JP2002260093A - Rental locker system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve convenience to a user of a rental locker. SOLUTION: This rental locker system is provided with locker groups 1a, 1b, etc., whose lockers 10 installed near the station of transportation are rented to a user, management terminal devices 3a, 3b, etc., for managing the respective lockers 10 of the locker groups, a management server 4 connected to the management terminal devices through the Internet 2 and carrying a home page for receiving the input information locker lease contact of lockers from the user's terminal devices 6a, 6b, etc., or a server 4 for automatically issuing a notice to the user's terminal devices when baggage is delivered to the locker 10 rented by the user and the baggage is stored in the locker 10 by the others than the user, or a management server 4 for transferring an image of photographing the inside of the locker 10 rented by the user to the terminal device of the user when it is accessed by the terminal device of the user.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a lending locker system, and more particularly to a lending locker system that allows the user to easily check items stored in the lending locker and home deliveries to the lending locker.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Many stations are equipped with lockers for rent, so that luggage and the like can be temporarily stored for a fee of several hundred yen. Also, recently, there are places where a locker at a station can be rented on a monthly basis, thereby increasing the convenience of users.

[0003] Therefore, if you commute from your home to the nearest station by folding bike and leave it in a locker for rent at the station, the bicycle will not be exposed to rain and will not be stolen.

[0004]

If it is possible to designate a rental locker at a station so that a home delivery item can be delivered to the rental locker, a single person, a single person or a dual-income household can use a daytime home. This can be useful in homes that are not often located. Furthermore, the trouble of responding to the home delivery every time the home delivery arrives is eliminated, and it is possible to spend one's time undisturbed on holidays and the like.

[0005] However, a system for delivering a courier service to a rental locker at a station has not been constructed yet. Also, even if you try to use the station locker as a convenient warehouse for yourself, it is necessary to prepare a change and rent a locker each time, which is troublesome. Furthermore, it is difficult to go to the station one by one to check what was stored in the locker to find what to look for.

An object of the present invention is to provide a rental locker system that is highly convenient for users.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a locker group installed near a transportation station where each locker is rented to a user, a management terminal device for managing each locker in the locker group, This is attained by providing a rental locker system including a management server on which a terminal device is connected via the Internet and receives a locker rental contract input information from the user's terminal device and which has a home page.

[0008] The above object is also achieved by a locker group installed near a transportation station where each locker is rented to a user, a management terminal device for managing each locker of the locker group, and a management terminal device and the Internet. And a management server for automatically issuing a notice to a terminal device of the user when the package is delivered to a locker borrowed by the user and the package is stored in the locker by a user other than the user. Achieved by using a rental locker system.

The above object is also achieved by providing a locker group installed near a transportation station where each locker is rented to a user, a management terminal device for managing each locker in the locker group, and an Internet connection to the management terminal device. Achieved by providing a rental locker system that includes a management server that is connected via the terminal and transfers an internal photographed image of the locker borrowed by the user to the user's terminal device when accessed from the user's terminal device. Is done.

[0010] Preferably, in the above, the locker group is provided for each transportation station. Further, the notification is performed by e-mail, and the terminal device of the user is a mobile phone.

The rental locker of the present invention can check the inside of the borrowed locker via the Internet, so that the locker can be used as a private warehouse for rent and the delivery of home delivery can be received with confidence. In addition, since a lease contract and cancellation can be made via the Internet, it can be easily used.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a rental locker system according to an embodiment of the present invention. This rental locker system is a rental locker room 1 installed at each station.
a, 1b, ..., 1n and each locker room 1a, 1b,
, 1n, management terminal devices 3a, 3b,..., 3n connected to the Internet 2, a system management server 4 connected to the Internet 2, and a settlement terminal device 5 of a financial institution connected to the Internet 2. , User terminal devices 6a, 6b,.
It is composed of

Each rental locker room 1a, 1b,..., 1
In n, dozens to hundreds of rental lockers are provided according to the scale of the station. Each locker 10 is provided with a serial number for each station, and a door of each locker 10 is provided with a magnetic ID card insertion slot 11 and a numeric push button 12, and the magnetic ID card is inserted into the insertion slot 11. Unless a four-digit password is entered from the push button 12, the locker 10
Door is not opened.

A CCD camera (not shown) is attached to the back of the door of the locker 10, and an illumination lamp is also attached so that the inside of the locker can be photographed. These CCD cameras and illumination lamps are connected to a management terminal device 3 provided corresponding to the rental locker room, and a control device for opening and closing each locker door is also connected to the management terminal device 3.

Hereinafter, the use procedure of a user who intends to use the rental locker system will be described step by step. When the user accesses the system management server 4 using the terminal device 3a such as a personal computer or a mobile phone at home, a homepage screen 21 shown in FIG. 2 is opened. This home page screen 21 has a “use” button 2
2 and a "cancel contract" button 23 are provided,
Locker rental fee information is displayed.

When the user clicks the “use” button 22, the screen transitions to a screen 25. This screen 25 is a station name input screen where the rental locker desired to be used is located. When a station name is entered on this screen 25 and an "OK" button 26 is clicked, the screen is transited to an empty locker information display screen 30 of the rental locker room 1a installed near the station.
When the user clicks on the locker number he wants to borrow on this screen 30, the screen transits to a screen 33 in FIG.

The screen 33 is a confirmation screen in which locker information to be borrowed by the user is displayed, and an "OK" button 34 and a "Return" button 35 are displayed. When the "OK" button 34 is clicked on this screen, this time,
The display transits to the user personal information input screen 40. This screen 40
Then, necessary information such as the user's address, telephone number, credit card type and credit card number is input,
When the “OK” button 41 is clicked, the screen transits to a password input screen 45.

On this screen 45, the user inputs his / her four-digit personal identification number, and further inputs an e-mail address. Finally, when the “OK” button 46 is clicked,
The locker usage contract procedure ends. "Cancel" button 4
When 7 is clicked, this locker contract is destroyed. The exchange of personal information and a password between the system management server 4 and the user terminal device 3 is performed by SSL (Secure S
ocket Layer), and confidentiality is maintained.

The above example is an example in which a user who has a terminal device 6 that can connect to the Internet 2 signs a locker lease contract, but a user who does not have such a terminal device 6 uses this rental locker system. If you want to
The manager goes to the rental locker room where the resident resides, fills out the documents by hand, and has the manager act for him.

After the locker use contract procedure is completed as described above, the user goes to the rental locker room near the station where the locker desired to be used exists. Since the magnetic ID card issuing machine is installed there, the locker number for which the user has signed a contract and a four-digit password are input from the numeric push buttons installed on the magnetic ID card issuing machine.

This input information is notified from the management terminal device 3 to the system management server 4. If the combination of the two numbers is correct, the magnetic ID card issuing machine sends the user information based on the instruction from the system management server 4. A dedicated magnetic ID card is automatically issued, and a 4-digit password specified by the user is set in the open / close control device of the locker.

The user can use the locker by inserting the magnetic ID card into the card slot 11 of the locker and inputting a 4-digit password from the push button 12. When this locker is designated as the delivery destination of the home delivery service, if a manager is resident in the rental locker room, the manager receives the home delivery and stores it in the user's locker.

However, if the labor cost is high, the locker rent has to be increased. Therefore, in a locker room for rental at a small station, for example, the rental locker room is stationed only during an emergency between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm and in an emergency. You can ask a neighbor to take care of you and have it delivered to you by courier at that time, or you may have someone else working at the station to do the job.

When the manager receives the home delivery and stores the home delivery in the locker of the user, the locker can be opened by using the master magnetic ID card and the personal identification number. In this case, it is necessary to inform the user that the home delivery has arrived, but in this embodiment,
This notification is made automatically, as described in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the procedure of the locker opening / closing process. First, the locker opening / closing control device waits for a magnetic ID card to be inserted and a four-digit password to be input (step S1). When the magnetic ID card is inserted and a four-digit password is input, it is determined whether or not it is a correct magnetic ID card and a correct four-digit password (step 2). If incorrect, this process ends and the locker remains closed.

[0027] If correct, that is, if the magnetic ID card inserted from the insertion slot 11 is a magnetic ID card possessed by the user and the input password is a four-digit password specified by the user, or If it is an ID card and a master PIN, the process proceeds to the next step S3, and this time the magnetic ID possessed by the user is
It is determined whether the password is a D card and a password designated by the user. If the result of this determination is correct, it can be determined that the locker has been opened by the person who borrowed the locker, so the process proceeds to step S4, where the lock of the door of the locker 10 is unlocked, and this process ends.

If it is determined in step S3 that the user is not trying to open the locker, that is, since it is determined that the manager is trying to open the locker, the process proceeds to step S5. Proceeding to step S4, a process of opening the door of the locker 10 is performed.

In step S5, since a person other than the user opens the locker, a signal to that effect is transmitted from the locker opening / closing control device to the management terminal device 3 corresponding to the rental locker room. The management terminal device 3 transfers the signal to the system management server 4 via the Internet 2. Receiving this, the system management server 4 opens a predetermined text, for example, “XX station locker number XX” today at XX pm in the afternoon at the e-mail address specified and input by the user on the screen 45 shown in FIG. Was automatically created and sent automatically.

The user operates a terminal device 3 such as a personal computer at home.
When this is received at a, the system management server 4 is accessed via the Internet 2. Then, the camera mode is designated, the station name and the locker number of the locker borrowed are designated and inputted, and the password of the locker is inputted. As a result, the system management server 4 issues a command to the management terminal device 3 managing the locker, turns on the illumination lamp of the locker, and transfers the image captured by the CCD camera to the system management server 4. By viewing this image, the user can know that the home delivery has been delivered. At this time, if the part where the sender's name of the home delivery is written is stored facing the door side, the user can immediately confirm from whom the package is.

By setting so that the above-mentioned e-mail is always sent to the portable telephone which the user carries, the user can always know that his or her locker has been opened. Since the next-generation mobile phone can transmit a large amount of data, the user who knows that the locker has been opened can use the mobile phone to capture the above-mentioned image via the Internet 2 and use the image on the liquid crystal of the mobile phone. It can be displayed on a display.

When it is necessary to cancel the locker being used because the user has moved or transferred, a "cancel contract" button 23 on the screen 21 shown in FIG.
If you click, locker information input screen 51 under contract
(FIG. 5) is displayed. Here, the user inputs locker information under contract and clicks on an “OK” button 52 to easily cancel the contract.

During the use period of the locker, the lending locker system requests settlement of the locker usage fee to the settlement terminal 5 (FIG. 1) of the financial institution using the credit card number of the user and debits the fee. .

According to the above-described embodiment, a user can sign a locker use contract at any time using his / her own terminal device when the user is free. Since the locker can be used freely even when the user is absent, convenience for the user is enhanced. In addition, by allowing courier to be delivered to lockers,
Your time will not be bothered by the courier service time, and you will be able to live at your own pace.

Further, from the point of view of the system management, unlike a conventional lending locker which can be used simply by putting coins in the locker, a locker use contract is made and the user's personal information is known, so lending to a crime using anonymity is possible. No lockers are used.

In the embodiment, both the magnetic ID card and the password designated by the user are used to open the locker. However, this is for further enhancing the security. The locker is unlocked only by the magnetic ID card. It is also possible to use only the personal identification number.

[0037]

According to the present invention, a locker installed in front of a station or the like can be used by a user in a form like a post office box, and the user's life can be made more convenient.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a rental locker system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a home page transition diagram on the management server shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a homepage transition diagram following the homepage shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a locker use processing procedure shown in FIG. 1;

5 is a diagram showing an example of a contract cancellation screen in the management server shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1a, 1b, ... Locker room for rent 2 Internet 3a, 3b, ... Management terminal device 4 System management server 5 Payment terminal device 6a, 6b, ... User terminal device

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A locker group installed near a transportation station where each locker is leased to a user, a management terminal device for managing each locker in the locker group, and a connection to the management terminal device via the Internet. And a management server on which a home page for receiving input information of a locker rental contract from the user's terminal device is provided. 2. A locker group installed near a transportation station where each locker is rented to a user, a management terminal device for managing each locker of the locker group, and connected to the management terminal device via the Internet. And a management server for automatically issuing a notification to a terminal device of the user when the package is delivered to a locker borrowed by the user and the package is stored in the locker by a user other than the user. And a rental locker system. 3. A locker group installed near a transportation station where each locker is rented to a user, a management terminal device for managing each locker of the locker group, and connected to the management terminal device via the Internet. And a management server for transferring an internal photographed image of the locker borrowed by the user to the user's terminal device when accessed from the user's terminal device. 4. The rental locker system according to claim 1, wherein the locker group is provided for each transportation station. 5. The rental locker system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device of the user is a mobile phone. 6. The rental locker system according to claim 2, wherein the notification is performed by e-mail.