WO2024062532A1

WO2024062532A1 - Work report creation assistance system

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Publication number: WO2024062532A1
Application number: PCT/JP2022/035006
Authority: WO
Inventors: 一輝宮野
Original assignee: 三菱電機ビルソリューションズ株式会社
Priority date: 2022-09-20
Filing date: 2022-09-20
Publication date: 2024-03-28

Abstract

According to the present invention, a plurality of beacons transmit unique radio waves that differ from each other to a plurality of setup work locations in an elevator. A portable terminal has a portable terminal body that transmits report information by receiving the unique radio wave as a received radio wave at any one of the plurality of setup work locations. A server receives the report information from the portable terminal. The portable terminal body calculates work location information indicating the setup work location corresponding to the received radio wave on the basis of the received radio wave, calculates work time information indicating a work time corresponding to the received radio wave on the basis of a reception continuation time, which is a time from a reception start time of the received radio wave to a reception stop time of the received radio wave, and creates action information which associates the work location information and the work time information with each other, and the report information including the action information.

Description

Work report creation support system

The present disclosure relates to a work report creation support system.

It is known to provide markers at multiple inspection points in an elevator and obtain inspection items for each inspection point by reading the markers (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

Patent No. 6139651

However, reading the markers every time an inspection is performed increases the effort required for maintenance and inspection work, and does not reduce the workload of maintenance personnel.

The present disclosure has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and its purpose is to provide a work report creation support system that can reduce the workload of maintenance personnel.

The work report creation support system according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of beacons that transmit unique radio waves that are different from each other to a plurality of setting work locations in an elevator, and a unique radio wave as a received radio wave at any of the plurality of setting work locations. A mobile terminal having a mobile terminal body that transmits report information by receiving it, and a server that receives report information from the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal body responds to received radio waves based on the received radio waves. In addition to calculating the work location information indicating the setting work place to be set, the work time indicating the work time corresponding to the received radio waves is calculated based on the reception duration time, which is the time from the reception start time of the received radio waves to the reception stop time of the received radio waves. The information is calculated and behavior information is created by associating work location information and work time information, and the report information includes the behavior information.

This disclosure can reduce the workload of maintenance personnel.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing main parts of an elevator to which the work report creation support system according to the first embodiment is applied. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the operation of the work report creation support system of FIG. 1. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a work report created by the work report creation support system of FIG. 1. FIG.

Embodiment 1.
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing the main parts of an elevator to which the work report creation support system according to the first embodiment is applied. A hoistway 1 is provided in the building. A car 2 is provided in the hoistway 1 so as to be movable in the vertical direction. A pair of car hanging wheels 3 are provided at the bottom of the car 2. A main rope 4 is wound around the pair of car suspension wheels 3. The car 2 is suspended within the hoistway 1 by a main rope 4.

A hoisting machine (not shown) that generates a driving force to move the car 2 is provided at the upper part of the hoistway 1. The main rope 4 is wound around the drive sheave of the hoist. The car 2 moves in the vertical direction within the hoistway 1 by rotating a driving sheave by the driving force of the hoist.

A buffer 6 is provided in the pit portion 5, which is the lower end of the hoistway 1. If the car 2 falls for some reason, the shock applied to the car 2 is alleviated by the shock absorber 6 receiving the car 2.

A car operation panel 8 is provided on the inner wall of the car 2. The car operation panel 8 is provided with a plurality of in-car operation buttons and an in-car indicator.

A landing operation panel 9 is provided at the landing 7 on each floor. The hall operation panel 9 is provided with a plurality of hall operation buttons and a hall indicator.

A control panel 10 is provided within the hoistway 1. The control panel 10 controls the operation of the elevator based on information from the car operation panel 8 and the hall operation panel 9, respectively. The operation of the elevator is controlled by controlling the hoisting machine.

When maintenance and inspection work is performed on the elevator, the maintenance staff 21 performs maintenance and inspection work on a plurality of equipment to be maintained. In this embodiment, the hall operation panel 9, the shock absorber 6, the car operation panel 8, and the hoisting machine are the plurality of maintenance target devices. Furthermore, when the maintenance personnel 21 perform maintenance and inspection work, they perform maintenance and inspection work on the corresponding equipment to be maintained at a plurality of setting work locations.

In this embodiment, four setting work locations are set, each corresponding to the hall operation panel 9, shock absorber 6, car operation panel 8, and hoisting machine. Specifically, the landing area 7 corresponding to the landing operation panel 9, the pit portion 5 of the hoistway 1 corresponding to the buffer 6, the inside of the car 2 corresponding to the car operation panel 8, and the car corresponding to the hoisting machine. The area above 2 is set as the setting work location. Note that maintenance and inspection work on the hoisting machine is performed with the maintenance person 21 riding on the car 2.

The work report creation support system includes a plurality of beacons 31, a mobile terminal 41, and a server 51.

The mobile terminal 41 includes a mobile terminal main body 42 and an input section 43.

The hall operation panel 9 is provided with a beacon 31a. A beacon 31b is provided in the pit portion 5 of the hoistway 1. The car operation panel 8 is provided with a beacon 31c. A beacon 31d is provided on the ceiling of the car 2. In this embodiment, four beacons 31a to 31d are included as a plurality of beacons 31 in the work report creation support system.

The plurality of beacons 31 transmit different unique radio waves to the plurality of setting work locations. In this embodiment, the beacon 31a transmits different unique radio waves to the landing 7, the beacon 31b to the pit portion 5, the beacon 31c to the inside of the car 2, and the beacon 31d to the top of the car 2.

The unique radio waves emitted from each of the multiple beacons 31 contain the identification information of the beacon 31.

Specifically, the plurality of beacons 31 transmit radio waves that comply with the specifications of BLE (Bluetooth (registered trademark) Low Energy).

Further, work location information indicating the setting work location is stored in the mobile terminal main body 42 and the server 51. The work location information is information about the installation location of the beacon 31.

Further, work place information is stored in each of the mobile terminal main body 42 and the server 51 in association with the identification information of the beacon 31.

The identification information of the beacons 31 is information that identifies the unique radio waves transmitted by each of the plurality of beacons 31.

In this embodiment, when the maintenance worker 21 is present at the landing 7, the radio waves transmitted by the beacon 31a are received as received radio waves by the mobile terminal main body 42 carried by the maintenance worker 21. The mobile terminal main body 42 calculates the work place information of the landing 7, which is the set work place corresponding to the received radio wave, from among the set work places stored in advance based on the received radio wave.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, when the maintenance worker 21 is present in the pit section 5, the radio waves transmitted by the beacon 31b are received as received radio waves by the mobile terminal main body 42 carried by the maintenance worker 21. The mobile terminal main body 42 calculates the work place information of the pit section 5, which is the setting work place corresponding to the received radio wave, from among the setting work places stored in advance based on the received radio wave.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, when the maintenance worker 21 is present in the car 2, the radio waves transmitted by the beacon 31c are received as received radio waves by the mobile terminal main body 42 carried by the maintenance worker 21. The mobile terminal main body 42 calculates the work place information in the car 2, which is the set work place corresponding to the received radio wave, from among the set work places stored in advance based on the received radio wave.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, when the maintenance worker 21 is on top of the car 2, the radio waves transmitted by the beacon 31d are received as received radio waves by the mobile terminal main body 42 carried by the maintenance worker 21. The mobile terminal main body 42 calculates the work place information on the car 2, which is the set work place corresponding to the received radio wave, from among the set work places stored in advance based on the received radio wave.

That is, the mobile terminal main body 42 receives the unique radio waves transmitted from the beacon 31 at any of the plurality of setting work locations as received radio waves. Further, the mobile terminal main body 42 calculates work location information indicating a setting work location corresponding to the received radio wave based on the received radio wave.

In addition, in the above explanation, an example was explained in which the work place information is also stored in the mobile terminal main body 42, but if the mobile terminal main body 42 can extract the identification information of the beacon 31 from the received radio waves received from the beacon 31, It is not necessary to remember the work place information. For example, the beacon 31 transmits a unique radio wave and also sends a push notification to the mobile terminal main body 42 so that the mobile terminal main body 42 can inquire of the server 51 for work location information based on the received radio waves received from the beacon 31. It can also be done.

Additionally, the mobile terminal main body 42 can also calculate work location information based on the strength of the received radio waves received from the beacon 31. For example, the mobile terminal main body 42 receives the strongest radio wave among the plurality of radio waves transmitted from the beacon 31 as a received radio wave. Thereby, the mobile terminal main body 42 can specify the location of the beacon 31 closest to the mobile terminal main body 42.

Furthermore, each time the mobile terminal main body 42 receives a received radio wave from the beacon 31, it may transmit the identification information of the beacon 31 included in the received radio wave to the server 51. Thereby, the server 51 can accumulate a log of identification information of the beacon 31. Further, this log corresponds to history information of the identification information of the beacon 31. The identification information of the beacon 31 is associated with work place information, and the work place information is stored in the server 51.

Thereby, the server 51 can use the log not only to manage the behavior of the maintenance worker 21 but also to manage the operating state of the beacon 31. For example, if the frequency of reception of the identification information of a specific beacon 31 among the identification information of the plurality of beacons 31 is low, the remaining battery level of the beacon 31 that is received less frequently may be low. In this case, the server 51 can also prompt the maintenance person 21 via the mobile terminal 41 to replace the battery of the beacon 31 that receives beacons 31 with low reception frequency.

Note that the identification information of the beacon 31 may be configured by a location information code issued by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan.

The mobile terminal main body 42 calculates work time information indicating the work time corresponding to the received radio waves based on the reception duration time, which is the time from the reception start time of the received radio waves to the reception stop time of the received radio waves.

Specifically, the beacon 31 repeatedly transmits unique radio waves at regular transmission intervals. Therefore, if the mobile terminal main body 42 exists within the range of the unique radio waves transmitted from the beacon 31, the mobile terminal main body 42 repeatedly receives the unique radio waves from the beacon 31 as received radio waves.

Thereby, the mobile terminal main body 42 can determine the total time of the reception duration of the received radio waves. Further, the entire total time of the continuous reception time may be used as the working time, or the time obtained by subtracting the time that does not correspond to the actual working time from the total time of the continuous reception time may be used as the working time.

The mobile terminal main body 42 has a function of being able to receive the unique radio waves transmitted from the beacon 31 as received radio waves. Furthermore, the mobile terminal main body 42 has a function of communicating with the server 51 via the Internet 61.

The input unit 43 has the function of inputting content information indicating work content into the mobile terminal main body 42. The input unit 43 includes, for example, a touch panel display in which a touch panel is superimposed on a liquid crystal display.

The mobile terminal main body 42 creates behavior information that associates work location information and work time information.

The mobile terminal body 42 receives the content information from the input unit 43 and creates work information in which the content information is associated with the behavior information.

The mobile terminal main body 42 includes the work information in the report information.

The mobile terminal main body 42 transmits report information including work information to the server 51. In this case, the server 51 receives report information from the mobile terminal body 42 via the Internet 61.

Note that in the above description, an example was described in which the report information includes work information in which content information is associated with action information, but the information included in the report information is not limited to this. For example, the report information may include behavior information that is not associated with content information. In this case, the report information transmitted from the mobile terminal main body 42 to the server 51 does not include content information, but the server 51 can accumulate behavior information. The behavior information is associated with work location information and work time information. Therefore, the server 51 can also manage the behavior of the maintenance worker 21 by using the behavior information.

Furthermore, when two or more pieces of behavior information having different reception start times of received radio waves are created, the mobile terminal main body 42 selects one of the two or more pieces of behavior information by operating the input unit 43. It is possible to select it as information and input the content information. In this case, the mobile terminal main body 42 creates work information in which content information is associated with selected action information.

Note that details of the report information will be described later using FIG. 3.

Next, an example of the operation of the work report creation support system and an example of a work report in which report information is reflected will be explained using FIGS. 2 and 3.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the operation of the work report creation support system of FIG. 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a work report created by the work report creation support system of FIG. 1.

(Example of operation of beacon 31)
In step S1, the beacon 31 determines whether a certain period of time has passed since the previous transmission of radio waves. When the beacon 31 determines that a certain period of time has passed since the previous transmission of radio waves, the beacon 31 shifts the process of step S1 to the process of step S2. When the beacon 31 determines that a certain period of time has not elapsed since the previous transmission of radio waves, the beacon 31 continues the process of step S1. Here, the fixed time is the transmission interval of unique radio waves transmitted from the beacon 31.

In step S2, the beacon 31 transmits radio waves and returns the processing of step S2 to the processing of step S1.

(Example of operation of mobile terminal 41)
In step S11, the mobile terminal 41 determines whether there is an instruction to start work. When the mobile terminal 41 determines that there is an instruction to start work, the process in step S11 is shifted to the process in step S12. If the mobile terminal 41 determines that there is no work start instruction, it continues the process of step S11.

The work start instruction is an instruction issued when the operation mode of the elevator application installed on the mobile terminal 41 shifts from the normal mode to the maintenance mode. The normal mode is a mode in which, for example, it is possible to call the car 2. The maintenance mode is a mode used by the maintenance worker 21 for maintenance and inspection work on the elevator. The work report creation support system uses the shift to the maintenance mode as a trigger to cause the plurality of beacons 31, the mobile terminal 41, and the server 51 to work together, thereby realizing the operation example shown in FIG. 2 in this embodiment.

In step S12, the mobile terminal 41 determines whether or not it has started receiving radio waves. If the mobile terminal 41 determines that it has started receiving radio waves, it moves the process of step S12 to the process of step S13. If the mobile terminal 41 determines that it has not started receiving radio waves, it continues the process of step S12.

In step S13, the mobile terminal 41 calculates work location information.

In step S14, the mobile terminal 41 determines whether reception of radio waves has been stopped. When the mobile terminal 41 determines that reception of radio waves has been stopped, the process in step S14 is shifted to the process in step S15. When the mobile terminal 41 determines that reception of radio waves has not been stopped, the mobile terminal 41 repeats the process of step S14.

In step S15, the mobile terminal 41 calculates work time information.

In step S16, the mobile terminal 41 creates behavior information that associates the work location information calculated in step S13 with the work time information calculated in step S15.

In step S17, the mobile terminal 41 determines whether there is an instruction to end the work. When the mobile terminal 41 determines that there is an instruction to end the work, the mobile terminal 41 shifts the process of step S17 to the process of step S18. When the mobile terminal 41 determines that there is no instruction to end the work, the process in step S17 is returned to the process in step S12.

The work completion instruction is an instruction issued when the operation mode of the elevator application installed on the mobile terminal 41 shifts from the maintenance mode to the normal mode.

In step S18, the mobile terminal 41 determines whether behavior information has been selected. When the mobile terminal 41 determines that the behavior information has been selected, the mobile terminal 41 moves the process of step S18 to the process of step S19. If the mobile terminal 41 determines that the behavior information is not selected, it continues the process of step S18.

Here, the case where it is determined that the behavior information has been selected means that any of two or more pieces of behavior information has been selected as the selected behavior information by operating the input unit 43.

In step S19, the mobile terminal 41 determines whether content information has been input. When the mobile terminal 41 determines that the content information has been input, the mobile terminal 41 moves the process of step S19 to the process of step S20. If the mobile terminal 41 determines that no content information has been input, it continues the process of step S19.

Here, the case where it is determined that content information has been input means that selected behavior information has been selected and content information corresponding to the selected selected behavior information has been input.

In step S20, the mobile terminal 41 creates work information in which the selected action information in step S18 is associated with the content information in step S19.

In step S21, the mobile terminal 41 creates report information including the work information in step S20.

In step S22, the mobile terminal 41 transmits report information and returns the process of step S22 to the process of step S11.

Here, report information will be explained using FIG. 3.

As shown in Figure 3, the work report includes report information. The report information includes behavior information and content information.

The behavior information includes work location information and work time information.

In the example of FIG. 3, the work location information is shown as "lowest floor landing". In the example of FIG. 1, the "lowest floor landing" corresponds to landing 7. Since the work time information corresponding to this "bottom floor landing" is shown as being between 10:30 and 11:00, the information corresponds to 30 minutes. Further, information "work start" is also associated with the work location information. "Start work" is set when it is determined that there is an instruction to start work in the process of step S11 in FIG. When the work location information is "lowest floor landing" and "start work", the content information corresponding to the action information is input as "confirm abnormality history and design inspection using maintenance PC".

Furthermore, in the example of FIG. 3, the work location information is shown as "pit section". In the example of FIG. 1, the "pit portion" corresponds to the pit portion 5. Since the work time information corresponding to this "pit section" is shown as being between 11:00 and 11:15, the information corresponds to 15 minutes. When the work place information is "pit section", the content information corresponding to the action information is input as "inspection of equipment in control panel, pit cleaning".

Additionally, in the example of FIG. 3, the work location information is shown as "on the car." In the example of FIG. 1, "on the car" corresponds to the top of the car 2. Since the work time information corresponding to this "on the car" is shown as being between 11:15 and 12:00, the information corresponds to 45 minutes. When the work place information is "on the car", the content information corresponding to the action information is input as "inspection of landing doors on each floor".

Additionally, in the example of FIG. 3, the work location information is shown as "lowest floor landing". In the example of FIG. 1, the "lowest floor landing" corresponds to landing 7. The work time information corresponding to this "bottom floor landing" is shown as 12:00. Further, information such as "work completed" is also associated with the work location information. "Work completed" is set when it is determined that there is a work end instruction during the process of step S11 in FIG. When the work place information is "lowest floor landing" and "work completed", the content information corresponding to the action information is input as "return to car position, trial run".

Returning to the explanation of FIG. 2.

(Example of operation of server 51)
In step S31, the server 51 determines whether report information has been received. When the server 51 determines that the report information has been received, the server 51 shifts the process of step S31 to the process of step S32. If the server 51 has not received the report information, it continues the process of step S31.

In step S32, the server 51 stores the report information and returns the process of step S32 to the process of step S31.

Note that in the above example of operation, a process was described on the premise that two or more pieces of behavior information with different reception start times of received radio waves are created by the mobile terminal main body 42, but the process is not limited to this. For example, the processes from step S18 to step S20 may be omitted. In this case, the report information includes behavior information that is not associated with content information.

From the above explanation, the mobile terminal 41 receives the unique radio waves received from the beacon 31 as received radio waves. The mobile terminal 41 calculates work place information and work time information based on the received radio waves. The mobile terminal 41 transmits report information including behavior information associated with the calculated work location information and work time information. Therefore, when the maintenance engineer 21 is performing maintenance inspection work, the radio waves from the beacon 31 are received by the mobile terminal 41 without the maintenance engineer 21 performing any special operations, which reduces the workload of the maintenance engineer 21. can be reduced.

Additionally, the report information may include work information in which action information is associated with content information indicating the work content. Specifically, the behavior information created based on the unique radio waves received from the beacon 31 and the content information input via the input unit 43 may be associated. In the case of such an association, the maintenance staff 21 only needs to input the work details while the work location information and work time information have already been created, which significantly reduces the workload of the maintenance staff 21. be able to.

Furthermore, when two or more pieces of action information with different reception start times of received radio waves are created by the mobile terminal body 42, the input unit 43 is operated to select one of the two or more pieces of action information. The content information may be selected as information and input into the mobile terminal main body 42. Furthermore, the mobile terminal main body 42 may create work information in which content information is associated with selected action information. If the work information is in which selected action information is associated with content information, the report information will include the action information corresponding to the input content information even if there is a plurality of action information. With this, it is possible to include the behavior information that needs to be reported among the two or more pieces of behavior information in the report information.

1 Hoistway, 2 Car, 3 Car hoist, 4 Main rope, 5 Pit section, 6 Buffer, 7 Landing area, 8 Car operation panel, 9 Landing area operation panel, 10 Control panel, 21 Maintenance staff, 31, 31a to 31d. Beacon, 41 Mobile terminal, 42 Mobile terminal body, 43 Input section, 51 Server, 61 Internet.

Claims

A plurality of beacons each transmitting unique radio waves that are different from each other to a plurality of setting work locations in the elevator;
a mobile terminal having a mobile terminal main body that transmits report information by receiving the unique radio wave as a reception radio wave at any of the plurality of setting work locations;
a server that receives the report information from the mobile terminal;
Equipped with
Based on the received radio waves, the mobile terminal main body calculates work location information indicating a setting work location corresponding to the received radio waves, and calculates the time from the reception start time of the received radio waves to the reception stop time of the received radio waves. Based on the reception duration time that is, work time information indicating the work time corresponding to the received radio wave is calculated, and action information is created in which the work place information and the work time information are associated,
A work report creation support system in which the report information includes the action information.
The mobile terminal further includes an input unit capable of inputting content information indicating work content into the mobile terminal main body,
The mobile terminal main body is configured to create work information in which the content information is associated with the action information by inputting the content information into the mobile terminal main body from the input unit,
The work report creation support system according to claim 1, wherein the report information includes the work information.
When two or more pieces of behavior information having different reception start times of the received radio waves are created by the mobile terminal main body, by operating the input unit, one of the two or more pieces of the behavior information is created. is selected as selected behavior information and the content information can be input into the mobile terminal main body,
The work report creation support system according to claim 2, wherein the mobile terminal main body creates the work information in which the selected action information is associated with the content information.