JP2986289B2 - Wireless communication system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a radio communication system in which collection and delivery information and the like are wirelessly transmitted from a base station to a mobile station such as a pickup and delivery vehicle and displayed or printed out by a terminal device mounted on each base station.

For example, in the transportation business, a terminal device capable of wirelessly communicating data is mounted on each pickup / delivery vehicle, and a host computer of a base station instructs each pickup / delivery vehicle by wirelessly transmitting data such as a luggage collection / delivery destination. A system operation that enables efficient luggage collection and delivery is being carried out.

A terminal device mounted on a pickup and delivery vehicle uses a CRT, an LCD (liquid crystal display device), a printer, or the like as an output device of the data, and displays or prints out the contents of instructions from the base station in characters or the like. Has become.

[0004]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating a vehicle-mounted terminal device used in a conventional collection and delivery information transmission system. Reference numeral 1 denotes a terminal device, which is mounted on a driver's seat of a vehicle, and data transmitted from a host computer of a base station is displayed on a display 2.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a pickup / delivery information transmission system for performing data communication between a terminal device mounted on each pickup / delivery vehicle and a host computer of a base station.
The terminal device 1 on the in-vehicle side includes a CPU (Central Processing Un
it) 3, RAM (Random-Access Memory) 4 for storing each display data, etc., ROM (Read-Only Memory) for storing control programs, kanji information, etc.
5 and a display 2 and the like. Then, it is connected to the wireless device 7 via the i / O interface 6 so that data communication with the base station 8 is possible.

[0006] The base station 8 is connected to a host computer 10 via a wireless device 9 and is equipped with a keyboard 11 for inputting and instructing information and a display 12 such as a CRT.

In such a system, when display data is wirelessly transmitted from the base station 8 to the in-vehicle terminal device 1 via the wireless device 9, the transmitted data is illustrated in the in-vehicle display 2 as shown in FIG. "○ × industry""△△
Shoji Co., Ltd. "is displayed.

[0008] By the way, the business of picking up and delivering luggage in the transportation business, etc., includes a spot business for picking up and delivering a car every time a customer requests, and a regular collection business for collecting and delivering luggage on a daily basis. Divided. Therefore, the host computer 10 stores a vehicle operation table as shown in FIG. 8, and can manage the vehicle number # and the operation status of each vehicle, and the distinction such as regular and spot.

[0009] When a customer requests the base station 8 to pick up and deliver by telephone or the like, the host computer 10 of the base station 8 transmits data such as the address of the customer, the number of parcels, and the time of collection and delivery to the specified pickup and delivery vehicle. Is wirelessly transmitted and displayed on the display 2 of the pickup and delivery vehicle. Therefore, the crew of the pickup and delivery vehicle goes to the address of the customer at a specified time according to the contents displayed on the display 2 and collects and delivers the specified package.

[0010] For such a spot shipper,
Usually, a pickup / delivery vehicle dedicated to spots is sent, but when a pickup / delivery vehicle dedicated to regular collection passes nearby, the pickup / delivery vehicle may be sent.

[0011]

As described above, when collecting and distributing spot luggage, the command is always transmitted by radio from the host computer of the base station, so that the crew only has to follow the command from the host computer.

However, for regular shippers, the shipper is always decided and the crew is also decided, so no special shipper information is transmitted. In other words, depending on the crew's memory, they travel around a fixed shipper on a fixed route every day to collect and deliver luggage.

However, when a crew member who is in charge of regular collection and delivery is absent due to illness or vacation, a substitute crew member will be temporarily collected and delivered. They often forget or make mistakes, which causes problems such as the omission of collection and delivery of regular shippers.

[0014] A technical problem of the present invention is to prevent such a problem from occurring when a temporary crew member performs regular collection and delivery in place of a crew member exclusively for a regular shipper, paying attention to such a problem. .

[0015]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the basic principle of a wireless communication system according to the present invention suitable for such a customer data transmission system. 8 is a base station and 13 is a mobile station. Each mobile station includes
There is provided a customer data storage means 14 provided for each of which stores a car number and customer data in association with each other.

The base station 8 has operating status storage means for storing the vehicle number and the operating status of the mobile station corresponding to the vehicle number.
It has fifteen. Further, the mobile station in the crew member's replacement state is detected from the storage contents of the operation status storage means 15,
Transmission control means 16 for reading and transmitting customer data relating to a customer to be handled by the mobile station from the customer data storage means 14 to the mobile station, and transmitting the customer data read from the customer data storage means 14 to the mobile station 13. And a wireless device 9.

[0017]

According to the present invention, when a regular crew temporarily collects and delivers a regular shipper's luggage due to illness, vacation, etc., the crew is stored in the operating status storage means 15 of the base station 8. When it is input that the crew is to be changed for the vehicle number of the pickup / delivery vehicle, the transmission control unit 16 detects the vehicle number. Then, the customer data relating to the customer who is to be in charge of the pickup / distribution vehicle of the vehicle number is read and transmitted to the collection / delivery vehicle of the vehicle number by the transmitter 9.

Therefore, in the pick-up and delivery vehicle, the temporary crew member can display or print out the customer data transmitted from the base station 8 on the terminal device and refer to it, so that the crew member who is on vacation Instead, the customer's address to be collected and delivered and the time of collection and delivery are all clarified. Therefore, as long as collection and delivery is performed in accordance with the transmitted customer data, there is no omission of collection and delivery, and the substitute crew can concentrate on collection and delivery with ease and the burden is reduced.

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, a description will be given of an actual embodiment of a radio communication system according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a wireless communication system according to the present invention.
This is an example in which the present invention is applied to the pickup / delivery information transmission system shown in FIG.

That is, the base station 8 in this embodiment
Is the same as the base station 8 of FIG.
It comprises an operation status storage means 15 and a transmission control means 16. The base station 8 is realized by the host computer 10 in FIG.

FIG. 3 shows the contents of the customer data stored in the customer data storage means 14 of FIG. 2. For example, for each car number, the name of the shipper in charge of the vehicle of the car number, its address, collection and delivery time, etc. Are collected in a table format.

In other words, the consigners to be picked up and picked up by the pickup and delivery vehicle of car number # 101 are B Co., Ltd., S store, limited company X shop ... and the pickup and delivery car of car number # 102 should be picked up and delivered. It is stored that the shipper is “shop”, and that the shippers to be collected and delivered by the pickup and delivery vehicle of car number # 103 are f corporation, a corporation, and m shop.

On the other hand, the operation status storage means 15 shown in FIG. 2 stores a vehicle operation table as shown in FIG.
Then, according to the present invention, the dispatcher always inputs to the operation status storage means 15 in the morning of the day that a full-time crew is to be replaced by a temporary crew due to a vacation or the like. As a result, the transmission control unit 16 searches the vehicle operation table of the operation status storage unit 15 and detects that a crew member has been changed, for example, for the vehicle having the vehicle number # 103.

On the basis of this, the transmission control means 16 determines the vehicle number # 10 in the regular collection table of the customer data storage means 14.
The customer data corresponding to 3, that is, f corporation, a corporation, m store... Is read out, transmitted to the vehicle of the vehicle number # 103 by the wireless device 9, and displayed on the display 2. Alternatively, when a facsimile machine is installed, the customer data is printed out.

Therefore, the substitute staff who temporarily attends the vehicle with the vehicle number # 103 regularly relies on the customer data displayed or printed out on the terminal device in the order of f corporation, a corporation, m store,... It is possible to carry out the collection and delivery business on the day smoothly by patrol the shipper, and to be released from the fear of missing the delivery. Therefore, it is extremely effective also in terms of safe driving and the like.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the collection / delivery information sending process in the transmission control means 16. Every morning,
At the start of the operation of the system, the dispatcher in the base station checks whether or not the crew is replaced, and inputs vehicle operation data to the vehicle operation table in FIG. 8 in step S1. For example, when a crew member of a vehicle with a car number # 103 is on board for a vacation,
"Replacement" is input to the vehicle.

When vehicle operation data is input, step
In S2, the transmission control unit 16 in FIG. 2 searches the vehicle operation table of the operation status storage unit 15 for a vehicle whose crew member is to be replaced. In the example of the vehicle operation table in FIG. 8, since the change of the crew member is input to the vehicle number # 103, the transmission control unit 16 detects the vehicle number # 103.

As a result, in the next step S3, the transmission control means 16 reads the customer data of the vehicle number # 103 from the regular collection table shown in FIG. And the customer data is
It is transmitted to the vehicle with the vehicle number # 103. Therefore, even a crew member who is temporarily in charge of the replacement can refer to all data on the regular collection in charge of the day without leaving the crew, thereby preventing the omission of collection and delivery.

In the vehicle operation table shown in FIG.
The second vehicle is out of operation due to a failure or a periodic inspection. In this case, since the vehicle cannot be used, the crew of the vehicle uses another substitute vehicle to set the vehicle number # 1.
The 02 vehicle patrols the customers to be in charge. in this way,
There is no particular problem if the crew is not replaced and only the vehicle is replaced.

In the above description, the case of carrying out luggage collection and delivery has been described assuming a transportation business.
In other fields as well, the present invention can be applied to all tasks that regularly go around by vehicle.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the crew of vehicles to be patrolled and delivered periodically is changed for convenience, vehicle operation data is input to the operation status storage means 15 of the base station 8. The transmission control means 16 automatically detects the vehicle number of the vehicle in which the crew change has occurred, reads the regular shipper information to be assigned to the vehicle from the customer data storage means 14, and reads the vehicle information. Sent to.

[0032] Therefore, even a substitute worker who is on duty temporarily can refer to and confirm the data such as the name, address, and collection / delivery time of the regular shipper who is to be in charge of the vehicle by using the on-board terminal device. There is no danger and you can concentrate on safe driving.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a basic configuration of a wireless communication system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example in which the present invention is applied to a collection and delivery information sending system.

FIG. 3 is a diagram exemplifying a regular collection table stored in a customer data storage unit.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a collection / delivery information transmission process in the transmission control means.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating a vehicle-mounted terminal device used in a conventional collection and delivery information transmission system.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a conventional configuration of a collection and delivery information transmission system for performing data communication between a terminal device mounted on each collection and delivery vehicle and a host computer of a base station.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a display example on a display of the in-vehicle terminal device.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating the contents of a vehicle operation table.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 In-vehicle terminal device 2 In-vehicle display (display) 3 CPU 6 i / O interface 7 In-vehicle terminal device radio 8 Base station 9 Base station radio 10 Host computer 11 Keyboard 12 Display 13 Mobile station 14 Customer data storage Means 15 Operation status storage means 16 Transmission control means

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A wireless communication system for selectively transmitting data from a base station (8) to a mobile station (13), wherein the base station (8) has a vehicle number provided for each mobile station (13). Data storage means for storing customer data and customer data in association
(14), an operating status storage means (15) for storing the vehicle number and the operating status of the mobile station corresponding to the vehicle number, and a crew member exchange from among the storage contents of the operating status storage means (15).
Detection means for detecting a mobile station in a substitute state, and a mobile station in a crew change state is detected by the detection means.
If issued, the customer who should be responsible for the detected mobile station
Customer data to be read from the customer data storage means (14).
The customer read out from the customer data storage means (14).
Transmission control means for transmitting data to the mobile station by a radio (9)
(16) A wireless communication system comprising: