JP3967057B2 - Mobile service system - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a mobile service system for enhancing convenience of services received from a facility when the mobile uses the facility.
[0002]
[Prior art]
There are various facilities around public roads that provide services for cars traveling on public roads. For example, restaurants equipped with parking lots, restaurants where customers can order meals and receive food while driving in a car called drive-through, gas stations, hotels, parking lots, and the like are provided along public roads.
[0003]
The restaurant only provides parking spaces for cars, and the main services are facilities for car occupants. It will be expressed as “service facility (or equipment for moving body)”.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
By the way, there are cases where such facilities do not sufficiently take into account the convenience of receiving services, or may obstruct traffic. For example, in the case of a restaurant with a drive-through, there is a passage for the car to pass around the store, and it is possible to guide the car on the public road in this passage and return to the public road again. Yes. An order and delivery of a cooked product are performed in the middle of this passage. However, it usually takes a certain amount of time from ordering to delivery of the cooked product. Therefore, there is a case where a traffic jam occurs on the passage, or when the traffic jam is severe, the traffic jam may extend to the public road. However, if the cooked food is prepared, it will cause a situation in which the product value is lowered, for example, it is not warm although it is just bought.
[0005]
  Taking a parking lot as an example, the car may run undesirably on a road, such as driving at a low speed on a public road to find an empty parking lot, or suddenly decelerating because an empty parking lot is found. In some cases, you may want to
  The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and the service system for a mobile unit (hereinafter also simply referred to as a system) according to claim 1 enhances the convenience of services provided to the mobile unit or affects traffic. The purpose of making it possible to provide facilities with lessAnd proposes one mode for authenticating and determining a mobile object..
[0006]
  Also,BookThe mobile service system aims to provide services without any problems even if the facilities are adjacent to each other..
[0009]
[Means for Solving the Problems and Effects of the Invention]
  The service system for a mobile unit according to claim 1 of the present invention, which has been made to solve such a problem, has a public road antenna arranged on a public road, and receives a service request from a request means provided in the mobile unit. Tell the facility around the public road that there was a request for service. At this time, if there are multiple facilities in close proximity to each other, the public road antennas will also be placed close together, but this may cause interference, so the service requires communication between the public road antennas and the mobile unit. Multiple access for each facility, and each slot in this multiple accessTheBy allocating for each facility, it is possible to request a service to a plurality of facilities with one public road antenna. The facility side knows which mobile unit requested the service by the authentication means. When the mobile body enters the facility, the determination means determines whether or not the mobile body is a mobile body that has requested a service, and for a mobile body that has requested a service, the service execution means includes the mobile body. Provide services to the service. However, the “execution” is not limited to the service execution means directly providing the service, but may be merely instructing the employees of the facility to perform the service. A public road provides a service of “moving on a moving object” to a moving body, but here, the public road is not regarded as a “facility”. In addition, the mobile unit that requested the service is authenticated as follows. That is, a recording medium in which the mobile body or the user of the mobile body is recorded with the unique information of the mobile body or the user is provided. AndMoving bodyWhen requesting services from a facility,NotationThe unique information recorded on the recording mediumThrough public road antennasSend to the facility.Then, the moving object approaches the facilityWhen receiving services,The unique information previously transmitted to the public road antenna is transmitted to the facility via the facility antenna. The facility receives services from the mobile or user's specific information previously received via the public road antenna and the mobile or user's specific information received via the facility antenna. It is authenticated by the authentication means whether or not it is a mobile body that has requested.
[0010]
  According to such a mobile service system according to claim 1, since a service request can be made even before the facility, the service can be provided in a short time to the mobile that has arrived at the facility. . In addition, in the case of facilities such as parking lots and hotels, it is possible to notify the presence or absence of an empty space or an empty room before arrival, so that it is possible to provide a facility with little influence on traffic. The facility then knows which mobile (or user) is making the request. In addition, since the antenna for facilities receives radio waves on the premises of the facility, the facility side can know that the requested mobile body (or user) has arrived at the facility, and the mobile body (or user) ) Can be implemented without fail.
  Also, interference does not occur when there are a plurality of facilities close to each other. Moreover, it is not necessary to install the same number of public road antennas as the number of facilities on the public road. Furthermore, it is possible to order and obtain information from a plurality of facilities almost simultaneously with a single vehicle.
[0011]
  ThisHere, examples of the multiple access method include frequency division multiple access, time division multiple access, code division multiple access, and the like.
[0013]
  Claim2In the mobile service system described in 1), the multiple access method is time division multiple access. In this way, it is not necessary to widen the frequency area reserved for this system as in frequency division multiple access or code division multiple access.
[0021]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram of a mobile service system to which the present invention is applied. In this system, roadside antennas 4a, 4b, and 4c are installed in places on the public road 2, and roadside hosts 6a, 6b, and 6c are connected to each of them (the roadside antenna and the roadside host corresponding thereto are other than these). (When these are not distinguished from each other, they are referred to as roadside antenna 4 and roadside host 6). The plurality of roadside hosts 6 are connected to each other via a network 8. The network 8 is connected to the management center 10, the provider 12, the bank 14, the credit company 16, and terminals A to I included in various facilities shown in the figure.
[0022]
The roadside antennas 4a to 4c have a communication area on the public road 2 in the vicinity of each antenna, and communicate with an in-vehicle device (described later) mounted on the automobile 18 running on the public road 2. The roadside hosts 6a to 6c transmit the operation control of the roadside antennas 4a to 4c and the communication control (command designation) with the in-vehicle device from the management center 10, the provider 12, and the terminals A to I via the network 8, and transmit to the in-vehicle device. In response to the desired information, the operation of the roadside antennas 4a to 4c is controlled. In addition, the communication result can be notified to the terminals A to I connected to the network 8.
[0023]
The provider 12 performs the same function as an Internet connection provider. That is, it has a function of transmitting programs and data distributed from the terminals A to I of each facility to the management center 10 and the roadside hosts 6a to 6c.
The management center 10 organizes communication contents and information sent from the terminals A to I of each facility and the provider 12, and schedules communication control of the roadside hosts 6a to 6c. This will be described later.
[0024]
Among the facilities shown in the figure, terminal B of the XX burger 20 and terminal C of the Iroha parking lot 22 are provided with local antennas 20a and 22a having communication areas on their respective premises (private land). The local antennas 20a and 22a are controlled by terminals installed in each facility and communicate with the vehicle-mounted device.
[0025]
FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the in-vehicle device. The in-vehicle device 24 is driven by using the in-vehicle battery 26 as a power source. The voltage of the in-vehicle battery 26 is converted into a voltage required for each block of the in-vehicle device 24 by the power supply circuit 28 and supplied. The microcomputer 30 (indicated as a microcomputer in FIG. 2) controls application functions and each block by executing various programs. The roadside communication control unit 40 performs communication control with the roadside antenna 4 and the local antennas 20a and 22a, and performs data communication to the microcomputer 30 and other blocks.
[0026]
The IC card interface 42 performs communication control with the IC card 44 and transmits / receives data of the IC card 44 to / from the microcomputer 30 and other blocks. The security application module (denoted by SAM in this figure) 46 has functions such as road-to-vehicle wireless communication, mutual authentication of the IC card 44, and information encryption / decryption. A human machine interface (indicated as HMI in this figure) 48 is connected to a display 50 and a speaker 52, and displays information to the user of the in-vehicle device 24 such as display, switch input, voice and buzzer sound, and from the user. It has the function to judge the intention of It also has an interface function with external devices and can be connected to car navigation systems.
[0027]
The IC card 44 stores information about the user (for example, name, address, national ID number, license number, etc.). Further, the user installs a program for communicating with the facility he / she uses in the in-vehicle device 24 using the CD 54 (or DVD).
[0028]
The outline of the operation performed in the above system will be described with reference to FIG. 3, taking as an example the case of ordering a hamburger from the XX burger 20 using the in-vehicle device 24 of the automobile 18 running in Aiueo-cho. First, the user inserts the IC card 44 into the IC card reader / writer 62 provided in the in-vehicle device 24 and activates software for placing an order with the XX burger 20. This is shown in FIG. The user operates the six buttons 64 provided under the display 50 to select a desired menu. The selected order is stored in the memory of the microcomputer 30 of the in-vehicle device 24.
[0029]
Returning to FIG. In this state, when the vehicle passes through the communication area of the roadside antenna 4b installed in Aiueo-cho, a “hamburger order” is transmitted from the in-vehicle device 24 via the roadside communication control unit 40 (1). The roadside antenna 4b transmits an order from the vehicle-mounted device 24 to the XX burger 20 via the network 8 (2). Upon receiving this information, the terminal B of the XX burger 20 is displayed as shown in FIG. 5A (3), and the store clerk starts cooking the hamburger (4). The display 50 of the vehicle-mounted device 24 is displayed as shown in FIG. 5B, and informs the user that the order has been completed (5). Then, the car 18 heads to the XX Burger 20 (6).
[0030]
When the automobile 18 arrives at the XX burger 20 and enters the communication area of the local antenna 20a, unique information is transmitted from the in-vehicle device 24 to the local antenna 20a (7). Then, it is displayed on the terminal B of the store that the user (customer) has arrived (this corresponds to the processing as the service execution means of the present invention). XX Burger 20 hands over the item ordered in exchange for the price to the user (8). In addition, although the exchange regarding a price is also shown by this figure, since this respond | corresponds to other embodiment, it does not touch here.
[0031]
  A method of communication performed between the vehicle-mounted device 24 and the roadside antenna 4 when the service represented by the order to the XX burger 20 described above is performed will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in this figure, each vehicle 18 loaded with the vehicle-mounted device 24 and the roadside antenna 4 are time-division multiple connected to communicate with a plurality of vehicle-mounted devices 24 (that is, the vehicle 18) with one roadside antenna 4. To do. First time slotG)At t1, an FCM (frame control message) is transmitted. Some FCMs have a slot in one frame.NumberAnd each slotToContains information such as assignments. In this figure, one frame has four slots.OrThe second slotT2 is used for transmission / reception with the vehicle K, and the third slot.T3 is empty, 4th slotT4 is used for transmission and reception with the vehicle L. These four slotsOrBy repeating these schedules, communication is performed with a plurality of in-vehicle devices 24 using one roadside antenna 4. Usually, communication is completed by repeating a plurality of frames. In each frame, the in-vehicle devices 24 of the vehicles K and L receive the FCM and the slot to be used by themselves(After confirming (timing), it communicates with the desired facility. For example, in the figure, the vehicle K is slotted by FCM.T2 and confirm that the slot should be used.T2. Communicate with XX Burger 20 (shown as XX store in this figure). In addition, the slot in one frameNumberWhen the number of in-vehicle devices 24 that perform communication increases, the number is increased within a range that does not hinder communication.
[0032]
  When a new request is made to use the roadside antenna 4 (for example, an order to XX Burger 20), the in-vehicle device 24 first receives the FCM and can use an available slot.(Empty slotAndThe slotToSlots that can be secured by increaseG)Make sure there is. Then, the roadside antenna 4 isToRequest usage. This request includes user-specific information written on the IC card 44 and is used for user authentication (in particular, authentication of the in-vehicle device 24 in this case). Then, communication as shown in FIG. 7 is performed.
[0033]
  That is, the roadside host 6 of the roadside antenna 4 transmits to the management center 10 that a new facility use request has been made (11). The management center 10(In FIG.T3) is assigned to the vehicle-mounted device 24. Empty slotGIf not,NumberIf it cannot be used, it is returned to the roadside host 6 that it cannot be used (not shown). SlotTheIf it can be secured, the provider 12 is notified of the facility requested to be used from the in-vehicle device 24 (here, the store P) (12). The provider 12 corresponds to the terminal of the shop P (the terminal B of the XX Burger 20) that transmits an application program (indicated in the figure as an application P program) for communicating services executed at the shop P. (13) in the figure. The requested shop P transmits the application P program to the provider 12 (14).
[0034]
  The provider 12 transmits this to the management center 10 and at the same time opens an empty slot.TheThe management center 10 is requested to register for communication with the store P (15). The management center 10 distributes the application P program received from the provider 12 to the roadside host 6 corresponding to the roadside antenna 4 at the most suitable position for communication with the automobile 18 (16). At this time, the slot set when the request of (11) is made.ToA command to communicate is also transmitted to the roadside host 6. In accordance with this command, the contents of the FCM are updated. When there is a request from another vehicle-mounted device 24 to use another facility (in this case, shop Q), communication of (17) to (22) is performed in substantially the same manner as (11) to (16). Done. Further, when the roadside antenna 4 optimal for communication changes as the automobile 18 travels, the application program of the roadside host 6 that has been used for communication until then is deleted, and the optimal roadside antenna 4 is changed. The application program is redistributed to the corresponding roadside host 6.
[0035]
In this system, the management center 10 collects the usage fee of the network 8 from the facility, and the provider 12 collects the distribution fee of the application program from the facility. This is performed immediately after registration of (15), (21), etc. is performed. This figure shows the flow of billing and charges when the store Q pays charges. That is, when the registration in (21) is performed, the management center 10 charges the provider 12 for the usage fee of the network 8 (30). Although not shown, the provider 12 adds the distribution fee charged to the store Q to the store Q to this information and transmits it to the store Q. The store Q that has received this transfers the fee to the bank 14 or the credit company 16 (31). This is performed via a well-known online network for financial institutions (you may make it possible to transfer money via the network 8). The provider 12 deducts the charge from the bank 14 (in the case of the credit company 16, the credit company 16 pays the charge to the provider 12) (32), and then subtracts the delivery charge charged by the provider 12 to the management center 10. Pay (33).
[0036]
According to the above system, since the ordered food is cooked while the automobile 18 is traveling toward the XX burger 20, the waiting time of the user is shortened. Therefore, the possibility that a traffic jam occurs on the passage of the XX burger 20 is reduced. In addition, since the order is also placed before entering the premises of the XX Burger 20, traffic congestion is less likely to occur. The XX burger 20 also has an advantage that it is possible to increase sales efficiency by drive-through in a narrow premises.
[0037]
In addition, when the user uses a facility other than XX Burger 20, there are the following advantages. For example, when using the Iroha parking lot 22, the in-vehicle device 24 inquires whether there is a vacancy. In this way, it is possible to know whether there is an empty parking space in the Iroha parking lot 22 even just before the Iroha parking lot 22, so it is possible to drive at a low speed to check whether the Iroha parking lot 22 is available, No sudden deceleration will occur. Therefore, the traffic on the public road 2 is less disturbed.
[0038]
Further, since the communication between the roadside antenna 4 and the in-vehicle device 24 is performed by time-division multiple access, communication with a plurality of automobiles 18 (in-vehicle devices 24) can be performed without any trouble. And since it is possible to communicate with a large number of facilities with a small number of roadside antennas 4, there is no interference that would be expected when the roadside antennas 4 are installed for each facility.
[0039]
In general, as the number of roadside antennas 4 increases, the convenience of the system increases. However, the cost of the roadside antenna 4 and the roadside host 6 connected thereto increases in proportion to the number of roadside antennas 4. In this respect, the roadside host 6 has only to execute the application program distributed from the provider 12 according to the schedule designated by the management center 10, and therefore the processing load is small. Therefore, a terminal device with a low processing capability can be used as the roadside host 6, and an increase in the cost of the entire system can be suppressed.
[0040]
Further, since the provider 12 performs distribution of highly commercial applications and the management center 10 performs scheduling of the highly public roadside antenna 4, the system is easy to implement. .
Here, the correspondence between the configuration described in this embodiment and the configuration of the present invention is shown. The roadside antenna 4 is a public road antenna, the roadside host 6 is a communication means, the terminals A to I and the provider 12 are program providing means, the management center 10 is a multiple access control means, the IC card 44 is a recording medium, and (1) in FIG. The processing as the requesting means and the first specific information transmitting means, the local antennas 20a and 22b correspond to the facility antenna, and (7) in FIG. 3 corresponds to the processing as the second specific information transmitting means.
[0041]
  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to this embodiment at all, and can be implemented in various aspects. For example, the method of communication performed between the vehicle-mounted device 24 and the roadside antenna 4 may be the method shown in FIG. 8 instead of the method shown in FIG. Even with this method, communication is performed using time division multiple access.TheIt is not assigned to each vehicle but assigned to each application (that is, facility). In this way, a single vehicle can be ordered and information can be obtained from a plurality of facilities almost simultaneously. Specifically, it is possible to divide the image on the display 50 into two, place an order on the XX burger 20 on one screen, and check the parking lot availability information on the other screen.
[0042]
Further, although the management center 10 and the provider 12 share the role, this may be performed by either one. An example of this is shown in FIG. In FIG. 9, the provider 12 is omitted, and the management center 10 performs the function of the provider 12. In this way, communication exchanges with the facility can be simplified. Further, as shown in FIG. 10, the roadside host 6 of the roadside antenna 4 may also serve as the management center 10 and the provider 12 (only one store is shown in the figure). In this way, the roadside host 6 is required to have a high processing capability, but the communication exchange with the facility can be further simplified.
[0043]
In addition, although the method in which the user pays the price is performed with cash as before, this may be performed via the network 8. Some of these examples will be described with reference to FIG. First, the IC card 44 is provided with a function as a prepaid card (or a function of managing the deposit amount in conjunction with the bank deposit), and after the order is notified to the XX burger 20, the roadside host 6 sends the vehicle-mounted device 24. It is conceivable that a payment request is issued (41) and the in-vehicle device 24 withdraws the price from the IC card 44 (42). In this case, the roadside host 6 may notify the XX burger 20 that the price has been settled (43). In this way, it is possible to prevent mischief and error that only the order from the in-vehicle device 24 is made and the dish is not picked up.
[0044]
However, since this is a prepayment method, the user may feel resistance. Therefore, after handing the dish to the user, the XX burger 20 may charge the bank 14 or the credit company 16 (50). Similarly, the post-payment method may be used, but communication between the local antenna 20a and the vehicle-mounted device 24 may be performed (60), and the charge may be withdrawn from the IC card 44 via the vehicle-mounted device 24 (61). Alternatively, a part of the price may be withdrawn from the IC card 44 at the time of placing an order, and the remaining price may be paid in cash, (50) method, or (60) (61) method.
[0045]
Alternatively, it is assumed that the IC card 44 has a function as a credit card issued by the credit company 16, and the credit card usage information is transmitted via the network 8 at the time of ordering (or after delivery of food). 16 may be withdrawn from the user's bank account or the like at a later date. Also, when you arrive at the XX Burger 20, you can pay by handing the IC card 44 to the clerk of the XX Burger 20, or by inserting the IC card 44 into an IC card reader / writer connected to the terminal B in advance. Good.
[0046]
Further, instead of making such payment based on the IC card 44, it may be possible to merely authenticate that the user who has made the order arrives at the XX burger 20. Of course, the above-described payment method and authentication method may be used not only in the XX burger 20 but also in any facility connected to the network 8.
[0047]
Further, as shown in FIG. 11, a microphone 70, a voice recognition unit 72, and a text conversion unit 74 may be added to the in-vehicle device 24. If an order is made by voice, the voice is recognized through a microphone, the voice is converted into a text code, and the content is displayed on the display 50 and stored in the memory of the microcomputer 30. It is also possible to order.
[0048]
In addition, a program for communicating with the facility used by the user is installed in the in-vehicle device 24 from the CD 54 in advance, but this is stopped and which facility is used via the roadside antenna 4. 10 (or provider 12) may be requested. The program may be downloaded to the in-vehicle device 24 and executed, or the road host 6 may execute the program and receive the execution result (for example, the menu screen as shown in FIG. 4). good. This eliminates the need for the user to install a desired facility program in the in-vehicle device 24 in advance.
[0049]
Further, the traffic situation on the public road 2 may be detected, and the roadside antenna 4 to be used may be changed accordingly. For example, communication is started from the roadside antenna 4 that is considerably in front of the facility when the flow of the vehicle is smooth, but communication may be started from the roadside antenna 4 immediately before the facility when there is a traffic jam.
[0050]
The network 8 is dedicated to this system, but an existing network (for example, the Internet) may be used.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram of an embodiment of a mobile service system to which the present invention is applied.
FIG. 2 is a block configuration diagram of an in-vehicle device 24 mounted on an automobile.
FIG. 3 is a sequence diagram showing a flow of service request and provision performed in a mobile service system.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which an order is placed from the in-vehicle device 24 to a XX burger 20;
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which an order is received on the terminal B of the XX burger 20 and a state in which the order is displayed on the display 50 of the in-vehicle device 24;
6 is an explanatory diagram showing a format of time division multiple access performed between the roadside antenna 4 and the vehicle-mounted device 24. FIG.
FIG. 7 is a sequence diagram showing main communications performed between the roadside antenna 4 and the shops P and Q.
FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing another embodiment of time division multiple access performed between the roadside antenna 4 and the vehicle-mounted device 24;
FIG. 9 is a sequence diagram showing a second mode of communication performed between the roadside antenna 4 and the shops P and Q.
FIG. 10 is a sequence diagram showing a third mode of communication performed between the roadside antenna 4 and the shop.
FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing a schematic configuration for placing an order by voice.
[Explanation of symbols]
2. Public road 4, 4a-4c ... Roadside antenna
A to I: Terminal 6, 6a to 6c: Roadside host
8 ... Network 10 ... Management Center
12 ... Provider 14 ... Bank
16 ... Credit company 18 ... Automobile
20 ... ○ × Burger
20a, 22a ... Local antenna
22 ... Iroha parking lot
24 ... In-vehicle device 30 ... Microcomputer
40: Roadside communication controller
42 ... IC card interface
44 ... IC card 50 ... Display
62 ... IC card reader / writer

Claims (2)

With public road antennas installed on public roads,
A plurality of facilities installed in the vicinity of the vicinity of the public road, and a facility for performing a service on a moving body moving on the public road;
A facility antenna for receiving radio waves on the premises of the facility;
In order to request the facility to receive a service from the facility by performing communication via the public road antenna, the mobile unit previously stored in a storage medium or Request means for transmitting unique information given to a user of the mobile unit;
Authentication means for authenticating the mobile that made the request via the request means;
A determination unit that is provided in the facility and determines whether the mobile body that has entered the facility is a mobile body that has been authenticated by the authentication unit, by receiving the specific information via the facility antenna;
Service execution means for performing a service requested by the mobile body on the mobile body authenticated by the determination means;
Multiple access control means for performing multiple access for each facility requiring the service, and for allocating each slot in the multiple access for each facility, the communication between the public road antenna and the mobile unit;
Moving object service system comprising the. 2. The mobile service system according to claim 1 , wherein the multiple access is a time division multiple access.

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