JP2010064883A - Use condition monitoring system for elevator in apartment house - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a use condition monitoring system for an elevator, capable of accurately and easily acquiring the movement of a resident of an apartment house (a monitored person) and capable of surely notifying that information to other resident (parent). <P>SOLUTION: Discriminating information about the monitored person is stored in a portable terminal 1 being carried by the monitored person, and an information reading device 2 for reading the discriminating information from the portable terminal 1 when the monitored person brings the portable terminal 1 into a cage is provided in the cage. A monitoring device 4 monitors the elevator use condition of the monitored person based on the discriminating information about the monitored person, which is read from the portable terminal 1 by the information reading device 2, and the elevator control information, and transmits a predetermined monitoring information to a residence terminal 5 provided in the home residence of the monitored person. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator usage status monitoring system that monitors the usage status of an elevator by a resident of an apartment house and notifies monitoring information.

  In an apartment house such as a condominium, an elevator is often installed as a means of moving residents between the floor where the common entrance hall is located and the dwelling floor. For such elevators installed in apartment buildings, various additional technologies have been studied from the viewpoint of ensuring security and improving convenience. For example, operation control is performed in conjunction with an auto-lock entrance management system. Various ideas unique to elevators in housing complexes have been tried.

By the way, as one of the items that are particularly strongly desired for residents of apartment houses, it is possible to grasp trends such as returning home and going out of housemates who need protection in an emergency, such as children and elderly people. There is a desire to make it. In order to meet such a demand, for example, in Patent Document 1, a camera is installed in a common entrance hall of an apartment house or an elevator car, and a face image captured by this camera is registered in advance in a resident database. If the face image of a specific resident (such as a child) matches the face image, information about the entrance / exit time, elevator departure time, getting-off floor, etc., as well as the cellular phone of the guardian For example, a technique has been proposed in which e-mail notification is given as return information or outing information.
JP 2006-107187 A

  However, since the technique described in Patent Document 1 determines whether or not a specific resident is a person by comparing a face image captured by a camera with a face image registered in advance in a resident database, the system is large. As a result, there is a problem that the cost is increased, and it is difficult to introduce in reality. In addition, depending on the orientation of the face image captured by the camera, it may be difficult to appropriately perform collation with the database, and there has been a problem that sufficient reliability cannot always be obtained.

  The present invention was devised in view of the conventional situation as described above, and monitors the use status of an elevator by a resident of an apartment house (for example, a resident such as a child or an elderly person). To provide an elevator usage monitoring system that can accurately and easily grasp the trends of the passengers and reliably inform other residents (for example, children and elderly parents) It is aimed.

  The elevator usage status monitoring system according to the present invention stores identification information of a resident of an apartment house, and is installed in a portable terminal carried by the resident and an elevator car in the apartment house. A wireless communication is performed with the portable terminal brought into the car to read the resident's identification information and output the read identification information, and according to the elevator hall call and car call The elevator control device that controls the raising / lowering operation of the car and outputs control information indicating the contents of the control, the resident identification information output from the information reading device, and the control information output from the elevator control device Based on this, monitoring devices that monitor the use of elevators by residents and send monitoring information, and monitoring devices installed in each dwelling unit It receives monitoring information sent from and a dwelling terminal for notifying the monitoring information.

  According to the elevator usage status monitoring system of the present invention, the elevator usage status by the resident of the apartment is accurately monitored with a simple configuration, and the information is notified to the other residents of each dwelling unit. For example, if the identification information such as children and the elderly is stored in the portable terminal as the resident of the monitoring target, the trend of the monitoring target person returning home or going out to other residents such as parents Can be surely informed.

  Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

[First Embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing a schematic configuration of an elevator usage monitoring system according to a first embodiment of the present invention. The elevator usage status monitoring system of the present embodiment is a resident (hereinafter referred to as a monitoring target person) who wants to monitor trends such as going home or going out, such as a child or an elderly person, in an apartment house such as an apartment. ) Registered in advance for each dwelling unit, monitoring the situation where these monitored people are using the elevators of the apartment, and inform the other residents who will be guardians of the monitored people This system is configured to include the mobile terminal 1, the information reading device 2, the elevator control device 3, the monitoring device 4, and the dwelling unit terminal 5.

  The mobile terminal 1 is a communication device including an internal memory that stores identification information of a monitoring target person, and is carried by the monitoring target person when going out. The information reading device 2 is a communication device installed in an elevator car in an apartment house, performs wireless communication at a short distance with the mobile terminal 1, and is stored in the internal memory of the mobile terminal 1. The identification information of the monitored person is read and output to the monitoring device 4.

  Here, in this embodiment, the wireless communicable range between the portable terminal 1 and the information reading device 2 is substantially the same as the space in the car cage, and the person to be monitored carries the portable terminal 1. The identification information is read from the portable terminal 1 by the information reading device 2 by getting into the car. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the information reading device 2 repeatedly transmits a request signal at a predetermined cycle to a communicable range S that is a range substantially equivalent to the space in the car C. When the monitoring target person carries the mobile terminal 1 and enters the car C, the mobile terminal 1 receives the request signal from the information reading device 2 when the mobile terminal 1 enters the communicable range S. Thus, the identification information of the monitoring subject stored in the internal memory is transmitted as needed in response to the request signal. The information reading device 2 receives the identification information from the portable terminal 1 and outputs the received identification information to the monitoring device 4 as needed. Therefore, in this embodiment, when the person to be monitored gets into the elevator car C, the information reading device 2 starts reading the identification information from the portable terminal 1 and outputs it to the monitoring device 4, and the person to be monitored is monitored. While the car is in the car C, the reading and outputting of the identification information is continued in a predetermined cycle, and when the monitoring subject gets off the car C, the reading and outputting of the identification information is completed. . FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the relationship between the space in the car C and the communicable range S when the elevator hoistway is looked down in the vertical direction.

  The elevator control device 3 controls the raising / lowering operation of the car according to the hall call or car call of the elevator. In particular, the elevator control device 3 has a function of outputting control information indicating the contents of control to the monitoring device 4, and for example, a floor designated as a destination by a floor call or a car call with a landing call. And information on the car position when the car is moved up and down by registering these hall calls and car calls are output to the monitoring device 4 as needed.

  The monitoring device 4 monitors the elevator usage status of the monitoring target person based on the identification information of the monitoring target person output from the information reading device 2 and the control information output from the elevator control device 3, and details will be described later. Such predetermined monitoring information is generated and transmitted to the dwelling unit terminal 5. Moreover, the dwelling unit terminal 5 is installed in each dwelling unit of an apartment house, receives the monitoring information transmitted from the monitoring apparatus 4, and notifies the said monitoring information to the resident of a dwelling unit by an audio | voice, a display, etc., for example. . The dwelling unit terminal 5 may be installed in each dwelling unit as a dedicated terminal of this system, or realized as a function of an existing device generally provided in each dwelling unit such as an interphone master unit. You may make it do.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration inside the monitoring device 4 in the elevator usage status monitoring system of the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 3, the monitoring device 4 is registered with a monitoring information generation unit 41 that monitors the elevator usage status of the monitoring target person and generates predetermined monitoring information when the internal configuration is functionally grasped. The management database 42 storing the identification information of all monitoring subjects and the identification information of the dwelling unit terminals 5 installed in the dwelling units that are the homes of the respective monitoring subjects, and the information reading device 2 The identification information is collated with the management database 42, the transmission destination determination unit 43 that determines the dwelling unit terminal 5 that is the transmission destination of the monitoring information generated by the monitoring information generation unit 41, and the monitoring generated by the monitoring information generation unit 41 And a monitoring information transmission unit 44 that transmits information to the dwelling unit terminal 5 determined as a transmission destination by the transmission destination determination unit 43.

  Identification information from the information reading device 2 and control information from the elevator control device 3 are input to the monitoring information generation unit 41. The monitoring information generation unit 41 monitors the elevator usage status of the monitoring target person based on the identification information and the control information, and generates predetermined monitoring information. Specifically, the monitoring information generation unit 41 determines that the monitoring target person identified by the identification information has entered the elevator car by starting output of the identification information from the information reading device 2. Further, based on the information on the car position output as control information from the elevator control device 3 at that time, the floor on which the monitoring target person gets in the car is determined. And the monitoring information generation part 41 produces | generates the information on the floor in which the monitoring subject got into the elevator car and boarded as monitoring information.

  Moreover, the monitoring information generation part 41 determines with the monitoring subject identified by the said identification information getting out of the elevator car, when the output of the identification information from the information reader 2 stops. At that time, based on the information on the car position output as control information from the elevator control device 3, the floor on which the person to be monitored got out of the car is determined. And the monitoring information production | generation part 41 produces | generates the information of the monitoring subject person getting out of the elevator car, and the floor which got down as monitoring information.

  Furthermore, after the monitoring information generation unit 41 determines that the person to be monitored has entered the elevator car, the car call is not made even after a predetermined time (for example, about 30 seconds) has elapsed, that is, the elevator control device If the information registered in the car call is not output as control information from 3, there is a possibility that some emergency has occurred, for example, the person to be monitored has fallen in the car. Emergency warning information that suggests the possibility of occurrence is generated as monitoring information. In addition, the monitoring information generation unit 41 is registered as control information from the elevator control device 3 after the elevator car has landed on the floor where the car call is registered according to the car call of the person being monitored. Even when the information indicating that the car has landed on the destination floor has been output and the monitoring subject does not determine that the car has got out of the elevator car after a predetermined time (for example, about 30 seconds). Similarly, since there is a possibility that some emergency has occurred, emergency warning information indicating the possibility of occurrence of an emergency is generated as monitoring information.

  The monitoring information generated by the monitoring information generation unit 41 as described above is output to the monitoring information transmission unit 44 as needed.

  The identification information of the monitoring target person read from the portable terminal 1 by the information reading device 2 is also input to the transmission destination determination unit 43. When the identification information from the information reading device 2 is input, the transmission determining unit 43 refers to the information stored in the management database 42 and corresponds to the dwelling unit terminal 5 corresponding to the input identification information, that is, the identification The dwelling unit terminal 5 installed in the home dwelling unit of the monitoring subject identified by the information is specified, and this dwelling unit terminal 5 is determined as the transmission destination of the monitoring information.

  The monitoring information transmission unit 44 is connected to the dwelling unit terminals 5 installed in each dwelling unit of the apartment house by a communication line, and has a function of selectively transmitting information to each dwelling unit terminal 5 and generates monitoring information. The monitoring information generated by the unit 41 is transmitted to the dwelling unit terminal 5 determined as the information transmission destination by the transmission destination determination unit 43. Thereby, the various monitoring information mentioned above for the monitoring subject using the elevator is transmitted to the dwelling unit terminal 5 installed in the home dwelling unit of the monitoring target.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an outline of processing executed by the monitoring device 4 in the elevator usage status monitoring system of the present embodiment.

  First, in step S1, the monitoring device 4 determines whether or not the person to be monitored has entered the elevator car depending on whether or not the output of the identification information from the information reading device 2 has been started. If it is determined that the person to be monitored has entered the car, the floor on which the person to be monitored has entered the car is identified based on the control information from the elevator controller 3, and in step S2, the person to be monitored is Information about getting in the car and information on the floor on which the car was boarded are transmitted to the dwelling unit terminal 5 installed in the dwelling unit of the person to be monitored. As a result, information that the monitored person has entered the car and the information on the floor on which the monitored person has entered the other resident (monitored person's To guardians).

  Next, in step S <b> 3, the monitoring device 4 determines whether or not the car call registration has been made in accordance with the car call of the person to be monitored who has entered the car based on the control information from the elevator control device 3. Then, when it is determined that the person to be monitored has entered the car and a predetermined time has elapsed without car call registration (when YES is determined in step S4), in step S5, an emergency has occurred. Emergency warning information indicating the possibility is transmitted to the dwelling unit terminal 5 installed in the home dwelling unit of the monitoring target person. Thereby, the emergency warning information is notified from the dwelling unit terminal 5 installed in the dwelling unit of the monitoring target person to the other dwellers such as the guardian of the monitoring target by voice or display.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that the car call registration has been made, the monitoring device 4 has arrived at the destination floor where the car call registration has been made based on the control information from the elevator control device 3 in step S6. It is determined whether or not. Then, if it is determined that the car has arrived at the destination floor registered for the car call, next, in step S7, the monitoring target person determines whether the elevator is in accordance with whether or not the output of the identification information from the information reading device 2 is interrupted. Determine if you got off the car. Then, after determining that the car has arrived at the destination floor, if a predetermined time has passed without being determined that the person to be monitored has got off the car (if determined YES in step S8), in step S9 Then, emergency warning information suggesting the possibility of occurrence of an emergency situation is transmitted to the dwelling unit terminal 5 installed in the monitoring target person's home dwelling unit. Thereby, the emergency warning information is notified from the dwelling unit terminal 5 installed in the dwelling unit of the monitoring target person to the other dwellers such as the guardian of the monitoring target by voice or display.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that the person to be monitored has exited from the car, the monitoring device 4 identifies the floor on which the person to be monitored has exited from the car based on the control information from the elevator control device 3, and the step In S <b> 10, information that the monitoring target person has got out of the car and information on the floor that has been lowered are transmitted to the dwelling unit terminal 5 installed in the monitoring target person's home dwelling unit. As a result, the information about the person to be monitored getting off the car and the information on the floor on which the person has been monitored is notified from the dwelling unit terminal 5 to other residents such as the guardian of the person to be monitored by voice or display. .

  As described above in detail with specific examples, according to the elevator usage monitoring system of the present embodiment, when the monitoring target person gets into the elevator car, the monitoring target person enters the elevator car. The information about the boarding and the floor on which it was boarded was notified from the dwelling unit installed in the monitored person's home, and when the monitoring person got out of the elevator car, the monitoring person got out of the car Information on the floor and the floor that got off is reported from the dwelling unit installed in the monitored person's home dwelling unit, so that the monitoring person's return home or going out, other trends such as the guardian of the monitoring person Can be surely informed.

  In addition, according to the elevator usage status monitoring system of the present embodiment, the car call registration is not performed even though the person to be monitored enters the car, or the car arrives at the destination floor. If the monitoring target person does not get out of the car, emergency warning information indicating the possibility of an emergency situation is reported from the dwelling unit installed in the monitoring target person's home unit. It is possible to inform other residents such as the guardian of the person to be monitored that there is a possibility that an emergency such as a car has fallen in the car, and prompt action can be promoted.

  In addition, according to the elevator usage status monitoring system of the present embodiment, the car of the monitoring subject is used by using a simple method of reading the identification information stored in the portable terminal 1 carried by the monitoring subject with the information reading device 2. Because it is determined whether to get on and off the vehicle, for example, compared with the case of adopting a method of capturing and analyzing the image of the monitoring target with a camera, the monitoring target does not make the system large. The usage status of the elevator can be appropriately monitored, and the introduction cost of the system can be greatly reduced.

[Second Embodiment]
Next, a second embodiment of an elevator usage monitoring system to which the present invention is applied will be described. The elevator usage status monitoring system of the present embodiment is configured such that a non-contact IC card is held as a portable terminal 1 carried by a person to be monitored, and a non-contact IC card is held as an information reading device 2 installed in a car. An example in which a card reader that reads identification information from an IC card is used, and when a person to be monitored gets in or out of the car, the non-contact IC card is held over the card reader to read the identification information. It is.

  FIG. 5 is a system configuration diagram showing a schematic configuration of the elevator usage status monitoring system of the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 5, the elevator usage status monitoring system according to the present embodiment has a configuration in which a human body detection device 6 and a guidance output device 7 are added to the configuration described in the first embodiment. Hereinafter, the description similar to that of the first embodiment will be omitted, and the description will focus on the characteristic features of the present embodiment.

  The human body detection device 6 detects a human body in the car. For example, a load sensor that detects a load on the car can be used. In the present embodiment, when the human body detection device 6 detects that the human body in the car has increased and when it has been detected that the human body in the car has decreased, the detection signal to that effect is monitored. It is input to the device 4. Any type of detection means may be used as the human body detection device 6 as long as it can detect the increase or decrease of the human body in the car. For example, by detecting infrared radiation from the human body. An infrared sensor (human sensor) for detecting a human body can also be effectively used as the human body detection device 6.

  The guidance output device 7 is installed in the car, and outputs guidance that prompts the user to hold the portable terminal (non-contact IC card) 1 over the information reading / reading device (card reader) 2 in conjunction with the door opening / closing operation of the car. To do. In the elevator usage status monitoring system of the present embodiment, a non-contact IC card is used as the mobile terminal 1 and a card reader is used as the information reading device 2, so that the monitoring target person who carries the mobile terminal 1 just enters the car. The identification information is not read, and the person to be monitored needs to hold the portable terminal (non-contact IC card) 1 over the information reading device (card reader) 2. Therefore, in the elevator usage status monitoring system of the present embodiment, when the guidance output device 7 is installed in the car and the car door of the car opens and closes, the guidance output device 7 reads, for example, “When getting on and off. Hold the IC card over the reader to output a guidance such as a voice message, so that the person to be monitored can reliably hold the portable terminal (contactless IC card) 1 over the information reader (card reader) 2. I try to do it. The determination of the opening / closing operation of the car door of the car may be performed, for example, by inputting a signal instructing opening / closing of the car door from the elevator control device 3, or the opening / closing operation of the car door may be mechanically performed. You may make it determine by detecting to.

  In the elevator usage status monitoring system of this embodiment, the monitoring device 4 has the same internal configuration as that of the first embodiment described above, and the predetermined monitoring described in the first embodiment according to the flowchart shown in FIG. The process which transmits information to the dwelling unit terminal 5 is performed. However, a method different from that of the first embodiment is used to determine whether the person to be monitored gets on and off the car.

  That is, in the elevator usage status monitoring system according to the present embodiment, the portable terminal (non-contact IC card) 1 is connected to the information reading device (card reader) when the person to be monitored gets into the elevator car and gets off the car. 2) Since it is assumed that the identification information is read over 2), the timing at which the identification information is output from the information reading device (card reader) 2 to the monitoring device 4 is determined by the person to be monitored. It is when you get into the car or when you get off the car. Here, whether the person to be monitored has entered or exited the car can be determined by the increase or decrease of the human body in the car detected by the human body detection device 6. Therefore, the monitoring device 4 detects the person to be monitored when the identification information is output from the information reading device (card reader) 2 after the human body detecting device 6 detects that the number of human bodies in the car has increased. If the human body detection device 6 detects that the human body in the car has decreased after the identification information is output from the information reading device (card reader) 2, the person to be monitored is It is judged that it got off from.

  Then, as described in the first embodiment, when the monitoring device 4 determines that the monitoring target person has entered the car, the monitoring device 4 monitors information on the floor in which the monitoring target person has entered the car. When it is transmitted to the dwelling unit terminal 5 of the subject's home dwelling and it is determined that the monitoring target person has got out of the car, information about the monitoring target person getting out of the car and the floor that has gone down is stored in the monitoring target person's home dwelling unit. The data is transmitted to the dwelling unit terminal 5. In addition, as described in the first embodiment, the monitoring device 4 is used when the car call registration is not performed even though the person to be monitored enters the car, or when the car arrives at the destination floor. However, if the monitoring target person does not get off the car, emergency warning information indicating the possibility of occurrence of an emergency situation is transmitted to the dwelling unit terminal 5 of the monitoring target person's home.

  Therefore, also in the elevator usage status monitoring system of the present embodiment, the monitoring target person's guardian or the like is reliably notified of the trend of the monitoring target person returning home or going out, as in the elevator usage status monitoring system of the first embodiment. If there is a possibility that an emergency situation has occurred, it is possible to notify the guardian of the person to be monitored and prompt a prompt response.

  Further, in the elevator usage status monitoring system of the present embodiment, the identification information of the monitoring target person is read using a non-contact IC card and a card reader which are generally widely used, and the monitoring target person's car is read. Since getting on / off is determined, the system can be constructed at a lower cost, and the introduction cost of the system can be further greatly reduced.

  The embodiment described above is merely an example of application of the present invention, and the technical scope of the present invention is not intended to be limited to the contents described in the above embodiment. Absent. That is, the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the specific technical matters disclosed in the above embodiments, but includes various modifications, changes, alternative techniques, and the like that can be easily derived from this disclosure.

The system block diagram which shows schematic structure of the elevator utilization condition monitoring system of 1st Embodiment. The schematic diagram explaining the communicable range by radio | wireless between a portable terminal and an information reader. The block diagram which shows the functional structure inside a monitoring apparatus. The flowchart which shows the outline | summary of the process performed by the monitoring apparatus. The system block diagram which shows schematic structure of the elevator utilization condition monitoring system of 1st Embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Portable terminal 2 Information reader 3 Elevator control apparatus 4 Monitoring apparatus 5 Dwelling unit terminal 6 Human body detection apparatus (detection means)
7 Guidance output device 41 Monitoring information generator 42 Management database (database)
43 Transmission destination determination unit (transmission destination determination means)
44 Monitoring information transmission unit (transmission means)

Claims (8)

Storing identification information of the resident of the apartment house, a portable terminal carried by the resident,
Installed in the elevator car in the apartment building, and performs wireless communication with the mobile terminal brought into the car by the resident to read the resident's identification information and output the read identification information An information reader;
An elevator control device that controls the lifting and lowering operation of the car in response to the elevator hall call and the car call, and outputs control information indicating the content of the control;
Based on the resident identification information output from the information reading device and the control information output from the elevator control device, a monitoring device that monitors the use status of the elevator by the resident and transmits monitoring information;
An elevator usage status monitoring system, comprising: a dwelling unit terminal installed in each dwelling unit of an apartment house and receiving monitoring information transmitted from the monitoring device and notifying the monitoring information. The monitoring device
A database that stores the identification information of the resident and the identification information of the dwelling unit installed in the dwelling unit in which the resident resides;
Based on the identification information output from the information reading device and the database, transmission destination determination means for determining a dwelling unit terminal that is the transmission destination of the monitoring information;
The elevator usage status monitoring system according to claim 1, further comprising: a transmission unit configured to transmit the monitoring information to the dwelling unit determined by the transmission destination determination unit. The wireless communicable range between the portable terminal and the information reading device is substantially equivalent to the space in the car,
The information reading device continues reading and outputting the identification information while a resident carrying the mobile terminal is in the car.
The monitoring device determines that the resident has entered the car due to the start of output of the identification information from the information reading device, and the resident has detected that the output of the identification information from the information reading device has stopped. The elevator usage status monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the elevator usage status monitoring system determines that the passenger has got out of the car. It further comprises detection means for detecting a human body in the car,
The information reading device reads the identification information of the resident by performing wireless communication with the portable terminal over the portable terminal, and outputs the read identification information to the monitoring device.
The monitoring device determines that a resident has entered the car when the identification information is output from the information reading device after the detection means detects that the human body in the car has increased. 2. A resident is determined to have got out of the car when the detecting means detects that the human body in the car has decreased after the identification information is output from the information reader. Or the utilization condition monitoring system of the elevator of 2.   5. The apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising: a guidance output device that is installed in the car and outputs guidance for urging the portable terminal to be held over the information reading device in conjunction with a door opening / closing operation of the car. Elevator usage monitoring system described in 1.   The monitoring device may store at least one of the fact that the resident has entered the car and the floor in which the occupant has entered the car, the floor that the resident has got out of the car, and the floor from which the occupant has descended as the monitoring information. The elevator usage status monitoring system according to any one of claims 3 to 5, wherein the system is transmitted.   The monitoring device transmits emergency warning information as the monitoring information to the dwelling unit terminal when the car call is not made even after a predetermined time has elapsed after determining that the resident has entered the car. The elevator usage status monitoring system according to any one of claims 3 to 6, wherein the elevator usage status monitoring system is characterized in that:   When the monitoring device does not determine that the resident has exited the car after a predetermined time has elapsed after the car has landed on the car call registered floor, emergency warning information is used as the monitoring information. The elevator usage status monitoring system according to claim 3, wherein the elevator usage status monitoring system transmits the information to the dwelling unit terminal.

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