JP2012246115A - Device and program for visualizing enter/exit history information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain an elevator passenger visualization device and an elevator passenger visualization program which analyze an enter/exist history of elevator passengers, and extract a trend of an elevator use situation.SOLUTION: This elevator passenger visualization device includes: an enter/exist history database 1 which stores enter/exist history information 10 which includes a piece of passenger information 11 on movement of passengers, running information 12 on running of an enter/exist device, and building information 13 on a building installing the enter/exist device; a data obtaining part 2 for acquiring the enter/exist history information 10 stored in the enter/exist history database 1; a clustering part 3 for clustering the passenger information 11 included in the enter/exist history information 10 obtained by the data obtaining part 2; and a visualization part 4 which converts into visualization data to display by use of the passenger information 11 clustered by the clustering part 3, and the running information 12 and the building information 13 included in the enter/exist history information 10 obtained by the data obtaining part as needed.

Description

  The present invention, for example, for reading the movement tendency of passengers from boarding / exiting history information including movement history of passengers using a boarding / exiting device in a building detected by a sensor or operation history of boarding / exiting devices. The present invention relates to a visualization device for boarding / exiting history information and a visualization program for boarding / exiting history information.

  In general, multiple elevators are installed in high-rise buildings, but in the morning commuting rush hour or during busy hours during lunch breaks, these multiple elevators are operated in conjunction to efficiently transport passengers. Group management is required. In order to efficiently manage such a group of multiple elevators, it is necessary to measure and analyze the movement history of passengers such as “what time, how many people got on which floor, and on which floor”. Therefore, it is necessary to grasp the movement tendency of passengers in the building. Therefore, in order to analyze the measured data, a visualization device that visualizes the measured data is required.

  In addition, there is a need to utilize technology for consulting work such as optimizing the tenant layout of buildings for the technology for displaying the movement history of passengers in an easy-to-understand manner.

  Conventionally, as described in Patent Document 1, in an elevator group management system, there is a method of expressing a traffic flow by displaying an OD (Origin Destination) table of movement history of passengers between floors for each time zone. .

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However, according to the configuration disclosed in Patent Document 1, since the OD table of the elevator boarding / alighting history is two-dimensional and is not displayed for the usage time zone, it is possible to visually grasp the change in tendency due to the usage time zone. Was difficult.
Conventionally, a method of displaying a travel history of passengers with a simple histogram is also common, but the simple histogram identifies a time zone or floor that causes a decrease in operation efficiency of elevator group management. It was difficult.

  As described above, the conventional technology for visualizing the movement history of passengers cannot easily understand the usage tendency of passengers and it is difficult to analyze the movement tendency of passengers. there were.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and is a visualization history that makes it easy to visually understand the usage tendency of passengers and makes it easy to analyze the movement tendency of passengers. It is an object to provide an information visualization device and a visualization program for boarding / exiting history information.

  The visualizing device for boarding / exiting history information according to the present invention includes boarding / exiting history information including boarding / exiting information relating to movement of boarding / exiting people using the boarding / exiting device, operation information relating to operation of the boarding / exiting device, and building information relating to the building where the boarding / exiting device is installed. Clustering database for clustering passenger information included in the boarding / alighting history information acquired by the data acquisition unit, the data acquisition unit for acquiring the boarding / alighting history information stored in the boarding / alighting history database, the clustering And a visualization unit that converts the information into visualization data using the travel information and building information included in the boarding / alighting history information acquired by the data acquisition unit and displays the visualization information.

  The visualization apparatus for boarding / exiting history information and the visualization program for boarding / exiting history information according to the present invention can cluster a large amount of boarding / exiting information according to a movement tendency, and use the boarding / alighting apparatus by displaying the boarding / exiting information for each class. The trend can be easily visualized. From the obtained usage tendency of the getting-on / off device, it can be used for optimizing tenant arrangement in building maintenance and improving operation efficiency of a plurality of getting-on / off devices.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the visualization apparatus of the boarding / alighting history information of this invention. It is a figure which shows the flowchart of the flow of the process which the visualization apparatus of the boarding / alighting history information of this invention performs. It is a figure which shows the example of passenger information of the visualization apparatus of the boarding / alighting history information of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the result of having clustered passenger information in the clustering part of the visualization apparatus of the boarding / alighting history information of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the histogram display part of the visualization apparatus of the boarding / alighting history information of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the animation display part of the visualization apparatus of the boarding / alighting history information of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the animation display part of the visualization apparatus of the boarding / alighting history information of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the animation display part of the visualization apparatus of the boarding / alighting history information of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the FromTo matrix display part of the visualization apparatus of the boarding / alighting history information of this invention.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a visualization apparatus for boarding / exiting history information according to the present invention. The visualization device for boarding / exiting history information in FIG. 1 obtains boarding / exiting history information 10 including boarding / exiting history information 10 including boarding / exiting person information 11, operation information 12, and building information 13, and boarding / exiting history information 10. Data acquisition unit 2, clustering unit 3 for clustering passenger information 11 included in boarding / exiting history information 10 acquired by data acquisition unit 2, passenger information 11 and operation information 12 clustered by clustering unit 3, and building And a visualization unit 4 that converts the information 13 into visualization data and displays it.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the contents of the boarding / exiting history information 10 stored in the boarding / exiting history database 1 include boarding / exiting person information 11 about boarding / exiting persons using the boarding / exiting apparatus, operation information 12 about operation of the boarding / exiting apparatus, And building information 13 concerning the installed building.

  The boarding / alighting information 11 is, for example, the boarding floor, boarding floor, boarding time, boarding time, boarding / landing station arrival time, boarding / boarding equipment waiting time, number of passengers, number of boarding equipment used, Information regarding the user of the boarding / exiting device, such as a day of the week, a year, an image in the boarding / exiting device, an image of the boarding / exiting device platform, and the like. Here, the passenger information 11 may be data collected by a monitoring camera, infrared rays, a laser sensor, or the like, or may be data virtually generated by a simulator of a passenger boarding device.

  The operation information 12 is information relating to the operation of the boarding / exiting device, such as the movement history of the boarding / exiting device, the history of pressing various buttons in the boarding / exiting device, the history of pressing the call button of the boarding / exiting device on each floor, and the like. .

  The building information 13 includes, for example, the number of floors (the number of floors) of the building, the height of each floor, information on tenants in the building, information on stations and commercial facilities adjacent to the building, the number of getting on / off devices, and the type of getting on / off devices This is information related to building equipment and boarding / exiting devices such as stop floor information of boarding / exiting devices.

  In the configuration of the visualizing device for boarding / exiting history information shown in FIG. 1, the boarding / exiting history database 1, the data acquisition unit 2, the clustering unit 3, and the visualization unit 4 are each implemented with dedicated hardware (for example, MPU). If the visualization device for boarding / exiting history information is configured with a computer, the visualization program for boarding / exiting history information describing the processing contents of each part is stored in the memory of the computer. And the visualization program of the boarding / exiting history information stored may be executed by the CPU of the computer.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a flow chart of the processing performed by the visualization device for boarding / exiting history information according to the present invention. Details of the operation of the visualization apparatus for boarding / exiting history information will be described with reference to this flowchart.
First, the data acquisition part 2 acquires the boarding / alighting history information 10 from the boarding / alighting history database 1 (step ST101).

  The passenger information 11 included in the boarding / exiting history information 10 acquired by the data acquisition unit 2 is multi-dimensional data. For example, the feature amount used for visualization is the “boarding floor”, “getting off” of each user of the boarding device. In the case of the “floor” and “boarding time”, the data acquisition unit 2 obtains the “boarding floor”, “getting floor”, “ 3D data of “boarding time” is acquired.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the passenger information 11 of the visualizing device for boarding / exiting history information according to the present invention. For all users of the boarding / exiting device in a building, “boarding floor”, “getting down floor”, “boarding time” The plotted points indicate the boarding / alighting history of one person.
In FIG. 3, the time axis is a 24-hour display.

  Further, the data acquisition unit 2 may acquire data in an arbitrary dimension by increasing the number of data dimensions according to the number of feature quantities used for visualization.

  For example, in the case where there are five feature amounts used for visualization of “boarding floor”, “getting floor”, “boarding time”, “day of the week”, and “waiting time” of the passenger information 11, the data acquisition unit 2 From the boarding / exiting history database 1, five-dimensional data of “boarding floor”, “boarding floor”, “boarding time”, “day of the week”, and “waiting time” is acquired for the passenger information 11 in the target period.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 2, the clustering unit 3 clusters the multidimensional passenger information 11 included in the boarding / alighting history information 10 acquired by the data acquisition unit 2 (step ST102).

  The clustering unit 3 performs clustering on the multidimensional passenger information 11 included in the boarding / exiting history information 10 acquired by the data acquisition unit 2 using a multidimensional data clustering technique, and classifies the classes into a plurality of classes. As a clustering method for multidimensional data, an existing clustering method such as a mean shift method or a k-mean method is used.

  For example, FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a result of clustering passenger information in the clustering unit 3 of the visualization device for boarding / exiting history information according to the present invention. 4 shows a result of classifying the three-dimensional passenger information 11 shown in FIG. 3 by means of the mean shift method. As a result of clustering by the clustering unit 3, the three-dimensional passenger information 11 shown in FIG. As shown, it is classified into five classes.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 2, the visualization unit 4 uses the passenger information 11 clustered by the clustering unit 3 to convert it into visualized data for display, or the passenger information 11 clustered by the clustering unit 3. It converts into visualization data using the operation information 12 and the building information 13, and displays it (step ST103).

  As shown in FIG. 1, the visualization unit 4 uses the passenger information 11 clustered by the clustering unit 3 to convert the visualization data into visualization data and displays a histogram, and the passenger information clustered by the clustering unit 3. 11, operation information 12, and building information 13 are used to convert the data into visualization data and display an animation, and the passenger information 11 that is clustered by the clustering unit 3 is converted into visualization data that is converted into visualization data. It is composed of a From To matrix display unit 43 that arranges the floors in a two-dimensional matrix and displays a figure showing the number of people on each floor, and visualizes the boarding history information 10 individually or in conjunction with each other. To do.

First, the operation of the histogram display unit 41 will be described.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of the histogram display unit 41 of the visualization device for boarding / exiting history information according to the present invention. For example, the histogram display unit 41 converts the data into visualization data using the passenger information 11 classified into five classes as shown in FIG. 4, and creates three types of histograms for each class as shown in FIG. And display. Here, the vertical axes of the three types of histograms are all “number of passengers”, and the feature amounts shown on the horizontal axis are “boarding time”, “boarding floor”, and “dropping floor”.

  As shown in FIG. 5, by displaying a histogram created for each class, for example, for passengers belonging to class 1, the peak of the ride is around 12:00 from the left figure of class 1, and passengers at that peak It can be seen that the number is around 200 people, and from the central and right diagrams of Class 1, there are many users moving from the floor centered on the 10th floor to the floor centered on the 20th floor. Can be read.

  In addition, when the feature amount used for the analysis is five “boarding floor”, “getting off floor”, “boarding time”, “day of the week”, “waiting time”, clustering is performed on the five-dimensional data, and the clustering result By creating five histograms for each class, passenger information is visualized by trend.

  Since the histogram display unit 41 of the present invention creates and displays a histogram for each class using the passenger information 11 clustered by the clustering unit 3, the usage tendency of passengers can be easily grasped visually. To make it easier to analyze movement trends of passengers.

Next, the operation of the animation display unit 42 will be described.
The animation display unit 42 uses the two-dimensional sectional view or the three-dimensional model showing the building equipment included in the building information 13 and the passenger information 11 and the operation information 12 clustered by the clustering unit 3 to convert into visualization data and display it. To do.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example of the animation display unit 42 of the visualization history information display device according to the present invention. The animation display unit 42 displays the building information 13 on a display screen as shown in FIG. 6 and reproduces the passenger information 11 and the operation information 12.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the screen displayed by the animation display unit 42 is, for example, a waiting person icon 51 on the floor indicating the passenger information 11, a boarding / exiting device position / the number of passengers icon 54, operation information 12, and boarding / exiting. A landing call icon 53 (showing a color when there is a call) 53 indicating that the device landing button has been pressed; an assignment (UP) lighting icon 55 indicating that the boarding / unloading device is assigned to dispatch in the upward direction; An assignment (DOWN) lighting icon 56 indicating that the boarding / alighting device is assigned to be assigned in the downward direction, a boarding / alighting device call lighting icon 59 indicating that the button on the corresponding floor in the boarding / alighting device has been pressed, and the building information 13 are displayed. The displayed floor display icon 52, an icon 57 for painting a floor that does not stop, and a display icon 58 for the number of the boarding / alighting device are included. The display screen is reproduced for an arbitrary time recorded in the boarding / alighting device boarding history database 1.

  Here, the animation display unit 42 uses the passenger information 11 clustered by the clustering unit 3 to classify the colors of the waiting person icon 51 on the floor and the position of the boarding / alighting device and the number of people icon 54 in the boarding device for each class. May be reproduced. Thereby, the state of the passengers of each class and the operation apparatus in the entire building at an arbitrary time can be grasped.

  When the animation display unit 42 selects the waiting person icon 51 on the floor or the position of the boarding / alighting device position and the number of people in the boarding / alighting device 54 by means of a mouse click or a touch panel, the animation display unit 42 Alternatively, the video of the boarding / alighting device platform may be called and reproduced, and the area of the person appearing in the video may be displayed in different colors for each class based on the clustering result of the clustering unit 3. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display example in which a video is reproduced when the user selects the boarding / exiting device position and the number of people icon in the boarding / exiting device 54 on the display screen of the animation display unit 42 of the visualizing device for boarding / exiting history information of the present invention. is there.

  The animation display unit 42 calls the histogram display unit 41 and selects a histogram for each class at the corresponding time and the corresponding place when a boarding / departing device or a place of the landing is selected by means of a mouse click or a touch panel in the displayed animation. May be displayed.

  Further, the animation display unit 42 may display the passenger information 11 clustered by the clustering unit 3 in a summary on a single still image instead of an animation. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display example in which the passenger information 11 clustered by the clustering unit 3 is summarized and displayed on a single still image by the animation display unit 42 of the visualization device for boarding / exiting history information according to the present invention. At this time, based on the clustering result of the clustering unit 3, only a class having a large number of people is extracted and converted into visualized data, and the movement of passengers in that class is displayed with an arrow extending from the boarding floor to the boarding floor. Here, for example, as shown in FIG. 8, on the display screen, the thickness of the arrow may represent the total number of people moving in the class, and the color of the arrow may be color-coded for each class.

  As described above, the animation display unit 42 uses the two-dimensional sectional view or the three-dimensional model indicating the building facilities included in the building information 13 and the passenger information 11 and the operation information 12 clustered by the clustering unit 3 to generate visualization data. By converting and displaying, there is an advantage that the passenger information 11 and the operation information 12 can be grasped while grasping the positional relationship of the building equipment. In addition, by linking animation and video, it is possible to perform analysis that is more realistic. For example, when the waiting time for passengers is abnormally long, or when the door of the boarding / exiting device remains open for a long time, the cause can be grasped by checking the state with the captured video.

Next, the operation of the FromTo matrix display unit 43 will be described.
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display example of the From To matrix display unit 43 of the visualizing device for boarding / exiting history information according to the present invention. The From To matrix display unit 43 converts the passenger information 11 clustered by the clustering unit 3 into visualization data, displays the alighting floor on the horizontal axis and the boarding floor on the vertical axis, and displays the corresponding time zone and unit time per unit time. The total number of moving people is displayed in terms of icon size and numerical value. The larger the number of people, the larger the icon size. Further, the icons are color-coded for each class in which the passenger information 11 is clustered by the clustering unit 3. The example of FIG. 9 shows the FromTo matrix for 10 minutes from 10:20 to 10:30.

  When the user selects each icon on the display screen with an operation such as a mouse click or a touch panel operation, the From To matrix display unit 43 performs shooting related to the time zone or floor, a histogram displayed by the histogram display unit 41, The animation displayed by the animation display unit 42 may be displayed in a pop-up.

  Thus, the FromTo matrix display unit 43 can identify the floor that is the cause of the increased waiting time by displaying the FromTo matrix that is color-coded by class.

According to the present embodiment, by making the boarding / exit history information easy to see, it is possible to easily grasp the operation status and trouble spots of the boarding / unloading device, and it is possible to improve the operation efficiency of the boarding / unloading device and smoothly perform maintenance work. .
For example, when a tenant in a building is newly replaced, the tenant that increases the waiting time of the boarding / exiting device is identified, and this tenant is moved to the first floor where the use of the boarding / exiting device is not required. It can be used for consulting work for setting up boarding / exiting devices such as increasing efficiency. Further, by comparing and displaying the operation status before and after the replacement work of the new boarding / unloading device, the effect of the repairing of the boarding / unloading device can be visually grasped.

  In the present invention, any constituent element of the embodiment can be modified or any constituent element of the embodiment can be omitted within the scope of the invention.

  1 boarding history database 2 data acquisition unit 3 clustering unit 4 visualization unit 10 boarding history information 11 passenger information 12 operation information 13 building information 41 histogram display unit 42 animation display unit 43 From To matrix display Section, 51-floor waiting icon, 52 floor display icon, 53 landing call icon, 54 boarding / exiting device position and number in boarding device icon, 55 allocation (UP) lighting icon, 56 allocation (DOWN) lighting icon, 57 no stop An icon that fills the floor, a display icon for the 58th unit number, and an icon for calling the 59th boarding / exiting device.

Claims (7)

Boarding / alighting history database for storing boarding / alighting history information including boarding / alighting information about movement of passengers using the boarding / alighting device, operation information about the operation of the boarding / alighting device, and building information about the building where the boarding / alighting device is installed,
A data acquisition unit for acquiring the boarding / exiting history information stored in the boarding / exiting history database;
A clustering unit that clusters passenger information included in the boarding / alighting history information acquired by the data acquisition unit;
A visualization unit that converts and displays the visualization information using the passenger information clustered by the clustering unit, the operation information included in the boarding history information acquired by the data acquisition unit, and the building information as necessary. A visualizing device for boarding / exiting history information, comprising:   2. The boarding / alighting history according to claim 1, wherein the visualization unit includes a histogram display unit that generates and displays a histogram relating to the number of passengers for each class using the passenger information clustered by the clustering unit. Information visualization device.   The visualization unit is a two-dimensional sectional view showing building facilities using passenger information clustered by the clustering unit and operation information and building information included in the boarding / exiting history information acquired by the data acquisition unit, or The visualization apparatus for boarding / exiting history information according to claim 1, further comprising an animation display unit that displays an animation having an icon indicating a boarding / exiting device for each boarding / exiting device, boarding / exiting device platform, and class on a three-dimensional model. In the boarding / exiting history database, video data of the boarding / exiting device and the boarding / exiting device landing are stored,
When an annunciator indicating a boarding / alighting device or a boarding / alighting device platform displayed by the animation display unit is selected, the animation display unit displays the video data in the boarding / alighting device stored in the boarding / alighting history database. 4. The visualizing apparatus for boarding / exiting history information according to claim 3, wherein the boarding / exiting person included is displayed for each class.   The visualization unit is a two-dimensional sectional view showing building facilities using passenger information clustered by the clustering unit and operation information and building information included in the boarding / exiting history information acquired by the data acquisition unit, or The visualization apparatus for boarding / exiting history information according to claim 1, further comprising an animation display unit that displays, on a three-dimensional model, information related to movement of passengers for each class as a still image.   The said visualization part is provided with the FromTo matrix display part which displays the boarding number of passengers in a boarding floor and a boarding floor in a matrix form about each class using the passenger information clustered by the said clustering part. The visualization apparatus of boarding / exiting history information according to 1. A computer for analyzing information about movements of passengers using the getting-on / off device,
Getting on / off history information including passenger information on movement of passengers using the boarding / exiting device stored in the boarding / exiting history database, operation information on operation of the boarding / exiting device, and building information on the building where the boarding / exiting device is installed. Data acquisition unit,
A clustering unit that clusters passenger information included in the boarding / alighting history information acquired by the data acquisition unit;
A visualization unit that converts and displays visualized data using the passenger information clustered by the clustering unit, operation information included in the boarding / alighting history information acquired by the data acquisition unit as needed, and building information,
Visualization program for boarding / exiting history information to function as

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