JPH01226680A - Elevator group management controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To permit service improvement by carring out the data-analysis on the basis of the information data in a building which is supplied form an OA system, particularly the office going-in/out person information in the building and timely releasing the stop-prohibited state for a necessary floor. CONSTITUTION:In an office going-in/out management system 8 which is formed from the software package of an OA function control system, the management information for each building is processed by an OA distributed processing computer from the information inputted into a time recorder 9, etc., from an ID card, and transported into an information file 7 on a host side, and a data base is prepared. In an elevator control system 6, the necessary information is read out from the information file 7 through an interface 5, and the floor where an office entering person is always present is judged, and if the elevator does not stop at that floor, the stop-prohibitted state is automatically released. Therefore, the timely response corresponding to the traffic demand which is intrinsic in the building is enabled, and the service improvement can be achieved, and since the stop prohibited state is released through IC card, etc., theftproof effect can be obtained.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to an elevator group management control device for operating a plurality of elevators for a plurality of floors, and is particularly applicable to intelligent buildings. It concerns an elevator system.

(Prior Art) In recent years, when multiple elevators are installed in parallel, in order to improve the operating efficiency of the elevators and improve the service to elevator users, the elevators that respond to hall calls on each floor are equipped with a microcomputer. Currently, small-sized computers such as the above are used to allocate information rationally and quickly. That is, when a hall call occurs, the most suitable elevator to service the hall call is selected and assigned. At the same time, other elevators are not allowed to respond to the hall call.

In this type of group management control, recently there have been models equipped with line and learning functions, which are based on learning data such as measuring car call registration data when responding to each hall call in real time, and measuring data on boarding and alighting loads. It has become possible to ascertain the traffic volume between floors and the average time between arrivals at each hall.

Then, based on the measurement data, the measurement data is processed for each time period to understand the unique demand of each building, determine the optimal number of machines when a hall call occurs, and set the time slots for work, lunch, and clock out. It is directly applied to group management control, such as setting dispersed standby zones during garden dispersal, and setting the number of idle machines to save energy.

The elevator group management control device used for such group management control usually processes the above-mentioned functions in a distributed manner using multiple small computers such as microcomputers, and is connected to the group management 111111 device in a master/slave relationship. The single unit W unit for controlling single elevators is also configured with a small computer and is digitized, and the transmission line between the group management control unit and the single unit W unit is connected to the computers of the group management control unit and the single unit W unit at extremely high speeds. We are transmitting information.

In this way, elevator systems that perform group management 1i11 control are becoming more and more complex due to an increase in the proportion of software controlled by microcomputers, high-speed information transmission between computers, etc., and are becoming more digitalized. be.

In an elevator system under such circumstances, car calls may be temporarily not registered for a specific floor for various reasons, such as security reasons when no one is on that floor. has been carried out. In other words, the elevator will temporarily not stop for this floor. (Hereinafter, this specific floor will be referred to as a non-stop floor.) In order to cancel this elevator non-stop floor, that is, to restart car call registration for the floor,
- This is done by key switch input from the elevator monitoring panel inside the shell.

(Hereinafter, this resumption of car call registration will be referred to as cancellation of the non-stop floor.) Therefore, users who do not know about the existence of non-stop elevator floors must get into the elevator car to go to the relevant floor. There is the inconvenience of knowing that a floor is a non-stop floor, and there is also the possibility that you will not be able to go to the floor unless you know the procedure to release the non-stop floor by inputting a key switch from the monitoring panel, etc. There was sex.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In this way, conventionally, when demand for a floor that has become a non-stop floor for some reason arises, for that floor,
In order to register a car call and try on a car, that is, to cancel a non-stop floor, you must manually enter a key switch on the elevator monitoring panel to cancel the non-stop floor. was common. For this reason, there is a problem in that the user cannot arrive at the destination floor unless he or she knows the existence of the monitoring panel and how to input the key switch to release the non-stop floor.

On the other hand, there is a trend towards intelligent buildings, which originated in the United States and has been developing mainly in urban areas in recent years. This is the so-called
This is typified by intelligent buildings, which bring about diversification within building systems, complete building information and communication systems, and office automation (hereinafter referred to as OA).
It is abbreviated as ) is a developed in-building OA support service centered on the system. With the advancement of intelligence, information data unique to each building has been developed, and information communication is now being carried out within the building via a local area network (LAN).

By the way, among the information data, there is data that makes it possible to recognize in advance the occurrence of users on floors including non-stop floors. One example is the attendance data of users in the building from the OA system's "attendance management system." Since this data is stored for each user, it is possible to determine the occurrence of a specific user for a certain floor (for example, the floor is the floor where that user works).

However, it has been difficult to connect the elevator system to various other devices outside the elevator system in order to import such data into the elevator system.

However, as buildings become more intelligent, information communication within the building becomes easier, and it becomes possible to connect online between the computer that manages the OA system in each building and the elevator system via the building's LAN, supporting OA functions. It is becoming possible to share information data processed by software packages.

Based on these considerations, the present invention has been developed to store the attendance information of building users as building-specific information data in the elevator system from among the information data inside the building, especially from the attendance management system, which is one of the OA systems. If the user's permanent floor is a non-stop floor, the user can automatically cancel the non-stop floor before boarding the car, making full use of the intelligent building function. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an elevator group management and control device that uses collected information to enable timely responses to building-specific traffic demands, thereby improving service and performance. do.

[Configuration of the Invention 1 (Means for Solving the L! Problem) To achieve the above object, the present invention is configured as follows. In other words, there is an elevator group management control system that operates multiple elevators for multiple floors, performs predetermined evaluation calculations for hall calls that occur, and selects and assigns the most suitable elevator to respond. The attendance management system and the attendance information inputted into the attendance management system are retrieved in a timely manner, and for floors where car call input from outside is temporarily unregistered, that floor Detecting in advance the attendance of a worker who resides or works at the office, and provides the elevator group management system with the resident floor or destination floor information of the worker, which is necessary for restarting the registration of car call input for that floor. The configuration includes an elevator system interface.

(Function) In the elevator group management control device having such a configuration, among the management systems that support the OA system provided in the management computer on the building side, the function of executing the software for the attendance management system allows the attendance information data to be Collect on your computer.

Then, the elevator group management control system, which is connected to the network, works in conjunction with the attendance management system via an interface to obtain the data necessary to cancel the nonstop floor, that is, the people who are in the building. The system takes in personal data indicating that the worker is on duty, uses this data to determine the floor where the worker is resident, and if that floor is a non-stop floor, the non-stop floor is automatically canceled.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. An example of a building system configuration is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 1 is a system block diagram of an elevator group management control device including an attendance management system as a management system that supports the OA system, which is a building-side management computer, and 1 is the building's communication network. LAN 12 is a computer terminal, 3 is a host computer, 4 is an OA distributed processing computer, 5 is an elevator system interface, and 6 is an elevator control system including a group management function.

In FIG. 1, the distributed processing computer 4 forming the OA function tIllIII system executes the attendance management system by operating the terminal 2, and the information obtained by this execution is shown in FIG. It is stored in the information file 7 as shown in FIG.

The attendance management system 8, which is formed by a software package in the 0AIN function control system, processes the management information of each building in the OA distributed processing monitor 4 through an interface with a time recorder 9, etc., and stores it in the information file 7 of the host computer 3. Transfer and form a database.

The elevator control system 6 performs access to the information file 7 via the interface 5 and inputs the necessary information data into the elevator system 6 .

In this embodiment, the input to the time recorder 9 is I
A D card shall be used.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the elevator control system 6. In FIG. 3, the elevator control system 6 is composed of a group management i11 control section 10 and a hall call control section 11.

The group management control unit 10 is connected to the individual control devices 12a to 12n of each individual elevator via a transmission line 13, receives information about each elevator from each individual control device 12a to 12n, and controls the individual control devices 12a to 12n. The allocation of hall calls to 12n is controlled and distributed holding control is performed.

These individual control devices 12a to 12n select a car call input that can be registered, and press a car button lamp 1 in response to the car call input.
4a, 14b .

The hall call tUa section 11 mainly registers each hall call.
When a hall call occurs, the information is transmitted to the group management control unit 10, and the group management IQ control unit 10 determines the number of machines to be allocated to each individual control device 12a to 12n. Assignment to outputs output.

Note that the elevator system interface unit 5 receives information specific to each building obtained by the OA function control system (in this embodiment, attendance information from the attendance management system 8).
It performs the necessary data processing and transmits the data to the group management w4 control section 10.

FIG. 4 shows employee No. 11, an employee in the building, and a data table 15 provided in the elevator system interface unit 5 for the floor where the employee resides. That is, from the employee number of the employee included in the employee information sent from the attendance management system 8 to the elevator system interface section 5, it is possible to determine the floor where the employee is resident.

Figure 5 is a reference data table R for setting the resident floor of the worker, canceling the non-stop floor, and registering the car call.
It is EF$IN and is provided in the group management section 11.

The format is the same as the car call registration mask data table OCR$MSK shown in FIG. 6, which will be described next.

CCR$MSK shown in FIG. 6 is an example of a mask data table for car call registration. Here, 1 is 12K...
is a bit that indicates whether car call registration for the 1st floor, 2nd floor, etc. is possible or not, and if each bit is "1", car call registration for that floor is possible; ”, it is not possible.

Therefore, the car call input data that can be registered is extracted by performing a logical product of the same car call input data as OCR$MSK and the corresponding address data of OCR$MSK.

Also, OCR $MSK is individual control m device 112a ~ 12n
has everything inside it, and group management v4
The contents can be changed by data transmission by the II1 section 10.

The algorithm required to release the non-stop floor in this embodiment is as follows.

- The elevator system interface unit 5 determines the floor where the employee is resident based on the employee number of the employee transmitted from the attendance management system 8 to the elevator system interface unit 5.

■The elevator system interface unit 5 receives the above-mentioned
1-BYTE data such that only the bit corresponding to the resident floor determined in step 1 is set to "1" is set at the corresponding address of REF$1- in FIG.

For example, if the employee's permanent residence is the 10th floor, REF$
IN (1)-028 (16 selections).

■The group management i control unit 10 controls the corresponding R in FIG.
EF$IN (n) and OCR$MSK (n
) and set the result to CCR$MSK (n) of all machines including the group management control unit 10.

■The group management control unit 10 selects one car, and sends the car call signal input address data in the same format as the REF$IN in FIG. 5 for that car, and the REF$IN in FIG.
and the result is set to the above input address.

(2) The group management control unit 10 clears all the contents of REF$IN in FIG.

(2) The group management control unit 10 opens the elevator hall door for the @ machine that has registered the car call and makes it standby.

As a result of the processing operations from ■ to ■ above, if the floor where the worker is resident is a non-stop floor, it will be automatically canceled, and the car call registration and car call button will be activated for the floor where the worker is resident. The lamps will be turned on automatically, and the elevator hall doors will remain open for passengers to board.

As explained above, in the elevator group management control device of this embodiment, the distributed processing computer 4 that executes the software package for the attendance management system, which is one of the management systems that support the OA system, and the building LA
N1, and in conjunction with the support system, input the information of the person working in the building online into the elevator system 6. If the floor where the worker is permanently stationed in the building is a non-stop floor. It is possible to timely cancel the non-stop status of the relevant floor, and because the destination floor of the worker can be detected in advance, car call registration and car button lamp lighting can be performed automatically, and the elevator hall door can be opened automatically. Since the elevator can be opened and used by users, it is possible to realize elevator response that meets the needs of each building and improve service.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the present invention, a plurality of elevators are put into service for a plurality of floors, and elevator group management is performed in which the most suitable elevator is selected and responded to a common hall call. In the III equipment, the building entrance-cal area network interface is set up in the elevator control system, and the building office automation 1II
In conjunction with the III system, among the building information data obtained from the OA system, data analysis is performed based on information on people working in the building in particular, and necessary floors are released in a timely manner. Therefore, even if a user is unfamiliar with the procedure for canceling a non-stop floor, the non-stop floor can be canceled automatically and normal services can be resumed without placing any burden on the full-time employees of the building. It is possible to realize elevator responsiveness that meets the unique needs of each building and improve service.

In addition, since the WI is removed from non-stop floors after confirming the employee number of the person sitting in the building, a sufficient crime prevention effect can be maintained.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the functional system configuration of the above embodiment, FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the detailed structure of the elevator system in the above embodiment, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of attendance management data, FIG. 5 is a structural diagram of a reference data table, and FIG. 6 is a structural diagram of a mask data table for car call registration. 1... Building LAN 2... Terminal 3.
...Host computer 4...OA distributed processing computer 5...Elevator system interface 6...Elevator control system 7...Information file 8...Attendance management system 10...Group management control unit 11...・Hall call 111 part 12...Individual control device 13...Transmission line agent Patent attorney Nori Chika Kensuke Patent attorney Patent attorney Ken Komaru Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] An elevator group management control system that operates multiple elevators for multiple floors, performs predetermined evaluation calculations for hall calls that occur, and selects and assigns the most suitable elevator to respond. management system;
Timely retrieval of attendance information input into the attendance management system, and stationing or attending work on floors where car call inputs from outside are temporarily unregistered. Detects the attendance of workers in advance,
An elevator group management control device comprising: an elevator system interface that provides information on the resident floor or destination floor of the worker necessary for restarting registration of car call input for that floor to the elevator group management system.