JPH0330193B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a driver work management device that allows a base station to grasp the work status of a driver on board a mobile station (vehicle) using radio.

A conventional device of this type is shown in FIG. In the figure, 1 is a head office or a business office, 2 is an unmanned branch office, 3 is a telephone, 4 is a telephone line, and 5 is a vehicle.

Conventionally, when the vehicle 5 was operated from an area far away from the head office or sales office 1 early in the morning (e.g., by a shared bus) or when it was operated to a deep area, there was a possibility that the vehicle 5 would have departed from the head office or sales office 1 or had not returned to the office. However, since there are many constraints in terms of time and distance, the unmanned police station 2 is placed in a remote location, the vehicle 5 is parked at the police station 2, and the driver lives near the police station 2. When on board, the train started operating according to a specific timetable or a predetermined time (received by telephone, etc. the day before).

At this time, the head office or sales office 1 does not know whether the vehicles at the unmanned station 2 are actually operating on time, so when the driver starts work early in the morning, they ask the driver, ``What district and what district are you starting from now? A report stating who will start the operation of the car,
The telephone 3 in the unmanned police station 2 was used to contact the head office or the sales office 1 via the Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation line 4. (The same applies to the last flight of the crew, so the explanation is omitted.) Conventionally, the crew management of the driver was performed as described above. However, unmanned police station 2 shown in Figure 1
If there are a large number of calls, there will be a congestion of calls from telephones 3 at each branch office 2 to contact the head office or sales office about the start of a flight, etc., and some of them will be close to departure time and there will be no time to contact them. However, there are many cases where the driver starts driving without contacting the driver from the branch office 2, and it is difficult to find out whether the vehicle is actually operating or whether the driver is not operating the vehicle for some reason. However, there were drawbacks such as the inability to accurately grasp the specified operation operations.

This invention was made in order to eliminate the drawbacks of the conventional ones as mentioned above.The driver is given an ID card, and the on-vehicle device installed in the vehicle can be accessed from outside the vehicle.
By inserting the card into the ID card reader, you can open the door for the first time, and the onboard device temporarily stores information such as the driver's identification number, the time of card insertion/removal, and the vehicle number. The purpose of this invention is to provide a driver and crew management device that can send back temporarily stored driver information by having an in-vehicle device receive a polling signal emitted from a base station installed at the head office or business office. .

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 2, 1 is a base station installed at the head office or business office, 11 is a base station antenna, 12 is a transceiver, and 13 is a communication controller that performs signal control between the transceiver 12 and a central processing unit 14, which will be described later. device, 14
1 is a central processing unit that performs data processing, 15 is a CRT display device that displays the driver's work status, etc., and 16 is a printer. Reference numeral 17 denotes an operating device for starting transmission and reception of information with the on-vehicle device 6, controlling display, and the like. 6 is an in-vehicle device installed in the vehicle, 7 is an ID card,
61 allows the driver to insert the ID card from outside the vehicle.
ID card reading unit; 62 is an information processing unit that processes the read ID card contents and controls reading and writing of storage data; 63 is a storage unit that stores data; 64 is the content read by the card reading unit 61; is processed by the information processing unit 62, and if it matches the content registered in advance, it is a relay unit that operates, and the operation of this relay unit 64 makes it possible to open the passenger door, and also sends information to the transmitter/receiver unit 65, which will be described later. It also controls power supply. 65 is a transmitting/receiving unit that receives a polling signal from the base station 1 and transmits the contents temporarily stored in the return storage unit 63, and 66 is an on-vehicle antenna. Reference numeral 67 denotes a power supply section of the on-vehicle device 6, which is normally connected directly to the battery so that the on-vehicle device 6 can operate at any time when an ID card is inserted.

The functions of this device can be broadly divided into the following three types.

A. The driver was required to have an ID card, and anyone without one was unable to open the door to the vehicle in order to prevent vehicle theft and theft of items inside the vehicle. (ID cards serve as a kind of key. Vehicles are left in unmanned parking lots, so in the case of vehicle theft or shared buses, change machines and fare boxes containing cash are usually installed. (There is a risk of theft.) B. By using an ID card, information about the driver's start and end of duty can be temporarily stored.
(It stores information such as the time, car number, and driver identification number when the ID card is inserted into or removed from the on-board device.) C. The driver information temporarily stored in the on-board device is sent by command from the base station. Allow it to be sent automatically,
To enable the base station to grasp driving time information within a short time without the driver's knowledge.

Next, the operation will be explained.

Early in the morning, a driver who comes to unmanned police station 2 must bring ID card 7 (which may also serve as an identification card) to vehicle 5.
Insert it into the ID card reader of the on-vehicle device 6 from outside the vehicle. Of the in-vehicle device 6, the parts 61, 62, 63, and 64, excluding the transmitter/receiver part 65, are constantly supplied with power from the battery through the power supply part 67, so that it can accommodate the insertion of an ID card. ing. First, the ID card reading section 61 reads the card contents and sends them to the information processing section 62.
Furthermore, the storage unit 63 and the information processing unit 62 determine whether the card content is the pre-registered content, and if the determination is OK, the relay unit 64 is activated and a signal is sent to the door switch, causing the vehicle to This allows the passenger door to be opened and also enables power to be supplied to the transmitting/receiving section 65. The transmitting/receiving unit 65 consumes a large amount of power, and when the onboard unit 6 receives a polling signal from the base station 1, it automatically transmits the data in the storage unit 63, so when the driver is not on board, That is, when the ID card 7 is not inserted into the on-vehicle device 6, the transmitter/receiver 65 is set not to operate.

By inserting the ID card 7, the driver's identification number,
Information such as the card insertion time, card removal time (this is done using a clock circuit, but will be omitted here), and the car number are stored in the storage unit 63 via the information processing unit 62. Therefore, on the vehicle-mounted device 6 side, in this state, it enters a standby state for receiving a signal from the base station 1.

After the driver inserts the ID card 7 into the ID card reader 61, the driver can perform normal driving duties and can drive on a predetermined route or route. After the operation ends,
The passenger removes the ID card 7, closes the boarding door, and ends the ride.

The controller 17 of the base station 1 installed at the head office or business office transmits a polling signal to each vehicle 5 to request it to transmit crew information. When polling signal transmission is activated using the operating device 17, a signal is sent to the communication control device 13 via the central processing unit 14, and further a polling signal is sent from the base station antenna 11 through the transceiver 12. When the on-vehicle device 6 receives this polling signal, it automatically transmits information to the base station according to the following procedure.

When this polling signal is received by the antenna 66 of the on-vehicle device 6 of each vehicle 5, the signal is sent to the information processing section 62 via the transmitting/receiving section 65 route.

If all the on-vehicle units 6 transmit the signal all at once after the reception timing of this signal, interference will occur on the base station side, so each on-vehicle unit 6 transmits the signal to the storage unit 63 according to a predetermined time.
Next, the temporarily stored crew information of each driver is read out, and after the data is processed again by the information processing section 62, the crew information is transmitted back to the base station 1 from the antenna 66 through the transmitting/receiving section 65. Crew information sent from each on-vehicle device 6 is received by a transceiver 12 via a base station antenna 11. The received signal is sent to the central processing unit 14 via the communication control device 13. After data processing, the required information is stored and the CRT display device 15
The crew information of the driver of each vehicle 5 is displayed. If necessary, the printer 16 can also be used for recording. As a result, the head office or business office can manage the crew of the vehicle 5 that departs from an unmanned station. Of course, driver crew management can be similarly performed for the vehicle 5 departing from the head office or office. Since information in the storage section of each vehicle is automatically collected in response to polling signals from the base station, necessary information can be obtained in a shorter time than when the crew contacts the base station by phone.

In the above embodiment, only the driver's crew information was transmitted from the in-vehicle device to the head office or sales office using wireless, but since the in-vehicle device 6 has a data processing function, the in-vehicle device 6 It is also possible to provide an interface section in the vehicle and connect it to bus-mounted devices of various terminals to transmit various information in the vehicle to the base station 1 in real time. For example, in the case of a shared bus, there is a boarding and alighting device (where and how many people boarded and how many people got off, etc.) and a guidance broadcasting device (an identification number corresponding to the bus stop is recorded in advance on a control track parallel to the audio track). By extracting this signal and sending it to a base station, the approximate current driving position of the vehicle can be determined.), etc. can be connected to perform operation management.

As described above, according to the present invention, the ID card is given to the driver, the card contents are read by the in-vehicle device installed in the vehicle, and the driver's crew information (driver's identification number, card insertion/removal time, etc.) , car number, etc.) and automatically transmits it to the head office or sales office without the driver being aware of it by polling from the base station at the scheduled start time of the vehicle using a radio. Since the system is configured to do this, it is possible to accurately manage the driver's crew and understand the operation status in a short period of time.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a conventional system diagram for communicating driver information, and Fig. 2 is a system diagram of a conventional system for communicating driver information, and Fig. 2 is a system diagram of base station equipment installed at a head office or business office and on-vehicle equipment installed in a mobile station (vehicle) according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a system diagram. 1... Head office (sales office)/base station, 2... Branch office,
3... Telephone, 4... Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation line, 5... Vehicle,
6... Vehicle-mounted device, 7... ID card, 11... Base station antenna, 12... Transmitter/receiver, 13... Communication control device, 14... Central processing unit, 15... CRT display device, 16... Printer , 17...operator,
61...ID card reading section, 62...information processing section,
63... Storage section, 64... Relay section, 65... Transmission/reception section, 66... Antenna, 67... Power supply section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 A driver-specific identification card that records the identification number and car number of the driver of a vehicle that starts operation from a remote point from the base station is inserted, and a reading means for reading the contents of the identification card, and the above-mentioned identification card. storage means for storing the month, day, and time at the time of insertion and removal of the identification card, as well as for storing the contents of the identification card; and upon receiving a polling signal from the base station at the scheduled start time of the vehicle a transmitting/receiving means for automatically transmitting the data in the storage means to the base station by radio; a determining means for determining whether the contents of the identification card in the storage means are pre-registered contents; and the identification means. When the vehicle card is inserted into the reading means, the system operates when the determination result of the determination means is determined to be the content registered in advance, and outputs a signal to open the vehicle entrance/exit door. . A driver crew management device characterized in that a vehicle is equipped with a relay means for supplying power to the transmitting/receiving means.