WO2012137337A1

WO2012137337A1 - Elevator control system

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Publication number: WO2012137337A1
Application number: PCT/JP2011/058826
Authority: WO
Inventors: 黒田　慎一
Original assignee: 三菱電機株式会社
Priority date: 2011-04-07
Filing date: 2011-04-07
Publication date: 2012-10-11
Also published as: JPWO2012137337A1; EP2695839A1; CN103459284A; EP2695839A4; KR20130143727A

Abstract

Provided is an elevator control system in which a call for a user can be automatically registered in accordance with the schedule and position of the user. In this control system, an IC tag in which individual identification information has been recorded is used. A schedule management device manages schedule data for an individual identified by the individual identification information. A control device controls the operation of the elevator. This control system is also provided with a receiver, a distinguishing means, a communicating means, an action identifying means, and a managing means. The distinguishing means identifies the floor of installation of the receiver that received the individual identification information. The communicating means transmits, to the schedule management device, the individual identification information received by the receiver. The action identifying means identifies the destination floor of the individual identified by the individual identification information received by the receiver. The managing means registers a landing call on the basis of the floor of installation identified by the distinguishing means and the destination floor identified by the action identifying means.

Description

Elevator control system

This invention relates to a control system for appropriately controlling an elevator according to a user's schedule.

The following Patent Document 1 discloses a system that displays information necessary for a visit on a terminal of a person who responds to a visitor when a visitor visits a facility. In the system described in Patent Document 1, a badge incorporating an IC (Integrated Circuit) tag is given to a visitor, and necessary information is received from the IC tag.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2007-323531

In a facility equipped with the system described in Patent Document 1, when a person on the facility moves to another floor to respond to a visitor, for example, he or she holds a document to show to the visitor with both hands Then, there existed a problem that operation of an elevator became difficult.
Such a problem can also occur in a facility that does not include the system described in Patent Document 1.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and its purpose is to provide an elevator that can automatically register a call for the user according to the schedule and position of the user. To provide a control system.

An elevator control system according to the present invention is an elevator control system that uses an IC tag in which personal identification information is recorded, and includes a schedule management device that manages personal schedule data specified by the personal identification information, and a schedule A control device that is connected to the management device via a predetermined network and that controls the operation of the elevator, a first receiver that is provided at the landing of the elevator and receives personal identification information from the IC tag, and has received the personal identification information An identification means for identifying the installation floor of the first receiver; a communication means for transmitting the personal identification information received by the first receiver to the schedule management apparatus; and a schedule management apparatus provided with the schedule data and the communication means An individual identified by the personal identification information received by the first receiver based on the information Action specifying means for specifying the moving floor, management means for registering the hall call based on the installation floor specified by the identifying means and the moving floor specified by the action specifying means provided in the control device; , With.

According to the present invention, calls for the user can be automatically registered according to the user's schedule and position.

It is a figure which shows the whole structure of the control system of the elevator in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of schedule data. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the control system of the elevator in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a response | compatibility with a meeting room name and a floor name.

In order to explain the present invention in more detail, this will be described with reference to the attached drawings. In addition, in each figure, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the part which is the same or it corresponds, The duplication description is simplified or abbreviate | omitted suitably.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of an elevator control system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 1 shows an example in which the present control system is applied to an office building where many employees work.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a living room where an employee 2 works in an office building. The living room 1 is provided with a personal computer (hereinafter simply referred to as “PC”) 3 assigned to the employee 2.

In recent offices, from the viewpoint of security enhancement, each employee may have an employee ID card with an IC (Integrated Circuit) tag. 4 is an employee ID card owned by the employee 2. The IC tag incorporated in the employee ID card 4 records at least information for identifying the employee 2 (individual) (for example, employee number: hereinafter referred to as “personal identification information”). For example, the employee 2 can activate the PC 3 by holding the employee card 4 over a card reader (not shown) connected to the PC 3 in the living room 1.

In this office, a system for managing the schedule of each employee using software for managing the schedule (hereinafter also referred to as “scheduler”) is introduced.

5 is a schedule management device that manages data related to each employee's schedule (hereinafter also referred to as “schedule data”). The schedule management device 5 is configured by, for example, a scheduler management server (server-type personal computer). The schedule management device 5 includes a storage unit 6 (for example, a hard disk), a data update unit 7, and an action specifying unit 8.

The schedule management device 5 and each employee's PC are connected to the local network 9. Therefore, each employee can change or view the schedule data from his / her PC.

Referring to FIG. 2, the case where employee 2 updates his schedule data will be described below. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of schedule data. As shown in FIG. 2, schedule data of each employee is stored in the storage unit 6. In the following, specific description will be given assuming that the personal identification information (personal ID) of the employee 2 is “1”.

Employee 2 writes (inputs) a schedule such as a meeting or a visitor visit from PC 3 into the scheduler. The employee 2 inputs, for example, a place (for example, a meeting room name) where a schedule (for example, a meeting) is held, a schedule start date and time, and a schedule end date and time from the PC 3. The employee 2 performs a predetermined update operation after inputting necessary information to the scheduler. When the update operation is performed, the PC 3 transmits the input information and the personal identification information of the employee 2 to the schedule management device 5 via the local network 9.

In the schedule management device 5, the data update unit 7 updates the schedule data based on the information received from the PC 3. Therefore, the latest schedule data of the employee 2 is accumulated in the schedule management device 5. The schedule data includes at least information on a place where the schedule is performed (holding place) and information on the start date and time of the schedule. In the present embodiment, the date, start time, end time, and conference room name are stored in association with each schedule.

The function of the action specifying means 8 will be described later together with the function of the elevator control device 10.

The control device 10 controls the operation of the elevator installed in this office building.
The control device 10 includes, for example, a communication unit 11, a management unit 12, an identification unit 13, and a storage unit 14.

The communication means 11 is for the control device 10 to communicate with an external device. The control device 10 is connected to the local network 9. The communication unit 11 transmits / receives information to / from an external device (for example, the schedule management apparatus 5) via the local area network 9.

The management means 12 appropriately manages the operation of the elevator. A landing button 15 is installed at each landing of the elevator. When the landing button 15 is pressed, a landing call registration request is transmitted from the landing button 15 to the management means 12. When the management means 12 receives the registration request from the landing button 15, it registers the corresponding hall call. When registering the hall call, the management means 12 lights the corresponding hall button 15 (UP button, DOWN button).
In FIG. 1, the hall button installed on the third floor of the office building is indicated by reference numeral 15a, and the hall button installed on the fourth floor is indicated by reference numeral 15b.

A receiver 16 is provided at each elevator hall. The receiver 16 is for receiving recorded information from an IC tag built in the employee ID of each employee. For example, when the employee 2 approaches the elevator hall, personal identification information “1” is transmitted from the IC tag in the employee ID card 4 to the receiver 16. When receiving the personal identification information from the IC tag, the receiver 16 transmits the received personal identification information and predetermined floor identification information to the identification means 13. The floor identification information is information for identifying on which floor the receiver is installed.

In FIG. 1, a receiver installed on the third floor of the office building is indicated by reference numeral 16a, and a receiver installed on the fourth floor is indicated by reference numeral 16b.
The IC tag can transmit the internal recording information to the receiver 16 at a distance of about several meters. For this reason, the employee 2 does not have to bother to take the act of holding the employee ID 4 in front of the receiver 16 at the elevator hall.

The identification unit 13 identifies the installation floor of the receiver 16 that has received the personal identification information based on the information input from the receiver 16.
For example, when an RSW (rotary switch) is mounted on the receiver 16, floor specific information is set in the receiver 16 using the RSW. In this case, when the employee 2 has the employee ID card 4 and approaches the landing on the third floor, the personal identification information “1” is transmitted from the IC tag of the employee ID card 4 to the receiver 16a. When receiving the personal identification information “1” from the IC tag of the employee ID card 4, the receiver 16 a transmits the personal identification information “1” and the floor identification information “3” of the own device to the identification unit 13. . The identification means 13 identifies the installation floor (the floor where the receiver 16a is installed) as “the third floor” from the floor identification information “3” received from the receiver 16a.

When the receiver 16 and the identification means 13 are connected by TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol), the IP address assigned to the receiver 16 can also be used as the floor specifying information. For example, when the identification unit 13 receives the personal identification information “1” from the receiver 16a installed on the third floor, the identification floor 13 determines that the installation floor is “third floor” from the IP address assigned to the receiver 16a. Identify. In such a case, it is necessary to register in advance information on the correspondence between the IP address and the installation floor.

When the identification unit 13 identifies the installation floor of the receiver 16 that has received the personal identification information, the identification unit 13 transmits information on the identified installation floor to the management unit 12.

Further, the identification unit 13 transmits the personal identification information received by the receiver 16 to the communication unit 11 based on the information input from the receiver 16. When the communication unit 11 receives the personal identification information from the identification unit 13, the communication unit 11 transmits the personal identification information (that is, the personal identification information received by the receiver 16) to the schedule management device 5. In the schedule management device 5, when the personal identification information is received from the control device 10 (the communication unit 11 thereof), the behavior identification unit 8 identifies the subsequent behavior of the employee (individual) identified by the personal identification information. Start processing.

Hereinafter, the operation when the schedule management device 5 receives the personal identification information from the control device 10 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the elevator control system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. Specifically, FIG. 3 shows a processing flow of the action specifying means 8. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of correspondence between conference room names and floor names.

In the schedule management device 5, when the personal identification information is received from the control device 10 (Yes in S1), the behavior identification unit 8 first acquires the current date and time information from the clock function built in the schedule management device 5 ( S2). Further, the action specifying unit 8 acquires schedule data of the employee specified by the personal specifying information from the storage unit 6 based on the personal specifying information received from the control device 10 (S3).

Next, based on the acquired current date and time information and schedule data, the action specifying unit 8 specifies a place where the employee (an employee near the elevator landing) will move (S4).

For example, when the current date is “October 1, 14:55” and the receiver 16a on the third floor receives the personal identification information “1”, the schedule data shown in FIG. If so, the action specifying unit 8 specifies the place where the employee 2 will move from now on as the “conference room 101”. At this time, the action specifying unit 8 specifies the moving place based on the planned holding place where the start date and time or the end date and time are set within a predetermined period including the current date and time. For example, if a start date / time or end date / time is set within a total of 20 minutes, 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after the current time, the venue (in this embodiment) scheduled to start or end at that time Identifies the meeting room name) as the moving location.

In addition, when a plurality of scheduled start dates and times are set within the predetermined period, the action specifying unit 8 specifies a moving place based on the start date and time closest to the current date and time, for example. If no scheduled start date and time and end date and time are set within the predetermined period, the action specifying unit 8 specifies a predetermined unknown place (for example, “conference room 000”) as the moving place.

After specifying the employee's moving location in S4, the action specifying means 8 next specifies the floor on which the specified moving location is located, that is, the employee's moving floor (S5). In the schedule management device 5, information on the correspondence between a place that can be registered in the schedule data (in this embodiment, the name of the conference room) and the floor where the place exists is registered in the storage unit 6 in advance. . The action specifying unit 8 specifies the floor on which the employee will move based on the correspondence information.

For example, when the location where the employee 2 will move in S4 is identified as “conference room 101” in S4, the behavior identifying unit 8 identifies the moving floor of the employee 2 as “first floor” from the correspondence table illustrated in FIG. To do. In S4, when the movement location of the employee 2 is specified as “conference room 000”, the action specifying unit 8 specifies the movement floor of the employee 2 as a predetermined unknown floor.

When the employee's moving floor is specified in S5, the action specifying means 8 transmits information on the specified moving floor to the elevator control device 10 (S6).

When the communication means 11 of the control device 10 transmits the personal identification information to the schedule management device 5 and receives information on the employee's moving floor from the schedule management device 5 as an answer to the information, the received information on the moving floor is received. Is transmitted to the management means 12.

The management means 12 registers the hall call based on the installation floor of the receiver 16 specified by the identification means 13 and the employee's moving floor specified by the action specifying means 8. Moreover, if the management means 12 registers a hall call, the management button 12 will light the hall button 15 corresponding to the hall call.

Specifically, the management unit 12 compares the information on the installation floor received from the identification unit 13 with the information on the movement floor received from the behavior specifying unit 8 via the communication unit 11, and determines the movement direction of the employee. Is identified. And the management means 12 registers the hall call of the installation floor specified by the identification means 13 based on the specified moving direction. Further, the management means 12 lights the hall button 15 in the direction corresponding to the moving direction.

For example, in the above example in which the personal identification information “1” is transmitted from the employee ID 4 of the employee 2 to the receiver 16a on the third floor at 14:55, the management means 12 sends the “third floor” to the management means 12. As information, information on the “first floor” is input from the communication means 11. In such a case, the management unit 12 determines that the movement floor “first floor” identified by the action identification unit 8 is lower than the installation floor “third floor” identified by the identification unit 13, and thus the movement direction of the employee 2 Is specified as the downward direction, and the hall call for the downward direction on the third floor is registered. Further, the management means 12 lights the downward hall button 15a installed on the third floor.

The management means 12 specifies the movement direction of the employee 2 as the upward direction when the movement floor specified by the action specification means 8 is higher than the installation floor “third floor” specified by the identification means 13. And register the hall call upward on the 3rd floor. Moreover, the management means 12 lights up the upward hall button 15a installed on the third floor.
In addition, when the action specifying unit 8 specifies a predetermined unknown floor, the management unit 12 provides a notification for prompting the operation of the landing button 15a from the landing on the installation floor “third floor” specified by the identification unit 13. Let it be done.

The elevator control system having the above configuration can automatically register a hall call for an employee in accordance with the employee's schedule and current position. In addition, since the corresponding hall button 15 is lit when the hall call is registered, it is possible to reliably notify the employees at the hall that the hall call has been automatically registered. For this reason, the employee does not need to perform any operation (action) in order to register the hall call at the hall.

The above description is up to the automatic registration of the hall call. However, in the case of this control system, the car call can be automatically registered after the hall call is registered.
Hereinafter, the configuration and operation for realizing the function will be described.

Reference numeral 17 denotes a car that moves up and down in the elevator hoistway. The operation of the car 17 is controlled by the management means 12. An operation panel 18 and a receiver 19 are installed in the car 17.
The operation panel 18 is provided with a plurality of destination buttons (not shown) corresponding to the floor where the car 17 stops. When the destination button on the operation panel 18 is pressed, a car call registration request is transmitted from the operation panel 18 to the management means 12. When the management means 12 receives the registration request from the operation panel 18, it registers a corresponding car call. When registering the car call, the management unit 12 lights the corresponding destination button.

The receiver 19 is for receiving the recorded information from the IC tag built in the employee ID of each employee. For example, when the employee 2 gets on the elevator car 17, the personal identification information “1” is transmitted from the IC tag in the employee ID card 4 to the receiver 19. When receiving the personal identification information from the IC tag, the receiver 19 transmits the received personal identification information to the management means 12.

When the management means 12 receives the personal identification information from the receiver 19 after automatically registering the hall call, the management means 12 issues a car call corresponding to the moving floor identified by the behavior identification means 8 based on the information received from the communication means 11. sign up. For example, in the above example in which “first floor” is specified as the moving floor of the employee 2, the management means 12 automatically registers the downward hall call on the third floor and then receives the same personal identification information “1” from the receiver 19. ”Is registered, the first floor car call is registered. In addition, the management unit 12 lights the destination button on the first floor provided on the operation panel 18.

When the car call is automatically registered, for example, when the management unit 12 receives the information on the moving floor from the communication unit 11, the management unit 12 stores the information in the storage unit 14 in association with the personal identification information. When the management means 12 receives the personal identification information from the receiver 19, the management means 12 performs car call registration and lighting of the destination button based on the contents stored in the storage means 14.

With such a configuration, the employee can move from the landing to the destination floor without performing a button operation.

The elevator control system according to the present invention can be applied in an environment where personal schedule management is performed using an IC tag.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Living room 2 Employee 3 Personal computer 4 Employee ID 5

Schedule management device

6, 14 Storage means 7 Data update means 8 Action specifying means 9 Local network 10 Control device 11 Communication means 12 Management means 13 Identification means 15 Landing button 16, 19 reception 17 basket 18 operation panel

Claims

An elevator control system using an IC tag in which personal identification information is recorded,
A schedule management device for managing personal schedule data specified by the personal identification information;
A control device that is connected to the schedule management device via a predetermined network and controls the operation of the elevator,
A first receiver which is provided at an elevator hall and receives personal identification information from the IC tag;
Identification means for identifying an installation floor of the first receiver that has received the personal identification information;
Communication means for transmitting the personal identification information received by the first receiver to the schedule management device;
An action specifying unit that is provided in the schedule management device and specifies a mobile floor of an individual specified by the personal specifying information received by the first receiver based on the schedule data and information from the communication unit; ,
Management means provided in the control device, for registering a hall call based on the installation floor specified by the identification means and the moving floor specified by the action specifying means,
Elevator control system with.
A hall button provided at each hall of the elevator,
Further comprising
The management means, when registering a hall call based on the installation floor specified by the identification means and the moving floor specified by the action specifying means, lights a hall button corresponding to the registered hall call. Item 2. The elevator control system according to Item 1.
A second receiver provided in an elevator car for receiving personal identification information from the IC tag;
Further comprising
The management means registers a car call corresponding to the moving floor specified by the action specifying means when the second receiver receives personal identification information from the IC tag after registration of the hall call. Item 3. The elevator control system according to Item 2.
A plurality of destination buttons provided in the elevator car;
Further comprising
4. The elevator control system according to claim 3, wherein, when the management means registers a car call corresponding to the moving floor specified by the action specifying means, the destination control button corresponding to the registered car call is turned on.
The schedule data includes information on a place where the schedule is performed and information on the start date and time,
The elevator according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the action specifying unit specifies a moving floor based on a scheduled place where a start date and time is set within a predetermined period including a current date and time. Control system.
The management means, when a predetermined unknown floor is specified by the action specifying means, makes a notification for prompting an operation of a landing button from the landing of the installation floor specified by the identification means. The elevator control system according to any one of claims 1 to 5.