JPH114309A - Information service device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To serve information as to a status changing in real time unattendedly through a telephone line from various installations and equipments by reading voice data corresponding to a detection output in response to a call received from an optional opposite party from a storage means and sending the read data to the opposite party. SOLUTION: A person in charge in a karaoke swing along machine box or the like stores voice data in response to an idle state to a voice data memory 11. In the case that a user makes a phone call to a telephone number of an information service of the karaoke swing along machine box from a telephone set or a portable telephone set to confirm idle information of the karaoke swing along machine box, a CPU 15 receives an input to an input circuit 10 in response to the arrival of the call. Then contact inputs corresponding to the number of idle rooms are counted and voice data in the voice data memory 11 in an area corresponding to the count are read and sent to the telephone line. Thus, the voice in response to the idle state is sent to the user and the user recognizes a current idle state of the karaoke swing along machine box.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus for providing, via a telephone line, a situation which changes in various facilities and facilities in real time.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, when grasping the availability of vacant seats or vacant cars in various facilities such as a karaoke box, a parking lot or a hotel, a user calls the facility to check the availability. In the past, these calls for availability checks were
A person who performs service operations such as reception at the facility is in charge, and there is no one that can provide information on vacancy status unattended.

[0003]

As described above, conventionally, in order to provide information such as the availability of a facility that changes in real time, it is necessary to allocate personnel for the facility to the facility. It is desired to reduce the cost by reducing the cost.

On the other hand, if a user can easily obtain information such as the availability of facilities by making a telephone call anytime and anywhere with the progress of the information society due to the spread of cellular phones and the like, It is convenient.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above technical problem, and is intended to provide information about a situation that changes in real time in various facilities and facilities through a telephone line unattended. The purpose is to.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention is configured as follows.

That is, the present invention relates to an information providing apparatus for providing information on the status of facilities and equipment by voice via a telephone line, wherein the voice storage means stores voice data corresponding to the status in advance. A detection output from a means for detecting a situation of a facility or equipment is given, and in response to an incoming call from any other party, voice data corresponding to the detection output is read from the voice storage means and transmitted to the other party. Communication control means.

[0008] Preferably, the condition is an empty condition such as an empty vehicle, an empty room or an empty seat, or a temperature condition.

[0009] A plurality of contact input terminals to which a detection output from the means for detecting a situation is provided may be provided, and further, a plurality of contact input terminals may be connected to a plurality of telephone lines.

According to the information providing apparatus of the present invention, voice data corresponding to a situation is stored in advance, and voice data corresponding to the detected situation is read out and transmitted in response to an incoming call from any other party. The status of facilities and equipment, for example,
It is possible to provide information about an empty state such as an empty vehicle, an empty room or a vacant seat, or a temperature state by an unmanned person via a telephone line.

Further, since a plurality of contact input terminals are provided, different situations such as facilities and facilities can be associated with each contact input terminal.

Further, since the telephone line is connected to a plurality of telephone lines, information can be provided immediately even when inquiries about the availability or the like are repeated.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system including an information providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

This system provides information on the availability of karaoke boxes via a telephone line. Basically, the karaoke box 1 as a facility is provided.
A sensor (not shown) such as a proximity switch, a photoelectric switch, or a limit switch as means for detecting the empty state of the karaoke box 1; an information providing device 2 according to the present invention; And a telephone 4 such as a general telephone or a public telephone used by a user who wants to check the availability of the karaoke box 1 and a mobile telephone 5 such as a PHS.

The above-mentioned sensors are arranged in each box of the karaoke box 1, and are configured to provide a detection output corresponding to whether or not the box is used to the information providing apparatus 2. The information providing device 2 is installed in the karaoke box 1.

The information providing device 2 has a display portion 6 made of liquid crystal for displaying an operation procedure or the like according to a setting mode on a front surface thereof, and a plurality of LEDs 7 for displaying an operation state are provided below the display portion 6. Further, a plurality of contact input terminals to which detection outputs from a plurality of sensors are provided when the cover 8 below the cover 8 is opened, a key input unit for setting an operation mode, and the like are provided.

As shown in the block diagram of FIG. 2, the information providing device 2 includes an input circuit 10 to which detection outputs from a plurality of sensors are provided through a plurality of contact input terminals 9, and an audio circuit corresponding to an empty state. The voice data memory 11 in which data is stored in advance, the display unit 6 described above, and the key input unit 1 described above
2 and an EEPROM 13 for storing data to be stored
And a CPU 15 that controls each unit and performs communication control via the line control unit 14, and a control power supply circuit 16 that supplies power to each unit. In this embodiment,
The telephone line is connected to a plurality of telephone lines so as to be able to cope with a case where inquiries about the availability from the user overlap.

In the information providing apparatus 2 according to this embodiment, first, an employee of the karaoke box 1 stores voice data according to the availability in the voice data memory 11 in advance. As for the availability, one room is vacant,
There are two rooms, three rooms, etc., and the audio data corresponding to them is, for example, "There is currently one room available."
It is such a content.

The audio data is stored in the audio data memory 11 in advance in association with the input from the input circuit 10. In this embodiment, one of the plurality of contact input terminals 9 is turned on (or turned off). ), One room is empty, and two of the contact input terminals 9 are turned on (or off), and two empty rooms are stored in association with each contact input terminal 9. Yes, such a memory
The registration mode is set by the key input unit 12 described above, and a call is made to the telephone number of the information providing apparatus 2 to perform the registration.

After the voice data corresponding to the situation is registered as described above, the information provision mode is set, and in this information provision mode, the user confirms the empty information of the karaoke box 1 from the telephone 4 or the portable telephone 5. Therefore, when a call is made to the telephone number for providing information of the karaoke box 1, the CPU 15 receives the input of the input circuit 10 in response to the incoming call, counts the contact input corresponding to the vacant room, and adds the counted value to the count value. The voice data in the voice data memory 11 in the corresponding area is read out and transmitted to the telephone line, so that the user can hear the voice according to the availability, for example, "There are currently five available rooms." As a result, the user can know the current availability of the karaoke box 1.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the information providing operation of the information providing apparatus 2.

First, it is determined whether there is an incoming call (step n1). If there is an incoming call, the input of the input circuit 10 is taken in (step n2), and the number of contact inputs corresponding to the vacant room is counted (step n3). ), The voice data in the area corresponding to the count value is read (step n4), and the read voice data is transmitted to the other party as voice (step n5).

In this way, when the user makes a call, the voice data corresponding to the vacancy at that time is read out and automatically transmitted as voice. There is no need to arrange personnel for a proper response, and the user can easily check the availability of the karaoke box 1 by making a telephone call 24 hours a day.

As another embodiment of the present invention, a built-in modem function may be provided so that the vacancy status can be provided as data instead of voice through personal computer communication. The availability may be centrally managed by the center host computer.

Further, as another embodiment of the present invention, an analog input terminal is added, and analog detection outputs from various sensors such as a flow sensor and a pressure sensor arranged in a facility or facility are taken in, and the present invention is applied. The information about the situation such as the flow rate and the pressure of the information may be provided.

Further, as another embodiment of the present invention,
A DTMF tone reservation for reservation by dial operation may be performed, so that the user who has confirmed the availability can immediately make a reservation, and the user who has arrived earlier before heading to the karaoke box can be made. This prevents a situation in which the karaoke box is full by some users.

Further, as another embodiment of the present invention, when the number of contact inputs is large, the contact inputs may be taken in via a transmission terminal or the like.

Further, as another embodiment of the present invention,
The number of incoming calls when providing information to incoming calls may be set arbitrarily. For example, information may be provided unattended only when there are five incoming calls. As a result, in the case where a small karaoke box or a izakaya does not have a plurality of telephone lines, for example, it is difficult to provide information unattended for all incoming calls. Information is provided unattended only when the set number of times, for example five, is reached, and for employees who do not reach the set number of times, for example, one to four times, employees can directly respond. Is also good.

(Embodiment 2) FIG. 4 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system according to another embodiment of the present invention, in which parts corresponding to the above-described embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals.

In this embodiment, an unmanned multi-story parking lot 17
This is a system that provides information on the empty vehicle status.

In each parking area of the multi-story parking lot 17, the vehicle 1
A sensor such as a photoelectric sensor (not shown) for detecting the vehicle 8 is provided, and the presence or absence of the vehicle 18 is detected by these sensors, and the detection output is supplied to the plurality of contact input terminals 9 of the information providing device 2. Has become. The information providing device 2 is installed at an appropriate place in the multistory parking lot 17.

The internal configuration of the information providing device 2 is the same as that of the above-described embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and the voice data memory 11 of the information providing device 2 stores voice data according to the vacant vehicle status in the input circuit. The information is stored in advance in association with the input from the server 10.

When the user makes a call from the telephone 4 or the portable telephone 5 to a telephone number for providing information of the multi-story parking lot 17, the CPU 15 of the information providing device 2 responds to the incoming call by inputting the input of the input circuit 10. The contact input corresponding to the empty vehicle is counted, the voice data in the voice data memory 11 in the area corresponding to the counted value is read out, and transmitted to the telephone line. Sent to

As a result, it is possible to know the vacant state of the unmanned multi-story parking lot 17 at any time 24 hours a day.

(Embodiment 3) FIG. 5 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system according to still another embodiment of the present invention, and portions corresponding to the above-described embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals.

This embodiment is a system for providing information on the temperature condition of the greenhouse 19.

In the greenhouse 19, a temperature sensor 20 such as a resistance temperature detector is installed, and the output of the temperature sensor 20 is given to a digital panel meter 21. The digital panel meter 21 has five stages. The output, that is, the detection output of HH, H, PASS, L, LL is
It is provided to five contact input terminals 9 of the information providing device 2. The digital panel meter 21 discriminates the output from the temperature sensor 20 in five stages and provides a corresponding detection output to the information providing device 2 according to a preset threshold value. 30 ° C ~ 40 °
In the range of C, the detection output of H is given, and when it exceeds 40 ° C., the detection output of HH is given.

The information providing apparatus 2 is installed at an appropriate place, and its internal configuration is basically the same as that of the above-described embodiment shown in FIG. In advance, voice data according to the temperature condition, for example, “the current temperature is in the range of 25 ° C. to 30 ° C.” is stored in advance, and the manager of the greenhouse 19 stores information for providing information. When you call the phone number, C
The PU 15 receives the input of the input circuit 10 in response to the incoming call, and stores the audio data memory 11 in an area corresponding to the input.
Is read out and transmitted to the telephone line, whereby the temperature condition of the greenhouse 19 becomes
The voice is sent to the administrator at five levels.

Thus, the manager can know the temperature condition of the greenhouse 19 without going to the greenhouse 19, for example, while staying at home.

Further, in this embodiment, the additional telephone 22 is connected to the information providing apparatus 2 so that a call can be made from the additional telephone 22 installed in the greenhouse 19. I have.

In this embodiment, the temperature condition is known in five stages. However, by taking in the detection output of the temperature sensor 20 through the analog input terminal, the temperature condition can be known more minutely. You may do so.

Further, as another embodiment of the present invention, a wireless communication function is provided similarly to a portable telephone, so that it can be arbitrarily installed in an area where telephone lines do not reach, such as fields and mountains. The telephone line construction cost and the like may be reduced.

(Other Embodiments) The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and may be, for example, a bowling alley, a driving range, a coin laundry, an empty seat at a restaurant or a movie theater, a hotel or a motel. Provision of information on various conditions such as vacancy status, snow cover status by the road corporation, inventory status of tickets, etc., availability status of trains and aircraft, inventory status of unmanned warehouses, temperature status of boilers, etc., water storage status of tanks, etc. It can be applied to

Further, as another embodiment of the present invention,
When an abnormality is detected, an automatic reporting function may be provided to automatically report to a pre-registered report destination via a telephone line.

[0046]

As described above, according to the present invention, voice data corresponding to a situation is stored in advance, and voice data corresponding to a detected situation is read out and transmitted in response to an incoming call from any other party. So, the situation of facilities and equipment, for example,
It is possible to provide information on vacancies, vacancies or vacant seats, etc., or temperature conditions unattended via a telephone line, so that users can be assigned to facilities and equipment without staffing. Inquiries such as vacancy status can be handled, cost can be reduced, and a 24-hour information providing service can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the information providing apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an operation;

FIG. 4 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

[Description of Signs] 2 Information providing device 4 Telephone 5 Mobile phone 9 Contact input terminal 11 Voice data memory 15 CPU

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An information providing apparatus for providing information about a situation of a facility or facility by voice via a telephone line, comprising: voice storage means for preliminarily storing voice data according to the situation; A communication control means for receiving a detection output from a means for detecting a situation such as the above, reading voice data corresponding to the detection output from the voice storage means in response to an incoming call from any other party, and transmitting the data to the other party. An information providing device, comprising: 2. The information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the status is an empty status such as an empty vehicle, an empty room, or an empty seat. 3. The information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the condition is a temperature condition. 4. A system according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of contact input terminals to which a detection output from a means for detecting a situation is provided.
The information providing device according to any one of the above. 5. The information providing apparatus according to claim 1, which is connected to a plurality of telephone lines.