JP2004295406A - Property management system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a property management system that enables an efficient and easy check of the installation status of a property, and a property management method that enables an efficient and easy check of the installation status of a property. <P>SOLUTION: With correspondences between properties and radio tags registered in advance in a management server 12 on the Web 11, when a certain property is, for example, moved from an original installation position and the radio tag attached to the property is passed near a transmitter/receiver, the transmitter/receiver reads in tag information, and a property manager terminal 15 transfers it and also passage position/date-time information from the transmitter/receiver to the server 12. The server 12 can compare initial installation position/date-time information and the passage position/date-time information as using unique tag information as a key to easily and quickly find that the property has been moved from the original installation position and when it has been passed near the transmitter/receiver installation position. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an asset management system that enables efficient and easy confirmation of the installation status of each movable asset including devices to be asset-managed, specifically, various OA devices. And methods.
[0002]
[Prior art]
For example, in general enterprises, various OA equipments are installed and used as assets (movable assets, so-called equipment), and these equipments are used for inventory work every predetermined period. In order to grasp the installation status, the mobile installation status, the presence or absence, and the like, the asset is managed by an asset manager. Specifically, each asset to be managed is provided with a sticker on which a management number or the like is printed, for example. When managing the asset, the management number or the like printed on the sticker is assigned to the asset management staff. The asset management is performed while visually confirming whether or not the asset with the management number or the like exists at the installation location described in the management ledger. By the way, the management ledger is a list of assets, and the asset name and management number, as well as other various information (model name and installation location, installation start date, lease / rental) / Purchase type).
[0003]
At that time, in order to reduce the reading work by visual confirmation of the management number etc., a bar code may be attached to the sticker in addition to the management number etc. It is also known to perform asset management by being read by a device. Similarly, in order to reduce the reading work by visual confirmation, each asset to be managed should be attached with a wireless tag, and the wireless tag can be read by a dedicated reader to perform asset management. Is also known. Incidentally, in the wireless tag, while an external radio wave is being received, its operating power is obtained from the received radio wave, and the tag information can be transmitted to the outside.
[0004]
Incidentally, Patent Document 1 discloses a rewritable digital paper, in which a wireless tag whose internal data can be updated is used as one of the components.
[0005]
[Patent Document 1]
JP, 2002-73138, A
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the case of using a barcode or a wireless tag, even if the management number or the like can be easily read, whether or not the asset with the management number or the like exists at the installation location described on the management ledger is, to the last, Asset management was being performed while being confirmed by management personnel. Therefore, although the management ledger contains the management number and installation location, the asset to be managed does not exist at the installation location described in the management ledger, and may be moved to another location in the same room. In the case where the property is taken out, the property has been temporarily treated as missing at least until the location of the transfer destination is later identified by a management number or the like. As described above, as the number of assets that have been treated as missing has increased in the past, a lot of time was required for the confirmation work, so asset management should be performed efficiently and easily. Had become difficult.
[0007]
An object of the present invention is to provide an asset management system in which the installation status of assets can be checked efficiently and easily.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an asset management method in which the installation status of an asset can be checked efficiently and easily.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The asset management system of the present invention includes a wireless tag, which is attached to each asset on the management consignment side and is pre-stored with unique tag information as tag information, installation start position / date and time, and at various locations including entrances and exits. When the wireless tag attached to the asset is provided and moves along with each of the assets, the tag information is read from the wireless tag and the passing position / date and time information is added to the tag information. A transmission / reception device (antenna or the like) and a management-consignment-side data transmission / reception terminal capable of transferring tag information from each of the transmission / reception devices to a specific transmission destination on the web and displaying an asset management result from the specific transmission destination The tag information provided on the web as the specific transmission destination, and each of the tag information from the management entrusted data transmission / reception terminal is registered in advance using the unique tag information as a key. After comparing and checking the correspondence with the tag information and the history information relating to the passing position / date and time information, the presence / absence of a change in the installation position of each of the assets and the destination installation position are determined as update information, and the update information is determined by the asset. It is configured to include a management server that manages as a management result, and a management consignee-side data transmission / reception terminal capable of displaying an asset management result from the management server.
[0009]
Further, the asset management method of the present invention, the transmitting and receiving devices provided at various points including the entrance, with the movement of each of the assets, when the wireless tag attached to the asset passes nearby, A tag information reading step of reading unique tag information and installation start position / date / time information as tag information from the wireless tag, and adding pass position / date / time information to the tag information; and tag information read in the tag information reading step A tag information transfer step of transferring the data from the management entrusted data transmission / reception terminal to a specific destination on the web; and a tag transferred by the tag information transfer step on the management server provided as the specific destination on the web. Using the unique tag information as a key, each of the information, the correspondence between the pre-registered asset information and the above-mentioned tag information, and the history information on the passage position / date and time An asset management step of obtaining the presence / absence of a change in the installation position of each of the assets and a destination installation position as update information, and managing the update information as an asset management result; and an asset management obtained in the asset management step An asset management result display step of transferring and displaying the result to the management consignment side data transmitting / receiving terminal, and an asset management result displaying step of transferring and displaying the asset management result obtained in the asset management step to the management consignee side data transmitting / receiving terminal. , Is configured.
[0010]
As described above, when each asset passes near the transmitting / receiving device, the tag information is read from the wireless tag attached to the asset, and the pass position / date and time information is added to this. The information is transferred to a management server on the web, and based on this information, the installation position of each asset is managed on the management server so that it can be updated to the actual installation position. In addition, at the time of the inventory work, the tag information collected by the tag reader, the result of the asset presence / absence judgment by the tag reader, and the destination installation position are transferred to the management server as the inventory information, and are added to the asset management result. Because it is reflected, the existence or non-existence of each asset at the time of stocktaking and the actual installation position can be known by both the management consignment side and the management consignee side.
[0011]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.
First, assuming that the management consignee is a leasing company, a system outline on the asset management system of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 shows an example of the system outline. As shown in the figure, a management server 12 is installed on a web (World Wide Web) 11, and an asset management DB (DB: database) 13 and a lease management DB 14 are attached thereto. The management server 12 can be accessed from the asset management terminal (management entrustment (customer) side data transmission / reception terminal) 15 and the leasing person terminal (management entrustee side data transmission / reception terminal) 16 via the web 11 at any time. You.
[0012]
To explain the outline, there are various assets on the management consignment side, and among them, those that are under management are given wireless tags in advance. In the wireless tag, unique tag information as tag information and installation start position / date and time information are stored in advance. The correspondence between the asset and the wireless tag is registered in advance in the asset management DB 13 from the leasing staff terminal 16 via the web 11 and the management server 12, so that the management server 12 stores the tag information from each wireless tag. (Including pass-through position / date and time information) and tag / inventory information (including tag information and the result of asset presence / absence judgment by the tag reader), using the unique tag information as a key, the actual installation position and existence of each asset Can be managed.
[0013]
More specifically, assuming that a certain asset is moved from its original installation location (specified by the installation start position information), the movement is provided at various points including the entrance. It can be detected by any of the transmitting and receiving devices. When the wireless tag attached to the asset passes near the transmitting / receiving device, tag information is read from the wireless tag by the transmitting / receiving device, and is transmitted from the asset management terminal 15 via the web 11 to the management server 12. At this time, the transmitting / receiving device adds passing position / date and time information to the read tag information.
[0014]
Therefore, in the management server 12, by using the unique tag information as a key, the asset is moved from the original installation location by comparing and matching the installation start position / date information with the passing position / date information, and when the transmission / reception device installation location is changed, It is easy and prompt to know whether or not it has passed, and this can be notified to the asset management terminal 14 and the leasing terminal 16 as necessary. Thus, each time the wireless tag passes near the transmitting / receiving device, the passing position / date / time information added from the transmitting / receiving device is registered in the asset management DB 13 as history information associated with the unique tag information. In this case, the movement history of each asset can be easily grasped.
[0015]
Now, the present invention will be specifically described. First, in order to attach a wireless tag to an asset or to pre-register the correspondence between the asset and the wireless tag, asset information (such as an asset type and an asset name, etc.) is obtained from each asset on the management consignment side. ) Need to be collected by an appropriate method, an example of which is shown in FIG. As illustrated, various assets 21 to 25 are installed for each floor. In this example, it is assumed that an asset management identifier (for example, a sticker with a barcode) is attached to each of the assets 21 to 25 in advance. , These barcodes are collected by the dedicated reader 26 as asset information. The asset information collected in this manner is then slot-in transferred from the asset management terminal 15 to the leasing terminal 16 via the web 11. Incidentally, the form of the asset information collected from each of the assets 21 to 25 may be a document or a portable recording medium (such as a floppy disk), and may be transferred to the management consignee in this form.
[0016]
As described above, the asset information is provided to the lease clerk terminal 16 from the management consignment side. In this example, the lease clerk terminal 16 is specifically accommodated and connected to the host data DB 28 of the leasing company. Is installed in the data center 27. The data center 27 also has a lease asset DB 271, a cash purchase asset DB 272, and other asset DB 273. Asset information from the management consignment side is distributed to each of the DBs 271 to 273 in accordance with the asset type. be registered.
[0017]
As shown in FIG. 3, after asset information from the management consignment side is distributed and registered in each of the DBs 271 to 273, a lease manager is assigned to the asset management DB 13 via the management server 12 based on the asset information. The correspondence between the asset and the wireless tag is registered in advance from the terminal 16 (this registration content can be disclosed to the management trust side). By this pre-registration, the unique tag information and the installation start position / date and time information are assigned and set as tag information to each asset, so that each asset can be managed by the unique tag information.
[0018]
On the other hand, the leasing staff terminal 16 issues a wireless tag to be attached to each asset, for example, in the form of a sticker, based on the asset information from the management consignment side. In the wireless tag, tag information having the same content as the tag information at the time of pre-registration in the asset management DB 13 is stored in advance as ROM data. It is affixed while keeping. When the wireless tag is affixed to the asset, the tag information is automatically transmitted to the outside from the wireless tag and wirelessly transmitted to the transmitter / receiver installed nearby. If there is, it is made to pass through the entrance of the room where the asset is to be installed, for example, while being attached to the asset.
[0019]
When passing through the vicinity of the transmitting / receiving device installed at the entrance, the tag information is read from the wireless tag as confirmation information indicating that the wireless tag has been attached, and is read by the transmitting / receiving device. Is transferred to the management server 12 via the web 11. The passing information and the date and time information from the transmitting / receiving device are added to the confirmation information. However, the management server 12 stores the unique tag information included in the confirmation information with the pre-registered asset and the wireless information. When it is confirmed that the asset has been registered as the correspondence with the tag, the status of the management information of the asset is set to the ON state. By being set to the ON state, the asset is placed in the asset management state thereafter. Incidentally, the passage position / date and time information added to the confirmation information is registered together with the asset management DB 13 as history information associated with the unique tag information.
[0020]
The fact that the asset has been placed under asset management can also be notified to the leasing staff at the management subcontractor. The asset management area information and the manager information identified from the unique tag information included in the confirmation information are extracted from the asset management DB 13, and the leasing staff information of the leasing company is extracted from the lease management DB 14, respectively. Based on this information, the leasing officer is notified of this fact, or instead of such notification, new management information (web page, ID, password, etc., corresponding to the management contractor) is newly generated. Alternatively, the management information may be published on the web to the person in charge.
[0021]
As described above, while the assets on the management subcontracting side are in the state of asset management, the installation status of those assets, that is, the movement thereof, can be grasped. As described above, detection can be performed by any of the transmission / reception devices provided at various points including the entrance. When the wireless tag attached to the asset passes near the transmitting / receiving device, tag information is read from the wireless tag by the transmitting / receiving device, and is transmitted from the asset management terminal 15 via the web 11 to the management server 12. At this time, the transmitting / receiving device adds passing position / date and time information to the read tag information.
[0022]
Therefore, the management server 12 compares the installation start position / date / time information (or the immediately preceding history information) with the passing position / date / time information using the unique tag information as a key, and determines whether the asset is the original installation location (or the immediately preceding installation location). ), It is easy and quick to know when it has passed the transmitting / receiving device installation location, and this can be notified to the asset manager terminal 15 and the leasing terminal 16 as necessary. Is done. Thus, each time the wireless tag passes near the transmitting / receiving device, the passing position / date / time information added from the transmitting / receiving device is registered in the asset management DB 13 as history information associated with the unique tag information. In this case, the movement history of each asset can be easily grasped. Incidentally, when an asset is taken out outdoors, an alarm display such as generating an alarm sound after detecting the fact by a transmitting / receiving device installed at the exit may be considered.
[0023]
On the other hand, apart from the above, as shown in Fig. 4, inventory management work is performed once or twice a year on the management outsourcing side, and this work result is automatically reflected in the asset management result. It is possible to make it. In this inventory work, for example, each time tag information is wirelessly read by the tag reader 41 from a wireless tag attached to each asset, it is determined whether the tag information is readable. The result of this determination is obtained as a result of determining whether or not an asset exists. In addition, only the presence / absence determination result is acquired as inventory information, or the presence / absence determination result and position information (inventory location information) set as updatable on the tag reader 41 are acquired as inventory information. . For example, if no asset should be originally installed at the place, but a certain asset is installed, “existence” is obtained as the existence determination result. The tag information is transferred from the asset manager terminal 15 to the management server 12 via the web 11 with the inventory information acquired in this manner. Therefore, the management server 12 reflects the inventory information in the asset management result, so that the presence or absence of each asset after the inventory and the actual installation position can be confirmed on both the management trust side and the management trust destination side. I have. By the way, when reflecting, for example, if no asset should be originally set up at the place, but an asset is set up, the actual position of the asset is changed to the inventory location. What should I do?
[0024]
Incidentally, in the above description, the inventory information is automatically reflected in the asset management result. However, the inventory information may be reflected from the lease clerk terminal 16 in the asset management result. As shown in FIG. 4, for example, when inventory information in which the installation start position is different from the actual installation position is obtained, such inventory information is accompanied by tag information and transferred from the management server 12 to the leasing staff terminal 16. Is done. At this time, if necessary, the management consignment side provides other change information, inconsistency investigation results, and the like to the leasing staff terminal 16, and based on the information, the leasing staff terminal 16 sends the management server 12 The result of asset management in is revised. As a result, the existence of each asset and the actual installation position after the stocktaking can be confirmed by both the management consignment side and the management consignee side.
[0025]
Here, the display screens of the asset manager terminal 15 and the lease manager terminal 16 will be described. The display screen examples for inputting the contract form and contract status of each asset and referring to them at any time are simplified. FIG. 5 shows the state of the display. The contract form here is defined as a distinction between whether the asset is a lease, a rental, or a cash purchase. The serial number is defined as a serial number in a case where the unique tag information, the management number, the serial number, and the contract number are mutually associated. By inputting on this display screen, an asset management contractor / consignment contract can be made by an asset manager or a lease manager.
[0026]
By clicking on the contract number on the display screen, the contract type, the number of properties, the number of properties, the status, and the monthly amount of the asset corresponding to the contract number under asset management are clicked. “Start date”, “end date”, etc. can be referred to at any time. Incidentally, what is displayed as "executing" in the "status" indicates that the contract period is in progress.
[0027]
FIG. 6 shows an example of a display screen that shows the location of the asset in detail in a simplified display state. As shown in FIG. Regarding the asset No. 1, if the installation start position (installation address) indicated by the tag information is “Chuo-ku, Tokyo XXX1-4-1 ○ △ × Building 6F”, the inventory is taken to that location. When it is confirmed that the asset is actually installed, it can be understood that “○” is displayed as the inventory check. Conversely, the property No. For the asset No. 2, if the installation start position (installation address) indicated by the tag information is “Chuo-ku, Tokyo ××× 2-4-1 ○ △ × Building 5F”, inventory When it is confirmed that the asset is not installed, “×” is displayed as a stocktaking check.
[0028]
Although the present invention has been described above, a writable tag may be used as the wireless tag. When a writable device is used, the passage history is written in addition to the original tag information, but the storage capacity on the management server side is reduced accordingly. In addition, although so-called equipment is managed, the application field is not limited to equipment, and its application field is general asset management. In some cases, it can be applied to products such as mass retailers. It is generally assumed that display / storage locations of merchandise frequently change in mass retailers and the like. Therefore, when the present invention is applied, the display / storage locations and quantities are efficient and easy. This leads to better service to customers.
[0029]
Finally, referring to the feasibility of the present invention in a general organization, the present invention can be independently implemented in a general organization such as a large company generally having many offices. However, many organizations already have a lot of lease and rental assets from the same leasing company, and considering the total maintenance service and support system of the leasing company, their Rather than managing assets, it can be said that it is more desirable to have the leasing company manage assets as a management contractor. At this time, it is conceivable that not only lease assets but also rental assets and cash purchase assets, and in some cases, lease products related to other leasing companies may be collectively managed.
[0030]
As described above, the invention made by the present inventor has been specifically described based on the embodiment. However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and can be variously modified without departing from the gist thereof. Needless to say, there is.
[0031]
【The invention's effect】
Provided is an asset management system in which the installation status of an asset can be checked efficiently and easily.
An asset management method is provided in which the installation status of an asset can be efficiently and easily confirmed.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system outline in an example of an asset management system of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a collection method when asset information is collected from each asset on the management consignment side.
FIG. 3 is a diagram for describing advance registration of a correspondence relationship between an asset and a wireless tag to a management server and issuance of a wireless tag to each asset based on asset information from a management consignment side.
FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a method of reflecting an inventory work result on an asset management result.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen for inputting a contract form and a contract status for each asset and referring to them as needed.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen showing details of an installation location of an asset.
[Explanation of symbols]
11: Web (World Wide Web), 12: Management server, 13: Asset management DB, 15: Asset management staff terminal, 16: Lease staff terminal, 41: Tag reader.

Claims (10)

An asset management system in which the installation status of a device to be managed is checked.
A wireless tag attached to each asset on the management consignment side, and pre-stored unique tag information as tag information, installation start position / date and time information,
Provided at key points including entrances and exits, and reads the tag information from the wireless tag when the wireless tag attached to the asset passes nearby, as the asset moves, and passes the tag information. A transmitting / receiving device for adding position / date and time information;
A management-consignment-side data transmitting / receiving terminal that displays tag management results from the specific destination while transferring tag information from each of the transmitting / receiving devices to a specific destination on the web;
Each of the tag information provided as the specific transmission destination on the web and from the management entrusted data transmission / reception terminal is used as a key with the unique tag information as a key, and the correspondence between the pre-registered asset information and the tag information is passed. On the basis of comparison and collation with each piece of history information pertaining to the position / date information, a management server that determines whether or not the installation position of each of the assets has changed and the destination installation position as update information, and manages the update information as an asset management result;
An asset management system including a management-consignee-side data transmission / reception terminal for displaying an asset management result from the management server. In the asset management system according to claim 1,
An asset management system in which the management consignee-side data transmission / reception terminal is a data transmission / reception terminal installed at the leasing company. In the asset management system according to claim 1 or 2,
The above assets are asset management systems that include purchased assets in addition to lease assets and rental assets from leasing companies. In the asset management system according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
For the management server, based on the asset information provided by the management entrustment side, the correspondence is pre-registered from the management entrustee side data transmission / reception terminal, while the wireless tag attached to each of the assets is Issued asset management system. In the asset management system according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
In conjunction with the inventory work, the tag information is read from the wireless tag by a tag reader, and the result of the asset presence / absence determination based on whether or not the tag information was readable is determined as the inventory information. An asset management system in which the inventory data is transferred from the data transmission / reception terminal to the management server as the specific destination, and the inventory information is reflected in an asset management result on the management server based on the tag information. An asset management method in which the installation status of a device to be managed is checked.
When a wireless tag attached to the asset passes nearby due to the movement of each of the assets, a unique tag as tag information is transmitted from the wireless tag by a transmitting / receiving device provided at various points including an entrance. Tag information reading step of reading information, installation start position / date and time information, and adding passing position / date and time information to the tag information;
A tag information transfer step of transferring the tag information read in the tag information read step from the management entrusted data transmission / reception terminal to a specific destination on the web;
In the management server provided as the specific transmission destination on the web, each of the tag information transferred in the tag information transfer step is used as the key of the unique tag information, and Assets that determine the presence / absence of a change in the installation position of each of the above assets and the destination installation position as update information, by comparing and comparing each of the history information relating to the correspondence relationship, the passing position / date and time, and manage the update information as an asset management result. Management steps;
An asset management result display step of transferring and displaying the asset management result obtained in the asset management step to the management entrusted data transmitting / receiving terminal;
An asset management result display step of transferring and displaying the asset management result obtained in the asset management step to a data transmission / reception terminal on the management consignee side. In the asset management method according to claim 6,
An asset management method in which the management consignee-side data transmission / reception terminal is a data transmission / reception terminal installed at the leasing company. In the asset management method according to claim 6 or 7,
The above-mentioned assets are asset management methods that include purchased assets in addition to lease assets and rental assets from leasing companies. In the asset management method according to any one of claims 6 to 8,
In addition to the above steps,
A pre-registration step of pre-registering the correspondence from the management-consignee-side data transmission / reception terminal to the management server based on the asset information provided by the management-consignment side;
A wireless tag issuing step of issuing a wireless tag in which tag information is pre-stored, which is attached to each asset from the management entrustee side data transmission / reception terminal based on the asset information,
Attaching a wireless tag issued in the wireless tag issuing step to each asset. In the asset management method according to any one of claims 6 to 9,
In addition to the above steps,
Along with the inventory work, a tag information reading step of reading tag information from the wireless tag with a tag reader,
An inventory information acquisition step for acquiring at least the asset existence determination result based on whether or not the tag information was readable, as inventory information,
A tag / inventory information transfer step of transferring the tag information and the inventory information from the management entrusted data transmission / reception terminal to the management server as the specific destination;
An inventory information reflecting step of reflecting the inventory information in an asset management result on a management server based on the tag information.

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