JP5013328B2 - Elevator call registration system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator call registration system having a call registration function from a remote location of an elevator.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is a system for registering a call according to an operation from a location away from an elevator using a call registration device or a portable terminal device installed at a location away from the elevator.

  Such a system has an advantage that the waiting time of the user can be shortened because the elevator car can make the car respond before reaching the landing.

Further, as disclosed in, for example, Patent Document 1, when an elevator user has a portable terminal device equipped with a GPS function, it is detected that the user has approached the elevator and is automatically called. Some also register.
JP 2005-280906 A

  However, even when it is detected that the owner of the mobile terminal device is approaching the elevator, the owner may actually approach the elevator for other purposes. In such a case, the passenger car responds, but erroneous registration that no one uses it occurs, and the operation efficiency of the elevator is lowered.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an elevator call registration system that enables remote call registration without reducing elevator operation efficiency.

That is, an elevator call registration system according to the present invention includes an elevator and a portable terminal device possessed by a user of the elevator, the portable terminal device detects the current position, and Stores the number of times of approach to the elevator, the number of times of use of the elevator, and the utilization rate obtained by the ratio of the number of times of utilization to the number of times of approach, and determines whether or not the detected position has approached the installation location described above, and has approached When the usage rate is equal to or higher than a predetermined reference value, the elevator call information is transmitted to the elevator, and when the information transmitted from the elevator is received, the usage rate information is updated. When the call information from the mobile terminal device is received, the call registration to the predetermined floor is performed, and the elevator car If it is use, and transmits information indicating this to the utilized in the portable terminal device.

  According to the present invention, call registration from a remote location can be performed without reducing the operation efficiency of the elevator.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
(First embodiment)
First, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of an elevator system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, the elevator system according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes a machine room 1, a group management control device 2, car control devices 3 and 4, a remote call data receiving device 5, a landing 6, and utilization. The system includes an elevator including an information transmission device 7 and a hall call registration button 8 and a mobile terminal device 9.

  The elevator machine room 1 is provided with a group management control device 2, car control devices 3 and 4, and a remote call data receiving device 5 for managing the operation of two cars. The group management control device 2 performs car assignment control to respond among two cars (not shown) in accordance with the operation of the hall call registration button 8. The car control devices 3 and 4 perform operation control of the car according to assignment control and destination floor registration from the group management control device 2.

  Although not shown, the two cars are connected to a counterweight via a rope wound around a sheave provided corresponding to the car, and are controlled by the car control devices 3 and 4. Accordingly, as the sheave is rotated by driving the hoist, it moves up and down with the counterweight in the opposite directions.

  The portable terminal device 9 is a device carried by an elevator passenger, and transmits remote call data of the elevator when a predetermined condition is satisfied by approaching the elevator installation location. The remote call data is data related to call registration for the owner of the mobile terminal device 9 and includes information on a predetermined use floor of the owner of the mobile terminal device 9.

  When receiving the remote call data from the portable terminal device 9, the remote call data receiving device 5 outputs this to the group management control device 2. When this data is input, the group management control device 2 performs call registration for making the car respond to the above-described use floor. As a result, the car can be made to respond without performing hall call registration.

  The use information transmitting device 7 at the hall 6 indicates that the elevator has been used when the destination floor registration button in the car that responds by call registration according to the data reception from the remote call data receiving device 5 is operated. The usage notification information is transmitted to the mobile terminal device 9.

  The portable terminal device 9 manages information on the usage of the elevator by the owner. If the mobile terminal device 9 receives the usage notification information from the usage information transmitting device 7 within a predetermined time after approaching the elevator as described above, the elevator user Assuming you are the owner, update usage information.

  When the portable terminal device 9 is close to the installation location of the elevator and the usage of the elevator is equal to or higher than a predetermined reference value, the owner of the portable terminal device 9 may use the elevator. If the remote call data is transmitted and the usage is less than a predetermined reference value, it is assumed that the elevator is not likely to be used by the owner of the mobile terminal device 9. No data is transmitted.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the portable terminal device of the elevator system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 2, the mobile terminal device 9 includes a control unit 11 that controls the entire device, a storage device 12, a communication interface 14, a position detection unit 15, an approach determination unit 16, a use determination unit 17, and a call data generation unit. 18, a timer unit 19 and a usage information setting unit 20, each of which is connected via a bus 21.

  An antenna 13 is connected to the communication interface 14 and the position detector 15.

  The storage device 12 is, for example, a non-volatile memory, and stores elevator use information of the owner of the mobile terminal device 9 in addition to a control program by the control unit 11.

The communication interface 14 transmits and receives information between the remote call data receiving device 5 and the usage information transmitting device 7 of the elevator.
The position detector 15 receives a radio wave transmitted from a GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite (not shown) via the antenna 13 and detects the current position. This position is expressed in latitude and longitude.

The approach determination unit 16 determines whether or not the current position detected by the position detection unit 15 is within a predetermined distance from the installation position of the elevator.
The usage determination unit 17 determines whether or not the usage degree of the elevator determined that the approach determination unit 16 has approached is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference value.

The call data generating unit 18 generates remote call data when the usage determining unit 17 determines that the elevator usage is equal to or higher than a reference value.
The timer unit 19 measures the current time, or measures the elapsed time from a predetermined timing.

  When the usage information setting unit 20 receives the usage notification information from the usage information transmitting device 7 within a predetermined time after the approach determining unit 16 determines that the elevator is approaching, the usage information setting unit 20 determines that the elevator user Assuming that the user is the owner of the mobile terminal device 9, the usage information is updated to information indicating that the possibility of use has increased.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the usage information management table stored in the storage device of the portable terminal device of the elevator system according to the first embodiment of the present invention in a table format.
As shown in FIG. 3, in the usage information management table, an elevator ID, a location, a time zone, the number of uses, the number of approaches, a margin value, a usage rate, and a usage floor are associated and managed.

  The elevator ID is identification information unique to each elevator. The location is a latitude / longitude indicating the location of the elevator. The number of uses is the number of times the owner of the mobile terminal device 9 has used the elevator corresponding to the location. The number of approaches is the number of times the owner of the mobile terminal device 9 has approached the elevator corresponding to the location.

  The use floor is a floor where the owner of the portable terminal device 9 is likely to get into the car among the floors of the elevators that are close to each other. This floor information includes information on the calling direction. When the elevator performs call registration according to the remote call data, the call registration is performed according to the use floor and call direction associated with the location and time zone of the approaching elevator on the use information management table.

In this table, the time zone, the number of times of use, the number of times of approach, the margin value, the utilization rate, and the use floor are managed for each time zone divided every hour.
The control unit 11 of the mobile terminal device 9 calculates the usage rate, which is the usage rate in the usage information management table, according to the following equation (1).
Utilization rate = number of times of use / (number of times of approach + margin value) ... Formula (1)
The margin value is a value set in order to prevent the utilization rate from changing suddenly in a state where the number of approaches and the number of uses is small.

Next, the operation of the elevator system having the configuration shown in FIG. 1 will be described.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the elevator system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a usage notification information transmission form by the elevator system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a remote call registration form by the elevator system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
First, the position detection unit 15 of the mobile terminal device 9 detects the current position of the mobile terminal device 9 at a predetermined time interval, and outputs the detected position information to the approach determination unit 16.

  The approach determination unit 16 collates the location information corresponding to each elevator ID managed in the usage information management table stored in the storage device 12 with the current position detected by the position detection unit 15, and Determine the distance.

  When the determined distance is within a predetermined distance (YES in step S1), information indicating this is output to the usage information setting unit 20. The usage information setting unit 20 once sets the information on the number of times of access associated with the time zone belonging to the time counted by the time measuring unit 19 among the time zone associated with the approached location information on the usage information management table. Update by increasing (step S2).

  Then, the usage determining unit 17 determines whether or not the usage rate associated with the updated information on the number of approaches and the usage information management table is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference value (step S3). ).

  A process in the case where “NO” is determined as a result of the determination in step S3 will be described. The timer 19 measures the elapsed time from the approach determination by the approach determiner 16. Here, while the elapsed time is within a predetermined reference time (NO in step S4), among the floors of the elevators approached as described above, the information on the number of approaches described above and the usage information management table 5 is operated by the user 30 as shown in FIG. 5 (YES in step S5), and the usage information transmitting device 7 of the hall 6 uses the elevator. It is assumed that the usage notification information indicating that the information is transmitted to the portable terminal device 9 together with the elevator ID of the elevator (step S6).

  It is assumed that the time zone at the time of approach discrimination by the usage discrimination unit 17 is the same as the time zone when the hall call registration button 8 is operated. As described above, when the communication interface 14 receives the usage notification information from the usage information transmitting device 7 within the reference time from the approach determination time, the usage information setting unit 20 causes the elevator user to use the mobile terminal device 9. Assuming that the user is the owner, the elevator ID indicated by the received information and the information on the number of times of use associated with the updated number of approaches as described above are increased by one and updated (step S7).

  Next, a process when “YES” is determined in the process of step S3 described above will be described. In this case, the call data generation unit 18 of the mobile terminal device 9 considers that the owner of the mobile terminal device 9 is likely to use the elevator, and receives remote call data that is call information from the mobile terminal device 9. This information is generated and transmitted to the elevator machine room 1 via the communication interface 14 as shown in FIG. 6 (step S8).

  This call data includes information on the use floor, the call direction, and the required arrival time associated with the updated number of approaches as described above in the use information management table stored in the storage device 12.

  The required arrival time is a predicted required time from when the approach determining unit 16 determines that the user 30 has approached the elevator until it arrives at the elevator hall 6. This arrival time may be stored in advance as a fixed value in the storage device 12 for each elevator ID, or the time at the time of approach discrimination by the approach discriminating unit 16 is clocked by the clock unit 19, and further this approach The timekeeping unit 19 measures the reception time of the usage notification information transmitted from the elevator usage information transmitting device 7 by the communication interface 14 with the use of the elevator by the subsequent user 30, and the time difference is compared with these times. 19 may be calculated and stored in the storage device 12.

  When the remote call data receiving device 5 in the elevator machine room 1 receives the remote call data from the portable terminal device 9 as shown in FIG. 6 (step S9), the group management control device 2 is included in the remote call data. Carry out the assignment evaluation calculation of the car to be landed on the use floor, and determine the car to be responded to land on the use floor included in the remote call data after the time required for arrival included in the remote call data has elapsed. .

  The group management control device 2 gives a response instruction to the use floor indicated by the remote call data to the control device corresponding to the car determined as described above among the car control devices 3 and 4 (step S10). . As a result, the car responds to the use floor described above.

  When the destination floor registration button of the responding car is operated (YES in step S11), a control signal indicating this is sent from the destination floor registration button to the group management control device 2 via the car control devices 3 and 4. Is output. This signal includes car identification information.

  The group management control device 2 inputs a control signal by operating the destination floor registration button, and the identification information indicated by this signal is the identification information of the car that responds according to the remote call data as described above, and If the timing when the control signal is input is within a predetermined time from the input timing of the remote call data, it is considered that the owner of the portable terminal device 9 approaching the elevator has used the elevator, and The process proceeds to step S6 and subsequent steps.

  As described above, the elevator system according to the first embodiment of the present invention stores information on the usage rate of the elevator on the mobile terminal device 9 side, and the owner of the mobile terminal device 9 approaches the elevator. If the usage rate indicated by this usage information is greater than or equal to a predetermined reference value, the owner is deemed to be highly likely to use the elevator. Remote call data to the elevator. In the elevator, the car is caused to respond according to the remote call data from the mobile terminal device 9.

  That is, since the portable terminal device 9 considers that the owner is unlikely to use the elevator when the usage rate indicated by the usage information is low even when the owner approaches the elevator, the mobile terminal device 9 does not transmit the remote call data. The useless remote call of the elevator can be suppressed. Therefore, remote call registration can be performed without lowering the operation efficiency of the elevator.

  In the above-described embodiment, whether or not the owner of the mobile terminal device 9 approaching the elevator is likely to use the elevator is determined according to the level of the usage rate on the usage information management table. Instead, manage the number of close elevators used on the usage information management table instead of the usage rate, and consider that it is highly likely that the elevator will be used if the number of uses is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference value. It may be configured to transmit remote call data.

  In addition, the elevator ID and the usage floor information for each time zone on the usage information management table are not limited to the fixed values as described above. For example, the owner of the mobile terminal device 9 approaching the elevator has made a landing call. The floor information is included in the above-described use notification information, and the floor information is counted for each elevator ID, time zone, and floor on the mobile terminal device 9 side. The floor information may be reflected in the above-described elevator ID and the usage floor information related to the time zone on the usage information management table.

  Further, in this embodiment, when the owner of the mobile terminal device 9 approaches the elevator and there is a high possibility of using this elevator, the car is made to respond to a predetermined floor by remote call. In addition to this, the destination floor information at the time of response is managed on the usage information management table, this information is included in the remote call data, and this destination floor registration is automatically performed on the elevator side. Good.

  In this embodiment, the following processing may be performed. In this process, first, the timer 19 measures the elapsed time after the approach determining unit 16 determines that the elevator is approaching, and after the elapsed time becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined reference time, the communication interface 14. When the usage notification information from the elevator is not received, the control unit 11 stores the number of times of reception in the storage device 12 and manages it.

  Then, the usage information setting unit 20 determines that the number of times managed is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference value, the case where the event that has not been received continues for a predetermined number of times, or the case where the event has not been received. When the event occurs for the predetermined number of times within the predetermined time counted by the time measuring unit 19, the utilization rate, the utilization number, and the approach number on the utilization information management table are initialized to zero.

  By performing such a process, the elevator call can be stopped when the frequency of not being used increases despite the fact that the user's elevator usage mode has changed significantly and the remote call has been made. The operation efficiency of will improve.

(Second Embodiment)
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. The configuration of the elevator system according to the present embodiment is basically the same as that shown in FIG.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the usage information management table stored in the storage device of the portable terminal device of the elevator system according to the second embodiment of the present invention in a table format.

In the elevator system according to the second embodiment of the present invention, the contents of the usage information management table stored in the storage device 12 have the configuration shown in FIG.
Compared with the table shown in FIG. 3, this table newly manages the reference distance information. Information on the approach distance is managed for each time zone corresponding to each elevator ID.

  In this embodiment, the position detection unit 15 of the mobile terminal device 9 detects the current position of the mobile terminal device 9 at a predetermined time interval, as described in the first embodiment, and the detected information It is output to the approach determination unit 16.

  The approach determination unit 16 collates the location information corresponding to each elevator ID managed in the usage information management table stored in the storage device 12 with the current position detected by the position detection unit 15, and Determine the distance. When the determined distance is within the approach reference distance associated with the location information, information indicating this is output to the usage information setting unit 20.

  The usage information setting unit 20 once sets the information on the number of times of access associated with the time zone belonging to the time counted by the time measuring unit 19 among the time zone associated with the approached location information on the usage information management table. Increase and update.

  When the usage rate recalculated according to the updated number of approaches is less than a predetermined reference value, the usage information setting unit 20 sets the access reference distance associated with the usage rate on the table to a short first access reference. Set to distance. On the other hand, when the utilization rate recalculated according to the updated number of approaches is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference value, the access reference distance associated with this on the table is set to the second longer than the first approach reference distance. Set the approach reference distance.

  By performing such processing, the approach reference distance for an elevator with a low utilization rate becomes shorter than the approach reference distance for an elevator with a high utilization rate. As a result, even if a portable terminal device holder, who is less likely to use the elevator, approaches the elevator, it is difficult for the portable terminal device 9 to discriminate it, so that the number of times of approach is not easily counted. Therefore, the decrease in the utilization rate can be moderated.

  In addition, in this embodiment, the usage information setting unit 20 causes the owner of the mobile terminal device 9 to move outside the building of the elevator when the updated access reference distance is long due to the update of the access reference distance described above. If the access floor is set as the entrance floor and the updated access reference distance is short, the owner of the portable terminal device 9 Set the use floor to a predetermined floor other than the entrance floor, assuming that it is inside the elevator building and is likely to move to another floor before approaching You may do it.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying the components at a distance not departing from the gist of the invention in the implementation stage. Various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the embodiment. For example, some components may be omitted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, you may combine suitably the component covering different embodiment.

The figure which shows the structural example of the elevator system according to the 1st Embodiment of this invention. The block diagram which shows the structural example of the portable terminal device of the elevator system according to the 1st Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the structural example of the utilization information management table memorize | stored in the memory | storage device of the portable terminal device of the elevator system according to the 1st Embodiment of this invention in a table format. The flowchart which shows the processing operation of the elevator system according to the 1st Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the usage notification information transmission form by the elevator system according to the 1st Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the remote call registration form by the elevator system according to the 1st Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the structural example of the utilization information management table memorize | stored in the memory | storage device of the portable terminal device of the elevator system according to the 2nd Embodiment of this invention in a table format.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Machine room, 2 ... Group management control apparatus, 3, 4 ... Car control apparatus, 5 ... Remote call data receiving apparatus, 6 ... Platform, 7 ... Usage information transmission apparatus, 8 ... Platform call registration apparatus, 9 ... Portable terminal Device: 11 ... Control unit, 12 ... Storage device, 13 ... Antenna, 14 ... Communication interface, 15 ... Position detection unit, 16 ... Access discrimination unit, 17 ... Use discrimination unit, 18 ... Call data generation unit, 19 ... Time measurement unit 20 ... usage information setting unit, 21 ... bus, 30 ... user.

Claims (7)

A system having an elevator and a portable terminal device possessed by a user of the elevator,
The portable terminal device
Position detection means for detecting the current position;
Storage means for storing the installation location of the elevator and the number of times of approach to the elevator, the number of times of use of the elevator, and the utilization rate obtained by the ratio of the number of times of utilization relative to the number of times of approach ;
Discriminating means for discriminating whether or not the position detected by the position detecting means has approached an installation location stored in the storage means;
Transmission means for transmitting the call information of the elevator to the elevator when the utilization means stored in the storage means is greater than or equal to a predetermined value when the determination means determines that the vehicle has approached;
Receiving means for receiving information transmitted from the elevator;
Updating means for updating information on the utilization rate stored in the storage means when the receiving means receives information from the elevator;
The elevator is
Receiving means for receiving information transmitted from the portable terminal device;
Call registration means for performing call registration to a predetermined floor when the receiving means receives information from the mobile terminal device;
An elevator call registration system comprising: a transmission unit that transmits information indicating that the elevator car is used to the portable terminal device when the elevator car is used. The update means of the portable terminal device updates the number of approaches stored in the storage means by one increment when the determination means determines that the installation location has been approached,
Said updating means, according to claim 1, wherein said receiving means and said <br/> be updated the information of the usage number stored in the storage means is increased one time when receiving the information from the elevator The elevator call registration system described in 1. The portable terminal device
A timing unit that counts an elapsed time after the determination unit determines that the position detected by the position detection unit has approached an installation location stored in the storage unit;
The update means of the portable terminal device is stored in the storage means when the elapsed time measured by the time measuring means is within a predetermined time and the receiving means receives information from the elevator The elevator call registration system according to claim 1, wherein the utilization rate information is updated. The determination unit of the mobile terminal device determines whether or not the position detected by the position detection unit has approached within a predetermined distance from the installation location of the elevator,
The portable terminal device
The predetermined distance is set as the first distance when the utilization rate stored in the storage means is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference value, and the predetermined distance is set when the utilization rate is less than the reference value. The elevator call registration system according to claim 1, further comprising distance setting means for setting the second distance to a second distance smaller than the first distance. The portable terminal device
Time measuring means for measuring the elapsed time since the determination means has determined that the installation location has been approached,
Number of times management means for managing the number of times the reception means did not receive when the reception means did not receive the information from the elevator after the elapsed time counted by the time counting means became a predetermined time or more; Further comprising
The update means of the portable terminal device initializes the utilization rate information stored in the storage means when the number of times managed by the number of times management means becomes a predetermined value or more. The elevator call registration system according to Item 1. The portable terminal device includes a time measuring means for measuring the current time,
The storage means of the mobile terminal device stores the utilization rate for each time zone divided in advance,
The update means of the portable terminal device, when the receiving means receives information from the elevator, the utilization rate related to the time zone to which the time measured by the timing means belongs among the utilization rates stored in the storage means Update
The transmission unit of the portable terminal device uses the usage related to the time zone to which the time measured by the time counting unit belongs among the utilization rates stored in the storage unit after the determination unit has determined that the installation location has been approached. The elevator call registration system according to claim 1, wherein the call information is transmitted to the elevator when a rate is equal to or greater than the predetermined value. The portable terminal device includes a time measuring means for measuring the current time,
The storage means of the portable terminal device stores floor information for responding to the car according to the call information for each time zone divided in advance,
The transmission means of the portable terminal device stores in the storage means when the determination means determines that the installation location has been approached and the utilization rate stored in the storage means is equal to or greater than a predetermined value. Floor information related to the time zone to which the time measured by the timing means belongs among the floor information to be sent to the elevator,
The elevator call registration means performs the call registration for causing the car to respond to the floor when the receiving means receives floor information transmitted from the portable terminal device. The elevator call registration system according to claim 1.

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