JP2015097178A - Lighting control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform lighting control in consideration of priority of user residents.SOLUTION: An HEMS (Home Energy Management System) 30 defines lighting control modes by resident in association with resident ID information, and also pre-stores a lighting control table by resident which defines priority of residents for lighting control in association with resident ID information. Also, the HEMS 30 performs lighting control associated with resident ID information acquired by authentication units 64 and 72 by referring to the lighting control table by resident, and when there are a plurality of pieces of resident ID information, preferentially performs control associated with the resident ID information having the highest priority.

Description

  The present invention relates to a lighting control system in a building.

  There is a technology for centrally managing personal information of a resident of a building and managing facilities based on the personal information. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a building facility management apparatus that performs personal authentication of a resident with an ID reader and controls on / off of each facility device.

JP 2010-39875 A

  The building equipment management device described in Patent Literature 1 is a method in which the resident's route in the building is grasped in advance based on the resident's action taken by the surveillance camera provided in the building, and the resident enters the building. Control is performed to turn on the lighting equipment along the route of the resident. However, the building equipment management apparatus described in Patent Document 1 has a problem that when a plurality of residents are in the same place, it is not considered which resident is given priority to control lighting.

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above facts, and an object of the present invention is to provide a lighting control system capable of controlling lighting in consideration of the priority of residents.

  According to a first aspect of the present invention for solving the above-described problems, the identification information acquisition means for acquiring the identification information of the user from the IC tag of the user, and the lighting control mode are associated with the identification information of the user. A storage unit storing user-specific lighting control information that defines the priority of the user in the control of the lighting in association with the identification information of the user, and the user-specific lighting control information with reference to the user-specific lighting control information Control the illumination associated with the identification information acquired by the identification information acquisition means, and prioritize the control associated with the identification information of the user with the highest priority when there are a plurality of the acquired identification information. And a control device that performs automatically.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, with reference to the user-specific lighting control information that defines the priority of the user in the lighting control in association with the identification information of the user, the identification information of the user with the highest priority is obtained. The associated control can be preferentially performed.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the information processing apparatus further comprises input means for inputting matters relating to the lighting control information for each user, and registration of insomnia to the user via the input means. When input is made, the control unit sets the user registered for sleeplessness to the top of the priority of the lighting control information for each user.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to set the priority of the user registered for sleeplessness to the top.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the second aspect of the present invention, the control means registers the insomnia for a predetermined number of users.

  According to the third aspect of the invention, by limiting the number of users who can perform sleeplessness registration to a predetermined number, it is possible to limit the users who give top priority to control.

  The invention according to claim 4 is the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the lighting control information for each user associates the lighting time and extinguishing time of the lighting with the identification information of the user. In addition to defining for each user, if the illumination can change the luminous intensity, the mode of changing the luminous intensity and the time for changing the luminous intensity are defined for each user in association with the identification information of the user. .

  According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to control lighting on / off of the lighting or change of the luminous intensity of the lighting for each user.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to the fourth aspect, the user lighting control table includes a plurality of lighting times, a lighting time and a lighting time for each of the lightings, and the plurality of lightings. The mode of changing the luminous intensity of the illumination that can change the luminous intensity and the time for changing the luminous intensity are defined for each user in association with the identification information of the user.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to control lighting on and off of the plurality of lights and change of the light intensity of the lights for each user.

  As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the lighting in consideration of the priority of the resident who is the user is performed by preferentially performing the control associated with the identification information of the user having the highest priority. This has the effect that it becomes possible to control.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, the priority of the insomnia registered user is set to the top, so that the lighting can be controlled in consideration of the priority of the resident who is the user.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, it is possible to control the lighting in consideration of the priority of the resident who is the user by limiting the users who give the highest priority to the control.

  According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, lighting on / off and lighting intensity change can be controlled for each user, and lighting control can be performed in consideration of the priority order of residents who are users. It has the effect.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to control lighting on / off and change of the light intensity of the lighting for each of the plurality of lights for each user, and to consider the priority of the resident who is the user. It has the effect that control becomes possible.

It is the schematic which shows an example of the illumination control system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of HEMS in the illumination control system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the lighting control table classified by resident which prescribed | regulated lighting control of the lighting control system which concerns on embodiment of this invention according to the resident. It is the schematic which shows an example of the control of the lighting in a bedroom based on the lighting control table according to residents of the lighting control system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the process of HEMS in the illumination control system which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, an example of the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a lighting control system 10 according to the present embodiment. In the present embodiment, power from the grid power 12 is supplied to the distribution board 14 of the building 100 via the main breaker 110.

  A main breaker current sensor 120 that detects a current value of power supplied from the grid power 12 is provided on the distribution board 14 side of the main breaker 110. The power supplied from the system power 12 to the distribution board 14 is distributed to the power load means provided in the bedroom 56 and the living room 58 and the electric lock 52 provided in the door 66 via the branch circuits 20A to 20E. .

  In the present embodiment, as an example, the branch circuits 20A and 20B are led to a bedroom 56 provided with a bed 68. The branch circuit 20A is connected to the sub-light 18 and the branch circuit 20B is connected to the main light 26. The branch circuits 20C and 20D are led to the living room 58, the branch circuit 20C is connected to the television 32, and the branch circuit 20D is connected to the lighting 28. The branch circuit 20E is connected to the electric lock 52. In the present embodiment, each of the sub-illumination 18, the main illumination 26, and the illumination 28 can be controlled by a HEMS (Home Energy Management System) 30 and is turned on or off under the control of the HEMS 30.

  The branch circuits 20A to 20E are provided with current sensors 22A to 22E for measuring the current values of the branch circuits 20A to 20E, respectively. The information lines from the current sensors 22 </ b> A to 22 </ b> E are connected to the HEMS 30 together with the information line from the main breaker current sensor 120 and the information line for controlling and controlling the distribution board 14. Yes. In FIG. 1, the broken line is an information line through which measurement data or control information flows. The current values detected by the current sensors 22A to 22E are associated when the current values are detected, and are stored in the memory of the HEMS 30 as detection results of the current sensors 22A to 22E.

  The branch circuits 20A to 20E of the distribution board 14 are respectively provided with branch breakers 24A to 24E for switching the branch circuits 20A to 20E to an on state or an off state, and the branch breakers 24A to 24E are controlled by the HEMS 30. . In FIG. 1, for simplicity of description, only five branch circuits are shown, but in this embodiment, the number of branch circuits may be five or more and five or less, and the number of branch circuits is not particularly limited. .

  An electric lock 52 is connected to the HEMS 30. The HEMS 30 determines whether or not the authentication information input to the electric lock 52 using an electronic key or the like applying an IC tag is appropriate, and locks or unlocks the electric lock 52 if the determination is affirmative. The authentication division method for unlocking the electric lock 52 is so-called ID information for specifying a resident who is a user. The ID information includes, for example, a plurality of characters or symbols, and has a different configuration for each resident.

  The ID information is read by the authenticators 64 and 72 even when the resident enters the bedroom 56 and the living room 58. An authenticator 64 is provided near the door 62 of the bedroom 56, and an authenticator 72 is provided near the door 70 of the living room 58. When the resident with the electronic key enters the bedroom 56 or the living room 58, the ID information of the electronic key is read by the authenticators 64 and 72, and the read ID information is transmitted to the HEMS 30. The HEMS 30 controls each lighting of the bedroom 56 or the living room 58 based on the ID information read by the authenticators 64 and 72.

  There are the following two types of electronic keys using IC tags. One is an active type that transmits radio waves including ID information to the authenticator. The other is a passive type in which power is temporarily charged by electromagnetic waves from the authenticator when it is brought close to the authenticator, and ID information is transmitted by NFC (Near Field Communication) with the charged power. In this embodiment, either the active type or the passive type may be used. However, the active type is superior in that the resident can handle it without being aware of the operation of the electronic key. Next, the illumination control system 10 according to the present embodiment will be described.

  The HEMS 30 is connected to a termination device 54 that is a gateway, and is connected to the network 80 via the termination device 54. Connected to the network 80 is an information server 90 of an information center that provides information relating to housing and home security to the building 100, and the HEMS 30 can appropriately acquire information on housing and home security from the information server 90.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the HEMS 30 according to the illumination control system according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 2, the HEMS 30 includes a CPU 36, a ROM 38, a RAM 40, and an input / output port 42. These include a bus 44 such as an address bus, a data bus, and a control bus. Are connected to each other.

  A display unit 46, an operation unit 48, and a memory 50 are connected to the input / output port 42 as various input / output devices. The display unit 46 and the operation unit 48 are integrally configured, and a touch panel provided on the display unit 46 can be applied to the operation unit 48.

  The display unit 46 can display information such as the power consumption of the building 100 and the operating status of each lighting. The memory 50 executes a program for controlling the branch breakers 24A to 24E, a program for calculating power consumption in the building 100 based on the detection results of the current sensors 22A to 22E, a program for controlling each lighting, and these programs Various information and the like are stored. The HEMS 30 expands the program stored in the memory 50 to the RAM 40 or the like and executes it by the CPU 36, thereby performing various controls such as control of power supplied to the building 100, calculation of power consumption, and control of each illumination. It has become.

  The power consumption of the building 100 can be calculated from the current values detected by the current sensors 22A to 22E. Since the voltage supplied from the distribution board 14 is approximately 100 V, in this embodiment, the current value detected by each current sensor is multiplied by 100 to calculate the power consumption. However, in a branch circuit with a large voltage fluctuation, a means for measuring the voltage may be provided separately. The input / output port 42 of the HEMS 30 is connected to the distribution board 14, the authenticators 64 and 72, the lights, the electric lock 52, the termination device 54, and the like.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a lighting control table for each resident that defines lighting control for each resident by the lighting control system 10 according to the present embodiment. The lighting control table for each resident shown in FIG. 3 defines the lighting control mode for each resident by associating the lighting control mode with the resident ID information, and sets the priority of the resident in the lighting control. The lighting control table for each resident shown in FIG. 3 stored in the memory 50 of the HEMS 30 includes ID information for identifying each resident and that the resident tends to sleep. The insomnia registration to be shown and the priority order of residents are described. Further, in the lighting control table for each resident in FIG. 3, “sleep preference”, which is a lighting control during sleep, a bedtime, and a wake-up time are described. Insomnia registration can be registered only for a certain number of people, for example, one person. If you register for insomnia for a certain resident, the priority of that resident automatically becomes the first, regardless of the presence or absence of other resident Each lighting is controlled by the user's “sleep preference” setting. The insomnia registration can be input through the operation unit 48 of the HEMS 30, and the lighting control table for each resident whose insomnia registration is performed and the priority order is changed is stored in the memory 50 of the HEMS 30.

  In FIG. 3, the bedtime and the wake-up time are described, but the lighting time and the lighting time may be defined in association with the resident ID information. In addition, when the intensity of illumination can be changed stepwise or continuously, the mode of changing the intensity of illumination and the time for changing the intensity of illumination may be defined in association with the resident ID information. Examples of the mode of changing the luminous intensity of illumination include “reduced to 50% of maximum luminous intensity” or “changed from minimum luminous intensity to 70% of maximum luminous intensity”.

  Further, when a plurality of illuminations are provided, the lighting time and extinguishing time of each of the plurality of illuminations, the mode of changing the luminous intensity of the illumination that can change the luminous intensity, and the time for changing the luminous intensity of the illumination It may be defined in association with the resident ID information.

  In the present embodiment, for example, ID information transmitted from an electronic key held by the resident is acquired by the authenticator 64 for the resident who has entered the bedroom 56, and the HEMS 30 refers to the above-described lighting control table for each resident. Then, the illumination associated with the ID information acquired by the authenticator 64 is controlled. When there are a plurality of acquired ID information, the control associated with the ID information of the resident who has the highest priority is preferentially performed.

  FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of lighting control in the bedroom 56 based on the resident-specific lighting control table of the lighting control system 10 according to the present embodiment. The second-priority second user wife enters the bedroom 56 first, the main light 26 is turned on, and the second user's sleep preference is set by the second user at bedtime. Is turned off and the main illumination 26 is turned off.

  When the husband who is the first user with the highest priority enters the room, the sub-light 18 is turned on. Thereafter, during the first user's bedtime, the lighting control of the sub-light 18 that is the first user's “sleep preference” is performed according to the resident-specific lighting control table of FIG. Will continue until.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the priority of the resident who has registered for sleeplessness is set to the top, and the lighting is controlled by the setting of “preference for sleep” of the resident who has the highest priority. In FIG. 4, when the first user enters the room, the main illumination 26 may be turned on instead of the sub-illumination 18, but it is darker than the main illumination 26 because the second user is already sleeping. Only the sub-light 18 is turned on when the first user enters the room.

  Subsequently, control of the HEMS 30 according to the present embodiment will be described. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an example of processing of the HEMS 30 in the lighting control system according to the present embodiment. After the start, it waits for the authenticator to acquire the resident's ID information, and if the ID information is acquired in step 500 (affirmative determination), it is acquired by referring to the lighting control table for each resident in step 502 It is determined whether the priority order of the resident according to the ID information is first. If the determination in step 502 is affirmative, in step 504, the lighting is controlled according to the setting of the resident who has the highest priority, and the process ends.

  In the case of negative determination in step 502, the lighting is controlled with the setting described in the resident-specific lighting control table of the resident according to the ID information acquired in step 506, and the acquisition of ID information is continuously waited. When ID information is acquired at step 508 (affirmative determination), it is determined at step 510 whether the priority order of the resident according to the acquired ID information is first, with reference to the lighting control table for each resident. If the determination in step 510 is affirmative, in step 504, the lighting is controlled according to the setting of the resident who has the highest priority, and the process ends.

  In the case of negative determination in step 510, in step 512, it is determined whether or not the resident related to the ID information acquired in step 508 is superior to the resident related to the ID information acquired so far. Determine based on the table. If the determination in step 512 is affirmative, the lighting is controlled with the resident setting of the ID information newly acquired in step 514, and the procedure proceeds to step 508. If the determination in step 512 is negative, the current control is continued and the procedure proceeds to step 508. In the present embodiment, when the authenticators 64 and 72 detect the occupant leaving the room, among the residents remaining in the room, the setting of the resident with the highest priority in the lighting control table for each resident is made. Control the lighting with.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to control the lighting in consideration of the priority of the resident who is the user by the control based on the lighting control table for each resident.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Illumination control system 12 System electric power 14 Distribution board 18 Sub illumination 26 Main illumination 28 Illumination 36 CPU
38 ROM
40 RAM
42 I / O port 44 Bus 46 Display unit 48 Operation unit 50 Memory 56 Bedroom 58 Living 62 Door 64 Authentication unit 70 Door 72 Authentication unit 100 Building

Claims (5)

Identification information acquisition means for acquiring identification information of the user from the IC tag of the user;
Lighting control information for each user that defines a lighting control mode in association with the identification information of the user for each user and defines the priority of the user in the lighting control in association with the identification information of the user. Memorized storage means;
While controlling the illumination associated with the identification information acquired by the identification information acquisition means with reference to the user-specific illumination control information, and having a plurality of the acquired identification information, the user with the highest priority A control device that preferentially performs control associated with the identification information;
Lighting control system with. Further comprising an input means for inputting items related to the user-specific lighting control information;
The control means sets the insomnia registered user to the top of the priority of the user-specific lighting control information when an insomnia registration is input to the user via the input means. The illumination control system according to 1.   The lighting control system according to claim 2, wherein the control unit registers the insomnia for a predetermined number of users.   The lighting control information for each user specifies the lighting time and the lighting time of the lighting in association with the identification information of the user for each user, and when the lighting can change the light intensity, The illumination control system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a change mode and a time for changing the intensity of the illumination are defined for each user in association with the identification information of the user.   In the user illumination control table, when a plurality of the illuminations are provided, the lighting time and extinguishing time of each of the plurality of lightings, and the lighting intensity change mode capable of changing the luminous intensity among the plurality of lightings and The lighting control system according to claim 4, wherein a time for changing the luminous intensity is defined for each user in association with identification information of the user.

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