JP2009228231A - Valuables transportation system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a valuables transportation system using an unlocking method based on positional information, which can determine whether or not a permission of unlocking is given to a storage box on the basis of positional information acquired by utilizing electric waves from a GPS satellite, and can determine whether or not a permission of unlocking is given to the storage box without executing work to a building even if unlocking is made indoor. <P>SOLUTION: When valuables are conveyed to a destination, destination information (an unlocking time range, destination position information and an allowance) is preset for the storage box. The valuables transportation system utilizes an unlocking method which permits the unlocking of the storage box when a present time falls within the unlocking time range, after an arrival at the destination, when current position information finally acquired from the GPS satellite falls within a destination setting range (within the range of the error of the destination position information), and when the electric waves from the GPS satellite are not received in the unlocking. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a valuable transportation system using a unlocking method for unlocking a storage box safely indoors by using an unlocking system having a GPS function in transportation of valuables.

Conventionally, in the transportation of valuables, there has been a system using a GPS satellite as a system that can be unlocked only at a predetermined position at a predetermined time. This method uses position data acquired from GPS satellites as a means of not permitting unlocking at locations other than the destination. The latitude and longitude data of the destination set in advance and the current position calculated from the GPS receiver are used. The latitude and longitude data are collated to determine whether or not the storage box can be unlocked.
In addition, although this method cannot be unlocked indoors where radio waves do not reach, there is a method of unlocking indoors by installing a GPS antenna outdoors and outputting position data indoors to unlock. . (For example, see Patent Document 1)

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-221955 (FIG. 4, pages 4 to 5)

However, in order to output data from GPS antennas installed outdoors, building construction is required, and valuables are often delivered in a closed room without windows. For this purpose, there was a problem that the cost was high.
For this reason, the place which can unlock a storage box indoors was limited, and there existed a subject that it was difficult to use universally.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and has utilized an unlocking method based on position data that can be used indoors using GPS data without performing construction of a building. An object of the present invention is to provide a valuable transportation system and a valuable transportation method.

  According to the present invention, a valuable transportation system for safely transporting valuables to a destination includes a GPS antenna for receiving GPS radio waves from a GPS satellite, and an opening for unlocking the storage box. A locking device; an input connector for inputting destination position data indicating the position of the destination; a GPS receiver for receiving GPS data from the GPS antenna; an input unit for receiving destination data from the input connector; After unlocking request data for requesting unlocking from the locking device is confirmed and whether or not the storage box can be unlocked, unlocking permission data for permitting unlocking of the storage box is transmitted to the unlocking device. A device interface unit, a destination data storage unit for storing destination data, a current position data calculation unit for calculating current position data of the storage box from GPS data, and a current position data calculation unit obtained from the current position data calculation unit A current position data storage unit that stores position data; a position data comparison unit that compares destination data with current position data; and a reception state storage unit that stores good / bad reception status of the GPS receiver. A position data processing device, wherein the current position data of the current position data calculation unit is within a predetermined position error range of the destination data of the destination data storage unit, and the GPS from the GPS receiver When the radio wave reception is in a bad state, the storage box is unlocked.

According to this invention, it is possible to safely deliver valuables indoors using GPS without carrying out the construction of the building.

Embodiment 1.
Hereinafter, a valuable transportation system and a valuable transportation method provided with an unlocking system based on position data according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described.

  FIG. 1 is an overall schematic diagram of a valuable transport system and a valuable transport method according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a valuable transport system and a valuable transport method according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a process flow diagram showing a storage process of position data at the time of movement of the unlocking system based on the position data in Embodiment 1 of the present invention, and FIG. It is a processing flowchart of the unlocking procedure of the valuables transport method by the position data in Embodiment 1 of this invention.

  In FIG. 1, 1 is a storage box provided with an unlocking system based on position data, 2 is a transporter that transports the storage box 1, 3 is a GPS satellite, 4 is a building to which the storage box 1 is transported, and 5 is a building 4 A closed room 6 is a destination setting range.

  The container 1 stores destination position data set in advance, receives radio waves from the GPS satellite 3 while the carrier 2 moves to the destination, and calculates and stores current position data.

  The building 4 is a transport destination of the storage box 1 and includes a closed room 5 in which radio waves from the GPS satellite 3 do not reach. When unlocking the storage box 1, the destination position data set in advance is compared with the last stored position data, and the difference between the latitude and longitude is inside the destination setting range 6 of the set value, and When the unlocking time range T1 to T1 ′ set in advance is compared with the current time, the current time is inside the unlocking time range T1 to T1 ′, and further, the radio wave from the GPS satellite 3 is not received In addition, the container 1 is allowed to be unlocked.

  In FIG. 2, the storage box 1 has a position data processing device 10, a GPS antenna 11 that receives GPS radio waves from the GPS satellite 3, and a button press from the outside of the storage box 1 to unlock the storage box 1 at the destination. Is provided with an unlocking device 13 with an unlocking request button 12 that can be used, and an input connector 14 for inputting destination data in advance.

  Further, the position data processing device 10 includes a GPS receiver 101 that receives GPS data from the GPS antenna 11, an input unit 102 that receives unlocking setting data as the destination data from the input connector 14, and an unlock request button. The unlocking device interface unit 103 that receives unlocking request data from the unlocking device 13 that becomes an unlocking request by pressing 12, and unlock setting data (destination position data, unlocking based on preset destination data) A destination data storage unit 104 that stores a time range and respective error ranges), a current position data calculation unit 105 that calculates current position data from GPS data of the GPS receiver 101, and a current position data calculation unit 105. Whether to permit unlocking from the current position data storage unit 106 that stores the current position data and the unlocking device interface unit 103 Receiving the unlocking permission confirmation data for recognition, the position data comparing unit 107 that compares the position data of the destination data storage unit 104 and the current position data storage unit 106, and the current reception state (good / no good) of the GPS receiver 101 A reception state storage unit 108 that stores (defective), and a current time calculation unit 109 that calculates the current time.

  Next, a processing flow showing the storage processing of the position data when the unlocking system is moved based on the position data will be described with reference to FIG.

  In step S101, the unlocking setting data (destination position data, unlocking time range, and respective error ranges) received by the input unit 102 are stored in the destination data storage unit 104, and a position data update loop is executed in step S102. Start.

  If the GPS radio wave reception result of the GPS receiver 101 is YES (received) in step S103, “good” is set in the reception state storage unit 108 as the GPS radio wave reception state in step S104, and in step S105. Then, the value of the current position data storage unit 106 is updated based on the result of calculating the current position data by the current position data calculation unit 105. The position data update loop from step S102 to step S106 is repeated until the storage box 1 is unlocked.

  If the GPS radio wave reception result of the GPS receiver 101 is NO (not received) in step S103, “bad” is set in the reception state storage unit 108 as the GPS radio wave reception state in step S107, and the accommodation is performed. The position data update loop from step S102 to step S106 is repeated until the box 1 is unlocked, and the position data storage process is terminated when unlocked.

  Next, a processing flow showing an unlocking procedure of the storage box 1 of the unlocking system based on position data will be described with reference to FIG.

  In step S201, the unlocking device interface unit 103 receives the unlock request data from the unlocking device 13, generates unlocking permission confirmation data for confirming whether unlocking is permitted, If the current time is measured by the time calculation unit 109 and corresponds to the set time stored in the destination data storage unit 104 in step S202 (YES), the process proceeds to step S203, and if it does not correspond to the set time (NO). The unlocking process ends.

Next, in step S203, the data in the reception state storage unit 108 is verified. If the result is “good” (YES), the result data of “collation failure” is transmitted to the unlocking device interface unit 103 in step S204. The unlocking process ends.
The unlocking device interface unit 103 does not permit unlocking of the storage box 1 when receiving the result data of the verification failure.

In step S203, the data in the reception state storage unit 108 is verified. If the result is “bad” (NO), the position data stored in the current position data storage unit 106 is acquired in step S205, and in step S206. The destination position data stored in the destination data storage unit 104 is acquired, and in step S207, the position data comparison unit 107 compares the latitude and longitude from the position data acquired in steps S205 and S206.
As a result, if the difference between the latitude and longitude is within the error range set in the destination data storage unit 104 (YES) in step S208, the unlocking permission determination result data is opened as the unlocking permission determination result in step S209. Transmission to the lock device interface unit 103 ends the unlocking process.
When receiving the unlocking permission determination result data, the unlocking device interface unit 103 transmits the unlocking permission data to the unlocking device 1 and permits the unlocking of the storage box 1. The unlocking device 1 unlocks the storage box 1 based on the reception of the unlocking permission data.

  Furthermore, if the difference between the latitude and longitude is outside the error range set in the destination data storage unit 104 (NO) in step S208, the result data of the verification failure is transmitted to the unlocking device interface unit 103 in step S204. The unlocking process ends.

  In FIG. 1, the storage box 1 is described as a “bag-shaped” form, but this is not necessarily the case, and any form having a storage space can be similarly applied. It is.

  According to the first embodiment, valuables can be safely delivered indoors using GPS without carrying out the construction of the building.

Embodiment 2.
Hereinafter, a valuable transportation system according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention will be described.

  In the first embodiment, a single destination is set in the position data processing apparatus 10, but in the second embodiment, a plurality of destinations are set for one position data processing apparatus 10. is there.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an unlocking method based on position data in the valuable transportation system according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention, and corresponds to a case where a plurality of destination setting ranges and unlocking time ranges are set.
FIG. 6 is a setting image diagram when a plurality of destination setting ranges and unlocking time ranges are set in the valuable transportation system according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 5, the building 4, which is the first building, the destination setting range 6, and the unlocking time ranges T1 to T1 ′ are the same as those in the first embodiment, and the building 2:24, which is the second building, Building 3:34, which is a building of No. 3, shows a building as a destination to be set in advance, and destination setting range 2:26 and destination setting range 3:36 are respectively in building 2:24 and building 3:34. The destination setting range that can be unlocked is shown, and the unlocking time range T2 to T2 ′ and the unlocking time range T3 to T3 ′ are unlocking time ranges that can be unlocked for the building 24 and the building 34, respectively. is there.

  The second embodiment is an example in which three first, second, and third destinations are set. In each case, the unlocking is performed based on the unlocking procedure of the storage box 1 of the unlocking system based on the position data. Judgment processing is executed.

  The building, the destination setting range, and the unlocking time range are not limited to the three shown in the second embodiment, and a plurality can be set.

  Next, a setting image when a plurality of destination setting ranges and unlocking time ranges are set will be described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 6, a destination data storage unit setting image 201 is a setting image when a plurality of destination setting ranges and unlocking time ranges are set, and the setting contents are a plurality of destination setting ranges for a plurality of destination setting ranges. It is also possible to set an unlocking time range or to set the same unlocking time range for a plurality of destination setting ranges.
For example, setting 1 and setting 4 are settings that allow the unlocking time range to be unlocked at times T1 to T1 ′ and times T4 to T4 ′ with respect to the destination setting range 6.
In addition, setting 5 and setting 6 are settings that allow unlocking in either the destination setting range 26 or the destination setting range 36 as long as it is between the unlocking time ranges T5 to T5 ′.

  According to the second embodiment, it is possible to safely deliver and receive valuables at multiple locations, and safely deliver valuables indoors using GPS without carrying out the construction of the building. It can be performed.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is the whole schematic diagram of the valuable goods transport system by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram of the storage box applicable to the valuables transport system by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a processing flow figure showing storage processing of position data at the time of movement of an unlocking system by position data in valuables transportation system by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a processing flow figure of the unlocking procedure by the position data in the valuables transport system by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is the schematic of the unlocking method by the position data in the valuables transport system by Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a setting image figure at the time of setting the several destination setting range and unlocking time range in the valuables transport system by Embodiment 2 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 containment box, 2 carrier, 3 GPS satellites, 4 building, 5 closed room,
6 Destination setting range, 10 Position data processing device, 11 GPS antenna,
12 unlocking request button, 13 unlocking device, 14 input connector, 24 building 2,
26 Destination setting range 2, 34 Building 3, 36 Destination setting range 3,
101 GPS receiver, 102 input unit,
103 unlocking device interface unit, 104 destination data storage unit,
105 current position data calculation unit, 106 current position data storage unit,
107 position data comparison unit, 108 reception status storage unit,
201 Destination data storage unit setting image.

Claims (2)

In a valuables transportation system that safely transports valuables to a destination,
In the storage box that stores this valuables,
Receiving GPS radio waves from GPS satellites, an input connector for inputting destination position data indicating the position of the destination;
Furthermore,
A GPS receiver for receiving GPS data from the GPS antenna;
An input unit for receiving the destination data from the input connector;
After receiving unlocking request data requesting unlocking from the unlocking device and confirming whether or not the storage box can be unlocked, unlocking permission data permitting unlocking of the storage box is displayed on the unlocking device. An unlocking device interface unit to transmit to,
A destination data storage unit for storing the destination data;
A current position data calculation unit for calculating current position data of the storage box from the GPS data;
A current position data storage unit for storing current position data obtained from the current position data calculation unit;
A position data comparison unit for comparing the destination data and the current position data;
A reception state storage unit that stores good / bad reception state of the GPS receiver;
A position data processing device having
In the position data processing device, the current position data of the current position data calculation unit is within a predetermined position error range of the destination data of the destination data storage unit, and GPS radio wave reception from the GPS receiver is performed. A valuables transport system characterized in that the storage box is unlocked when the container is defective. The position data processing device further includes a current time calculation unit for calculating the current time,
The destination data includes eyes including destination position data indicating the position of the destination and unlocking time range data indicating the range of the unlocking time.
The storage box is unlocked when the current unlocking time is within a predetermined time error range with respect to the unlocking time of the destination data set in advance. Of valuables transport system.

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