JP4799382B2 - Electric lock management system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an electric lock management system, and more particularly to an electric lock management system suitable for ensuring safety of a door provided with an electric lock.

In the prior art, there is known a method of detecting unauthorized operations by acquiring operation history data for entering and leaving a room in an entrance and exit management system. The method is based on the fact that when a user performs an unlocking operation with a different authentication terminal using the same authentication medium, a time difference due to the movement occurs, and the time when the user operates using the authentication medium And the position thereof are compared with those of the immediately preceding operation, and an unauthorized operation is detected from the difference in operation time and the minimum movement time required for actual position movement (see Patent Document 1).
JP 2004-204629 (paragraphs 0012 to 0013, FIG. 1)

  Installing an electric lock on the door is an effective means to regulate the access of people to the facility, but it requires operation for locking and unlocking, and some time is required for locking and unlocking. Therefore, there are cases where the electric lock is not used because the use of the electric lock is troublesome. For example, there is a case where the user does not turn on the electric lock control device or keeps the unlocked state continuously.

  In such an operation method, of course, people's entry and exit are not regulated, so there is a possibility that a suspicious person may invade and the risk of the facility increases, but the facility administrator easily recognizes the situation. There was a problem that it was not possible.

  An object of the present invention is to provide an electric lock management system for managing safety of a door provided with an electric lock.

To accomplish the above object, the operation history data of the electric lock installed in a plurality of managed facilities, as well as recorded in the database of the data center using a communication line, installed in the managed facility In an electric lock management system that manages locking and unlocking of the electric lock by an administrator terminal, an unlocking time registration unit that is provided in each of the data centers and registers the time of the unlocking signal of the electric lock; Use of calculating the number of times of unlocking operations within a predetermined period as the usage rate based on the information of the unlocking history database storing the information registered by the locking time registration unit and the information of the unlocking time registration unit and the unlocking history database a degree calculating unit, excessively the utilization calculated by the usage level calculating means is a predetermined ratio or less as compared to the average of the utilization of all of the managed facilities An alarm determination unit that outputs an alarm signal when it is determined that the ratio is equal to or less than the predetermined ratio, and a communication control device that transmits the alarm signal output from the alarm determination unit to the administrator terminal . Is.

  According to the present invention, when the usage of the electric lock is low, it is possible to notify the manager of the facility that there is a problem in operation, so that the manager can always be alerted. .

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

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of this embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the main part of this embodiment.

  In the figure, the management target facility A and the management target facility B are the facilities where the electric lock 3 is installed, the manager facility C is the facility where the manager of the electric lock is located, and the data center D manages data centrally. It is a facility to do.

  These facilities are not located on the same site, but are usually located remotely, and the managed facility A, the managed facility B, and the administrator facility C are remotely connected via the communication line 5. It is connected.

In addition, in the management target facility A and the management target facility B, the electric lock control device 2 that controls the unlocking and locking of the electric lock 3 and the authentication of the signal stored in the IC card (not shown) and the predetermined keypad (not shown) In operation, etc., the unlocking instruction device 1 that transmits an unlocking command to the electric lock control device 2, and the output of the status signal of the electric lock 3 output from the electric lock control device 2 to the data center D, the data center D The monitoring terminal 4 which receives the signal transmitted from is provided.

  Further, the administrator facility C is connected to the communication line 5 and receives information from the management target facility A, the management target facility B, and the data center D, and is connected to the administrator terminal 11 and notified. And an alarm display device 12 for activating a flash lamp and a siren as means.

  In addition, the data center D registers the communication control device 6 that transmits and receives information to and from the communication line 5 and the unlock time registration that registers the time of the unlock signal of the electric lock 3 that is output from the received electric lock control device 2. Unit 7, the unlocking history database 8 storing the information registered by the unlocking time registration unit 7, and the usage of the electric lock 3 is calculated based on the information of the unlocking time registration unit 7 and the unlocking history database 8. And a usage determination unit 10 that outputs an alarm signal when the usage calculated by the usage calculation unit 9 is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

  Next, the operation will be described.

  First, when the user of the management target facility A operates the unlocking instruction machine 1 to unlock the door, an unlocking input signal is transmitted to the electric lock control device 2 (step S101). Here, in order to permit this unlocking, for example, an authentication means such as an IC card (not shown) may be used, or the staff inside the facility may confirm the user with an intercom and unlock it by an operation from the inside. good.

  Next, the electric lock control device 2 transmits an unlock signal to the electric lock 3 and also transmits a status output signal indicating that the lock is unlocked to the monitoring terminal 4 (step S102). And the door is unlocked (step S103).

  The monitoring terminal 4 notifies the communication control device 6 of the data center D that the electric lock 3 is unlocked via the communication line 5 (step S104). As the communication line 5, various wired or wireless communication means such as a public telephone network and an Internet line can be used.

  The communication control device 6 notifies the unlock time registration unit 7 that the electric lock 3 has been unlocked as a status output signal (step S105). The time when the notification of the unlocking state of the electric lock 3 is received is registered as the unlocking time in the unlocking history database 8 (step S106).

  Next, the usage calculation unit 9 calculates the usage from the unlocking history database 8 (step S107). Here, the calculation of the usage is to check the unlocking time, and the number of times of unlocking operations within a predetermined period such as one week or one month is obtained and used as the usage.

Next, if the usage is less than or equal to the reference value, the alarm determination unit 10 outputs an alarm signal to the communication control device (step S108). For example, when there are a plurality of facilities to be managed, an average value is obtained from each usage rate. Output an alarm signal .

  Further, the communication control device 6 transmits an alarm signal to the administrator terminal 11 of the management facility C via the communication line 5 (step S109), and the administrator terminal 11 that has received the alarm signal receives the alarm display device. 12 is activated (step S110), and the alarm display device 12 generates an alarm by changing light and sound with a flash lamp (not shown) or a siren (not shown) (step S111).

  According to the present embodiment, when there is a problem in operation such as opening the door, and the usage of the electric lock 3 is low, it is automatically provided to the manager of the facility that exists remotely. An alarm can be raised to alert the administrator.

  In the above embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, the administrator terminal 11 and the alarm display device 12 have been described as being installed in the administrator facility C. However, as shown in FIG. It is also possible to install, and in the second embodiment, there is an effect that it is not necessary to install the administrator facility C.

  Further, unlike the above two embodiments, as shown in FIG. 4, it is also possible to provide an alarm display device 12 at the management target facilities A and B and connect it to the monitoring terminal 4. In the third embodiment, Since the staff of the management target facilities A and B also serve as managers, there is an effect that it is not necessary to arrange managers outside.

It is a block diagram which shows the system configuration | structure of this embodiment. It is a flowchart explaining the principal part operation | movement of this embodiment. It is explanatory drawing of 2nd Embodiment which installed the alarm display apparatus in the data center. It is explanatory drawing of 3rd Embodiment which installed the alarm display apparatus in the management object facility.

Explanation of symbols

A, B Management target facility C Administrator facility D Data center 1 Unlocking instruction machine 2 Electric lock control device 3 Electric lock 4 Monitoring terminal 5 Communication line 6 Communication control device 7 Unlocking time registration unit 8 Unlocking history database 9 Usage Calculation unit 10 Alarm determination unit 11 Administrator terminal 12 Alarm display device

Claims (1)

The operation history data of the electric lock installed in a plurality of managed facilities, as well as recorded in the database of the data center using a communication line, the locking of the electric lock by the installed administrator terminal to the management target facility and solutions In an electric lock management system for managing locks,
Provided in each of the data centers,
An unlocking time registration unit for registering the time of the unlocking signal of the electric lock;
Unlocking history database for storing information registered in the unlocking time registration unit;
Based on the unlocking time registering section and the unlocking historical database information, and usage level calculating means for calculating the unlocking operation number as utilization within a predetermined time period,
If the utilization calculated by the usage level calculating means, all as compared to the average of the utilization of the management target facility determines whether a predetermined ratio or less was determined to be the predetermined ratio or less An alarm judgment unit that outputs an alarm signal to
An electric lock management system comprising: a communication control device that transmits an alarm signal output from the alarm determination unit to the manager terminal .

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