JP5938010B2 - Elevator standby floor setting analyzer - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator standby floor setting analyzing apparatus that outputs information for performing appropriate standby floor setting based on the operating status of an elevator.

  In recent years, many high-rise office buildings have been built with the redevelopment of cities, etc. In such office buildings, in order to operate multiple elevators efficiently, it is optimal from a group management system, that is, multiple elevators The system that assigns the elevator is adopted. Several methods for improving the driving efficiency have been proposed in the past. For example, a work time zone in which a specific large demand occurs is set in advance, and when this time comes, there is an entrance / exit of an office building. There is a system in which many elevator users are transported to the destination floor with a small waiting time by collecting each elevator with a specific floor as a standby floor.

  In such a group management system, it is confirmed whether or not the driving method actually adopted is appropriate, and the driving method is changed or adjusted as necessary. It was carried out by engineers.

  Here, as a method for confirming whether or not the driving method is appropriate, for example, as disclosed in Patent Document 1, the floor on which the elevator user gets into the elevator matches the floor on which the elevator is waiting. If there is a match, it is considered that the elevator user was waiting on the floor before appearing at the landing, and a method of displaying the ratio between the number of calls and the number of all landing calls, or the elevator A method has been proposed in which a state that has been waiting in advance is displayed using an operation diagram.

JP-A-10-95577

  In the technique of Patent Document 1 described above, it has been proposed to confirm that the elevator has been waiting in advance, to analyze it by a plurality of methods, and to display information. Kika was left to the judgment of an engineer with expertise.

  Information that should be confirmed when the waiting floor is not set, that is, the setting where all passengers wait on the floor where they got off, and the waiting floor is set, that is, after all passengers get off It is different from the information to be confirmed in the case of setting to return to a specific floor and wait, but in such a case, it is necessary for the engineer to select and view necessary information after recognizing the current setting state. was there.

  On the other hand, in recent years, services that allow customers to make some adjustments such as setting the standby floor of an elevator, for example, services such as setting from a customer-owned personal computer through an Internet line, have begun to spread.

  However, it is difficult for a customer such as a building manager who does not have specialized knowledge to set an appropriate standby floor, which may reduce operating efficiency.

  In addition, the demand for such services is often found in small buildings with a small number of elevators installed. However, as in Patent Document 1 described above, many methods for confirming whether the setting of the standby floor is appropriate are a group. It is intended for management systems and not for elevators installed alone.

  The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and its purpose is to output an appropriate standby floor set value mainly from the operating status of an elevator installed alone, and its effect after setting the standby floor. It is an object to provide an elevator standby floor setting analysis device that outputs information for verifying the above.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention mainly adopts the following configuration.
In the elevator standby floor setting analyzer that records the floor information of the elevator car stopped and the hall call registration information for each floor and for each time zone, hall call registration at each floor for each time zone The hall call registration rate calculation unit that calculates the hall call registration rate for each floor based on the total number of times and the hall call registration count for all floors, and at each floor where hall calls are registered for each time zone Stop floor hall call that calculates the stop floor hall call registration rate for each floor based on the stop floor hall call registration count, which is the number of times the car has stopped, and the total number of stop floor hall call registrations on all floors A registration rate calculation unit,
When the waiting floor for waiting for the car is not set, the hall call registration rate calculation unit outputs and displays the floor calculated as the floor with the highest hall call registration rate as the standby floor. When the waiting floor for waiting for the car has been set, the hall call registration rate of each floor by the hall call registration rate calculation unit and the stop of each floor by the stop floor hall call registration rate calculation unit The floor hall call registration rate is output and displayed.

  According to the present invention, the floor to be set as a standby floor and its time zone are output (displayed) based on the hall call registration rate. By referring to this output (display), an appropriate standby floor can be set even by a customer or a building administrator who does not have specialized knowledge.

  In addition, whether the set standby floor is appropriate or not can be easily verified based on the stop floor hall call registration rate (the number of times that the car has already stopped at the floor where the hall call is registered). This makes it easy to improve the convenience of the elevator.

It is a block block diagram which shows the standby floor setting analyzer of the elevator which concerns on embodiment of this invention, and its related structure. It is a figure which shows the procedure of the setting process of the standby floor in the standby floor setting analyzer of the elevator which concerns on this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the result of the setting process of the standby floor in the standby floor setting analyzer of the elevator which concerns on this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the output result of the operation information by the standby floor setting in the standby floor setting analyzer of the elevator which concerns on this embodiment.

  A standby floor setting analyzer according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram showing an elevator standby floor setting analyzer according to an embodiment of the present invention and its related configuration.

  In FIG. 1, hall call buttons 101 to 110 are installed in the landings from the B1 floor to the 9th floor, and a car call button 21 is installed in the car 2. Signals from the hall call buttons 101 to 102 and the car call button 21 are sent to the elevator control device 3. The elevator control device 3 determines which call the elevator will respond to, and drives the motor 4 to move the car 2 to the target floor. 5 is a deflector, and 8 is a suspension weight.

  The waiting floor setting analysis device 6 receives the call generation status, the car position information (including the information on the floor where the car is stopped), and the setting information of the waiting floor from the elevator control device 3, and receives the processing result. Output using the display device 7. The standby floor setting analysis device 6 also has an I / O 63 that is an interface unit with other devices via the bus 62, and a RAM 64 that records a call generation status and a car position at that time. A ROM 65 for storing programs and the like is connected. The elevator control device 3 and the display device (display device having a PC function) 7 are connected to the I / O 63, respectively.

  The display device 7 may be a PC directly connected to the I / O 63 or a customer PC connected via the Internet. The standby floor setting analysis device 6 always records the call generation status by car position and time zone at that time, starts processing by operation from the display device 7, and outputs the result to the display device 7. To do. That is, the display device 7 has an operation input function for performing processing in the standby floor setting analysis device 6 in addition to the display function.

  In FIG. 1, the processing result of the standby floor setting analysis device 6 is displayed on the spot by the display device 7, but the processing of the standby floor setting analysis device 6 is performed at a place other than the place where the standby floor setting analysis device 6 is installed. The data may be recorded and output on a memory card or the like so that the result can be seen, or the data may be directly transmitted via a telephone line or a LAN.

  The standby floor setting analyzer 6 starts processing by an operation from the display device 7. However, the standby floor setting analyzer 6 automatically performs processing for a certain period, for example, at intervals of one month, and automatically transmits data via a telephone line or a LAN. Anyway. In FIG. 1, the standby floor setting analysis device 6 is described as being provided separately from the elevator control device 3 and connected to the elevator control device 3. However, the function is provided in the interior of the elevator control device 3 and integrated. Also good.

  In addition, although not shown in the drawings, it may be a device that receives a call generation status, car position information, standby floor setting information, etc. from the elevator control device 3, such as an elevator remote monitoring device that monitors an elevator failure. For example, the function of the standby floor setting analyzer 6 may be provided in the elevator remote monitoring device and integrated.

  Next, in the operation mode of the standby floor setting analysis device 6 for an elevator according to the embodiment of the present invention, a case where a process start operation is performed from the display device 7 in a state where the standby floor is not set is shown in FIG. This will be described below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 2 and the standby floor selection information output result shown in FIG. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a procedure of standby floor setting processing in the elevator standby floor setting analyzing apparatus according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a standby floor setting process in the elevator standby floor setting analyzing apparatus according to the present embodiment. It is a figure which shows the result.

  In FIG. 3, the time zone is set to one hour unit, but the time width may be arbitrarily changed. Also, the time zones after 10:00 and before 8:00 are omitted. Further, the information of FIG. 3 may be aggregated and output for each day of the week. Also, the processing of the flowchart of FIG. 2 is repeatedly executed for the call generation status and car position information recorded for each time slot.

  In step S11, the waiting floor setting analyzing device 6 calculates the hall call registration rate for each floor from the recorded hall call occurrence state and the car position at that time when the waiting floor is not set. First, the number of hall call registrations is tabulated for each floor. Aggregate all floors and add them up to the total number of hall call registrations. The column “number of hall call registrations” in FIG. 3 corresponds to this calculation result (number of registrations for each floor). Divide the hall call registration count for each floor by the total hall call registration count to obtain the hall call registration rate. The column of “hall call registration rate” in FIG. 3 corresponds to this calculation result.

  In step S12, the floor with the highest hall call registration rate is extracted. Next, in step S13, it is determined whether or not there is a hall call registration rate floor whose difference from the highest hall call registration rate floor is within a predetermined range. The predetermined range may be an arbitrary value, and is within 10% here.

  In the time zone from 8:00 to 9:00 in FIG. 3, the floor with the highest hall call registration rate is the first floor, and there is no floor with a registration rate within 10%. Therefore, in this case, the process branches to step S15. In step S15, the floor with the highest hall call registration rate is selected as the standby floor, that is, the first floor is selected as the standby floor. The column of “floor to be set as a standby floor” shown in FIG. 3 corresponds to this calculation result (see circles).

  Further, in step S12, if the time zone is 9:00 to 10:00 in FIG. 3 (for example, the work time zone after passing the work time zone), the floor with the highest hall call registration rate is the first floor. Yes, the B1 floor exists as a floor of the registration rate where the difference in hall call registration rate is within 10%. Therefore, in this case, the process branches to step S14 as the determination in step S13. In step S14, the floor far from the floor with the entrance of the building is selected as the standby floor. Here, since the entrance floor is the first floor, the B1 floor is selected as the standby floor. The column of “floor to be set as a standby floor” shown in FIG. 3 corresponds to this calculation result (see circles).

  Here, the reason for selecting B1 which is 20% of the floor even though the first floor has the maximum hall call registration rate of 30% in the time zone from 9:00 to 10:00 in FIG. 3 will be described. When there is a floor call registration rate that is not much different from the entrance floor (for example, floors within 10%), for example, 30 floors far away from the entrance floor, new people can enter and exit the building. There is a demand that priority should be given to elevator users on the 30th floor working in the building over a certain entrance / exit floor. In this case, if the first floor is set as the standby floor, the person who calls the hall on the 30th floor generates an unpleasant feeling of waiting for the elevator operation time for 30 floors. Therefore, when the hall call registration rate is within 10%, for example, there are multiple floors, the floor farthest from the entrance / exit floor is displayed as the standby floor.

  Next, in step S16, it is confirmed whether there is a standby floor setting. If the standby floor is not set (NO in step S16), the process ends.

  As described above, the standby floor selection information as shown in FIG. 3 is created by performing the processing for each time period according to the flowchart of FIG. The processing result is output to the display device 7. Even an operator who does not have specialized knowledge can set a standby floor for the elevator control device 3 based on the output result.

  Next, among the operation modes of the elevator standby floor setting analysis apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention, the case where the operation of starting the process is performed from the display device 7 in the state where the standby floor is set is shown in FIG. The operation information output result will be described below. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an output result of operation information by standby floor setting in the elevator standby floor setting analyzing apparatus according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 4, the time zone is in units of one hour, but the time width may be arbitrarily changed. Also, the time zones after 10:00 and before 8:00 are omitted. Further, the information of FIG. 4 may be aggregated and output for each day of the week.

  The “standby floor set value” column shown in FIG. 4 indicates the currently set standby floor. The column of “number of hall call registrations” and the column of “hall call registration rate” are the results of calculation by the same method as the processing method described in step S11 of FIG.

  When the standby floor is set (YES in step S16), in step S17, in addition to the “hall call registration count” and the “hall call registration rate”, the “stop floor hall call registration rate” shown in FIG. Is calculated and displayed.

  The waiting floor setting analysis device 6 calculates the stop floor hall call registration rate for each floor from the recorded call generation situation and the car position at that time. Based on the position of the car, the number of times that the car has already stopped at the floor where the hall call is registered is counted for each floor to obtain the stop floor hall call registration count. Aggregate all floors and add them up to the total number of stop floor hall call registrations.

  The numerical value of “the number of times the car has already stopped on the current floor” shown in FIG. 4 is an aggregate value of the number of times that the car has already stopped on the floor when calling a hall on a certain floor. This is called the stop floor hall call registration count. Here, “the car has already stopped at the floor” is not an immediate transition to the set standby floor even after the car has stopped on the floor and passengers got off. It is assumed that the elevator control operation is stopped on the floor for a few minutes, and when the hall call is generated and registered while stopping on this floor, the elevator is stopped on the floor. It represents the situation.

  The number of stop floor hall call registrations for each floor is divided by the total number of stop floor hall call registrations to obtain the stop floor hall call registration rate. The column of “stop floor hall call registration rate” in FIG. 4 corresponds to this calculation result. Here, according to the example shown in FIG. 4, the hall call registration rate on the B1 floor is lower than that on the first floor in the time zone from 9:00 to 10:00, but the stop floor hall on the B1 floor. The reason why the call registration rate is higher than that of the first floor is that the B1 floor is set as the standby floor.

  Thus, operation information as shown in FIG. 4 is created by performing processing for each time zone. The created result is output to the display device 7. An operator such as a customer or a building manager can confirm the effect of the standby floor setting based on the output result. In FIG. 4, it can be confirmed that the stop floor hall call registration rate of the floor set as the standby floor is the highest in any time zone, and the setting is appropriate.

  As described above, in the embodiment of the present invention, the CPU 61 of the standby floor setting analyzer 6 obtains the hall call registration count at each floor obtained through the elevator controller 3 and the hall calls at all floors. It has a function to calculate the hall call registration rate of each floor based on the total number of registrations, and furthermore, stop floor hall call registration that is the number of times the car has already stopped at each floor where the hall call is registered A function for calculating the stop floor hall call registration rate of each floor based on the number of times and the total number of stop floor hall call registrations on all floors, and waiting for the car to wait by operating the display device 7 A function of outputting to the display device 7 so as to set the floor calculated as the floor having the highest hall call registration rate by the hall call registration rate calculating function as a standby floor when the floor is not set; , table When a standby floor for waiting for the car by operation of the device 7 is set, the hall call registration rate of each floor by the hall call registration rate calculation function and each floor by the stop floor hall call registration rate calculation function The stop floor hall call registration rate is provided with a function of outputting to the display device 7.

101-110 Hall call button 2 Car 21 Car call button 3 Elevator control device 4 Motor 5 Baffle vehicle 6 Standby floor setting analysis device 61 CPU
62 Bus 63 I / O
64 RAM
65 ROM
7 Display device 8 Lifting weight

Claims (2)

In the elevator standby floor setting analyzer for recording the floor information of the elevator car stopped and the hall call registration information for each floor and for each time zone,
A hall call registration rate calculation unit that calculates a hall call registration rate for each floor based on the number of hall call registrations on each floor and the total number of hall call registrations on all floors for each time zone,
Each floor is based on the stop floor hall call registration count, which is the number of times the car has already stopped on each floor where the hall call is registered, and the total number of stop floor hall call registration counts on all floors. A stop floor hall call registration rate calculating unit for calculating a stop floor hall call registration rate of the floor,
When the waiting floor for waiting for the car is not set, the hall call registration rate calculation unit outputs and displays the floor calculated as the floor with the highest hall call registration rate as the standby floor. Let
When the standby floor for waiting the car is set, the hall call registration rate of each floor by the hall call registration rate calculation unit and the stop floor hall call of each floor by the stop floor hall call registration rate calculation unit An elevator standby floor setting analyzer that outputs and displays a registration rate. In claim 1,
Halls whose difference from the highest hall call registration rate is within a predetermined range with respect to the floor with the highest hall call registration rate by the hall call registration rate calculation unit when the standby floor is not set When there is another floor with a call registration rate, an elevator that outputs and displays a floor farther than the floor where the entrance of the building where the elevator is installed is set as the standby floor Standby floor setting analyzer.

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