JP2019031393A - Elevator control system, elevator control device and elevator control method - Google Patents

Abstract

To propose an elevator control system, an elevator control device and an elevator control method that are able to speedily and appropriately realize elevator group management for a user group even in an environment where a plurality of people often visit at the same time as in a high rise building.SOLUTION: An elevator control system that controls a plurality of elevators used via a security gate comprises: a detection circuit that detects an ID for a passenger having passed through the security gate; and an elevator control device that controls operations of the plurality of elevators. The elevator control device receives an ID and groups a plurality of IDs by using ID reception timings and IDs, and applies a group management to the plurality of elevators on the basis of the plurality of IDs grouped together.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator group management system.

  Elevators are important as a main means of transportation in buildings, and in high-rise buildings, many elevators are operated, such as a plurality of elevators installed at each level for the transportation of a large number of passengers. Therefore, a group management system that efficiently operates many elevators is indispensable.

  Elevator group management is the allocation control that assigns the most suitable elevator according to the operation status in the building, and the operation of the elevator group according to the change in traffic volume of many passengers that is repeated periodically such as when going to and from work or lunch. The operation control to be determined can be broadly classified.

  As an example of an elevator group management system, Patent Document 1 describes the number of people based on the destination floor and the number of users (number of groups) input by a user who is going to get on the elevator from the destination operation panel of the landing. It is disclosed to efficiently allocate a car having a vacancy.

  Patent Document 2 discloses a system in which a video camera captures an image in the vicinity of a landing, determines the number of users (number of people in the group) from the image, and allocates a passenger car having the number of passengers. .

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  However, in the conventional group management system, the number of users needs to be registered, or the number of users must be determined from the landing image. And I could not proceed properly. Therefore, the present invention provides an elevator control system and an elevator control that can quickly and appropriately achieve elevator group management for a user group even in an environment where a plurality of people visit frequently such as a high-rise building. An object is to provide an apparatus and an elevator control method.

  In order to solve such a problem, in the present invention, in an elevator control system for controlling a plurality of elevators used via a security gate, a detection circuit for detecting IDs of passengers passing through the security gate, and operation of the plurality of elevators An elevator control device that controls the ID, the elevator control device receives the ID, groups the plurality of IDs using the ID and the timing of receiving the ID, and sets a plurality of IDs based on the grouped IDs Group management was applied to the elevator.

  Further, in the present invention, an elevator control device for controlling a plurality of elevators installed in the same building where entrance / exit management is performed by inputting an ID from the security gate, which manages the ID received from the security gate An ID management module, and a car assignment module that assigns passengers to a plurality of elevator cars based on the ID management information acquired from the ID management module, and the ID management module depends on the time when the ID is input Passengers specified by IDs are assigned to groups, and the car assignment module assigns passengers specified by IDs assigned to the same group to the same car.

  Furthermore, in the present invention, there is provided an elevator control method for controlling a plurality of elevators installed in the same building where entrance / exit management has been performed by the security gate, by the elevator control device, the elevator control device receiving from the security gate A passenger having an ID management module for managing the ID to be assigned and a car assignment module for assigning a plurality of elevator cars based on the ID management information acquired from the ID management module. And a second step in which the car assignment module assigns the passengers identified by the IDs in the same group to the same car. .

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, even in the environment where several people visit frequently, such as a high-rise building, the elevator control system and elevator control which can achieve the group management of an elevator quickly and appropriately with respect to a user group A device and an elevator control method can be realized.

It is a conceptual diagram which shows the floor of the building which can apply this embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the elevator control apparatus by this embodiment. It is a conceptual diagram which shows the structure of the log | history management table and group management table by this embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the car allocation process classified by security gate interlocking group by this embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the group setting process by this embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the group management control process by this embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the group check process by this embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the group setting process by other embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the group check process by other embodiment.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

(1) Configuration of Elevator Control System According to the Present Embodiment In an enterprise building or a government agency building, it is normal for a visitor to go through a security gate and go to an elevator landing. Therefore, the present invention makes it possible to perform group management control of elevators when passengers pass the security gate by grouping a plurality of passengers using the security gate passing information and using the group information. . As a result, even in an environment such as a high-rise building used by a large number of people, elevator group management is realized quickly and appropriately.

  FIG. 1 is a floor view of a building to which the present invention is applicable. Reference numeral 2 denotes an elevator, reference numeral 3 denotes an entrance / exit gate having a security function, reference numeral 5 denotes a display laid on the gate, and reference numeral 8 denotes an elevator control device.

  A visitor to a building such as a building carries a node 4 having an ID for passing through the security gate 3. The node 4 may be an electronic device including an ID card and a smartphone, and is not particularly limited. The security gate 3 may be divided into an entrance gate and an exit gate, or may be shared.

  The security gate 3 includes an ID detection circuit. Each time the node 4 passes through the security gate 3, the detection circuit outputs detection information so that it can be registered in the history management table 13 of the elevator control device 8. The elevator control device 8 continuously records ID, security gate entrance timing, and security gate 3 exit timing as detection information in the history management table 13. The timing is a date and time, or an order, or may be a time from when one person passes the security gate 3 until another person passes this. If the user information is registered in the ID, the elevator control device 8 may specify the use floor from the detected ID. The user information is, for example, a work place or a visited place.

  The elevator control device 8 always refers to the history management table 13 to set a group of a plurality of people who are going to use the elevator 2 while being related to each other, or cancel the group, and the group information is stored in the group management table. 14 is registered. When the ID is detected in the security gate 3, the elevator control device 8 executes elevator group management control and outputs usage information of the elevator 2 to the display 5. The usage information of the elevator 2 is information useful to the user of the elevator 2 such as which area of the elevator 2 and what number of the elevator 2 it is. The elevator control device 8 refers to the group management table 14 using the ID detected in the security gate 3 and acquires group information from the group management table 14. The elevator control device 8 executes the group management control described above so that a plurality of IDs (a plurality of users) in the group can get on the same elevator 2 by using the group information.

  Next, a block diagram of one form of the elevator control system 1 is shown in FIG. The elevator control system 1 includes the above-described detection circuit and the elevator control device 8. The elevator control device 8 may be composed of a computer, and includes a controller 9 and a memory 10 that stores a control program. The controller 9 executes a control program and executes elevator control including group management of the elevator 2.

  The controller 9 is a processor that controls the operation of the entire elevator control device 8. The memory 10 is composed of, for example, a semiconductor storage device, and is used to hold various programs and necessary information. When the controller 9 executes the program stored in the memory 10, various processes as the entire elevator control device 8 are performed.

  In the elevator control device 8 having such a configuration, the elevator control device 8 assigns passengers to the elevator cars of the respective elevators 2 according to time zones so that elevator group management can be realized quickly and appropriately. It is necessary to change the method. In other words, when it is crowded, such as when going to and from work or lunch, it is necessary to immediately assign the elevators 2 in the order in which the IDs are input by the node 4 to reduce the waiting time of passengers.

  Moreover, the elevator control apparatus 8 needs to allocate the same elevator 2 to the passengers who move to the same floor in the time zone when it is not crowded, and to refrain from the movement of the other elevator 2 cars. When passengers pass through security gates continuously except when there is congestion, for example, when passengers are associated with each other, such as when traveling with customers or when the destination floor is different but passengers are acquainted with each other In addition, it is desirable that the elevator control device assigns the same elevator car to the passengers.

  Therefore, in the elevator control system 1 of the present embodiment, the elevator control device 8 has a function of assigning passengers to groups according to the time when the ID is input (car assignment function for each security gate interlocking group).

  Actually, in the case of the elevator control system 1 of the present embodiment, the elevator control device 8 classifies passengers identified from the ID acquired from the security gate 3 into groups, except at the time of congestion.

  The security gate 3 acquires an ID from the node 4 in each case of entering and leaving, but the grouping is not performed by mixing the ID in the case of entering and the ID in the case of leaving.

  In addition, a condition for canceling the grouping is provided when grouping. For example, the grouping is canceled according to the period after the group registration. For example, there are two types of this group, and there are a first group in which an ID is stored only for a short period and a second group in which an ID is stored for a long period.

  In the first group, passengers specified from an ID input within a predetermined number of seconds (for example, within 3 seconds) from the input of the first ID are grouped into group information. This group information is valid only for that day, for example, and this group information is deleted when the day changes.

  On the other hand, in the second group, passengers specified from an ID input within a predetermined number of minutes (for example, within 1 minute) from the input of the first ID are grouped into group information. This group information is valid for one month after the group information is created, for example, and the group information is appropriately changed after one month. The display 5 displays group information such as the assigned group number and group name.

  If you use the security gate interlocking group car assignment function, for example, if passenger A and passenger B leave the security gate 3 continuously within 3 seconds, go out and return from that day, Since the passenger A and the passenger B are grouped at the time, the passengers A and B can get on the same elevator 2 car.

  In addition, when passenger A and passenger B enter continuously within 3 seconds from security gate 3, passenger A and passenger B are grouped at the time of entrance and get on the same elevator 2 car be able to.

  In addition, for example, group information by the first group is effective only on that day, but grouping by the second group can be performed even when the grouping date and the date on which the grouped information is used are different. Good. In addition, since the connection between passengers in the group in the first group that enters continuously within a short period is considered stronger than the connection between passengers in the group in the second group, grouping by the first group Priority is given to grouping by the second group.

  In addition, when the elevator car assigned to the group reaches the upper limit of the capacity, the next elevator car is assigned to passengers who cannot complete the group.

  In this way, since the elevator cars having vacant space for the number of people in the group are allocated, passengers in the group can get on the same elevator 2 cars. When a plurality of groups are detected, a space corresponding to the number of groups having the largest number is secured.

  As means for realizing the car assignment function for each security gate interlocking group according to the present embodiment as described above, as shown in FIG. 2, the memory 10 of the elevator control device 8 has an ID information management module 11, a car, An allocation module 12, a history management table 13, and a group management table 14 are stored.

  The ID information management module 11 is a program having a function of managing the ID acquired from the security gate 3 (here, the passenger name uniquely identifiable from the ID) by the history management table 13 and the group management table 14.

  The car assignment module 12 refers to the history management table 13 and the group management table 14 and is a program having a function of assigning the passengers grouped to the same elevator 2 car.

  On the other hand, the history management table 13 is a table used when managing the history of passengers passing through the security gate 3, and as shown in FIG. 3A, the passage time column 13A, the passenger name column 13B, the direction A column 13C is provided. In the history management table 13, one entry (row) corresponds to the date / time / minute / second at which one passenger passed the security gate. Entries are registered in order from the top.

  In the passage time column 13A, the date and time when the passenger has passed are stored in the format of “5/10 15:15:00”, up to what hour, how many minutes, how many seconds and how many seconds. The passenger name column 13B stores a passenger name that can be uniquely identified from the ID. The direction column 13C stores information on the direction of travel of passengers with respect to the building such as entry or exit.

  The group management table 14 is a table used when passengers are grouped. As shown in FIG. 3B, the transit time column 14A, member column 14B, direction column 14C, group name column 14D, and group A type column 14E is provided. In the group management table 14, one entry (row) corresponds to one group. Entries are registered in order from the top.

  In the passage time column 14A, a passenger who first passed through the security gate 3 among the members of the group passed in a format corresponding to the group type such as “15:15:00” or “5/10 15:15”. Stores time information. The member column 14B stores a plurality of passenger names as members of the group. The direction column 14C stores information on the traveling direction of the member with respect to the building such as entry or exit. The group name column 14D stores a group name indicating the name of the group. In the group type column 14E, group type information indicating whether the group is the first group or the second group is stored. In the case of the first group, “1” is stored in the group type column 14E, and in the case of the second group, “2” is stored in the group type column 14E.

(2) Security Gate Interlocking Group Car Ride Assignment Process Next, in relation to the security gate interlocking group car assignment function, the security gate interlocking group car assignment process executed by the elevator controller 8 is shown in FIG. It explains using. In the following description, the subject of each process will be described as a program (ID information management module 11 and car assignment module 12). However, in practice, the controller 9 executes the process based on the program. Yes.

  This car assignment process for each security gate interlocking group is started when the elevator control device 8 obtains the ID from the security gate 3 and is repeated until the car of the elevator 2 arrives at the floor on which the security gate 3 is installed. In this security gate interlocking group-specific car assignment process, first, the ID information management module 11 of the elevator control device 8 proceeds to the group setting process RT1.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the ID information management module 11 checks history data with reference to the history management table 13 as group setting processing RT1 (S1). Next, the ID information management module 11 extracts a group from the history management table 13 (S2). In practice, the ID information management module 11 extracts passenger names whose direction column 13C is the same and whose time in the passage time column 13A is within a predetermined period as a group. For example, the ID information management module 11 extracts the first group if it is within 3 seconds, and extracts it as the second group if it is within 1 minute.

  The ID information management module 11 determines whether or not a group has been extracted (S3), and if a positive result is obtained in this determination, the group is registered by registering members in the group management table 14 (S4). The group setting process RT1 is terminated. On the other hand, if the ID information management module 11 obtains a negative result in the determination at step S3, it ends this group setting processing RT1.

  When completing the group setting process RT1, the ID information management module 11 calls the car assignment module 12. The car assignment module 12 proceeds to the group management control process RT2.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the car assignment module 12 determines whether or not a passenger corresponding to the ID acquired from the security gate 3 has entered as the group management control process RT2 (S5). If the car assignment module 12 obtains a negative result in this determination, it ends this group management control process RT2.

  On the other hand, when the car assignment module 12 obtains a positive result in the determination in step S5, the car assignment module 12 determines whether or not it is a specific period such as a work time zone (S6). The car assignment module 12 obtains an affirmative result in this judgment and judges that it is congested, immediately assigns an elevator to the passenger corresponding to the ID acquired from the security gate 3 (S11), and performs this group management control processing RT2 finish.

  On the other hand, when the car assignment module 12 obtains a negative result in the determination at step S <b> 6, it refers to the group management table 14 and determines whether there is a group including passengers corresponding to the ID acquired from the security gate 3. Is determined (S7). If the car assignment module 12 obtains a negative result in this determination, it immediately assigns an elevator to the passenger corresponding to the ID acquired from the security gate 3 (S11), and ends this group management control process RT2.

  In contrast, when the car assignment module 12 obtains a positive result in the determination in step S7, the car assignment module 12 determines whether or not an elevator has been assigned to the members in the group (S8). If the car assignment module 12 obtains a negative result in this determination, it immediately assigns an elevator to the passenger corresponding to the ID acquired from the security gate 3 (S11), and ends this group management control process RT2.

  In contrast, when the car assignment module 12 obtains a positive result in the determination in step S8, the elevator 2 that is the same as the elevator 2 assigned to the passenger corresponding to the ID acquired from the security gate 3 to the member in the group. Is determined whether or not can be assigned (S9). If the car assignment module 12 obtains a negative result in this determination, it immediately assigns an elevator to the passenger corresponding to the ID acquired from the security gate 3 (S11), and ends this group management control process RT2.

  On the other hand, if the car assignment module 12 obtains a positive result in the determination at step S9, the elevator 2 that is the same as the elevator 2 assigned to the passenger corresponding to the ID acquired from the security gate 3 to the members in the group. Is assigned (S10), and this group management control process RT2 is terminated.

  When the date changes, the ID information management module 11 performs a group check process shown in FIG. First, the ID information management module 11 refers to the group management table 14 to determine whether each member in the group satisfies the grouping condition (S15). If the ID information management module 11 obtains a positive result in this determination, it proceeds to step S19.

  Note that the condition for grouping the first group is whether or not the day of grouping. The grouping condition for the second group is whether or not the member has passed one month since registration. For this reason, about the 1st group, a group will be canceled when it becomes the registered next day.

  If the ID information management module 11 obtains a positive result in the determination in step S15, it excludes members that do not meet the conditions from the group (S16), and determines whether the number of members in the group is one or less (S17). . If the ID information management module 11 obtains a positive result in this determination, the ID information management module 11 cancels the group having one or less members (S18). Next, the ID information management module 11 repeats the processes of S15 to S19 until the check is completed for all the groups (S19), and ends this group check process.

(3) Effects of the present embodiment As described above, in the elevator control system 1 of the present embodiment, the passengers identified by the ID are managed as a group in accordance with the timing when the ID is input from the security gate 3, and are the same. Assigned to the elevator 2 car.

  Therefore, according to the present elevator control system 1, even in an environment where a plurality of people such as high-rise buildings frequently visit together, the elevator group management for the user group can be achieved quickly and appropriately.

  In the elevator control system 1, priority is given to the grouping of IDs by the first grouping when IDs are continuously input, and the second group is also used when IDs are input after a short time. Group control can be performed more efficiently by grouping IDs by grouping.

(4) Other Embodiments In the above-described embodiment, the case where both the first grouping and the second grouping are performed has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the first grouping is performed. Can be widely applied to various other elevator control systems 1 such as only performing the second grouping.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the number of people in one group only needs to be two or more as in the case of grouping by the first group in the grouping by the second group has been described. The grouping by the second group is not limited, and the lower limit of the number of people in one group can be set, and in the grouping by the second group, for example, the group may have to be three or more. .

  Furthermore, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the history management table 13 and the group management table 14 are used has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and only the group management table 14 may be used. The same effect can be obtained.

  In this case, a group setting process RT3 shown in FIG. 8 is performed instead of the group setting process RT1. Specifically, the ID information management module 11 determines whether another ID is acquired from the security gate 3 within a predetermined period (within 3 seconds, within 1 minute, etc.) (S25). If the ID information management module 11 obtains an affirmative result in this determination, it performs group registration by registering an ID with the member using the group management table 14 (S26), and ends this group setting processing RT3. On the other hand, if the ID information management module 11 obtains a negative result in the determination at step S25, it ends this group setting processing RT3.

  Furthermore, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the ID information management module 11 performs the group check process shown in FIG. 7 to update the group when the date changes has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the elevator 2 When the car arrives at the floor where the security gate 3 is installed, the group check process shown in FIG. 9 may be performed, and the same effects as in the above-described embodiment can be obtained.

  Specifically, the ID information management module 11 determines whether or not a group including the detected ID has been assigned to the elevator car 2 (S31). The process is canceled (S32), and steps S31 to S33 are repeated until all groups are checked (S33).

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Elevator control system, 2 ... Elevator, 3 ... Security gate, 4 ... Node, 5 ... Display, 8 ... Elevator control device, 9 ... Controller, 10 ... Memory, 11 ... ID Information management module, 12 ... car allocation module, 13 ... history management table, 14 ... group management table.

Claims (6)

An elevator control system for controlling a plurality of elevators used via a security gate,
A detection circuit for detecting an ID of a passenger who has passed through the security gate;
An elevator control device for controlling the operation of the plurality of elevators,
The elevator control device receives the ID, groups the plurality of IDs by using the timing at which the ID is received and the ID, and performs a plurality of the elevators based on the grouped plurality of IDs. Elevator control system that applies group management. An elevator control device for controlling a plurality of elevators installed in the same building where entrance / exit management is performed by inputting an ID from a security gate,
An ID management module for managing an ID received from the security gate;
A car assignment module that assigns passengers to a plurality of elevator cars based on the ID management information acquired from the ID management module;
The ID management module assigns the passenger specified by the ID to a group according to the time when the ID is input,
The elevator controller assigns the passenger specified by the ID assigned to the same group to the same passenger car. When the ID management module detects a plurality of ID inputs to enter a building continuously for a predetermined number of seconds,
The elevator control device according to claim 2, wherein the passenger specified by the ID is assigned to the same group. If the ID management module detects a plurality of ID inputs that leave the building continuously for a predetermined number of seconds,
The elevator control device according to claim 2, wherein the passengers specified by the ID are included in the same group only on the day when the exit occurs. When the ID management module detects an input of a plurality of the IDs that enter or leave the building during a predetermined number of minutes,
The elevator control device according to claim 2, wherein the passengers specified by a plurality of the IDs for a predetermined number of days from the day when the admission or the exit occurred are grouped together. An elevator control method for controlling a plurality of elevators installed in the same building where entrance / exit management has been performed by a security gate using an elevator control device,
The elevator control device includes:
An ID management module for managing an ID received from the security gate;
A car assignment module that assigns a plurality of elevator cars based on the ID acquired from the ID management module;
A first step in which the ID management module groups passengers specified by the ID according to a time when the ID is input;
An elevator control method comprising: a second step in which the car assignment module assigns the passenger specified by the ID in the same group to the same car.

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