JP2002358321A - Information collection/delivery system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information collection/delivery system capable of collecting, processing and also delivering weather information as required for each region by mounting a weather sensor capable of measuring weather data on a portable terminal as an information source. SOLUTION: In the system, the weather information transmitted from a cellular phone 1 with weather sensor provided with sensors capable of measuring the atmospheric temperature, temperature, atmospheric pressure, ultraviolet ray intensity, pollen concentration and the like are collected at a weather information service center 6 via a base station 3 and a line network 5 to construct a weather information database(DB) 8 and a customer DB 9. A mark 8a indicates details on the DB 8. A 'pollen map', an 'ultraviolet ray map', etc., are generated from these pieces of information to deliver to information providers and customers as a monitor contractor, etc., in response to requests. Accordingly, an information collection and delivery system which acquires and manages weather information together with latitude and longitude data from owners of the phones at various regions, and deliveres weather maps of a requested region or a wider region.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information collection / distribution system which collects and processes a wide variety of regional or wide-ranging information using a portable terminal, and provides a service for distributing the information on demand.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the general public has obtained weather information, pollen information, and the like from "AMeDAS" established by the Japan Meteorological Agency through television, radio, and the like. Information was not necessarily the specific area expected by the user, or the detailed information closely related to the area. To acquire such information, it is possible to realize it by the conventional method as described above, but introduction of a new observation device and communication equipment requires enormous costs. Also, when it is desired to distribute information limited to an area to individuals, or to distribute earthquake and volcano prediction information to each home, it is necessary to install a receiving device in each home, and considerable expense burden must be paid to individuals. Will be forced to.

[0003]

As described above, it is extremely difficult to obtain detailed weather information and pollen information close to the specific area or the area most needed by people. If such a method is to be realized by using a conventional method, a great deal of expense is required. The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and its purpose is to mount a weather information measurement sensor or the like on a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone that is currently being used in a wide range and use them. As a source of information, we collect various information of each region or wide area,
It is an object of the present invention to provide an information collection / distribution system for processing and distributing necessary information to a user as required.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems.
An information collection / distribution system including a plurality of mobile terminals, an information processing center that collects, processes, and distributes information from these mobile terminals, and a communication network that performs communication between the mobile terminals and the information processing center. A mobile terminal, a position specifying unit that specifies a location of the mobile terminal, an information collecting unit that collects information, a transmitting unit that transmits an output of the position specifying unit and an output of the information collecting unit to the information processing center; Display means for displaying information from the information processing center, the information processing center includes a server for managing input / output information, an information database for storing and managing information from the mobile terminal, A transmission unit for transmitting information in the information database.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the information collection / distribution system according to the first aspect, the location specifying means includes a current location of the portable terminal as longitude data,
The feature is to measure as latitude data. According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the information collection / distribution system according to the first or second aspect, the information collection means includes:
It is a meteorological information measuring means for measuring meteorological information such as temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, ultraviolet intensity, pollen concentration and the like.

[0006] The invention described in claim 4 is the first invention.
4. The information collection / distribution system according to claim 3, wherein the portable terminal displays the weather information obtained by the weather information measuring means on a display of its own terminal, and further displays the weather information. It is characterized by transmitting and receiving to and from another mobile terminal. According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the information collection / distribution system according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, the information processing center stores and manages customer data for providing the information. An information database is provided, and for information providers registered in the customer information database, the number of times of information provision of these information providers is used as a privilege point, and this point is used for the weather data in response to a request from the information provider. It is characterized as an evaluation point when distributing to a provider.

[0007] The invention according to claim 6 is the invention according to claims 1 to
6. The information collection and distribution system according to claim 5, wherein a monitor contract is made in advance, and the information processing center collects the information for a monitor contractor registered in the customer information database. And means for periodically accessing the portable terminal of the monitor contractor.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. This embodiment collects weather information from a mobile phone with a weather sensor owned by an individual, creates a “pollen map”, an “ultraviolet map”, etc. based on the collected information, and distributes the information on request. It is an information service system.

FIG. 4 shows an outline of the system of the present embodiment, and FIG. 1 shows a detailed block diagram. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a mobile phone with a weather sensor owned by an individual, and reference numeral 3
Is a wireless base station for a mobile phone, and 5 is a communication network including a telephone station and the like. Reference numeral 6 denotes a weather information service center that provides a weather information service in the present embodiment. Reference numeral 7 denotes a weather information collection / distribution server installed at the weather information service center 6. Reference numeral 8 is a weather information DB (database) for classifying and storing collected weather information, and reference numeral 8a is a detailed diagram thereof. This weather information DB8
, Weather information of various places transmitted from the mobile phone 1 with the weather sensor described above is classified and collected with respect to temperature, humidity, ultraviolet intensity, pollen concentration, and the like. Since each transmission point is represented by longitude and latitude, it is assumed that the mobile phone 1 used in the present embodiment has a GPS (global position system) function that can specify the current location of the mobile phone. Reference numeral 9 denotes a customer DB for classifying and storing customer information (name, address, mobile phone number, number of times of information provision, etc.) of general information providers and monitor contractors who provide information to the weather service system.

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a portable telephone with a weather sensor used in the present embodiment. Reference numeral 11 denotes a CPU for controlling each unit, 12 denotes a ROM in which a program of the CPU is stored, 13 RAM for storing data, 14 denotes an operation input unit including a numeric keypad, a function key, and a weather measurement SW, and 15 denotes a mobile phone. GPS for measuring the current position (longitude, latitude) of the satellite, 16 is a weather sensor for measuring temperature, humidity, ultraviolet ray amount, pollen amount, and the like, and 17 is used when connecting to an external personal computer or another mobile phone. An interface circuit 18 is a liquid crystal display. Reference numeral 19 denotes a communication unit which demodulates a modulated voice signal received via an antenna and outputs the demodulated voice signal to a voice processing unit 20, and modulates a coded voice signal supplied from the voice processing unit 20; Send from. Also, the telephone number and other data of the transmission source received via the antenna are transmitted to the C
Output to PU11. The audio processing unit 20 decodes the audio signal output from the communication unit 19 and outputs the decoded audio signal to the ear speaker, and encodes the audio signal from the microphone and outputs the encoded audio signal to the communication unit 19. Reference numeral 21 denotes a music reproducing unit which generates a tone signal of a ring tone based on tone data supplied via the bus line 22, and outputs the tone signal to a speaker.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. The collection / distribution server 7 of the weather information service center 6 obtains weather information at a fixed time every day (step S1). That is, the collection / delivery server 7 first reads the mobile phone number of the first monitor contractor from the customer DB 9 and transmits a weather information transmission command to the mobile phone of the telephone number. When this transmission command is received by the communication unit 19 of the mobile phone 1 of the monitor contractor, the communication unit 19 outputs the received weather information transmission command to the CPU 11. Upon receiving the weather information transmission command, the CPU 11 first transmits the longitude data and the latitude data output from the GPS 15 to the collection / distribution server 7 via the communication unit 19, and then transmits the weather data output from the weather sensor 16. Is transmitted to the collection / delivery server 7 via the communication unit 19. The collection / delivery server 7 writes each data transmitted from the mobile phone 1 to the weather information DB 8 (Step S2). Similarly, the collection / delivery server 7 sequentially transmits a weather information transmission command to each monitor contractor recorded in the customer DB 9 to acquire longitude data, latitude data, and weather data of each monitor contractor's mobile phone. And writes it in the weather information DB8.

On the other hand, in this system, ordinary people can provide weather data to the collection / distribution server 7. That is, when an ordinary person provides weather data, the provider first performs a predetermined key operation on the input operation unit 14 of the mobile phone 1, and then inputs the telephone number of the collection / distribution server. When these key operations and telephone number input are performed, the CPU 1
1 detects this and writes the telephone number into the RAM 13.
Next, the longitude and latitude data output from the GSP 15, the weather data output from the weather sensor 16, and the name of the provider are sequentially transmitted to the collection / distribution server 7 via the communication unit 19. The collection / distribution server 7 writes the received longitude data, latitude data, and weather data into the weather information DB 8, and also writes the name and telephone number of the provider into the customer DB 9. At this time, if the telephone number of the provider has already been written in the customer DB 9, "1" is added to the number of times of provision (step S3). It should be noted that the communication center when providing the weather information to the weather information service center is borne by the service center, so that more weather information can be collected.

[0013] Obtaining longitude data, latitude data, and weather data from all monitor subscribers, and obtaining weather information D
When the update of B8 is completed, the collection / delivery server 7 creates a weather map in which the weather, temperature, humidity, and the like are entered for each location using the data in the weather information DB 8 (Step S).
4). Then, it waits for a weather information distribution request from the mobile phone 1.

Here, for example, when the monitor contractor wants to obtain weather information of a business trip destination in advance, he performs a predetermined key operation on the operation input unit of the mobile phone 1 and also performs the longitude of the claimed destination. Enter data and latitude data. When these key operations are performed, the CPU 11 detects the key operations and transmits to the collection / distribution server 7 a weather information distribution request and longitude data and latitude data of the business trip destination input by the monitor contractor. The collection / distribution server 7 receives the request from the monitor contractor, and receives the longitude data of the business trip destination,
The longitude data and the latitude data closest to the latitude data are searched from the weather information DB 8, the weather data corresponding to the data is read, and transmitted to the mobile phone 1 of the monitor subscriber.

For example, when a general provider wants to obtain weather information of a destination in advance, he or she performs a predetermined key operation on an operation input unit of the mobile phone 1 and performs a key operation of the collection / distribution server 7. Enter phone number, destination longitude and latitude data. When these key operations are performed, a weather information distribution request and longitude and latitude data of the destination are transmitted to the collection / distribution server 7. The collection / distribution server 7 receives the request from the general provider, first checks with the customer DB 9 whether or not the general provider has already received information provision.
The weather data is read from the weather information DB 8 and transmitted to the mobile phone 1 of the general provider. In this case, the customer DB 9
"1" is subtracted from the number of times of provision in (step S6).
If the result of the subtraction is negative, the general provider is charged for the weather data fee. As described above, the number of times of provision is data for measuring a privilege for a general provider.

Also, for example, when a person who has not provided weather information wants to obtain weather information in advance, by accessing the collection / distribution server 7 from the mobile phone 1 in the same manner as described above. Weather information can be obtained. However, in this case, a request for a weather data fee is received from the collection / delivery server 7 later. Further, for example, when a weather map is requested from any one of the mobile phones 1, the created weather map is transmitted, and then the fee is charged.
In addition, as a weather sensor provided in the mobile phone 1,
There are "air temperature", "temperature", "barometric pressure", "ultraviolet intensity", "pollen concentration", and the like. As a weather map, a “pollen map”, an “atmospheric pressure map”, or the like may be created in addition to a map of weather, temperature, humidity, and the like.

Also, if this system is used, the indoor temperature of ordinary households can be compared with the outside temperature indicated by "current temperature in major cities throughout Japan" observed by AMeDAS installed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (meteorological stations nationwide). Data such as how many times the temperature, especially the temperature of a room where a person is living in a living room, etc. is lowered with respect to the outside temperature in the middle of summer, and how many times the temperature is raised with respect to the outside temperature in the middle of winter, etc. Because it can be collected, it can also be used for nationwide public relations in energy saving measures that will be increasingly advanced in the future.

Further, by using the present system,
Disaster prediction information can be transmitted to the people in the area by using a portable terminal by limiting the area. For example, if the information source is the Japan Meteorological Agency, etc., a system that issues information such as "Photochemical smocks are currently occurring in the western part of Tokyo" to people in that specific area via mobile terminals Is also possible. Similarly, it can be used for publicity of disasters such as "Earthquake occurrence notification is available." in this way,
At present, there are many people who wear portable terminals, and therefore, they are highly useful as receiving terminals for disaster prediction information.

Furthermore, crisis information and the like can be forcibly sent from the information center to the portable terminal. Even if the power of the mobile terminal is turned off, there is no problem if a so-called “standby mode” is set, and if an emergency call is received, a special alarm is sounded even when the power is turned off. Just like a radio, this alarm can be sounded without letting the base station know that the communication path with the base station has been secured, so that the alarm will sound just by receiving radio waves,
Even if the mobile terminal is turned off in the hospital, you can only know that an emergency call has arrived. Thereafter, when confirming the contents of the emergency call, the user may leave the hospital, turn on the portable terminal, and receive the information.

The portable terminal used in this system has a function of displaying weather information on its own portable terminal and a function of transmitting and receiving this information to and from another portable terminal. You can grasp the weather situation in the area where your friend lives. In this system, since the mobile terminal has a location specifying function such as GPS,
By using this, it is possible to grasp the general flow of people in the city area and the like.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, a portable terminal is provided with a position specifying means for specifying its own location and an information collecting means for collecting various kinds of information. Since the processing center collects information and sends the collected data to the mobile terminal,
There is an effect that information on a specific area and detailed information that cannot be obtained by a conventional information system can be provided.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the portable terminal has the position specifying means for specifying the current position of the portable terminal, it is possible to obtain information on the flow of people in an urban area, an event hall, and the like. According to the invention of claim 4, the portable terminal has a function of displaying weather information on its own portable terminal and a function of transmitting / receiving this information to / from another portable terminal. You can grasp the weather conditions in the area where your friend lives.

According to the invention of claim 5, the weather information provider can obtain privilege points according to the number of times of providing information, and receive information distribution from the information processing center free of charge according to the privilege points. The benefits of this system are that the number of participants in this system will increase, and the information processing center will also be able to obtain a number of more detailed information as a result. It is a system that has an advantage for Claim 6
According to the invention, since the information processing center periodically or freely accesses the portable terminal for a monitor contractor who has a monitor contract in advance, more systematic information can be collected.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a portable terminal with a weather sensor used in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a processing flowchart in the weather information service center of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a system schematic diagram according to the embodiment;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 mobile phone with weather sensor, 3 base stations, 5 network, 6 weather information service center, 7 weather information collection /
Distribution server, 8 weather information DB, 9 customer DB, 11
CPU, 12 ROM, 13 RAM, 14 operation input unit, 15 GPS, 16 weather sensor, 17 I / F,
18 LCD, 19 communication unit, 20 audio processing unit, 21
Music playback unit, 22 bus lines.

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An information system comprising: a plurality of mobile terminals; an information processing center that collects, processes, and distributes information from the mobile terminals; and a communication network that performs communication between the mobile terminals and the information processing center. In the collection / distribution system, the portable terminal includes: a position specifying unit that specifies its own location; an information collecting unit that collects information; and an output of the position specifying unit and an output of the information collecting unit to the information processing center. A transmitting unit that transmits information; and a display unit that displays information from the information processing center. The information processing center includes: a server that manages input / output information; and an information database that stores and manages information from the mobile terminal. A transmission unit for transmitting information in the information database to the portable terminal; and an information collection / distribution system. 2. The information collection / distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the position specifying unit measures a current location of the portable terminal as longitude data and latitude data. 3. The information collecting means according to claim 1, wherein the information collecting means is weather information measuring means for measuring weather information such as temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, ultraviolet intensity, pollen concentration and the like. Information collection and distribution system. 4. The portable terminal displays the weather information obtained by the weather information measuring means on a display of its own terminal, and transmits / receives the weather information to / from another portable terminal. An information collection and distribution system according to any one of claims 1 to 3. 5. The information processing center includes a customer information database that stores and manages customer data that provides the information, and provides information of the information providers registered in the customer information database. The number of times is defined as a privilege point, and this point is used as an evaluation point when distributing weather data to the information provider in response to a request from the information provider. Information collection and distribution system described in section. 6. A monitor contract is made in advance, and with respect to the monitor contractor registered in the customer information database, the information processing center periodically accesses the monitor contractor's portable terminal to collect the information. The information collection / distribution system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising: