JP2004304354A - Reserved operation system of apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reserved operation system enabling reservation of a plurality of apparatuses in accordance with the lifestyle of a plurality of family members. <P>SOLUTION: The system is for making reservation of a hot-water bottle 2, a rice cooker 3 and the like installed in a kitchen and connected to a domestic LAN 1 by radio. Reservation of these apparatuses is performed by using a personal computer 9, portable telephone sets 10 and 11, a PDA 12, and the like. The domestic LAN 1 is connected to a reservation management server 16 via a network 15. When persons in charge are allocated to the respective apparatuses, the registration management server 16 performs the reserved operation of the apparatuses automatically on the basis of a schedule of the person in charge. When no one in charge is allocated to any of the apparatuses, regarding the rising or returning home, the earliest schedule of those of the respective users is given priority, regarding outing or going to bed, the latest schedule of those of the respective users is given priority, and the reserved operation is automatically performed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
[Field of the Invention]
The present invention relates to a system capable of setting reservation operation and performing reservation setting for a plurality of devices connected to a network.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Many household gas appliances and electrical appliances are equipped with a timer function as a standard in recent years. However, since each device has a different user interface, its operability is not uniform. Accordingly, each device may have a convenient function, but there are devices that do not use the timer function much.
[0003]
On the other hand, in Patent Document 1 below, a device having an alarm time setting function, such as an alarm clock, and an electrical device are connected to a network, and the alarm reservation time set in the device having the alarm time setting function is transmitted to another electrical device. A system for selectively transmitting and setting reservations for other electrical devices is disclosed. The system disclosed in Patent Document 1 has an advantage that the reservation time set by one device can be transmitted to another electric device, and thus there is no need to separately adjust the other device.
[0004]
However, if multiple families are living in the home, multiple alarm clocks are required, but only one is connected to the network, so it is necessary to reserve other devices during the wake-up time of a specific family. There are cases where the time is constrained and a reservation setting that does not match the lifestyle of the family is made.
[0005]
[Patent Document 1]
JP2001-356185 (5th page, FIG. 8)
[0006]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The present invention aims to improve a reservation operation system for equipment, and more specifically, to provide a reservation operation system capable of making reservations for a plurality of devices in accordance with lifestyles of a plurality of families in order to eliminate the inconvenience. The purpose is to do.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, a reserved operation system for a device according to the present invention is a system that can set a reserved operation and performs reservation setting for a plurality of devices connected to a network, and schedules a plurality of users. A schedule registration unit that can be registered; and a device reservation unit that reserves the device through the network, wherein the schedule registration unit registers a schedule that includes at least one of waking up, going out, returning home, and going to bed. A schedule table, and a priority determining unit that determines the priority of reservation of each device based on the schedule table, and the priority determining unit includes a schedule of each user for getting up or going home. Priority is given to the earliest schedule, and going out or going to sleep is the latest schedule of each user's schedule. The result is preferentially Yuru, the device reservation unit may make a reservation of the device according to the priority determined by the priority determining means.
[0008]
In the device reservation system according to the present invention, when the user wakes up or returns home, the user starts using the device. Therefore, the earliest schedule is selected so that all users can use it. Conversely, for going out or going to bed, the user ends the use of the device, so the latest schedule is selected. As described above, the device reservation system according to the present invention automatically makes reservations for devices that match the lifestyles of a plurality of users just by inputting the user's schedule, and therefore requires reservation for each device. It is easy to use.
[0009]
In the reservation system of the present invention, the schedule registration unit has a table in which a user in charge of the device is registered, and the priority order determination unit is configured for a device in which the person in charge is registered. It is preferable to prioritize a schedule related to the device of the person in charge. Each device may have a user who mainly uses the device. In such a case, a person in charge is assigned to each device, and the priority setting means prioritizes the schedule of the person in charge to make a reservation setting for the device, thereby further setting a reservation that matches the lifestyle of multiple users. It can be performed.
[0010]
In the device reservation system of the present invention, priority status display means for displaying a schedule whose priority order is determined by the priority order determination means to the user, and priority order displayed by the priority status display means are changed. Preferably, when a priority is changed for a device in which the person in charge is registered, the priority order determination means notifies the person in charge whose priority has been changed. Since the priority order determining means automatically determines the priority order of the device reservation, the reservation may not be suitable for the user. Accordingly, the schedule is disclosed to the user by the priority status display means, and the reservation can be arbitrarily changed by the priority order changing means. Further, by notifying the person in charge that the person in charge has changed the registered device, the reservation is prevented from being changed without the person in charge knowing.
[0011]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Next, an example of an embodiment of a reserved operation system for equipment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an outline of a reservation operation system according to the present embodiment, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a reservation management server, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a schedule table in the database, and FIG. FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a reservation correspondence table in the database, and FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a reserved operation table in the database.
[0012]
As shown in FIG. 1, the system according to the present embodiment is a system that performs reservation setting for a plurality of devices connected wirelessly to the home LAN 1. As the equipment for which the reservation setting is performed, the hot water pot 2 and the rice cooker 3 installed in the kitchen, the air conditioner 4 and the floor heating device 5 installed in the living room, the air conditioner 6 and the floor heating device 7 installed in the children's room, the bathroom And a hot water supply device 8 in which automatic hot water filling or the like is performed.
[0013]
These devices are reserved using a schedule registration means owned by the user. As the schedule registration means, there are a personal computer 9 installed in the living room, and mobile phones 10 and 11 and a PDA 12 owned by the user. The reservation setting and schedule registration means are an alarm clock 13 installed in the main bedroom and an alarm clock 14 installed in the child room.
[0014]
The home LAN 1 is connected to a network 15 such as the Internet or a dedicated line. The network 15 is connected to a reservation management server 16 that performs reservation setting for each device. The reservation management server 16 is connected to a maker server 17 having data of each device via the network 15, and data (communication protocol or communication protocol) for setting a reservation of the device of each maker in the reservation management server 16. Control code etc.) are registered in advance.
[0015]
Next, the functional configuration of the reservation management server 16 will be described with reference to FIG. The reservation management server 16 includes a database 18 in which user schedules and persons in charge of each device are registered, and priority order determination means 19 for determining the priority order of device reservations based on the relationship between the user schedule and the devices. And a reservation change button (priority change means) 20 for changing the priority order, and a controller (device reservation means) 21 for making a reservation of the equipment based on the data registered in the database 18.
[0016]
Next, the configuration of data in the database 18 will be described with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIG. 2, the database 18 includes a schedule table 22 in which a user schedule is registered, a person in charge table 23 in which a person in charge of each device is registered, a user schedule, and a reservation state of each device. A reservation correspondence table 24 for registering the correspondence with each other, a reservation operation table 25 for registering a schedule with a priority order, and a device control table 26 for registering data for reserved operation of each device. Yes.
[0017]
In the schedule table 22, as shown in FIG. 3, the user ID is assigned to each column, and the time is assigned to each row. And each user's schedule is defined by specifying user ID and time. In the present embodiment, four users, father A, mother B, child C, and child D, are registered as users.
[0018]
In this embodiment, a weekday schedule 22a and a holiday schedule 22b can be registered. The specific schedule is as follows. First, according to the weekday schedule 22a, Father A goes to bed at 0 o'clock, wakes up at 7 o'clock, goes out at 8 o'clock, and returns home at 19 o'clock. Mother B gets up at 6 o'clock, goes out at 14 o'clock, returns home at 17 o'clock, goes to bed at 23 o'clock. Child C gets up at 7 o'clock, goes out at 8 o'clock, goes home at 18 o'clock, goes out from 19 o'clock (school), returns home at 21 o'clock, goes to bed at 23 o'clock. Child D gets up at 6 o'clock, goes out at 7 o'clock, returns home at 18 o'clock, goes to bed at 21 o'clock. In the holiday schedule 22b, father A, mother B, child C and child D get up at 8 o'clock and dinner at 18 o'clock. Further, father A goes to bed at 0:00, mother B and child C go to bed at 23:00, and child D goes to bed at 21:00. As the holiday schedule 22b, no other outing schedules are registered.
[0019]
In the person-in-charge table 23, as shown in FIG. 4, the user ID is assigned to each row, and the device in charge of each is registered. Specifically, Father A is in charge of water heater 8, Mother B is in charge of alarm clock 13, hot water pot 2, rice cooker 3, children C and children D together with air conditioner 6 and floor heater 7 in children's room, Also takes charge of the alarm clock 14. On the other hand, since the air conditioner 4 and the floor heating device 5 in the living room are shared by the users, no person in charge is assigned.
[0020]
As shown in FIG. 5, in the reservation correspondence table 24, each device is assigned to each row, and the correspondence between the user's schedule and the reservation state of each device is taken. Specifically, the hot water supply pot 2, the air conditioners 4 and 6, and the floor heating devices 5 and 7 are started to operate on the basis of getting up and returning home, and stopped on the basis of going out and sleeping. The rice cooker 3 starts operation based on the wake-up, and then keeps warm until the power is turned off. The hot water supply device 8 starts operation on the basis of returning home and stops operation on the basis of going to bed.
[0021]
In the reserved operation table 25, as shown in FIG. 6, each device is assigned to each row, and is displayed as an operation start time, an operation stop time, and a bar graph, respectively. Further, as shown in FIG. 6, a reservation change button 20 is displayed below the reserved operation table 25. If the reservation shown in the reserved operation table 25 needs to be changed, the reservation change button 20 is displayed. This is done by selecting.
[0022]
Next, a specific operation of the reservation management server 16 will be described. Father A uses PDA 12, mother B uses personal computer 9, child C and child D use mobile phones 10 and 11 to determine schedules using the schedule function, and register them in schedule table 22 of reservation management server 16 through network 15. To do. The wake-up time is also registered by the alarm clocks 13 and 14. In addition, the person in charge of the device is determined in advance in the person-in-charge table 23.
[0023]
In the reservation management server 16, the priority order determination means 19 determines the priority order for making a reservation for each device based on the data registered in the schedule table 22 and the person-in-charge table 23. Specifically, it is as follows.
[0024]
About the living room air conditioner 4 and the floor heating apparatus 5 to which the person in charge is not assigned, the operation is started on the basis of the user who gets up the earliest. Specifically, since mother B and child D get up at 6 am, it is determined that the air conditioner 4 starts operation at 5:50 and the floor heating device 5 starts operation at 5:30. On the other hand, since all users go out on weekdays, operation is stopped based on the user who is going out the latest. Specifically, since the mother B goes out at 14:00, the air conditioner 4 and the floor heating device 5 are determined to stop at 14:00.
[0025]
In addition, with regard to returning home, the earliest user is used as a standard, so that mother B will return home at 17:00 the earliest, so that air conditioner 4 starts operation at 16:50 and floor heating device 5 starts at 16:30. To do. Then, the bedtime is based on the latest user, and since father A goes to bed at midnight latest, the operation of the air conditioner 4 and the floor heating device 5 is decided to be stopped at 0:00.
[0026]
For devices to which a person in charge is assigned, the priority of reservation is determined as follows. First, since the hot water supply device 8 that Father A is in charge of starts driving on the basis of returning home and stops driving on the basis of going to bed, the driving starts at 19:00, which is the returning time of Father A, and 0 hours which is the sleeping time of Father A. To stop the operation.
[0027]
Next, the alarm clock 13 in charge of the mother B decides that an alarm will sound at 6 o'clock, which is the wake-up time. Further, the hot water supply pot 2 is determined to start operation at 6 o'clock because the wake-up of the mother B is 6 o'clock, and is determined to be stopped at 14:00 because it is 14:00. Further, since the return home is at 17:00, it is determined that the driving is started at 17:00, and since the sleeping is at 23:00, it is determined that the driving is stopped at 23:00. The rice cooker 3 is determined to start operation at 6 o'clock because the mother wakes up at 6 o'clock, and then does not stop operation for heat insulation.
[0028]
Next, the children's room air conditioner 6 in charge of the children C and D starts operation at 5:50 because the child D gets up at 6 o'clock, and stops operation at 8 o'clock because the child C goes out at 8 o'clock. The child C and D decide to resume driving at 17:50 in order to return home at 18:00, and stop driving at 23:00 because child C goes to bed at 23:00. Also, the floor heating device 7 starts operation at 5:30 because child D gets up at 6 o'clock, stops operation at 8 o'clock because child C goes out at 8 o'clock, and children C and D return home at 18 o'clock. Therefore, the driving is resumed at 17:30, and the child C decides to stop driving at 23:00 in order to go to bed at 23:00. The alarm clock 14 assigned to the child D decides that the alarm will sound at 6 o'clock because it is 6 o'clock.
[0029]
As described above, the schedule whose priority is determined by the priority determining means 19 is registered in the reserved operation table 25 of the reservation management server 16. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 6, the operation from the start to the end is displayed as a bar graph. The reserved operation table 25 can be confirmed on a screen (priority status display means) of the personal computer 9, the PDA 12, or the mobile phones 10 and 11.
[0030]
Next, the operation when the user changes the reservation status of each device whose priority order has been determined by the reservation change button 20 will be described. For example, the hot water supply device 8 is in charge of Father A, and starts driving at 19:00 when Father A comes home, but when child D wants to take a bath when he comes home, Change the reservation. First, the child D confirms the reservation operation table 25 on the screen of the mobile phone 11 and selects the reservation change button 20 displayed on the screen. Then, the device displayed on the reserved operation table 25 can be selected. When the child D selects the hot water supply device 8, the operation start time of the hot water supply device 8 can be changed. In this state, the operation start time of the hot water supply device 8 is set to 18:00 of the return time.
[0031]
The reserved operation table 25 changed in this way can be confirmed on the screen of the personal computer 9 or the like. At this time, it is preferable to display a portion modified like a hatched portion in FIG. 6 different from other schedules so that it can be easily confirmed that the schedule has been changed.
[0032]
When the device reservation time is changed in this way and the person in charge is registered in the changed device, the priority order determination means 19 determines whether the father A who is the person in charge of the changed device To notify. Specifically, an e-mail is transmitted to the PDA 12 owned by the father A, or an alarm of the PDA 12 is directly activated. At the same time, the priority order determination means 19 activates an alarm of the hot water supply device 8. Since the father A is notified from the priority order determination means 19, he can know that a change has occurred in the reserved operation of a predetermined device. The reservation time can be changed. The holiday reservation operation table 25 is registered in the same manner as on weekdays.
[0033]
When the reserved operation table 25 is registered as described above, the controller 21 controls the reserved operation of each device according to the reserved operation table 25. The reserved operation is set according to the reserved operation data of each device registered in the device control table 26 by the controller 21.
[0034]
Next, the operation of the system of this embodiment will be described. First, on weekdays, the controller 21 starts operation of the floor heating device 5 in the living room and the floor heating device 7 in the child room at 5:30. Next, the operation of the air conditioner 4 in the living room and the air conditioner 6 in the child room is started at 5:50. Next, alarms of the alarm clock 13 in the main bedroom and the alarm clock 14 in the child room are activated at 6 o'clock. At the same time, the operation of the hot water supply pot 2 and the rice cooker 3 is also started.
[0035]
In addition, the hot water pot 2, the rice cooker 3, and the hot water supply device 8 can check whether or not the operation preparation is completed before the reservation operation, and only those that have completed the operation preparation are reserved. Do the driving. For example, in the case of the hot water supply pot 2, it is checked whether or not the inside is filled with water, in the case of the rice cooker 3, whether rice is set, whether the hot water supply device 8 is plugged in the bathtub. . When these preparations for operation are not complete, the controller 21 activates an alarm of each device to call attention.
[0036]
Next, the operation of the air conditioner 6 and the floor heating device 7 in the child room is stopped at 8 o'clock. In addition, the operation of the air conditioner 4 and the floor heating device 5 in the living room is stopped at 14:00. Next, the living room floor heating device 5 is operated at 16:30, and the living room air conditioner 4 is operated at 16:50. Then, the hot water supply device 8 is operated at 17:30 so that the automatic hot water filling is completed at 18:00.
[0037]
Next, the operation of the hot water supply pot 2 is stopped at 23:00, and the operation of the air conditioner 6 and the floor heating device 7 in the child room is also stopped. Finally, the operation of the air conditioner 4, the floor heating device 5, and the hot water supply device 8 in the living room is stopped at 0:00. In these devices, when the operation is manually stopped, the operation is not started again even during the operation time in the reserved operation table 25. Also, on holidays, the reserved operation of the device by the controller 21 is performed in the same manner as on weekdays.
[0038]
As described above, according to the device reservation operation system of the present invention, reservation of devices connected to the network 15 can be automatically set based on the schedule of a terminal such as a mobile phone owned by each user. it can. Therefore, it is possible to easily set the reserved operation regardless of whether the user interface for each device is different.
[0039]
In the above embodiment, the schedule of each user is determined by using the schedule function of a terminal such as a mobile phone, but this is a function for transferring a schedule provided in a mobile phone to another terminal. And the case of transferring the schedule from the mobile phone or the like to the reservation management server 16 and the case of accessing the schedule table 22 of the reservation management server 16 directly from the mobile phone or the like via the Internet or the like. In the former case, registration is performed by matching the schedule transferred from the mobile phone or the like in the reservation management server 16 with the format of the schedule table 22. Further, the present invention is not limited to this, and the reservation operation status of each device may be recorded by a data logger or the like and registered in the reservation management server 16 via the network 15 to determine the schedule. In the above embodiment, the reservation operation table 25 is changed by the reservation change button 20. At that time, the reservation operation can be changed only when the approval of another user is obtained. You may do it.
[0040]
In the above embodiment, the reservation management server 16 is connected to the home LAN 1 via the network 15, but the personal computer 9 may have the function of the reservation management server 16. At that time, the data for setting the reservation of each manufacturer's device may be downloaded by connecting to the manufacturer server 17. When the function of the reservation management server 16 is installed in the personal computer 9, the personal computer 9 You may install it at the same time.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an overview of a reserved operation system according to an embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a reservation management server.
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a schedule table in a database.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a person-in-charge table in a database.
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a reservation correspondence table in a database.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a reserved operation table in a database.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Home LAN (network), 2-8 ... Apparatus, 9-14 ... Schedule registration means, 15 ... Network, 18 ... Database, 19 ... Priority determination means, 20 ... Controller (apparatus reservation means), 22 ... Schedule Table, 23 ... responsible table.

Claims (3)

It is a system that can set reservation operation and set reservation of multiple devices connected to the network.
A schedule registration unit capable of registering a schedule of a plurality of users; and a device reservation unit that reserves the device through the network;
The schedule registration means is a schedule table capable of registering a schedule including at least one of waking up, going out, returning home, and sleeping of each user, and a priority order for determining a priority order of reservation of each device based on the schedule table Determining means,
The priority determining means gives priority to the earliest schedule of each user's schedule for getting up or going home, and gives priority to the latest schedule of each user's schedule for going out or going to bed,
The apparatus reservation operation system reserves the apparatus according to the priority order determined by the priority order determination means. The schedule registration means has a responsible table in which a user in charge of the device is registered,
2. The reservation operation system for a device according to claim 1, wherein the priority order determination unit prioritizes a schedule related to the device of the person in charge for the device in which the person in charge is registered. Priority status display means for displaying a schedule whose priority order has been determined by the priority order determination means to the user, and priority order change means capable of changing the priority order displayed by the priority status display means,
3. The device reservation according to claim 2, wherein when the priority order is changed for the device in which the person in charge is registered, the priority order determining means notifies the person in charge whose priority has been changed. Driving system.

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