JP2014189338A - Elevator system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator system which can guide users of a car as to the order of getting on according to destination floors so that users for more distant floors get on in the recess of the car.SOLUTION: In registering of destination floors by a landing destination floor registration device, an allocated car guides getting-on users after landing on a registered floor as to the order of getting on according to the distances of the destination floors among registered destination floors of the car. Because users can get on in the place of the car closer to the door according to the order of getting off, the trouble that, on the car's stopping at a neighbor floor, users for subsequent floors get off the car temporarily for users getting off from the recess of the car and get on again can be avoided, leading to an effect of improving the whole operation efficiency.

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator system for landing a passenger car in a hoistway on a landing and getting on and off a passenger, and more particularly to an elevator system that provides boarding guidance when a passenger gets on the passenger car.

  In recent years, in a group management system that collectively manages a plurality of elevators, there is a method in which elevator users register destination calls before boarding. Registration of the destination call is performed by a landing destination floor registration device installed at the landing. There are various registration methods for landing destination floor registration devices, such as a numeric keypad method, a destination floor button method, and automatic registration using a card reader or the like.

  As a major feature, by registering a destination call before boarding, it becomes possible to smoothly distribute passengers to any of a plurality of cars, and to reduce congestion at the time of boarding. In addition, button operation in the passenger car becomes unnecessary, which contributes to improvement of convenience. However, if the passenger cannot get on the assigned car correctly, even if the optimal assignment is made, it does not make sense, so after registering the destination floor from the landing, the passenger can be smoothly moved to the assigned car Various guidance methods have been proposed in order to get on the vehicle accurately.

  For example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2012-188179 (Patent Document 1), the guide device is provided outside the car, and the passenger boarding according to the registered destination floor when the destination floor is registered by the registration device. Provide guidance to the basket. And the registration apparatus can register the destination in a building by a non-normal user. When the destination is registered by the registration device, the guidance device provides guidance to the car that gets on the destination according to the registered destination, and guidance to the registered destination after getting off the boarding car. Shown to do.

  In Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2011-057322 (Patent Document 2), a passenger in a passenger car is detected by a customer detection device, and the information of the customer and the information of the customer recorded in the information recording unit. A technique for collating the information with an information collating unit is disclosed. The information processing unit determines the presence or absence of passengers getting off at the arrival floor of the car based on the comparison result, and issues a notification instruction to the voice announcement device and display device in the car through the command unit when there is a passenger getting off. By notifying that there are passengers getting off, the convenience of users is improved.

JP 2012-188179 A JP 2011-057322 A

  In the above-mentioned patent document, the passenger car is assigned to each destination floor, so that the user can get on the car accordingly. However, if the passenger gets on the destination floor without considering the order of getting off at the destination floor during a busy hour, for example, if the passenger on the farthest floor gets on the door of the car, the car is operated and the floor near the departure floor When it stops, it is necessary that the passenger on the farthest floor near the door gets off once and the passenger on the nearest floor gets off and then gets on again. Therefore, operation efficiency deteriorates because the time to stop at the nearby floor becomes longer due to these passengers getting on and off.

  In addition, if a passenger on the nearby floor gets on the far side of the car that is almost full, it takes time to land on the nearby floor and the passenger on the nearby floor gets off, and it remains. Since the passengers are disembarking and getting off, the psychological burden on the passengers and the remaining passengers increases.

  In Patent Document 1, guidance from a guidance device to a destination is performed, but the above problem cannot be solved because guidance is not provided so that a passenger is boarded in consideration of the order of getting off at a destination floor.

  In Patent Document 2, when the elevator stops, a device is devised to reduce the psychological burden of the passengers getting off by providing guidance that prompts the passengers to get off. Since the boarding guide is not provided to the user, the passengers near the doors get off and get on again when getting off, causing a phenomenon that the stop time of the car becomes long.

  The objective of this invention is providing the elevator system which can guide the passenger | crew's passenger the boarding order according to the destination floor so that the user of a far floor may get in the back of a car.

  A feature of the present invention is that, when the assigned car arrives at the registration floor and the passenger gets on the board, the passenger on the far floor among the destination floors where the car is registered gets on the car first. It is characterized by providing guidance for prompting.

  According to the present invention, since the passengers can get on in the order of getting off from the vicinity of the door of the car, when the user stops at the nearby floor, the user on the far floor can use it to get off from the back of the car. By removing the trouble of getting out of the car once and getting on again, it is possible to improve the overall operation efficiency.

  In addition, a secondary effect of reducing the user's psychological burden can be expected by preventing the passengers from getting off the passengers in the car from the back of the car.

It is a schematic diagram of the elevator system used for one embodiment of the present invention. It is a schematic diagram before the elevator boarding at the time of the conventional congestion. It is a schematic diagram after the elevator boarding at the time of the conventional congestion. It is a schematic diagram before the elevator disembarkation at the time of the conventional congestion. It is a schematic diagram during the elevator getting off at the time of the conventional congestion. It is the general | schematic figure when the passenger to the 4th floor at the time of the conventional congestion is getting off the elevator. It is a schematic diagram of a passenger to the fifth floor during a conventional congestion when the elevator is re-ridden. It is a schematic diagram before the elevator boarding used for one Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic diagram in the elevator boarding used for one Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic diagram after the elevator boarding used for one Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic diagram before an elevator alighting used for one Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic diagram after the elevator alighting used for one Embodiment of this invention. It is a basic operation | movement flowchart in case there exists a hall destination floor input part used for one Embodiment of this invention. It is a boarding guidance display figure of a portable terminal used for one embodiment of the present invention. It is a boarding standby display figure of a portable terminal used for one embodiment of the present invention. It is a passenger guidance display figure in a passenger car of a portable terminal used for one embodiment of the present invention. It is a boarding guidance display figure by the portable terminal corresponding to the door in a plurality of passenger cars used for one embodiment of the present invention. It is a basic operation | movement flowchart in case there is no hall destination floor input part used for other embodiment of this invention.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments, and various modifications and application examples are included in the technical concept of the present invention. It is included in the range.

  The group management control system that collectively manages a plurality of cars serving multiple floors is optimal for the human traffic that changes from moment to moment in response to calls from the landing by passengers. The operation is managed by selecting a passenger car and minimizing the waiting time at the landing.

  In recent years, systems using a landing destination floor registration apparatus that can register a destination floor from a landing are also increasing. By registering the destination floor from the landing, it is possible to reduce the number of stops of the car as a whole by combining passengers with the same stop floor as much as possible into one car, and as a result, improving the overall operation efficiency Can be achieved.

  Although FIG. 1 shows an outline of an elevator system used in an embodiment of the present invention, the elevator system is a typical embodiment, and the present invention is not limited to this.

  In FIG. 1, a landing destination floor input unit 1 is, for example, a destination floor registration device installed at a landing, and a destination floor intended by a user can be input by a destination floor input unit 1a. The input destination floor information is transmitted to the group management control system 7 via the input / output control system 2. Based on the destination floor entered in the group management control system 7, the optimum assigned car is determined in consideration of the traffic situation that changes from time to time, and the assigned car information is transmitted via the input / output control system 2. To do. At the same time, the destination floors are registered in the car control systems 4a, 4b, and 4c corresponding to the assigned cars, and the elevators 5a, 5b, and 5c start the service based on the registered destination floor information. Then, the cars 6a, 6b, 6c are directed to the floor where the input of the landing destination floor input unit 1 is performed.

  The notification unit 1b of the hall destination floor input unit 1 that has received the assigned car information notifies the user so that the assigned car can be recognized. As a notification method, there are various methods such as a method of displaying an assigned car on a liquid crystal monitor of a destination floor registration device installed at a hall, and a method of announcing an assigned car.

  When the cars 6a, 6b, 6c arrive at the floor where the input of the landing destination floor input unit 1 is performed, boarding guidance is provided by the boarding boarding guidance notification system 3. This boarding guidance is a feature of the present embodiment, in which the registered floors of the passengers are arranged in the order of distant floors, and the useless stop time associated with getting off is suppressed. This guidance method will be described in detail later.

  The group management control system 7 includes an operation management control system 7a that manages the operation of a plurality of cars, a learning system 7b that determines which driving program is optimal from the collected information by daily operation management, It has an intelligent system 7c that performs a simulation from the collected information and automatically generates an optimal driving program.

  The operation management control system 7a in the group management control system 7 is registered with the destination floor from the destination floor information transmitted via the input / output control system 2 by the destination floor registration processing unit 7aa for registering the destination floor, The optimal allocation at that time is performed, and the allocation car that can transport the passengers most smoothly is determined. At this time, the destination floor user count processing unit 7ab for counting the number of users by floor is provided. Further, the current traffic situation is judged based on the traffic situation obtained from the learning system 7b and the traffic situation obtained from the destination floor user count processing unit 7ab. ] Or a traffic situation determination processing unit 7ac for determining “invalid”. In this embodiment, the determination condition “valid” or “invalid” is “valid” when the hall is congested. This determination condition will also be described later.

  After that, only when it is determined as “valid” by the traffic situation determination processing unit 7ac, when the car registered by the destination floor registration processing unit 7aa stops at the destination call creation floor by the boarding boarding guidance processing unit 7ad, The notification information is transmitted to the boarding boarding guidance notifying system 3 via the input / output control system 2 in order to perform a process of prompting the user to board the registered destination floor of the car in order of distant floor.

  Further, the current traffic situation can be recognized from the daily operation state by the learning system 7b in the group management control system 7. The learning system 7b in the group management control system 7 learns the traffic situation based on the car usage information such as the car position and the number of passengers and the destination floor information, and what kind of driving program is suitable at that time. Judging. For this reason, whether the number of passengers by floor indicating the flow of people in the building belongs to one of the characteristic modes indicating the typical traffic situation in the building is identified from the online input information.

  The feature mode indicates the situation of the traffic situation divided into a certain number by the downlink and uplink traffic information. Usually, in the case of an office building, the traffic situation with a small number of passengers both up and down is called quiet, the traffic situation with many people going up and down is called up-peak, and the traffic situation with many people getting on and off is called down-peak. The feature mode has a feature depending on the property of the building, and a new feature may be extracted from the collected traffic situation. When a new feature is extracted, it is generated and registered as a feature mode unique to the building, and the tendency of changes in other feature modes is learned.

  When it is determined that the current traffic situation is congested, for example, when it is in an up-peak state, the hall boarding guidance notification system 3 is set to “valid”. If the current traffic situation is quiet, the platform boarding guidance notification system 3 is set to “invalid” and operation is not permitted unless the inside of the car is expected to be congested. When the traffic situation is up-peak, it is expected that there will be many people at the landing, and by using the elevator system as in this example, the stop due to the unnecessary getting on and off the car It is possible to suppress the extension of time and reduce the psychological burden on the user when getting off the vehicle.

  However, if it is in a quiet state, the above-mentioned boarding guidance is not expected to be very effective, and in the situation where the effect is not expected, it will make the passenger uncomfortable if the information is intentionally announced at the platform. There is a fear. Therefore, the current traffic situation is judged based on the information learned from the daily traffic situation obtained from the learning system 7b, and it is possible to switch between “valid” and “invalid” of the boarding board guidance information system 3 according to this traffic situation. And

  Further, if the number of stop floors scheduled for registered cars and the number of registered passengers are not equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold based on information obtained from the destination floor user count processing unit 7ab, a wasteful notification is issued. In order to avoid making passengers uncomfortable, the boarding guidance in the car is made “invalid”.

  The elevator system according to the present embodiment is configured to determine the current congestion state based on the predicted congestion state obtained from past learning information and the number of registrations counted by the destination floor user count processing unit 7ab. Has been. The congestion status obtained from the destination floor user count processing unit 7ab is based on information such as the number of passengers at which the arrival car stops and the number of registered passengers. It is possible to determine the congestion situation almost accurately because it can be grasped before starting.

  Predicted congestion status obtained from past learning information can be used to identify extra passengers that occur outside of the registered floors and congestion status that occurs when the number of passengers is not input correctly by the landing destination floor input unit 1 It is effective for.

  The case where the number of persons is not accurately input by the landing destination floor input unit 1 as described above is a case where there is a group consisting of a plurality of persons whose destination floor is the same destination floor, and one input by the landing destination floor input unit 1 On the other hand, multiple people share the information. For example, when a group of 5 people going to the 5th floor uses the landing destination floor input unit 1, one person inputs from the landing destination floor input unit 1, and 5 people get on the registered car as it is It is. Therefore, the user is regarded as one person.

  In this case, on the elevator system side, it is counted that only one passenger gets on, but when getting on, the approximate number of people can be grasped by the load sensor installed in the car It becomes. Therefore, it is desirable that the current traffic situation is determined based on past traffic information as well as the number of passengers in the destination floor user count processing unit 7ab.

  However, the condition for judging the congestion situation is not limited to this, and for example, a method of grasping the congestion situation of the hall using a load sensor, a camera, a detector using a light source such as an infrared ray provided at the hall. But it ’s okay. In short, it is only necessary to grasp the congestion situation, and various grasping methods may be used.

  Furthermore, a switching switch or the like may be provided on the monitoring panel, for example, according to the request of the owner of the building or the management company, and the switching can be made to be always “valid” or “invalid” by turning on / off the switch.

  As an example for realizing the present embodiment, guidance can be provided for a call registered by a landing destination floor registration device that can register a destination floor of a car from the landing.

  Next, call registration at the time of congestion that is most effective in the present embodiment will be described. As described above, even if passengers with the same stop floor are assigned to the assigned car for the purpose of improving the overall operation efficiency by the landing destination floor input unit 1 (the landing destination floor registration device), the operation depends on the operation. The phenomenon that efficiency becomes worse occurs.

  Before explaining the outline of the present embodiment, when traffic demand is congested, an example is a case where passengers to the 4th and 8th floors are assigned to one car, and the conventional operation without adjusting the boarding order. The method explains the situation where the efficiency deteriorates.

  2 to 7 show a case where the car is operated by performing normal boarding without using this embodiment. The state of getting on from the lobby floor is shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the state of getting off at the fourth floor is shown in FIGS.

  First, FIG. 2 shows a state before boarding on the lobby floor. The assigned car 10 is assigned by the registration of the landing destination floor registration device, and the fourth and eighth floors are registered in the assigned car 10. The passenger 13 on the 4th floor and the customer 12 on the 8th floor are respectively guided to the front of the assigned car 10 in the registered order. Thereafter, the assigned car 10 arrives and the door is opened. At this time, the arrival guidance of the car is generally notified to the user by the visual guidance display and the auditory guidance sound such as a lantern, a chime sound and an arrival announcement provided at the hall.

  FIG. 3 shows a state in which the passengers aligned in FIG. 2 are on board when the assigned car 10 arrives and the door is opened. The customer 13 on the 4th floor and the customer 12 on the 8th floor are arranged in the registration order under the situation of FIG. 2, and in the crowded state, they are arranged from the vicinity of the door in the registered order as described above. When the doors are opened upon arrival of the assigned car 10, the passengers in the vicinity of the doors get on in the order in which they are arranged. When the boarding is completed and the door opening time expires or the door closing button in the assigned car 10 is pushed, the door is closed and the registered destination floor is serviced.

  FIG. 4 shows a state where the assigned car 10 arrives at the registered fourth floor and the passenger 13 on the fourth floor gets off. The problem here is that, as described above, the passengers were boarded in the order in which they were arranged, so that one of the passengers 12 on the 8th floor boarded near the door of the assigned car 10 in front of the passenger 13 on the 4th floor. That is.

  FIG. 5 shows a state where the passenger is getting off on the fourth floor. In general, when such a situation occurs in a quiet state, the passenger 13 on the fourth floor who gets off in the assigned car 10 gets off smoothly by avoiding the passenger 12 on the eighth floor who gets in the vicinity of the door. It is possible. However, in this example, when it is congested and the assigned car 10 is almost full, the passenger 13 on the fourth floor avoids the passenger 13 on the fourth floor in the assigned car 10. Generally difficult. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 5, a situation occurs in which the passenger 12 on the eighth floor once gets off at the landing near the door.

  FIG. 6 shows that the passenger 13 on the fourth floor gets off smoothly when the passenger 12 on the eighth floor gets off at the hall near the door. After confirming that the passenger 13 on the fourth floor has got off, the passenger 12 on the eighth floor gets on again.

  In FIG. 7, the passenger 12 on the 8th floor has completed the boarding, and the assigned car 10 closes the door and moves to the next registered 8th floor.

  In the group management system with a landing destination floor registration device, allotted cars are allocated, and passengers to the same destination floor are allocated to one car, thereby reducing the number of stop floors and improving the overall operation efficiency. . However, in a crowded state, if the passengers ride in the order of registration, and the passengers on the far floor and the passengers on the nearby floor are mixed, the stop floor (especially the nearby floor of the departure floor) Due to unnecessary boarding / exiting of passengers, the stop time of the car becomes longer, resulting in a situation where the overall operation efficiency deteriorates.

  The present embodiment provides a boarding guidance notification system for notifying the passengers that when the assigned car arrives in such a congested state, the passengers are boarded in order of distance from the registered floor of the car. It is characterized by providing. By boarding in order from the far floor, passengers on the far floor get on the back of the assigned car and passengers on the nearby floor get on near the door in the assigned car. In the present embodiment, the passenger 12 on the eighth floor travels toward the back of the assigned car, and the passenger 13 on the fourth floor can get in the vicinity of the door.

  FIG. 8 to FIG. 12 show an outline of operation management based on this embodiment. The state of getting on from the lobby floor is shown in FIGS. 8 to 10, and the state of getting off on the fourth floor is shown in FIGS. FIG. 13 shows a basic operation flowchart according to this embodiment.

  FIG. 8 shows the state before boarding on the lobby floor, and the assigned car 10 is assigned by the registration of the landing destination floor registration device, and the fourth and eighth floor destination floors are registered in the assigned car 10. It is the state that was done. The passenger 13 on the 4th floor and the customer 12 on the 8th floor are respectively guided to the front of the assigned car 10 in the registered order. Thereafter, the assigned car arrives and the door opens. At this time, the arrival information of the car is generally notified to the user by the visual guidance display and the audible guidance sound such as a lantern, a chime sound and an arrival announcement provided at the hall.

  Here, the boarding guidance which becomes a present Example is notified. Specifically, in this embodiment, a boarding announcement is sent from a speaker installed in an appliance box 11 mounted on the car. The notification content is, for example, an announcement such as “Please board the passengers on the 8th floor passengers”, and then the car 10 Announcements to encourage passengers to ride in the order of distant floors of destination floors registered in.

  FIG. 9 shows a state in which passengers arranged in FIG. 8 are on board when the assigned car 10 arrives and the door is opened. By the announcement described above, the passenger 12 on the eighth floor gets on the board first and gets into the back of the car.

  In FIG. 10, after the passenger 12 of the 8th floor gets on by the above-mentioned announcement, the state where the 4th floor user 13 gets on is shown. According to the present embodiment, among the registered destination floors in the assigned car 10, the passenger 12 on the 8th floor, which is the far floor, gets into the back of the car, and the passenger 13 on the 4th floor, which is the nearby floor, It is possible to get in the vicinity of the door. Then, when the passenger boarding is completed and the door opening time expires or the door closing button in the assigned car 10 is pressed, the door is closed and the registered destination floor is serviced.

  FIG. 11 shows a situation where the assigned passenger car 10 arrives at the registered fourth floor and the passenger 13 on the fourth floor gets off. Since the passenger 13 on the 4th floor was originally in the vicinity of the door, it is possible for the passenger 13 on the 4th floor to get off smoothly as compared with FIGS.

  In FIG. 12, the passenger 13 on the fourth floor gets off and the assigned car 10 closes the door when the door opening time expires, or the door closing button in the assigned car B0 is pushed, and then registered. It shows a situation toward the 8th floor.

  According to this embodiment, since passengers can get in the order of getting off from the vicinity of the door of the car, when stopping at the nearby floor, for the user getting off from the back of the car, once from the car By removing the trouble of getting off and getting on again, the overall operation efficiency can be improved.

  Further, it is possible to expect a secondary effect of reducing the user's psychological burden by preventing the passengers from getting inside the car from getting off the car from the back side of the car.

  Next, the basic operation flow used in this embodiment will be described in detail for each step with reference to FIG.

<< Step S100 >>
In step S100, it is determined whether the destination floor has been input by the landing destination floor registration device. If registered, the process proceeds to step S101. If not registered, the process returns to the first step and waits.

<< Step S101 >>
In step S101, the destination floor input by the landing destination floor registration device is registered in the group management control system, and the assigned car is registered. The assigned car is displayed on a display device installed in the landing destination floor registration device. For example, when a user who wants to go to the third floor selects the third floor, the group management control system registers this and notifies the display device of the assigned car platform.

<< Step S102 >>
In step S102, it is determined whether or not the car input from step S100 and displayed in step S101 has arrived at the landing. If it has arrived, the process proceeds to step S103. If it has not arrived, the process returns to the first step while maintaining the registration in step S101 and waits for input by the next landing destination floor registration device.

<< Step S103 >>
In step S103, the current traffic situation is determined, and if it is in a normal state or a quiet state, the process is terminated, and the car performs the service as it is conventionally. If it is determined that the traffic is congested, the subsequent processing is validated, and the process proceeds to step S104. As a judgment criterion at this time, the judgment is made based on the traffic situation obtained from the learning system 7b and the current statistical information by the destination floor user count processing unit 7ab.

<< Step S104 >>
In step S104, the number of passengers in the car at the time of arrival is ascertained, and it is determined whether the number of passengers is below a certain threshold. For example, the number of passengers can be ascertained with a load sensor, and if this number of passengers is greater than or equal to a threshold value, it is predicted that the car is full or cannot be boarded any more, so the process is terminated. The car will continue to service as before. If it is equal to or less than the threshold value, the process proceeds to step S105.

<< Step S105 >>
In step S105, the number of passengers in the car at the time of arrival is ascertained, and it is determined whether the number of passengers is “0”. If it is “0”, the process proceeds to step S107, and if it is not “0”, the process proceeds to step S106.

<< Step S106 >>
In step S106, guidance is provided to create a boarding space when a passenger boardes from the boarding area in the car. As a notification method, for example, an announcement in the car is used to provide guidance such as “A passenger from the ○ floor to the X floor is boarded. Please vacate the boarding space.” In addition to the announcement in the car, a configuration may be adopted in which guidance is displayed on a liquid crystal panel installed in the car operation panel.

<< Step S107 >>
In step S107, it is determined as information obtained from the destination floor user count processing unit 7ab whether the expected number of passengers of the arriving car is equal to or greater than a certain threshold. If it is less than or equal to the threshold value, the process is terminated and the car is serviced as it is. If it is equal to or greater than the threshold, the process proceeds to step S108.

<< Step S108 >>
In step S108, it is determined whether the number of registered floors of the arriving car is equal to or greater than a certain threshold as information obtained from the destination floor user count processing unit 7ab. If it is less than or equal to the threshold value, the process is terminated and the car is serviced as it is. If it is equal to or greater than the threshold, the process proceeds to step S109.

<< Step S109 >>
In step S109, as shown in FIG. 8, the platform guides the passengers to get on the farthest floor of the destination floor where the car is registered, as shown in FIG. As guidance methods, voice announcements to passengers at the hall, LCD displays near the doors, liquid crystal panels provided at the hall, hall panels, etc. Please display "or the like, and display guidance information sequentially.

  Furthermore, a method of displaying on the screen of a mobile terminal or the like brought by each user in order of getting on board in order of far floors, voice guidance by the mobile terminal side, guidance by vibration at the timing when the user can board, or the like may be used.

  In the basic operation described above, the current traffic situation is judged, the subsequent processing is “valid” or “invalid”, and if it is judged that the traffic situation is not congested, the guidance process as in this embodiment is performed. Absent. This demonstrates the effect to the maximum when the present embodiment is congested, and unnecessary guidance processing may cause a noise problem in some cases, so this processing is not performed as much as possible when the effect is not expected. It is for doing so. In that case, if the traffic situation is congested, and the registered destination floor is below a certain threshold, and in the extreme case only the first floor, the guidance process is similarly set to “invalid” Like to do.

  Further, if the vehicle load information obtained from the load sensor in the car 10 or the number of registrations by the landing destination floor registration device does not exceed a certain threshold value, the car 10 is not judged as being congested. The guidance process may be “invalid”. In addition, the fixed threshold value shown here can be changed according to demand, and it is desirable that the group management control system sets an optimum numerical value specific to the building from daily operation information.

  As a notification method, FIGS. 14 and 15 show screens on which boarding guidance is displayed on a mobile terminal as an example of other guidance display.

  FIG. 14 shows an outline of the portable terminal C1 displaying that the passengers are boarded in order of distant floor. In order to improve convenience in addition to the boarding guidance, the assigned car number display C1A and the assigned car stop floor C1B are shown. Is displayed. Accordingly, the user can surely grasp his / her assigned car and know what floor service the car will perform from each portable terminal. Furthermore, the guidance display C1C makes it possible to grasp to which floor the passenger guidance for the registered car is currently being provided.

  In FIG. 15, the outline | summary of the portable terminal D1 in case the destination call information of each customer is considered on the portable terminal side is shown. For this purpose, similarly to the display in FIG. 14, the assigned car number display D1A and the assigned floor stop floor D1B are displayed. In addition, since each mobile terminal has registration information, it is possible to confirm the guidance to the passengers who are currently providing the boarding guidance, and to the passengers in the nearby floor, In order to alleviate, a boarding standby screen as in D1C is displayed.

  In addition to displaying guidance on the screen of the mobile terminal held by the user as shown in FIG. 14 and FIG. 15, the user is informed in the order of the user from the mobile terminal to the far floor by sound guidance or vibration. The method to do may be used.

  Further, as another form of using the mobile terminal, when informing the passengers already in the car to free up the boarding space, the announcement shown in step S106 or the liquid crystal panel installed in the car operation panel As shown in E1C on the screen of the portable terminal E1 as shown in FIG. 16, it is also effective to notify the passengers in the car so as to free up space in the car. It is. Note that the portable terminal in FIG. 16 displays the assigned car number display E1A and the assigned floor stop E1B as well as the display in FIG.

  In addition, when there are multiple car doors at symmetrical positions in the car, it is predicted that the car will be used on the destination floor of one of the cars when guiding the passenger. By performing the boarding guidance display so as to get in the vicinity of the door, it becomes possible to prevent the stop time due to getting off from being prolonged.

  In that case, as shown in FIG. 17, for example, guidance is notified on the screen of the portable terminal F1 so as to get in the vicinity of the car door as in F1C. In FIG. 17, the door names A and B are written on the wall surfaces near the plurality of car doors F2 and F3, and the door name B expected to be used when the user gets off the vehicle is displayed on the screen of the portable terminal F1. Like to do.

  Similarly, FIG. 17 not only displays guidance on the screen of the mobile terminal held by the user, but also provides guidance to the user by sound guidance or vibration in order of the users on the far floor from the mobile terminal, A method using a display provided in the hall or the car, voice guidance, or the like may be used.

  As described above, in this embodiment, it is intended to improve the operation efficiency by shortening the stop time of the car only when necessary by judging the congestion situation, etc., but this embodiment is only one example. However, it is not limited to this. Although the guidance processing is “valid” or “invalid” depending on the traffic situation, registered floor, boarding rate, etc., it is needless to say that guidance notification may always be performed according to the customer's request.

  In the first embodiment described above, the landing destination floor input unit 1 is used. However, the present invention can be applied even when the input from the landing is a normal landing button.

  In this case, the number of passengers on the destination floor cannot be determined immediately from the landing, so the congestion status can be determined by determining whether the guidance notification is “valid” or “invalid” depending on the predicted congestion status obtained from past learning information. Can be switched. In determining the traffic situation, as described above, for example, a configuration in which the congestion state of the hall is grasped by using a load sensor provided at the hall, or a detector such as a camera or an infrared ray may be used.

  With regard to the point of giving priority to passengers on the far floor in the registered car, the direction of the car and the stop zone that is expected to stop in that direction are recognized, and the zone is halved. Alternatively, it is possible to divide the vehicle into three parts and perform boarding guidance in order of distance from the divided zones. A specific control flow will be described in detail for each step.

<< Step S200 >>
In step S200, it is determined whether registration has been performed using a normal hall button. If registered, the process proceeds to step S201. If not registered, the process returns to the first step and waits.

<< Step S201 >>
In step S201, a car that performs optimal service is assigned to the floor registered in step S200. At this time, a car is assigned from various indexes so that the waiting time for the customers of the entire building is shortened.

<< Step S202 >>
In step S202, it is determined whether or not the car input from step S200 and assigned in step S201 has arrived at the landing. If it has arrived, the process proceeds to step S203. If it has not arrived, the process returns to the first step while maintaining the registration in step S201.

<< Step S203 >>
In step S203, the current traffic situation is determined, and if it is in a normal state or a quiet state, the process is terminated, and the car is serviced as it is. If it is determined that the traffic is congested, the subsequent processing is set to “valid”, and the process proceeds to step S204. As a judgment criterion at this time, the judgment is made based on the traffic situation obtained from the learning system 7b and the congestion situation of the hall obtained by other sensors.

<< Step S204 >>
In step S204, it is determined whether the registered number of passengers in the car is greater than a certain threshold. At this time, the number of passengers in the car is calculated based on information obtained from, for example, a load sensor installed in the car. If it is equal to or greater than the threshold value, it is predicted that the car is full or cannot be boarded any more, and the processing is terminated and the conventional service is performed as it is. If it is equal to or less than the threshold value, the process proceeds to step S205.

<< Step S205 >>
In step S205, the directionality of the car is recognized. The directionality recognized at this time is held in the computer and the process proceeds to step S206.

<< Step S206 >>
In step S206, the predicted maximum stop floor number of the car is recognized based on the direction obtained from step S205. For example, suppose that the building button on the 10th floor is registered in the UP direction from the 2nd floor. In this case, since the maximum number of stop floors predicted for the car is the number of floors from the 3rd floor to the 10th floor, it is determined to be 8 floors.

<< Step S207 >>
In step S207, the number of stop floors obtained in step S206 is divided into the number of areas determined in advance. According to the above example, when the number of areas determined in advance is 3, when dividing the area with respect to the 8th floor, the area is divided into 2 floors, and only the nearby area is set to 4 floors. Specifically, the 10th and 9th floor areas are defined as the 1st area, the 8th and 7th floor areas as the 2nd area, and the 6th to 3rd floor areas as the 3rd area.

<< Step S208 >>
In step S208, as shown in FIG. 8, guidance is provided so that the passengers get in the order of the far areas of the car. As guidance methods, voice announcements to passengers at the hall, LCD displays near the doors, liquid crystal panels provided at the hall, hall panels, etc. "Please get on." May be displayed and guidance information may be displayed sequentially.

  As described above, according to the present invention, in the destination floor registration by the landing destination floor registration device, when the assigned car arrives at the registration floor and the passenger gets on the car, the destination where the car is registered In the floor, guidance was given to encourage people to board in the order of distant floors.

  As a result, passengers can get in the order of getting off from the vicinity of the door of the car, so when they stop on the nearby floor, they get off the car once to get off from the back of the car, and again By eliminating the trouble of getting on the vehicle, the overall operation efficiency can be improved. In addition, by preventing passengers from getting inside the car from getting off the car from the back side of the car, a secondary effect such as reducing the psychological burden on the user can be expected. .

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Platform destination floor input part, 1a ... Destination floor input part, 1b ... Notification part, 2 ... Input / output control system, 3 ... Boarding boarding guidance information system, 4a, 4b, 4c ... Unit control system, 5a, 5b, 5c Elevator, 6a, 6b, 6c ... Ride car, 7 ... Group management control system, 7a ... Operation management control system, 7b ... Learning system, 7c ... Intelligent system 7aa ... Destination floor registration processing unit, 7ab ... Destination floor user count Processing unit, 7ac ... traffic condition judgment processing unit, 7ad ... guidance notification processing unit, 10 ... assigned car, 11 ... appliance box, 12 ... 8th floor passenger, 13 ... 4th floor passenger, C1, D1, E1, F1 ... mobile terminals, F2, F3 ... inside car doors.

Claims (11)

An operation management control unit that manages the operation of a car that operates on multiple floors and determines the assigned car so that the operation of the car is optimized for a call, and a traffic condition judgment that determines the current traffic condition In an elevator system equipped with a processing unit,
A guidance processing device for performing guidance processing for encouraging a passenger to get on the assigned car in the order of the distant floor among the predicted stop floors when the assigned car arrives at a landing corresponding to the call; Elevator system characterized by having. In the elevator system according to claim 1,
A landing destination floor input section that allows the user to input the destination floor at the landing,
A destination floor registration unit for registering a destination floor input from the landing destination floor input unit;
A destination floor use number totalization processing unit for grasping the predicted number of passengers in the car from the number registered from the landing destination floor registration unit,
The elevator system according to claim 1, wherein the predicted stop floor is a destination floor that is input by a passenger by the destination floor input unit and registered in the assigned car. In the elevator system according to claim 1,
The elevator system is characterized in that the predicted stop floor is divided into areas of the number of floors, and the guidance processing unit executes guidance processing for prompting passengers to get on the assigned car in order of distant areas. . In the elevator system in any one of Claims 1 thru | or 3,
When the traffic status determination processing unit determines that the current traffic status is congested, the guidance processing by the guidance processing device is enabled, and when the traffic status determination processing unit determines that the current traffic status is other than the congestion status An elevator system that invalidates the guidance processing by the guidance processing device. In the elevator system in any one of Claims 1 thru | or 3,
The elevator system, wherein the guidance processing by the guidance processing device is invalidated when the destination floor user count processing unit determines that the predicted number of passengers in the assigned car does not exceed a certain threshold . In the elevator system in any one of Claims 1 thru | or 3,
The elevator system, wherein the guidance processing by the guidance processing device is invalidated when the number of destination floors registered in the assigned car does not exceed a threshold value. In the elevator system according to claim 5 or claim 6,
The operation management control unit has a learning system for learning daily traffic conditions,
The elevator system according to claim 1, wherein the threshold value is set by a numerical value obtained based on daily operation information obtained from a learning system. In the elevator system in any one of Claims 1 thru | or 3,
The guidance processing device, when there are passengers in the assigned car, in order to smoothly get on from the landing before arriving at the floor inputted from the landing destination floor input unit, An elevator system characterized by providing guidance to the passengers in the allotted passenger car to make a space inside. In the elevator system according to any one of claims 1 to 3 and claim 8,
Instead of the guidance processing device, the guidance system is notified by an information terminal carried by a user. The elevator system according to claim 9,
The information terminal displays a guidance for waiting for boarding on a portable terminal held by a passenger on the neighboring floor while guiding the passenger on a different floor other than the neighboring floor. Elevator system. The elevator system according to claim 9,
In the case where the assigned car has a plurality of doors, the information terminal displays a guidance that the user gets in the vicinity of the door that is predicted to be used when getting off the vehicle. Elevator system.

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