JP2002297613A - Position information notification system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system which can easily notify a certain transmission destination of a current position through mobile telephone without providing any information display on a pole, a system which reports location information on a fixed telephone set at the same time when a delivery service company is telephoned from the fixed telephone set, and a system which can detect the position of an important document or an old person who is roaming around. SOLUTION: Pole specification information 3 on the nearest pole 1 is sent by the mobile telephone set 5 and the transmission destination obtains a map 4 of the installation point of the pole 4 by performing retrieval from a database 7 where the pole specification information 3 and the map 4 of the installation point of the pole are registered. When the delivery service company is telephoned, the position of the resident is reported at the same time by performing retrieval from a database wherein the installation position information on the fixed telephone set is registered together with the telephone number. The radio wave sent by a transmitter put on a person, an animal, etc., is received by an antenna fitted on an pole to specify the nearest pole.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a position information notification system using a mobile phone or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The spread of mobile telephones such as portable telephones, PHSs, and automobile telephones has shown remarkable growth, and opportunities for utilizing such telephones are steadily increasing. Since mobile telephones are used while traveling and the place where the call is made is unspecified, the chances of notifying the destination of the call from where the call is coming from are considerably greater than those of a landline telephone.

[0003] In order to tell the destination of a call from where the call is being made, it is common practice to use a nearby building as a guide, but this explanation is extremely difficult in an unfamiliar land.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2000-205888 discloses that a tag, a bar code, and an IC tag indicating the latitude and longitude are attached to a building such as a telephone pole and read with the naked eye and input to a portable terminal or read. There is disclosed an apparatus which is input to a portable terminal by a device and applied to provision of advertisements, directions, and other peripheral information in cooperation with separately existing map information.

[0005]

In order to realize the method of using the latitude and longitude as position information, a panel and an IC tag indicating the latitude and longitude are newly added one by one to a huge number of buildings. Need to be installed. This requires enormous installation costs. In addition, the higher the display format of latitude and longitude becomes technically, the higher the installation cost becomes, and furthermore, there is a problem that the manager and the owner must obtain the consent of each building for installation, which is not realistic. .

Also, when using a home delivery service such as a pizza, a fixed telephone installed in the house is generally used, but in this case, it is troublesome to explain the location of the home to a home delivery service company. Was.

Further, there is an anti-theft device that detects the position of an object using GPS, but it is very expensive, and is used, for example, to prevent theft of important documents and precious metals, or to detect wandering elderly people, lost children, and lost dogs. could not.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a system for notifying a transmission point without incurring the cost of providing an information display on a building, a system in which, when a call is made from a fixed telephone, the location information of the fixed telephone is notified to a transmission destination, and It is an object of the present invention to provide a system that can detect the position of an important document or a wandering elderly person by using an antenna installed on a telephone pole.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A position information notifying system using telephone pole identification information of the present invention transmits a database in which telephone pole identification information and a map of installation points of the telephone poles are registered, and input telephone pole identification information. Using a mobile telephone or a mobile terminal having the function of performing the input, the telephone pole identification information displayed on the telephone pole close to the mobile telephone or the mobile terminal is input, and the information is transmitted to a transmission destination capable of using the database, thereby transmitting the information. A feature of the present invention is that a map of installation points of telephone poles corresponding to the transmitted telephone pole identification information can be obtained as a search result of the database.

[0010] The following three types of utilization modes of the database by the transmission destination can be considered. The first is a case where a database is arranged at a transmission destination and a search is directly performed. Second
Is a form in which a search-only server has a database, and a transmission destination makes an inquiry to this server. Third, when the database is placed in a relay station that receives communications from mobile phones or mobile terminals collectively and connects to a transmission destination line, communication to a specific transmission destination is performed at this relay station. When this occurs, the line is connected to the destination, and at the same time, a map of the installation point of the utility pole corresponding to the transmitted utility pole identification information is obtained by searching a database and transmitted to the destination.

[0011] In the above invention, the destination to which the location information is provided as a map of the installation point of the telephone pole is registered as a partner who needs to notify the mobile phone or the portable terminal of the place of origin immediately. By transmitting the telephone pole identification information only to the transmission destination registered in this way, it is distinguished from a normal telephone call or transmission.

In the above invention, the destination to which the position information is provided may be a provider of information related to the designated position. In this case, the information is provided using the map of the installation point of the telephone pole obtained by searching based on the transmitted telephone pole identification information as the position designation information.

[0013] The position information notification system using a fixed telephone according to the present invention is provided with a database in which the telephone number of the fixed telephone and the position information of the residence where the fixed telephone is installed are made usable by a home delivery service provider. When a call is made from a landline telephone to the home delivery service provider, the location information of the contractor's residence determined by the telephone number is notified to the home delivery service provider as a search result of this database. .

The position information notification system using the telephone pole identification information and the position information notification system using a fixed telephone can have a credit granting function. This is a database that allows the user to search for the utility bills such as the electricity bills of mobile or landline telephones from their telephone numbers, and a credit card that creates credit evaluation information based on the above-mentioned payment schemes based on certain criteria. When a destination is called from a mobile telephone or a fixed telephone by using an evaluation program, the destination is notified of credit evaluation information created by the database and the credit evaluation program.

[0015] The position information notification system of the present invention which can detect the position of important documents and the wandering elderly is used to receive radio waves emitted from a transmitter attached to an animal or an object by an antenna attached to a telephone pole. , The nearest telephone pole is specified, and the current position of a person, an animal, or an object is known.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS First, an embodiment of a position information notification system using utility pole identification information according to the present invention will be described.
This invention provides power companies and telecommunications carriers with
Utilizing the fact that the utility pole identification number, which is the utility pole identification information, and the map information of the installation point of the utility pole are recorded and saved as management information, there is no cost for displaying location information on the utility pole, which is a building. , Providing location information.

As shown in FIG. 4, the telephone pole identification number is described on a tag 2 attached to the telephone pole 1 at a height visible to humans. The telephone pole identification number 3 is recorded and stored at the time of installation together with a map 4 around the installation position of the telephone pole as shown in FIG.

There are about 2.5 million telephone poles, owned solely by the applicant, and about 20 m in densely populated areas.
It is provided at intervals of about 40 m even in areas with sparse spacing and houses. This is narrower than a range that can be identified by GPS, and can specify a position with high accuracy, and is highly useful as position information. In addition to the telephone poles set up by the applicant, there are telephone poles set up by other companies in the same industry and telephone poles set up by telecommunications carriers such as telephone companies. Information can be provided.

FIGS. 1 (a), 1 (b), and 1 (c) show an embodiment of a transmission point notification system using the pole identification information.
The following three types will be described.

FIG. 1A shows a mobile telephone (or a portable terminal).
5 is a case where a database 7 and search software 8 are arranged at a transmission destination 6. When transmission pole identification information is transmitted from a mobile phone or the like, the transmission destination 6 Search the map of the display 9
To be displayed. Note that the database 7 can be created by extracting necessary parts when the management information of a utility pole such as a power company is digitized.

FIG. 1B shows a case where a dedicated search server 10 having a database 7 and search software 8 is used. In this case, when a telephone call is started from the mobile telephone (or the portable terminal) 5 while transmitting the telephone pole specifying information to the transmission destination 6, the transmission destination 6 transmits the telephone pole specifying information to the common search dedicated server 10, and Search the map of the installation point of the telephone pole,
When the search result is returned, it is displayed on its own display 9.

FIG. 1C shows a case where the database 7 and the search software 8 are arranged in a relay station 11 which receives communication from the mobile telephone (or portable terminal) 5 at a time and connects to the line of the destination 6. It is. In the relay station 11, when a communication to a specific destination 6 occurs, a line connection is made to the destination 6, and at the same time, a map of the installation point of the utility pole corresponding to the transmitted utility pole identification information is searched in a database. And displays it on the display 9 of the destination 6.

In the above invention, the destination to which the location information is provided as the map of the installation point of the telephone pole is the one registered in the mobile telephone or the portable terminal as the other party who needs to immediately notify the origin. . This is, for example, a police station, the 119th, and a taxi company as public ones.
Also private are certain contacts registered for mobile phone owners. By transmitting the telephone pole identification information only to the destinations registered in this way,
It can be distinguished from normal call or transmission. Since the notification of the position information is a pinpoint notification using a map, the usefulness is high.

The police station, the fire station and the ambulance called by the 119th station need to know the site accurately and quickly in order to respond quickly to accidents and fires. In this case, the caller is in a hurry, and it is difficult to accurately and promptly report the position of the site. However, since the transmission of the pole information is easy, the transmission destination can quickly acquire accurate position information.

In the case where a taxi is delivered to a taxi company, the current position can be accurately and quickly conveyed to the taxi company as compared with a case where the taxi is described by telephone.
Accurate and speedy dispatch is possible.

Certain contacts registered for mobile phone owners include, for example, emergency contacts, such as sick, children, the elderly, and certain individuals who have promised to communicate location information through the system. is there. The emergency contact information is your hospital or guardian. In an emergency such as a case of illness or getting lost, a sick person, a child, an elderly person, or a person who is near a mobile phone reads telephone pole identification information from a nearby telephone pole and transmits the information to an emergency contact. In the case of the above-mentioned specific individual, a meeting place is notified. This allows certain contacts to know the current location of the sender accurately from the map information.

The destination to which the location information is provided may be a provider of information related to the designated location. This is a provider of information search services such as hotels, restaurants, and transportation. This information search service,
It is performed in various fields by the Internet and i-mode services. In this search, an input of a region or the like is required as a search condition. In the present invention, even in a place where there is no intuition such as a business trip destination, if the surrounding telephone pole number is transmitted as a search condition of location information, information such as a hotel / restaurant located closest to the caller is searched. The result is displayed on the mobile phone, and you can receive more accurate and speedy service. The transportation search is a service for displaying directions to the nearest station and a service for displaying candidates for the shortest route to the destination. This may be provided as a service for guidance to the destination.

As described above, by transmitting the utility pole identification information, there are various destinations to which the map of the installation location of the utility pole is provided, so that the mobile phone or the like is provided with a hierarchically structured menu. , Can be selected from a menu. This menu may be installed in a mobile phone or the like in advance, or installed and made available. In addition, for the emergency contact information, a dedicated key is provided on a mobile phone etc., after inputting the telephone pole registration number,
One-touch transmission is also possible.

It is also possible to input the telephone pole identification information by voice so that the destination can be read by voice recognition software. The display of the telephone pole identification information on the telephone pole uses current characters and numbers. In addition to the telephone pole identification number, those using a bar code, an IC tag, or the like can be used.

A specific procedure for using the position information system of the present invention will be described with reference to a conceptual diagram in FIG. 2 and a flowchart in FIG. I do.

First, a person who needs to talk to the police due to illness or the like goes to a telephone pole at a nearby position and reads telephone pole identification information from a tag attached to the telephone pole. Next, a hospital is selected from a menu on a mobile phone such as a mobile phone, and the read utility pole identification information is input. Since this input screen is adapted to the format of the telephone pole identification information, it can be easily input without error. Next, when a send button is pressed, the content provider is connected to the relay station 11. In the relay station 11, the transmitted pole identification information is used as a keyword,
The search software 8 acquires a map of the installation point of the utility pole from the database 7 by searching. Then, the telephone is connected to the hospital closest to the transmission position by line, and at the same time, the map data of the installation point is transmitted to this hospital. At the hospital, a phone call connects to the sender and a map showing the utility pole where the sender is located is displayed on the display. At the hospital, they talk to the sender to find out about their medical condition, prepare the necessary equipment, and send them to the site by ambulance. A map of the installation point is transferred to the ambulance and displayed as guidance for arriving at the site.

In the above description, the transmission position is notified by the telephone or mobile terminal using the telephone pole identification information. Next, the invention using a fixed telephone will be described.

Since the pizza delivery service requests delivery to a house, a fixed telephone is generally used. In this case, it is troublesome to explain the position of the home or the like as the delivery destination, and the time at which the home delivery service provider listens to this description affects the business efficiency.

Therefore, a system was devised in which when a call is made from a fixed telephone, a map of the delivery destination is automatically displayed on the home delivery company.

In this method, a database in which the telephone number of a fixed telephone and the location information of the house where the fixed telephone is installed is provided so as to be usable by a home delivery service provider. When a telephone call is made, the location information of the contractor's residence determined by the telephone number is notified to the company that performs the home delivery service as a search result of this database.
This database is created from, for example, map information recorded together with the customer number when the watt hour meter is installed, and the relationship between the customer number and the telephone number of the power contract. Figure 1 (a) shows where the database is located and how it is used.
The same applies if the description of (b) and (c) is read as a mobile telephone as a fixed telephone.

The location information notification system using the telephone pole identification information and the location information notification system using a fixed telephone can have a credit granting function.

This is a database in which the payment status of a utility charge such as an electric power fee can be searched from the telephone number of the owner of the mobile telephone or the fixed telephone, and the credit evaluation information based on the payment status is determined based on a certain standard. Each system has a credit evaluation program to be created.

[0038] This is because, when a destination is called from a mobile telephone or a fixed telephone, the credit evaluation information created by the above-mentioned database and the credit evaluation program is notified to the destination in addition to the location information. It is used to determine whether or not to perform business.

Next, a description will be given of a position information notification system capable of detecting the position of a person, an animal, or an object at low cost.

[0040] This is because the nearest electric pole is specified by receiving a radio wave emitted from a transmitter attached to an animal or an object by an antenna attached to the electric pole.
Know the current location of the animal or thing. This utilizes the fact that an antenna such as a PHS is installed at a fixed interval on a telephone pole, and when a radio wave is emitted, it can be determined which antenna is closest.

For example, a precious metal stored in a financial institution or an important document which is a top secret of a company is provided with a very small transmitting device, and in the case of theft, its detailed position is determined by a telephone pole having its antenna attached. We know from the number. It can also be used to prevent wandering of elderly people living alone, to prevent lost children, and to provide location information such as lost dogs.

[0042]

According to the invention of claim 1 of the present invention, for a huge number of utility poles, utility pole identification information and a map of the installation points are created and recorded by a power company or a communication company when the utility pole is installed. The location information can be sent to the destination without adding the cost of adding new location information to the telephone pole. In particular, telephone poles
Since it is installed at a finer interval than the position recognition accuracy of S, the utility value is high.

The second to fourth aspects of the present invention are different utilization forms of the database of the first aspect. According to the second aspect of the present invention, the transmission destination can be easily introduced by disposing the database at the transmission destination. According to the third aspect of the present invention, when there are a plurality of transmission destinations of the position information, the cost can be reduced by providing the database in the search-only server. The invention according to claim 4 is a form in which the database is arranged at a relay station that receives communications from mobile phones or the like collectively and connects to the transmission destination line. Making it easier to get location information,
Overall cost can be reduced.

According to the invention of claim 5 of the present invention, the transmission destination is registered in the mobile telephone or the portable terminal as a party who needs to immediately notify the place of origin. By transmitting the telephone pole identification information only to the transmission destination, it is easy to distinguish it from a normal call or transmission. By knowing the current position of the sender as map information, these destinations can quickly take necessary actions for the sender.

[0045] The invention according to claim 6 of the present invention is characterized in that, when the transmission destination is a provider of information related to a designated position, information on a nearby hotel or restaurant based on the current position of the sender, Since guide information for transportation is created, accurate information can be promptly provided to the sender, and the utility value of a telephone or the like can be increased.

In the invention according to claim 7 of the present invention, when a service request is made from a fixed telephone to a delivery service provider, the delivery destination is automatically transmitted as map information, and it is necessary to explain the delivery destination to the supplier. And the home delivery service can be easily used.

According to the invention of claim 8 of the present invention, when transmitting telephone pole identification information or home location using a mobile telephone or a fixed telephone, the payment status of the utility bill such as the electricity bill of the sender is transmitted to the transmission destination. The notification can help the destination to determine whether or not to perform the task.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, the nearest telephone pole is provided by receiving a radio wave emitted from a transmitter attached to an animal or an object by an antenna such as a PHS attached to a telephone pole. Since it is specified, the current position of a person, an animal, or an object can be known at a lower cost than in the case of using GPS.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a transmission point notification system using telephone pole identification information, in which (a) places a database at a destination, (b) places a database on a search-only server, (C) is a case where a database is arranged in a telephone relay station.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing a specific use procedure of the position information system of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a specific procedure for using the position information system of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a state in which a bill describing utility pole identification information is attached to a utility pole.

FIG. 5 shows a map of installation positions of telephone poles recorded and stored together with telephone pole identification information.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Telephone pole 2 Tag attached to telephone pole with telephone pole identification information 3 Telephone pole identification information 4 Map describing installation location of telephone pole 5 Mobile phone or mobile terminal 6 Destination 7 Database 8 Search software 9 Map of installation point of telephone pole Display to be displayed 10 Search-only server 11 Relay station

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Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A mobile telephone or a mobile terminal having a function of transmitting a telephone pole identification information and a map of installation points of the telephone pole and a function of transmitting the input telephone pole identification information. By inputting the utility pole identification information displayed on the utility pole and transmitting it to a destination that can use the above database, at the destination, a map of the installation location of the utility pole corresponding to the transmitted utility pole identification information is displayed. A position information notification system characterized in that it can be obtained as a search result of the database. 2. The location information notification system according to claim 1, wherein said database is arranged at a transmission destination. 3. A database dedicated to a search server having the database, and a transmission destination inquiring the server to obtain a map of a telephone pole installation point corresponding to the transmitted telephone pole identification information. Item 1. The position information notification system according to Item 1. 4. The database is arranged in a relay station that receives communications from a mobile phone or a portable terminal collectively and connects to a transmission destination line, and communication to a specific transmission destination occurs at the relay station. Then, at the same time as connecting the line to the transmission destination, a map of the installation point of the power pole corresponding to the transmitted power pole identification information is obtained by searching the database and transmitted to the transmission destination. The position information notification system according to claim 1. 5. The transmission destination according to claim 1, wherein the transmission destination is a fixed contact registered in a mobile phone or a portable terminal as a partner who needs to immediately notify the origin. 2. The position information notification system according to claim 1. 6. A transmission destination is a provider of information related to a designated position, and a map of installation points of telephone poles obtained by searching based on the transmitted telephone pole identification information is used as position designation information. And providing information.
5. The position information notification system according to any one of items 1 to 4. 7. A database in which a telephone number of a landline telephone and location information of a house where the landline telephone is installed are registered.
When the home delivery service is provided by the home delivery service provider and the fixed-line telephone is used to call the home delivery service provider, the location information of the contractor's residence determined by the telephone number is obtained as a search result of this database. A location information notification system, wherein the location information is notified. 8. A database in which a utility bill such as a power bill of a mobile phone or a landline phone owner can be searched from its telephone number, and credit evaluation information is created based on the above-mentioned billing status on a predetermined basis. The credit evaluation information created by the database and the credit evaluation program is notified to the destination when a destination is called from a mobile telephone or a fixed telephone using a credit evaluation program that performs the evaluation. 8. The notification system of a transmission point according to any one of items 7 to 7. 9. A nearby electric pole is specified by receiving a radio wave emitted from a transmitter attached to an animal or an object by an antenna attached to the telephone pole, thereby identifying the nearest electric pole, and the current position of the person, animal or the object. A position information notification system characterized in that the user knows the location.