JP2020125196A - Elevator operation control system - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide an elevator operation control system capable of inhibiting the deterioration in service efficiency by setting an optimal standby time according to a visitor of a building while preventing a visitor from failing to get on a car.SOLUTION: An elevator operation control system includes a landing call registration unit for automatically registering a landing call at an entrance floor when verification of a visitor of a building is successful and a door of an entrance is unlocked, a standby time setting unit, which acquires personal information of the visitor whose verification is successful, specifies a required moving time required for the visitor to move to a landing hall at the entrance floor from the entrance based on the personal information, and sets the required moving time as a standby time, and a standby control unit for making a car stand by at the landing hall at the entrance floor until an elapsed time from the automatic registration of a landing call at the entrance floor reaches the standby time after the car of the elevator responds to the landing call and lands on the landing hall at the entrance floor.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

Embodiments of the present invention relate to an elevator operation control system.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is known an elevator operation control system that controls the operation of an elevator installed in a building in conjunction with a security system that unlocks a door lock of an entrance when authentication of a building visitor is successful. This elevator operation control system, for example, automatically registers the entrance hall call when the entrance door lock is unlocked after successful authentication of the visitors, and responds to this entrance call to enter the entrance hall By waiting the elevator car that has landed on the floor for a certain period of time, visitors can get on the car as soon as they move to the entrance floor. In addition, the destination floor can be specified based on the authentication data of the visitors to automatically register the destination floor, or the available floors can be specified based on the authentication data of the visitors and a car can be placed on a floor other than the available floors. It is also possible to perform non-stop control that does not stop.

However, since the walking speed of the visitors varies from person to person, if the waiting time for the car to wait at the entrance floor is constant, as in the past, those with a slow walking speed arrive at the entrance floor hall. The waiting time may have passed before and you may miss the car. Further, if the waiting time is lengthened so that an attendant with a slow walking speed does not miss the car, the car cannot respond to other calls for a long time, and the service efficiency of the elevator decreases.

JP, 2005-324889, A

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an elevator operation control system capable of suppressing a decrease in service efficiency while preventing a passenger from delaying a ride by setting an optimum waiting time according to an attendant of a building. That is.

The elevator operation control system according to the embodiment is an elevator operation control system that controls the operation of an elevator installed in a building in conjunction with a security system that unlocks a door lock of an entrance when authentication of a building visitor is successful. And, it is provided with a hall call registration unit, a standby time setting unit, and a standby control unit. The hall call registration unit automatically registers the hall call on the entrance floor when the door lock of the entrance is unlocked. The waiting time setting unit acquires personal information of the successfully authenticated visitor, and based on the personal information, specifies a travel time required for the visitor to travel from the entrance to the hall on the entrance floor. , The required travel time is set as a waiting time. The standby control unit, after the elevator car has landed on the entrance floor hall in response to the hall call, until the elapsed time after automatically registering the entrance floor hall call reaches the standby time. During that time, the car is kept waiting at the entrance floor.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of an elevator operation control system of the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the elevator operation control system according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the elevator operation control system of the second embodiment. FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the elevator operation control system according to the second embodiment. FIG. 5: is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the elevator driving control system of 3rd Embodiment.

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of an elevator operation control system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The elevator operation control system of the embodiment controls the operation of the elevator installed in the building in cooperation with the security system of the building. The security system unlocks the entrance door lock if the building is successfully authenticated. When the door lock of the entrance is unlocked, the elevator operation control system automatically registers a hall call on the entrance floor, and in response to this hall call, the elevator car landed at the hall on the entrance floor waits at the hall. ..

In the elevator operation control system of the present embodiment, the personal information of the visitors who succeed in the authentication and enter the building is acquired, and the waiting time of the car waiting at the entrance floor is determined based on the personal information of the visitors. Set. In other words, the car that has landed on the entrance floor waits at that entrance until the elapsed time after the automatic registration of the entrance floor call reaches the waiting time set based on the personal information of the visitors. Let With this, it is possible to set the optimal car waiting time according to the visitors of the building, and it occurs when the waiting time is too long while preventing the late arrival of the visitors who may be concerned when the waiting time is too short It is possible to suppress a decrease in service efficiency.

<First Embodiment>
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of an elevator operation control system of this embodiment. This elevator operation control system has a configuration in which a security control device 10 and an elevator control device 20 are connected via an elevator I/F (interface) 30. The security control device 10 is connected to a door lock device 40 that locks the door of the building entrance, and a reader 50 that reads information from an ID card 60 owned by a building visitor P.

The security control device 10 includes a microcomputer including a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, and the like, and an authentication database in which authentication data of visitors who are allowed to enter the building are registered. The security control device 10 realizes the functions of the respective units of the authentication processing unit 11, the door lock control unit 12, and the authentication data transmission unit 13 by the microcomputer executing a predetermined program, for example.

The authentication processing unit 11 authenticates the visitor P by collating the authentication data read by the reader 50 from the ID card 60 possessed by the visitor P of the building with the authentication data registered in the authentication database. If the authentication data read from the ID card 60 matches any of the authentication data registered in the authentication database, the authentication processing unit 11 determines that the visitor P has been successfully authenticated.

When the authentication processing unit 11 succeeds in authenticating the visitor P, the door lock control unit 12 sends a lock release signal to the door lock device 40 to release the door lock at the entrance of the building.

When the authentication processing unit 11 succeeds in authenticating the visitor P, the authentication data transmitting unit 13 reads the authentication data of the successful visitor P, that is, the ID card 60 carried by the visitor P by the reader 50. The obtained authentication data is transmitted to the elevator control device 20 via the elevator I/F 30.

Here, in the present embodiment, it is assumed that the authentication data of the visitor P includes the personal information of the visitor P. For example, the combination of the authentication code uniquely assigned to the visitor P and the personal information of the visitor P is used as the authentication data of the visitor P. Alternatively, the personal information of the visitor P may be directly used as the authentication data of the visitor P. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the authentication data of the visitor P includes the personal information of the visitor P, but the authentication data (authentication code) of the visitor P and the personal information of the visitor P correspond to each other. The personal information of the visitor P may be acquired by separately holding a database that is registered and searching the database with the authentication data of the visitor P as a key.

The elevator control device 20 includes a microcomputer provided with a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, and the like. For example, the microcomputer executes a predetermined program to register a call, move a car according to the call, or move a car door. Controls various elevator operations such as opening and closing. In particular, the elevator control device 20 of the present embodiment has, for example, a hall call registration unit 21 and a standby time setting unit as a function of controlling the elevator operation in conjunction with a security system by a microcomputer executing a predetermined program. 22 and the function of each unit of the standby control unit 23 are realized.

The hall call registration unit 21 releases the door lock of the entrance when the authentication data of the visitor P is transmitted from the security control device 10 via the elevator I/F 30, that is, the entrance P is successfully authenticated. At that time, the hall call on the entrance floor is automatically registered. When the hall call on the entrance floor is registered, movement of the car is controlled so that the car moves to the hall on the entrance floor in response to the hall call.

When the authentication data of the visitor P is transmitted from the security control device 10 via the elevator I/F 30, the standby time setting unit 22 acquires the personal information of the visitor P included in this authentication data. Then, the waiting time setting unit 22 sets the waiting time, which is the time for the car to wait at the hall on the entrance floor, based on the acquired personal information of the visitor P. As described above, if the authentication data of the visitor P does not include the personal information and the personal information of the visitor P is registered in the database in association with the authentication data, the waiting time setting unit 22 sets the security The personal information of the visitor P may be acquired by searching the database using the authentication data transmitted from the control device 10 as a key, and the waiting time may be set based on this personal information. A specific example of the method of setting the waiting time based on the personal information of the visitor P will be described later in detail.

When the hall call registration unit 21 automatically registers a hall call on the entrance floor, the standby control unit 23 starts counting elapsed time. Then, the standby control unit 23 responds to the hall call automatically registered by the hall call registration unit 21 and lands on the hall on the entrance floor, and then the elapsed time after the hall call on the entrance floor is automatically registered. Until the waiting time set by the waiting time setting unit 22 is reached, the car waits at the hall on the entrance floor. The waiting of the car means that the car is stopped with the door opened so that the user can get on the car. When the elapsed time from the automatic registration of the hall call on the entrance floor reaches the waiting time or when the door close button provided in the car is operated, the door closes and the car moves.

Here, a specific example of a method of setting the waiting time based on the personal information of the visitor P will be described.

(Specific example 1)
The waiting time setting unit 22 can set a waiting time according to the age of the visitor P, for example. In this case, the time required to move from the entrance of the building (more specifically, for example, the installation position of the reader 50) to the hall on the entrance floor (hereinafter, referred to as “moving required time”) is different for each age group. Set in advance. For example, when the age group is divided into three groups: children (under 12 years old), old people (over 60 years old), and general (12 years old and under 60 years old), the time required for the child to move is, for example, 40 seconds, The time is set to, for example, 60 seconds, and the general travel time is set to, for example, 30 seconds.

When the personal information of the visitor P includes the age of the visitor P, the waiting time setting unit 22 determines the age of the visitor P from the authentication code transmitted from the security control device 10 via the elevator I/F 30. The required travel time, which is acquired and determined for the age group including the age of the visitor P, can be set as the waiting time for waiting the car at the hall on the entrance floor. For example, if the age of the visitor P is 10, the waiting time is set to 40 seconds, and if the age of the visitor P is 40, the waiting time is set to 30 seconds, and the age of the visitor P is 70 years old. If so, the waiting time is set to 60 seconds.

If the personal information of the visitor P includes the date of birth of the visitor P, the waiting time setting unit 22 uses the authentication code transmitted from the security control device 10 via the elevator I/F 30 to enter the visitor. The birth date of P can be acquired, and the age of the visitor P can be calculated based on the birth date of the visitor P and calendar information indicating today's date. Then, the standby time setting unit 22 can set the required travel time determined for the age group including the age of the resident P as the standby time for waiting the car at the hall on the entrance floor.

Here, an example in which the age group is divided into three groups, that is, a child, an elderly person, and the general, has been described, but the age group may be divided with finer granularity. If the personal information of the visitor P includes gender and special conditions (such as use of a wheelchair), the required travel time is divided not only by age group but also by segmentation considering these gender and special conditions. May be defined.

(Specific example 2)
In addition, the required travel time is registered as personal information for each visitor P, and the standby time setting unit 22 uses the authentication code transmitted from the security control device 10 via the elevator I/F 30 to request the visitor P to move. It is also possible to acquire the time and set the required travel time of the visitor P as the standby time for waiting the car at the hall on the entrance floor.

For the registration of the required travel time for each visitor P, for example, the visitor P may use a predetermined input device to write an arbitrary time into the database for managing the ID card 60 and the above-mentioned personal information. However, the time it takes for the visitor P to actually move from the entrance of the building to the hall on the entrance floor may be measured, and the measured time may be written in the ID card 60 or the database for managing the above-mentioned personal information. The time required to move is measured, for example, from the time when the entrance P is successfully authenticated and the door lock of the entrance is released until the entrance P presses the hall button provided at the hall on the entrance floor. It can be realized.

Next, the operation of the elevator operation control system of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When the visitor P of the building holds the ID card 60 over the reader 50, the reader 50 reads the authentication data of the visitor P from the ID card 60 (step S101). The authentication data of the visitor P read by the reader 50 is sent to the security control device 10.

The security control device 10 authenticates the visitor P by collating the authentication data of the visitor P read by the reader 50 with the authentication data registered in the authentication database (step S102). If the authentication is successful (step S102: Yes), the door lock device 40 is sent a lock release signal to unlock the door of the entrance of the building (step S103), and the authentication succeeds. The authentication data of P is transmitted to the elevator control device 20 via the elevator I/F 30 (step S104). If the authentication fails (step S102: No), the process ends.

When the elevator control device 20 receives the authentication data of the visitor P from the security control device 10, the elevator control device 20 automatically registers the hall call on the entrance floor of the building (step S105), causes the car to respond to the hall call, and displays the elapsed time. Start counting. Further, the elevator control device 20 acquires the personal information of the visitor P from the authentication data of the visitor P received from the security control device 10, identifies the required travel time of the visitor P based on this personal information, and The required moving time is set as the waiting time for waiting the car at the hall on the entrance floor (step S106).

After that, the elevator control device 20 determines whether or not the car has landed on the hall on the entrance floor (step S107), and when the car has landed on the hall on the entrance floor (step S107: Yes), the entrance in step S105. Until the elapsed time after automatically registering the floor call for the floor reaches the waiting time set in step S106 (step S109: No), the car is kept waiting at the hall on the entrance floor (step S108). Then, when the elapsed time after the automatic registration of the hall call on the entrance floor reaches the waiting time (step S109: Yes), the car is set in the movable state and the series of processes is ended.

As described above in detail with reference to specific examples, the elevator operation control system according to the present embodiment, when the entrance P of the building is successfully authenticated and the door lock of the entrance is unlocked, The hall call is automatically registered, the personal information of the visitor P who enters the building is acquired, and the required travel time of the visitor P is specified based on this personal information. Then, this required travel time is set as a waiting time, and the car is made to wait at the entrance floor until the elapsed time after the automatic registration of the entrance floor hall call reaches the waiting time. Therefore, according to the elevator operation control system of the present embodiment, it is possible to set the optimum waiting time according to the visitors P of the building to make the car stand by, and the attendee who is concerned when the waiting time is too short It is possible to prevent a delay in service and a decrease in service efficiency that occurs when the waiting time is too long.

In addition, in the above-mentioned embodiment, as one of the elevator operation controls interlocked with the security system, the control for making the car stand by at the hall on the entrance floor has been described, but other operation controls may be performed together. .. For example, if the personal information of the successfully-authenticated visitor P includes the information of the destination floor of the visitor P, the elevator control device 20 automatically registers the destination floor so that the attendee P can reach the destination in the car. The car may be moved to the destination floor without performing the operation of designating the floor. Further, in this case, even if there is a hall call on an intermediate floor between the entrance floor and the destination floor, the car may be controlled to directly drive to the destination floor without causing the car to respond to the hall call.

Further, when the personal information of the successfully-authenticated visitor P includes information on a plurality of floors (available floors) that the visitor P can use, the elevator control device 20 determines that the visitor P is in the car. When performing the operation of designating the destination floor, only the available floors may be designated as the destination floors, and non-stop control may be performed so as not to stop the car on the floors other than the available floors.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, as a method of authenticating the visitor P, a method of reading the authentication data from the ID card 60 possessed by the visitor P has been exemplified, but for example, fingerprint authentication, face authentication, retina authentication, iris authentication. Other methods such as biometric authentication may be used to authenticate the resident P. When performing authentication for the visitor P by biometric authentication, as described above, a database in which the authentication data of the visitor P and the personal information of the visitor P are associated and registered is separately held, and the authentication data of the visitor P is stored. By searching this database as a key, the personal information of the visitor P can be acquired.

Various extended functions can be added to the above-described embodiment. For example, when a surveillance camera is installed at the entrance of a building, a function of estimating the age of the visitor P from an image captured by the surveillance camera is added, and a waiting time corresponding to the estimated age of the visitor P is set. You may be able to. In addition, if an input device that can directly input the waiting time is installed at the entrance of the building and the visitor P inputs the waiting time using this input device, the entered time is set as the waiting time, and the waiting time If there is no input, a standard waiting time (for example, 30 seconds) may be set.

<Second Embodiment>
Next, a second embodiment will be described. The present embodiment is an example in which measures are taken when a plurality of visitors P enter a building within a short time. In the following, duplicated description of portions common to the above-described first embodiment will be omitted as appropriate, and only differences from the above-described first embodiment will be described.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the elevator operation control system of the present embodiment. In the present embodiment, as compared with the configuration of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1, a notification control unit 24 is added to the elevator control device 20. An entrance display device 70 installed at the entrance of the building and a hall display device 80 installed at the hall on the entrance floor are connected to the elevator control device 20.

When a plurality of visitors P enter the building within a short time, if the waiting time is set in accordance with the travel time required by the previous visitor P (first visitor), the subsequent attendees P (second visitor P) Passengers may arrive at the hall on the entrance floor before the car departs, and subsequent visitors P may have to wait a long time at the hall until the car returns to the hall on the entrance floor. .. Therefore, in the present embodiment, after the previous visitor P is successfully authenticated and the door lock of the entrance is unlocked, the subsequent visitor P is successfully authenticated within a predetermined time (for example, 10 seconds). When the door lock is released again, the waiting time setting unit 22 of the elevator control device 20 considers the waiting time set based on the moving time of the previous visitor and the moving time of the subsequent visitor P. Change the setting to the specified waiting time.

Specifically, the waiting time setting unit 22 sets, for example, the entrance times of the previous entrant P and the subsequent entrant P with respect to the required travel time specified based on the personal information of the subsequent entrant P. The total moving time is calculated by adding the difference, that is, the time from when the door lock of the entrance is first unlocked to when the door lock of the entrance is unlocked next. Then, the waiting time setting unit 22 sets and changes the waiting time set based on the previous moving time required for the visitors to this total moving time. However, when the difference between the required travel time of the previous visitor P and the total required travel time exceeds a predetermined upper limit time, the standby time setting unit 22 does not change the standby time setting in this way. Therefore, it is desirable to prevent the previous visitor P from getting into the car at the entrance floor and not being able to leave for too long.

In addition, in this embodiment, it is assumed that the previous entrant P arrives at the hall on the entrance floor before the subsequent entrant P. When the time required for movement of the subsequent visitors P is shorter than the time required for movement of the previous visitors P, the subsequent visitors P arrive earlier than the previous visitors P at the hall on the entrance floor. This is because, in this case, it is not necessary to change the setting of the waiting time set based on the time required for the previous visitor P to move. Therefore, when the total travel time calculated using the travel time required for the subsequent visitors P is shorter than the travel time required for the previous visitors P, the standby time setting unit 22 sets the standby time as described above. Do not change the setting.

Further, in the present embodiment, after the previous entrance person P is successfully authenticated and the entrance door lock is released, the succeeding entrance person P is successfully authenticated and the entrance door lock is again released within a predetermined time. In such a case, the notification control unit 24 of the elevator control device 20 displays a predetermined message on the entrance display device 70 and the hall display device 80, respectively, so that the previous visitor P and the subsequent attendees P can be notified. To notify that there are other elevator users. For example, the notification control unit 24 causes the hall display device 80 to display a message such as “A user will come later, so please wait a while in the elevator.” It is possible to inform P that there is a subsequent visitor P. Further, the notification control unit 24 displays, for example, a message such as “There is a user who is heading to the elevator first” on the entrance display device 70, so that the subsequent visitors P entering the building are notified of the previous message. It can be notified that there is a visitor P.

In addition, the notification control unit 24 displays, for example, the entrance display when the waiting time setting is not changed because the difference between the previous moving time of the visitor P and the total moving time exceeds the upper limit time. By displaying a predetermined message on at least one of the device 70 and the hall display device 80, the subsequent visitors P are informed that another user is using the elevator. For example, the notification control unit 24 displays a message such as “Elevator is being used by another user, so please wait at the hall for a while” on at least one of the entrance display device 70 and the hall display device 80, so that the building It is possible to notify a subsequent visitor P who enters the vehicle or a subsequent visitor P who arrives at the hall on the entrance floor that another user is using the elevator.

When a speaker is installed at the entrance or hall of the building, the notification control unit 24 causes the entrance display device 70 or the hall display device 80 to display the message as described above, or alternatively, the entrance display device. Instead of displaying the above-mentioned message on the 70 or the hall display device 80, a similar message is output by voice from a speaker installed at the entrance of the building or the hall, so that the previous visitor P or the subsequent visitor P May be notified.

Next, the operation of the elevator operation control system of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The processing from step S201 to step S206 shown in FIG. 4 is the same as the processing from step S101 to step S106 shown in FIG. 2, and the processing from step S216 to step S218 shown in FIG. This is the same as the processing from step S107 to step S109 shown in FIG. Therefore, description of these processes will be omitted, and in the following, the processes of steps S207 to S214 will be described.

In the present embodiment, in step S207, it is determined whether or not the reader 50 has read the authentication data of the subsequent visitor P within a predetermined time after the previous visitor P entered the building. Then, when the authentication data of the subsequent visitors P is read within a predetermined time after the previous visitors P enter the building (step S207: Yes), the subsequent visitors P by the security control device 10 are read. It is determined whether or not the authentication has been successful (step S208). Here, when the predetermined time has elapsed without reading the authentication data of the subsequent visitors P (step S207: No), or the authentication data of the subsequent visitors P is read within the predetermined time. However, if the authentication fails (step S208: No), the process proceeds to step S215 without changing the standby time setting, and the standby control of the car is performed based on the standby time set in step S206.

On the other hand, when the authentication for the subsequent visitors P is successful (step S208: Yes), the security control device 10 sends a lock release signal to the door lock device 40 to release the door lock at the entrance of the building again. At the same time (step S209), the authentication data of the succeeding visitor P who has been successfully authenticated is transmitted to the elevator controller 20 via the elevator I/F 30 (step S210).

When the elevator control device 20 receives the authentication data of the subsequent visitors P from the security control device 10, for example, by causing the entrance display device 70 and the hall display device 80 to display respective predetermined messages, Then, the subsequent attendant P is informed that there is another elevator user (step S211). Further, the elevator control device 20 acquires the personal information of the subsequent visitor P from the authentication data of the subsequent visitor P received from the security control device 10, and the subsequent visitor P identified based on this personal information. The total required travel time is calculated by adding the difference in the entry times of the previous visitor P and the subsequent attendee P to the required travel time of (step S211).

Then, the elevator control device 20 obtains the difference between the required travel time specified based on the personal information of the previous visitor P and the total required travel time, and determines whether this difference exceeds a predetermined upper limit time. If it does not exceed the upper limit time (step S212: No), the waiting time set based on the moving time required for the previous visitor P in step S206 is calculated as the total in step S211. The setting is changed to the movement required time (step S213). On the other hand, when the difference between the required travel time specified based on the personal information of the previous visitor P and the total required travel time exceeds the upper limit time (step S212: Yes), the elevator controller 20 waits. Other than the entrance display device 70 and the hall display device 80, a predetermined message is displayed without changing the setting of No., so that another user is using the elevator. This is notified (step S214).

Then, in step S215, standby control of the car is performed based on the standby time set in step S206 or the standby time set/changed in step S213.

As described above in detail with reference to specific examples, the elevator operation control system according to the present embodiment is within a predetermined time after the previous entrance P is successfully authenticated and the door lock of the entrance is unlocked. When the subsequent entrance P is successfully authenticated and the door lock of the entrance is released again, the elevator control device 20 sets the waiting time set based on the moving time of the previous entrance to the subsequent entrance. The setting is changed to a waiting time in consideration of the time required for the person P to move, and the preceding visitors P and the succeeding visitors P are informed that there are other elevator users. Therefore, it is possible to effectively prevent the inconvenience that a subsequent visitor P who enters the building within a short time after the previous visitor P enters the building has to wait for a long time at the entrance floor. At the same time, it is possible to prevent the first entrant P and the second entrant P from feeling uncomfortable with the standby control of the car.

In addition, in the elevator control system of the present embodiment, when the difference between the required travel time of the previous visitor P and the total required travel time exceeds a predetermined upper limit time, the elevator control device 20 causes the above-described waiting time. The setting is not changed, and the subsequent visitors P are informed that another user is using the elevator. Therefore, it is possible to effectively prevent an excessively long time when the passenger P has boarded the car at the entrance floor, but the departure time is too long, and the car is absent at the entrance floor. It is possible to mitigate the distrust of the subsequent visitors P to the.

<Third Embodiment>
Next, a third embodiment will be described. This embodiment is an application example to a group management elevator having a plurality of cars whose operation is independently controlled. In the following, duplicated description of portions common to the above-described first embodiment will be omitted as appropriate, and only differences from the above-described first embodiment will be described.

In the group management elevator, it is possible to get a plurality of visitors P who have succeeded in the authentication and enter the building into different cars at the entrance floor, but it is possible to get multiple passengers P who arrive at the entrance floor at a near time. Attempting to get the passengers P into different cars causes a drop in service efficiency. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the arrival time at which the successfully-authenticated visitor P arrives at the hall on the entrance floor is estimated, and if there are a plurality of attendees P having similar arrival times, the plurality of attendees P are the same. The passenger P who has been successfully authenticated specifies the car to be boarded so that the car can be boarded.

A DCS (Destination Control System) capable of designating a destination floor at a hall is known as an operation control system of a group management elevator. In this DCS, the service efficiency is improved by designating a car to be used for each user so that users having the same destination floor will get in the same car. In the present embodiment, when the personal information of the visitor P includes the information on the destination floor, it is possible to control the visitors P having the same destination floor to get into the same car as in the DCS. , By controlling the visitors P who arrive at the hall on the entrance floor to arrive in the same car at the same arrival time, it is possible to further improve the service efficiency.

FIG. 5: is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the elevator driving control system of this embodiment. In the present embodiment, an arrival time estimation unit 25 and a boarding car designation unit 26 are added to the elevator control device 20 as compared with the configuration of the first embodiment shown in FIG. An entrance display device 70 installed at the entrance of the building is connected to the elevator control device 20.

The arrival time estimation unit 25 estimates the arrival time at which the visitor P arrives at the hall on the entrance floor based on the personal information of the successfully-authenticated visitor P and the time when the entrance door lock is unlocked. To do. For example, the arrival time estimation unit 25 specifies the above-mentioned required travel time of the visitor P based on the personal information of the visitor P, succeeds in the authentication with respect to the attendee P, and unlocks the door of the entrance. The time obtained by adding the required travel time of the visitor P to the time is estimated as the arrival time at which the visitor P arrives at the hall on the entrance floor.

The boarding car designating section 26 is boarded by a passenger P who has been successfully authenticated so that a plurality of visitors P whose arrival time differences estimated by the arrival time estimating section 25 are within a predetermined time can be boarded in the same car. Specify a basket. For example, the boarding car designating section 26 causes the entrance display device 70 to display a message such as “Please board the elevator of Unit XX when you arrive at the boarding place”, so that the entrance P for the entrance P to the building is displayed. You can tell which car you should board at the landing on the first floor.

If the entrances and exits of a plurality of cars forming the group control elevator are located relatively far from each other, it is necessary to consider the difference in the distance to the entrances and exits of the individual cars. Therefore, the arrival time estimation unit 25 uses, for example, a time obtained by adding the required travel time to the time when the door lock of the entrance is unlocked as a base, and calculates the difference in the distance to the entrance/exit of each car from the base time. It is desirable to estimate the arrival time of the visitor P for each entrance/exit of each car by adding/subtracting the corresponding adjustment time.

When the arrival time estimation unit 25 estimates the arrival time for each car entrance/exit, the boarding car designating unit 26 receives, for example, the arrival of a plurality of visitors P among the cars capable of responding to the hall call on the entrance floor. The car with the smallest time difference is designated as the car on which the plurality of visitors P are to board. As a result, it is possible to more appropriately specify the cars in which the plurality of visitors P board.

As described above, according to the elevator operation control system of the present embodiment, since a plurality of visitors P who arrive at the hall on the entrance floor at a time close to each other are allowed to get on the same car, operation of a plurality of cars is performed. Can be efficiently performed to improve the service efficiency.

According to at least one embodiment described above, it is possible to set the optimum waiting time according to the visitors of the building, and to prevent the passengers from delaying the ride, which is a concern when the waiting time is too short, while waiting. It is possible to suppress a decrease in service efficiency that occurs when the time is too long.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the above-described embodiments are presented as examples and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. The above-described embodiment can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. The embodiments and their modifications are included in the scope of the invention and the scope thereof, as well as in the invention described in the claims and the scope of equivalents thereof.

10 security control device, 20 elevator control device, 21 hall call registration unit, 22 standby time setting unit, 23 standby control unit, 24 notification control unit, 25 arrival time estimation unit, 26 boarding car designation unit, 30 elevator I/F, 40 door lock device, 50 reader, 60 ID card, 70 entrance display device, 80 hall display device, P visitors.

The elevator operation control system according to the embodiment is an elevator operation control system that controls the operation of an elevator installed in a building in conjunction with a security system that unlocks a door lock of an entrance when authentication of a building visitor is successful. And, it is provided with a hall call registration unit, a standby time setting unit, and a standby control unit. The hall call registration unit automatically registers the hall call on the entrance floor when the door lock of the entrance is unlocked. The waiting time setting unit acquires personal information of the successfully authenticated visitor, and based on the personal information, specifies a travel time required for the visitor to travel from the entrance to the hall on the entrance floor. , The required travel time is set as a waiting time. The standby control unit, after the elevator car has landed on the entrance floor hall in response to the hall call, until the elapsed time after automatically registering the entrance floor hall call reaches the standby time. During that time, the car is kept waiting at the entrance floor. The waiting time setting unit, after the first entrance is successfully authenticated and the door lock of the entrance is released, the second entrance is successfully authenticated and the entrance door lock is released within a predetermined time. When it is released again, the total travel time calculated by using the waiting time set based on the travel time of the first visitor, using the travel time of the second visitor. When the setting is changed to, the time when the second visitor arrives at the entrance floor of the entrance, which is calculated using the travel time of the second attendee, is the time when the first visitor receives the entrance. If it is earlier than the time to arrive at the platform on the floor, the setting of the waiting time is not changed.

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An elevator operation control system that controls the operation of an elevator installed in a building in conjunction with a security system that unlocks the door of the entrance when the building is successfully authenticated.
A hall call registration unit that automatically registers a hall call on the entrance floor when the door lock of the entrance is unlocked,
Acquiring personal information of the successfully authenticated visitor, and based on the personal information, the travel time required for the visitor to travel from the entrance to the hall on the entrance floor is specified, and the travel time is determined. A standby time setting part to set as standby time,
After the elevator car has landed on the entrance floor hall in response to the hall call, until the elapsed time after automatically registering the entrance floor hall call reaches the waiting time, the car An elevator operation control system, comprising: a standby control unit that causes the vehicle to wait at the hall on the entrance floor. The personal information includes age or date of birth,
The waiting time setting unit is an age calculated based on the age included in the personal information, or the date of birth included in the personal information, among the plurality of required travel times predetermined for each age group. The elevator operation control system according to claim 1, wherein the required travel time corresponding to is set as the standby time. The personal information includes the travel time,
The elevator operation control system according to claim 1, wherein the standby time setting unit sets the required travel time included in the personal information as the standby time. The waiting time setting unit, after the first entrance is successfully authenticated and the door lock of the entrance is released, the second entrance is successfully authenticated and the entrance door lock is released within a predetermined time. When it is released again, the total travel time calculated by using the waiting time set based on the travel time of the first visitor, using the travel time of the second visitor. Change the setting to
The elevator operation control system according to claim 2 or 3, further comprising: a notification control unit that notifies the first and second visitors that another elevator user is present. .. The standby time setting unit does not change the setting of the standby time when the difference between the required travel time of the first visitor and the total required travel time exceeds a predetermined upper limit time,
The elevator operation control system according to claim 4, wherein the notification control unit notifies the second visitor that another user is using the elevator. The elevator is a group management elevator having a plurality of cars whose operation is independently controlled,
An arrival time estimation unit that estimates an arrival time at which the visitor arrives at the entrance floor, based on the personal information of the successful authentication and the time when the entrance door lock is released,
Further, a boarding car designating unit for designating a car to be boarded by the above-mentioned successfully-entered visitors so that the plurality of the visitors whose estimated arrival time differences are within a predetermined time can get on the same car. The elevator operation control system according to claim 1, wherein the elevator operation control system is provided. The arrival time estimation unit estimates, as the arrival time, a time of arrival at each of the entrances and exits of a plurality of cars,
It is characterized in that the boarding car designating section designates a car having the smallest difference in arrival times among the cars capable of responding to a landing call on the entrance floor as a car to be boarded by the plurality of visitors. The elevator operation control system according to claim 6.

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