JP3015338B2 - Emergency call system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an emergency notification system, and more particularly to an emergency rescue center operator who can judge at a glance the cause of each accident when a plurality of emergency information are generated.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an emergency notification system capable of transmitting the occurrence of an abnormality to the outside together with the position of the vehicle even when the driver becomes unable to communicate with the outside due to an accident of a vehicle such as an automobile or the like is known. This is disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 9-198592. According to this, a self-position is measured every predetermined time by using a navigation system that measures the self-position based on the position information from the GPS, and the measured value and the measurement time are stored in the storage means. An abnormality occurrence message created based on the latest measurement value and measurement time stored in the storage means when detected by the abnormality detection means is transmitted to a predetermined receiving device via a wireless public telephone line. ing.

This system is capable of accurately informing the details of an accident by simply communicating the latest abnormality occurrence message created based on the self-location data and the time data in which the self-location is stored to a predetermined report destination. There was a problem that it was not possible.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and has been disclosed in the case where a plurality of emergency information is generated from a vehicle due to substantially the same cause of an accident. It also sends the immediately preceding travel track information to the Emergency Rescue Center, which recognizes that it is an emergency information group consisting of the same accident cause, and identifies the scale of the accident and the possibility of further secondary disasters. It is intended to provide a foreseeable emergency call system.

[0005]

Accident emergency call system according to the present invention SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION comprises a fault detection means for detecting an accident of the vehicle,
A vehicle position specifying means for specifying the position of the vehicle, the accident detection
When an accident is detected by
Vehicle position location information of the vehicle obtained from a particular device, the vehicle ID that is stored in advance, and at least a vehicle wireless communication means for communicating emergency information wirelessly to emergency relief center a containing passenger ID information, the the emergency information via the wireless communication means to the point that is placed with the vehicle based on the received and its contents, in an emergency call system constituted by the said emergency relief center for performing turnout request of emergency vehicle, the same accident When a plurality of emergency information is generated from a vehicle other than the above due to a cause, the wireless communication means of the vehicle, in addition to the position information and the time information included in the emergency information, travels immediately before the accident of the vehicle. The trajectory information is also transmitted to the emergency rescue center, and the emergency rescue center that has received a plurality of emergency information including the information is an emergency information group including the same accident cause. It recognized, characterized by predictability to the possibility of the scale of the accident specific and further secondary disaster.

With such a configuration, unnecessary confusion can be prevented by specifying a plurality of pieces of emergency information as having the same cause.

[0007]

The invention according to claim 1 of the embodiment of the present invention includes: a fault detection means for detecting an accident of the vehicle, and the vehicle position specifying means for specifying the position of the vehicle, the accident detecting means Yo
When an accident is detected, the accident information and the
Position information of the vehicle obtained from the constant unit, previously stored so are the vehicle ID, the vehicle having at least a wireless communication means for communicating wirelessly to emergency relief center emergency information including passenger ID information, the wireless communication unit in emergency call system including a point that is located of said vehicle based emergency information to receive said <br/> its contents, and the emergency relief center for performing turnout request for emergency vehicle through the same When a plurality of emergency information is generated from a vehicle other than the above due to the cause of the accident, the wireless communication means of the vehicle, in addition to the position information and time information included in the emergency information, immediately before the accident of the vehicle The emergency rescue center, which has also transmitted traveling trajectory information to the emergency rescue center and received a plurality of emergency information including the information, recognizes that the emergency rescue center is an emergency information group consisting of the same accident cause. The emergency notification system is characterized by identifying the scale of the accident and predicting the possibility of further secondary disasters. By identifying multiple pieces of emergency information as having the same cause, unnecessary confusion Can be prevented.

[0008] According to a second aspect of the invention, as a pre articles late detection means, and the gravitational acceleration sensor capable of identifying the direction, the site of collision accident (front, right side, left side, rear, etc. 2.) The emergency notification system according to claim 1, wherein the emergency response information including at least the collision location and direction of each vehicle is reported to the emergency rescue center by using a collision sensor that specifies Since the emergency emergency information including the collision site and the direction is sent to the emergency rescue center, it has an effect that it is easy to recognize that the emergency accident group has the same accident cause.

Further, the invention according to claim 3, the fault detection means for detecting an accident of the vehicle, and the vehicle position specifying means for specifying the position of the vehicle, detects an accident by the fault detection means
From the accident information and the vehicle position identification means
Vehicle position information, previously stored so are the vehicle ID, and at least a vehicle wireless communication means for communicating emergency information wirelessly to emergency relief center a containing passenger ID information, the emergency via the radio communication unit the information at the point where are located the reception and the vehicle based on its contents, in an emergency call system constituted by the said emergency relief center for performing turnout request of emergency vehicle, emergency information generated in the vehicle, approximately If multiple incidents occur due to the same accident cause,
The first emergency information constructed at the time of the first occurrence is notified to the emergency rescue center only as a change to the first emergency information as the subsequent emergency information. This has the effect of shortening the data transmission time, increasing the efficiency of processing, and ensuring data communication.

[0010]

[0011]

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a vehicle according to an accident emergency notification system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, in a vehicle related to the accident emergency notification system, information from a collision sensor 11, a manual button 12, and a GPS receiver 13 is input to a CPU 16 of an emergency notification device. Information from the vehicle speed sensor 15 is also input. Except for the information from the manual button 12, information from each of the above sensors is stored in the memory 17 via the CPU 16. When an accident occurs, the information stored in the memory 17 and the manual button 12 operated by the driver as necessary
Is configured to be notified to an emergency center described later via the wireless communication unit 18.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining an outline of the accident emergency notification system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 shows a situation in which emergency information is reported from the vehicles 1 to 4 related to the accident to the emergency rescue center 5 for a plurality of accidents that occurred almost simultaneously, that is, accidents 1 to 3. As is clear from FIG. 2, the emergency rescue center 5 has information (1-1) indicating that the emergency information regarding the accident 1 is a frontal collision emitted from the accident vehicle 1.
And information that the collision is a head-on collision issued from the accident vehicle 2 (2-1); as emergency information on the accident 2, information that the collision is a rear-end collision emitted from the accident vehicle 2 (2-2) and the accident vehicle 3 (3) that it is a rear-end collision issued from
Further, the emergency information regarding the accident 3 includes information (4) indicating that the vehicle is a side collision emitted from the accident vehicle 4 and information (1−1) indicating that the vehicle is a side collision emitted from the accident vehicle 1.
2) is reported.

[0015] From the above, it can be concluded that the vehicle 1 and the vehicle 2 collide head-on due to the accident 1 and then the vehicle 3 collides with the vehicle 2 to collide, causing the accident 2 to occur. It is determined that accident 3 has occurred.

FIG. 3 shows an example in which the state of the accidents 1 to 3 shown in FIG. 2 is displayed on the display of the emergency rescue center 5 on vehicles and emergency information on map data obtained from a built-in map database. Things. In FIG. 3, the display of the collision site and the degree of each of the vehicles 1 to 4 (display of an arrow) and the display of the past traveling locus of each of the vehicles 1 to 4 (display of a dotted line) are performed by the operator at a glance or It is easy to understand.

By the way, as shown in FIG. 4A, the emergency information includes the position, time information, vehicle ID information,
D information and accident information (including the running trajectory immediately before the accident) are transmitted. And usually, as position and time information, 10
K to 20 Kbytes are required to be several tens of bytes for the vehicle ID information, the occupant ID information, and the accident information. On the other hand, in the case of most multiple accidents, the position (with time) information has the same content. That is, in the description based on the case of FIG. 2, the accidents 2 and 3 occur at a slight time difference from the place where the vehicles 1 and 2 are stopped in the accident 1.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 4 (b), the position information, which accounts for the majority of the emergency information, does not need to be sent repeatedly in the same vehicle, and by not sending this position information, the data communication time is reduced. It can be greatly reduced.

FIG. 5 shows a specific example of the arrangement of sensors of the vehicle 10 according to the emergency notification system. In FIG. 5, the accident detecting means includes a gravitational acceleration sensor 8 capable of identifying a direction and a collision sensor (a front collision sensor 6, a right side collision sensor 7, a left side collision sensor) for specifying a collision occurrence site at the time of an accident. 7 ', a rear collision sensor 9).

[0020]

The present invention described above, according to the present invention includes: a fault detection means for detecting an accident of the vehicle, and the vehicle position specifying means for specifying the position of the vehicle, an accident by the fault detection means detecting
From the accident information and the vehicle position identification means
Vehicle position information, previously stored so are the vehicle ID, and at least a vehicle wireless communication means for communicating emergency information wirelessly to emergency relief center a containing passenger ID information, the emergency via the radio communication unit information point is placed the receiver to the vehicle on the basis of the contents, the emergency call system constituted by the said emergency relief center for performing turnout request of emergency vehicle, a plurality of emergency information by the same accident In the case of occurrence from another vehicle, the wireless communication means of the vehicle may also provide travel emergency information of the vehicle immediately before an accident in addition to the position information and time information included in the emergency information. The emergency rescue center, which has transmitted to the center and received a plurality of emergency information including these information, recognizes that it is an emergency information group consisting of the same accident cause, and Joya be one characterized by predictability to the possibility of further secondary disaster, by identifying those plurality of emergency information by the same cause,
Unnecessary confusion can be prevented.

The emergency information generated in the vehicle is as follows:
When a plurality of occurrences occur due to a plurality of sensor factors, only the change to the first emergency information is the emergency information following the first emergency information constructed at the time of the first occurrence. Since the notification is made to the rescue center, it is possible to shorten the data transmission time, increase the efficiency of the processing, and ensure the data communication.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a vehicle according to an accident emergency notification system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining an outline of the accident emergency notification system according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows an example in which vehicles and emergency information are displayed on a display of an emergency center.

FIG. 4 shows a format example of emergency information transmitted by a vehicle, (a) an initial format example transmitted by an accident vehicle,
(B) An example of the format transmitted by the accident vehicle next,

FIG. 5 shows an example of the arrangement of sensors of a vehicle according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-4,10 vehicle 5 emergency rescue center 6 frontal collision sensor 7 right side collision sensor 7 'left side collision sensor 8 acceleration sensor 9 rear collision sensor 11 collision sensor 12 manual button 13 GPS receiver 14 gyro sensor 15 vehicle speed sensor 16 CPU 17 Memory 18 Wireless communication unit

Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Seiji Yoshida 4-3-1 Tsunashima Higashi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Inside Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Tatsuyuki Negishi 4-chome Tsunashima-Higashi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture No. 1 Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd. (56) References JP-A-8-30885 (JP, A) JP-A-8-317085 (JP, A) JP-A-10-49776 (JP, A) 8-339482 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G08B 23/10-31/00 G08G 1/00 G08G 1/13 H04M 11/04

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A and fault detection means for detecting an accident of the vehicle,
A vehicle position specifying means for specifying the position of the vehicle, the accident detection
When an accident is detected by
Vehicle position location information of the vehicle obtained from a particular device, the vehicle ID that is stored in advance, and at least a vehicle wireless communication means for communicating emergency information wirelessly to emergency relief center a containing passenger ID information, the the emergency information via the wireless communication means to the point that is placed with the vehicle based on the received and its contents, in an emergency call system constituted by the said emergency relief center for performing turnout request of emergency vehicle, the same accident When a plurality of emergency information is generated from a vehicle other than the above due to a cause, the wireless communication means of the vehicle,
In addition to the position information and the time information included in the emergency information, the travel trajectory information immediately before the accident of the vehicle is also transmitted to the emergency rescue center, and the emergency information including the plurality of emergency information including these information is received. A rescue center is an emergency notification system that recognizes a group of emergency information consisting of the same cause of an accident, and identifies the scale of the accident and predicts the possibility of further secondary disasters. As wherein prior articles late detector is used and the gravitational acceleration sensor capable of identifying the direction, collisions site of the event of an accident (frontal, right side, left side, rear, etc.) collision sensor that identifies the 2. The emergency notification system according to claim 1, wherein the emergency emergency information including at least the collision site and direction of each vehicle is notified to the emergency rescue center. 3. An accident detecting means for detecting an accident of the own vehicle;
A vehicle position specifying means for specifying the position of the vehicle, the accident detection
When an accident is detected by
Vehicle position location information of the vehicle obtained from a particular device, the vehicle ID that is stored in advance, and at least a vehicle wireless communication means for communicating emergency information wirelessly to emergency relief center a containing passenger ID information, the the emergency information via the wireless communication means to the point that is placed with the vehicle based on the received and its contents, in an emergency call system constituted by the said emergency relief center for performing turnout request of emergency vehicle in the vehicle When a plurality of emergency information is generated due to almost the same accident cause, the first emergency information constructed at the time of the first occurrence is the following emergency information, The emergency notification system is adapted to notify only the change in the above to the emergency rescue center.