JP2006232412A - Remote control system for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a remote control system for an elevator capable of realizing prevention and monitoring of mischievous remote operation of the elevator. <P>SOLUTION: The remote control system for the elevator is operated in response to requirement of a user through a portable terminal 120 and includes an elevator side communication function 112 communicatable with the portable terminal; an operation function 113 for executing operation of the elevator based on command from the communication function; and a monitoring function 114 for monitoring existence of a passenger of the elevator when the elevator is operated based on the command from the communication function. When the elevator is operated based on the requirement from the portable terminal, existence of the passenger of the elevator is monitored. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an Internet-enabled elevator remote control system.

  In a conventional elevator remote control system, it is possible to know call registration of an elevator and the state of the elevator from a remote portable terminal via the Internet (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2002-114456 A

  In such an elevator remote control system, the owner of the mobile terminal makes a prank call registration and deteriorates the operation efficiency of the elevator, or acquires the status of the elevator for purposes other than boarding, infringing on the privacy of others. There was a problem of fear.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to obtain an elevator remote control system capable of preventing and monitoring mischievous remote operation of the elevator.

  An elevator remote control system according to the present invention operates in response to a request from a user via a portable terminal, and is based on an elevator-side communication function capable of communicating with the portable terminal and an instruction from the communication function. When an elevator is operated based on a request from a mobile terminal, including an operation function that executes an operation and a monitoring function that monitors the presence or absence of passengers in the elevator when the elevator is operated based on a command from the communication function It monitors the presence or absence of passengers in the elevator.

  According to the present invention, since this monitoring function is provided, it is possible to prevent and monitor the mischievous remote operation of the portable terminal holder, and to prevent a decrease in operation efficiency and privacy infringement.

The elevator remote control system according to the present invention includes a mobile terminal and an elevator control device, and the elevator control device and the mobile terminal can communicate with each other. The user requests an elevator operation and information from the elevator control device via the portable terminal. In this specification, the mobile terminal has communication means capable of communicating with the elevator control device, and includes, for example, a mobile phone, a PHS (Personal Handyphone System), a PDA (Personal Digital Assistance), and a notebook computer. In addition, a dedicated portable terminal only for requesting operations and information from the elevator control device is also included.
The communication means that the elevator control device and the portable terminal can communicate with each other differs depending on the communication method. When the Internet is used for communication between the elevator control device and the mobile terminal, for example, the mobile phone has an application such as a web browser that can be connected to the Internet. The user connects to the Internet via an application held in the mobile phone and receives information from the Internet. On the other hand, the elevator control device has a web server connected to the Internet in order to provide information to the user via an application. Information is communicated over the Internet from the application to the web server and vice versa.
As other communication means, for example, in the case of via a LAN (Local Area Network), there are a wireless LAN, an infrared communication device that communicates an elevator control device and a portable terminal without going through a network or the like.
Hereinafter, an embodiment using the application and the web server will be described, but this does not limit the communication means to the application and the web server. A communication method using the application and the web server as communication means is appropriately selected from communication methods between the portable terminal and the elevator control device.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 shows an remote control system 100 for an eleven beta according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. The elevator remote control system 100 includes an elevator control device 110 and a mobile phone 120 as a mobile terminal, and is connected via the Internet 130. The elevator control device 110 is connected to the car 140.
The elevator control device 110 has a web server 111 connected to the Internet 130 as a communication means with a mobile phone 120 described later, and the web server 111 has a transmission / reception function 112 as a communication function via the Internet, which is a basic function. The elevator control device 110 has an operation function 113 for operating the elevator in response to a request from the mobile phone 120, a monitoring function 114 for monitoring the elevator in response to a request from the mobile phone 120, and setting data 115 related to the system.
The mobile phone 120 has an application 121 that can be connected to the Internet 130. This application 121 has a transmission / reception function 122 as a communication function via the Internet as a basic function.
The car 140 is a sensor 141 that can monitor and confirm the presence / absence of passengers in the car, for example, a load measuring sensor, weight sensor, photoelectric sensor, temperature sensor, camera, or a combination thereof that an elevator must have for detecting fullness. Have a sensor.

Hereinafter, call registration and monitoring operation in the elevator remote control system 100 according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to the processing flow of FIG.
The user who owns the mobile phone 120 first activates the application 121 and connects to the Internet 130 using the transmission / reception function 122 (F11). A user who owns the mobile phone 120 via the Internet 130 accesses the web server 111 of the elevator control device 110 and transmits a request for landing call registration to the web server 111 (F12).
When the transmission / reception function 112 of the web server 111 of the elevator controller 110 receives the landing call registration request, it transmits a landing call registration command to the operation function 113 (F13), and the landing call is registered in the elevator (F14).
When the elevator arrives at the landing call registration floor, opens and closes the door, and leaves the landing call registration floor (F15), the monitoring function 114 uses the sensor 141 installed in the car 140 to allow passengers to enter the elevator. Whether or not there are passengers (F16), and the result is described in the monitoring log (F17).
If the sensor 141 is capable of personal identification, the monitoring function 114 may check whether a person who has called and registered with the mobile phone 120 is on board and may describe it in the monitoring log.
When a load measuring sensor is used as the sensor 141, a load factor learning logic may be incorporated in the monitoring function 114 so that more accurate measurement is possible. That is, periodically measure the load factor of a car that has no call in the car and no landing call at each floor and is in a stopped state, and update the load factor setting data 115 when there is no passenger for each floor, The presence or absence of a passenger is confirmed by comparing the difference between the measured load factor and the setting data 115.

  According to the first embodiment, in the remote control system for an elevator that can remotely operate the elevator, it is possible to monitor that the holder of the portable terminal performs remote operation unnecessarily.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
In the first embodiment, the monitoring function 114 monitors the mischievous remote operation by checking the presence or absence of passengers in the car, but not the presence or absence of passengers in the car, as shown in FIG. The mobile phone 120 may have a location information transmission function 123, and the monitoring function 114 may confirm the current location of the user who owns the mobile phone 120 to prevent mischievous remote operation.

Hereinafter, call registration and monitoring operations in the elevator remote control system 100 according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to the processing flow of FIG.
When the transmission / reception function 112 of the web server 111 of the elevator controller 110 receives the landing call registration request (F21), it requests the mobile phone 120 for the current position information (F22). The user who owns the mobile phone 120 receives the request for the current position information (F23), and transmits the current position information to the transmission / reception function 112 of the web server 111 by the position information transmission function 123 (F24). The transmission / reception function 112 of the web server 111 that has received the information passes the information to the monitoring function 114 (F25).
The current location information may be transmitted by using a general service of a mobile phone company, or information that cannot be known without being at the platform, for example, password or barcode information displayed near the platform, or near the platform You may make it transmit the information obtained from the infrared device installed in the.
In addition, when the current position information can be automatically acquired without being transmitted from the user, for example, the trigonometry from the base station that transmits the radio wave of the mobile phone 120 or the GPS used for the car navigation system is used. Use the general service of the mobile phone company used, or use the communication that can use the trigonometry from the base station that transmits the mobile terminal's radio waves, or the access point that the mobile terminal made can be acquired on the server side Alternatively, when the mobile terminal has a GPS and location information can be acquired on the server side, the current location information may be acquired when a call registration request is received.
The monitoring function 114 compares the current position information received from the web server 111 with the information in the setting data 115 (F26), and if the mobile phone 120 is located away from the elevator, an error is returned to the web server 111, If the web server 111 receives an error from the monitoring function 114, the web server 111 does not command the landing call registration and returns an error to the mobile phone 120 (F27).

As described above, the operation when the user performs call registration has been described, but the same applies to the confirmation of the in-car image or the status acquisition of the current floor of the elevator on the premise of boarding instead of call registration. It is possible to prevent the acquisition of the in-car image and the status of the current floor of the elevator.
That is, for example, when the transmission / reception function 112 of the web server 111 receives the in-car image confirmation request, the mobile phone 120 requests the current location information, and the user who owns the mobile phone 120 uses the location information transmission function 123 to send the current location information. The transmission / reception function 112 of the web server 111 that has received the information passes the information to the monitoring function 114. The monitoring function 114 collates the current position information received from the web server 111, and returns an error to the web server 111 when the mobile phone 120 is located away from the elevator. When receiving an error from the monitoring function, the web server 111 returns an error to the mobile phone 120 instead of the in-car image.

  According to this embodiment, in the elevator control system capable of remotely operating the elevator, it is possible to prevent the holder of the portable terminal from performing remote operations unnecessarily.

It is the schematic which shows the remote control system of the elevator in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart of the process implemented by the remote control system of the elevator in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is the schematic which shows the mobile telephone of the remote control system of the elevator in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a flowchart of the process implemented by the remote control system of the elevator in Embodiment 2 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

100 Elevator Remote Control System, 110 Elevator Control Device, 111 Web Server, 112 Transmission / Reception Function, 113 Operation Function, 114 Monitoring Function, 115 Setting Data, 120 Mobile Phone, 121 Application, 122 Transmission / Reception Function, 123 Location Information Transmission Function, 130 Internet, 140 baskets, 141 sensors.

Claims (5)

An elevator remote control device that operates in response to a request from a user via a portable terminal,
Elevator side communication function capable of communicating with the mobile terminal,
An operation function for executing an elevator operation based on a command from the communication function;
Including a monitoring function for monitoring the presence or absence of passengers in the elevator when the elevator is operated based on a command from the communication function,
An elevator remote control system that monitors the presence or absence of passengers in an elevator when the elevator is operated based on a request from a portable terminal.   The remote control system for an elevator according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring of the presence or absence of a passenger includes any one of a load measurement sensor, a weight sensor, a photoelectric sensor, a temperature sensor, and a camera. An elevator remote control device that operates in response to a request from a user via a portable terminal,
Elevator side communication function capable of communicating with the mobile terminal,
An operation function for executing an elevator operation based on a command from the communication function;
A monitoring function for monitoring current position information of the mobile terminal when an elevator is operated based on a command from the communication function,
An elevator remote control system characterized by monitoring current position information of the portable terminal when the elevator is operated based on a request from the portable terminal.   The elevator remote control system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the request from the user via the portable terminal is call registration. The elevator remote control system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the request from the user via the portable terminal is confirmation of an in-car image.

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