JP2015020853A - Lifting device, and mobile terminal for the lifting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a user to most quickly arrive at a destination by indicating lifting means allowing the most quick arrival at the destination before the user planning to utilize an elevator arrives at an installation place of the elevator.SOLUTION: A lifting device has an elevator 1, an escalator 2, and stairs 3 performing service between a plurality of floors. A user planning to utilize the elevator is made to carry a mobile terminal capable of performing transmission/reception to/from an elevator controller 50 controlling the elevator 1. When the user has transmitted a destination floor to the elevator controller from the mobile terminal, the elevator controller transmits a required time to the destination floor from a present floor in each of the cases that the user utilizes the elevator, the escalator, and the stairs to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal has display means capable of displaying the transmitted required times.

Description

  The present invention relates to a lifting device provided with an elevator and lifting means other than the elevator, and a portable terminal suitable for use in the lifting device.

  Patent Document 1 describes that it is determined which one of an elevator and another means of transportation is to be selected to improve passenger movement efficiency. In the elevator system described in this publication, the elevator required time calculation unit calculates the required time when the elevator is used, and the escalator required time calculation unit calculates the required time when the escalator is used. When the determination unit uses the escalator and determines that the time to the destination floor is shorter, a message is displayed on the guidance display device. Patent Documents 2 to 4 disclose that a route to a destination and a travel time when an elevator is used and a waiting time for the elevator are displayed.

JP 2010-208773 A JP 2012-158398 A JP 204-250123 A JP-A-8-99779

  In commercial facilities where elevators, escalators, and stairs are installed, in many cases, escalators facilitate access to nearby floors and elevators facilitate access to remote floors. Provided. From this reason and the strength calculation at the time of floor design, the escalator is often provided at the center of the floor, and the elevator and stairs are often provided at the wall surface of the floor.

  Users who plan to use the elevator will use the stairs when the elevator is located near the building wall, so it will go from the entrance of the building to the periphery of the building and it will take time until the elevator arrives. Is common. On the other hand, people using escalators go to the center of the building, so there is little awareness of using elevators and stairs.

  In the lifting system provided with the elevator and the escalator described in Patent Document 1, it is known that the waiting time becomes long after the elevator installation position is reached and the escalator is used instead. However, since it has already reached the position of the elevator, it must return to the escalator in the center or proceed to the escalator through a troublesome route. As a result, there may be a problem that a person who is waiting in front of the elevator can reach the destination as soon as possible. In any of the above-mentioned Patent Documents 2 to 4, although there is an indication of the waiting time of the elevator, etc., it is not sufficiently considered to reach the destination at the fastest speed.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and its purpose is to show lifting means that can reach the destination at the fastest speed before the user who intends to use the elevator reaches the place where the elevator is installed. It is to make it possible to reach the destination at the fastest speed.

  A feature of the present invention that achieves the above-described object is the elevator apparatus that includes an elevator that services a plurality of floors, an escalator that services a plurality of floors, and a staircase, and includes an elevator control device that controls the elevator. Provided with a portable terminal device that can be transmitted to and received from the elevator control device and carried by a user who plans to use the elevator, and when the user transmits a destination floor from the portable terminal device to the elevator control device, the elevator control device , When the user uses the elevator, the escalator, and the stairs, the required time from the current floor to the destination floor in each case is transmitted to the portable terminal, and the portable terminal stores the transmitted required time. The present invention has display means capable of displaying.

  According to the present invention, the arrival time for each lifting means to the destination is presented by the time the elevator user is scheduled to reach the elevator installation position, so that the destination can be reached at the fastest speed and the lifting means can be selected. It becomes possible. As a result, the elevating efficiency of the user of the elevating means is improved.

It is a perspective view of the vicinity of the landing of one embodiment of the lifting device according to the present invention. It is a front view of the portable terminal device which the user of a raising / lowering apparatus carries. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an elevator control device and a portable terminal that are one of lifting devices according to the present invention. 4 is a flowchart of data transmission in the portable terminal shown in FIG. 3. It is a flowchart of the destination floor arrival time calculation in the control apparatus of the elevator shown in FIG. 4 is a flowchart of data reception in the mobile terminal shown in FIG. 3.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a lifting device 50 according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the vicinity of a landing area of the elevator 1 when the elevator 1, the escalator 2, and the stairs 3 are installed as the lifting device 50. On the landing side of the elevator 1, an elevator transmission / reception device or an elevator control device (not shown) capable of transmitting and receiving with the portable terminal 4 is provided. Therefore, when the user of the lifting device 50 that carries the portable terminal 4 approaches the landing of the elevator 1, communication becomes possible between the elevator 1 and the portable terminal 4 held by the user.

  FIG. 2 is a front view showing an embodiment of the portable terminal device 4 according to the present invention carried by a user. The power of the portable terminal device 4 is turned on, and information transmitted from the elevator 1 is displayed. In addition, a user inputs the destination floor which is a destination into the transmission / reception apparatus which is not shown in figure of the elevator 1, or the control apparatus of the elevator 1 from this portable terminal device 4 beforehand.

  The elevator control device 5 or the transmission / reception device attached to the control device 5 identifies the floor that has received the destination floor signal from the mobile terminal device 4 and estimates the position of the mobile terminal device 4. Then, the time required for the elevator 1 from the use start floor to the destination floor when using the elevator 1 is calculated and transmitted to the portable terminal 4. Similarly, the required time data of the escalator 2 and the required time data of the stairs 3 are also transmitted from the control device or the transceiver of the elevator 1 to the portable terminal device 4. The mobile terminal device 4 that has received these pieces of information displays the received content on the display means provided therein.

  In FIG. 2, the display contents are the required time from the floor where the prospective user of the elevator 1 is currently sent to the destination floor transmitted to the control device of the elevator 1, which are “elevator required time”, “escalator required time”, “ "Stair required time (standard)" is displayed to the second. At that time, the floors before and after the movement are also displayed in parallel for the convenience of the user.

  Next, a method for calculating the required time will be described with reference to the control device 5 of the elevator 1 and the portable terminal 4 shown in FIG. 3 and the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 4 to 8. FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the elevator control device 5 and the portable terminal device 4 according to the present invention. The elevator control device 5 mainly controls the raising and lowering of the car and the opening and closing of the door, but this portion is omitted in FIG. 3 and only the portion relating to the calculation of the waiting time is shown.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a data transmission procedure in the portable terminal device 4, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a calculation procedure of a destination floor arrival time in the elevator control device 5. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a data reception procedure in the portable terminal device 4.

  The destination floor data 8 transmitted from the user's portable terminal device 4 is input to the data receiving unit 6 provided in the elevator control device 5. The destination floor data 8 input to the data receiving unit 6 is registered in the storage unit of the elevator control device 5 as the destination floor data 8 of the user who carries the mobile terminal device 4 in the destination floor registration unit 7.

  On the other hand, based on the operation information from the elevator control unit (not shown) provided in the elevator controller 5, the elevator waiting time calculation unit 9 takes the elevator from the current vehicle position to the floor where the user is located. The waiting time 10 is calculated and stored in the storage means. Thereafter, the elevator destination floor arrival time calculation unit 11 refers to the destination floor data 8 and the elevator waiting time 10 stored in the storage means, and passes through the floor where the user is present from the current floor of the car. The elevator destination floor arrival time 12, which is the time required for the car to move to the designated destination floor, is calculated and stored in the storage means.

  Various information relating to the operation of the escalator 2 is stored in the storage means of the elevator control device 5. The escalator destination floor arrival time calculation unit 14 refers to each floor required time 13 which is a required time when going to each floor using the escalator 2 from these pieces of information. The time required for the user to move from the current floor to the target destination floor using the escalator 2 using the current floor of the user and the destination floor data 8 stored in the storage means. A certain escalator destination floor arrival time 15 is calculated and stored in the storage means.

  Various information regarding the stairs is also stored in the storage means of the elevator control device 5. At that time, the time 16 required for each floor of the stairs, which is the time for the user to go up and down the stairs at a standard speed, is also included in the information. The stairs destination floor arrival time calculation unit 17 uses the destination floor data 8 stored in the storage means and the destination floor data 8 stored in the storage means and the time required for each stairs 16 from the current floor to the destination floor. The arrival time 18 of the stairs destination floor, which is the time required to move up to, is calculated and stored in the storage means.

  The elevator destination floor arrival time 12, the escalator destination floor arrival time 15, and the stairs destination floor arrival time 18 stored in the storage means are collected, and are carried by the user from the data transmission unit 19 provided in the elevator control device 5. It is transmitted to the terminal device 4. In the portable terminal device 4, the data receiving unit 23 receives the data transmitted from the data transmitting unit 19 of the elevator control device 5.

  As described above, the portable terminal 4 transmits and receives data to and from the elevator control device 5. Therefore, a data transmission unit 22 is arranged on the transmission side, and a data reception unit 23 is arranged on the reception side. The data transmission unit 22 mainly transmits a destination floor, which is a destination to which the user will move, to the data reception unit 6 of the elevator control device 5. The data receiving unit 6 of the elevator control device 5 is disposed in the vicinity of the elevator 1.

  Since the user transmits the destination floor to the elevator control device 5, the portable terminal 4 has a destination floor input unit 20 for inputting the destination floor. When the portable terminal 4 is a portable communication means such as a mobile phone or a smartphone, it is also used as a display screen, and corresponds to a display unit 25 described later.

  The destination floor entered by the elevator user (user) from the destination floor input unit 20 is converted into data as destination floor data 8 by the destination floor data creation unit 21. The converted destination floor data 8 is sent to the data transmission unit 22 and is transmitted to the elevator control device 5 as described above.

  On the other hand, the data of the required time to the destination floor received by the data receiving unit 23 of the portable terminal device 4 is developed into data relating to the elevator 1, data relating to the escalator 2, and data relating to the stairs 3, respectively. . The data on the elevator destination floor arrival time 12, the escalator destination floor arrival time 15 and the stairs destination floor arrival time 18 in the information related to the elevator 1 are collectively sent to the display output unit 26 and displayed on the screen of the display 25. As shown in FIG. 2, they are displayed in comparison.

  Next, a process of transmitting the destination floor data 8 from the portable terminal 4 to the elevator control device 5 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. A user who plans to use an elevator that first approaches the elevator 1 turns on the portable terminal 4 to activate the portable terminal 4. Then, the destination floor which is the destination floor of the mobile terminal 4 is input from the destination floor input unit 20 (step E102).

  In the portable terminal device 4 to which the destination floor is input, the destination floor data creation unit 21 creates the destination floor data 8 from the input destination floor in step E103. When the user approaches the elevator 1, the destination floor data 8 is transmitted to the elevator control device 5 in step E104. Here, the portable terminal device 4 continues to transmit the destination floor data 8 until communication with the data receiving unit 6 of the elevator control device 5 becomes possible, and when the data transmission is successful, the elevator control device 5 replies to that effect. By doing so, the destination floor can be registered in the elevator controller 5 more reliably. This reply data is displayed on the display unit 25 of the portable terminal device 4. Instead of the reply data, the display of each arrival time 12, 15, 18 can be used instead.

  The process in the elevator control apparatus 5 is demonstrated in detail using FIG. First, the elevator control device 5 is turned on or restarted to start. In step E <b> 202, it is determined whether the data receiving unit 6 of the elevator control device 5 has received the destination floor data 8 from the portable terminal device 4. If the destination floor data 8 has been received, the process proceeds to step E203, where the destination floor registration unit 7 registers the destination floor data 8 in the storage device. If the destination floor data 8 has not been received from the portable terminal device 4 yet, the process returns to step E202 and waits for reception of the destination floor data.

  When the destination floor data 8 is registered, in step E204, the current position of the user is determined from the position of the data receiving unit 6 that has received it. Then, the elevator control device 5 determines whether or not the current floor position of the car of the elevator 1 matches the current floor position of the user. If the position of the car and the position of the user do not match, the process proceeds to step E205, and the elevator waiting time calculation unit 9 calculates the elevator waiting time 10. On the other hand, if the floor position of the elevator car 1 matches the floor position of the user, the process proceeds to step E206.

  In step E206, the elevator destination floor arrival time calculator 14 calculates the elevator destination floor arrival time 12. At this time, if it is determined in step E204 that the elevator waiting time 10 is included, the time including the elevator waiting time 10 is set as the elevator destination floor arrival time 12.

  Next, in step E207, it is determined whether or not the escalator 2 is provided. When the escalator 2 is also installed, the process proceeds to step E208, where the escalator destination floor arrival time calculation unit 14 calculates the arrival time 15 to the destination floor when the escalator is used. If the escalator 2 is not installed, the process proceeds to step E209.

  In step E209, it is determined whether or not the stairs 3 are installed near the elevator 1. When there is the stairs 3, it progresses to step E210 and the stairs destination floor arrival time calculating part 14 calculates the stairs destination floor arrival time 18. FIG. If the stairs 3 are not installed nearby, the process proceeds to step E211.

  In step E211, the elevator destination floor arrival time 11 calculated by the elevator destination floor arrival time calculation unit 11, the escalator destination floor arrival time 15 calculated by the escalator destination floor arrival time calculation unit 14, and the stairs destination floor arrival time 17 are calculated. The stairs destination floor arrival time 18 is collected and transmitted to the portable terminal 4.

  Next, the process in which the portable terminal 4 receives the destination floor arrival time will be described in detail with reference to FIG. When the destination floor has been transmitted from the portable terminal device 4 to the elevator control device 5, the portable terminal device 4 enters a data reception state. In step E <b> 302, it is determined whether destination floor arrival time data 12, 15, 18 has been received from the data transmission unit 19 of the elevator control device 5. If these destination floor arrival time data 12, 15, and 18 are received, the process proceeds to step E303, and the data expansion unit 24 expands at the elevator destination floor arrival time 12. If destination floor arrival time data has not been received from the elevator control device 5, the process returns to step E302 and waits for data reception.

  In step E304, it is determined whether or not the escalator 2 is installed as a lifting device. If the escalator 2 is installed, it will progress to step E305 and the data expansion | deployment part 24 will expand the escalator destination floor arrival time 15. FIG. If the escalator 2 is not installed, the process proceeds to step E306.

  In step E306, it is determined whether or not the staircase 3 is installed as a lifting device. If there is the stairs 3 near the elevator 1, the process proceeds to step E 307, where the data expansion unit 24 expands the stairs destination floor arrival time 18. If the stairs 3 is not near the elevator 1, the process proceeds to step E308. In step E308, the display output unit 26 displays the destination floor arrival data 12, 15, and 18 obtained in steps E303, E305, and E307, which are the expansion processes, on the display unit 25.

  According to the present embodiment, before the user (user) of the elevator 1 carrying the portable terminal 4 approaches the range where the elevator landing side button can be pressed, the portable terminal 4 and the elevator 1 Communication is enabled with the transmission / reception means of the elevator control device 5 provided on each floor. And only by inputting the destination floor to the elevator control device 5, the user can know the arrival time when using the elevator, the escalator, and the stairs. As a result, when the waiting time of the elevator is long or when the escalator is located far away, the user can know that the escalator or the stairs can be used to go to the target destination floor earlier. The user can quickly reach the destination floor. Further, it is possible to avoid unnecessary congestion of the elevator.

  In the above embodiment, the reservation of the elevator destination floor is executed by communication between the transmission / reception means provided in the vicinity of the elevator and the portable terminal. However, for example, a wireless LAN or the like in which the transmission / reception means of the elevator is widely arranged on the floor is used. You can also In that case, other lifting means can be easily used.

  According to the said Example, since the arrival time including waiting time is displayed on the portable terminal device which a user carries, compared with the case where waiting time is not displayed, a user's irritation feeling can be reduced. In addition, since the time required to arrive at the destination floor using escalators and stairs can be grasped, the options for the user to select the lifting equipment are expanded.

  If the mobile terminal shown in the above embodiment is a mobile communication device such as a mobile phone or a smartphone, the processing shown in FIGS. 4 and 6 can be programmed as application software. A portable terminal is not required, and the system construction of the lifting device is facilitated.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Elevator, 2 ... Escalator, 3 ... Stairs, 4 ... Portable terminal, 5 ... Elevator control device, 6 ... Data receiving part, 7 ... Destination floor registration part, 8 ... Destination floor data, 9 ... Elevator waiting time calculating part 10: Elevator waiting time, 11: Elevator destination floor arrival time calculation section, 12 ... Elevator destination floor arrival time, 13 ... Escalator each floor required time, 14 ... Escalator destination floor arrival time calculation section, 15 ... Escalator destination floor arrival time, 16 ... Stairs required time for each floor, 17 ... Stairs destination floor arrival time calculation unit, 18 ... Stairs destination floor arrival time, 19 ... Data transmission unit, 20 ... Destination floor input unit, 21 ... Destination floor data creation unit, 22 ... Data transmission Reference numeral 23: Data receiving unit 24: Data developing unit 25: Display unit 26: Display output unit 50: Lifting device

Claims (6)

In an elevator apparatus having an elevator that services a plurality of floors, an escalator and a stair that services a plurality of floors, and an elevator control device that controls the elevator,
Provided with a portable terminal device that can be transmitted to and received from the elevator control device and carried by a user who plans to use the elevator, and when the user transmits a destination floor from the portable terminal device to the elevator control device, the elevator control device Transmits the required time from the current floor to the destination floor when the user uses the elevator, the escalator, and the stairs to the portable terminal, and the portable terminal receives these transmitted times A lifting device comprising display means capable of displaying   The elevator control device has storage means for storing destination floor data, which is a time required for the elevator to move up and down to each floor, and the elevator control device stores the destination floor data stored in the storage means and the portable terminal. The elevator apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a time until the user arrives at the destination floor when the elevator is used is calculated based on a destination floor signal transmitted from the elevator.   The elevator control device has storage means for storing destination floor data, which is the time required for the elevator to move up and down to each floor, and the storage means stores the arrival time of each floor when using the escalator. The elevator control device uses the escalator based on the arrival time data of each floor when using the escalator stored in the storage means and the destination floor signal transmitted from the mobile terminal. The elevating device according to claim 1, wherein the time until the vehicle arrives at the destination floor is calculated.   The elevator control device has storage means for storing destination floor data, which is the time required for the elevator to move up and down to each floor, and the storage means stores arrival data for each floor when using the stairs. And calculating the time until the user arrives at the destination floor when using the stairs based on the destination floor data stored in the storage means and the arrival time data for each floor when the stairs are used. The elevating device according to claim 1. A portable terminal device for an elevator apparatus carried by a user of an elevator apparatus having an elevator that services a plurality of floors, an escalator that services a plurality of floors, and a staircase, and equipped with an elevator control apparatus that controls the elevator In
Display means for displaying destination floor information transmitted / received to / from the elevator control device is provided, and the display means transmits the destination floor from the portable terminal to the elevator control device, and a user obtained by the display means And a portable terminal of the lifting device, wherein the time required from the current floor to the destination floor when using the escalator and the stairs can be displayed.   The portable terminal of the lifting device according to claim 5, wherein the portable terminal is a mobile phone or a smartphone.

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