JPS63142496A - Equipment service stop controller - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (a) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for using various housing-related facilities such as light and heat equipment and water supply facilities for a fee, and for controlling the amount of usage of these facilities. This invention relates to an equipment usage stop control device for preventing equipment from exceeding a certain value.

(b) Invention f! m In recent years, rental residences called life-free condominiums have become popular. This is a system in which a room fully equipped with various housing facilities is rented out for a limited number of days or days of the week, and the renter is required to pay for the usage of the water, electricity, and gas shade facilities using a Furukawa Card with a certain amount of value. It is something.

In other words, this special card is purchased by a contracted renter by paying a certain amount of consideration, and when this renter uses the above-mentioned room, he/she opens the facilities to be used with this card and the information recorded on the card is used. This is a pre-payment facility usage system in which the borrower is specified and the facility is used within the amount paid for purchasing the special card. In addition, the monetary value recorded on the special card is rewritten so that it decreases according to the usage amount of the equipment, and when the monetary value finally reaches a threshold, that is, when the set usage amount is reached, all equipment is shut off. and automatically disables further use.

By the way, the conventional method for shutting off equipment in this type of equipment is: - A set amount of usage is determined for each type of equipment used, and the equipment that reaches this set amount of usage is made unusable. - Set usage of all equipment used. A system is being considered that determines the usage amount and makes all equipment unavailable when the total usage of each equipment reaches the set usage amount.

In case of ■, the usage frequency of each equipment is predicted and the usage amount is set for each equipment, but this is only a prediction and the actual usage of each equipment is unpredictable. As it is greatly influenced by various conditions and circumstances,
Even though the card still has monetary value,
- There is a problem where equipment that is expected to be used infrequently for fragrances, such as gas, may be unexpectedly cut off.

In addition, in the case of (■), all the facilities become unavailable at once when the card has no monetary value, so there is a problem that the use of the residence (life) comes to a complete halt, causing confusion.

(c) Purpose of the Invention In view of the above points, this invention enables individuals to select the most important equipment when using various types of equipment, prioritize the equipment in the order in which usage is prohibited, and The purpose of the present invention is to provide an equipment usage stop control device that can reduce confusion in daily life by making the equipment unavailable starting from the equipment that has the least impact on daily life as the overall amount of usage increases.

(D) Structure of the Invention The present invention includes a plurality of utilized equipment, each of which is equipped with a usage amount detector and an out-of-use device, and a means for setting an in-use equipment shutdown value in stages according to the number of utilized equipment; The usage amount of the above equipment is set to 314g in the middle of the common calculation, and the usage ω of the entire equipment is set to [1. Compare this integrated value or remaining amount with the usage equipment shutdown value, according to the predetermined shutdown priority order. The present invention is characterized in that it is an equipment suspension control device that includes means for sequentially activating equipment to be suspended from use of the equipment in use.

(E) Effect of the Invention According to this invention, when a plurality of facilities are used as needed, the usage amount of each facility is converted into a common counting unit and calculated as the usage G of the entire plurality of facilities. As the total amount of usage increases, each time the equipment matches the equipment shutdown value that is set in stages as the total amount of usage increases, the equipment that is out of use is activated starting with the usage equipment with a higher priority to be stopped, and its use is disabled.

(f) Effects of the Invention In this way, since the equipment with the highest priority for shutdown, that is, the equipment that is used that has the least impact on daily life, becomes unavailable, there is no disruption to daily life.

Since the amount of equipment used is compared based on the cumulative capacity of all the equipment used, even if a particular equipment is used a lot (it can be said that the equipment has a large cost of living), it is inconvenient that it will be cut off first. There is no.

There is no need for complicated procedures such as determining and setting the predicted usage for each type of equipment to be used, and allocating it from the total amount.

(g) Examples of the invention An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 shows a case in which charges are collected for water supply equipment 1, power supply equipment 2, power supply equipment 3, and gas equipment 4 according to the amount of usage. method is used.

In other words, for each of the facilities 1 to 4 mentioned above, the usage amount is set using the usage fee as a common unit, as described later, and the usage amount of the entire usage facility is determined by the amount of consideration paid for purchasing the dedicated card. .

Furthermore, as is clear from Fig. 2, each of the facilities 1 to 4 is
Each of them is equipped with detectors 5 to 8 and cutoff valves 9 to 12.

The control device main body 13 in FIG. 1 includes a dedicated card insertion slot 14, a card reader/writer 15 for reading and rewriting the recorded information of the inserted card, and a display for displaying the remaining amount of the card. A circuit device 17 is further connected to the card reader/writer 15 and temperature display 16.

That is, the circuit device N17 includes a CPU 18 as shown in FIG.
In addition to this, measuring instruments 5 to 4 for each of the facilities 1 to 4 used, such as water supply, etc.
8 and cutoff valves 9 to 12 are connected via an interface 19, and the card reader/writer 15 and remaining amount display 16 are also connected via an interface 20.

Roughly, a suspension counter m setting device 21 is connected to the CPU 18 via an interface 22 .

The CPU 18 enables the use of each of the facilities 1 to 4, such as water supply, within the range of the remaining amount on the card read by the card reader/writer 15, rewrites the remaining amount on the card according to the usage amount of the available equipment, and displays the remaining amount display. 16.

CPU18 is a total of each equipment 1 to 4! From the usage amount sent from IAI/S5 to 8, calculate the usage amount of all the equipment using W4n using the charge of each equipment as a common unit, and calculate the cumulative amount or the remaining amount after subtracting the cumulative amount as the usage suspension count m
It is compared with a plurality of usage suspension counts set in stages by the setting device 21, and each time the numbers match, one of the equipment in use is shut off.

For this shutoff, the shutoff priority order is input into the CPU 18 in advance, and the shutoff valves are shut off starting from the equipment that has the least impact on daily life.

Next, the processing operations shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 will be explained using flowcharts.

In addition, in the flowchart described below, facilities 1 to 4 are
A case is shown in which the priority order for shutting off is set in the order of hot water supply equipment 2 → gas supply equipment Ha 4 → power supply equipment 3 → water supply equipment 1, and the allowable usage amount (usage suspension count) is set in stages in that order. Further, the flowchart shows an example of an operation in which the new remaining amount of the card is compared with the set allowable usage amount each time the usage m is subtracted.

In FIG. 3, the usage suspension count M setting device 21 is used to set the usage suspension count in stages. In this case, the usage suspension count is a set balance amount that is determined step by step (step ni).

When the card is inserted, the card reader/writer 15 reads the card, and the allowable usage amount (
That is, the overall usable R) is set as a framework (steps n2 and n3).

Then, the card is invalidated and the remaining amount of the card is displayed on the remaining amount display 16 (step n4,
n5).

Next, for example, when the water supply facility 1 is used, the water supply group signal is sent from the water meter 5 to the CPU 18, the water supply capacity is counted, and a usage fee commensurate with the water supply area is calculated.

(Step n6.n7.n8).

The same thing applies to the hot water supply equipment 7 at step n9゜nlo.
, n11, and step n for the power supply equipment 8.
12. nt3. Step n14 is also performed for the gas supply equipment 9, and step n15. n 16. n 1
It will be held at 7.

On the other hand, when water supply, hot water supply, electricity supply, and gas supply equipment are used as shown in FIG. (Steps n21. n22).

Then, the new remaining amount is compared with the first usage suspension amount, that is, the first set remaining amount, and if the new remaining amount is equal to or less than the first set amount, the shutoff valve 9 of the hot water supply equipment 2 is activated. A signal is sent, this is cut off, and the supply YQ equipment 2 is no longer available for use (steps n23, n24.
n25).

The same thing is done after that, and the new balance is compared with the second, third, and fourth set balances, and each time they match, the gas supply equipment 2, power supply equipment 3, and water supply equipment fB4 are shut off in that order. (steps n26 to n34), and as the remaining amount on the card runs out, it becomes impossible to use all the available facilities.

As mentioned above, hot water supply, gas supply, electricity supply, and water supply facilities 1 to 4 will become unavailable in stages, and not all facilities will become unavailable at once, so it will be an inconvenience in daily life. becomes less. For example, there is no inconvenience such as not being able to use electricity, gas, and the lagoon at the same time while taking a bath.

In the correspondence between the structure of this invention and the above-mentioned embodiments, the facilities utilized in this invention are water supply facility 1 and hot water supply facility N of the embodiments.
2. Corresponding to the power supply equipment 3 and gas supply equipment 4, and similarly below, the means for setting the usage suspension value in stages according to the number of equipment in use, the usage suspension count corresponds to the setting device 21, and the equipment in use The amount of usage of the equipment is converted into a common counting unit and the usage of the entire equipment is totaled, and this 8i calculated value or remaining amount is compared with the usage equipment shutdown value above, and the equipment usage is determined according to the predetermined shutdown priority order. The means for sequentially activating the usage suspension machines corresponds to the CPU 18, and the usage suspension value corresponds to the usage suspension count W (the first to fourth set balances). It is not limited only to the configuration.

In addition, in the above embodiment, we took as an example the supply and utilization equipment such as water supply that is closely related to daily life, but this is based on the amount of copying machine usage (number of sheets).
Of course, other usage facilities such as the usage time of a television may also be used.

Furthermore, in the above embodiment, the shutoff valve is controlled based on the difference between the set allowable usage amount and the card balance, but the shutoff valve is controlled based on the comparison between the accumulated value used and the set allowable usage 1vi. It's okay.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the amount of tin used in each stage is determined by using the amount (fees) as a common unit, but the common unit is changed depending on the type of equipment.

Furthermore, although the above-mentioned embodiment shows a control device using a card, it is also possible to directly insert money into the control device.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram applied to daily life equipment such as water supply, and Fig. 2
This figure is a circuit diagram of FIG. 1, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are flowcharts of processing operations. 1... Water supply equipment 2... Hot water supply equipment 3...
Ti supply equipment 4...Gas supply equipment 5-8...
Measuring instrument 9-12...Shutoff valve 18...CPU

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A plurality of used equipment, each of which is equipped with a usage amount detector and an out-of-use device, means for setting a usage equipment out-of-use value in stages according to the number of used equipment, and the above-mentioned usage The usage of the equipment is converted into a common counting unit, the usage of the entire equipment is totaled, and this integrated value or remaining amount is compared with the usage equipment shutdown value above, and the equipment usage is determined according to the predetermined shutdown priority. and means for sequentially activating the out-of-service equipment.