JP6674663B2 - Gas station system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a refueling station system capable of responding to a large-scale disaster, such as refueling an emergency vehicle or the like even when a large-scale disaster occurs.

  An underground tank for storing fuel oil is buried in a fueling station that supplies fuel oil such as gasoline to vehicles, and this underground tank is connected to a fueling device installed on the ground by a fueling pipe, and the fueling device connects to vehicles, etc. Refuel with fuel oil. If a major disaster such as an earthquake occurs in such a gas station, for example, there is a possibility that the fueling pipe or the fueling device is damaged and the fuel oil in the underground tank cannot be refueled.

  Therefore, the applicant has disclosed in Patent Document 1 a mobile storage tank for storing fuel oil and an oil supply device for supplying the fuel oil stored in the storage tank so that fuel oil can be supplied in the event of a disaster. Proposed a fuel supply unit installed on a platform.

JP 2013-18541 A

  Although the invention described in Patent Literature 1 is effective, even when a large-scale disaster occurs, depending on the location of the gas station and the equipment configuration of the gas station, there are things that can be refueled, and business is possible. There may be gas stations.

  However, it is necessary to contact each gas station individually in order to grasp information on such gas stations that can be operated, and it is difficult to collect information. I was struggling to respond in the event of a disaster.

  In view of the above, the present invention has been made in view of the above-described conventional problems, and it is possible to easily grasp information on a service station and the like that can be operated even in the case of a large-scale disaster, and to refuel an emergency vehicle or the like. It is an object of the present invention to provide a gas station system that can smoothly carry out the refueling.

In order to achieve the above object, a gas station system of the present invention is provided at a gas station headquarters, and when a shaking of all underground tanks of a predetermined gas station is detected, a terminal that automatically starts a login screen. A data center for centrally managing the status data of a plurality of gas stations, and communicating with the terminal, and an input unit provided at each of the plurality of gas stations and for inputting the status data of each gas station. And a mobile terminal that communicates with the data center, and logs in from a log- in screen of the terminal of the gas station headquarters, and when a specific area is selected from the displayed disaster area , the data center is selected. Patent that the status data of the gas station requests the mobile terminal, aggregates and stores the status data of the gas station received from the mobile terminal existing in the service station for a specific area, which is To.

According to the present invention, the log-in screen of the gas station headquarters can be automatically started at the time of an earthquake, and the state data of the gas station can be stored and tabulated by the data center, so that the disaster state of the gas station can be centrally managed. And information on a serviceable gas station or the like can be easily grasped.

In the gas station system, the data center may indicate the stored condition data of the gas station by at least one of a table, a map, and a photograph. Thereby, the disaster situation of the gas station can be grasped at a glance.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a refueling station system capable of coping with a large-scale disaster, such as being able to centrally grasp a disaster situation and smoothly refueling an emergency vehicle or the like. Can be.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is the whole block diagram which shows one Embodiment of the gas station system which concerns on this invention. 3 is a flowchart for explaining operations of a data center and a mobile terminal in the gas station system of FIG. 1. It is a figure showing an example of a login screen displayed on a terminal of a gas station headquarters when a disaster occurs. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen which selected the specific area in the gas station headquarters. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen which a data center outputs disaster status confirmation data to the portable terminal of the gas station which exists in a specific area. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a message displayed on the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal receives disaster status confirmation data from a data center. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of gas station status data transmitted from a mobile terminal to a data center. It is a figure which shows the case where the gas station which can operate on the display device of the terminal of a gas station headquarter is displayed in a list. It is a figure which shows the case where the service station which can operate on the display device of the terminal of the service station headquarters is displayed on the map.

  Next, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a gas station system according to the present invention. The gas station system 1 includes a data center 2 for centrally managing status data and the like of each gas station 3 (3A to 3D), and each gas station 2. And a mobile terminal 35 to 38 that is provided in the office 3 and can communicate with the data center 2.

  The data center 2 includes a server 2a and a gas station information processing device 2b. The data center 2 can communicate with devices arranged at the maintenance center 4, the gas station headquarters 5, the Meteorological Agency 6, and the like, in addition to the portable terminals 35 to 38. It is connected. In the data center 2, the situation data of each gas station 3 output from the portable terminals 35 to 38 is stored in the server 2a, and the stored situation data is processed by the gas station information processing device 2b such as tallying. Further, it is stored in the server 2a.

  The maintenance center 4 is in charge of maintenance and management of each gas station 3, and includes equipment and components for maintenance and management. Further, the service station headquarters 5 is a section that supervises and manages each service station 3.

  Each of the gas stations 3 (only the structure of the gas station 3A is shown in detail in FIG. 1) has a POS 31, an indoor liquid amount management device 32, an underground tank 33 (33A to 33C), and a weighing machine 34 (34A to 34A). 34C). These are provided in a general gas station, and a detailed description of each device will be omitted.

  The indoor liquid amount management device 32 stores the liquid amount (stock amount) data from the oil level gauge 33 a of the underground tank 33, and determines the fuel amount in the refueling station 3 based on the amount received from the tank truck and the amount of refueling by the meter 34. A device that manages the amount of oil, such as a display unit 32a for displaying a liquid amount or the like, an abnormal lamp 32b that is turned on when an abnormality occurs, a printer 32c for printing liquid amount data, and the like. Is provided.

  Each weighing machine 34 is provided with a seismic sensor 34a that senses the sway when a sway occurs due to an earthquake or the like, such as when a steel ball disposed in the concave portion falls.

  Next, the operation of the gas station system 1 having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS.

When a disaster such as an earthquake occurs, the person in charge of the gas station headquarters 5 logs in to the terminal from a log-in screen as shown in FIG. At this time, a warning or the like for notifying the gas station headquarters 5 that a disaster has occurred may be issued. In addition, a login screen is automatically displayed based on a signal emitted from the Meteorological Agency 6, a signal from a seismic sensor 34a built in the weighing machine 34, and an oil level fluctuation signal measured by an oil level gauge 33a of the underground tank 33. You may. It should be noted that, at the time of unloading by tanker trucks, but not to shake only the oil level of the corresponding underground tanks 3 3, in order to shake the oil level of the earthquake at the time of all of the underground tank 3 3, it is possible to start the login screen automatically.

  When the user logs in from the gas station headquarters 5 on the screen of FIG. 3 (step S1), the data center 2 displays the disaster area on the display device of the terminal of the gas station headquarters 5 (step S2). Next, when a specific area is selected at the gas station headquarters 5 from the displayed disaster area (step S3, see FIG. 4), the data center 2 transmits the data to the mobile terminal 35 of the gas station 3 existing in the specific area. The disaster status confirmation data is output (step S4, see FIG. 5).

  When the portable terminal 35 or the like receives the disaster status confirmation data from the data center 2, a message as shown in FIG. 6 is displayed on the portable terminal 35 or the like. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 7, the manager of each gas station 3 inputs gas station status data such as availability of business, availability of electricity, availability of water supply, a brief description of the current situation, and photographs taken. (Step S9) The input data is output to the data center 2.

  When the data center 2 receives the refueling station status data, the data center 2 stores the data and performs tallying and the like, and as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, refueling that can be operated using tables, maps, and photographs (not shown). The station is displayed on the display device of the terminal of the gas station headquarters 5 (step S7). Thus, the gas station headquarters 5 can centrally manage the disaster situation of each gas station 3 and grasp the business availability. In addition, the data center 2 compares the situation of each gas station 3 with the disaster situation obtained from the dedicated database or manually inputted disaster situation and outputs it to the maintenance center 4, so that the maintenance center 4 can take advance measures according to the disaster situation. The equipment and parts to be prepared can be grasped, and quick and appropriate maintenance management can be performed.

  The components and connection structure of the gas station system 1 in the above description are merely examples, and any configuration may be adopted without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

1 gas station system 2 data center 2a server 2b gas station information processing device 3 (3A-3D) gas station 4 maintenance center 5 gas station headquarters 6 Japan Meteorological Agency 31 POS
32 Indoor liquid level control device 32a Display unit 32b Abnormal lamp 32c Printer 33 (33A-33C) Underground tank 33a Oil level gauge 34 (34A-34C) Weighing machine 34a Seismic sensor 35-38 Mobile terminal

Claims (2)

A terminal that is provided at the service station headquarters and automatically starts the login screen when all the underground tanks of the predetermined service station are detected to sway;
A data center that centrally manages status data of a plurality of gas stations and communicates with the terminal,
Provided at each of the plurality of gas stations, including an input unit for inputting the status data of each gas station, and a mobile terminal that communicates with the data center,
When the user logs in from the log- in screen of the terminal of the gas station headquarters and a specific area is selected from the displayed disaster areas , the data center refuels the mobile terminal existing at the gas station of the selected specific area. A gas station system requesting status data of a gas station, storing and summarizing the data of the gas station received from the portable terminal. The data center, gas station system according to claim 1, the status data of the gas station with the stored table, characterized in that to indicate the at least one of the map or photograph.