CN109789985B

CN109789985B - Passenger movement state output device and method

Info

Publication number: CN109789985B
Application number: CN201780049210.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 藤原正康; 吉川敏文; 星野孝道; 鸟谷部训; 羽鸟贵大
Original assignee: Hitachi Ltd
Current assignee: Hitachi Ltd
Priority date: 2016-09-29
Filing date: 2017-08-08
Publication date: 2021-03-30
Anticipated expiration: 2037-08-08
Also published as: JP2018052681A; WO2018061488A1; CN109789985A; EP3521230A1; JP6655519B2; KR20190028512A; EP3521230A4

Abstract

It is difficult to evaluate how the time a passenger moves within the building varies depending on the structure of the elevator. Therefore, the passenger movement state output device (100) of the present invention comprises: movement time calculation units (101, 103) for acquiring, for each user, a first movement time taken for the user to move from the entrance of the user into the building to the elevator hall, a waiting time taken for the user to get on the elevator hall, and a second movement time taken for the user to move from the arrival at the elevator hall to the arrival at the destination floor, collecting information on the first movement time, the waiting time, and the second movement time, and calculating movement time statistical information of the user from the entrance into the building to the arrival at the destination floor; and a display unit (105) for displaying the total movement time, wherein the movement time calculation unit calculates the movement time statistical information in the first elevator structure and the movement time statistical information in the second elevator structure, and the display unit displays the movement time statistical information in the first elevator structure and the movement time statistical information in the second elevator structure together.

Description

Passenger movement state output device and method

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a device and a method for evaluating a passenger movement state.

Background

With the increase in the number of stories and the increase in the size of buildings, the transportation capacity required for elevators has increased. Although the transport capacity can be ensured by increasing the number of elevators, the floor area is crushed. Therefore, diversification of elevator structures such as a Multi-floor (Multi-bank) system in which the destinations of elevators are divided into a plurality of groups such as a low-rise floor and a high-rise floor and the like, an air lobby system in which elevators are transferred to intermediate floors by shuttle elevators, and a combination of the air lobby system and the Multi-floor system have been progressing. From the standpoint of passengers who stand on various elevators, it is important to smoothly move from the entrance of a building to the respective destinations.

Patent document 1 discloses a technique of combining a floor-based human flow simulator for simulating the movement of a human, an elevator movement simulator for simulating the movement of an elevator, and an elevator boarding/alighting simulator for simulating the boarding/alighting of a human to an elevator, thereby simulating the flow of a human in the horizontal and vertical directions in a building uniformly and displaying the flow of a human in a floor and the operation state of an elevator.

Prior art documents

Patent document

Patent document 1: japanese laid-open patent publication No. 2009-096612

Disclosure of Invention

Problems to be solved by the invention

However, the technique described in patent document 1 does not consider a case where the structure of the elevator is changed. The time during which passengers move in the building may vary depending on the structure of the elevator, but the technique described in patent document 1 cannot evaluate this point.

Means for solving the problems

In order to achieve the above object, a passenger movement state output device according to the present invention includes: a travel time calculation unit that acquires, for each user, a first travel time taken for the user to travel from the user entering the building to the elevator hall, a waiting time taken for the user to travel from the user arriving at the elevator hall to the elevator hall, and a second travel time taken for the user to travel from the user arriving at the elevator hall to the user arriving at the destination floor, collects information on the first travel time, the waiting time, and the second travel time, and calculates statistical information on the travel times of the users from the user entering the building to the user arriving at the destination floor; and a display unit for displaying the total moving time, wherein the moving time calculation unit calculates the moving time statistical information under the first elevator structure and the moving time statistical information under the second elevator structure, and the display unit displays the moving time statistical information under the first elevator structure and the moving time statistical information under the second elevator structure together.

Effects of the invention

According to the present invention, it is possible to evaluate how the time for a passenger to move in a building changes depending on the structure of an elevator.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is an illustration showing the structure of a passenger movement situation output device in embodiment 1.

Fig. 2 is an example of a method for calculating the average travel time of the inter-floor travel in example 1.

Fig. 3 is an illustration showing an outline of the passenger movement status output device processing flow in embodiment 1.

Fig. 4 is a diagram showing an example of operation performance data of an elevator in embodiment 1.

Fig. 5 is a diagram showing an example of temporary data for calculating the waiting time in embodiment 1.

Fig. 6 is a diagram showing an example of temporary data calculated by the inter-floor travel time in embodiment 1.

Fig. 7 is a diagram showing an example of data in the multi-layer area system as passenger movement route data in embodiment 1.

Fig. 8 is a diagram showing an example of data in the lobby mode as passenger movement route data in embodiment 3.

Fig. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a movement line diagram of a passenger who moves from an entrance to each floor in embodiment 1.

Fig. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a movement diagram of a passenger moving from a building entrance to each floor in embodiment 1.

Fig. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a movement diagram of a passenger moving from a building entrance to each floor in embodiment 1.

Fig. 12 is a diagram showing an example of operation performance data of a destination floor reservation-type elevator in example 2.

Fig. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a movement diagram of a passenger moving from each floor to a building entrance in embodiment 1.

Fig. 14 is a diagram showing an example of data of the inter-floor movement of the passenger calculated by the passenger movement status output device in embodiment 1.

Fig. 15 is a diagram showing an example of data of the passenger's elevator waiting time calculated by the passenger movement status output device in embodiment 1.

Fig. 16 is a diagram comparing the floor stop operation and the through operation in the inter-floor movement of the elevator in example 1.

Fig. 17 is a diagram showing a calculation formula for calculating the inter-floor travel time by the passenger travel state output device in example 1.

Fig. 18 is a diagram showing an example of a diagram comparing a plurality of movement diagrams in example 1.

Fig. 19 is a diagram showing an example of a movement line diagram of a passenger moving from a building entrance to each floor in a building of the air lobby system in embodiment 3.

Detailed Description

Hereinafter, details of embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Example 1

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the passenger movement state output device and method according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

< device Structure >

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing one embodiment of the structure of a passenger movement situation output device. The structure of the passenger movement state output device will be described with reference to fig. 1. The passenger movement state output device 100 includes data of operation performance data 111 and layout data 112 of an elevator, and further includes: a floor movement time calculation unit 101 that calculates movement time from each elevator hall to an arbitrary point in a floor including an entrance based on distance information read from the building layout using layout data as input; a passenger elevator waiting time calculation unit 102 for calculating a statistical index value of the passenger elevator waiting time using the elevator operation performance data 111 as input; a passenger inter-floor travel time calculation unit 103 for calculating a statistical index value of the passenger inter-floor travel time using the elevator operation performance data 111 as input; a movement line graph output unit 104 that outputs a movement line graph in which the statistical index values of the movement times of the respective locations in the building are plotted, to movement line graph data 113, by using as input the movement times from the elevator lobbies to an arbitrary location in the floor calculated by the floor movement time calculation unit 101, the statistical index values of the elevator waiting times of the passengers calculated by the elevator waiting time calculation unit 102 of the passengers, the statistical index values of the floor movement times of the passengers calculated by the floor movement time calculation unit 103 of the passengers, and the movement routes of the passengers read from the layout data 112; and a moving line graph comparison display unit 105 that receives one or more moving line graphs from the moving line graph data 113, superimposes the moving line graphs, compares the moving line graphs, and outputs the superimposed moving line graphs.

The above completes the description of the configuration of the passenger movement state output device shown in fig. 1.

< description of data >

Next, characteristic data in the present embodiment will be described with reference to fig. 4, 5, 6, and 7.

Fig. 4 shows an example of the operation performance data 111 of the elevator. Column 401 shows the moment when a change of state in connection with an elevator occurs. Column 402 shows the target elevator only when the elevator of a specific elevator is targeted. Column 403 shows the changed state of the elevator. Column 404 shows the traveling directions up and down of the object number only in the case where column 402 shows the object number. The column 405 shows the position (floor) of the target car in the case where the column 402 shows the target car, and shows the position (floor) of the event in which the state change has occurred in the other cases. Column 406 shows the estimated number of people riding the elevator for the subject elevator only if column 402 shows the subject elevator. The operation performance data of the elevator is recorded in the order of the time of the column 401.

In the record 411 it is shown that at time 8:49:04 the call button for movement in the upward direction in the elevator lobby of floor 1 is pressed. In record 412, it is shown that at time 8:49:35, the car # 1 is going to travel in the up direction and is opening the door at level 1 and the number of people riding the elevator is 0. Record 413 shows that at time 8:49:45, machine No. 1 is going to travel in the up direction and is closing at floor 1, and the number of people on the elevator at this time is 4.

Fig. 5 shows intermediate data when the waiting time of the elevator and the number of waiting persons are calculated by the elevator waiting time calculation unit 102 of the passenger based on the operation performance data 111 of the elevator. Column 501 shows the floor where the waiting time of the elevator is calculated, column 502 shows the waiting time, column 503 shows the traveling direction of the elevator, and column 504 shows the number of waiting persons. The waiting time is set as the time from the pressing of a call button in the elevator hall in the direction to be moved to the initial opening of the door of the elevator in the same direction as the pressed button. This waiting time is the waiting time of the passenger initially arriving at the elevator lobby and can be considered as the maximum value of the waiting time. Here, it is also possible to assume that passengers arrive at the same interval and set the average value of the waiting time to a half value. The number of waiting persons is assumed to be the difference between the number of persons who take the elevator at the time point when the elevator is opened and the number of persons who take the elevator at the time point when the elevator is closed.

In fig. 5, the passenger's elevator waiting time calculation unit 102 in fig. 1 outputs the waiting time and the number of waiting persons for each call of an elevator and the arrival and departure of an elevator corresponding to the call as intermediate data when calculating the passenger's elevator waiting time.

The method of calculating each record in fig. 5 will be described with reference to fig. 4.

In the record 511, the operation performance data 111 of the elevator in fig. 4 calculates the waiting time 31 seconds from the time when the call button of the elevator is pressed at the time point of the record 411 until the elevator 1 arrives and opens the door at the time point of the record 412, and calculates the number of passengers 4 from the difference between the number of passengers at the time point of the door opening of the record 412 and the number of passengers at the time point of the door closing of the record 413.

In the record 512, in the operation performance data 111 of the elevator in fig. 4, the waiting time 17 seconds is calculated from the time from the pressing of the call button of the elevator at the time point of the record 414 until the arrival and the opening of the elevator 2 at the time point of the record 417, and the number of persons waiting 2 is calculated from the difference between the number of persons taking the elevator at the time point of the opening of the record 417 and the number of persons taking the elevator at the time point of the closing of the record 419.

Fig. 15 shows an example of data of the elevator waiting time of the passenger calculated and outputted by the passenger elevator waiting time calculating unit 102, and the data is calculated from the temporary data of fig. 5. The statistical indicator of the waiting time is recorded for each elevator floor zone and for each stopping floor. When the statistical index value is an average value, 1501 shows that the average waiting time is 43 seconds when the lower layer coverage is used for the 1 layer, and 1502 shows that the average waiting time is 40 seconds when the upper layer coverage is used for the 1 layer.

Fig. 14 shows an example of data of the inter-floor travel time of the passenger calculated and outputted by the inter-floor travel time calculating unit 103 of the passenger, which is calculated from the temporary data of fig. 6. A statistical index value of inter-floor travel time from a reference floor to each stop floor is recorded for each elevator floor area. Here, 1401 represents that the average moving time from floor 1 to floor 2 in the low floor zone is 16 seconds, assuming that the reference floor is floor 1 and the statistical index value is an average value. 1402 shows an average moving time from 1 layer to 3 layers in the low layer region of 31 seconds. 1403 shows that the average moving time from 1 layer to 7 layers in the higher layer region is 39 seconds. 1404 shows that the average move time from layer 1 to layer 8 in the higher layer zone is 54 seconds. Here, the reason why the moving time from floor 1 to floor 2 and floor 1 to floor 3 does not linearly increase is because, regarding the movement from floor 1 to floor 3, the moving time changes depending on the passengers on the elevator riding, in the case of directly moving to floor 3 without stopping at floor 2 from floor 1 and in the case of moving to floor 3 after stopping at floor 2, due to the stopping time at floor 2, the time for acceleration and deceleration for stopping at floor 2, and the like. The details of the method of calculating the travel time by the passenger inter-floor travel time calculation unit 103 will be described later.

Fig. 6 shows data in which the number of passengers who have moved between floors while riding an elevator and the travel time are calculated as intermediate data when the inter-floor travel time of a passenger is calculated in the inter-floor travel time calculation unit 103 of the passenger based on the operation performance data 111 of the elevator. Column 601 shows the departure floor of the inter-floor movement, column 602 shows the arrival floor of the inter-floor movement, column 603 shows the movement time between floors using elevators for passengers, and column 604 shows the number of passengers who moved. The movement time between floors may include the time for opening and closing a door and the time for waiting in an elevator, in addition to the operation time of the elevator.

The number of boarding persons is set to the number of boarding persons at the time point when the departure floor is closed or the number of disembarking persons at the time point when the arrival floor is opened.

The method of calculating each record in fig. 6 will be described with reference to fig. 4.

In the record 611, in the operation performance data 111 of the elevator in fig. 4, the machine No. 1 was closed at the time of the record 413 and started from the floor 1, and the operation time 10 seconds was calculated from the time until the door was opened after arriving at the floor 2 at the time of the record 415, and the number of persons riding the elevator at this time was 4.

In the record 612, in the operation performance data 111 of the elevator in fig. 4, the number 1 machine was closed at the time of the record 416 and started from the 2-story floor, and the operation time 15 seconds was calculated from the time until the door was opened after arriving at the 4-story floor at the time of the record 418, and the number of persons riding the elevator at this time was 1.

In the record 613, in the operation performance data 111 of the elevator in fig. 4, the number of people on the elevator at this time is 2, the number of machines 2 is 2, the number of people is calculated from the time until the machine arrives at the 4 th floor and opens the door at the time of the record 421, after the machine is closed and departs from the 1 st floor at the time of the record 419.

In the record 614, in the operation performance data 111 of the elevator in fig. 4, the machine No. 1 was closed at the time point of the record 420 and started from the 4 th floor, and the operation time was calculated for 20 seconds from the time until the door was opened after arriving at the 1 st floor at the time point of the record 423, and the number of persons riding the elevator at this time was 0.

Fig. 7 is a diagram showing an example of passenger movement route data. The movement route data is data showing a connection relationship between an elevator hall and a mobile network in a building such as a building entrance and an office entrance. Fig. 7 shows movement route data of passengers in a multi-floor building, and shows that the passengers can move directly from a 1-floor entrance of the building to a lower floor and an upper floor. Although only the entrance and the elevator floor area are targets of the movement route, various facilities and facilities such as a canteen, a watchhouse, a store, a toilet, and a smoking room provided in a building may be targets. As shown in fig. 7, the data may not be input, but an explicit input may be omitted by considering the movement route in the processing unit or the like.

The above completes the description of the data.

< description of processing section >

A method of calculating the statistical index value of the inter-floor movement of the passenger will be described with reference to fig. 2.

As described in the description of fig. 14, the time of the inter-floor movement by the elevator greatly changes depending on the stop of the intermediate floor. Fig. 16 is a graph showing a comparison between the operating time in the case of a straight-through operation from floor 1 to floor 3 and the operating time in the case of a stop at floor 2, and a change in the operating time due to a stop at a floor halfway between floors will be described. The vertical axis 1602 of the graph indicates the position in the height direction and the number of floors, and the horizontal axis 1601 indicates the time. In the case where the departure is from level 1 at time 1603 and the move is to level 3 in a straight-through operation, level 3 is reached at time 1604. On the other hand, in the case of the landing at the 2 nd floor, the moving time is taken in each period of deceleration for the landing at the 2 nd floor, the landing time at the 2 nd floor, and acceleration for going from the 2 nd floor to the 3 rd floor. It is known that the presence or absence of a stop at a midway floor in an elevator depends on the destination of another passenger who is riding the same elevator, and the travel time of the passenger also changes depending on the number of stops at the midway floor. The above concludes the description of the change in the operating time of the elevator caused by the stop at the halfway floor.

When the average travel time of the inter-floor travel is taken into consideration, the number of stops of the intermediate floor needs to be taken into consideration. Therefore, considering an operation mode indicating a combination of intermediate stop floors immediately before stopping at an arrival floor, the moving time of each operation mode is indicated by the sum of the average moving time in the case of performing a through operation from the intermediate stop floor to a target floor and the average moving time from the departure floor to the intermediate stop floor, and the average moving time from the departure floor to the target floor is obtained by a weighted average of the number of moving persons from the intermediate stop floors to the target floor.

As an example, fig. 2 illustrates an operation mode from the 1 st floor to the 3 rd floor, and an operation mode from the 1 st floor to the 4 th floor. The movement shown by the solid arrow indicates a straight-through operation, and the movement of the dotted arrow indicates that a stop can be made at a midway floor.

As described above, there are two types of operation modes from the 1 st floor to the 3 rd floor, and the average moving time from the 1 st floor to the 3 rd floor is obtained by a weighted average using the number of people for the moving time of each operation mode. More specifically, the method of calculating the average moving time from the 1 st floor to the 3 rd floor is calculated by taking the average moving time in the movement 214 from the 1 st floor to the 3 rd floor and the sum of the average moving time in the movement 223 from the 1 st floor to the 2 nd floor and the average moving time in the movement 215 from the 2 nd floor to the 3 rd floor as a weighted average according to the number of passengers arriving at the 3 rd floor in each movement.

Similarly, there are 3 kinds of operation modes from the 1 st floor to the 4 th floor, and the average moving time from the 1 st floor to the 4 th floor is obtained by a weighted average using the number of people for the moving time of each operation mode. More specifically, the average moving time from 1 floor to 4 floors is calculated by taking the weighted average of the sum of the average moving time in the movement 211 from 1 floor to 4 floors, the average moving time in the movement 221 from 1 floor to 2 floors and the average moving time in the movement 212 from 2 floors to 4 floors, and the sum of the average moving time in the movement 222 from 1 floor to 3 floors and the average moving time in the movement 213 from 3 floors to 4 floors, based on the number of persons who have reached the movement of 4 floors in each movement.

As a premise for calculating the average travel time, it is assumed that the travel time of each floor is independent, only when there is no overlap between floors where movement is performed, such as movement from floor 1 to floor 3 and movement from floor 3 to floor 5. By this assumption, the average moving time from the departure floor to the arrival floor can be calculated by adding the average moving time from the departure floor to the midway stop floor and the average moving time from the midway stop floor to the arrival floor. If the differences are independent, the differences can be obtained not only in the average but also in the same order. The average moving time from the departure floor to the midway stop floor required for the calculation assumption may be calculated by calculating the average moving time from the departure floor to the arrival floor (the midway stop floor) recursively using the midway stop floor as a target floor, or by calculating the average moving time sequentially using floors closer to the reference floor as arrival floors in the calculation order.

Fig. 17 shows the calculation method assembly recursion.

Fig. 3 is a diagram showing an outline of a flow of processing and data for one embodiment of the passenger movement state output device of the present invention. The flow of processing and data will be described with reference to fig. 3.

The floor movement time calculation unit 101 reads the distance 302 from the entrance to the elevator hall from the layout data 111, calculates the floor movement time 303 from the distance and the preset average walking speed of the person (for example, 4km/h), and outputs the floor movement time to the movement line graph output unit 104.

The passenger's elevator waiting time calculation unit 102 reads the elevator operation performance data 112, calculates the passenger's elevator waiting time 304 by converting the data into intermediate data shown in fig. 5, and outputs the result to the movement line graph output unit 104.

The passenger inter-floor travel time calculation unit 103 reads the elevator operation performance data 112, calculates the passenger inter-floor travel time 305 by converting the data into intermediate data shown in fig. 6, and outputs the calculated time to the travel line graph output unit 104.

The movement line graph output unit 104 receives the floor movement time 303 output from the floor movement time calculation unit 101, the passenger's elevator waiting time 304 output from the passenger's elevator waiting time calculation unit 102, and the passenger's inter-floor movement time 305 output from the passenger's inter-floor movement time calculation unit 103, and summarizes them in a building movement time table as intermediate data shown in fig. 14, and further draws a movement line graph 306 based on the building movement time table and outputs the same to the movement line graph data 113.

That is, the movement time calculation unit (the floor movement time calculation unit 101, the elevator waiting time calculation unit 102, and the inter-floor movement time calculation unit 103) of the passenger movement situation output device 100 acquires, for each user, a first movement time (floor movement time) taken for the user to move from entering the building to the elevator hall, a waiting time (elevator waiting time of the passenger) taken for the elevator hall to arrive at the elevator hall, and a second movement time (inter-floor movement time of the passenger) taken for the user to move from arriving at the elevator to the destination floor, collects information of the first movement time, the waiting time, and the second movement time, calculates statistical information of the movement time of the user from entering the building to arriving at the destination floor, and the display unit (movement diagram comparison display unit 105) displays the total movement time, the moving time calculating part calculates moving time statistical information under a first elevator structure and moving time statistical information under a second elevator structure, and the display part displays the moving time statistical information under the first elevator structure and the moving time statistical information under the second elevator structure together.

The travel time calculation unit may calculate a maximum value, an average value, or a variance value of the time obtained by adding the information of the first travel time, the waiting time, and the second travel time of the user as the travel time statistic information.

The first elevator structure may be a structure in a case where the elevator travels straight from the reference floor to the target floor, and the second elevator structure may be a structure in a case where the elevator stops even at an intermediate floor when traveling from the reference floor to the target floor (an example is described later in fig. 10).

The movement time calculation unit may calculate the average value of the movement of the passenger from the reference floor to the target floor by calculating a weighted average of the movement time from the reference floor to the target floor by dividing the total number of the users who move from each of the intermediate floors and the reference floor by a value weighted by multiplying the operation time of the elevator when the elevator moves straight from the reference floor to the target floor by the number of the users and a value weighted by multiplying the movement time when the elevator stops at the intermediate floor when the elevator moves from the reference floor to the target floor by the number of the users who move via each of the intermediate floors.

The display unit may display the passenger by changing one or both of the color and the line type so as to be identifiable by the type of the passenger's elevator waiting time, the moving time of each floor of the elevator, and the door opening time of each floor, which are shown in the moving line diagram.

The second elevator structure may be an elevator structure in which at least one of the layout of elevators, the number of elevators, the arrangement specifications, and the passenger movement demand is changed relative to the first elevator structure.

The display unit may set one or more reference values in advance for a required time required to transit between any two points and states, and may display the required time of the moving line graph while changing one or both of the color and the line type by comparing the required time with the reference values.

The second travel time may be calculated by the travel time calculating unit based on operation performance data acquired from an operation management system (not shown), and the operation performance data may be one or both of data on performance of the physical operation of the elevator and data on performance of the virtual operation of the elevator such as computer simulation (details will be described in embodiment 2 below).

The first elevator structure and the second elevator structure include any of a building of an elevator lobby system in which movement of a transfer elevator is assumed and a multi-floor system in which the floor area of the elevator used differs depending on the destination floor (details are described in embodiment 3 below).

The above completes the description of the processing and the flow of data.

< output and Effect >

The movement line graph 306 output by the movement line graph output unit 104 will be described with reference to fig. 9, 10, 11, and 13.

Fig. 9 is a graph showing a movement from a building entrance to an office entrance or the like that can be a movement destination of each floor. The vertical axis 951 represents a position (floor) in the height direction, and the horizontal axis represents a movement time from the entrance of the building with the building entrance set to 0. The time of the movement diagram is a statistical index value such as an average value or a maximum value of the movement time of each passenger.

When moving to a lower floor, 901 denotes a building entrance. From the building entrance, 902 denotes an elevator lobby reaching a lower floor. The time periods 901 to 902 represent the travel time from the entrance of the building to the elevator hall of the lower floor, and are plotted using the floor travel time 303 calculated by the floor travel time calculation unit 101. Waiting for the elevator to arrive at the elevator lobby 903 means elevator arrival. Here, the time period 902 to 903 represents the time from the arrival at the elevator hall of the lower floor to the arrival of the elevator, and is depicted using the elevator waiting time 304 of the passenger calculated by the elevator waiting time calculation unit 102 of the passenger. The elevator is taken after the elevator arrives at 903 and the elevator departure is indicated at 904. At 904 the elevator departs, 905 indicates that an elevator at floor 2 arrives, and 906 indicates the departure of the elevator after the boarding and alighting of the passenger at floor 2 is completed. Thereafter, the departure and arrival of each floor up to the uppermost floor are also indicated in order from 907 to 914 for the stopped floors. The line indicating the departure and arrival is drawn using the inter-floor travel time 305 of the passenger calculated by the passenger inter-floor travel time calculation unit 103. In addition, passengers getting off the elevator after the elevator stops at the floors are also shown to reach the destination of the floor. In the case of floor 2, the elevator is disembarked from the elevator during the period 905 to 906, with 915 indicating the destination of arrival at floor 2. 916 denotes a destination to layer 3. Hereinafter, 917 to 919 indicate destinations to reach respective floors. The line from the stop of the elevator to the arrival at the destination of each floor is calculated using the floor movement time 303 calculated by the floor movement time calculation unit 101.

When moving to a high-rise floor, 921 indicates an elevator hall reaching the high-rise floor. Here, the marks are marked with a slight shift in the vertical axis direction so as not to overlap the movement diagram of the lower floor, but may be displayed so as to overlap the lower floor. Waiting for the elevator to arrive at the elevator lobby 922 indicates the arrival of the elevator. Elevator is taken 922 after arrival and 923 represents departure of the elevator. At 923 the elevator starts, 924 indicates that the elevator at the 7 th floor arrives, and 925 indicates that the elevator starts after the passengers on the 7 th floor have completed their boarding and alighting. Thereafter, the departure and arrival of each stop floor up to the uppermost floor are sequentially shown from 926 to 931 for the stop floors. Like the lower floors, passengers getting off from the elevators after the stops of the elevators in the floors are also shown to reach the destinations of the floors, 932 to 935 indicating the arrival at the destinations in the floors. Instead of distinguishing elevator floors such as a low-rise floor and a high-rise floor, points of reaching a destination floor or a destination of each floor may be shown by connecting lines.

Fig. 10 is a simplified diagram of the movement line diagram shown in fig. 9, showing only arrival times at floors. The fragmented information is removed, whereby only the time when the floors can be reached can be shown. In comparison of a moving line graph described later, it is sometimes easier to compare information excluding fragmentary parts.

Fig. 11 is a diagram showing the moving line diagram shown in fig. 9 with information on the size of the number of moving persons added. The thickness of the line segment is changed according to the number of passengers moving in the section for each of the moving time and the waiting time of the elevator. For example, the thickness of the line segment from 1122 to 1123 indicates that the number of passengers who use an elevator moving from 1 floor to 7 floors is 2500 or more and 5000 or less per 1 hour. From this map, a place that takes a long travel time and has a large number of users can be identified. That is, the travel line graph comparison display unit 105 (display unit) may display the first travel time (floor travel time), the waiting time (elevator waiting time of the passenger), and the second travel time (floor travel time of the passenger) by weighting each of the first travel time, the floor travel time, and the waiting time, based on the number of users.

Fig. 13 is a diagram showing a movement diagram in a case where the movement diagram is directed from each floor to a building entrance. For example, it is used to evaluate the flow of people going to the entrance of a building during the lunch period or the off-duty period. The vertical axis is still the position (floor) in the height direction, but the horizontal axis represents the time required from each place to the building entrance by setting the building entrance 1300 to 0, and for example 1311 represents the time required for the movement from the movement start point of the 5 floors to the building entrance as 128 seconds, and 1312 represents the time required for the movement from the elevator which has multiplied by the 3 floors and moved downward as 66 seconds.

Fig. 18 shows an example in which the result of comparing one or more movement patterns is output by the movement pattern comparison display unit 105. A graph of the comparison result of the movement line graphs will be described with reference to fig. 18. A travel line diagram for one floor zone system in which elevators for stopping all floors are installed is shown at 1801, a travel line diagram for a lower floor in a multi-floor zone system in which an elevator for stopping a lower floor and an elevator for stopping a higher floor are separately installed is shown at 1802, and a travel line diagram for a higher floor is shown at 1803. In each of the systems, the number and specifications of elevators were compared and evaluated without changing them, and as a result, it was found that the time required for the multi-story floor system to reach the destination was shorter in all the stop floors than in the single-story floor system. For example, it can be confirmed that 1812 indicating that 6 layers are reached in a multi-layer region arrives first, compared with 1811 indicating that 6 layers are reached in a one-layer region.

Although the examples are compared by changing the operation method in this example, the movement line diagrams calculated by changing only the specifications of the elevator or changing the number of users of the elevator or the use conditions may be compared by changing the operation method. In this way, by comparing the movement diagrams of a plurality of situations, it is possible to intuitively confirm how much the movement time to each floor improves in each situation.

Further, the movement pattern calculated from the operation performance data of the actual elevator installed in the actual building may be compared with the movement pattern calculated from the operation performance data of the elevator by simulating the operation of the elevator under the same condition or different conditions using a computer simulation or the like. By comparing the movement pattern calculated from the operation performance data of the actual machine with the movement pattern calculated under the same conditions using a computer simulation or the like, the accuracy of prediction of traffic in the building by the computer simulation can be evaluated.

That is, according to the present embodiment, the travel map in which the time when the passenger moves in the building is calculated can be output using the operation performance data of the elevator as an input, and the time distance of the whole building can be visualized by the travel map. Further, by comparing a plurality of movement diagrams calculated under different conditions, it is possible to compare the time required for the movement of the passenger in the entire building. In particular, by comparing the movement pattern calculated by the computer simulation with the movement pattern calculated by the operation of the actual elevator, it is possible to evaluate the reproduction accuracy by the computer simulation based on the movement time of the passengers in the building without depending on the difference in the operation of the trivial elevator.

Example 2

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a passenger movement state output device and method according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The basic device configuration, data format, data and processing flow are the same as those in embodiment 1, and therefore, they are omitted.

In the present embodiment, the operation performance data 111 of the elevator as an input is different from that of embodiment 1. In this embodiment, the movement performance data of the elevator is used in a destination floor reservation system in which, instead of calling the elevator by pressing the up-down buttons when the elevator is in the hall, the elevator to stop the floor pressed is instructed when the button of the destination floor is pressed from a terminal or the like provided in the hall or its periphery.

Hereinafter, only the operation performance data of the elevator of the destination floor reservation system will be described with reference to fig. 12. Fig. 12 shows an example of operation performance data of an elevator of a destination floor reservation system. In the destination floor reservation method, each passenger using an elevator inputs a destination before taking the elevator after arriving at an elevator hall, and thus the arrival time, the departure floor, and the destination floor of each elevator user can be recorded according to the operation performance data of the elevator of the method. The time when the terminal is operated is recorded in column 1201, the destination floor inputted to the terminal is recorded in column 1204, the floor where the terminal is operated (that is, the departure floor) is recorded in column 1207, and the elevator number of the elevator where the terminal gives the passenger an instruction to take is recorded in 1205.

The passenger traveling from floor 1 to floor 2 operates the terminal and is instructed to ride level 1 at time 8:49:04 as shown in record 1211. In log 1212, it is shown that at time 8:49:10, the passenger from floor 1 to floor 4 operates the terminal and is instructed to ride airplane No. 1.

The passenger instructed to ride the machine number 1 by the terminal operation rides the machine number 1 which arrives immediately thereafter. From record 1215, the elevators taken by the passengers of

records

1211 and 1212 arrive at times 8:49: 35. The above completes the description of the operation performance data.

A method for calculating the passenger's elevator waiting time based on the operation performance data will be described. For all passengers who take the elevator, the difference between the time when the terminal is operated and the time when the elevator arrives is calculated as the waiting time of each passenger, and a statistical index such as an average value is calculated. The calculated result is outputted in the form of the elevator waiting time of the passenger as shown in fig. 15 in the same manner as in embodiment 1. In this case, calculation can be performed based on the data shown in fig. 5, as in example 1. The above completes the description of the method for calculating the elevator waiting time of the passenger.

With the passenger movement status output device and method of the present embodiment, it is possible to output a movement line graph in which the waiting time of the passenger is accurately reflected.

Example 3

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the passenger movement state output device and method according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The basic device configuration, data format, data and processing flow are the same as those in embodiment 1, and therefore, they are omitted.

In the present embodiment, a moving diagram in a building using an air lobby system in which a plurality of elevators are transferred and moved will be described with reference to fig. 8 and 19.

Fig. 8 is a diagram showing an example of data in the lobby mode as passenger movement route data in embodiment 3. Fig. 8 shows movement route data of passengers in a building of an air lobby system, and shows a case where the passengers can move directly from a floor-1 entrance 801 of the building to a lower floor area 802, but need to transfer from the floor-1 entrance 803 of the building to a direct floor area 804 before moving to a higher floor area 805.

In the building of fig. 19, shuttle elevators are installed which run without stopping from floor 1 to floor 7, and floor 7 corresponds to an aerial lobby floor. In the lobby floor of 7 floors there are provided elevator floor areas stopping from 7 floors to 11 floors and elevator floor areas stopping from 7 floors and from 12 floors to 15 floors. 1901 shows a shuttle elevator arriving at

floor

1 and 1902 shows a shuttle elevator arriving at floor 7 of the lobby. 1903 shows elevator halls where passengers arrive at elevator floor areas from 7 floors to 11 floors, and 1902 to 1903 show the movement from the arrival of passengers at 7 floors to the elevator halls, and are plotted using the floor movement time 303 calculated by the floor movement time calculation unit 101. 1904 shows an elevator landing on a floor 7 to floor 11 elevator landing zone reaching floor 7. 1903 to 1904 show the waiting time of the elevator of the passenger from the arrival at the elevator hall until the arrival of the elevator, and are plotted using the elevator waiting time 304 of the passenger calculated by the elevator waiting time calculation unit 102 of the passenger. Further, 1905 shows elevator halls where passengers arrive at elevator floor areas of 7 floors and 12 to 15 floors, and 1902 to 1905 show the movement from the arrival of passengers at 7 floors to the elevator halls, and are plotted using the floor movement time 303 calculated by the floor movement time calculation unit 101. 1906 shows the arrival of an elevator at floor 7 at a stop and elevator floor areas from floor 12 to

floor

15, and 1905 to 1906 show the waiting times of the passengers' elevators from the arrival at the elevator hall until the arrival of the elevator, and are plotted using the elevator waiting times 304 of the passengers calculated by the passenger elevator waiting time calculation unit 102.

The above completes the explanation of the travel line diagram in the building using the air lobby system.

The movement pattern output by the passenger movement situation output apparatus and method of the present embodiment can be applied to a building in which a plurality of elevators move in a transfer manner.

Description of the reference numerals

Passenger movement state output device 100, elevator operation performance data 111, and layout data 112.

Claims

1. A passenger movement situation output device is characterized by comprising:

a movement time calculation unit that acquires, for each user, a first movement time taken for the user to move from the time the user enters the building to the time of the elevator hall, a waiting time taken for the user to reach the elevator hall in the elevator hall, and a second movement time taken for the user to move from the time the user arrives at the destination floor, collects information on the first movement time, the waiting time, and the second movement time, and calculates movement time statistical information of the user from the time the user enters the building to the time the user arrives at the destination floor; and

a display unit for displaying the moving time statistic information,

the movement time calculation unit calculates movement time statistical information in a first elevator structure and movement time statistical information in a second elevator structure,

the passenger movement situation output device further includes:

a movement line graph output unit that creates a movement line graph representing statistical information of the movement time of the user from entering the building to reaching each of the destination floors based on the movement time statistical information,

the display unit displays the movement line map in the first elevator configuration and the movement line map in the second elevator configuration, both of which are created by the movement line map output unit.

2. The passenger movement situation output device according to claim 1,

the travel time calculation unit calculates a maximum value, an average value, or a variance value of a time obtained by adding information of the first travel time, the waiting time, and the second travel time of the user as the travel time statistic information.

3. The passenger movement situation output device according to claim 2,

the display unit displays the first travel time, the waiting time, and the second travel time by weighting each of the first travel time, the waiting time, and the second travel time based on the number of users.

4. The passenger movement situation output device according to claim 3,

the first elevator structure is a structure in the case of an elevator traveling straight from a reference floor to a destination floor,

the second elevator structure is a structure in a case where the elevator stops also at an intermediate floor when traveling from the reference floor to the target floor.

5. The passenger movement situation output device according to claim 4,

the movement time calculation unit calculates the average value of the movement of the passenger from the reference floor to the target floor by calculating a weighted average of the movement time from the reference floor to the target floor by dividing the total number of users who move from the intermediate floors and the reference floor to the total number of users who move from the intermediate floors and the target floor by the sum of a value weighted by multiplying the operation time of the elevator when the elevator moves from the reference floor to the target floor and the number of users who stop at the intermediate floors and the number of users who move through the intermediate floors.

6. The passenger movement situation output device according to claim 4,

the display unit displays the passenger by changing one or both of the color and the line type so as to be identifiable by the type of the passenger's elevator waiting time, the moving time of each floor of the elevator, and the door opening time of each floor, which are shown in the movement diagram.

7. The passenger movement situation output device according to claim 3,

the second elevator structure is an elevator structure in which at least one of the layout of elevators, the number of elevators, the arrangement specifications, and the passenger movement demand is changed with respect to the first elevator structure.

8. The passenger movement situation output device according to claim 3,

the display unit sets one or more reference values in advance for a required time required to transit between two arbitrary points and states, and displays the required time of the movement diagram while changing one or both of the color and the type of line by comparing the required time with the reference values.

9. The passenger movement situation output device according to claim 1,

the movement time calculation unit calculates the second movement time based on operation performance data using one or both of data on performance of physical operation of the elevator and data on performance of virtual operation of the elevator based on computer simulation.

10. The passenger movement situation output device according to claim 3,

the first elevator structure and the second elevator structure include any one of a building of an air lobby system in which transfer elevators are assumed to move and a multi-floor system in which the floor area of an elevator to be used differs depending on the destination floor.

11. A passenger movement state output method is characterized in that,

a movement time calculation unit of a passenger movement situation output device acquires, for each user, a first movement time taken for movement from when the user enters a building to when the user reaches an elevator hall, a waiting time taken for the user to reach the elevator hall in the elevator hall, and a second movement time taken for movement from when the user reaches a destination floor,

collecting information on the first travel time, the waiting time, and the second travel time, calculating statistical information on the travel time of the user from the time the user enters the building to the time the user arrives at the destination floor,

the display part displays the statistical information of the moving time

creating a movement line graph showing statistical information of the movement time of the user from the entrance into the building to the arrival at each destination floor based on the statistical information of the movement time in the first elevator structure,

creating a movement line graph showing statistical information of the movement time of the user from the entrance into the building to the arrival at each destination floor based on the movement time statistical information in the second elevator configuration,

the display unit displays the movement line map in the first elevator configuration and the movement line map in the second elevator configuration together.