JP2006131373A - Home automation system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a home automation system for controlling operation of an elevator so as to maintain convenience, by reducing useless operation on the basis of personal authentication operation. <P>SOLUTION: This home automation system has a main entrance device arranged on the outdoor side of a main entrance door and having a personal identification information gathering device for gathering personal information on a resident for identifying the resident of an apartment house, a storage device for prestoring the control content of two kinds of elevators corresponding to two different personal identification information with every resident, a room entering person permitting means for permitting an entrance into a room by unlocking the main entrance door when the personal identification information gathered by the main entrance device coincides with any of the two personal identification information stored in the storage device, and a system management device having a call registration determining means for controlling the elevators on the basis of the control content of the elevators corresponding to the gathered personal identification information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a home automation system that controls an elevator of a shared house that shares a front door.

  When the personal identification device installed at the entrance recognizes the occupant, the elevator control system provided in the condominium that shares the conventional entrance unlocks the entrance door and automatically registers the elevator hall call. Place the elevator car on the entrance floor and wait for the door to open. The elevator control system includes an elevator state determination unit that determines whether or not the elevator is congested, and an elevator state determination unit that automatically registers the hall call after the personal identification device recognizes the occupant. An elevator usage selection device that, when determined to be crowded, allows the resident to select whether or not to use the elevator and to prevent automatic registration of the hall call when the resident does not use the elevator, (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).

JP 2003-012243 A

However, in the conventional elevator control system, if the resident performs a personal authentication operation when the elevator is not crowded, the elevator car is always called to the entrance floor, so even if the resident does not intend to use the elevator There is a problem that the elevator car is called and registered, and unnecessary driving occurs.
Further, when the elevator is congested, there is a problem that it takes time and effort because an operation for selecting whether or not to use the elevator must be performed.
In addition, since the resident of the entrance floor does not need to use the elevator, the elevator car is not called for the personal authentication operation of the resident of the entrance floor. It is possible for people who are not willing to use it to falsely register the residence floor as the entrance floor so that the car will not be dispatched even if personal authentication operation is performed, but it is different from the actual residence floor Since the information is registered in the system, there is a problem that a message that should originally be notified to the resident cannot be notified.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a home automation system that controls the operation of an elevator so that it is based on a personal authentication operation, has less useless operation, and maintains convenience.

  The home automation system according to the present invention controls an apartment house that has a common entrance and is provided with an entrance door provided at the entrance and an elevator that communicates with the other floors from the floor provided with the entrance. In the home automation system, the entrance device provided on the outdoor side of the entrance door and provided with a personal identification information collection device for collecting personal identification information of the resident to identify the resident of the apartment house, and the residence A storage device in which control details of two types of elevators corresponding to two different personal identification information for each person are stored in advance, and the personal identification information collected in the entrance device is stored in the storage device 2 The person-in-person permission means for unlocking the entrance door and permitting entry when it matches one of the two personal identification information and the entrance A system management apparatus having a registration determination means call for controlling said elevator based on the control content of the elevator corresponding to the personal identification information collected by the device, is provided.

  The effect of the home automation system according to the present invention is the necessity of dispatching to the entrance floor of the elevator car by selecting two types of elevator control information registered in advance in the personal information table based on the two personal identification information. Therefore, it is possible to prevent a decrease in operation efficiency due to useless operation of the elevator and to contribute to saving power consumption.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a state of an apartment house equipped with a home automation system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of the home automation system according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of a fingerprint information table stored in the system management apparatus according to the first embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of the personal information table stored in the system management apparatus according to the first embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of a home delivery locker management table stored in the system management apparatus according to the first embodiment. FIG. 6 is a functional block diagram of the system management apparatus according to the first embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 1, the home automation system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention can be applied to an apartment house that shares an entrance 1 and is equipped with an elevator 2. The objects controlled by the home automation system are the entrance door 3 provided in the common entrance 1, the elevator 2 connecting each residence floor, and the home delivery locker 4 attached to the entrance 1.
This entrance door 3 is locked / unlocked by an electric lock (not shown), and a resident can enter while unlocked. The electric lock is locked / unlocked by a signal from the electric lock control panel 5.
In addition, the delivery locker 4 stores delivery items from the outdoor side and picks up delivery items from the indoor side. The home delivery locker 4 is equipped with a plurality of storage boxes 6. Further, the delivery locker 4 is provided with a numeric keypad input device 7 for a delivery agent to input storage information including a delivery destination room number, a storage box number, and storage completion.

As shown in FIG. 1, the home automation system according to the first embodiment manages the entrance device 10 provided on the outdoor side of the entrance 1, the elevator control device 11 that controls the elevator 2, and the entire home automation system. The system management device 12 is configured.
As shown in FIG. 2, the entrance device 10 includes a fingerprint reader 14 as a personal identification information collecting device for inputting biometrics information as personal identification information for identifying whether or not a resident of a condominium, and the identification result And a notification device 15 that notifies the user of the above. In the first embodiment, fingerprint information is used as biometric information. The resident places a finger on the fingerprint reader 14 to read the fingerprint information.
The biometrics information is not limited to fingerprint information, but may be any information provided to individuals such as vein information, palm shape information, iris information, retinal information, ear shape information, etc. These may be combined.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the elevator control device 11 performs arithmetic processing on information input from the system management device 12, the elevator car 17, and the elevator hall button 18 according to a program, and the calculation result is displayed in the elevator car 17, the elevator hall button 18, Information between the central processing unit (CPU) 20 to be sent to the system management device 12, the storage device 21 in which the program for controlling the CPU 20 and the results of the arithmetic processing are stored, the system management device 12, the elevator car 17 and the elevator landing button 18 The interface device (I / F device) 22 is configured to transmit / receive data.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the system management device 12 performs arithmetic processing on information input from the elevator control device 11, the home delivery locker 4, and the entrance device 10 according to a program, and the computation results are processed by the elevator control device 11, the entrance device 10, and the Central processing unit (CPU) 24 to be sent to the lock control panel 5, a program for controlling the CPU 24, fingerprint data information relating to the resident, personal information and calculation results stored therein, entrance device 10, elevator control device 11, an interface device (I / F device) 26 that transmits and receives information to and from the home delivery locker 4 and the electric lock control panel 5.

  Next, the resident's fingerprint information table and personal information table stored in the storage device 25 of the system management device 12 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of the resident fingerprint information table. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the data structure of the resident personal information table. In this example, the number of residents is assumed to be n. Then, when the resident changes due to moving or the like, the information of the person who has disappeared as appropriate is deleted, and the information of the person who has newly become a resident is added.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the fingerprint information table 30 stores a resident number 31 for identifying a resident in three fields and two fingerprint data information 32 and 33 for reference of the resident. ing. Each resident's data is stored in each record. The reference fingerprint data information 32 and 33 is information obtained by digitizing the feature points of the fingerprint information. The reference fingerprint information is collected in advance for collation with the fingerprint information input as personal identification information. Is a numerical value. The two pieces of fingerprint data information 32 and 33 are obtained by quantifying fingerprint information of different fingers of the resident, for example, one with the index finger and the other with the middle finger.

In the personal information table 35, as shown in FIG. 4, a resident number 36 for identifying a resident in each of five fields, a residence floor 37 indicating the floor where the resident resides, and the resident resides. The first elevator control information corresponding to the room number 38 for identifying the room to be operated and the first fingerprint data information 32 of the fingerprint information table 30 (for example, the elevator car is desired to be dispatched to the entrance floor. 39), and second elevator control information corresponding to the second fingerprint data information 33 in the fingerprint information table 30 (for example, dispatching the elevator car to the entrance floor) (Does not register for call to the entrance floor of the elevator car because it does not want.) 40 is stored. Each resident's data is stored in each record.
The first elevator control information 39 and the second elevator control information 40 can be arbitrarily determined by the resident.

Next, the home delivery locker information table stored in the storage device 25 of the system management device 12 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of the home delivery locker information table.
The home delivery locker management table 42 stores a box number 43 that can identify the storage box 6 storing the delivery items in two fields, and a delivery destination room number 44 that is a delivery destination of the delivery items stored in the storage box 6. ing. The delivery locker management table 42 stores the box number 43 and the delivery destination room number 44 when the delivery company stores the delivery in the storage box 6. When the resident picks up the delivery from the storage box 6, The corresponding destination room number is deleted.

Next, functions of the system management apparatus 12 will be described with reference to FIG.
As shown in FIG. 6, the system management device 12 determines whether or not it is a resident based on the fingerprint information input from the entrance device 10. When the system management device 12 determines that it is a resident, the system management device 12 instructs the electric lock control panel 5 to unlock. When it is determined that the resident is resident by the admitted person permitting means 46 or the occupant permitting means 46, the presence / absence of information to be notified to the resident is determined. Call registration determination means for determining whether or not it is necessary to register a call to the entrance floor of the elevator car 17 based on the fingerprint information input from the entrance device 10 when the notification determination means 47 and the occupant permission means 46 determine that the person is a resident. 48. A home delivery locker management means 49 for managing the home delivery locker management table 42 is provided.

  The occupant permission means 46 searches the fingerprint information table 30 based on the fingerprint information input from the entrance apparatus 10 and when there is fingerprint data information with a matching rate that can be determined to be the person, the resident corresponding to the fingerprint data information Determines that an authentication operation has been performed, and issues an unlock command to the electric lock control panel 5.

  The information notification determination unit 47 searches the personal information table based on the resident number of the person who performed the authentication operation requested by the occupant permission unit 46, and obtains the room number corresponding to the resident number. Then, the delivery locker management table 42 is searched based on the room number, and it is determined whether or not the delivery item is stored in the delivery locker 4. When a delivery item is stored in the home delivery locker 4, the box number 43 is obtained, and the fact that there is a delivery item in the storage box 6 of the box number 43 is transmitted to the entrance apparatus 10. Note that the notification device 15 of the entrance device 10 notifies that there is a delivery in the storage box 6 together with the box number 43 based on this information. The resident who has received the notification picks up the delivery from the storage box 6.

  The call registration determination means 48 searches the personal information table 35 with the resident number 31 of the person who has performed the authentication operation requested by the occupant permission means 46, and obtains the residence floor 37 corresponding to the resident number. When the requested residence floor 37 is the entrance floor, call registration to the entrance floor of the elevator car 17 is not performed. In addition, when the obtained residence floor 37 is other than the entrance floor, the fingerprint information input by the authentication operation is the first fingerprint data information 32 stored in the record of the residence number 31 of the fingerprint information table 30 or It is determined whether it is any of the second fingerprint data information 33. Thereafter, the personal information table 35 is searched based on the obtained first fingerprint data information 32 or second fingerprint data information 33 to determine whether the elevator car 17 is called and registered on the entrance floor. When the elevator car 17 is called and registered on the entrance floor, a call registration command is transmitted to the elevator control device 11 so that the elevator car 17 is called and registered on the entrance floor. The elevator control device 11 dispatches the elevator car 17 to the entrance floor based on the call registration command.

  The home delivery locker management means 49 updates the home delivery locker management table 42 based on the storage information and the collection information input from the home delivery locker 4.

  Next, operations of the home automation system when the delivery company stores the delivery in the delivery locker 4 and when the resident picks up the delivery from the delivery locker will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a procedure in which a delivery company stores a delivery in the delivery locker 4 and information is stored in the delivery locker management table 42. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a procedure in which a resident takes over a delivery item and the corresponding information is deleted from the home delivery locker management table 42.

As shown in FIG. 7, in step (hereinafter abbreviated as S) 101, the courier offers an empty storage box (a storage box without a lamp mounted above the door on the outdoor side of the storage box). In the storage box where the lamp is lit, the delivery items are stored and the door on the outdoor side cannot be opened.) The delivery item is put in 6, the door on the outdoor side is closed, and the numeric keypad is entered. When the box number and the room number are input from the device 7 and the storage button is pressed, the door on the outdoor side is locked. Further, storage information including a box number, a room number, and storage completion is transmitted to the system management device 12.
In S102, upon receiving the storage information, the home delivery locker management means 49 of the system management apparatus 12 stores the room number in the box number record of the home delivery locker management table 42.

As shown in FIG. 8, in S201, the resident inputs a personal identification number set for picking up a delivery item from the storage box 6, and presses the take-up button provided above the door on the indoor side. Can open and pick up delivery. Then, collection information including the completion of collection and the box number is transmitted to the system management apparatus 12.
In S202, when the delivery locker management means 49 of the system management apparatus 12 receives the collection information, it deletes the field information related to the corresponding box number.
In this way, the data in the home delivery locker management table 42 is updated.

Next, the operation of the home automation system when entering the apartment house from the common entrance will be described with reference to FIG.
As shown in FIG. 9, in S301, the occupant permission means 46 of the system management device 12 determines whether or not the entrance device 10 has been subjected to an authentication operation and fingerprint information has been input. When the fingerprint information is not input, S301 is repeated. On the other hand, when fingerprint information is input, the process proceeds to S302.
In S302, the room occupant permission means 46 extracts feature points from the inputted fingerprint information to create fingerprint data information of the fingerprint information, and the fingerprint data information that matches the fingerprint data information is registered in the fingerprint information table 30. It is judged whether it is done. When fingerprint data information is not registered, the process proceeds to S303, and when fingerprint data information is registered, the process proceeds to S304.
In S303, the room permitting means 46 determines that the person who performed the authentication operation is not a resident, or that the fingerprint information has been entered incorrectly, and transmits an error message or a message for the visitor to the entrance apparatus 10 to enter the entrance. The message is notified from the device 10 to the person who performed the authentication operation, and the operation corresponding to the authentication operation is terminated.
In S304, the room entry permission means 46 searches the personal information table 35 from the resident number 31 corresponding to the matched fingerprint data information 32, 33, and obtains the room number 38 corresponding to the resident number 36.
In S305, the information notification determination unit 47 searches the home delivery locker management table 42 using the obtained room number 38 and determines whether there is a delivery addressed to the room number. When there is a delivery, the process proceeds to S306, and when there is no delivery, the process proceeds to S307.
In S306, the information notification determination unit 47 transmits to the entrance apparatus 10 that there is a delivery item together with the box number 43, and proceeds to S307. At this time, the front door apparatus 10 notifies the person who has performed the authentication operation that there is a delivery in the storage box 6 with the box number 43.
In S <b> 307, the occupant permission means 46 transmits an unlock command to the electric lock control panel 5 so as to unlock the electric lock of the common entrance door 3. At this time, the electric lock control panel 5 unlocks the electric lock of the entrance door 3.
In S308, the call registration determination unit 48 obtains the residence floor 37 from the personal information table 35 based on the obtained resident number 36. And it is judged whether the calculated | required residence floor 37 is an entrance floor. If it is the entrance floor, the operation corresponding to the authentication operation is terminated. On the other hand, if it is not the entrance floor, the process proceeds to S309.
In S309, the call registration determination unit 48 matches the fingerprint information input with the authentication operation with either the first fingerprint data information 32 or the second fingerprint data information 33 registered in the fingerprint information table 30. Judge. When it matches the first fingerprint data information 32, the process proceeds to S310, and when it matches the second fingerprint data information 33, the process proceeds to S311.
In S310, the call registration determination unit 48 reads information registered as the first elevator control information 39 in the personal information table 35, and proceeds to S312.
In S311, the call registration determination means 48 reads information registered as the second elevator control information 40 in the personal information table 35, and proceeds to S312.
In S312, the call registration determination unit 48 determines whether or not to call and register the elevator car 17 on the entrance floor based on the read information. If call registration is not required, the operation corresponding to the authentication operation is terminated. If call registration is required, the process proceeds to S313.
In S313, the call registration determination unit 48 transmits a call registration command to the elevator controller 11 so that the elevator car 17 is dispatched to the entrance floor, and ends the operation corresponding to the authentication operation. In addition, the elevator control apparatus 11 will dispatch the elevator car 17 to an entrance floor, if a call registration command is received.

Next, call registration to the entrance floor of the elevator car will be described more specifically.
For example, in the case of a resident with a resident number of 1, a dispatch is registered as the first elevator control information 39 corresponding to the first fingerprint data information 32 to the entrance floor. Further, no dispatch is registered as the second elevator control information 40 corresponding to the second fingerprint data information 33. And if this resident usually tries to use the stairs without using the elevator, this resident usually performs the authentication operation using the second fingerprint information, so the dispatch to the entrance floor of the elevator car 17 Is not done. However, when the resident wants to use the elevator, such as when he / she has heavy luggage, the resident performs the authentication operation using the second fingerprint information, so the elevator car 17 is dispatched to the entrance floor. The If the authentication operation is performed using the fingerprint information of different fingers in this way, it is possible to select the vehicle allocation to the entrance floor of the elevator car 17.

  In addition, as shown also in FIG. 4, you may always select a dispatch, without necessarily selecting the call registration to the entrance floor of the elevator car 17. FIG. Conversely, there may always be no dispatch.

As described above, two types of elevator control information 39 and 40 are registered in the personal information table 35 in advance, and by selecting these two types of elevator control information 39 and 40 based on the two personal identification information, the elevator car Since it is possible to select whether or not to dispatch to the 17th entrance floor, it is possible to prevent a decrease in operation efficiency due to useless driving of the elevator 2 and to contribute to saving power consumption.
Also, since two biometrics information of the same type provided for individuals is used for efficient operation of the elevator 2, if the home automation system is equipped with a biometrics information acquisition device in advance, the biometrics information It is possible to configure the system by increasing one by one.
Further, since it is sufficient to perform one authentication operation, it is not necessary to increase the number of operations.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
FIG. 10 is a configuration diagram of a home automation system according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.
The home automation system according to the second embodiment is different from the home automation system according to the first embodiment in the entrance device 10b, and the other parts are the same. .
The entrance device 10b according to the second embodiment is different from the entrance device 10 of the first embodiment in that the number of personal identification information collection devices is one and two.
The call registration of the elevator car 17 is selected depending on whether the personal identification information is input from either the collator A51a or the collator B51b as two personal identification information collection devices.
For example, when personal identification information is input from the collator A51a, the call registration determination means 48 reads the first elevator control information 39 from the personal information table 35, and when the same personal identification information is input from the collator B51b. The call registration determination unit 48 reads the second elevator control information 40 from the personal information table 35, and determines whether or not the call registration of the elevator car 17 is necessary based on the read information.

  In such a home automation system, two collators 51a and 51b are prepared, and by selecting one of them, call registration of the elevator car 17 can be selected, so only one piece of personal identification information is required and it is simple. .

It is a figure which shows the mode of the apartment house equipped with the home automation system concerning Embodiment 1 of this invention. 1 is a configuration diagram of a home automation system according to Embodiment 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of a fingerprint information table stored in a system management apparatus according to Embodiment 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of a personal information table stored in the system management apparatus according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of a home delivery locker management table stored in a system management apparatus according to Embodiment 1. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a system management apparatus according to Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure in which a delivery company stores a delivery in a delivery locker, and information is stored in a delivery locker information table. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure in which a resident takes delivery and a corresponding information is deleted from a delivery locker information table. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of a home automation system when entering a common house from a common entrance. It is a block diagram of the home automation system concerning Embodiment 2 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

  1 entrance, 2 elevator, 3 entrance door, 4 home delivery locker, 5 electric lock control panel, 6 storage box, 7 numeric keypad input device, 10, 10b entrance device, 11 elevator control device, 12 system management device, 14 fingerprint reader, 15 Notification device, 17 Elevator car, 18 Elevator landing button, 20, 24 Central processing unit (CPU), 21, 25 Storage device, 22, 26 Interface device (I / F device), 30 Fingerprint information table, 31, 36 Residential Person number, 32, 33 Fingerprint data information, 35 Personal information table, 37 Residence floor, 38 Room number, 39, 40 Elevator control information, 42 Delivery locker management table, 43 Box number, 44 Destination room number, 46 Entering room permission means 47 Information notification judging means, 48 Judging means, 49 delivery locker management unit, 51a, 51b collator.

Claims (4)

In the home automation system that controls the apartment house where the entrance is shared and the entrance door provided at the entrance and the elevator that connects to the other floors from the floor where the entrance is provided,
An entrance device provided on the outdoor side of the entrance door and provided with a personal identification information collecting device for collecting personal identification information of the resident in order to identify a resident of the apartment house;
A storage device in which the control contents of two types of elevators corresponding to the two different personal identification information for each resident are stored in advance, and the personal identification information collected by the entrance device is stored in the storage device. Based on the control contents of the elevator corresponding to the personal identification information collected by the entrance device and the entrance identification device that unlocks the entrance door and permits entry when it matches one of the two personal identification information. A system management device having call registration determination means for controlling the elevator;
A home automation system characterized by that. In the home automation system that controls the apartment house where the entrance is shared and the entrance door provided in the entrance and the elevator that connects the floor from the floor where the entrance is provided to each floor,
A front door device provided on the outdoor side of the front door and provided with two personal identification information collection devices for collecting personal identification information of the resident in order to identify a resident of the apartment house;
A storage device in which the control contents of two types of elevators respectively corresponding to the two personal identification information collection devices that collect the personal identification information for each resident are stored in advance, and the personal identification collected by the entrance device Elevator control corresponding to the person identification information collecting device that unlocks the entrance door and permits entry when the information matches the stored personal identification information and collects the personal identification information A system management device having call registration determination means for controlling the elevator based on the contents;
A home automation system characterized by that.   The personal identification information is fingerprint information, vein information, palm shape information, iris information, retinal information, ear shape information, or biometrics information that combines these information. Home automation system to be described.   The home automation system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the control contents of the two types of elevators are necessity of call registration to the entrance floor of the elevator car.

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