JP2002288559A - Energy rate computing method and bathing accident prevention support method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize supporting technology to work on a customer to take a proper action by supporting behavior to start operation of a bath heater so as to lower a degree of a danger factor of a bathing accident. SOLUTION: The behavior to prevent the bathing accident is supported by practicing a process to be practiced in a support system free to display specified information on a display part provided in a facility of the customer and to receive temperature of a bathroom in the facility of the customer or outside air temperature, a process to compute an operation condition of the bath heater at raising temperature of the bathroom to be estimated from the received temperature so as to lower the degree of the danger factor of the bathing accident to a specified degree, a process to compute an operation cost of the bath heater from the computed operation condition and a cost of energy and a process to display the computed operation condition and operation information concerning the operation cost on the display part.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an energy charge calculation system for calculating an energy charge to be charged to a customer from an amount of energy supplied to the customer's facility during a predetermined period. It relates to a method and an accident prevention support method during bathing.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Drowning due to a drowning accident in a bathtub has been reported to be the leading cause of accidental death at home. Deaths during bathing are classified into drowning, which is the accidental death described above, and sickness and death caused during bathing such as heart disease. The sum of these, bathing deaths is estimated at about 10,000 people nationwide annually, and the number of deaths is comparable to traffic accident deaths. The risk of death from bathing varies depending on the degree of risk factors such as personal attributes, season, bathing time, bathroom temperature, bath temperature, bathing time, and the like. , The degree of danger tends to be higher as the temperature of the bathroom is lower, the temperature of the hot water is higher, or the bath is longer. Therefore, especially elderly people need to take correct bathing behavior in consideration of the degree of these risk factors.

[0003] In particular, as a high risk factor during bathing, there is a cold shock caused by rising from the bathtub to get out of the bathtub. When immersed in hot water in a bathtub, peripheral blood vessels expand due to the thermal effect, blood circulation improves, and blood pressure decreases. Furthermore, when the user stands up in that state, the blood moves to the bottom under the influence of gravity, so that the brain and heart fall into an ischemic state, which increases the possibility of causing brain disease or heart disease. Even a healthy person may have symptoms such as lightheadedness when getting out of the bathtub. Loss of consciousness in the bathtub often leads to drowning in the bathtub. Even if you fall down in the bathtub, your head or shoulders may be caught on the edge of the bathtub, etc., to avoid drowning. Examining the cases of drowning in a bathtub, drowning and prone drowning in a deep Japanese bathtub with a short longitudinal dimension and falling on a back in a shallow Western bathtub with a long longitudinal dimension is common. In some cases, sickness or accidental death occurs in the washing room, but death in the bathroom is overwhelmingly in the bathtub. As can be seen from the graph shown in FIG. 7 (Ministry of Health and Welfare artificial dynamics statistics in 1999), the number of drowning and drowning persons in such a bathtub becomes very large for the elderly.

[0004]

As a method for preventing such an accident during bathing such as death from bathing in advance, particularly in winter, when the degree of a risk factor which is a temperature difference between a bathroom temperature and a hot water temperature is large. In such a case, there is a method in which the bathroom is heated in advance by a bathroom heater or the like, thereby alleviating cold shock and reducing the degree of risk factor. However, it is difficult for a general bather to judge the level of risk factors for an accident during bathing at this time, and how much the risk factors can be reduced to prevent the accident. However, there is a case where the degree of the risk factor is not reduced to such an extent that an accident during bathing can be sufficiently prevented by reducing the degree of the risk factor and saving operation costs of the bathroom heater or the like. In view of the above circumstances, the present invention supports a risk reduction action of starting operation of a bathroom heater in order to reduce the risk factor of an accident during bathing. The purpose is to realize assistive technology that can work to perform reduction actions.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems [Configuration 1] An energy charge calculation method according to the present invention is as described in claim 1.
An energy charge calculation method executed by an energy charge calculation system for calculating the energy charge charged to the customer from the amount of energy supplied to the customer's facility during a predetermined period, wherein the energy charge calculation method is provided at the customer's facility. In a bathroom, a factor information receiving step of receiving factor information regarding a risk factor of the bathing accident, a factor degree recognition step of recognizing a level of the risk factor from the factor information received in the factor information receiving step, Executing a discount amount setting step of setting a discount amount applied to the energy rate based on the degree of the risk factor recognized in the degree recognition step, so that the discount amount increases as the degree of the risk factor increases. Features.

[Operation and Effect] According to the energy charge calculation method of this configuration, the manager of the energy supply company or the energy charge calculation system that calculates the energy charge in this way performs the above factor information receiving step, It communicates with the customer's facility or other information providing system, or is manually input by an operator or the like, and receives the room temperature of the bathroom at the customer's facility, the hot water temperature of the bathtub, 1
Average daily temperature, season, presence or absence of elderly living in customer facilities, age of bather (customer), airtightness of customer facility (detached or apartment house, age, etc.), or shape of bathroom (insulation) At least one of the factor information on the degree of risk factor (risk) of an accident during bathing due to cold shock etc.
In the factor degree recognition step, the degree of the risk factor of an accident during bathing in the bathroom of the customer is recognized from the factor information. Then, the discount amount setting step is performed later, and the degree of the risk factor recognized in the factor degree recognition step is determined according to the relationship of the discount amount (for example, discount rate or discount rate) with respect to the preset risk factor level. The discount amount is set based on the discount amount, and the set discount amount is set as the discount amount applied to the calculation of the energy fee charged to the customer. Therefore, in particular, for a customer having a large risk factor of an accident during bathing, the energy fee is calculated with a high discount amount, and the customer is caused to operate the bathroom heater that consumes energy. To heat the bathroom,
Preventing accidents during bathing can be encouraged.

[0007] [Structure 2] According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the energy charge calculation method according to the present invention, in addition to the structure of the energy charge calculation method according to the first aspect, the factor information receiving step may include: Receiving the temperature of the bathroom or the temperature of the outside air.

According to the energy charge calculation method of the present configuration, for example, the energy charge calculation system is configured to determine the temperature of the bathroom or the outside air temperature of the location of the customer facility via a communication line. Comprising recognition means,
In the factor information receiving step, the outside temperature of the bathroom at the customer's facility or the outside air temperature of the customer's facility recognized by the temperature recognition means or manually input by the operator is received as factor information. Then, in the factor degree recognition step, the low of the recognized temperature with respect to the predetermined temperature can be recognized as the degree of the risk factor of the bathing accident,
The lower the bathroom temperature or the outside air temperature recognized as described above, the higher the degree, the higher the possibility that an accident during bathing due to cold shock will occur, and the degree of the risk factor is high. In addition, by recognizing the low bathroom temperature or the low outside air temperature as a risk factor in this way and discounting the energy fee for the low risk factor, the customer can obtain a low bathroom temperature and low outside air temperature, In particular, when it is desired to operate the bathroom heater, it is possible to decide to start the operation of the bathroom heater without much worrying about an increase in the energy rate, which leads to prevention of an accident during bathing. The temperature recognition means detects the temperature of the bathroom or the outside air temperature at the location of the customer's facility by a temperature sensor or the like, and recognizes the temperature via a communication line or the like, or provides weather information. Information such as the current temperature or the average daily temperature of the district where the customer's facility is located can be collected and recognized from a database or the like via a communication line or a public network such as the Internet.

[Structure 3] In the energy fee calculation method according to the present invention, the structure 1 or 2
In addition to the above configuration of the energy fee calculation method, the factor information receiving step is a step of receiving, as the factor information, attribute information of a bathroom user at the customer's facility.

[Effects] Age information such as the number or presence or absence of elderly people over a predetermined age, and the number or presence or absence of people with lifestyle-related diseases such as hypertension, etc. Since the attribute information of the bathroom user such as the health condition information such as the severity is related to the degree of the risk factor of the accident during bathing due to cold shock or the like, the attribute information of the bathroom user is received in the factor information receiving step. It can be factor information. Then, in the factor degree recognition step, the degree of the risk factor of the accident during bathing is recognized from the received age information or health condition information of the bathroom user, and the energy fee is discounted for the degree of the risk factor. For example, there is an elderly person or a person suffering from high blood pressure of a predetermined age or more in a customer's bathroom user, by operating a bathroom heater,
If it is desirable to prevent accidents during bathing, it is possible to decide to start the operation of the bathroom heater without much worrying about an increase in the energy fee.

[Structure 4] According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an energy fee calculation method according to the present invention.
In addition to the configuration of any one of the energy charge calculation methods, the discount amount display step of displaying information on the discount amount set in the discount amount setting step on a display unit provided at the customer facility is performed. Features.

According to the energy charge calculation method of the present configuration, in the discount amount display step, a display unit provided at the customer's facility and recognizable by the customer via a communication line or a dedicated line. In addition, information on the discount amount set in the discount amount setting step can be displayed. In this manner, the display unit displays the information on the discount amount of the energy fee set according to the risk factor of the accident during bathing in the facility of the customer at that time, so that the customer can
By checking the information displayed on the display unit, when the degree of the risk factor is large, it is recognized that the price of energy is set relatively low, and it is easy to make a decision to start the operation of the bathroom heater. Become. Therefore, the energy fee calculation method of the present invention allows the customer to recognize that the discount rate of the energy fee is set high when the degree of the risk factor is high, so that the customer can appropriately reduce the risk of an accident during bathing. To take action for

[Structure 5] According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an energy fee calculation method according to the present invention.
In addition to the configuration of any one of the energy charge calculation methods, the discount amount set in the discount amount setting step is applied to a charge of energy supplied to a bathroom heater provided in a bathroom at the customer's facility. It is characterized in that it is a discount amount.

According to the energy charge calculation method of this configuration, for example, the energy charge calculation system is configured so that the amount of energy supply to the bathroom heater can be individually recognized. Set discount amount
By applying to the rate of energy supplied to the bathroom heater calculated from this recognized supply, especially for customers who operated the bathroom heater to prevent accidents during bathing, The discount amount of the energy fee can be applied, and prevention of accidents during bathing can be further encouraged.

[Structure 6] In the bathing accident prevention support method according to the present invention, a display unit provided at a customer facility is provided with display means capable of displaying predetermined information. A temperature receiving step that is executed by the support system and receives a bathroom temperature or an outside air temperature in the customer facility;
When raising the temperature of the bathroom, which can be estimated from the temperature of the bathroom received in the temperature receiving step or the outside air temperature, so as to reduce the degree of the risk factor of the accident during bathing to a predetermined degree, An operating condition calculating step of calculating an operating condition; an operating cost calculating step of calculating an operating cost of the bathroom heater from the operating condition calculated in the operating condition calculating step; and an energy price; and the operating condition calculating. Executing a display step of displaying, on the display unit, the operating information relating to the operating conditions calculated in the step and the operating cost calculated in the operating cost calculating step, by the display unit, so that the bathroom heating on the customer side is performed. The present invention is characterized in that an action for preventing the accident during bathing by driving the machine is supported.

[Effects] According to the bathing accident prevention support method of the present configuration, the method is provided at a facility of a customer or at a management company or the like which provides another bathing accident prevention support service to a customer. The bathing accident support system performs the temperature reception process, performs communication with the customer's facility or other information providing system, or is manually input by an operator or the like, and is present at the customer's facility. The bathroom temperature or the outside air temperature, such as the room temperature of the bathroom, the average daily temperature of the district where the customer's facility is located, etc. is received. Then, the support system performs the above-described operation condition calculation step, and raises the bathroom temperature that can be estimated from the received bathroom temperature or the outside air temperature so that the degree of the risk factor of the accident during bathing decreases to a predetermined degree. In such a case, the operating conditions such as the set temperature and the operating time of the bathroom heater in the facility of the customer are calculated. Further, the bathing accident prevention support system performs the above-described operation cost calculation step, and calculates the operation cost when the bathroom heater is operated under the operation conditions calculated in this manner, by calculating the energy at that time obtained from the calculated operation conditions. It is calculated from the consumption amount and the price of energy such as gas or electricity set in advance by the energy supply company or the like. Then, the support system performs the above-described display process and calculates the operating condition of the bathroom heater for preventing accident during bathing,
The operating information on the operating cost when the bathroom heater is operated under the operating conditions can be displayed on the display unit at the customer's facility by the display means, together with the degree of the risk factor recognized from the bathroom temperature, for example. Therefore, the customer confirms the operation information of the bathroom heater displayed on the display unit in this way, and recognizes the operation condition of the bathroom heater recommended to prevent accidents during bathing and the operation cost at that time. And make it easier to make the decision to start running the bathroom heater.
Therefore, according to the bathing accident prevention support method of the present invention, it is possible to easily support a customer's behavior of driving a bathroom heater to prevent a bathing accident.

[Structure 7] The method for supporting prevention of accidents during bathing according to the present invention is, in addition to the structure of the method for preventing accidents during bathing according to Structure 6, as described in claim 7, in addition to claims 1 to 5.
Executing a discount amount receiving step of receiving the discount amount set in the discount amount setting step of the energy charge calculating method according to any one of the above, and the operating cost calculating step is calculated in the operating condition calculating step. Said operating conditions,
A step of calculating an operating cost of the bathroom heater from the price of the energy to which the discount amount received in the discount amount receiving step is applied.

[Function and Effect] According to the bath accident prevention support method of this configuration, the support system provides the discount amount receiving step to the customer set in the discount amount setting step of the energy fee calculation method of any of the above configurations 1 to 5. The discount amount of the charged energy fee is received via a communication line or the like, and the received discount amount is applied to the energy price used for calculating the operation cost of the bathroom heater in the operation cost calculation step. The discount amount is set to be greater as the risk factor of the accident during bathing on the customer side is larger, so that the operating cost of the bathroom heater displayed on the display unit of the customer in the display process is a factor of the risk factor. The greater the degree, the less expensive. Therefore, in particular, for customers with a high degree of risk factor for accidents during bathing, the display unit will display the operating cost of the bathroom heater applying the high discount amount, and for that customer, It is possible to work to prevent the accident during bathing by heating the bathroom by driving the bathroom heater that consumes energy.

[Structure 8] According to the eighth aspect of the present invention, in the bathing accident prevention support method according to the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the bathing accident prevention support method according to the above configuration 6 or 7, the support system further comprises: The operating condition of the bathroom heater is configured to be settable, and based on the operating condition setting command input from the customer, the operating condition of the bathroom heater is set to the operating condition calculated in the operating condition calculating step. An operating condition setting step is performed.

[Effects] According to the assist method for preventing accidents during bathing of the present configuration, when the above-mentioned operating condition calculating step is executed by the support system configured to be able to set the operating condition of the bathroom heater, the operating condition In the setting step, for example, the operating condition of the bathroom heater is automatically determined in the operating condition calculating step in accordance with an operating condition setting command input by a customer operating an operation unit or the like provided with the display unit. It can be configured to start the operation of the bathroom heater by setting to the operating conditions set in the table, and the customer can easily recognize the operation cost of the bathroom heater for preventing accidents during bathing displayed on the display unit. The operation of the bathroom heater can be started.

[Configuration 9] According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, a bathing accident prevention support method according to the present invention is provided, in addition to the configuration of the bathing accident prevention support method according to any one of the above configurations 6 to 8,
A meter that measures the amount of energy supplied to the customer facility is connected to an automatic meter reading system that performs remote meter reading of the meter via a communication network, and the display unit of the support system includes a display unit, It is characterized in that predetermined information can be displayed via the communication network.

[Effects] According to the support method for preventing accidents during bathing of the present configuration, a remote control for a bathroom heater having a display unit that can be recognized by a customer or a display terminal such as a personal computer as an Internet terminal can be automatically operated. It is connected to a communication network used in the meter reading system, a support system is constructed on the server computer side as an automatic meter reading system, and the display means is configured to display predetermined information on a display unit via the communication network. be able to. Therefore, when implementing the bath accident prevention support method of the present invention, there is no need to newly provide a communication line,
Since the communication network originally used by the energy supply company for the purpose of automatic meter reading is used, the communication cost for implementing the bath accident prevention support method of the present invention can be reduced.

[Structure 10] According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for preventing accidents during bathing according to the sixth aspect.
In addition to the configuration of any of the accident prevention support method during bathing of from 9 to 9, the temperature receiving step is a step of receiving a temperature of the bathroom or the outside air temperature, and a set hot water temperature of a bathtub in the bathroom, The operating condition calculating step increases the temperature of the bathroom that can be estimated from the temperature of the bathroom received in the temperature receiving step or the outside air temperature so that the degree of the risk factor of the accident during bathing decreases to a predetermined degree. And calculating the operating condition of the bathroom heater and the operating condition of the heat source device for setting the hot water temperature of the bathtub when lowering the set hot water temperature. A step of calculating, from the respective operating conditions calculated in the condition calculating step and the energy price, the operating costs of the bathroom heater and the heat source unit when the temperature is reduced to a predetermined degree. To.

[Operation and Effect] According to the bathing accident prevention support method of the present configuration, the temperature of the bathroom, which can be estimated from the temperature of the bathroom or the outside air temperature received in the temperature receiving step, and the set hot water temperature of the bathtub, Can be recognized as the degree of the risk factor, and in the operating condition calculation step, the difference is reduced so that the degree of the risk factor is reduced to a predetermined level, in other words, the temperature of the bathroom is set to a predetermined value. The operating condition of the bathroom heater and the operating condition of the heat source device can be calculated so as to increase the temperature of the hot water to a predetermined value. By calculating the operating conditions of the bathroom heater and the heat source unit in this manner, the total of the respective operating costs can be calculated in the operating cost calculating step, and the customer recognizes the operating costs and the like in the displaying step. It can be displayed on a possible display. Therefore, the operating cost displayed on the display unit as described above is reduced by lowering the set hot water temperature of the bathtub by an amount increased by heating the bathroom with the bathroom heater, and does not reduce the degree of the risk factor. With respect to the operating cost at the time, the operating cost when the degree of the risk factor is reduced is kept low, and depending on the condition, it becomes about the same amount, so the customer can reduce the level of the risk factor without hesitation. The operating conditions of the bathroom heater and the heat source unit can be set in the table.

[Configuration 11] A support system according to the present invention is a support system provided with display means capable of displaying predetermined information on a display unit provided at a customer facility. And any one of claims 6 to 10
The present invention is characterized in that it comprises means capable of executing the respective steps included in the bathing accident prevention support method described in the section.

[Effects] According to the support system of this configuration, it is possible to execute the bathing accident prevention support method according to any one of the above configurations 6 to 10, and to execute the bathing accident prevention support method. The same operation and effect can be obtained.

[0027]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of a behavior support method and a behavior support system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The center equipment 20 shown in FIG. 1 functions as an automatic meter reading system. That is, the center equipment 20 is configured to be able to communicate with the communication device 7 connected to the gas meter 6 that measures the supply amount of gas (an example of energy) to the facility of the customer via the communication network 10. Communication device 21 and automatic meter reading server 22 connected to communication device 21
The automatic meter reading server 22 collects the meter reading data on the pointer value of the gas meter 6 by the communication device 21,
The collected meter reading data is stored in a customer database (customer DB) 25 storing an ID number or the like capable of identifying the customer.
Automatic meter reading such as storing in association with a D number or the like can be performed. The meter reading data stored in the customer DB 25 is stored in a price database (price D) described later.
B) Together with the information on the energy price stored in 26, the information is used for calculating a gas fee charged to a customer in a fee calculation server 30 (an example of an energy fee calculation system) described later.

The communication network 10 includes a centralized control station for performing wireless communication with the communication device 7 using a wireless line such as a specific low-power wireless communication, a PHS transceiver mode, or Bluetooth (Bluetooth), and a centralized control station. It is configured by a public line such as a public PHS line, a mobile telephone line, a fixed telephone line, and a packet communication line for communicating with the communication device 51 on the automatic meter reading system 50 side.

Next, a gas supply route in a customer facility will be described. The gas supplied to the customer's facility
First, the gas passes through the gas meter 6 and is later supplied to each gas appliance provided at the customer's facility. Examples of the gas appliance include a heat source unit 4 for heating water, a cooking stove, a gas fan heater, and the like. In addition, heat source machine 4
Is a bathroom heater / dryer 3 (an example of a bathroom heater) for supplying hot water to the bathtub 2 provided in the bathroom 1, reheating the hot water in the bathtub 2, and heating the bathroom 1 provided in the bathroom 1. Can be heated.

The bathroom heater / dryer 3 and the heat source unit 4 are
The remote controller 50 is controlled by a remote controller 50 provided at the customer's facility. As shown in FIG.
1 is provided, and the customer operates the operation unit 59 to set the hot water temperature of the bathtub 2, start and stop the operation of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3,
The operation time setting control of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 can be performed. In addition, the remote controller 50 displays the operating state and operating conditions of each of the devices, and a display unit 58 that can be recognized by the customer.
Is provided.

The remote controller 50 is connected to the communication device 7 connected to the communication network 10. The remote controller 50 also communicates with the center equipment 20 via the communication network 10 via a predetermined information. Are configured to be able to communicate with each other.

The remote control 50 according to the present invention can prevent the customer from operating the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 to assist the risk reduction action of reducing the risk factor of the bathing accident. It is configured to work as a support system for performing the support method. The bath accident prevention support method according to the present invention, which is executed by the remote controller 50, is executed by computer software processing. Specifically, a program for executing the treatment of each step of the bathing accident prevention support method described below is stored in a storage medium such as a magnetic or optical storage device, and the program stored in the storage medium is stored in the storage medium. By loading the program into the storage means 57 such as the ROM of the remote controller 50, the remote controller 50 executes the program, thereby implementing the bathing accident prevention support method according to the present invention, and executes such a program and the program. The CPU and the like constitute each means in the support system of the present invention.

Next, each step of the bath accident prevention support method executed by the remote controller 50 will be described together with each means for executing each step. The remote controller 50 includes a temperature receiving unit 52 that executes a temperature receiving step of receiving a room temperature of the bathroom 1 as factor information that can recognize a degree of a risk factor of an accident during bathing in the bathroom 1 on the customer side.
Specifically, a temperature sensor 8 capable of measuring the outside air temperature of the facility is provided in the gas meter 6 of the customer's facility, and the remote controller 50 receives the temperature from the temperature sensor 8 in the gas meter 6 by the temperature receiving means 52. The external temperature of the customer's facility is received as factor information that can recognize the degree of the risk factor of the accident during bathing due to the cold shock, the external temperature is received as the temperature of the bathroom 1 in a non-heated state, and the temperature of the bathroom 1 is lowered. Is recognized as a risk factor. Further, the temperature receiving means 52 of the remote controller 50 receives the set hot water temperature of the bathtub 2 which is recognized by itself, in addition to the room temperature of the bathroom 1.

Further, the remote controller 50 is provided with, for example, an average air temperature shown in FIG. 4 and the number of dead persons due to the bathing accident so as to reduce the degree of the risk factor recognized as described above to a predetermined level and prevent the bathing accident. A bathroom heating / drying machine on the customer side for raising the temperature of the bathroom 1 received by the temperature receiving means 52 to a predetermined temperature with reference to the average temperature at which the number of deaths in the statistical graph of the number is equal to or less than a predetermined level. An operating condition calculating means 53 for executing an operating condition calculating step of calculating the third operating condition is configured. Further, the remote control 50
Based on the operating conditions calculated by the operating condition calculating means 53 and information on gas prices, which will be described later, collected from the center facility 20 via the communication network 10, the bathroom heater / dryer 3 is used to prevent accidents during bathing. And an operation cost calculation means 54 for executing an operation cost calculation step of calculating an operation cost when the apparatus is operated under the operation conditions calculated by the operation condition calculation means 53.

Further, in addition to the operating conditions of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3, the operating condition calculating means 53 reduces the risk factor to a predetermined level to prevent a bathing accident.
The operating conditions of the heat source unit 4 when the set hot water temperature of the bathtub 2 received by the temperature receiving unit 52 is reduced to a predetermined temperature are determined. The operating cost calculating unit 54 calculates the heat source unit 4 determined as described above. The operating cost of the heat source unit 4 when the set hot water temperature of the bathtub 3 is reduced for preventing an accident during bathing is calculated from the operating conditions of the above and information on the price of gas.

Then, the remote controller 50 stores information on the operating conditions of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 and the heat source unit 4 calculated by the operating condition calculating means 53 and the operating cost calculated by the operating cost calculating means 54 as shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, the temperature of the bathroom 1, the temperature of the bath 2 and the operation cost at that time, which are recommended for preventing an accident during bathing, are displayed on the display unit 58 together with the evaluation of the degree of the risk factor. A display step is performed.

Further, the operating cost calculating means 54
Each operating cost is calculated in consideration of a discount rate (an example of a discount amount) of a gas fee charged to each customer. Although the details of the discount rate will be described later, the discount rate is set on the side of the center facility 20 based on the risk factor of the accident during bathing in each customer. Set discount rate
There is provided a discount rate receiving means 55 for executing a discount rate receiving step of receiving via the communication network 10.

Further, on the remote controller 50, the customer confirms the information on the driving conditions and the driving cost for preventing the accident during bathing displayed on the display section 57, and checks the number or the like ( When an operating condition setting command is input by operating the operation unit 59, the operating conditions of the bathroom heater / dryer 3 and the heat source unit 4 are automatically changed to the displayed temperature of the bathroom 1 and the temperature of the bathtub 2 as indicated. The operating condition setting means 56 for performing the operating condition setting step of setting as described above is configured.

Next, a description will be given of a method of calculating a customer's gas charge in the charge calculation server 30 provided on the center facility 20 side. The energy charge calculation method according to the present invention, which is executed in the charge calculation server 30, is executed by computer software processing including communication for displaying predetermined information on the display unit 58 of the remote controller 50 on the customer side. Specifically, a program for executing the treatment of each step of the energy charge calculation method described later is stored in a storage medium such as a magnetic or optical storage device, and the program stored in the storage medium is used for charge calculation. R of server 30
The energy charge calculation method according to the present invention is realized by the charge calculation server 30 executing the program after loading the data into the OM or the like, and such a program and a CPU or the like executing the program are executed by the charge calculation server 30. Each means is constituted.

On the other hand, the price D provided in the center equipment 20
B26 stores information about the gas rate discount rate that is set to be greater as the risk factor of the bathing accident on the customer side as described above is larger. A gas rate discount rate associated with each predetermined range is stored. That is, a high discount rate is applied to the energy fee for a customer whose risk factor is recognized to be large.

The charge calculation server 30 collects the information from the remote controller 50 of the customer's facility or other databases that provide weather information or the like via a communication network or a public network such as the Internet, or manually by the operator. The factor information receiving means 31 is configured to perform a factor information receiving step of receiving the input factor information capable of recognizing the degree of the risk factor of the accident during bathing in the bathroom 1 of the customer's facility.

More specifically, the factor information receiving means 31 receives the temperature of the bathroom 1 or the outside air temperature of the customer's facility via the communication network 10 as the factor information, or the number of elderly people living in the customer's facility, Recognized from the type of facility (detached or multi-family house), the age of the customer's facility, the airtightness of the customer's facility recognized from the type or age of the facility, the structure of the bathroom 1, or the structure of the bathroom. Accepting the low heat insulation of the bathroom 1 by manual input of an operator,
Alternatively, the daily average temperature or season of the district where the customer's facility is located is received from a database or the like that provides weather information via a communication line or a public network such as the Internet.

These received factor information are stored in the bathroom 1 respectively.
This is information for recognizing the low temperature of the room, that is, the degree of a so-called risk factor of an accident during bathing. The fee calculation server 30 uses the factor degree recognition means 32 to convert the factor information in the bathroom 1 of the customer's facility. Perform a factor recognition process for recognizing the level of risk factors for accidents during bathing.

Then, the charge calculation server 30 uses the discount rate setting means 33 to calculate, from the price DB 26, the discount rate of the gas charge for the low temperature of the bathroom 1 as the degree of the risk factor recognized by the factor degree recognition means 32. A discount rate setting step of extracting the discount rate and setting the discount rate as a discount rate applied to the energy rate charged to the customer is performed, and the discount rate is associated with the customer together with the meter reading data stored in the customer DB 25. Store. Then, the charge calculation server 30
Calculates the gas fee charged to the customer from the meter reading data and the discount rate stored in the customer DB 25 and the energy price stored in the price DB 26 by the fee calculation means 34.

For example, among the bathroom users who use the bathroom 1 of the customer's facility, there is an elderly person or a patient with high blood pressure of a predetermined age or more, and the attribute information of the bathroom user and the outside air temperature are received as the above factor information. In the case, as shown in FIG. 5, the discount rate setting means 33 sets, for example, a discount rate to be applied to a bathroom user who is an elderly person over 65 years old.
Outside air temperature is 10 ° C or less (for example, bathroom temperature is 15 ° C or less)
10%, and 20% when the outside air temperature is 0 ° C. or less (for example, the bathroom temperature is 10 ° C. or less).
The discount rate applied to customers aged 64 years or older or patients with hypertension is 5% when the outside air temperature is 10 ° C. or less (eg, bathroom temperature is 15 ° C. or less), and the outside air temperature is 0 ° C. or less (eg, bathroom When the temperature is 10 ° C. or lower), it can be 10%.

The charge calculation server 30 transmits the discount rate set by the discount rate setting means 33 to the remote controller 50 of the customer's facility via the communication network 10 and displays information on the discount rate. A display step for displaying on the unit 58 is performed. Specifically, the remote controller 50 displays the received discount rate itself on the display unit 58, or, as described above, displays the operating costs of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 and the heat source unit 4 calculated using the discount rate. It is displayed at 58.

According to such an energy fee calculation method,
The display unit 58 of the remote controller 50 indicates that the discount will be made in accordance with the risk factor of the bathing accident on the customer side at that time, so that the customer can read the information displayed on the display unit 58. If the risk factors are large,
Recognizing that energy rates are cheaper,
By operating 0, the operation of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 is started, and as a result, the risk factor of the accident during bathing of the customer is reduced.

The information on the discount rate displayed on the display unit 58 by the remote controller 50 is applied to the energy fee charged to the customer only when the customer operates the bathroom heating / drying machine 3. In a case where the customer does not operate the bathroom heating / drying machine 3, a predetermined fixed energy price may be applied.

That is, as described above, the charge calculation server 30
However, in order to know whether or not the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 has been operated in the customer's facility, the remote control 50 on the customer side starts and stops the operation of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 when the operation starts and stops. The signal is transmitted to the center equipment 20 side via the communication network 10, and the fee calculation server 30 receiving the signal transmits the operation time of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3, which can be recognized from the start time and the stop time of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3, The discount rate set before or during the operation of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 is stored in the customer DB 25. Further, as shown in FIG. 6, the automatic meter reading server 22 collects meter reading data on the pointer value of the gas meter 6 immediately after receiving the operation time start signal of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 and immediately after receiving the operation stop signal. From each meter reading data, bathroom heating dryer 3
Is calculated separately from the supply amount at other times, and stored in the customer DB 25 in association with the information on the energy price.

Then, based on the operation time of the bathroom heater / dryer 3 stored in the customer DB 25 and the discount rate set for the degree of the risk factor and applied in the operation time, the bathroom heater / dryer 3 is stored. Is calculated during operation of the vehicle, and the energy charge during the period when the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 is not operating is calculated from the other supply amount and the fixed energy price, and the sum of both energy charges is calculated. , Will be charged to the customer. Further, the energy charge can be discounted on condition that the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 is operated in a predetermined discount time zone.

Further, the discount rate set as described above is
The present invention can be applied only to the rate of gas supplied to the bathroom heating / drying machine 3. In other words, from the meter reading data collected by the automatic meter reading server 22 immediately after receiving the operation time start signal of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 and immediately after receiving the operation stop signal, the data is sent to the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 as described above. Is calculated, and the discount rate is applied only to the calculated rate of the gas supplied to the bathroom heating / drying machine 3. The supply amount of gas to the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 is as follows:
What measured by the submeter provided separately with respect to the bathroom heating dryer 3 may be used.

[Another Embodiment] Next, another embodiment of the energy charge calculation method and the energy charge calculation system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

<1> In the above embodiment, an example is shown in which the bathing accident support system for executing the bathing accident prevention support method of the present invention is configured in the remote controller 50 at the customer's facility. The bathing accident prevention support system of the present invention may be configured in a computer owned by the customer or a server computer provided in a facility that provides a bathing accident support service. The computer configured as the bathing accident support system receives the temperature of the bathroom 1 and the like, or sets the operating conditions of the bathroom heating / drying machine 3 and the heat source unit 4, etc., through a public network such as the Internet, a dedicated line, Alternatively, it can be configured to be performed via a public line or the like.

<2> In the above embodiment, the bathroom 1 is shown only as the space in which the bathtub 2 is provided.
Even in a dressing room where a bathroom user is before entering the bathroom and after leaving the bathroom, accidents due to cold shock and the like may occur, so in the present application, the bathroom is referred to as a space provided with a bathtub and a dressing room. It may be a space that includes.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating the configuration of a remote controller.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of a display unit of a remote controller.

FIG. 4 is a statistical graph of average temperature and the number of fatalities caused by bathing accidents.

FIG. 5 is a graph illustrating the relationship between the age of the bathroom user, the outside air temperature, and the discount rate.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram for explaining an operation time of a bathroom heating / drying machine and a method of measuring a gas supply amount during the operation.

FIG. 7 is a graph illustrating the relationship between drowning and the number of drowned persons in a bathtub and age.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bathroom 2 Bathtub 3 Bathroom heater / dryer (bathroom heater) 4 Heat source device 6 Gas meter 7 Communication device 10 Communication network (communication line) 20 Center equipment 22 Automatic meter reading server 25 Customer DB 26 Price DB 30 Charge calculation server (Energy charge calculation) 31) Factor information receiving means 32 Factor recognition means 33 Discount rate setting means (discount amount setting means) 34 Charge calculating means 50 Remote control (support system) 52 Temperature receiving means 53 Operating condition calculating means 54 Operating cost calculating means 55 Discount rate Receiving means (discount amount receiving means) 56 Operating condition setting means 58 Display section 59 Operation section

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Hikaru Ozaki 4-1-2 Hirano-cho, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Inside Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. (72) Gen Fujii 4-chome, Hirano-cho, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 1-2 No.2 in Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. 1-2-2, Machi-cho, Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.

Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. An energy charge calculation method executed by an energy charge calculation system for calculating a charge of the energy charged to the customer from an amount of energy supplied to the facility of the customer during a predetermined period, A factor information receiving step of receiving factor information relating to the risk factor of the accident during bathing in a bathroom in a customer facility; and a factor level recognition for recognizing a level of the risk factor from the factor information received in the factor information receiving step. A discount amount setting step of setting a discount amount to be applied to the energy fee based on the degree of the risk factor recognized in the factor degree recognition step, so as to increase as the degree of the risk factor increases. Energy billing method to execute. 2. The energy fee calculation method according to claim 1, wherein the factor information receiving step is a step of receiving the bathroom temperature or the outside air temperature as the factor information. 3. The energy charge calculation method according to claim 1, wherein the factor information receiving step is a step of receiving attribute information of a bathroom user at the customer facility as the factor information. 4. The discount amount display step of displaying information on the discount amount set in the discount amount setting step on a display unit provided at the customer facility. Energy charge calculation method described. 5. The discount amount set in the discount amount setting step is a discount amount applied to a rate of energy supplied to a bathroom heater provided in a bathroom in the customer's facility. 5. The energy charge calculation method according to any one of 4. 6. A temperature receiving step executed by a support system including a display unit capable of displaying predetermined information on a display unit provided at a customer facility, wherein a temperature of a bathroom or an outside air temperature at the facility of the customer is received. And heating the bathroom when raising the temperature of the bathroom, which can be estimated from the temperature of the bathroom received in the temperature receiving step or the outside air temperature, so that the degree of the risk factor of the accident during bathing is reduced to a predetermined degree. An operating condition calculating step of calculating an operating condition of the machine; an operating cost calculating step of calculating an operating cost of the bathroom heater from the operating condition calculated in the operating condition calculating step; and an energy price; The operating condition calculated in the condition calculating step, the operating information regarding the operating cost calculated in the operating cost calculating step, the display means, by the display means, in the display unit Run the Shimesuru display step, bathing in accident prevention support method for supporting action for the prevention of the bathing in the accident by the driver of the customer side the bathroom heater. 7. A discount amount receiving step of receiving the discount amount set in the discount amount setting step of the energy charge calculating method according to claim 1, wherein the operating cost calculation is performed. A step of calculating an operating cost of the bathroom heater from the operating condition calculated in the operating condition calculating step and the energy price to which the discount amount received in the discount amount receiving step is applied. Claim 6
Support method for preventing accidents during bathing as described in. 8. The support system is configured to be able to set an operating condition of the bathroom heater, and based on an operating condition setting command input from the customer,
The accident prevention support during bathing according to claim 6 or 7, wherein an operating condition setting step of setting the operating condition of the bathroom heater to the operating condition calculated in the operating condition calculating step is performed. 9. A meter for measuring the amount of energy supplied to the customer facility is connected to an automatic meter reading system for remote meter reading of the meter via a communication network, and the display means of the support system includes: The bathing accident prevention support method according to any one of claims 6 to 8, wherein predetermined information can be displayed on the display unit via the communication network. 10. The temperature receiving step is a step of receiving the temperature of the bathroom or the outside air temperature and a set hot water temperature of a bathtub in the bathroom. The operating condition calculating step is a risk factor of an accident during bathing. The temperature of the bathroom, which can be estimated from the temperature of the bathroom or the outside air temperature received in the temperature receiving step, and the temperature of the set hot water are reduced so that the degree of the temperature decreases to a predetermined level. It is a step of calculating the operating condition of the bathroom heater and the operating condition of the heat source device for setting the hot water temperature of the bathtub, wherein the operating cost calculating step, the respective operating conditions calculated in the operating condition calculating step, From the price of energy,
The bathing accident prevention support method according to any one of claims 6 to 9, which is a step of calculating operating costs of the bathroom heater and the heat source unit when the bath heater is lowered to a predetermined degree. 11. A bathing accident according to any one of claims 6 to 10, wherein the display system is provided at a customer's facility with a display means capable of displaying predetermined information. A support system including each unit capable of executing each of the steps included in the prevention support method.