JP2012229101A - Group supervisory operation control system and method of elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve transport efficiency by a plurality of elevator devices, even when the user number of respective floors in a building is varied.SOLUTION: A group supervisory operation control system includes:the plurality of elevator devices; an available floor information receiving device for receiving available floor information indicative of an access permission floor, being the floor permitted for a user to enter an entrance management area including an elevator landing hall in the building provided with the plurality of elevator devices; a user number counting device for integrating the user number of the respective floors based on the abailable floor information received by the available floor information receiving device; and a landing floor setting device for setting respective landing floors of the plurality of elevator devices based on the user number of the respective floors counted by the user number counting device.

Description

  Embodiments described herein relate generally to an elevator group management control system and method for setting landing floors of a plurality of elevator apparatuses.

  When installing an elevator in a building, the number of installed elevators is determined by predicting traffic demand in the building such as the number of users. In addition, in the case of a high-rise building with a large number of floors, the landing floors of a plurality of elevator devices may be divided into a low-rise zone and a high-rise zone to reduce the waiting time for elevator users. Many. When operating a plurality of elevator apparatuses, it is an important issue to improve the transportation efficiency of the plurality of elevator apparatuses.

  Patent Document 1 discloses an elevator operation management device that collects information on a landing call and a car, and learns the collected results, thereby increasing the transportation efficiency of the plurality of elevator devices. In the elevator operation management device disclosed in Patent Document 1, the learning unit learns information of the landing call collection unit and the car information collection unit, and uses the clock unit to determine the traffic demand of each floor for each time zone and traffic demand. Are collected and sent to the service division. If the traffic demand is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, the zone traffic volume calculation unit calculates the traffic volume per elevator device for each zone divided by the service division unit, and the adjustment unit calculates the service floor of each zone. Adjust so that the calculation results of the zone traffic volume calculation unit are equal. The adjusted landing floor and the number of elevators in each zone are recorded in the divided floor table, and when the determination unit determines that the service is in a time zone where the service division is performed and the traffic demand, the allocation control unit uses the service elevator based on the table. To decide. That is, in the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1, in order to collect the traffic demand of each floor, the landing call information was collected by accumulating the number of landing calls, and the car information was collected and collected. It is necessary to learn the results. Further, when the traffic demand is determined by the number of landing calls, it may not match the actual number of people waiting.

  Patent Document 2 discloses an elevator that increases the transportation efficiency of a plurality of elevator devices by reducing the possibility of an elevator user being confused when the elevator system is divided into a plurality of banks for each destination floor of the elevator car. A bank guidance device is disclosed. The elevator bank guide device disclosed in Patent Document 2 includes a reading device, a guide control device, and a guide device. The reading device reads the destination floor information from the user's mobile terminal and inputs the destination floor information to the guidance control device. The guidance control device selects a desired bank according to the destination floor of the user based on the input destination floor information, and causes the bank guide to guide the user. A plurality of banks are set in advance, and when the number of users guided to the same bank increases, it is difficult to avoid a situation where the landing of the bank is congested.

JP-A-9-208140 JP 2007-320758 A

  An object of the present invention is to provide an elevator group management control system or method that can improve transportation efficiency by a plurality of elevator apparatuses even when the number of users of each floor in the building fluctuates.

  An elevator group management control system according to an embodiment of the present invention is a floor in which a visitor is permitted to enter an entrance management area including a plurality of elevator apparatuses and an elevator hall in a building where the plurality of elevator apparatuses are installed. Based on the usage floor information receiving device that receives the usage floor information representing the usage floor that is the floor and the usage floor information received by the usage floor information reception device, the number of users on each floor is added up. A user number counting device. The present system also includes a landing floor setting device that sets the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator devices based on the number of users of each floor counted by the user number counting device.

It is a mimetic diagram for explaining an example of composition of an elevator group management control system according to an embodiment of a 1st embodiment. It is a flowchart showing an example of the operation | movement in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure showing the example of a setting of the landing floor of the elevator apparatus in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure showing an example of transition of the number of users of each floor in a 1st embodiment. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the structural example of the group management control system of the elevator according to embodiment of 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure showing an example of transition of the number of users of each floor in a 2nd embodiment. It is an example of the setting of the landing floor in 3rd Embodiment. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the structural example of the group management control system of the elevator according to 4th Embodiment. It is a flowchart showing an example of the operation | movement in 4th Embodiment. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the structural example of the group management control system of the elevator according to 5th Embodiment. It is a flowchart showing an example of the operation | movement in 5th Embodiment. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the structural example of the group management control system of the elevator according to 6th Embodiment. It is a flowchart showing an example of the operation | movement in 6th Embodiment. It is a display example of the landing floor information in 6th Embodiment.

  Hereinafter, an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described as appropriate with reference to the drawings. In the respective drawings, the same reference numerals are assigned to the same or corresponding parts, and redundant description is omitted. The accompanying drawings show functional elements related to the respective embodiments and their relations, and do not represent physical arrangement or physical configuration of the constituent elements.

(First embodiment)
The first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram for explaining a configuration example of an elevator group management control system according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation in the first embodiment. In the present embodiment, the elevator hall is in the entrance management area. In order to enter the entrance management area from an area where ordinary persons can enter, for example, a key or a card containing an RFID is read by a corresponding reading device, or authentication is performed by a biometric authentication device that authenticates a fingerprint or the like. There is a need. An apparatus for performing such authentication is provided, for example, between a floor entrance / exit where a building entrance / exit is located and an elevator hall on the floor. In S202, the entrance detection apparatus 102 detects that an unlocking operation for entering the entrance management area has been performed. Hereinafter, in this specification, the floor on which the entrance detection device 102 is installed may be referred to as an entrance / exit floor. Detection information indicating that the unlocking operation has been performed is transmitted from the entrance detection device 102 to the use floor detection device 104. The use floor detecting device 104 specifies a visitor at the time of the unlocking operation, and specifies a use permission floor registered in advance for the specified visitor.

  In this specification, a certain person's use permission floor means the floor in which the person was permitted to enter. If an office is included in the building where the elevator is installed, and the visitor is a person working in the office in the building, the floor where the attendee's office is located, A floor with a certain floor, a floor with a shared meeting room, a floor with a cafeteria facility, and a floor with a doorway of a building can be used as a permitted permission floor. If the visitor is not a person working in the office in the building, the floor registered at the reception near the entrance of the building or near the entrance of the site where the building is located shall be the permitted floor. Can do. In addition, if the building where the elevator is installed is a condominium, if the visitor is a person occupying the building, the floor where the visitor's house is located, the floor where the common facility is located, In addition, the floor where the entrance of the building is located can be used. Therefore, the number of use-permitted floors of a certain person is not limited to 1, and in many cases, it is a plurality.

  The entrance detection device 102 and the use floor detection device 104 constitute an entrance / exit management system. The use floor detecting device 104 of the entrance / exit management system determines the use floor in S204 based on the specified use permission floor. That is, when a person who uses the specified use permission floor as a use permission floor enters the entrance management area, the use permission floor of the visitor is determined as the use floor. The usage floor detection device 104 transmits the determined usage floor information to the usage floor information reception unit 106.

  In step S <b> 206, the usage floor information receiving unit 106 receives the usage floor information determined by the usage floor detection device 104, recognizes the usage floor based on the received usage floor information, and uses the recognized usage floor information. This is transmitted to the number counting device 108.

  As an example, a case will be described in which six elevator devices 112 are installed in a management area, each elevator device 112 can be landed on each floor from the first floor to the eleventh floor, and the entrance floor is the first floor. In addition, among the elevator apparatus 112, the first to third units land on the lower floors of the first floor to the sixth floor, and the fourth to sixth machines land on the upper floors of the first floor and the sixth to eleventh floors. It is assumed that the initial setting is as follows. In this case, the 6th floor is the transit floor. The setting of the landing floor of each elevator apparatus 112 in this state is shown in FIG. In addition, in this application, when a landing call is generated at a landing of a certain elevator device 112, or a car call for designating a destination floor is generated from the car, the landing floor responds to those calls. It means the floor where the car can be landed. In other words, even if a hall call button on a floor that is not a landing floor of a certain elevator device 112 is pressed, the elevator car 112 does not stop at a non-flooring floor, and a certain elevator device 112 rides. Even if a floor that is not the landing floor of the elevator apparatus 112 is designated by the car call button in the car, the car of the elevator apparatus 112 does not stop at the non-flooring floor. In FIG. 3, the horizontal direction represents the first to sixth units of the elevator apparatus 112, and the vertical direction represents the floors of the first to eleventh floors. In the figure, “◯” represents a landing floor, and “|” represents a non-flooring floor, that is, a non-stop floor. In the initial state, the landing floors of the first to third elevator devices 112 are in the lower floor zones of the first floor to the sixth floor, and the landing floors of the fourth to sixth elevator apparatuses 112 are the floor floors. It is set to the upper floor zone and the first floor of the 6th to 11th floors. That is, in this case, the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 is divided into a zone of a lower floor and two zones of an upper floor. However, on the first floor which is the entrance / exit floor, any elevator device 112 is also landed. Here, in the present application, “zone” means a section of landing floors where flooring floors other than the entrance and exit floors are continuous, for example, from the sixth floor to the eleventh floor. In addition, said assumption is for performing concrete description, and does not limit this invention.

For example, office location is the fourth floor, when the occupational related departments is A person in a fifth floor has entered the entrance controlled area at time t _1, the user number counting unit 108, the fourth floor, the 5th floor, The first floor on which the entrance / exit of the building is installed and the entrance detection device 102 is installed is received as usage floor information from the usage floor information receiving unit 106. In S208, the number of users on the fourth floor, the fifth floor, and the first floor is calculated. , Increase by one each. That is, if the number of users on the X floor at time t is represented by N _X (t), the number of users on each floor at time t ₁ is N ₁ (t ₁ ) = N ₄ (t ₁ ) = N ₅ (t ₁ ) = 1, N ₂ (t ₁ ) = N ₃ (t ₁ ) = N ₆ (t ₁ ) = N ₇ (t ₁ ) = N ₈ (t ₁ ) = N ₉ ( It is counted that t ₁ ) = N ₁₀ (t ₁ ) = N ₁₁ (t ₁ ) = 0. The number of users of each floor counted by the user number counting device 108 is transmitted to the landing floor setting device 110, and the landing floor setting device 110 counts each floor counted by the user number counting device 108 in S210. On the basis of the number of users, the landing floors of the elevator devices 112 of No. 1 to No. 6 are set. At this time, since there are only A visitors to the management area, the landing floors of the elevator devices 112 of the first to sixth units are kept at the initial setting, for example. The information on the landing floor of each of the first to sixth elevator devices 112 set by the landing floor setting device 110 is transmitted to each elevator device 112, and each elevator device 112 receives the transmitted floor floor. Drive according to the information. Thereafter, the process returns to S202, and the above-described operation is repeated.

In S202, the entrance detecting apparatus 102 installed in doorways floor, at time t _2, the example, office location is the 10th floor, entrance to entrance controlled area of a person B that work on related departments the 9th floor Is detected, the user number counting device 108 receives the 9th floor, the 10th floor, and the first floor, which is the entrance / exit floor of the building, from the usage floor detection device 104 as the usage floor information. The number of floors and the number of users on the first floor are each increased by one. As a result, the number of users on each floor at time t ₂ is N ₄ (t ₂ ) = N ₅ (t ₂ ) = N ₉ (t ₂ ) = N ₁₀ (t ₂ ) = 1 as shown in FIG. , N ₂ (t ₂ ) = N ₃ (t ₂ ) = N ₆ (t ₂ ) = N ₇ (t ₂ ) = N ₈ (t ₂ ) = N ₁₁ (t ₂ ) = 0, N ₁ (t ₂ ) = 2. As described above, the number of users of each floor counted by the user number counting device 108 is transmitted to the landing floor setting device 110, and the landing floor setting device 110 is transmitted by the user number counting device 108 in S210. Based on the counted number of users of each floor, the landing floor of each elevator apparatus 112 of No. 1 to No. 6 is set. At this time, since only the visitors A and B enter the management area, the landing floors of the elevator apparatuses 112 of the No. 1 to No. 6 machines are left at the initial setting, for example. The information on the landing floor of each of the first to sixth elevator devices 112 set by the landing floor setting device 110 is transmitted to each elevator device 112, and each elevator device 112 receives the transmitted floor floor. Drive according to the information. Thereafter, the process returns to S202, and the above-described operation is repeated.

As shown in FIG. 4, the number of users at each floor at time t _j is N ₂ (t _j ) = 17, N ₃ (t _j ) = 19, N ₄ (t _j ) = 20, N ₅ (t _j ) = 18, N ₆ (t _j ) = 21, N ₇ (t _j ) = 20, N ₈ (t _j ) = 22, N ₉ (t _j ) = 16, N ₁₀ (t _j ) = 19, N ₁₁ (t _j ) = 17 and N ₁ (t _j ) = 90, at time t _{j + 1} , admission of person C whose office is on the 7th floor and whose business department is on the 8th floor When entry into the management area is detected, the user number counting device 108 receives the seventh floor, the eighth floor, and the first floor, which is the entrance / exit floor of the building, from the usage floor detection device 104 as usage floor information, and in S208 , 7th floor, 8th floor, and 1st floor users are increased by 1 respectively, and N ₇ (t _{j + 1} ) = 21, N ₈ ( Let t _{j + 1} ) = 23 and N ₁ (t _{j + 1} ) = 91. The number of users other than the seventh floor, the eighth floor, and the first floor remains the value at the time t _j . At this point, the total number of users on the 2nd to 6th floors of the lower floor zone is 95, and the total number of users on the 7th to 11th floors of the upper floor zone is 96, which is almost equal. . Since the total number of users of the floors in the lower floor zone and the total number of users in the floors of the upper floor zone are substantially equal, the landing of each elevator apparatus 112 of Units 1 to 6 The floor will remain at the initial setting. That is, the landing floors of the first to third elevator devices 112 are in the lower floor zone of the first floor to the sixth floor, and the landing floors of the fourth to sixth elevator apparatuses 112 are the sixth floor to the sixth floor. It is still set to the upper floor zone of the 11th floor and the first floor.

As shown in FIG. 4, the number of users on each floor at time t _k is N ₂ (t _k ) = 23, N ₃ (t _k ) = 26, N ₄ (t _k ) = 25, N ₅ (t _k ) = 23, N ₆ (t _k ) = 27, N ₇ (t _k ) = 49, N ₈ (t _k ) = 47, N ₉ (t _k ) = 46, N ₁₀ (t _k ) = 49, N Let ₁₁ (t _k ) = 48 and N ₁ (t _k ) = 173. At this point, the total number of users on the 2nd to 6th floors of the lower floor zone is 124 people, and the total number of users on the 7th to 11th floors of the upper floor zone is 239 people. The total number of users in the zone floor and the total number of users in the upper floor zone are quite different. The ratio of the total number of users in the lower floor zone to the total number of users in the upper floor zone is approximately 1: 2. At this stage, the landing floor setting device 110 changes the landing floor of each of the first to sixth elevator devices 112 from the initial setting. The ratio of the total number of floor users in the lower floor zone to the total number of floor floor users in the upper floor zone is approximately 1: 2, so the elevators of Unit 1 to Unit 6 Among the apparatuses 112, for example, as shown in FIG. 3 (b), the first and second machines are on the lower floors of the first to sixth floors, and the fourth and sixth machines are on the first and sixth floors. The setting of the landing floor is changed so as to land on each upper floor of the eleventh floor. In this case, the setting of the landing floor is changed only for the third machine, and the landing floor of the third machine is changed from the first floor to the sixth floor to the first floor and the sixth floor to the eleventh floor. Changed to each upper floor.

  The use floor information receiving unit 106, the user number counting device 108, the landing floor setting device 110, and the control unit of the elevator device 112 are usually hardware resources such as a microcomputer, ROM, RAM, or magnetic storage device. It can be implemented by a so-called embedded system containing software necessary for control. This also applies to all the embodiments described in this specification.

The configuration and operation of the present embodiment have been described above assuming a specific case. However, the present embodiment is not limited to the contents described above. For example, when the number of users of each floor at time t _k is as shown in FIG. 4, as shown in FIG. 3 (c), 1 Unit and the Unit 2 on the first floor to 7 floors each lower floor of In addition, the setting of the landing floors can be changed so that the fourth to sixth floors land on the upper floors of the first floor and the seventh floor to the eleventh floor. In the above description, the case where the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 is divided into two zones of the lower floor and the upper floor is described. However, the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 is described. Can be divided into more than two zones. However, any elevator apparatus 112 is landed on the entrance / exit floor, for example, the first floor.

  In the above description, the user number counting device 108 also counts the number of users on the entrance floor, for example, the first floor. However, since all elevator devices 112 land on the entrance floor, the number of users on the entrance floor. Need not be counted.

  According to the present embodiment, for example, when a significant difference occurs in the number of users in the upper floor zone and the lower floor zone, the elevator apparatus 112 is adjusted by adjusting the setting of the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112. It is possible to improve the transportation efficiency and respond flexibly.

  Hereinafter, some other embodiments will be described. However, in order to facilitate understanding by avoiding complexity, the description will focus on differences from the present embodiment.

(Second Embodiment)
The second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 5, 6, and 2. In the second embodiment, not only the use floor representing the use permission floor, which is a floor permitted to enter the entrance management area, but also the person who once entered the exit management area. The point which counts the number of users of each floor is also different from the first embodiment in consideration of the floors used by those who leave. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram for explaining a configuration example of an elevator group management control system according to the second embodiment. The configuration example shown in FIG. 5 is the same as the configuration example shown in FIG. 1 except that the exit detection device 502 is added to the configuration example shown in FIG. However, as will be described later, the functions and operations of the use floor information receiving unit 106 and the user number counting device 108 are different from those in the first embodiment. The exit detection device 502 detects that an unlocking operation for exiting the entrance management area has been performed by a person who has once entered. The exit detection device 502 is provided, for example, between an elevator landing on a floor where an entrance / exit of an entrance management area is located and an entrance / exit of the entrance management area. In S202 illustrated in FIG. 2, the entrance detection device 102 or the exit detection device 502 detects that an unlocking operation for entering or leaving the entrance management area has been performed, respectively. Detection information indicating that the unlocking operation has been performed is transmitted from the entrance detection device 102 and the exit detection device 502 to the use floor detection device 104. The use floor detecting device 104 specifies an entrance / exit person at the time of the unlocking operation, and specifies a use permission floor registered in advance for the specified entrance / exit person.

  The entrance detection device 102, the exit detection device 502, and the use floor detection device 104 constitute an entrance / exit management system. The use floor detecting device 104 of the entrance / exit management system determines the use floor in S204 based on the specified use permission floor. That is, when a person who uses the specified use permission floor as a use permission floor enters or leaves the admission control area, the use permission floor of the admission person is determined as the use floor. The usage floor detection device 104 transmits the determined usage floor information to the usage floor information reception unit 106.

  In S206, the usage floor information receiving unit 106 receives the usage floor information of the entrance / exit determined by the usage floor detection device 104, recognizes the usage floor of the entrance / exit based on the received usage floor information, The information on the recognized usage floor is transmitted to the user number counting device 108.

In step S <b> 208, the user number counting device 108 counts the number of users on each floor based on the usage floor information received from the usage floor information receiving unit 106. When there is a person who has entered the entrance management area, as described in the description of the first embodiment, the number of users on the use permission floor of the visitor is increased by one. When there is a person who has left the entrance management area, the number of users on the permitted use floor is decreased by one. It is assumed that the number of users on each floor up to time t _j is the same as in FIG. 4 used in the description of the first embodiment. That is, the number of users on each floor at time t _j is N ₂ (t _j ) = 17, N ₃ (t _j ) = 19, N ₄ (t _j ) = 20, N ₅ (t _j ) = 18, N ₆ (t _j ) = 21, N ₇ (t _j ) = 20, N ₈ (t _j ) = 22, N ₉ (t _j ) = 16, N ₁₀ (t _j ) = 19, N ₁₁ (t _j ) = 17 and N ₁ (t _j ) = 90. In this state, when it is detected at time t _{j + 1} that the person B who entered the entrance management area at time t ₂ has exited the entrance management area, the user number counting device 108 uses the use permission floor of B. Decrease the number by one. That is, since the use permission floors of B are the 9th floor, the 10th floor, and the 1st floor, the user number counting device 108 decreases the number of users on the 9th floor, the 10th floor, and the 1st floor by 1 in S208. As shown in FIG. 6, N ₉ (t _{j + 1} ) = 15, N ₁₀ (t _{j + 1} ) = 18, and N ₁ (t _{j + 1} ) = 89. The numbers of users other than the ninth floor, the tenth floor, and the first floor remain the values at the time t _j .

The number of users of each floor counted by the user number counting device 108 is transmitted to the landing floor setting device 110, and the landing floor setting device 110 counts each floor counted by the user number counting device 108 in S210. The landing floor of each elevator apparatus 112 is set based on the number of users. In the same case as the assumed example in the description of the first embodiment, that is, six elevator devices 112 are installed in the management area, and each elevator device 112 can be landed on each floor from the first floor to the eleventh floor. Yes, the entrance floor is the 1st floor, among the elevator unit 112, the 1st to 3rd units are on the lower floors of the 1st to 6th floors, the 4th to 6th floors are the 1st floor and the 6th to 11th floors The case where it is initially set to land on each upper floor will be described. These assumptions are for specific explanation and do not limit the present invention. As of time t _{j + 1} , the total number of users on the 2nd to 6th floors of the lower floor zone is 95, and the total number of users on the 7th to 11th floors of the upper floor zone is 94. Almost equal. Since the total number of users of the floors in the lower floor zone and the total number of users in the floors of the upper floor zone are substantially equal, the landing of each elevator apparatus 112 of Units 1 to 6 The floor will remain at the initial setting. That is, the landing floors of the first to third elevator devices 112 are in the lower floor zone of the first floor to the sixth floor, and the landing floors of the fourth to sixth elevator apparatuses 112 are the sixth floor to the sixth floor. It is still set to the upper floor zone of the 11th floor and the first floor. The total number of users in the 2nd to 6th floors in the lower floor zone and the total number of users in the 7th to 11th floors in the upper floor zone have become significantly different from the almost equal state. At times, the landing floors of the elevator apparatuses 112 of the first car to the sixth car are changed from the initial settings to different settings.

  Although the configuration and operation of the present embodiment have been described above, the present embodiment is not limited to the contents described above. As described in the description of the first embodiment, for example, one elevator device 112 is on each lower floor from the first floor to the seventh floor, and another elevator apparatus 112 is on each upper floor from the first floor and the seventh floor to the eleventh floor. It is also possible to change the setting of the landing floor so as to land. In the above description, the case where the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 is divided into two zones of the lower floor and the upper floor is described. However, the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 is described. Can be divided into more than two zones. However, any elevator apparatus 112 is landed on the entrance / exit floor, for example, the first floor.

  In the above description, the user number counting device 108 also counts the number of users on the entrance / exit floor, for example, the first floor. However, since all elevator devices 112 land on the entrance / exit floor, the number of users on the entrance / exit floors. Need not be counted.

  According to the present embodiment, in addition to the effects of the first embodiment, the transportation efficiency of the elevator apparatus is improved not only when a person enters the entrance management area but also when a person leaves the entrance management area. can do.

(Third embodiment)
The second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In the description of the first embodiment and the second embodiment described above, for example, the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 is divided into a plurality of zones such as a lower floor zone and an upper floor zone, for example. The landing floor setting device 110 sets the landing floor of each elevator device 112 as a floor belonging to one of the zones based on the number of users of each floor counted by the user number counting device 108. . On the other hand, in this embodiment, the landing floor setting device 110 determines the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator devices 112 based on the user number distribution of each floor counted by the user number counting device 108. , Switching to a plurality of zones as shown in FIG. 3 or intermittent. Here, in the present application, that the landing floor is intermittent means that the floors other than the entrance and exit floors are discrete, such as the third floor, the fifth floor, the seventh floor, the ninth floor, and the eleventh floor, It means that there are at least the first floor non-floored floors such as the second floor, the fourth floor, the sixth floor, the eighth floor, the tenth floor, etc. between the landing floors. Other points are the same as those in the first embodiment or the second embodiment.

A setting example of the landing floor in the present embodiment is shown in FIG. FIGS. 7 (a) is a diagram showing the number of users counted value of each floor at time t _k. The number of users on each floor is counted by the user number counting device 108 described in the description of the first embodiment and the second embodiment. Except for the first floor, which is the entrance / exit floor, the floor with the largest number of users is the 11th floor, the number of users N ₁₁ (t _k ) is 48, and the floor with the smallest number of users is the 9th floor. The number of users N ₉ (t _k ) is 36. The number of users on other floors excluding the first floor which is the entrance floor is distributed in the range of 36 to 48. In this case, the ratio of the number of users on the 11th floor with the largest number of users to the number of users on the 9th floor with the smallest number of users is 4: 3, and the users on the floor with the largest number of users. It can be determined that the number of users on the floor having the smallest number of users and the number of users is approximately equal. Moreover, there is no remarkable bias in the distribution of the number of users on other floors except the first floor, which is the entrance floor. When there is no significant deviation in the number of users on each floor, as illustrated in the description of the first and second embodiments, the landing floors of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 are divided into a plurality of zones. Can be divided into FIG. 7B shows an example of the zoning of the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112.

Assume that the count value of the number of users on each floor at time t _h has changed as shown in FIG. 7C after time t _k . At this point, except for the first floor is the entrance floor, the largest number of floors user in the 11th floor, the number of users N _{11 (t h)} is 83 people, is the smallest number of users floor in the ninth floor, the number of users _N 9 _{(t h)} is 27 people. The ratio of the number of users on the 11th floor with the largest number of users to the number of users on the 9th floor with the least number of users is about 3: 1, and the number of users on the floor with the largest number of users It can be determined that there is a large difference in the number of users on the floor with the smallest number of users. Further, it can be determined that the distribution of the number of users on the floor excluding the first floor, which is the entrance / exit floor, is significantly biased compared to the distribution of the number of users shown in FIG. In this way, when a noticeable bias occurs in the user distribution of each floor, the landing floor setting device 110 divides the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator devices 112 into a plurality of zones, and at least some of the elevator devices 112. Intermittently switch between floors. FIG. 7D shows a setting example of the landing floors of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 after intermittently switching the landing floors of at least some of the elevator apparatuses 112 among the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112. In the setting example of the landing floors of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 shown in FIG. 7 (d), the first machine is the floor of all the first to eleventh floors, the second machine is the first floor, the second floor, The fourth floor, the fifth floor, the seventh floor, the eighth floor, the tenth floor, and the eleventh floor are set as landing floors, and the sixth machine is set so that the first floor and the eleventh floor are landing floors. The landing floors of Units 2 to 6 except Unit 1 are switched intermittently. Further, the number of elevator devices 112 that land on each floor is set to correspond to the user distribution on each floor.

After time t _h, when the number of users of each floor is ready is no significant bias in the number of users the distribution of each floor, as shown in FIG. 7 (a), Chakuyukakai setting device 110 From the state where the floors of at least some of the elevator devices 112 are set intermittently, for example, as shown in FIG. 7B, the floors of the plurality of elevator devices 112 are divided into a plurality of zones. Switch.

  According to the present embodiment, in addition to the effects of the first embodiment and the second embodiment, the number of elevator devices landing on the floor with a large number of users is increased, and the number of users is small. By setting so that the number of elevator devices landing on the floor is reduced, the transportation efficiency of the elevator devices can be improved according to the distribution of the number of users on each floor.

(Fourth embodiment)
The fourth embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9. In the fourth embodiment, a use floor learning device 802 is added to the first embodiment or the second embodiment, and the landing floor setting device 110 is a use floor output from the use floor learning device 802. Based on the floor learning information, a landing floor for each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 is set. Except for these points, the configuration and operation of the fourth embodiment are the same as those of the first embodiment or the second embodiment. Note that the usage floor learning device 802 can usually be implemented by a so-called embedded system including hardware resources such as a microcomputer, ROM, RAM, or magnetic storage device, and software necessary for control. This also applies to all the embodiments described in this specification.

  FIG. 8 illustrates a configuration example of an elevator group management control system according to the present embodiment in which a use floor learning device 802 is added to the configuration example of the elevator group management control system according to the second embodiment. The schematic diagram of is shown. The configuration example of the elevator group management control system according to the present embodiment is obtained by adding a use floor learning device 802 to the configuration example of the elevator group management control system according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. It is good also as a form. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation in the fourth embodiment. In the operation of the fourth embodiment, the operation of storing and learning the use floor is added to the operations of S202 to S210 in the first embodiment or the second embodiment described with reference to FIG. The operations in S202 to S208 are the same as those in the first embodiment or the second embodiment.

  In step S208, after the user number counting device 108 counts the number of users in each floor based on the usage floor information received from the usage floor information receiving unit 106, the usage floor learning device 802 determines in step S909. Thus, the number of users of each floor and the time zone when the used floor information is received are received from the user number counting device 108 and stored in the storage device. In one embodiment, the “time zone” includes day and holiday information. The use floor learning device 802 further learns the relationship between the number of users of each floor and the time zone based on the number of users of each floor stored in the storage device and the history of the time zone when the use floor information is received. To do. The use floor learning information, which is the learning result of the use floor learning device 802, is output to the landing floor setting device 110, and the landing floor setting device 110 in S210 for each time zone based on the use floor learning information. The landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 is set.

  If there is one or more offices in a building where multiple elevator devices 112 are installed, the office hours of work, hours of work from the start of work to lunch break, hours of lunch break, work after the lunch break has ended In many cases, the number of users on each floor varies considerably depending on the time zone, the office end time zone, and the time zone after the end time. In addition, the number of users on each floor in each time zone on the working day of the office tends not to change much. Therefore, it is effective for the landing floor setting device 110 to set the landing floors of the plurality of elevator devices 112 for each time zone based on the usage floor learning information that is the learning result of the usage floor learning device 802. it is conceivable that.

  If the building where multiple elevator devices 112 are installed is a housing complex, the number of users on each floor depends on the tenant's working hours, attending school hours, returning home hours, and daily shopping hours. , Often fluctuates. In addition, the number of users on each floor in each time zone on weekdays tends not to change much. Therefore, based on the use floor learning information that is the learning result of the use floor learning device 802, the landing floor setting device 110 sets the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator devices 112 for each time zone. It is also considered effective when the building where 112 is installed is an apartment house.

  Also, the temporal change in the number of users on each floor differs between weekdays and holidays. Furthermore, the temporal change in the number of users on each floor may differ depending on the day of the week. Therefore, based on the use floor learning information that is the learning result of the use floor learning device 802, the landing floor setting device 110 has the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator devices 112 for each time zone including weekdays, holidays, and days of the week. It is considered effective to set.

  According to the present embodiment, in addition to the effects of the first embodiment and the second embodiment, based on the use floor learning information that is the learning result of the use floor learning device 802, a plurality of time zones are used. By setting the landing floor of each elevator apparatus 112, the transport efficiency of the elevator apparatus can be improved.

(Fifth embodiment)
The fifth embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 10 and 11. In the fifth embodiment, in the first to fourth embodiments, an attendee feature detection device 1002 for detecting features related to the use of elevators by visitors to the management area, and the attendee features Accordingly, a door operation changing device 1004 for changing at least one of the door opening time and the door closing operation of the elevator apparatus on the use floor of the visitor is added. Except for these points, the configuration and operation of the present embodiment are the same as those of the first to fourth embodiments. The visitor feature detection device 1002 and the door operation change device 1004 are usually implemented by a so-called embedded system including hardware resources such as a microcomputer, ROM, RAM, or magnetic storage device and software necessary for control. Can do. This also applies to all the embodiments described in this specification.

  FIG. 10 shows an elevator group management control system according to the present embodiment in which an attendee feature detection device 1002 and a door operation change device 1004 are added to the configuration example of the elevator group management control system according to the fourth embodiment. The schematic diagram for demonstrating the structural example of a system is shown. Note that the configuration example of the elevator group management control system according to the present embodiment is the same as the configuration example of the elevator group management control system according to the first to third embodiments. The door operation changing device 1004 may be added. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation in the configuration example shown in FIG. The operation shown in FIG. 11 in the configuration example shown in FIG. 10 is the same as that of the fourth embodiment described with reference to FIG. Then, the operation up to the setting of the door operation of the elevator apparatus on the use floor of the visitor is added, and the operation of S202 to S210 is the same as the operation in the fourth embodiment described with reference to FIG. It is. In addition, the operation | movement form which deleted the operation | movement which learned the relationship between the number of users of each floor and time slot | zone in S909 from the operation | movement shown in FIG. 11 is also possible. The operation mode in this case is based on the operation in the first embodiment to the third embodiment described above, after determining the characteristics related to the elevator use of the visitor to the management area, and then in the use floor of the visitor. The operation up to the setting of the door operation of the elevator apparatus is added.

  When the entrance detection device 102 detects in S202 that the unlocking operation for entering the entrance management area has been performed, the operations from S202 to S210 described above are executed. In parallel with the operations of S202 to S210, the operations of S1102 to S1108 are executed. That is, when it is detected in S202 that the unlocking operation for entering the entrance management area has been performed, in S1102, the visitor feature detection device 1006 detects features related to the elevator use of the visitor. . In the present application, the feature related to the use of the elevator by the visitor refers to a feature of whether or not the visitor has an ability to get on and off at a normal speed when getting on and off the elevator car. As an example, it is estimated that some elderly people, young people, and visually or physically handicapped persons have a feature that makes it impossible to get on and off at a normal speed when getting on and off the elevator car. For example, when the age of the card holder or the failure of the holder is recorded on a key or card with a built-in RFID, the card is read by a corresponding reading device when entering the entrance management area. Thus, it is possible to recognize the age etc. of the holder of the card or the like and to detect the characteristics related to the elevator use of the visitors. In this case, the function of the visitor feature detection device 1006 can be included in the above-described entrance detection device 102.

  Information on the features related to the elevator usage of the visitors detected by the visitor feature detection device 1006 is transmitted to the use floor detection device 104, and the use floor detection device 104 determines based on the use permission floor specified by the visitor. The feature information related to the use of the elevator of the visitor received from the visitor feature detection device 1006 is transmitted to the visitor feature information receiving unit 1002 together with the used use floor information. In step S <b> 1104, the visitor feature information receiving unit 1002 receives feature information related to the use of the elevator by the visitor and the use floor information of the visitor from the use floor detection device 104. The visitor feature information receiving unit 1002 transfers the received feature information related to the use of the elevator by the visitor and the use floor information of the visitor to the door operation changing device 1004.

  On the other hand, as described above, the landing floor setting device 110 receives the landing of each of the elevator devices 112 of the first to sixth units based on the number of users of each floor counted by the user number counting device 108 in S210. Set the floor. In step S1106, the door operation changing device 1004 receives the feature information related to the visitor's use of the elevator and the use floor information of the visitor from the visitor feature information receiving unit 1002, and the elevator devices 112 of the first to sixth units set. Each landing floor information is received from the landing floor setting device 110. Further, the door operation changing device 1004 specifies the elevator device 112 to be landed on the use floor of the visitor from the received use floor information of the visitor and the landing floor information of each elevator device 112. Next, in S1108, the door operation changing device 1004 sets the door operation on the floor used by the visitor of the identified elevator device 112 according to the feature information related to the elevator use of the visitor, and sets the door The operation is instructed to the elevator apparatus 112 specified in S1106. For example, when the attendee is an elderly person, a young person, or a person who is visually or physically handicapped, the door opening duration (door opening time) of the elevator device 112 on the use floor of the attendee is made longer than usual. Or the door closing speed is made slower than normal or a warning sound is issued when the door is closed. While the door opening time of the elevator apparatus 112 in a visitor's use floor may be made longer than usual, the door closing speed may be made slower than usual. Further, a warning sound may be emitted when the door is closed. In this way, at least one of the door opening time and the door closing operation of the elevator device 112 on the use floor of the visitor can be changed according to the feature information related to the visitor's use of the elevator.

  The present embodiment described above can be modified into various forms. For example, the door operation changing device 1004 receives the feature information related to the elevator use of the visitor from the visitor feature information receiving unit 1002 without using the use floor detection device 104, and the use floor information of the visitor is Alternatively, the information may be received from the landing floor setting device 110 via the use floor information receiving unit 106 or the like.

  In addition, the door operation changing device 1004 does not specify the elevator device 112 to be landed on the use floor of the visitor, and the door operation on the use floor of the visitor is characteristic information related to the use of the elevator by the visitor. And instruct all elevator devices 112. In this case, for the elevator device 112 that does not land on the use floor of the attendee, the instruction from the door operation changing device 1004 is meaningless and is ignored.

  Further, when the elevator device 112 is provided with a call registration button for a wheelchair user on the platform and the car, the door of the elevator device 112 is opened on the use floor of the visitor who is a wheelchair user in each elevator device. At least one of actions related to time and door closing can be changed. When a landing call registration button for wheelchair users provided at the landing is pressed, a landing call registration signal is transmitted to the main control device of the elevator apparatus 112. The main control device that has received the landing call registration signal transmits information that the landing call has been issued and information on the floor from which the landing call has been issued to the car control device that controls the car of the elevator device 112. When the car lands on the floor where the landing call is issued and stops, the car control device opens the door and controls the door opening time to be longer than usual. When the car call registration button for wheelchair users provided in the car is pressed, the car travels to the destination floor corresponding to the car call, lands on the destination floor and stops, then the car The control device opens the door and controls the door opening time to be longer than usual or controls the door closing speed to be slower than usual. The door opening time may be controlled to be longer than usual, and the door closing speed may be controlled to be slower than usual.

  In the above description of the present embodiment, the door opening speed is not mentioned, but the door opening speed may be further changed according to the feature information related to the use of the elevator by the visitors.

  According to the present embodiment, in addition to the effects of the first to fourth embodiments, it is possible to perform fine control related to the use of the elevator according to the characteristics related to the use of the elevator by the visitors.

(Sixth embodiment)
The sixth embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 12 and 13. In the sixth embodiment, in the first to fifth embodiments, a notification device such as a display device or an announcement device for notifying the visitors to the management area of the landing floor of the elevator device, and a notification device And a notification control device for controlling. Except for these points, the configuration and operation of the present embodiment are the same as those of the first to fifth embodiments. Note that the notification control device can usually be implemented by a so-called embedded system including hardware resources such as a microcomputer, ROM, RAM, or magnetic storage device, and software necessary for control.

  FIG. 12 shows an elevator group management control system according to the present embodiment in which a notification control device 1202 and a notification device 1204 or 1206 are added to the configuration example of the elevator group management control system according to the fourth embodiment. The schematic diagram for demonstrating the example of a structure is shown. Here, the notification device 1204 is a display device or an announcement device included in each elevator device 112. The notification device 1204 is provided in at least one of the platform and the car of each elevator device 112. The notification device 1206 is a display device or an announcement device provided in one or more areas where the elevator device 112 is located. It is not always necessary to provide both the notification device 1204 and the notification device 1206, and a configuration in which one of the notification devices is provided may be employed. The configuration example of the elevator group management control system according to the present embodiment is notified to the configuration example of the elevator group management control system according to the first to third embodiments or the fifth embodiment. A control device 1202 and a notification device 1204 or 1206 may be added. FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation in the configuration example shown in FIG. The operation shown in FIG. 13 in the configuration example shown in FIG. 12 is the same as the operation in the fourth embodiment described with reference to FIG. Receiving the floor information representing the floor of each of the plurality of elevator devices 112 and instructing the notification device to notify the notification device 1204 or 1206 of the information related to each notification device of the floor information. The operations in S202 to S210 are the same as those in the fourth embodiment described with reference to FIG. In addition, the operation | movement form which deleted the operation | movement which learned the relationship between the number of users of each floor and time slot | zone in S909 from the operation | movement shown in FIG. 13 is also possible. The operation form in this case is a plurality of elevator apparatuses in which the notification control device 1202 is set by the landing floor setting device 110 in the operation in the first to third embodiments or the fifth embodiment described above. 112 The landing floor information indicating each landing floor is received, and an operation for instructing the notification device to notify the information related to each notification device of the landing floor information to the notification device 1204 or 1206 is added. It becomes a form.

  When the entrance detection device 102 detects in S202 that the unlocking operation for entering the entrance management area has been performed, the operations from S202 to S210 described above are executed. Next, in S1312, the notification control device 1202 receives landing floor information that is information representing the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses 112 set in S210 by the landing floor setting device 110. Also, the notification control device 1202 instructs the notification device 1204 or 1206 to notify at least information related to each notification device among the received landing floor information.

  An example will be described with reference to FIG. In the state shown in FIG. 3 (a), the landing floors of the first to third elevator devices 112 are in the lower floor zones of the first to sixth floors, and the fourth to sixth elevator devices. The respective landing floors 112 are set in the zones of the upper floors of the sixth floor to the eleventh floor and the first floor. At this time, the notification control device 1202 instructs the notification device 1204 of the first to third elevator devices 112 to notify that the set landing floor is the first floor to the sixth floor. The notification control device 1202 also instructs the notification devices 1204 of the fourth to sixth units to notify that the set landing floors are the sixth to eleventh floors and the first floor. As a result, for example, the information shown in FIG. 14A is displayed on the display device 1204 provided in at least one of the platform of the elevator apparatus 112 and the car. In the state where the setting of the landing floor of the elevator apparatus 112 is shown in FIG. 3 (b), the landing floors of the first and second elevator apparatuses 112 are in zones of the lower floors of the first floor to the sixth floor, The landing floors of the elevator apparatuses 112 of No. 3 to No. 6 are set in the zones of the upper floors of the sixth floor to the eleventh floor and the first floor. As a result, for example, the information shown in FIG. 14B is displayed on the display device 1204 provided in at least one of the platform of the elevator apparatus 112 and the car. The notification control device 1202 transmits the landing floor information to all the notification devices 1204 of the elevator devices 112 of the first to sixth units, and each notification device 1204 transmits the received floor information to the notification device. Only relevant landing floor information may be notified.

  FIG. 14 (c) shows a display example in the notification device 1206 when the notification control device 1202 gives an instruction to notify one or more notification devices 1206 provided in the area where the elevator device 112 is located, to the landing floor information. And shown in (d). FIG. 14C shows a display example when the setting of the landing floor of the elevator device 112 is in the state shown in FIG. 3A, and FIG. 14D shows the setting of the landing floor of the elevator device 112 as shown in FIG. It is an example of a display in the state shown in (b).

  According to this embodiment, in addition to the effects of the first to fifth embodiments, it is possible to easily know which elevator device is available when a visitor uses the elevator. .

  According to the embodiment described above, when the number of users of each floor in the building where the elevator apparatus is installed varies, the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses is moved according to the number of users of each floor. Thus, the transportation efficiency by the plurality of elevator apparatuses can be improved.

  Although several embodiments of the present invention have been described, these embodiments are presented by way of example and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These novel embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are included in the invention described in the claims and the equivalents thereof.

102 ... Entrance detection device, 104 ... Usage floor detection device, 106 ... Usage floor information receiver,
108 ... User number counting device, 110 ... Landing floor setting device, 112 ... Elevator device,
502 ... Exit detection device, 802 ... Usage floor learning device,
1002 ... Visitor characteristic information receiving unit, 1004 ... Door operation changing device,
1006 ... Visitor feature detection device, 1202 ... Notification control device,
1204, 1206 ... Notification device

Claims (12)

A plurality of elevator devices;
Usage floor information reception for receiving usage floor information representing a usage-permitted floor, which is a floor allowed for visitors to enter an entrance management area including an elevator hall in a building where the plurality of elevator devices are installed. Equipment,
Based on the use floor information received by the use floor information receiving device, a user number counting device that accumulates the number of users of each floor,
Elevator group management, comprising: a landing floor setting device that sets a landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator devices based on the number of users of each floor counted by the user number counting device. Control system. The usage floor information receiving device further receives usage floor information of a person who has left the entrance management area,
The number-of-users counting device further subtracts the number of users on the usage floor corresponding to the person leaving the entrance management area from the accumulated number of users on each floor. The elevator group management control system according to claim 1.   The landing floor setting device divides the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator devices into a plurality of zones based on the user number distribution of each floor counted by the user number counting device, or 3. The elevator group management control system according to claim 1, wherein at least a part of the elevator apparatus among the elevator apparatuses is switched between intermittent floors. 4. The system stores the number of users in each floor counted by the user number counting device and the time zone in which the floor information is received and the relationship between the number of users in each floor and the time zone The use floor learning device for learning
The said landing floor setting apparatus sets the landing floor of each of these several elevator apparatus for every time slot | zone based on the usage floor learning information output from the said usage floor learning apparatus. The elevator group management control system according to claim 1 or 2. The system
An attendee feature information receiving device for receiving feature information related to the use of an elevator by the visitor to the management area;
According to the feature information of the visitors related to the use of the elevator received by the visitor feature information receiving device, at least the operation related to the door opening time and the door closing of the elevator device on the use floor of the visitors The elevator group management control system according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising a door operation changing device for changing one of the two. The system
A notification device;
A notification control device for controlling the notification device;
The landing floor setting device transmits landing floor information representing the floors of the set elevator devices to the notification control device,
The elevator according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the notification control device issues an instruction to notify the notification device of at least information related to the notification device among the received landing floor information. Group management control system. Usage floor information reception step for receiving usage floor information representing a usage-permitted floor, which is a floor allowed for visitors to enter an entrance management area including an elevator hall in a building where a plurality of elevator devices are installed. When,
Based on the use floor information received in the use floor information reception step, a user number counting step of integrating the number of users of each floor,
Elevator group management, comprising: a landing floor setting step for setting a landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator devices based on the number of users of each floor counted in the user number counting step Control method. The method
Receiving the use floor information of the person who has left the admission control area, further comprising:
The step of counting the number of users includes a step of subtracting the number of users on the floor corresponding to the person leaving the entrance management area from the accumulated number of users on each floor. The elevator group management control method according to claim 7.   The landing floor setting step divides the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator devices into a plurality of zones based on the user number distribution of each floor counted in the number of users counting step, The elevator group management control method according to claim 7 or 8, further comprising a step of switching whether the floors of at least some of the elevator apparatuses are intermittent. The method
Use of storing the number of users of each floor counted in the number-of-users counting step and the time zone when the use floor information is received and learning the relationship between the number of users of each floor and the time zone And further comprising a floor learning step,
In the landing floor setting step, the landing floor of each of the plurality of elevator apparatuses is set for each time zone based on the usage floor learning information acquired in the usage floor learning step. The elevator group management control method according to claim 7 or 8. The method
An attendee feature information receiving step for receiving feature information related to the use of an elevator by the visitor to the management area;
According to the feature information of the visitors related to the use of the elevator received in the visitor feature information receiving step, at least the operation related to the door opening time and the door closing of the elevator device on the use floor of the visitors The elevator group management control method according to claim 7 or 8, further comprising a door operation changing step for changing one of the steps. The method
A notification control step for controlling the notification device,
In the notification control step, at least information related to the notification device is notified to the notification device among the landing floor information representing the landing floors of the plurality of elevator devices set in the landing floor setting step. The elevator group management control method according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that an instruction is issued.

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