JP2014068395A - Information provision device, base station device and device management server - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information provision device, capable of distributing a processing load to a regional information request without a wasteful memory volume, and capable of providing regional information specialized to a region where a user is located, or a specified region.SOLUTION: An information provision device comprises: a wired communication unit 12 for communicating with a base station device 10 scattered in each region through a network 9; a regional information collection unit 18 for collecting regional information retained in each base station device 10 located within a range designated by a mobile phone 20; and a regional information provision unit 19 for providing the mobile phone 20 with the regional information of each of the base station device 10 collected by the regional information collection unit 18.

Description

  The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus and a base station apparatus that provide area information regarding an area.

  Conventionally, there is a bulletin board that posts regional information about a specific area among bulletin boards provided on the Internet, and users who live in that area write the regional information about a specific area on the bulletin board. The local information is stored in the server that provides the bulletin board. The regional information stored in the server is provided to an unspecified number of users via a bulletin board.

  In addition, recent portal sites on the Internet have a variety of services that provide users with regional information about the region in cooperation with maps. For example, when a user of the Internet inputs information about the restaurant for a restaurant at a specific location on the map and another user displays the location on the map, or When the position on the map is clicked, a service is provided in which information about the inputted restaurant is displayed.

  In a wireless communication system that provides this type of service, each mobile terminal that transmits regional information and the like to the information center and obtains information from the information center, and position information that represents the position of the mobile terminal are received from the mobile terminal, An information center is known that searches stored information based on received position information and transmits the searched information to a mobile terminal (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  Moreover, it demonstrates in detail below using drawing. In the wireless communication system shown in FIG. 10, a base station device 90 a, a base station device 90 b, and an information center 80 are connected to a network 9. For example, regional information posted from the mobile phone 20a (or regional information transferred from a computer or the like connected to the network 9) is uploaded to the information center 80 via the base station device 90a. Regional information is posted not only from the mobile phone 20a but also from various mobile phones 20, and the posted regional information is held and managed by the information center 80.

  When it is desired to refer to the regional information, for example, the cellular phone 20b requests the regional information corresponding to the current position of the cellular phone 20b to the information center 80 via the base station device 90b, and via the base station device 90b, The target area information is downloaded from the information center 80 to the mobile phone 20b. As described above, the regional information is collectively managed by the information center 80 and distributed to the mobile phone 20.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-013961

  However, in the above-described conventional wireless communication system, since information is collectively managed by the information center 80, it is necessary to hold area information regarding an area unrelated to the current position of the mobile phone 20, and that is a wasteful storage. It was necessary to prepare capacity. In addition, since regional information requests are concentrated in the information center 80, the conventional wireless communication system has a problem that the processing load for the regional information requests cannot be distributed.

  Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the conventional problems, and is an information providing apparatus, a base station apparatus, and an apparatus that can perform processing load distribution for requests for area information without useless storage capacity An object is to provide a management server.

  A base station apparatus according to the present invention includes a communication unit that communicates with an information output device existing in each region via a network, a wireless communication unit that wirelessly communicates with a communication terminal, a database that holds region information, the database, and the database A configuration comprising a regional information collecting unit that collects regional information held by the information output device, and an information providing unit that provides the regional information collected by the regional information collecting unit to a communication terminal that communicates with the wireless communication unit have.

  With this configuration, regional information is managed by the scattered base station devices, and the base station device provides the regional information held by each base station device to the communication terminal. Compared with the above, it is possible to eliminate the useless storage capacity and distribute the processing load for the request for the area information, and it is possible to provide the area information specialized for the area where the user is located or the designated area.

  In the base station apparatus of the present invention, the regional information is still image or moving image data, the database holds still image or moving image data, and the information providing unit holds the still image Or it has the structure which provides the data of a moving image to the communication terminal which communicates with the said wireless communication part.

  The base station apparatus control method of the present invention includes a control unit, a database, an information output device existing in each region, a communication unit that communicates via a network, and a wireless communication unit that wirelessly communicates with a communication terminal. In the control method of a base station apparatus, the method includes the steps of collecting regional information held by the database and the information output device, and providing the collected regional information to a communication terminal that communicates with the wireless communication unit. It has a configuration.

  The present invention eliminates useless storage capacity, can perform processing load distribution for a request for area information, and can provide area information specialized for a user's area or a specified area , A base station apparatus, and a device management server.

It is a block diagram of the radio | wireless communications system which concerns on a present Example. It is an image figure regarding arrangement | positioning of the base station apparatus which concerns on a present Example. It is a block diagram of the base station apparatus which concerns on a present Example. It is a figure showing the content of the content of the posted regional information. It is a block diagram of the apparatus management server which concerns on a present Example. It is a figure showing the content of the base station information regarding a base station. It is a sequence diagram which shows the operation example (operation example of contribution of area information) of the base station apparatus and the mobile phone according to the present embodiment. It is a sequence diagram which shows the operation example (operation example of provision of area | region information) of the base station apparatus which concerns on a present Example, a mobile telephone, and an apparatus management server. It is an image figure at the time of the regional information arranged in the order near from a reference position being provided to a user. It is a block diagram of the conventional radio | wireless communications system.

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

  FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a wireless communication system according to the present embodiment. In the wireless communication system shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of base station devices 10 and a device management server 30 are connected to a network 9. First, the outline of the base station apparatus 10 and the device management server 30 shown in FIG. 1 will be described, and then the detailed configuration thereof will be described. The base station apparatus 10 is shown as an embodiment of the information providing apparatus, information output apparatus, or base station apparatus of the present invention.

  The base station apparatus 10 performs wireless communication with the mobile phone 20 to communicate between the mobile phones 20 or between the mobile phone 20 and various servers. The base station devices 10 are scattered in each region. If the base station device 10 is a PHS base station device 10, the base station devices 10 are arranged at various locations in an urban area with a distance of several hundred meters, for example.

  In addition, when distinguishing each of the base station apparatus 10, it describes as base station apparatus 10-1, base station apparatus 10-2, ..., base station apparatus 10-n (n is a natural number), When not distinguished, it is described as the base station apparatus 10. When the mobile phones 20 are distinguished from each other, they are described as mobile phones 20a and 20b. When the mobile phones are not distinguished from each other, they are described as the mobile phones 20.

  An image diagram regarding the arrangement of the base station apparatus 10 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, base station apparatuses 10-1 to 10-7 are scattered. The base station devices 10 are not arranged at equal intervals, but are installed at appropriate locations for wireless communication with the mobile phone 20. In FIG. 2, seven base station apparatuses 10 are illustrated, but it is assumed that there are actually more base station apparatuses 10 than that.

  In this embodiment, the network 9 will be described as a network conforming to IP (Internet Protocol). The device management server 30 manages information related to the base station apparatus 10 and manages the identifier, position information, installation location name, and IP address of the base station apparatus 10 in association with each other.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the base station apparatus according to the present embodiment. The base station device 10 includes a wireless communication unit 11, a wired communication unit 12, a database 13, an operation input unit 14, and a control unit 15.

  The radio communication unit 11 includes a transmission unit and a reception unit, and transmits and receives radio signals from an antenna (not shown) for communicating with the mobile phone 20. In addition, the transmission unit of the wireless communication unit 11 modulates the signal output from the control unit 15 and transmits the modulated signal. When the reception unit of the wireless communication unit 11 receives the signal, the transmission unit demodulates the signal. This is processed and output to the control unit 15.

  The wired communication unit 12 (communication unit) communicates with information output devices scattered in each region via the network 9, and is configured by a network interface, for example. The information output device is a base station device 10 or a fixed point camera device installed in each area of an urban area. In this embodiment, the information output device is mainly described as the base station device 10.

  The database 13 holds regional information regarding a region, and is configured by a storage device. For example, as the information held in the database 13, as shown in FIG. 4, information corresponding to each of a poster, a posting time, a type of area information, and contents of area information is held.

  The operation input unit 14 is composed of a numeric keypad and the like, and inputs an item operated by a user. The input information is output to the control unit 15.

  The control unit 15 includes, for example, a CPU, a ROM, and a RAM that execute a program, and includes a region information receiving unit 16, a specified range receiving unit 17, a region information collecting unit 18, and a region information providing unit 19. These members may be program modules.

  The regional information receiving unit 16 receives regional information posted by the user using the mobile phone 20 via the wireless communication unit 11 and holds the received regional information in the database 13. Further, although the regional information receiving unit 16 receives the regional information via the wireless communication unit 11, the regional information receiving unit 16 may receive the regional information via the wired communication unit 12 or the operation input unit 14.

  The designated range receiving unit 17 is adapted to receive a range designated by the user from the mobile phone 20. In the present embodiment, the designated range is a range within a radius distance centered on the reference position, with the received position of the base station device 10 as the reference position. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, when the user specifies a radius and the base station device 10-1 receives a specified range, the range is determined based on the received position of the base station device 10-1. And within a radius distance centered on the reference position.

  Further, the designated range may be a range within a radial distance centered on the reference position with the position of the mobile phone 20 as a reference position, or centered on the reference position designated on the mobile phone 20. It may be a range within a distance of the radius. Although the designated range receiving unit 17 accepts the range designated from the mobile phone 20, it may be a communication terminal (for example, a personal computer) that communicates with the wired communication unit 12 instead of the mobile phone 20.

  The area information collection unit 18 acquires from the device management server 30 a list of base station devices 10 (which may be fixed point camera devices or others) that are within a range designated from the mobile phone 20 (communication terminal). Yes. In addition, if the base station device 10 has base station information related to the base station devices 10 around it in advance, the regional information collection unit 18 determines whether or not the base station device 10 is based on the base station information. You may make it produce the list | wrist of the base station apparatus 10 of the range which exists in the distance of the radius centering on the position of 10. FIG.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 2, when the base station device 10-1 receives a range based on the designated radius, the area information collection unit 18 uses a radius distance centered on the position of the base station device 10-1. The base station device 10-4 and the base station device 10-5 are acquired as a list of the base station devices 10.

  Further, the area information collection unit 18 collects the area information held by each base station apparatus 10 via the wired communication unit 12 using the IP addresses of the base station apparatuses 10 in the above-described list. For example, the area information collection unit 18 collects area information from the base station apparatus 10 in the list by transmitting a signal indicating a request for area information to the base station apparatus 10 having the IP address in the list.

  The area information providing unit 19 receives the area information (area information acquired from the database 13) held by itself together with the area information of each of the base station devices 10 collected by the area information collecting unit 18 in the designated range. Provided to the mobile phone 20 (communication terminal).

  Further, the area information providing unit 19 arranges the collected area information in the order of the base station apparatus 10 having a short distance from the reference position, or the base station apparatus 10 having a short distance from the reference position at the time of collection. The area information may be provided to the mobile phone 20 (communication terminal) in that order. In this way, the user can refer to the area information in order from the closest position to his / her position, and the base station apparatus 10 can provide convenience to the user.

  FIG. 9 is an image diagram when regional information arranged in the order from the reference position is provided to the user. In FIG. 9, when the base station apparatus 10 is arranged as shown in FIG. 2, the position of the base station apparatus 10-1 is used as a reference position, and its own base station apparatus 10-1 in the specified range. Among the base station devices 10-4 and 10-5, the base station device 10-1, the base station device 10-5, and the base station device 10-4 are close to the reference position in this order. The area information collected from the base station apparatus 10 is arranged. In the case shown in FIG. 9, base station apparatus 10-1 and base station apparatus 10-5 are installed in the same A area, and base station apparatus 10-4 is installed in the B area.

  In addition, when the other base station device 10 collects the area information of the surrounding base station device 10, the control unit 15 obtains from the database 13 because there is a request for collecting the area information from the other base station device 10. The area information thus obtained is output to the base station apparatus 10 that requested the collection.

  FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the device management server according to the present embodiment. The device management server 30 includes a wired communication unit 32, a database 33, an operation input unit 34, a display unit 35, and a control unit 36.

  The wired communication unit 32 communicates with the base station devices 10 scattered in each region via the network 9, and is configured by, for example, a network interface.

  The database 33 holds base station information regarding the base station, and is configured by a storage device. For example, as the information held in the database 33, as shown in FIG. 6A, correspondence information that associates each of the identifier (ID), IP address, location information, and location name of the base station apparatus 10 is held. Has been. Note that the position information is information such as latitude and longitude indicating the position where the base station apparatus 10 is installed.

  The operation input unit 34 is configured by keys and the like, and inputs items operated by the user. The input information is output to the control unit 36. The display unit 35 is a display such as a liquid crystal display.

  The control unit 36 includes, for example, a CPU that executes a program, a ROM, a RAM, and the like, and includes a designated range reception unit 37, a selection unit 38, and a list creation unit 39. These members may be program modules.

  The designated range accepting unit 37 is adapted to accept the designated range from the base station device 10 (information providing device). In the present embodiment, the designated range is a range within a radius distance centered on the reference position, with the position of the base station apparatus 10 that has accepted the designated range as the reference position. As a specific example, 37 receives the ID of the base station apparatus 10 that has received the specified range and the specified radius. Of course, instead of the ID of the base station apparatus 10 that has received the specified range, the position of the mobile phone 20 may be used as the reference position, or the position specified by the mobile phone 20 may be used.

  The selection unit 38 selects the base station device 10 (information output device) within the range accepted by the designated range acceptance unit 37 from the correspondence information shown in FIG. As a specific example, as illustrated in FIG. 2, when the specified range receiving unit 37 receives a range based on the specified radius together with the position of the base station device 10-1 serving as the reference position, the selecting unit 38 The base station device 10-4 and the base station device 10-5 that are within a radius distance centered on the position of the base station device 10-1 are selected.

  The list creation unit 39 creates the base station device 10 (information output device) address selected by the selection unit 38 (and the name of the installation location if necessary) as a list of the base station device 10 and requests the base station device A list of base station apparatuses 10 is output to 10 (information providing apparatus).

  Further, when creating the list, the list creation unit 39 provides the information to the base station device 10 (information providing device) that requests the base station device 10 in the order of the shortest distance between the reference position and the position of the base station device 10. It may be. The list creation unit 39 obtains the distance from the reference position from the position of the base station device 10 in the correspondence information.

  Operations of the base station apparatus 10 and the device management server 30 configured as described above will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 7 is a sequence diagram illustrating an operation example of the base station device 10 and the mobile phone 20 (an operation example of posting regional information).

  First, the area information receiving unit 16 of the base station apparatus 10 receives the area information posted by the user using the mobile phone 20 via the wireless communication unit 11, and holds the received area information in the database 13 (step S1). ). As shown in FIG. 7, when the area information is held in the database 13, the database 13 is in the state shown in FIG.

  As described above, the base station device 10 installed in each region has a lot of various regional information specialized for the region, such as the fact that the user has found a good restaurant in the region and events that have occurred in the region. And is stored in the database 13 of each base station apparatus 10. Since the regional information held in the database 13 of each base station apparatus 10 is posted specifically for the region, it differs depending on the region.

  FIG. 8 is a sequence diagram showing an operation example (operation example of providing regional information) of the base station device 10, the mobile phone 20, and the device management server 30.

  As shown in FIG. 7, in a state where the regional information is held in the database 13 of each base station apparatus 10, the user wants to refer to the regional information, and the user wants to refer to the cellular phone 20. When such information (for example, a radius with the position of the communicating base station apparatus 10 as a reference position) is input, the cellular phone 20 transmits information related to the range to the currently communicating base station apparatus 10 (steps). S11).

  The designated range receiving unit 17 of the base station device 10 accepts the range designated by the user from the mobile phone 20 (step S12), and the area information collecting unit 18 is designated to acquire the list of the base station device 10. And the ID of its own base station device 10 are transmitted to the device management server 30 (step S13).

  Next, the specified range receiving unit 37 of the device management server 30 receives the specified range and the ID of the base station device 10 (step S14), and the selecting unit 38 is within the range received by the specified range receiving unit 37. A certain base station apparatus 10 is selected from the correspondence information shown in FIG. 6 (step S15). As a specific example, when the ID of the base station device 10 received by the designated range receiving unit 37 identifies the base station device 10-1, as shown in FIG. The base station device 10-4 and the base station device 10-5 that are within a radius distance centered on the position 1 are selected.

  The list creation unit 39 of the device management server 30 creates, as a list of the base station device 10, the base station device 10 address (including the location name if necessary) selected by the selection unit 38, and the requested base station device. 10 outputs a list of base station devices 10 (step S16).

  Next, the area information collection unit 18 of the base station apparatus 10 collects the area information held by each of the base station apparatuses 10 in the acquired list of base station apparatuses 10 (step S17), and the area information provision unit 19 The regional information held by itself together with the regional information of each base station device 10 collected by the regional information collecting unit 18 is provided to the mobile phone 20 (communication terminal) when the designated range is received (step S18). ).

  As described above, the area information is managed by the scattered base station apparatuses 10, and the base station apparatus 10 stores the area information held by each of the base station apparatuses 10 within the specified range by the mobile phone 20. Compared to an information center that collectively manages regional information to provide to (communication terminals), it is possible to eliminate useless storage capacity and distribute the processing load for requests for regional information, and the regions where users are located Alternatively, regional information specialized for a specified region can be provided.

  Moreover, although the above-mentioned information output apparatus was demonstrated as the base station apparatus 10, you may mix with a fixed point camera apparatus. In this case, the information output device has types such as a base station device and a fixed point camera device. When the information output device is a fixed point camera device, the regional information is still image data or moving image data obtained from the fixed point camera device.

  When the information output device has a type, the correspondence information shown in FIG. 6 includes the device ID and the type indicating whether the device is a base station or a fixed point camera (as shown in FIG. 6B) (limited to these two types). No), IP address, location information, and location name may correspond.

  When the type of the information output device is specified together with the specified range from the cellular phone 20 (communication terminal), the selection unit 38, in step S15, selects the information output device that is within the range received by the specified range reception unit 37. Is selected from the correspondence information shown in FIG. In step S16, the list creation unit 39 creates a list of information output devices including the address and type of the selected information output device. In step S <b> 17, the area information collection unit 18 of the base station apparatus 10 collects the area information held by the information output apparatus in the acquired information output apparatus list that matches the specified type. In this way, it becomes possible to view an image from a fixed point camera device in a region that the user wants to see, and to view an image specialized in a region such as a traffic jam or a disaster.

  The regional information includes types such as traffic information and weather information in addition to shopping and restaurants, but regional information may be collected corresponding to the type of regional information.

  When the type of area information is specified together with the range from the mobile phone 20 (communication terminal), the area information providing unit 19 specifies the specified area information among the area information collected by the area information collecting unit 18 in step S18. Is provided to the mobile phone 20 (communication terminal) when the specified range is received. In this way, it is possible to provide regional information that matches the user's preference. Further, even when the designated range is wide and the number of regional information is large, the base station apparatus 10 can narrow down the information efficiently.

  The present invention eliminates useless storage capacity and can perform processing load distribution for a request for area information, and has an effect of providing area information specialized for a user's area or a specified area. Therefore, it is useful for a wide range of information providing devices, base station devices, and device management servers that provide regional information about regions.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 9 Network 10, 90 Base station apparatus 11 Wireless communication part 12 Wired communication part 13 Database 14 Operation input part 15 Control part 16 Area information reception part 17 Designated range reception part 18 Area information collection part 19 Area information provision part 20 Cellular phone 30 Equipment Management server 32 Wired communication unit 33 Database 34 Operation input unit 35 Display unit 36 Control unit 37 Designated range reception unit 38 Selection unit 39 List creation unit 80 Information center

Claims (3)

A communication unit that communicates with an information output device in each area via a network;
A wireless communication unit that wirelessly communicates with a communication terminal;
A database holding regional information;
An area information collection unit for collecting area information held by the database and the information output device;
The base station apparatus provided with the information provision part which provides the regional information collected by the said regional information collection part to the communication terminal which communicates with the said radio | wireless communication part. The regional information is still image or video data,
The base according to claim 1, wherein the database holds still image or moving image data, and the information providing unit provides the held still image or moving image data to a communication terminal that communicates with the wireless communication unit. Station equipment. A control unit;
A database,
A communication unit that communicates with an information output device in each area via a network;
In a control method of a base station apparatus including a wireless communication unit that wirelessly communicates with a communication terminal,
Collecting regional information held by the database and the information output device;
Providing the collected area information to a communication terminal communicating with the wireless communication unit.

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