JPH06257298A - Remote monitoring system of mechanical multi-stage parking apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To effectively carry out maintenance works in accordance with the operational condition of the equipment. CONSTITUTION:An information memory 11 to accumulate informations such as time informations of cars driving in and out, actuation time informations of respective equipment, actuation counts of respective equipment, etc., is equipped in a controller 10 regulating the receiving and sending motions of respective equipment in accordance with the motion of cars. A monitor 12 watching the stored informations in the memory 11 is connected to the controller 10 through an interface. A host computer 14 is connected to a modem 13 through a telephone circuit. The informations stored in the memory 11 are transmitted to the host computer 14 by the monitor 12 through the modem 13 and the telephone circuit.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote monitoring system for mechanical multilevel parking facilities, and more particularly to maintenance measures.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a mechanical multi-level parking facility, a control device controls the loading / unloading operation of each part of the facility associated with the loading / unloading of a vehicle. That is, the opening / closing operation of the door at the time of loading / unloading, the vehicle loading operation with respect to the vehicle loading cage at the vehicle loading position of the loading port, the transportation operation of the vehicle in the building, etc.
This is performed by turning on the contactor in response to a command from the control device, and sensors provided in each part of the multi-level parking facility send and receive signals according to the operating state of each part, and in response to this signal, the command from the control device is accelerated. , Deceleration and stop, etc.

[0003]

By the way, the maintenance of equipment is very important in order to maintain the equipment safely and for a long time. However, in the conventional mechanical multi-level parking facility, the parking information is provided to the user as disclosed in, for example, JP-A-63-25800 and JP-A-1-68598. Has been proposed, but it does not take equipment maintenance into consideration.

Therefore, at present, maintenance is carried out once a month or twice a month, regardless of the operating status of the equipment. Therefore, maintenance is insufficient for equipment with a high utilization rate, but the utilization rate is low. Very low efficiency due to over-maintenance in low equipment.

Further, if the vehicle is frequently loaded and unloaded during maintenance, the maintenance has to be interrupted each time, and there is a problem that the maintenance requires a long time.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to efficiently perform maintenance by grasping the operating status of equipment and quantitatively performing maintenance according to the operating status. It is to try to implement well.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an upper entry / exit operation of a mechanical multilevel parking facility in which a control device controls the entry / exit operation of each part of the equipment accompanying the entry / exit of a vehicle. For the remote monitoring system for remote monitoring, the following solutions were taken.

That is, the solution means of the present invention provides the control device with an information storage unit for storing information such as vehicle entry / exit time information, operation time information of each equipment part, and operation frequency information of each equipment part. Further, a monitoring device for monitoring the information stored in the information storage unit is connected to the control device via an interface. Also, a modem is connected to the monitoring device via an interface. In addition, a host computer is connected to the modem via a telephone line. The monitoring device is configured so that the information stored in the information storage unit of the control device is transmitted to the host computer via a modem and a telephone line.

[0009]

With the above structure, according to the present invention, the loading and unloading operation of each part of the equipment associated with the loading and unloading of the vehicle is controlled by the controller, and the loading and unloading time information of the vehicle, the operating time information of each equipment part and the equipment part Information such as operation frequency information is stored in the information storage unit of the control device, and the information stored in the information storage unit is transmitted to the host computer via the modem and the telephone line by the monitoring device.

From this, the operating status of the equipment is accurately grasped, and the maintenance is quantitatively carried out according to the operating status, the optimum maintenance execution period is determined, and the maintenance is efficiently carried out. .

Further, by analyzing the information, it becomes possible to carry out the maintenance at the date and time when the vehicle is loaded and unloaded the least, and the maintenance can be carried out quickly and quickly.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 3 shows a mechanical three-dimensional parking facility A, which is of a tower type. In the figure, 1
Is a building erected on the ground, and inside the building 1, a mechanical multilevel parking apparatus 2 is installed. The multi-level parking device 2 includes a pair of front and rear upper sprockets 3, 3 and a pair of front and rear lower sprockets (not shown), and an endless chain 4 is wound around the upper and lower sprockets 3 and 4. A large number of vehicle-mounted cages 5, 5, ... Are suspended and supported via attachments 6 on the endless chains 4, 4. Further, an entrance / exit opening 7 serving both as an entrance and exit is provided on the ground side of the building 1, and a door 8 is provided at the entrance / exit 7 so as to be openable and closable.

When the vehicle C is loaded, the above-mentioned multi-level parking device 2 is operated to circulate each cage 5 in the vertical direction, so that the empty cage 5 on which the vehicle C is not mounted is loaded into the loading / unloading port 7. The vehicle C is moved to the vehicle loading position, the door 8 is opened, and the vehicle C waiting in front of the door 8 is loaded into the empty cage 5 and stored. In addition, in FIG.
An emergency exit 9 is provided on the left side of the loading / unloading entrance 7.

As shown in FIG. 1, the loading and unloading operations of the various parts of the equipment associated with the loading and unloading of the vehicle C, such as the operation of the above-described multilevel parking apparatus 2 and the opening and closing of the door 8, are carried out according to a preset program.
It is controlled by the control device 10 such as a PU. In particular,
When the contactor is turned on in response to a command from the control device 10, sensors provided in each part of the multi-storey parking facility A send and receive signals in accordance with the operating state of each part of the facility, and the command of the control device 10 is received in response to this signal. The warehousing / unloading operation is performed by accelerating, decelerating, stopping, and the like.

Further, as a feature of the present invention, the control device 10 is provided with an information storage unit 11, and the information storage unit 1 is provided.
In FIG. 1, information such as entry / exit time information of the vehicle C, operation time information of each equipment part, and operation frequency information of each equipment part is stored. Specifically, when the sensor detects the entry and exit of the vehicle body C, the time and the cage number. Etc. are stored in the control device 10.

Further, the control device 10 includes a monitoring device 12
Are connected via the RS232C interface so that they can communicate with each other at all times, and the monitoring device 12 constantly monitors the information stored in the information storage section 11 of the control device 10. In addition,
Since the control device 10 has a small capacity for accumulating information such as warehousing / receipt time information, when the storage amount increases and reaches the limit, a signal is sent to the monitoring device 12, and the monitoring device 12 receiving this signal informs the information of the control device 10. Information such as storage time information stored in the storage unit 11 is read out and stored in the monitoring device 12.

Further, the monitoring device 12 includes a modem 13
Is connected via an RS232C interface, and a host computer 14 of the monitoring center is connected to the modem 13 via a telephone line. Then, the monitoring device 12 is configured to transmit information such as entry / exit time information stored in the information storage unit 11 of the control device 10 to the host computer 14 via the modem 13 and a telephone line. In the monitoring device 12, when the information storage amount such as entry / exit time information increases and reaches the limit, the monitoring device 12 sends a signal to the modem 13, and the modem 13 that receives this signal stores the telephone number stored in advance. Call. As a result, the monitoring device 12 and the host computer 1
4 and the host computer 14 is connected to the monitoring device 1.
2 The information such as the storage time information of the vehicle C, the operation time information of each equipment part, the number of times of operation of each equipment part, etc., stored in the vehicle C is read out, and the information is analyzed to determine the optimum maintenance. There is.

Therefore, the information storage unit 11, the monitoring device 12, the modem 13, the telephone line, the host computer 14, and the like constitute a remote monitoring system B for remotely monitoring the loading / unloading operation of each unit of the multi-storey parking facility A.

Next, a description will be given of the procedure for remotely controlling the loading / unloading operation of each part of the multi-storey parking facility A by the remote monitoring system B configured as described above with reference to FIG.

The control device 10 controls the loading / unloading operation of each part of the multi-storey parking facility A as the vehicle C is loaded / unloaded (step S1).
), The operation time and the number of operations of each part of the multi-storey parking facility A are stored (step S2). Then, it is determined whether or not the vehicle C has been stored (step S3), and if the vehicle is stored, YES, the storage time and the cage number. Is stored (step S4). Similarly, it is determined whether or not the vehicle C has exited (step S5), and if YES, the delivery time, the cage number. Is stored (step S6
).

On the other hand, the monitoring device 12 judges whether or not the warehousing / delivery information has been collected (step S7), and if the judgment is YES, the warehousing / delivery information is collected (step S8).
Then, it is determined whether or not the storage capacity of the storage device 12 inside the monitoring device 12 has decreased (step S9), and the determination is YES.
If so, a report request is issued to the modem 13 (step S10). Here, it is determined whether or not the telephone line is connected (step S11). If the determination is YES, the modem 12 calls the host computer 14 and the vehicle C stored in the monitoring device 12 is turned on. Information such as delivery time information, operating time information of each equipment part, and operation frequency information of each equipment part is transmitted to the host computer 14 (step S1).
2). After the host computer 14 reads and analyzes these pieces of information and determines the optimum maintenance, it is determined whether or not the connection between the monitoring device 12 and the host computer 14 has ended (step S13), and if the determination is YES Hang up the phone.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the control device 10 for controlling the loading / unloading operation of each part of the facility accompanying the loading / unloading of the vehicle C.
Of the vehicle C is stored in the information storage unit 11 of the vehicle C, the operation time information of each equipment part, the number of times of operation of each equipment part, and the like, and the accumulated information is sent from the monitoring device 12 via the modem 13. Host computer 14 by telephone line
Since it is sent to the customer, it is possible to accurately grasp the operating status of the equipment and perform the maintenance quantitatively according to the operating status. It can be carried out.

Further, by analyzing the information, it is possible to set the date and time when the loading and unloading of the vehicle C is the smallest as the maintenance date and time, and the maintenance can be performed quickly and in a short time.

Further, there is a merit that it is possible to provide the customer with a proposal of an optimal ratio of contracted vehicles to hourly rental cars and detailed entry / exit time information such as monthly, weekly, and day-of-week. .

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Information such as vehicle entry / exit time information, operation time information for each equipment part, and operation frequency information for each equipment part is stored in the information storage part of the control device that controls the entry / exit operation of each equipment part associated with the entry / exit of a vehicle. Since the above information is transmitted to the host computer via the modem and the telephone line, the operating status of the equipment can be accurately grasped, the optimum maintenance period can be determined, and the maintenance can be carried out efficiently. Further, by analyzing the information, the minimum date and time of loading and unloading can be set as the maintenance date and time, and the maintenance can be performed quickly and quickly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a remote monitoring system.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a remote monitoring system.

FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram of a multilevel parking facility.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Control Device 11 Information Storage Unit 12 Monitoring Device 13 Modem 14 Host Computer A Multi-level Parking Facility B Remote Monitoring System C Vehicle

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A remote monitoring system for remotely monitoring the entry / exit operation of a mechanical multi-storey parking facility in which a control device controls the entry / exit operation of each part of the equipment associated with the entry / exit of a vehicle, which is provided in the control device. , An information storage unit that stores information such as vehicle entry / exit time information, operating time information of each equipment unit, and operation frequency information of each equipment unit, and an information storage unit that is connected via the interface and is stored in the information storage unit. A monitoring device for monitoring the information, a modem connected to the monitoring device via an interface, and a host computer connected to the modem via a telephone line. Remote supervision of mechanical multi-level parking facility, characterized in that it is configured to transmit the information stored in the storage unit to a host computer via a modem and a telephone line. Vision system.