JP2005266974A - Transport monitoring method and monitor therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transport monitoring method securing safety of a transport manager, and deciding whether or not it is under a transport condition conforming to a transport schedule to realize safe transport by monitoring travel position information of a vehicle, and to provide a monitor therefor. <P>SOLUTION: Biological information of the transport manager and the travel position information are respetively acquired from a transport vehicle, the stored biological information of the transport manager and transport schedule information are collated, and an emergency contact destination is retrieved from the acquired travel position information and is displayed when the biological information of the transport manager does not match. By monitoring both the transport manager and the transport vehicle, especially when a collation result of the biological information of the transport manager is unmatched, or when strongly suspected thereof, information about the emergency contact destination is displayed to allow proper coping. Thereby, safety of the transport manager in a transport section can be secured. Because it can be easily confirmed whether it is route operation conforming to the transport schedule or not by the travel position information, especially, management to transport freight can be certainly performed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a transportation monitoring method and a monitoring apparatus therefor. Specifically, the biometric information of the transportation manager (usually a driver) who boarded the transport vehicle and the current travel position information of the transport vehicle are acquired, and the travel does not match the pre-registered biometric information or is out of the transport plan. When it is location information, the emergency contact address is automatically searched and the information is displayed so that an immediate response system for an emergency situation can be realized.

  When cargo loaded on a truck or other transportation vehicle is transported to a destination based on a transportation plan, the loaded cargo may be robbed or an unexpected accident may be encountered during transportation.

  When such an abnormal situation occurs, a transportation monitoring system that promptly responds to safeguard the transportation manager (usually a driver) of the transportation vehicle and accurately grasps the status of the loaded cargo. Construction of is desired. As a technique included in the category of such a transportation monitoring system, Patent Documents 1 to 3 are known.

JP 2002-175583 A JP 2003-2447 A JP 2001-331887 A

  By the way, Patent Document 1 discloses a system capable of notifying related organizations of information relating to dangerous goods when an accident or the like occurs in a vehicle that transports dangerous goods.

  Specifically, information on the vehicle position is sent to the information center, and when an accident or the like occurs in the vehicle, the vehicle can send abnormal state data so that the information center can monitor the vehicle. It is.

  However, in this patent document 1, a monitoring system is constructed by paying attention only to vehicle accidents, and therefore information on under what circumstances the driver himself who is a vehicle transportation manager (transportation manager) is present. It has never been obtained.

  Therefore, this transportation monitoring system can not only confirm the safety of the transportation manager, but there is a risk that the vehicle will be robbed while driving, and the robber will continue to drive and transport it to near the destination and looting the loaded cargo There is.

  Patent Document 2 discloses a system that reduces the public safety risk by integrating weather and geographical position data related to transportation with transportation goods data.

  In other words, this Patent Document 2 is a system that acquires geographical position data up to a transportation destination and weather data, and realizes safe operation management even if the weather changes suddenly. Therefore, this Patent Document 2 does not disclose a means for ensuring the safety of the transportation manager, as well as Patent Document 1, and does not disclose a means for preventing the looting of the loaded cargo.

  Patent Document 3 proposes a vehicle management apparatus that manages drivers who are not qualified to drive a specific vehicle.

  Therefore, in this patent document 3, the object is realized by managing the dangerous goods license ID data acquired by the driver. When it is determined that it is not qualified, warning display, forced operation stop processing for the vehicle, and the like are performed.

  Therefore, in Patent Document 3, although the driver who is the transportation manager is managed, the driver is not managed, but only the ID data held by the driver is managed. When ID data or the like is held, it is determined that they are the same person, and no subsequent risk prevention measures are taken. Therefore, it is not reliable driver monitoring.

  In addition to transporting finished products, it is also possible to transport special goods. For example, in the case of electric power-related business, there are materials that should be transported from power plants and substations, etc. is there.

  Therefore, the present invention solves such a conventional problem, particularly by managing the transportation manager securely, ensuring the safety of the transportation manager, and monitoring the traveling position information of the vehicle. The present invention proposes a transportation monitoring method and a monitoring apparatus for realizing safe transportation by judging whether or not the transportation situation is as planned.

In order to solve the above-described problem, a transportation monitoring method according to the present invention described in claim 1 includes a computer for monitoring transportation,
Means for receiving the biological information of the transportation manager and the traveling position information of the transportation;
Means for authenticating the received biometric information and pre-registered transport manager biometric information;
As a result of the authentication, when the authentication does not match, the means for searching the emergency contact location information based on the travel position information,
Means for retrieving emergency contact information related to the location information when the location information exists;
It is made to function as a means to display the information of the said emergency contact address.

Further, the transportation monitoring device according to the present invention described in claim 4 is a means for receiving biological information of the transportation manager and traveling position information of transportation,
Means for authenticating the received biometric information and biometric information of a transportation manager registered in advance;
As a result of the authentication, when the authentication does not match, a means for searching for emergency contact location information based on the travel position information;
Means for retrieving emergency contact information related to the location information when the location information exists;
And means for displaying the emergency contact information.

  In this invention, the identification acquisition means for identifying the driver who is a transportation manager is mounted in the transporting vehicle to be monitored. A suitable camera is a surveillance camera such as a CCD camera that is small and lightweight and has sufficient resolution. The driver's biological information can be acquired by this monitoring camera. The biometric information includes the person's fingerprint information, iris information, face information (face photo information), and the like. In the following example, image information based on face information is used as biometric information.

  The transport vehicle is further equipped with means for acquiring travel position information. For example, a GPS receiving unit is mounted, and information on the current traveling position of the transport vehicle is acquired by the GPD receiving unit. Both the biological information and the current position information are sent to the transportation monitoring center. The transmission timing may be regular transmission, or may be added periodically, and an emergency state occurrence time such as an emergency condition encounter may be set as the transmission timing.

  In the transportation monitoring center, transportation plan information of the transportation vehicle and information of a driver who is a transportation manager of the transportation vehicle are stored in advance.

  In the transportation monitoring center, the driver's biological information received from the carrying vehicle side is compared with the driver's biological information stored in the transportation monitoring center side. If they are the same, it can be determined that the transport vehicle is traveling by a driver registered on the transport monitoring center side.

  When the biometric information does not match, it is considered that an abnormal situation has occurred in the transport vehicle. It is thought that the driver is another person or an assistant who is not registered is acting on behalf of the driver. If you are a driver of another person, you are telling that the transport vehicle has been robbed, so you need to know immediately where the abnormal situation has occurred.

  Therefore, in such a case, the received travel position information is analyzed to identify the travel location (location) of the transport vehicle. The running administrative division is determined from the running position information, and emergency contact information existing near the administrative section is searched. The emergency contact may be the nearest police station.

  When such an emergency occurs, map information in the vicinity of the location is displayed on the monitor of the transportation monitoring device provided on the transportation monitoring center side. At that time, traveling position information is also displayed on the same map information.

  By doing so, it becomes clear which place is currently traveling in which direction, and in addition, a police signature, its representative phone number, location, etc. as emergency contact information are provided on the transportation monitoring center side By searching using and displaying the search information on the monitor, an immediate response system for emergency situations is established. The person in charge at the transportation monitoring center will determine the need to contact the emergency contact from this information, and other best measures will be taken.

  Since the situation when an emergency occurs can be used as verification information after the emergency, the biological information when the emergency occurs and the travel position information at that time are stored in the database.

  In this invention, the biological information of the transportation manager and the travel position information are respectively obtained from the transportation vehicle, the stored biological information of the transportation manager and the transportation plan information are collated, and the biological information of the transportation manager matches. When there is not, the emergency contact information can be searched from the acquired travel position information and displayed.

  According to this, by monitoring both the transportation manager and the transportation vehicle, the emergency contact information is displayed especially when the collation result of the biological information of the transportation manager is inconsistent or highly suspicious. Can be dealt with appropriately. This makes it possible to ensure safety in the transportation section of the transportation manager.

  In addition, since it is possible to easily confirm whether or not the travel operation according to the transportation plan is performed based on the traveling position information, it is possible to particularly reliably manage the transportation cargo.

  Next, a preferred embodiment of the transportation monitoring method and monitoring apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of a transportation monitoring system 1 for realizing the present invention.
The transportation monitoring apparatus 10 according to the present invention includes a plurality of transportation vehicles, including one transportation vehicle 4 in the figure, via a communication line (network) such as the Internet (including a network such as a fixed base station connected to a telephone line) 2. The transportation monitoring device 10 monitors both the individual transportation vehicles and the transportation manager that operates the transportation vehicles. The transportation manager is basically a driver who drives a transportation vehicle such as a truck. For example, a person riding in an auxiliary seat may be registered as a transportation manager.

  From the transport vehicle 4, there are biometric information acquisition means that can acquire biometric information of the transportation manager, means for acquiring travel position information, and communication means that can be connected to the communication line 2 so that the biometric information and travel position information can be transmitted. Equipped.

  Biological information and travel position information relating to the transport vehicle 4 are transmitted from the antenna 8, and the information is received and monitored by the transport monitoring device 10 via the communication line 2. A database 40 is associated with the transportation monitoring apparatus 10, and transportation plan information for a transportation vehicle is accumulated in the database 40.

  The transportation plan information includes the route to the customer of the destination, what kind of cargo, what kind of freight vehicle, when and who is the transportation manager (for example, driver) It is assumed that information is stored.

  The database 40 stores biological information of a transportation manager related to a specific transportation vehicle so as to be linked to transportation plan information. The biological information is a face photograph of the transportation manager because of the relationship with the transportation vehicle 4 described above.

  In the database 40, map information of the transportation route is stored together with the emergency contact information existing on the transportation route. This is because the map information is displayed on the monitor of the transportation monitoring device 10 on the transportation route.

  Map information can be used as emergency contact information, but in this example, map information is processed into a table. As the emergency contact information, the police stations that are most easily used are the police stations that exist in the respective administrative divisions (municipalities), and the police signature, the location, the representative telephone number, etc. are stored in a table. Map information and tabulated emergency contact information shall be installed in the database corresponding to the transportation plan.

FIG. 2 shows a transmission device 11 installed on the transport vehicle 4 side.
As described above, the transmission device 11 is equipment for transmitting the biological information of the transportation manager and the traveling position information of the transporting vehicle.

  As for the biological information of the transportation manager, as described above, the facial photograph of the transportation manager, fingerprint information, iris information, and the like can be considered. The simplest example is a case where the photograph information of the transportation manager is used as biometric information. Therefore, a monitoring camera such as a CCD is suitable as the biometric information acquisition means at that time, and this monitoring camera is attached and fixed to the ceiling of the driver's seat or the like so as to capture an image of the transportation manager during driving. It is assumed that the surveillance camera is attached by camouflaging so that the existence of the surveillance camera is not understood as much as possible.

  The traveling position information of the transport vehicle 4 is information used for specifying a place where the vehicle is traveling. For example, information such as a GPS system (global positioning system) can be used. Traveling position information is obtained as latitude information and longitude information from the GPS receiver. A reception signal obtained by receiving signals from a plurality of geostationary satellites 6 by the antenna 7 is supplied to the GPS receiving means.

  The received signal can be used as transmission information as it is, or a signal obtained by converting the latitude information and longitude information contained in the received signal into an administrative division name (city name) can be used as transmission information.

  Both the biological information from the monitoring camera 12 and the GPS received signal from the GPS receiving unit 14 are supplied to the synthesizing processing unit 16 and synthesized under the control of the control unit 19 including a CPU. The biometric information is still image information and is compressed in any case, but can be processed without being compressed.

  For example, the synthesis process refers to a process for adding the biological information and the travel position information to the identification information of the transport vehicle 4 as header information. The combined transmission signal is supplied to the transmission unit 18 to have a signal form suitable for transmission, and then transmitted from the antenna 8.

  If the transmission signal can be transmitted periodically at a predetermined interval, for example, every 30 minutes or every hour, an emergency transmission mode when an abnormal situation occurs in addition to such regular transmission Is also possible. For example, when the transportation manager operates the emergency button 17 provided on the transmission device 11. At this time, an emergency mode code or the like is automatically added to the transmission signal.

  FIG. 3 is a system diagram of a main part showing an embodiment of the transportation monitoring apparatus 10 according to the present invention. The above-described database 40 provided in connection with the transportation monitoring apparatus 10 is configured to be directly connected to the internal bus 20 of the apparatus, but can also be connected via an internal network of a monitoring center such as a LAN.

  The transportation monitoring apparatus 10 functions as a computer, and includes a CPU 22 as a control unit that controls the entire apparatus, a memory means (ROM) 24 in which processing programs for transportation monitoring are stored, A working memory means (RAM) 26 is connected to the internal bus 20. The working memory means 26 also functions as a memory for temporarily storing processing information for the transportation monitoring process.

  An input means 28 such as a mouse and a keyboard, an output means 30 such as a printer, and a monitor 32 are connected to the internal bus 20, and in this example, a communication means (transmission / reception means) 34 for connecting to the communication line 2 is provided. It is configured to be connected to the internal bus 20.

  Further, an emergency reception display means 36 such as an LED is provided, and when an emergency mode code is received, the occurrence of an emergency situation is notified by, for example, blinking display of this LED.

  Next, an example of the transportation monitoring method according to the present invention will be described with reference to a flowchart. In the transportation monitoring apparatus 10 shown in FIG. 3, a transportation management processing program stored in the ROM 24 is activated. Assuming that the transportation management information is periodically transmitted from the transportation monitoring device 10 side, the processing program can also be configured to be started by a periodic interruption.

  When the processing program is started, first, it enters a standby state for acquiring the transportation management information from the transportation monitoring device 10 side, and the transportation management information acquisition is determined (step 51). When the transportation management information is received, the received biological information of the transportation manager, the transportation manager registered in relation to the specific transportation vehicle 4 stored in the database 40 in advance, and the biological information thereof are acquired, Both verification processes (authentication processes) are executed (step 52). The biometric information is facial photograph information, and a matching point and a mismatching point of both are discriminated using an image analysis program or the like.

  If the received biometric information and the accumulated biometric information are displayed on the same monitor screen, and the person in charge at the transportation monitoring center visually confirms the match or mismatch, the biometric verification is further ensured. . This is an extremely important judgment material for determination when biometric information does not match, that is, when there is a strong suspicion of mismatch.

  If the received biometric information matches the stored biometric information as a result of the collation processing for the biometric information, it is determined that the transport status is normal and the judgment processing is terminated without performing any special processing. Then, a transition is made to the standby state for acquiring the transportation management information at the next timing (step 53 and end processing).

  On the other hand, when there are few points of coincidence between the received biometric information and the stored biometric information and there are too many differences from the stored biometric information or when there is no match, the registered transportation management It is difficult to determine that the transport vehicle 4 is moving by a person. That is, in this case, it may be determined that something abnormal has occurred.

  Therefore, when such a determination is made, the map information stored in the database 40 is searched based on the travel position information of the transport vehicle 4 and the map information including the travel position is displayed on the monitor 32 ( Step 54). At the same time, a mark indicating the traveling position is displayed on the same map.

  Further, following this process, the location information of the emergency contact is searched in the database 40 (step 54). If the location information exists as a result of searching the emergency contact information (step 55), the emergency contact information (such as the name of the emergency contact and the telephone number) related to the location information is displayed on the screen of the monitor 32. It is displayed (step 56).

  When the received travel position information is latitude and longitude information, a location closest to the latitude and longitude information is searched, and an emergency contact address with the location in the jurisdiction is displayed. The most suitable emergency contact is a police station.

  If the received travel position information is location information converted from latitude and longitude information, the location information may be searched in the database 40.

  As information displayed on the monitor 32, the emergency contact information can be displayed instead of the map information, the emergency contact information is superimposed on the map information, or the emergency contact information is displayed in the window. It can also be displayed. In this example, a window is provided in an unnecessary part, and emergency contact information is displayed here.

The emergency contact information includes a police signature, its location, and a representative telephone number.
In addition to the emergency contact information along the transportation route, each information of the emergency contact information in the vicinity is registered.

  For example, when it is a transportation route through Hiroshima city center, information such as Hiroshima Central Police Station, Hiroshima East Police Station, Hiroshima West Police Station, Hiroshima South Police Station, Hiroshima Kita Police Station Become.

  If the person in charge at the transportation monitoring center determines that there is a great need for emergency contact, the person in charge of the transportation monitoring center can make a request for an investigation into the emergency situation by contacting this emergency contact.

  The biological information of the transportation manager received when the abnormal situation occurs, the location information (traveling position information) at that time, and the emergency contact information are stored in the RAM 26, the database 40, etc. as the abnormal situation information ( Step 58). This is to analyze the abnormal situation information or use it as information for analyzing the abnormal situation after the drought. When this storage process is completed, a series of emergency processing programs are completed and a standby state is entered.

  If the corresponding location information cannot be acquired even after searching the database 40 based on the travel position information received in step 55, the mismatch information of the biometric information of the transportation manager at that time and the travel position at that time Information is displayed on the monitor 32 (step 59). Such a situation may occur when, for example, the transport vehicle 4 is traveling far from the route of the original transport plan. Therefore, even in that case, it is necessary to determine the reason why the route has deviated based on the mismatch information of the biometric information and the travel position information, and it can be used as information at the time of emergency contact.

  After step 59, the process proceeds to step 58, where the biological information of the transportation manager received when an abnormal situation occurs, the location information at that time (traveling position information), emergency contact information, and the like are stored in the RAM 26 as abnormal situation information. Or the database 40 and the like, the processing program ends, and transitions to standby information.

  Needless to say, the processing program shown in FIG. 4 is activated and the same processing is executed even when the emergency button 17 in FIG. 2 is operated instead of the periodic transportation management processing. However, in this case, as described above, the blinking process of the emergency reception display means 36 of FIG. 3 is executed.

  The cargo loaded on the transportation vehicle 4 in the above-described embodiment is not particularly limited, and cargo in any industrial field (finished product, semi-finished product, solid, gas, and liquid material) is the object of transportation.

  The present invention is suitably applied to a transportation monitoring system that realizes safe transportation using both the biological information of the transportation manager and the traveling position information of the transportation vehicle.

It is a conceptual diagram which shows the outline | summary of the transportation monitoring system which concerns on this invention. It is a systematic diagram of the principal part which shows the Example of the transmitter with which the carrying vehicle side is mounted. It is a systematic diagram of the principal part which shows the Example of the transportation monitoring apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the processing program for implement | achieving the transportation monitoring method which concerns on this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Transportation monitoring system 2 ... Communication line 4 ... Transportation vehicle 10 ... Transportation monitoring apparatus 11 ... Transmission apparatus 12 ... Monitoring camera 14 ... GPS receiving part 17 ... Emergency Button 18 ... Transmitter 22 ... CPU
36 ... Emergency reception display means

Claims (6)

Computer to monitor transportation,
Means for receiving the biological information of the transportation manager and the traveling position information of the transportation;
Means for authenticating the received biometric information and pre-registered transport manager biometric information;
As a result of the authentication, when the authentication does not match, the means for searching the emergency contact location information based on the travel position information,
Means for retrieving emergency contact information related to the location information when the location information exists;
A transportation monitoring method, which functions as means for displaying the emergency contact information. 2. The transportation monitoring method according to claim 1, wherein the biological information is any one of a fingerprint, an iris, and a face photograph. The transportation monitoring method according to claim 1, wherein the travel position information is position information from a GPS. A monitoring device for monitoring transportation,
Means for receiving the biological information of the transportation manager and the traveling position information of the transportation;
Means for authenticating the received biometric information and biometric information of a transportation manager registered in advance;
As a result of the authentication, when the authentication does not match, a means for searching for emergency contact location information based on the travel position information;
Means for retrieving emergency contact information related to the location information when the location information exists;
A transportation monitoring apparatus comprising: means for displaying the emergency contact information. The transportation monitoring apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the biological information is any one of a fingerprint, an iris, and a face photograph. 5. The transportation monitoring apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the travel position information is position information from a GPS.

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