plurality of shelves 11. In the figure, 1
Only one shelf 11 is illustrated. Dozens of comic books 10 are stored in each shelf 11, a shelf number is determined for each of the shelves 11, and a shelf number display plate 12 is attached to the upper part of the shelf 11. Each comic book 10 is stored in a shelf 11 having a predetermined shelf number.

The mobile phone 9 has a function of accessing the Internet 3 and has a compact HTML (H
It has a built-in browser for browsing files written in yper Text Markup Language). In addition, the mobile phone 9 includes an input unit 13 for inputting characters and numbers, and a display unit 14 for displaying the input characters or received data (file).

The multitasking web server 5 includes the processing unit 1
5 and a storage unit 16, and can execute a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) program stored in the storage unit 16. The processing unit 15 performs data search and read processing with the database 6. As shown in FIG.
The database 6 has the name and shelf number of the comic book 10 as classification information.

Next, the operation of the position information search system 1 will be described. First, a user (hereinafter referred to as a customer for convenience, but not limited to a customer),
A predetermined homepage on the server 5 is accessed using the Internet access function of the mobile phone 9. FIG.
As shown in the figure, the customer enters the input field 17 in the homepage.
Then, a part or all of the name of the comic book 10 being searched is input by operating the input unit 13. At this time, the customer inputs a character string included in the name of the comic book 10, such as kanji, katakana, or an alphabet, as a search condition. In FIG.
The customer has entered "Joe yesterday." When the search button 18 is selected and operated, data including the input search condition is transmitted to the base station 8 by radio.

Returning to FIG. 1 again, the base station 8 transmits the data including the search condition from the portable telephone 9 to the packet communication network 7,
The data is transmitted to the web server 5 via the web server 4 and the Internet 3. The processing unit 15 of the server 5 receives the data including the search condition and executes a CGI program (for example, a Perl script). By the processing of the CGI program, comic book 1 whose name matches the search condition
0 is searched from the database 6 and the position information (shelf number and map in the store) of the corresponding comic book 10 is read. The server 5 transmits the read position information to the mobile phone 9 via the Internet 3, the server 4, the packet communication network 7, and the base station 8.

As shown in FIG. 3, the data transmitted from the server 5 is displayed on the display unit 14 of the mobile phone 9 as a search result. As a result, the customer can find that the book he was looking for is 8
It is possible to know that it is on the No. 11 shelf 11 and quickly go to the No. 8 shelf 11 with reference to the in-store map 19. Further, depending on the search condition input by the customer, there may be a plurality of corresponding comic books 10. In that case,
Only the names of the corresponding comic books 10 are displayed on the display unit 14 as search results, and can be selected by the customer from among them. Then, the position information of the selected one comic book 10 is displayed as a search result.

Next, the processing of the CGI program executed by the processing unit 15 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. First, in step S10, the processing unit 15 receives the search condition input from the mobile phone 9. In the example of FIG. 2, the search condition is “Joe yesterday” as the name of the comic book 10.

In step S12, the processing unit 15
The comic book 10 corresponding to the above search condition is searched from the database 6. At this time, the processing unit 15 searches the comic book 10 corresponding to the search condition and the name of the comic book 10 by pattern matching. Here, since the search condition is “Joe yesterday”, the comic book 1 whose name matches the condition from the table of FIG.
It can be seen that 0 exists. At this time, even if the search conditions do not completely match, if the search condition is a character string included in the name of the comic book 10, the processing unit 15 determines that the comic book 10 is applicable. For example, even if the search condition is “yesterday”, the processing unit 15 determines that the comic book 10 named “Joe yesterday” satisfies the condition.

In step S14, the processing unit 15
It is determined whether or not the comic book 10 corresponding to the search condition exists. If there is, the processing unit 15 shifts the processing to step S16.
Move to 20.

In step S16, the processing unit 15
The shelf number of the comic book 10 corresponding to the search condition is read from the database 6. Referring to the table of FIG. 5, the shelf number corresponding to "Joe yesterday" is No. 8, so the processing unit 15 reads "8" from the database.

In step S18, the processing unit 15
Compact HTM for displaying read shelf numbers
An L file is generated and transmitted to the mobile phone 9 via the Internet 3, the web server 4, the packet communication network 7, and the base station 8. When the in-store map 19 is displayed as shown in FIG. 3, the processing unit 15 writes a description for displaying the map image (in-store map) 19 corresponding to the shelf number in a compact H.
Generate in TML file. In the in-store map 19,
The position of the corresponding shelf 11 is highlighted in a different color from the other shelves separated by dotted lines. Alternatively, the position of the corresponding shelf 11 on the in-store map 19 may be highlighted by blinking. As described above, the customer can easily and quickly know the position of the comic book 10.

On the other hand, in step S14, the corresponding comic book 1
If it is determined that 0 does not exist, in step S20, the processing unit 15 generates a compact HTML file for displaying a message indicating that the comic book 10 corresponding to the search condition does not exist, and transmits the file to the mobile phone 9. I do.
Thus, the customer knows that the comic book 10 he is looking for is not in the comic coffee shop 2.

As described above, the present embodiment has the following advantages. (1) The customer can easily and quickly search for a desired comic book 10 from a large number of comic books 10 provided in the comic cafe 2. Even in a coffee shop that charges for the stay time, it is possible to reduce the time loss when searching for the comic book 10.

(2) Since the customer uses his / her own mobile phone 9, the location information and the time can be searched at the time of the customer's convenience. The search can be performed in the manga cafe 2 or a search can be performed from another place before going to the coffee shop 2. Therefore, it is possible to know in advance whether the comic book 10 to be read is placed in the coffee shop 2 to be visited.

(3) Since the customer uses his or her own mobile phone 9, the search system can be used without waiting time. The search system 1 can respond to a search request from a plurality of customers simultaneously.

(4) The comics cafe 2 does not need to prepare a dedicated terminal for the position information search system 1, so that the search system 1 can be introduced at lower cost than before.

(5) The cartoon coffee shop 2 can enhance customer satisfaction by providing convenience to customers. (6) The clerk of the comic book cafe 2 does not need to ask the customer for the location of the comic book 10, and can concentrate on the food and drink service. When the comic book 10 that has been read is left in the store, the store clerk uses the search system 1.
To check the shelf number of the comic book 10 to find the correct shelf 1
Can be returned to 1. Particularly, in the case of an inexperienced clerk, the work efficiency of the clerk can be improved because the shelf number of each comic book 10 is not known.

The above embodiment may be embodied as follows. (1) The position information is not limited to the shelf number, but may be character information indicating the position of the shelf 11, for example, expressed in words such as “right side of the entrance of the coffee shop”, “opposite the cash register”, and the like. Is also good. The character information indicating the position of the shelf 11, the shelf number, and the in-store map 19 may be used in any combination. Of course, only the shelf number may be used, the shelf number and the in-store map 19 may be used, or a combination of the character information and the in-store map 19 may be used. May be displayed.

(2) Instead of the portable telephone 9, a PDA (Personal Data A) having an Internet access function is provided.
ssistance) may be used.

(3) Although the database 6 has the name of the comic book 10 as classification information, as shown in FIG.
A code number and a genre of the comic book 10 may be included. Thus, the user can search by the code number of the comic book 10 or the genre. Alternatively, the database may include the creator of the comic book 10, the publisher, or a keyword for search as the classification information.

(4) The kanji name of the comic book 10 is stored in the database 6, but the hiragana or katakana notation name of the comic book 10 may be stored. Thus, the customer can search the comic book 10 using the character string of only hiragana or katakana as a search condition. Further, at the time of pattern matching, a fuzzy search technique may be used. In this case, the search condition is the database 6
Even if it does not completely match the name of the comic book 10 in the middle, the comic book 10 having a name close to the character string of the search condition can be searched.

(5) The database 6 is the server 5 in FIG.
However, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be stored in the storage unit 16 of the server 5.

(6) The file transmitted to the mobile phone 9 may be changed according to a language that can be browsed by a browser built in the mobile phone 9. For example, MML (Mobil Markup Languag) is not limited to compact HTML.
e), HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language), W
ML (Wireless Markup Language), XML (eXtensibleM
arkup Language), SGML (Standard Generalized Mar
kup Language) or any markup language such as XHTML (eXtensible HTML).
It may be an ava script or another language.

(7) In addition to Perl scripts, CGI programs include SSI (Server Side Include) or PSI
HP may be used. Alternatively, it may be a compiled binary program.

(8) Instead of CGI, any alternative means such as Java servlet may be adopted. (9) The location information search system 1 may be embodied in a library, a rental video store, a rental CD store, a company, an office, or the like, instead of the manga cafe 2. Libraries can easily and quickly find books, and rental stores can easily and quickly find videos or CDs.

At the rental store, as shown in FIG.
The database may store information indicating the rental status of books, videos, or CDs. This allows the customer to know in advance whether the desired rental article is being lent.

On the other hand, when a company or office owns a large number of files, it is possible to easily and quickly find the location of the files. In this case, as shown in FIG. 8, the database has a file number, a file type, a shelf number, and a status. If files are frequently moved by employees, remembering the file taker or destination as location information can help
You can know the location of the current file. Referring to FIG. 8, it can be seen that the file with the code number F002 is being taken out by the employee "Tsuboi". For example,
If the employee who takes out the file updates the movement status of the file in the database as appropriate, the location of the file can be grasped in real time. As a result, even if the file is not on the corresponding shelf, the take-out person can be specified.

[0056]

According to the invention described in claims 1, 14, 15, and 20, a user accesses a web server on the Internet using a portable terminal and transmits a predetermined search condition. The positional information of the desired equipment is transmitted to the portable terminal of the user. Thereby, the position information of the equipment can be easily and quickly searched, and the time for searching for the position of the equipment can be greatly reduced. Further, a plurality of users can access at the same time.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the user can search for the location information of the equipment using his / her own mobile phone, the user can search the location information whenever and wherever convenient for the user regardless of the user's location or time. Search can be performed. Therefore, convenience for the user can be improved in a facility equipped with equipment.

According to the third and sixteenth aspects of the present invention, since a search can be performed using the equipment name, code number, or equipment type as a search condition, a desired equipment can be reliably searched for.

According to the invention described in claims 4 to 6 and 17 to 19, the user can display the position information of the equipment by character information, display it on a map, or display it by the number of a shelf, so that the user can The location can be grasped immediately.

According to the seventh and eighth aspects of the present invention, it is possible to know the state of equipment (rental, presence of stock). Therefore, the user can grasp the presence or absence of the equipment without going to the place.

According to the ninth aspect of the invention, the equipment includes various articles such as rental articles (eg, videos, books, etc.), exhibition articles, purchased articles (eg, files, etc.). It can be applied to

According to the tenth aspect of the present invention, the present invention can be applied to a facility having a large number of equipment, for example, a manga cafe, a store, a company, an office, a restaurant, a rental store, a library or a school. In a manga cafe, you can search for the location information of a desired comic book, in a library, you can search for the location information of a desired book, and in a company, you can search for the location information of a desired file. .

According to the invention described in claims 11 to 13,
It can be applied to a facility having a large number of books, such as a cartoon cafe, a store, a company, an office, a restaurant, a rental store, a library or a school.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a comic book position information search system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing a mobile phone.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view showing position information displayed on the mobile phone.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing by a processing unit of the web server.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing data contents of a database.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another data content of a database.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of data contents of video rental.

FIG. 8 is a view showing an example of data contents of a file.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Comic Book Position Information Search System 2 Comic Cafe 3 Internet 4,5 Web Server 6 Database 9 Mobile Phone 10 Comic Book 11 Shelf 15 Processing Unit 16 Storage Unit

Claims (20)

[Claims] 1. A position information retrieval system for equipment provided in a facility, comprising: a database storing at least classification information and position information of the equipment; and a position information of equipment corresponding to the classification information connected to the Internet. A web server having a processing unit to retrieve from the database; and a mobile terminal that is accessible to the Internet and has an input unit for inputting search conditions for searching for the equipment and a display unit for displaying search results, The mobile terminal wirelessly transmits the input search condition to the base station, the web server receives the search condition transmitted from the mobile terminal via the base station and the Internet, and the processing unit executes the search condition. Searches the database for equipment with the classification information corresponding to, and if there is a corresponding equipment, the Supplies positional information retrieval system, characterized in that reading the location information from the database for transmission over the Internet and the base station to the mobile terminal. 2. The equipment location information search system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is a mobile phone having an Internet access function. 3. The equipment position information retrieval system according to claim 1, wherein the classification information includes at least one of the equipment name, the equipment code number, and the equipment type. 4. The equipment position information search system according to claim 1, wherein the position information includes character information indicating a location of the equipment. 5. The equipment position information search system according to claim 4, wherein the character information includes a number of a shelf on which the equipment is arranged. 6. The equipment location information search system according to claim 1, wherein the location information includes a map indicating the location of the equipment. 7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the database further stores equipment state information, and the processing unit transmits the searched equipment state information. Equipment location information search system. 8. The equipment position information search system according to claim 7, wherein the status information includes information indicating whether or not the equipment is being lent. 9. The equipment according to claim 1, wherein the equipment includes at least one of a product for sale, a product for rental, a product for display, and a purchased product. Characteristic equipment location information retrieval system. 10. The method according to claim 1, wherein
The equipment location information search system, wherein the facility includes any one of a cartoon cafe, a store, a company, an office, a restaurant, a rental store, a library, and a school. 11. A book position information search system, comprising: a database storing at least a name of the book and position information of a shelf; and a database connected to the Internet and storing position information of a book shelf corresponding to the name. A web server having a processing unit for taking out a book, a mobile phone that is accessible to the Internet, and has an input unit for inputting search conditions for searching for the book and a display unit for displaying search results. Transmits the input search condition to the base station by radio, the web server receives the predetermined search condition transmitted from the mobile phone via the base station and the Internet, and the processing unit executes the search condition. Is searched from the database for a book having a name corresponding to Positional information retrieval system book, characterized in that the position information of the transmission to the mobile phone via the Internet and the base station is read out from the database. 12. The book position information search system according to claim 11, wherein the classification information includes at least one of a book name, a code number, and a genre. 13. The book position information search system according to claim 11, wherein the position information includes at least one of a shelf number and a map indicating the position of the shelf. 14. A method for retrieving location information of equipment provided in a facility, comprising: inputting a predetermined search condition for searching for the equipment from a mobile terminal capable of accessing the Internet; and wirelessly transmitting the search condition. Transmitting the predetermined condition to the web server via the Internet, searching the equipment of the classification information corresponding to the search condition from a database, and transmitting the corresponding classification information to the base station. A step of determining whether or not the equipment is present; a step of reading the position information of the equipment from the database if the corresponding equipment is present; transmitting the position information to the mobile terminal via the Internet and a base station And a step of displaying the position information on a mobile terminal. 15. A step of receiving predetermined search conditions input from a portable terminal via the Internet; a step of searching a database for equipment of classification information corresponding to the search conditions; Judging whether or not the equipment is present, if the corresponding equipment is present, reading the position information of the equipment from the database, and transmitting the position information to the mobile terminal via the Internet A method for retrieving positional information on equipment, characterized in that: 16. The equipment position information search method according to claim 15, wherein the database includes at least one of the equipment name, the equipment code number, and the equipment type. 17. The equipment location information search method according to claim 15, wherein the location information includes character information indicating a location of the equipment. 18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the character information includes a number of a shelf on which the equipment is arranged. 19. The equipment position information search method according to claim 15, wherein the position information includes a map indicating a location of the equipment. 20. A process of receiving predetermined search conditions input from a mobile terminal via the Internet, a process of searching a database for equipment of classification information corresponding to the search conditions, and a equipment of corresponding classification information. Executing a process of determining whether or not the device is present, a process of reading the position information of the device from the database when the corresponding device is present, and a process of transmitting the position information to the mobile terminal via the Internet Computer-readable recording medium storing a program to be executed.