KR20050113552A - The elevator automatic floor selecting method which uses the rfid - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an elevator automatic floor selection method that automatically selects a destination floor through automatic recognition of an electronic tag to which destination floor identification information is given without manipulating the elevator destination floor selection button. An elevator-mounted electronic tag reader recognizes an electronic tag that contains the destination floor identification information of the passenger who carries the electronic tag and automatically selects the destination floor, minimizing the passenger's daily repetitive behavior and preventing the physical operation of the elevator floor operation switch. To reduce it.

Description

Electronic floor selecting method using electronic tag {The elevator automatic floor selecting method which uses the RFID}

The present invention relates to the operation control of an elevator, so that the destination floor is automatically selected through an electronic tag carried by the occupant.

In general, an elevator occupant selects a destination floor by operating a floor selection button. In apartments such as apartments, the occupant must always carry out the repetitive task of selecting the occupied floor each time they board, even though the occupant mainly uses the specific floor in which he lives. In addition, even in a hotel-like accommodation facility, even though the destination floor of the guest is fixed, the destination floor must be entered when the elevator is boarded. Moreover, this manual floor selection method is difficult for the passengers to operate the elevator floor selection buttons when the passengers carry a lot of luggage or carry a child or when many passengers are on board. Manipulating floor selection buttons can be a fundamental challenge. On the other hand, repeated use of the floor selection button may reduce the durability of the elevator, thereby increasing the overall maintenance cost for the elevator.

Meanwhile, a transponder for obtaining destination floor information from a card possessed by a passenger in US Pat. No. 6202799 B1 and transmitting it to an elevator controller, and an elevator automatic destination registration device for allowing the controller to automatically select a passenger destination floor. Although an automatic destination floor selection device has been patented, the present invention may be complicated to carry and use to be applied to a fixed and determined destination floor selection method.

Accordingly, the present invention is to solve the above problems, by creating an effective ubiquitous environment between the elevator and the elevator occupant through an electronic tag attached to the destination floor identification number carried by the occupant and the electronic tag reader installed in the elevator, The present invention provides a method for automatically selecting a destination floor of a passenger who wants to move to a predetermined floor using an elevator.

The present invention comprises an electronic tag to which the floor identification information of the building is given, an electronic tag reader and an elevator operation control device for recognizing and processing the information.

In the present invention, the electronic tag is referred to as 'RFID', 'smart tag' or 'electronic label', and is a technology that allows a unique chip to be embedded in a microchip and tracked it by radio frequency. 4,786,907 and US Pat. No. 4,724,427 and the like. In addition, an electronic tag reader is an apparatus that transmits and receives an electronic tag within the radio range of an antenna, receives data from the electronic tag, processes the received information, and finally provides the information to a means that needs the information. Particularly in the types of electronic tags, there are active electronic tags having a power source of the electronic tag itself, and passive electronic tags that operate only by a wireless power source from the electronic tag reader.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the destination floor identification information assigned to the electronic tag is configured to include postal codes, or addresses of the apartment house or building, and information about the same house and floor, so as to operate only for a specific elevator and a specific floor. The passengers are provided by the manager of the apartment or building in the form of a card, key or key ring, and portable accessories for the passenger to carry conveniently.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings in order to more easily understand the correct configuration and features of the elevator automatic floor selection method according to the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of the present invention, as shown in the figure, the electronic tag 10 to which the elevator destination floor identification information is assigned is automatically recognized by the antenna 21 and the electronic tag reader 20 installed in the elevator or the boarding place. Pass destination floor information. The electronic tag reader 20 transmits the destination floor information obtained from the electronic tag 10 to the elevator navigation controller 30. The navigation controller 30 selects the floor and generates a beep while lighting the floor lamp of the floor selection button 31 inside the elevator so that the passenger can check the floor.

As a correct embodiment, the destination floor acquisition process by wireless communication between the electronic tag reader 20 and the electronic tag 10 may be performed in an elevator. At this time, the electronic tag reader 20 recognizes the electronic tag 10 only while the elevator door is open. As soon as the passenger enters the elevator, the electronic tag reader 20 transmits destination floor information to the elevator navigation controller 30 to recognize the passenger's electronic tag 10 and select the destination floor.

As another exemplary embodiment, the process of acquiring the destination floor by wireless communication between the electronic tag reader 20 and the electronic tag 10 may be performed at the elevator boarding place. In this case, the electronic tag reader 20 applies a contact type with a short recognition distance to prevent unnecessary destination floor selection by a pedestrian carrying the electronic tag 10 having no destination floor information but having an elevator board. When the occupant contacts the electronic tag 10 having the destination floor information to the electronic tag reader antenna, the electronic tag reader 20 obtains the destination floor information and transmits it to the elevator navigation controller 30. In this process, an additional function may be configured to simultaneously make an elevator call. The contact electronic tag reader 20 refers to an electronic tag reader 20 having a very short recognition distance of the electronic tag 10, such as a method applied to a bus or subway billing.

It is not necessary that the electronic tag reader 20 and the antenna 21 for the electronic tag reader be always installed in the same place. In order to ensure the integrity of the electronic tag reader 20 and the efficiency of maintenance, only the antenna 21 may be installed inside the elevator or the boarding place, and the electronic tag reader 20 itself may be installed together with the elevator operation control device 30.

On the other hand, when the occupant's desired floor is changed, the floor designated by the electronic tag 10 is operated by operating the elevator floor selection button 31 to cancel the automatically selected floor and manually select a new floor.

2 is an example of the format of identification information of the electronic tag 10, the elevator by using the electronic tag 10 by giving the occupant's residence and floor information to the unique postal code and address of the apartment or office building Do not cause malfunctions in other elevators with floor selection devices.

As described above, an object of the present invention is to create an effective ubiquitous environment between an elevator and an elevator occupant. Therefore, an occupant who wants to move to a fixed and fixed destination floor in a multi-family house or a building has an electronic tag. The destination floor can be selected automatically without any special recognition. The present invention also provides a means for effectively selecting a floor desired by an occupant even in an environment in which an elevator floor selection button is difficult to operate, or a person lacking exercise ability or cognitive ability. In addition, the durability of the elevator can be increased by reducing the physical operation of the floor selection button.

1 is a block diagram of an embodiment showing an elevator automatic floor selection method using an electronic tag.

2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a data format in which an electronic tag memory is stored.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

20: RFID Tag (RFID Receiver) A device for identifying an electronic tag and processing DATA through transmission and reception of radio waves.

21: antenna

30: elevator operation control device

31: elevator floor selection button

Claims (1)

In the automatic elevator floor selection method by radio frequency, Acquiring the destination floor identification information from the electronic tag 10 to which the elevator destination floor identification information carried by the elevator occupant is received through the electronic tag reader 20; Transmitting the obtained destination floor identification information to an elevator navigation control device (30); Elevator operation control device 30 comprises the step of automatically selecting the destination floor of the elevator occupant, elevator automatic floor selection method using an electronic tag.