JP4183071B2 - Automatic fee collection system - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an automatic toll collection system on a highway or the like.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In order to eliminate traffic jams in the city center such as the Metropolitan Expressway and ensure smooth operation, an area that restricts the entry of vehicles is established, a control point is established on the road that approaches the area, and wireless communication is performed for vehicles entering the area There is an automatic toll collection system that charges electronically using a means, and as an example, as shown in Patent Document 1, only antennas and cameras are placed on a gate pillar installed on a main line or a ramp (entrance / exit). In some cases, the control device is arranged on the roadside.
[0003]
In addition, unlike the toll booth on the expressway connecting remote areas, it is difficult to secure the surrounding land, so in recent years all equipment including the control device has been connected to the main line. Or it is installed on the gate pillar provided in the lamp.
[0004]
[Patent Document 1]
JP-A-6-243316 (paragraph 0019)
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
Since the conventional automatic toll collection system is configured as described above, if any abnormality occurs in the device and a communication error occurs, a reset process is required to climb up the gatepost and initialize the device. However, when all equipment is installed on the gateposts of expressways, this reset process is not possible at any time due to traffic restrictions and road regulations. There was a problem that labor and cost occurred.
[0006]
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and when all equipment is installed on a highway gatepost, maintenance work on the gatepost even if any abnormality occurs in the equipment. It is an object of the present invention to obtain an automatic toll collection system that can eliminate communication errors and easily avoid abnormal communication.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In the automatic fee collection system according to the present invention, the data processing device stores the data related to the billing in the first data memory and monitors the storage amount as the first log data, and the first data A first data transmission unit that transmits to the central device data related to billing stored in the memory, a communication error occurs between the data processing device and the central device, and the first log data exceeds a predetermined value. In this case, the data processing determination unit resets the first data transmission unit, and the first data transmission unit transmits a reset command to the central device.
[0008]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
An embodiment of the present invention will be described below.
Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of an automatic fee collection system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a gate pole 2 on which each device of the automatic toll collection system is mounted is installed on a road 1, and a vehicle 3 enters the gate pole 2. The vehicle 3 is equipped with an in-vehicle device 4 and a license plate 5.
[0009]
On the gate pillar 2, a still image that continuously shoots images of the vehicle 11 that enters the antenna 11 that radiates radio waves toward the road surface of the road 1 and transmits and receives information on tolls with the vehicle-mounted device 4 at a predetermined position. Camera 12, license plate photographing camera 13 for photographing license plate 5 of entering vehicle 3, illuminator 14 for photographing, wireless control device 20 for controlling antenna 11 and managing transmission / reception information with vehicle-mounted device 4, still image camera 12 and an image processing device 30 for creating still images and license plate information from the images of the number plate photographing camera 13 and communicating with the central device 70 is installed.
[0010]
The gatepost 2 includes a data processing device 40 that controls and controls the state of the wireless control device 20 and the image processing device 30 and communicates with the remote control terminal 60 and the central device 70, and a LAN connected to the data processing device 40. A line 51, a wireless LAN communication unit 52 connected to the LAN line 51 and communicating with the remote control terminal 60, a data line 53 connecting the image processing apparatus 30 and the central apparatus 70 and connecting the data processing apparatus 40 and the central apparatus 70 are installed. Has been.
[0011]
The remote control terminal 60 is mounted on, for example, a maintenance vehicle stopped near the gate pillar 2 and performs data setting and data collection for each device installed on the gate pillar 2 by wireless communication.
[0012]
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the automatic fee collection system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. In FIG. 2, the same reference numerals as those in FIG. 1 are the same. As shown in FIG. 2, the wireless control device 20 includes a data transmission unit 21, a data processing unit 22, and a LAN communication unit 23. The image processing device 30 includes a license plate determination unit 31, a data processing unit 32, and a data memory. (Second data memory) 33, a LAN communication unit 34, and a data transmission unit (second data transmission unit) 35.
[0013]
The data processing device 40 includes a LAN communication unit 41, a data processing determination unit 42, a data memory (first data memory) 43, a data transmission unit (first data transmission unit) 44, and a security unit 45. The remote control terminal 60 includes a security unit 61, a LAN line 62, and a wireless LAN communication unit 63. The central device 70 includes a data transmission unit 71, a data central processing unit 72, a data transmission unit 73, and an image central processing unit 74. It is configured.
[0014]
Next, the operation will be described.
When the vehicle 3 enters the communication area of the antenna 11, the vehicle-mounted device 4 transmits data such as the vehicle type, number, and entrance toll gate that entered the highway to the antenna 11 in response to the signal from the antenna 11. The data processing unit 22 of the wireless control device 20 performs charge calculation and the LAN communication unit 23 transmits data relating to charging such as data from the vehicle-mounted device 4, charging data, discount information, and the like to the data processing device 40.
[0015]
The data processing determination unit 42 of the data processing device 40 temporarily stores data related to charging in the data memory 43. The stored billing data is transmitted from the data transmission unit 44 to the central device 70 that performs billing processing at a predetermined timing. Here, the data memory 43 has a capacity capable of storing data for about one week, but normally, since data is transmitted to the central device 70 at any time, only about 20% of the capacity is used. The central device 70 performs billing processing for the credit company based on the received billing data.
[0016]
The image processing apparatus 30 is installed in order to confirm the passage of the vehicle 3 when the billing process is not normally performed, for example, when the discount is not performed on the vehicle 3 that should be a discount fee. Is. The license plate information of the vehicle 3 photographed by the license plate photographing camera 13 and the image of the vehicle 3 photographed by the still image camera 12 are input to the data processing unit 32 of the image processing device 30. These image data are temporarily stored in the data memory 33 and transmitted from the data transmission unit 35 to the central device 70 at a predetermined timing.
[0017]
Further, the data processing determination unit 42 of the data processing device 40 accumulates the internal state change of the data processing device 40 and the transmission of the data transmission unit 44 as log data in the data memory 43, and confirms this log data. To monitor whether or not there is a communication abnormality and transmits log data to the central device 70 when there is an abnormality. In the central device 70, the data transmission unit 71 receives the transmitted log data, and the data central processing unit 72 performs cause analysis of the abnormality.
[0018]
The remote control terminal 60 performs data setting and data collection by wireless communication. Data is set when a customer adds a function addition or change instruction. For example, when updating a parameter, program, or the like set in the data processing determination unit 42 of the data processing device 40 for a fee revision or version upgrade, the security unit 61 of the remote control terminal 60 uses the parameter or The encrypted parameters and programs are transmitted to the wireless LAN communication unit 52 by wireless communication via the LAN line 62 and the wireless LAN communication unit 63, and the security unit 45 of the data processing device 40 is encrypted. And is output to the data processing determination unit 42 via the LAN communication unit 41.
[0019]
In addition, when a communication abnormality occurs between the data processing device 40 and the central device 70 or between the image processing device 30 and the central device 70, the data processing determination unit 42 of the data processing device 40 stores the data memory. The log data stored in 43 is output to the security unit 45 via the LAN communication unit 41, and the data processing unit 32 of the image processing apparatus 30 converts the log data stored in the data memory 33 into the LAN communication unit 34. And output to the security unit 45 via the LAN communication unit 41.
[0020]
The security unit 45 encrypts each log data, and the encrypted log data is transmitted from the wireless LAN communication unit 52 to the remote control terminal 60 by wireless communication. The encrypted log data is output to the security unit 61 through the wireless LAN communication unit 63 and the LAN line 62 and decrypted, and the cause of the abnormality is analyzed also in the remote control terminal 60.
[0021]
Next, a reset process when data is not normally transmitted between the data processing device 40 and the central device 70 or between the image processing device 30 and the central device 70 due to a communication abnormality will be described.
For example, if the data related to charging stored in the data memory 43 of the data processing device 40 is not normally transmitted to the central device 70, the data related to charging continues to be stored in the data memory 43. Therefore, the data processing determination unit 42 monitors the number of data in the data memory 43 as log data (first log data), and if the number of data exceeds, for example, 70% of the capacity of the data memory 43, the data The process determination unit 42 resets the data transmission unit 44.
[0022]
When the data transmission unit 44 is reset by the data processing determination unit 42, the data transmission unit 44 is restarted for initialization, and transmits a reset command to the data transmission unit 71 of the central device 70. As a result, the billing data stored in the data memory 43 is automatically transmitted to the central device 70 automatically and deleted from the data memory 43.
[0023]
If the image data stored in the data memory 33 of the image processing device 30 is not normally transmitted to the central device 70, the data processing unit 32 similarly uses the data memory as log data (second log data). The number of data in 33 is monitored, and when the number of data exceeds 70% of the capacity of the data memory 33, for example, the data processing unit 32 resets the data transmission unit 35.
[0024]
When the data transmission unit 35 is reset by the data processing unit 32, the data transmission unit 35 is restarted for initialization, and transmits a reset command to the data transmission unit 73 of the central device 70. As a result, the image data stored in the data memory 33 is automatically transmitted to the central device 70 automatically and deleted from the data memory 33.
[0025]
As described above, according to the first embodiment, when a communication abnormality occurs, the data transmission unit 44 of the data processing device 40 and the data transmission unit 35 of the image processing device 30 are automatically reset. Data transmission can be resumed normally, and it is not necessary to perform maintenance work on the gate pillar 2, so that it is possible to easily avoid communication abnormality.
[0026]
Further, according to the first embodiment, the remote control terminal 60 collects the log data of the data processing device 40 and the log data of the image processing device 30 by wireless communication, thereby performing maintenance work on the gate pillar 2. There is an effect that the abnormality analysis can be easily performed without the necessity.
[0027]
Further, according to the first embodiment, the remote control terminal 60 updates parameters and programs set in the data processing determination unit 42 of the data processing device 40 by wireless communication, so that maintenance on the gate pillar 2 is performed. There is an effect that it is possible to easily cope with fee revision and version upgrade without having to perform work.
[0028]
Embodiment 2. FIG.
The block diagram showing the configuration of the automatic fee collection system according to the second embodiment of the present invention is the same as FIG. 1 of the first embodiment. In the first embodiment, when a communication abnormality occurs, the data transmission unit 44 of the data processing device 40 and the data transmission unit 35 of the image processing device 30 are automatically reset. The data transmission unit 44 of the data processing device 40 and the data transmission unit 35 of the image processing device 30 may be reset by operating the remote control terminal 60 mounted on the vehicle.
[0029]
In this case, the number of data in the data memory 43 of the data processing device 40 or the number of data in the data memory 33 of the image processing device 30 as log data is determined from the security unit 45 via the wireless LAN communication unit 52. For example, when the capacity exceeds 70%, the remote control terminal 60 issues a reset command to the data transmission unit 44 of the data processing device 40 or the data transmission unit 35 of the image processing device 30. Send.
[0030]
As described above, according to the second embodiment, when a communication abnormality occurs between the data processing device 40 and the central processing device 70 or between the image processing device 30 and the central processing device 70, the remote processing is performed. Since the control terminal 60 resets the data transmission unit 44 of the data processing device 40 and the data transmission unit 35 of the image processing device 30 by wireless communication, it is not necessary to perform maintenance work on the gate pillar 2, and communication abnormality can be easily performed. The effect that it can be avoided is obtained.
[0031]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, the data processing device accumulates data related to charging in the first data memory and monitors the accumulated amount as the first log data, and the first A first data transmission unit that transmits to the central device data related to the billing stored in the data memory, a communication error occurs between the data processing device and the central device, and the first log data is The data processing determination unit resets the first data transmission unit when it exceeds a predetermined value, and the first data transmission unit can resume data transmission normally by sending a reset command to the central device. Therefore, there is no need to perform maintenance work on the gate pillar, and it is possible to easily avoid communication abnormality.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of an automatic fee collection system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an automatic fee collection system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Road, 2 Gate pillar, 3 Vehicle, 4 Onboard equipment, 5 License plate, 11 Antenna, 12 Still image camera, 13 License plate camera, 14 Illuminator, 20 Wireless control device, 21 Data transmission part, 22 Data processing part, 23 LAN communication unit, 30 image processing device, 31 license plate determination unit, 32 data processing unit, 33 data memory, 34 LAN communication unit, 35 data transmission unit, 40 data processing device, 41 LAN communication unit, 42 data processing determination unit , 43 Data memory, 44 Data transmission unit, 45 Security unit, 51 LAN line, 52 Wireless LAN communication unit, 53 Data line, 60 Remote control terminal, 61 Security unit, 62 LAN line, 63 Wireless LAN communication unit, 70 Central device 71 Data transmission unit 72 Data central processing unit 73 Data transmission unit 74 Image central processing unit.

Claims (5)

A wireless control device that calculates a fee for an entering vehicle and outputs data related to charging, an image processing device that accumulates image data of the vehicle and transmits it to a central device, and states of the wireless control device and the image processing device In the automatic toll collection system comprising a data processing device that performs management and accumulates data related to charging from the wireless control device and transmits the data to the central device,
The data processing apparatus includes a data processing determination unit that accumulates data related to billing in the first data memory and monitors the accumulated amount as the first log data, and billing that is accumulated in the first data memory. A first data transmission unit for transmitting the data to the central device,
When a communication abnormality occurs between the data processing device and the central device, and the first log data is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the data processing determination unit resets the first data transmission unit, The automatic data collection system, wherein the first data transmission unit transmits a reset command to the central device. An image processing apparatus stores a data processing unit that accumulates image data in a second data memory and monitors an accumulation amount as second log data, and stores image data stored in the second data memory in a central device. A second data transmission unit for transmitting,
When a communication abnormality occurs between the image processing device and the central device, and the second log data exceeds a predetermined value, the data processing unit resets the second data transmission unit, and 2. The automatic fee collection system according to claim 1, wherein the second data transmission unit transmits a reset command to the central device. A wireless control device that calculates a fee for an entering vehicle and outputs data related to charging, an image processing device that accumulates image data of the vehicle and transmits it to a central device, and states of the wireless control device and the image processing device An automatic toll collection system comprising a data processing device that performs management, stores data related to charging from the wireless control device and transmits the data to the central device, and a remote control terminal that performs wireless communication with the data processing device In
The data processing apparatus includes a data processing determination unit that accumulates data related to billing in the first data memory and monitors the accumulated amount as the first log data, and billing that is accumulated in the first data memory. A first data transmission unit that transmits the data to the central device, and a security unit that encrypts the first log data monitored by the data processing determination unit and transmits the encrypted data to the remote control terminal,
When a communication abnormality occurs between the data processing device and the central device, and the first log data becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the remote control terminal sends to the first data transmission unit of the data processing device. An automatic fee collection system, wherein a reset command is transmitted, and the first data transmission unit transmits a reset command to the central device. An image processing apparatus stores a data processing unit that accumulates image data in a second data memory and monitors an accumulation amount as second log data, and stores image data stored in the second data memory in a central device. A second data transmission unit for transmitting,
The security unit encrypts the second log data monitored by the data processing unit and transmits the encrypted data to the remote control terminal. A communication error occurs between the image processing device and the central device, and the second When the log data exceeds a predetermined value, the remote control terminal transmits a reset command to the second data transmission unit of the image processing device, and the second data transmission unit transmits a reset command to the central device. The automatic fee collection system according to claim 3. The remote control terminal encrypts parameters and programs for fee revision and version upgrade and transmits them to the data processing device. The data processing device decrypts the transmitted parameters and programs and is set in the data processing determination unit. 4. The automatic fee collection system according to claim 3, wherein the parameters and programs are updated.

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