JP2016124676A - Exclusive operation device and reservation system of elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a remote controller for an elevator, the controller improved in efficiency of inter-floor movement by suppressing reduced convenience of the elevator and minimizing waiting time at a landing.SOLUTION: An exclusive operation device 102 of an elevator comprises a reception controller 200 to receive utilization setting information including a time to run an exclusive operation and a predetermined floor to which an elevator car is called when the exclusive operation is run, and an exclusive operation controller 210 to detect a coded operation for running the exclusive operation and output a command to start the exclusive operation if a time and a floor that the detected coded operation is done are identical to the time to run and the predetermined floor included in the utilization setting information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator dedicated driving apparatus and a reservation system.

  When a plurality of elevators are operated in one building, there is a group management device that performs elevation control by regarding these elevator groups as one group. As operation modes by this group management device, there are normal operation and exclusive operation. In normal operation, each elevator moves up and down according to the lifting control of the group management device. On the other hand, an elevator that performs a dedicated operation moves up and down according to a specific landing call, not the elevator control of the group management device.

  As a technique related to this exclusive operation, for example, in Patent Document 1, a specific user who uses exclusive operation calls a car by operating a terminal connected to a network, and commands from a mobile phone or operation of a landing button The technique which occupies the elevator so that the purpose of a specific user may be followed by performing control command by is disclosed.

  Patent Document 2 discloses a technique in which a user or an administrator inputs a desired use time of an elevator and makes a reservation so that a car is called at a specified time and the user occupies the elevator.

JP 2006-56777 A JP 2004-43100 A

  According to Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 described above, a specific user calls an elevator car at a desired timing and waits for it, thereby shortening the waiting time of the specific user and operating the elevator by dedicated operation. It can be made. However, while a specific user is using the elevator by dedicated operation, other users cannot use the elevator. Therefore, if the elevator is not used at the time reserved by a specific user or if the boarding of the car is delayed, there will be a situation where other users cannot use the elevator for a long time. There is a problem that decreases.

  An object of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems, and provides an elevator dedicated driving device and an elevator reservation system that can perform dedicated driving of an elevator while reducing a decrease in convenience for other users. The purpose is to provide.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is an elevator dedicated operation device for performing dedicated operation for a plurality of group-managed elevators, the time of execution of the dedicated operation, and the dedicated operation A reception control unit that receives usage setting information including a setting floor that calls the elevator car when performing driving, and a cryptographic operation for executing dedicated driving are detected, and the detected cryptographic operation is performed. A dedicated operation management unit that outputs a command to start the dedicated operation when the time coincided with the execution time included in the use setting information and the floor on which the cryptographic operation is performed matches the set floor And.

  The present invention also includes an elevator dedicated operation device for performing dedicated operation on a plurality of group-managed elevators, a user terminal device, a remote monitoring server for remotely monitoring the operating status of the elevator, Are connected via a network, and the user terminal device has a dedicated operation time for the elevator and a setting floor for calling the elevator car when the dedicated operation is performed. A usage setting information transmitting unit that transmits the usage setting information to the remote monitoring server when receiving the usage setting information including the usage setting information, the remote monitoring server receives the usage setting information and transmits the usage setting information to the dedicated operation device; A server communication control unit that transfers the usage setting information; and the dedicated operation device includes a reception control unit that receives the usage setting information; A cryptographic operation for performing a dedicated operation is detected, the time when the detected cryptographic operation is performed matches the implementation time included in the use setting information, and the floor where the cryptographic operation is performed is And a dedicated operation management unit that outputs a command to start the dedicated operation when it coincides with a set floor.

  According to the present invention, when a specific user wants to use the elevator for exclusive operation, the time zone for performing exclusive operation is set in advance, and the execution of the exclusive operation is controlled by the cryptographic operation at the landing. The waiting time for the car at the user's platform can be minimized. In addition, since the dedicated operation starts after detecting that the user has performed an encryption operation on the set floor, other users can board the elevator for exclusive operation even though the user is not on the set floor. The problem of disappearing does not occur. For this reason, it is possible to minimize the decrease in convenience for other users when the dedicated operation is performed, and it is possible to improve the serviceability of all elevator users.

It is the whole elevator reservation system lineblock diagram concerning this embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware constitutions of the group management apparatus and the remote monitoring server installed in a control center, (a) shows a group management apparatus, (b) shows the structure of a remote monitoring server. It is a functional block diagram which shows the internal structure of a user terminal device, a remote monitoring server, and a group management apparatus. It is a flowchart showing the flow of the process at the time of exclusive operation implementation which concerns on this embodiment. It is a flowchart showing the flow of the process of the implementation setting of exclusive operation which concerns on this embodiment.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Note that components having the same function are denoted by the same or related reference symbols throughout the drawings for describing the embodiments, and the repetitive description thereof is omitted. In the following embodiments, the description of the same or similar parts will not be repeated in principle unless particularly necessary.

  First, the overall configuration of the elevator according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is an overall structural diagram of an elevator reservation system according to the present embodiment.

  The elevator reservation system 1 shown in FIG. 1 is installed in a group management apparatus 102 that performs group management of two elevators EV1 and EV2 installed in a building 101, and a control center 114 that remotely monitors the operating status of the elevators EV1 and EV2. The remote monitoring server 117 and a user terminal device 115 that transmits usage setting information for exclusive operation of the elevator to the remote monitoring server 117 are connected via a network 113. In this embodiment, the group management apparatus 102 issues a dedicated operation start command. Therefore, the group management device 102 corresponds to a dedicated operation device. The user terminal device 115 may be of any type, such as a PC or a portable information terminal device. Although FIG. 1 illustrates two elevators, the number of elevators is not limited to this. Since each of the elevators EV1 and EV2 has the same configuration, the configuration of the elevator EV1 will be described below, and redundant description of the EV2 will be omitted.

  The elevator EV1 includes an electric motor 104, a drive control device 103 that drives the electric motor 104 and is electrically connected to the group management device 102, a car 105, a pulley 106, a counterweight 108 that balances the car 105, And a rope 107 that connects the car 105 and the counterweight 108 via a pulley 106. Then, the pulley 106 is driven in accordance with the rotational drive of the electric motor 104, and the car 105 is raised (lowered) via the rope 107, and the counterweight 108 is lowered (raised).

  The drive control device 103 is connected to each of the scale device 110 and the electric motor 104. The drive control device 103 refers to the weight detection information of the scale device 110 and determines whether there is a passenger in the car 105. Further, the drive control device 103 performs drive control of the electric motor 104 in accordance with a control signal from the group management device 102 during normal operation, and performs drive control of the electric motor 104 in accordance with reservation details of dedicated operation and a landing call during dedicated operation.

  Inside the car 105, a car call registration device 109 for a passenger to input and register a destination floor is installed, and a scale device 110 for detecting the loading in the car 105 is attached to the lower part of the car 105. Furthermore, the elevator hall installed on each floor of the building 101 is provided with a hall call registration device 111 for calling the car 105 and a key switch 112 operated by a key held by a specific user.

  Next, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the group management device 102 and the remote monitoring server 117, where (a) shows the configuration of the group management device 102 and (b) shows the configuration of the remote monitoring server 117.

  As shown in FIG. 2A, the group management apparatus 102 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 10, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 11, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 12, an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) 13, and I. / F14 and bus 15 are included. The CPU 10, RAM 11, ROM 12, HDD 13, and I / F 14 are connected to each other via a bus 15.

  The group management device 102 is connected to the drive control device 103 of each elevator via the I / F 14. Further, it is connected to the external communication device 16 via the I / F 14.

  The remote monitoring server 117 includes a CPU 180, a RAM 181, a ROM 182, an HDD 183, an I / F 184, and a bus 185. The CPU 180, RAM 181, ROM 182, HDD 183, I / F 184 and I / O 186 are connected to each other via a bus 185. The remote monitoring server 117 is connected to the external communication device 187 via the I / F 184 and is connected to the user terminal device 115 via this.

  The user terminal device 115 performs data communication with the remote monitoring server 117, and an elevator reservation program for reserving an exclusive operation of the elevator is installed.

  With reference to FIG. 3, the internal configuration of the user terminal device, the remote monitoring server, and the group management device will be described. FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram illustrating the internal configuration of the user terminal device, the remote monitoring server, and the group management device.

  The user terminal device 115 includes a usage setting input unit 561 that receives input of usage setting information for exclusive operation, a usage setting information transmission unit 562 that transmits the usage setting information for exclusive operation to the remote monitoring server 117 via the network 113, and including. The usage setting information includes both reservation information for exclusive driving and cancellation information for reservation information.

  The usage setting input unit 561 and the usage setting information transmission unit 562 are configured by executing software that realizes these functions by hardware configuring the user terminal device 115.

  In the usage setting input unit 561, a specific user operates the user terminal device 115 to input and set a desired usage date and time and a usage setting floor for dedicated driving. The usage setting input unit 561 generates usage setting information based on the input and outputs the usage setting information to the usage setting information transmission unit 562.

  The usage setting information transmission unit 562 transmits the usage setting information to the remote monitoring server 117.

  The remote monitoring server 117 includes a server communication control unit 801 that transmits and receives data via the external communication device 187, and management information of an elevator to be remotely monitored, such as the communication address (IP address) and installation location of the group management device 102 And an elevator management information storage unit 802 for storing the information.

  The server communication control unit 801 is configured by executing software that realizes this function by hardware configuring the remote monitoring server 117.

  Upon receiving the usage setting information, the server communication control unit 801 extracts the communication address of the target group management apparatus 102 with reference to the elevator management information, and transfers the usage setting information to the communication address destination.

  The group management apparatus 102 includes a reception control unit 200 that receives usage setting information from the remote monitoring server 117, a dedicated operation management unit 210 that outputs a dedicated operation start command, a usage setting information storage unit 220 that stores usage setting information, A usage setting information editing unit 221 that executes usage setting information writing processing, a transmission control unit 230 that transmits a dedicated operation start command to the elevator drive control device 103 that performs a dedicated operation, and a timer 240 (for example, Real Time) Clock).

  The reception control unit 200, dedicated operation management unit 210, usage setting information storage unit 220, usage setting information editing unit 221, and transmission control unit 230 execute software that realizes these functions by hardware configuring the group management apparatus 102. It is composed by doing.

  The reception control unit 200 outputs the usage setting information for exclusive operation received from the server communication control unit 801 to the usage setting information editing unit 221, and the usage setting information editing unit 221 executes a write operation to the usage setting information storage unit 220. To do. When the usage setting information is reservation cancellation information for exclusive driving, the usage setting information editing unit 221 executes a deletion operation from the usage setting information storage unit 220.

  The dedicated operation management unit 210 obtains current time information from the time measuring unit 240 and is stored in the time (current time) when the cryptographic operation from the landing call registration device 111 and the key switch 112 is performed and the usage setting information storage unit 220. A time determination unit 211 that determines whether the times of the usage setting information match, a cryptographic operation detection unit 212 that detects that a cryptographic operation has been performed at the landing call registration device 111 and the key switch 112, and a cryptographic operation is detected. A permitted floor determination unit 213 that determines a match between the floor specified in the usage setting information, a car call registration unit 214 that registers an elevator car call, and a plurality of group-managed elevators, An elevator car selection unit 215 for selecting which elevator is to be operated exclusively, and a dedicated operation start command for the selected elevator car are generated. Including the exclusive operation command generating unit 216 to output to the transmission control unit 230, the use of exclusive operation of the elevator by a particular user ends, the exclusive operation canceling unit 217 for returning the elevator to the normal operation mode, the.

  The cryptographic operation detection unit 212 detects that the user has performed a cryptographic operation for dedicated driving. Examples of the cryptographic operation include simultaneous pressing of the upper and lower call buttons of the landing call registration device 111 and the operation of a key switch 112 provided at the landing.

  Next, an operation flow of the elevator reservation system 1 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing when the dedicated operation according to the present embodiment is performed. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing for use setting for exclusive operation. Hereinafter, description will be made along the order of steps in FIG.

  The specific user makes a reservation for exclusive driving from the user terminal device 115 (S301). When making a reservation, a specific user inputs the execution time of the exclusive operation and the floor number (set floor number) of the landing called during the exclusive operation. Moreover, you may input the installation place of an elevator, for example, a building.

  The processing procedure of this step will be described with reference to FIG. When using exclusive operation with the immediate start setting (S321 / Yes), the user selects the immediate start setting in the application of the user terminal device 115, and registers the floor on which the exclusive operation is performed as the permitted floor (S322).

  When making a reservation setting for exclusive operation (S321 / No, S323 / Yes), the user registers the start date and time and end date and time of the period in which the exclusive operation is to be performed in the application of the user terminal device 115 (S324). The floor is registered (S322).

  The user transmits the immediate start setting or reservation setting information and the usage setting information including the permission floor from the user terminal device 115 to the remote monitoring server 117. The server communication control unit 801 transfers the usage setting information from the remote monitoring server 117 to the elevator group management apparatus 102 that performs the dedicated operation. The reception control unit 200 outputs the usage setting information to the usage setting information editing unit 221, and the usage setting information editing unit 221 writes the usage setting information in the usage setting information storage unit 220 (S325).

  When canceling the reservation for exclusive driving (S323 / No, S326 / Yes), the user performs a reservation canceling operation in the application of the user terminal device 115, and the usage setting information including the reservation canceling information is transmitted via the remote monitoring server 117. The data is transmitted to the group management apparatus 102, and a reservation cancellation process is executed (S327). When the reservation canceling operation is not performed (S326 / No), the process is terminated.

  When the immediate start setting or reservation setting for the exclusive operation is completed, the process returns to FIG. 4 and the cryptographic operation detection unit 212 detects that the cryptographic operation for starting the exclusive operation has been performed in the landing call registration device 111 and / or the key switch 112. Then (S302 / Yes), the time determination unit 211 acquires the time (current time) when the cryptographic operation was performed, and collates the usage setting information stored in the usage setting information storage unit 220 (S303). If there is usage setting information that matches the current time (S304 / Yes), the permitted floor determination unit 213 determines whether the setting floor included in the usage setting information matches the floor on which the cryptographic operation has been performed. If they match (S305 / Yes), the car call registration unit 214 generates car call registration information for the floor (S306).

  The elevator car selection unit 215 selects an elevator that performs the dedicated operation based on the operation status of each elevator managed by the group management apparatus 102 (S307). The selection conditions include, for example, that no car call or hall call has been made, and that the load in the car is unattended in the scale device 110 (within 15% of the load on the car 105 determined as unattended). .

  The dedicated operation command generation unit 216 generates a dedicated operation start command for moving up and down only in accordance with the car call generated in step S306 and outputs the dedicated operation start command to the transmission control unit 230. The transmission control unit 230 outputs a dedicated operation start command to the elevator drive control device 103 selected in step S307 (S308). Thus, the selected elevator carries out the exclusive operation (S309), and the exclusive operation continues until the user performs the operation for ending the exclusive operation (S310 / No). When the user performs an operation to end the exclusive operation (S310 / Yes), the exclusive operation is canceled (S311), and the process ends.

  When there is no usage setting information that coincides with the cryptographic operation time (S304 / No), and when the cryptographic operation is performed on a floor other than the floor permitted by the dedicated operation usage setting (S305 / No), the dedicated operation is not performed. .

  In addition, if the permission floor and setting time which were registered by S301 are satisfy | filled, after canceling exclusive operation in S311, exclusive operation will be implemented again by the encryption operation in a permission floor.

  According to this embodiment, the user can register the start floor and the use time zone of exclusive operation using a user terminal device in advance. Therefore, the user can carry out the exclusive operation by performing the encryption operation of the exclusive operation on the setting floor at the desired time, so that the car waiting time can be minimized.

  In addition, since the dedicated operation is performed after detecting that the user has performed an encryption operation on the setting floor, only the car arrives at the setting floor even though the user is not on the setting floor. There is no problem of obstructing the use of other users' elevators. For this reason, it is possible to minimize the decrease in convenience for other users when the dedicated operation is performed, and it is possible to improve the serviceability of all elevator users.

  In addition, when the usage setting information is not registered in advance, the exclusive operation cannot be performed outside the preset time and on the setting floor, so that unauthorized use of the exclusive operation can be prevented. Thereby, the operation control service of the elevator which considered the waiting time of the whole user can be provided.

  The above is merely exemplary embodiments of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention. Various modifications that do not depart from the spirit of the present invention are included in the present invention. For example, when a dedicated operation is set, if any other dedicated operation has already been registered for any of a plurality of elevators managed by the group management device 102 in the time zone to be set, this is indicated. The user terminal device 115 may be notified.

  Also, the cryptographic operation may be performed by sending an e-mail to the remote monitoring server 117 using the user terminal device after the user arrives at the setting floor.

101: building elevator building, 102: group management device, 103: drive control device, 105: car, 111: landing call registration device, 112: key switch, 115: user terminal device, 117: remote monitoring server

Claims (2)

A dedicated operation device for an elevator for performing dedicated operation for a plurality of elevators that are group-managed,
A reception control unit that receives use setting information including an execution time of the dedicated operation and a setting floor that calls the elevator car when the dedicated operation is performed;
A cryptographic operation for performing a dedicated operation is detected, the time when the detected cryptographic operation is performed matches the implementation time included in the use setting information, and the floor where the cryptographic operation is performed is A dedicated operation management unit that outputs a command to start the dedicated operation when it matches the set floor; and
A dedicated driving device for an elevator, comprising: An elevator dedicated operation device for performing dedicated operation for a plurality of group-managed elevators, a user terminal device, and a remote monitoring server for remotely monitoring the operating status of the elevator via a network A connected elevator reservation system,
When the user terminal device receives an input of usage setting information including an execution time of the dedicated operation for the elevator and a setting floor that calls the elevator car when the dedicated operation is performed, the user terminal device receives the usage setting information. A usage setting information transmission unit for transmitting to the remote monitoring server;
The remote monitoring server includes a server communication control unit that transfers the usage setting information to the dedicated operation device when the usage setting information is received,
The dedicated operation device includes a reception control unit that receives the use setting information;
A cryptographic operation for performing a dedicated operation is detected, the time when the detected cryptographic operation is performed matches the implementation time included in the use setting information, and the floor where the cryptographic operation is performed is A dedicated operation management unit that outputs a command to start the dedicated operation when it matches the set floor; and
An elevator reservation system comprising:

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