JP2016137980A - Elevator monitoring apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator monitoring apparatus capable of changing a standby floor of an elevator cage from a remote location.SOLUTION: An elevator monitoring apparatus according to one embodiment comprises: a reception unit; and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives, from a user terminal, a standby floor control request to request a standby floor of an elevator cage to be changed. The transmission unit generates a standby floor control command to change the standby floor of the cage in response to the standby floor control request, and transmits the command to an elevator controller that controls the cage.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  Embodiments described herein relate generally to an elevator monitoring apparatus.

  When heavy rain falls due to a typhoon or the like, the elevator doors may be flooded due to water entering the hoistway through the gaps or halls of the landing doors. If the car was flooded, there was a risk of power failure or failure due to electrical leakage. In order to prevent the flooding of the basket, it has been necessary for the maintenance staff to visit the site to take preventive measures.

JP-A-8-157160 JP 2000-118901 A

  Provided is an elevator monitoring device capable of changing a standby floor of an elevator car from a remote location.

  An elevator monitoring apparatus according to an embodiment includes a reception unit and a transmission unit. The receiving unit receives a standby floor control request for requesting a change of the standby floor of the elevator car from the user terminal. The transmission unit generates a standby floor control command for changing the standby floor of the car in response to the standby floor control request, and transmits the standby floor control command to the elevator control device that controls the basket.

The figure which shows an elevator monitoring system. The figure which shows the computer which comprises an elevator monitoring apparatus. The flowchart which shows the transmission process of weather information. The flowchart which shows the change process of a standby floor.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an elevator monitoring system (hereinafter referred to as “monitoring system”). As shown in FIG. 1, the monitoring system includes an elevator monitoring device 1, a weather information distribution service 2, a user terminal 3, and an elevator 4.

  The elevator monitoring device 1 (hereinafter referred to as “monitoring device 1”) includes a weather information acquisition unit 11, a weather information notification unit 12, a control request reception unit 13, and a control command transmission unit 14.

  The weather information acquisition unit 11 (hereinafter referred to as “acquisition unit 11”) acquires weather information for each region. The weather information includes current weather, weather forecast, weather warning, weather warning, and the like. The meteorological warning (meteorological warning) includes heavy rain, flood, wave, and typhoon warnings (alarms).

  The acquisition unit 11 acquires weather information from the external weather information distribution service 2 in real time or at predetermined time intervals. The weather information distribution service 2 may be a public service or a private service. The acquisition part 11 memorize | stores the acquired weather information for every area.

  The weather information notification unit 12 (hereinafter referred to as “notification unit 12”) notifies the user of the elevator 4 of the weather information of the corresponding area. The user of the elevator 4 includes an administrator and an owner of the elevator 4. The corresponding area is an area where the elevator 4 is installed. The notification unit 12 stores a corresponding area for each user in advance.

  More specifically, the notification unit 12 transmits weather information to the user terminal 3 owned by the user. The user terminal 3 is, for example, a mobile phone or a smartphone. The notification unit 12 may send weather information to the user terminal 3 by email, or may send weather information via a dedicated application installed in the user terminal 3.

  Further, the notification unit 12 may transmit the weather information to the user terminal 3 every time the acquisition unit 11 acquires new weather information of the corresponding area, or transmits the weather information at a predetermined time interval or a predetermined time. May be.

  Furthermore, the notification part 12 may transmit the message which calls attention to flooding with weather information. For example, it may be possible to send a message “Please change the waiting floor”.

  Furthermore, the notification unit 12 may notify only a part of the weather information in the weather information of the corresponding area acquired by the acquisition unit 11. For example, it is possible to notify only warnings and warnings of heavy rain, floods, and typhoons that can flood the cage.

  The control request receiving unit 13 (hereinafter referred to as “reception unit 13”) receives a standby floor control request (hereinafter referred to as “control request”) from the user terminal 3. The control request is a signal that the user requests to change the waiting floor of the elevator 4 car. The user can transmit a control request by operating a dedicated application installed in the user terminal 3.

  The control request includes the standby floor after the change. As the waiting floor after the change, the second floor or the like may be set as a prescribed value, or may be set by the user operating the application.

  The control request may include at least one of a start date and time and an end date and time for changing the standby floor. The start date and time and the end date and time can be set by the user operating the application. By setting the start date and time and the end date and time, the user can reserve a change of the standby floor. If the user reserves the standby floor change in advance, it is possible to prevent flooding due to forgetting to change the standby floor.

  Furthermore, the control request may include a control method when changing the standby floor. The control method can be set by the user operating the application. As a control method, for example, control in which the basket stops at the changed standby floor, or control in which the basket does not move to a floor below the changed standby floor can be considered.

  The control command transmission unit 14 (hereinafter referred to as “transmission unit 14”) generates a standby floor control command (hereinafter referred to as “control command”) in response to the control request received by the reception unit 13, and the elevator of the elevator 4 It transmits to the control apparatus 41. The control command is a signal that causes the elevator 4 to execute the control requested by the user by the control request.

  Here, the elevator 4 will be described. The elevator 4 includes at least one car (not shown), an elevator control device 41 that controls operation of the car, a car display device 42 provided in the car, and a hall display device 43 provided in the hall. . The elevator control device 41 is, for example, a control panel.

  When the elevator control device 41 receives the control command from the transmission unit 14, the elevator control device 41 operates the car according to the control command. That is, the elevator control device 41 changes the waiting floor of the car to the waiting floor set by the control command, and controls the car so that it does not move to a floor below the waiting floor after the change.

  Further, the elevator control device 41 transmits a control signal to the in-car display device 42 and the hall display device 43 during the change of the standby floor. The in-control signal is a signal that causes the in-car display device 42 and the hall display device 43 to display that the standby floor is being changed. The in-car display device 42 and the hall display device 43 may display a message such as “Changing the standby floor” or turn on a lamp or the like indicating that the standby floor is being changed. Thereby, it can be made known to the passenger of the elevator 4 that the standby floor is being changed.

  The monitoring device 1 described above is realized by the computer 100. The computer 100 is, for example, a server provided in an elevator monitoring center that centrally monitors a plurality of elevators.

  Here, FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the computer 100. As shown in FIG. 2, the computer 100 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 101, an input device 102, a display device 103, a communication device 104, and a storage device 105, which are mutually connected by a bus 106. It is connected to the.

  The CPU 101 is a control device and a calculation device of the computer 100. The CPU 101 performs arithmetic processing based on data or a program input from each device (for example, the input device 102, the communication device 104, and the storage device 105) connected via the bus 106, and outputs the calculation result and the control signal. The data is output to each device (for example, the display device 103, the communication device 104, and the storage device 105) connected via the bus 106.

  Specifically, the CPU 101 executes an OS (operating system) of the computer 100, an elevator monitoring program (hereinafter referred to as “monitoring program”), and the like, and controls each device constituting the computer 100. The monitoring program is a program that causes the computer 100 to realize the above-described functions of the monitoring device 1. The computer 100 functions as the monitoring apparatus 1 by the CPU 101 executing the monitoring program.

  The input device 102 is a device for inputting information to the computer 100. The input device 102 is, for example, a keyboard, a mouse, and a touch panel, but is not limited thereto.

  The display device 103 is a device for displaying images and videos. The display device 103 is, for example, an LCD (liquid crystal display), a CRT (CRT), and a PDP (plasma display), but is not limited thereto.

  The communication device 104 is a device for the computer 100 to communicate with an external device wirelessly or by wire. The communication device 104 is, for example, a modem, a hub, and a router, but is not limited thereto. The monitoring device 1 communicates with the weather information distribution service 2, the user terminal 3, and the elevator control device 41 via the communication device 104, and transmits / receives weather information, control requests, and control commands.

  The storage device 105 is a storage medium that stores the OS of the computer 100, a monitoring program, data necessary for executing the monitoring program, data generated by executing the monitoring program, and the like. The storage device 105 includes a main storage device and an external storage device. The main storage device is, for example, a RAM, a DRAM, or an SRAM, but is not limited thereto. The external storage device is a hard disk, an optical disk, a flash memory, and a magnetic tape, but is not limited thereto. Information such as weather information and corresponding areas acquired by the acquisition unit 11 is stored in the storage device 105.

  The computer 100 may include one or more CPUs 101, input devices 102, display devices 103, communication devices 104, and storage devices 105, or may be connected to peripheral devices such as printers and scanners. .

  Moreover, the monitoring apparatus 1 may be comprised by the single computer 100, and may be comprised as a system which consists of the some computer 100 mutually connected.

  Furthermore, the monitoring program may be stored in advance in the storage device 105 of the computer 100, may be stored in a storage medium such as a CD-ROM, or may be uploaded on the Internet. In any case, the monitoring apparatus 1 can be configured by installing the monitoring program in the computer 100 and executing it.

  Next, the operation of the monitoring device 1 will be specifically described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of weather information notification processing by the monitoring device 1. Below, the notification part 12 shall notify a user, only when the acquisition part 11 acquires heavy rain information (heavy rain warning and heavy rain warning).

  In step S1, the acquisition unit 11 acquires weather information from the weather information distribution service 2 at predetermined time intervals.

  In step S2, the notification unit 12 determines whether the acquisition unit 11 has acquired heavy rain information. If heavy rain information has not been acquired (NO in step S2), the process returns to step S1. On the other hand, when heavy rain information has been acquired (YES in step S1), the process proceeds to step S3.

  In step S <b> 3, the notification unit 12 extracts a user whose corresponding area is the area from which the heavy rain information has been acquired from a plurality of users whose corresponding areas are stored.

  In step S4, the notification unit 12 transmits heavy rain information to the extracted user terminal 3 by e-mail. The user who has sent the mail can confirm the possibility of the elevator 4 being flooded by checking the mail, and can send a control request via the user terminal 3. Thereafter, the process returns to step S1.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the standby floor change process by the monitoring device 1. In the following, it is assumed that the user designates an end date and time for ending the change of the standby floor by a control request.

  In step S5, the receiving unit 13 determines whether a control request is received from the user terminal 3 at a predetermined time interval. If a control request is received (YES in step S5), the process proceeds to step S6.

  In step S6, the transmission unit 14 generates a control command corresponding to the control request. The transmission part 14 produces | generates the control command according to the kind of the elevator control apparatus 41 of the user's elevator 4 which transmitted the control request, for example. When there are a plurality of elevators 4, the transmission unit 14 may generate a control command for each elevator control device 41 of each elevator 4.

  In step S <b> 7, the transmission unit 14 transmits a control command to the elevator control unit 41 of the elevator 4. The control command is received by the elevator control unit 4.

  In step S8, the elevator control unit 4 changes the standby floor according to the received control command. Thereafter, the change of the standby floor is continued until the end date and time, and the basket does not move to a floor below the standby floor after the change.

  In step S <b> 9, the elevator control unit 4 transmits an in-control signal to the in-car display device 42 and the hall display device 43. The in-control signal may be transmitted only to either the in-car display device 42 or the hall display device 43, or may not be transmitted.

  In step S10, the in-car display device 42 and the hall display device 43 display that control is being performed, that is, the standby floor is being changed. Thereby, it can be made known to the passenger of the basket that the vehicle is being controlled.

  In step S <b> 11, the elevator control unit 4 determines whether or not the control end date and time specified by the control command has come at predetermined time intervals. If the end date / time is reached (YES in step S11), the process proceeds to step S12.

  In step S <b> 12, the elevator control unit 4 ends the display indicating that the standby floor is being changed and controlled. That is, the elevator control unit 4 operates the car in the normal operation mode. Thereafter, the process returns to step S5.

  Note that the change of the standby floor may be ended at a preset end date and time as described above, or may be ended in response to a request from the user. For example, it is conceivable that the user transmits a control request for terminating the change of the standby floor from the user terminal 3.

  Further, immediately before the preset end date and time, the monitoring device 1 may transmit to the user terminal 3 an email confirming whether to change or extend the standby floor change. The user may transmit a control request designating termination or extension from the user terminal 3.

  As described above, the monitoring apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment can change the waiting floor of the elevator 4 according to the control request received from the user terminal 3. Therefore, the user can take a flood prevention measure from a remote location without going to the elevator 4.

  Moreover, the monitoring apparatus 1 notifies the weather information of a target area to a user. Thereby, since the user can transmit the control request after confirming the weather information of the target area, accurate flooding can be prevented.

  Furthermore, since the damage caused by flooding can be suppressed by the preventive measures for changing the standby floor, the repair of the elevator 4 and the replacement of parts can be reduced. Thereby, the maintenance cost of the elevator 4 can be suppressed.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments as they are, and can be embodied by modifying the components without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. Moreover, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the above embodiments. Further, for example, a configuration in which some components are deleted from all the components shown in each embodiment is also conceivable. Furthermore, you may combine suitably the component described in different embodiment.

1: elevator monitoring device, 2: weather information distribution service, 3: user terminal, 4: elevator, 11: weather information acquisition unit, 12: weather information notification unit, 13: control request reception unit, 14: control command transmission unit, 41: Elevator control device, 42: In-car display device, 43: Landing display device

Claims (5)

A receiving unit that receives a standby floor control request for requesting a change of the standby floor of the elevator car from the user terminal;
In response to the standby floor control request, a transmission unit that generates a standby floor control command for changing the standby floor of the car and transmits the elevator floor to the elevator control device that controls the car;
Elevator monitoring device comprising: An acquisition unit that acquires weather information for each region;
A notification unit for notifying the user of the weather information of the area where the elevator is installed;
The elevator monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: The elevator monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the standby floor control request includes at least one of a start date and time and an end date and time of the change of the standby floor. An elevator control device for controlling the elevator car;
A reception unit that receives a standby floor control request for requesting a change of the standby floor of the elevator of the elevator from a user terminal, and a standby floor control command for changing the standby floor of the basket in response to the standby floor control request An elevator monitoring device comprising: a transmission unit that generates and transmits to the elevator control device;
Elevator monitoring system. The elevator monitoring system according to claim 4, wherein when the standby floor is changed, the elevator control device displays on the display device provided in the elevator that the standby floor is being changed.

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