JPH1096786A - On-road electric field strength measuring device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To save time for repeated measurement and simplify operation and handling of a measuring apparatus. SOLUTION: An antenna fitting bar 12 is fitted to the upper part of a support 11 provided at a truck 10, orthogonally to the proceeding direction of the truck 10, and a plurality of measuring antennas 13 are mounted at specified spaces to the antenna fitting bar 12. The truck 10 is provided with a signal processor 14, a personal computer 15 and a position sensor 17. While making the truck 10 travel in a lane direction, travel positions are detected by the position sensor 17, and radio wave is received by the measuring antennas 13. The signal processor 14 converts an output signal of each measuring antenna 13 into a digital signal, adds a detection signal of the position sensor 17 and outputs it to the personal computer 15. The personal computer 15 processes input data and records digitized received power of each measuring antenna 13 in correspondence with the travel position of the truck 10.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a road field intensity measuring apparatus applied to a toll collection system for a toll road or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a toll collection system for toll roads has been proposed in which an onboard unit is mounted on a vehicle and toll collection is performed by wireless communication between an antenna installed at a tollgate and the onboard unit. Have been. FIG. 4 shows a schematic configuration of such a toll collection system. In FIG. 4, reference numeral 21 denotes a road device installed at a tollgate, 22 denotes a road antenna, and 23 denotes a vehicle-mounted device mounted on a vehicle 24.
The on-road antenna 22 secures a specific communicable area on the road, and within this area, the electric field intensity of the radio wave emitted from the on-road antenna 22 needs to exceed a certain value. Therefore, at the time of manufacturing, developing, and installing a tollgate on the road antenna 22, it is necessary to perform measurement for confirming whether a necessary electric field intensity is obtained in a road range determined by design. Conventionally, the measurement of the electric field strength is performed by using an apparatus shown in FIG.

[0005] In FIG. 5, reference numeral 10 denotes a trolley.
The antenna 31 is mounted on the antenna 0 and the spectrum analyzer 32 is mounted thereon. Then, while the carriage 10 is traveling in the lane direction, the traveling position on the lane is measured, and the radio wave at each traveling position is transmitted to the antenna 31 at the same time.
, And the electric field intensity is measured by the spectrum analyzer 32. This operation is repeated by moving the carriage 10 in the width direction of the road, and the electric field intensity of the entire region to be measured is measured.

[0004]

In the above-described conventional measurement of the electric field strength, since the number of antennas 31 on the receiving side is one, it is necessary to repeat the measurement while moving the carriage 10 in the width direction of the road. Further, the spectrum analyzer 32 has more functions than necessary to determine whether or not an electric field strength equal to or more than a certain value is obtained, and the operation and handling are complicated and difficult.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an on-road electric field intensity measuring apparatus which can save the trouble of repeated measurement and can simplify the operation and handling of a measuring instrument. I do.

[0006]

According to the present invention, there is provided an on-road electric field strength measuring apparatus, comprising: a truck traveling on a road; a position sensor for detecting a traveling position of the truck; A plurality of measurement antennas installed at predetermined intervals and receiving radio waves from a road antenna, and signal processing for capturing output signals of the position sensor and the measurement antennas, converting the signals into digital signals, and outputting the digital signals Means, and a data processing device for measuring and processing received electric field strengths of the plurality of measurement antennas corresponding to respective traveling positions of the carriage based on a digital signal output from the signal processing means. And

(Operation) When measuring the electric field strength of the on-street antenna at a tollgate, the traveling position on the lane is measured while the bogie is manually pushed in the lane direction.
Radio waves at each traveling position are received by a plurality of measurement antennas, and the received electric field strength is measured by a signal processing unit and a data processing device. That is, the plurality of measurement antennas simultaneously receive radio waves from the on-road antenna at different positions in the width direction of the road. On the other hand, the position sensor outputs, for example, a pulse signal by detecting rotation of a wheel. The signal processing means converts an output signal of each of the measurement antennas into a digital signal, adds a detection signal of the position sensor, and outputs the digital signal to a data processing device. This data processing device calculates the traveling distance of the bogie based on the position sensor output in the data sent from the signal processing means, and calculates the traveling distance of the bogie based on the signal output state of each measurement antenna. Correspondingly, the digitized received power of each measurement antenna is recorded. Therefore, by performing the measurement by moving the bogie once in the lane direction, it is possible to measure and record all necessary electric field strengths in the lane area.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a configuration of a road field intensity measuring apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration. As shown in FIG.
A support 11 is installed on the support 0, and an antenna mounting bar 12 is mounted on the support 11 horizontally and in a direction perpendicular to the traveling direction of the carriage 10. A plurality of electric field strength measuring antennas 13 are attached to the antenna mounting bar 12.
Are mounted at predetermined intervals. The number n of the measurement antennas 13 is set, for example, in a range of “1 ≦ n ≦ 7”.
A signal processor 14 and a data processor such as a personal computer 15 are mounted on the carriage 10, and the measurement antenna 13 and the signal processor 14 are connected to the signal processor 14. Further, a position sensor 17 is provided on the cart 10 so as to be located inside an arbitrary wheel 16, and an output signal thereof is input to a signal processor 14. As the position sensor 17, for example, an optical sensor is used, and as shown in FIG.
The running position of 0 is detected. Marker 1 above
Four wheels 8 are provided on the inner surface of the wheel 16 at an angle of, for example, 90 ° from the center toward the outer periphery.

The measuring antenna 13 comprises an antenna element 131, a low-pass filter 132 and a detector 133 as shown in FIG. 2, and the output of the detector 133 is input to the signal processor 14. The signal processor 14 includes a plurality of threshold value determiners 141 to which the output signals of the respective measurement antennas 13 are input, and a binary encoder 142 that converts the output signals of the respective threshold value determiners 141 into 2-bit signals.
It consists of. This binary encoder 142
The output signal of each threshold value determiner 141 is converted into a 2-bit signal, and a signal from the position sensor 17 is added to the converted signal to generate a 16-bit signal.
Send to The personal computer 15 calculates the traveling distance of the carriage 10 based on the data from the signal processor 14 and records the received power of each measurement antenna 13 at each traveling position.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. FIG.
When the electric field strength of the on-street antenna 22 at the tollgate shown in FIG. 4 is measured, the bogie 10 is manually pushed in the lane direction, and the traveling positions on the lane are measured. The electric field intensity is measured by the signal processor 14 and the personal computer 15.

That is, the plurality of measurement antennas 13
At each different position in the width direction of the road, the on-road antenna 2
2 is received by the antenna element 131. After the low-frequency component is removed by the low-pass filter 132, the received signal of the antenna element 131 is subjected to envelope detection by the detector 133, and the signal is processed by the signal processor 1.
4 is input.

In this case, the signal processor 14 has n (1 ≦ 1)
Signals from n ≦ 7) measurement antennas 13 are input, and the level of each signal is determined by the threshold value determiner 141. The threshold in the threshold determiner 141 is, for example, E1
, E2, E3 (E1 <E2 <E3), and if the input power from the measurement antenna 13 is E, then E <E1, E2
"000", "001", "011", "11" according to four types of 1≤E <E2, E2≤E <E3, and E3≤E.
The 3-bit signal “1” is output from the threshold value determiner 141 to the binary encoder 142. Binary encoder 1
Reference numeral 42 denotes four types of signals “00” from each threshold value determiner 141.
0 "," 001 "," 011 "," 111 "
The signal is converted into a 2-bit signal of "00", "01", "10", and "11", and a signal from the position sensor 17 is added to the converted signal to be output as a 16-bit signal.

The position sensor 17 detects the passage of the marker 18 by the rotation of the wheel 16, and outputs a pulse signal each time. The radius r [m] of the wheel 16 and the marker 1
8 is θ [degrees], the cart 10 is “2πr
The pulse signal is output once every time the vehicle travels by [θ / 360] [m].

As shown in FIG. 3, the format of the 16-bit signal output from the signal processor 14 is such that the most significant bit (MSB) is a spare bit D1, the next bit is a marker passage detection bit D2, and The lower 14 bits are the output state bit D3 of each threshold value determiner 141.
The marker passing detection bit D2 is "1" while the marker is passing and "0" when the marker is not passing. The output state bit of the threshold value judgment unit 141 is
Assuming that the maximum n is “7” and each output state is represented by a 2-bit signal, 14 bits of “2 × 7 = 14” are used.

The 16-bit signal output from the signal processor 14 is input to a personal computer 15. The personal computer 15 sends the cart 10 based on the marker passage detection bit D2 in the 16 bits sent from the signal processor 14.
Is calculated, and each threshold value determiner 141 is calculated.
The digitized received power of each measurement antenna 13 at the traveling position of the bogie 10 is recorded based on the output state bit D3. Therefore, by performing the measurement by moving the carriage 10 once in the lane direction, it is possible to measure and record all necessary electric field intensities in the lane area.
The present invention is applicable not only to a toll collection system on a toll road but also to a toll collection system in a parking lot, for example.

[0016]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the electric field strengths at a plurality of positions in the width direction of the road can be measured by a single pushing operation of the cart by mounting a plurality of measuring antennas on the cart. It is possible to reduce the number of times the bogie travels in one lane and to save the labor required for measurement. Further, according to the present invention, since a device such as a spectrum analyzer which is complicated in operation and handling is not used, the measurement can be simplified.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a road field intensity measuring device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional configuration block diagram according to the embodiment;

FIG. 3 is an exemplary view showing a format of output data of a signal processor in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic configuration diagram of a toll collection system using wireless communication to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of a conventional on-road electric field strength measuring apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 10 cart 11 support 12 antenna mounting bar 13 measurement antenna 131 antenna element 132 low-pass filter 133 detector 14 signal processor 141 threshold decision unit 142 binary encoder 15 personal computer 16 wheels 17 position sensor 18 marker

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A truck traveling on a road, a position sensor for detecting a traveling position of the truck, and a radio wave from a road antenna installed on the truck at a predetermined interval in a direction orthogonal to a traveling direction. A plurality of measuring antennas to be received, signal processing means for taking in output signals of the position sensor and each of the measuring antennas, converting them into digital signals, and outputting the digital signals, based on the digital signals output from the signal processing means A data processing device for measuring and processing received electric field intensities of the plurality of measurement antennas corresponding to respective traveling positions of the bogie.