JP4273068B2 - Emergency notification system and notification method - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an emergency notification system and notification method , and more particularly to an emergency notification system and notification method capable of notifying a predetermined partner of emergency information including location information from a mobile communication terminal when an emergency occurs.

  When an emergency such as an earthquake, fire, or typhoon occurs, a user who encounters the emergency uses the mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone that he or she carries to 2. Description of the Related Art An emergency notification system that can receive information such as whether a place is safe or needs to evacuate and quickly respond to the information is known (for example, see Patent Document 1).

  In addition, when an emergency such as a disaster, accident, or sudden illness is encountered, emergency information is transmitted from a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone possessed by the emergency caller, and the location information center that receives this emergency information receives the received emergency information. An emergency notification system that detects the location of an emergency caller based on the information and transfers the location of the emergency caller to a connected emergency notification destination is also known in the art (for example, Patent Document 2).

  On the other hand, there is a level of emergency situations from the time when life-related urgent situations are required to the time when there is not so much urgency. In addition, it is necessary to deal with fires and injuries at the fire department instead of the police, and there is an emergency situation that can be dealt with sufficiently by affiliated security companies, etc. Integrated GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver, camera, microphone, notification switch and communication device, by operating the notification switch, the location information of the current location detected by the GPS receiver, An emergency call terminal having a configuration capable of making an emergency call to the management center of camera video image information and microphone audio information is also known (for example, See Patent Document 3). The management center can accurately determine the state of the emergency occurrence site based on the image information transmitted from the emergency call terminal and take appropriate measures.

Japanese Patent No. 3529351 (page 2-3, FIG. 1) JP 2001-339536 A (Page 3, FIG. 2) Utility Model Registration No. 3075781 (page 5-9, FIG. 1)

  However, each emergency notification system described in Patent Documents 1 and 2 is configured to notify only emergency information from a base station or a mobile communication terminal when a disaster occurs or an emergency occurs. However, there is a problem that the location and safety status of the user carrying the mobile communication terminal cannot be confirmed. In addition, each emergency notification system described in Patent Documents 1 and 2 has a problem in that a mobile communication terminal cannot be used near a disaster occurrence site due to a disaster of a radio base station or communication congestion.

  Further, the emergency call terminal described in Patent Document 3 is an emergency call dedicated terminal and does not have a telephone communication function or a mail transmission / reception function like a mobile phone, and is not versatile. In addition, as in the emergency notification system described in Patent Documents 1 and 2, a third party cannot confirm the location and safety status of the user carrying the emergency call terminal, and the vicinity of the disaster occurrence place However, there is a problem that it cannot be used.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object thereof is to provide an emergency notification system and a notification method in which a third party can confirm the position and safety status of a user carrying a mobile communication terminal. To do.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an emergency notification system and a notification method capable of confirming the location and safety information of a user in the vicinity of a disaster.

In order to achieve the above object, the emergency notification system of the first invention has a mail transmission / reception function, includes safety information of the owner when emergency information is received, and does not include current location information. a mobile communication terminal to send mail, based on the received mail information, a radio base station having an information registering means for registering the location information of at least the mail transmission source mobile communication terminal, the emergency occurrence radio base station the first and the function of notifying the emergency information to the mobile communication terminal to be located in the emergency situation occurrence region and a predetermined region in the vicinity of the via, when it receives the status inquiry e-mail, in that situation inquiry mail queried The location information of the mobile communication terminal that is the source of the safety email is acquired from the information registration means in the radio base station, and the location / Nay a radio base station monitoring apparatus and a second function in response returned by creating information mail by sending a status inquiry mail to the radio base station monitoring apparatus, the returned position from the radio base station monitoring apparatus / It has the terminal device for persons concerned who receives a safety information mail.

In order to achieve the above object, the emergency notification method according to the second aspect of the present invention is that the radio base station monitoring device urgently sends a mobile communication terminal located in an emergency occurrence area and a predetermined area nearby in the event of an emergency An emergency notification method for notifying information via a radio base station, based on the mail information received by the radio base station, registering at least the location information of the mobile communication terminal that is the sender of the mail in the information in the radio base station A first step of registering with the means, a second step of the radio base station monitoring device transmitting emergency information to a mobile communication terminal located in a predetermined area, and the mobile communication terminal wirelessly transmitting from the radio base station monitoring device A third step of receiving emergency information transmitted via the base station, and when the mobile communication terminal receives the emergency information, the current location information includes safety information of the owner of the mobile communication terminal Not including A fourth step of transmitting a safety mail to the wireless base station monitoring device via the wireless base station, and a fifth step of receiving the safety mail transmitted from the mobile communication terminal by the fourth step by the wireless base station monitoring device. And a sixth step in which the radio base station monitoring device acquires at least location information of the mobile communication terminal that is the source of the safety email from the information registration means in the radio base station, based on the received safety email information; In response to the inquiry of the position information of the mobile communication terminal from the terminal device for the person concerned to the wireless base station monitoring device, the wireless base station monitoring device sends a position / safety information mail having the position information acquired in the sixth step as the mail text. And a seventh step of creating a response and returning a response to the terminal device for the person concerned .

  In this invention, since the location information of the mobile communication terminal can be notified to the terminal device in an emergency, the location information of the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal is used in an emergency such as the occurrence of a disaster. Can be confirmed. It is also possible to confirm the location information registered before the occurrence of an emergency.

  In this invention, since the location information of the mobile communication terminal can be notified to the terminal device in an emergency, the location information of the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal is used in an emergency such as the occurrence of a disaster. Can be confirmed. It is also possible to confirm the location information registered before the occurrence of an emergency.

  According to the present invention, by notifying the terminal device of the location information of the mobile communication terminal in an emergency, the location information and safety information of the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal can be transmitted to the terminal device in the event of an emergency such as a disaster. Since it can be used and confirmed, the position and safety of the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal can be immediately grasped.

  In addition, according to the present invention, when a normal disaster occurs, there is a case where the network cannot be used. However, even when a wireless base station near the disaster occurrence location cannot be used, the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal ) Is notified and registered in advance, the position of the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal can be confirmed without directly communicating with the mobile communication terminal.

  Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a system configuration diagram of an embodiment of an emergency notification system according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the emergency notification system of the present embodiment includes a mobile phone, a simple mobile phone (PHS: Personal Handyphone System), a portable information device (PDA: Personal Digital Assistants) having a communication function, The mobile communication terminal 100 includes any one of a mobile personal computer, a radio base station 200 in a mobile radio system, and a radio base station monitoring device 300 as a server device. The radio base station 200 and the radio base station The monitoring apparatus 300 is connected via a general public network 501.

  The mobile communication terminal 100 includes at least a control unit 101, an operation unit 102, a position / safety notification button 103, a display unit 106, a radio unit 111, and an antenna 112. The radio base station monitoring apparatus 300 can be accessed from the user-related person terminal apparatus 400 via the general public network 502.

  The radio base station monitoring apparatus 300 is an embodiment of the server apparatus of the present invention, and includes a location information registration unit 301, an emergency information notification unit 302, and a location information management unit 303. The unit 303 is connected to the position information registration unit 301 and is connected to the user-related party terminal device 400 via the general public network 502. The location information registration unit 301 and the emergency information registration unit 302 are connected to the radio base station 200 via the general public network 501.

  Next, the configuration of the mobile communication terminal 100 will be described in more detail. FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of a portable communication terminal according to the present invention. In the figure, the same components as those in FIG. In FIG. 2, a mobile communication terminal 100 includes a control unit 101 that performs overall control of the entire terminal, and an operation unit 102 that includes a plurality of keys for performing telephone number input, e-mail text creation, and other various operations. In addition, the position / safety notification button 103 unique to the present embodiment, the operation program of the present embodiment, telephone book data, and the like are stored in advance, and various data can be written / read as necessary. Storage unit 104, display driving unit 105, display unit 106 for performing various displays, speaker 107 for generating a ring tone and a received voice, and a microphone for collecting a transmitted voice and converting it into a transmitted voice signal 108, a voice processing unit 109 that performs voice processing of a received voice signal and a transmitted voice signal, a signal processing unit 110 that performs various signal processing of transmission / reception signals, and a transmission / reception antenna 1 Via 2 is constructed more radio section 111 for performing with the radio base station. The location / safety notification button 103 is a button that works effectively only when an emergency notification arrives.

  Next, a call operation that is normally performed in the mobile communication terminal 100 will be described. During a call, the dial number (at the time of outgoing call) input from the operation unit 102 or a predetermined incoming response operation signal is input to the control unit 101, whereby the signal processing unit 110, the radio unit 111 and the antenna 112 are connected from the control unit 101. A transmission signal is wirelessly transmitted to the nearest wireless base station (not shown) via the wireless base station, and a speech path is established from the wireless base station via the general public network or the like to a partner terminal according to a predetermined sequence.

  Thereafter, the call signal from the partner terminal is received by the antenna 112 via the general public network and the nearest radio base station, further received by the radio unit 111, and then converted into a received voice signal by the signal processing unit 110. Further, it is supplied to the speaker 107 via the voice processing unit 109, where it is subjected to electro-acoustic conversion and is generated as a received voice.

  On the other hand, the transmitted voice is acoustically-electrically converted by the microphone 108 to become a received voice signal, which is supplied to the radio unit 111 via the voice processing unit 109 and the signal processing unit 110, where it is a transmission signal of a predetermined frequency band. Then, it is wirelessly transmitted to the nearest wireless base station via the antenna 112, and further transmitted from the wireless base station to the other terminal via a general public network. The above voice call operation is well known. The mobile communication terminal 100 also has an e-mail transmission / reception function, but the description of the operation is omitted because it is substantially the same as the above-described telephone call except that the voice processing unit 109 is not used.

  Next, an emergency notification operation using the mobile communication terminal 100 performing such an operation will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 and the sequence diagram of FIG. First, when an emergency such as a disaster such as an earthquake, a fire, or a flood occurs, the radio base station monitoring apparatus 300 transmits a mobile communication terminal 100 located in and near the emergency occurrence region from the emergency information notification unit 302. The emergency information is broadcast to a large number of mobile communication terminals including the general public network 501 and the radio base station 200 (step S1 in FIG. 3).

  The mobile communication terminal 100 located within the service area of the radio base station 200 receives the emergency information (step S2 in FIG. 3). The mobile communication terminal 100 receives the emergency information by the antenna 112 and the radio unit 111, supplies the emergency information to the control unit 101 via the signal processing unit 110, and then transmits the emergency information content to the display unit 106 via the display driving unit 105. Is displayed. Moreover, you may sound an emergency alert sound from the speaker 107 via the audio | voice processing part 109 as needed.

  Here, even if the above-described emergency situation occurs, the radio base station 200 is restored and operating normally at the stage of transmitting emergency information to the mobile communication terminal 100, or the areas of the radio base stations overlap. Therefore, even if the wireless base station closest to the mobile communication terminal 100 is in an incommunicable state, the emergency information described above can be obtained from another normally operable wireless base station 200 that overlaps the service area. Is sent.

  The location information of the mobile communication terminal 100 immediately before the occurrence of emergency information such as a disaster can be periodically registered and updated in the location information registration unit 301 in the radio base station monitoring device 300. Even if the station 200 becomes unusable immediately after the occurrence of an emergency, at least the location information of the mobile communication terminal 100 immediately before the occurrence of the emergency can be acquired from the terminal device 400 for user personnel.

  The owner of the mobile communication terminal 100 looks at the contents of the emergency information displayed on the display unit 106, determines whether he / she needs to evacuate, and sends an email indicating the determination result contents and safety information. A position / safety information mail is transmitted by pressing the position / safety notification button 103, which is created using the operation unit 102 (step S3 in FIG. 3). Here, the position / safety notification button 103 is a button that can be operated only when emergency information is received. When the position / safety notification button 103 is pressed, the position / safety information mail is It is received by the radio base station monitoring apparatus 300 via the radio base station 200 and the general public network 501 and registered in the position information registration unit 301 (step S4 in FIG. 3).

  Here, the position / safety information mail transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 100 does not include position information indicating the current position of the mobile communication terminal 100, but the radio base station monitoring apparatus 300 does not include the position / safety information mail. The radio base station 200 knows the position of the radio base station 200 and its service area via the safety information mail, and the radio base station monitoring apparatus 300 calculates the position information of the mobile communication terminal 100 from the service area of the radio base station 200 and the like. The position information is registered in the position information registration unit 301 together with the contents of the position / safety information mail and the identifier of the mobile communication terminal 100.

  Note that the mobile communication terminal 100 may acquire the position information by itself and add it to the position / safety information mail and transmit it. As a means for the mobile communication terminal 100 itself to acquire position information, it receives GPS signals transmitted from a plurality of artificial satellites (so-called GPS satellites) constituting a well-known GPS (Global Positioning System). Based on a method using a GPS receiver that calculates the position of its own terminal using publicly known means, or exchange of signals with a plurality of radio base stations, a transmission power control amount is added to the received radio wave intensity from each radio base station. There is a method of acquiring the position information of the terminal itself from the distance information obtained in this way and the position information of each radio base station.

  Thereafter, a general public using a predetermined terminal device 400 sends a status inquiry mail indicating whether the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal 100 is safe and where the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal 100 is. This is performed for the location information management unit 303 of the radio base station monitoring apparatus 300 via the network 502 (step S5 in FIG. 3). In the radio base station monitoring apparatus 300 that has received this status inquiry mail, the location information management unit 303 reads the location / safety information of the mobile communication terminal 100 registered in the location information registration unit 301, and uses it as an email message. A reply mail of the situation inquiry mail to be sent is transmitted to the user related terminal device 400 via the general public network 502 (step S7 in FIG. 3).

  The user-related person terminal device 400 receives the above reply mail at its own terminal device, and displays the reply mail content on its display unit (step S8 in FIG. 3), so that the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal 100 It is possible to acquire position information and safety information indicating where the person is.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, since the mobile communication terminal 100 receives the emergency information notification in advance by using the system that notifies the emergency information at the time of disaster, the owner of the mobile communication terminal 100 ( The user) can determine whether or not he / she is in a dangerous place, and the user related terminal device 400 promptly confirms information such as whether the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal 100 is in a safe place. be able to.

  In addition, by registering the location information and safety information of the mobile communication terminal 100 in the location information registration unit 301 of the radio base station monitoring apparatus 300 in an emergency, the location information and safety of the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal 100 are registered. Since information can be confirmed using a terminal device in an emergency such as the occurrence of a disaster, the position and safety of the owner (user) of the mobile communication terminal 100 can be immediately grasped by the terminal device.

  In addition, by registering the location information of the mobile communication terminal 100 immediately before the occurrence of the emergency in the location information registration unit 301, the radio base station 200 can also be used in a situation where the radio base station 200 near the disaster occurrence location cannot be used. Even if communication is impossible due to congestion or the like, the user-related person can use the terminal device 400 to acquire the position information of the mobile communication terminal 100 immediately before the occurrence of the emergency.

  The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, although there are many radio base station monitoring apparatuses 300, the radio base station monitoring apparatuses are managed separately for each prefecture. Reference numeral 300 recognizes the location where the mobile communication terminal 100 last registered the location, and the wireless terminal in which location information and the like are registered by the user-related party terminal device 400 accessing the mail address and the like of the mobile communication terminal 100. You may make it access the base station monitoring apparatus 300. FIG. That is, the user-related person terminal device can obtain the position information and the safety information from the position information management unit 303 by usually mailing the mobile communication terminal.

  In the above embodiment, the position / safety information of the mobile communication terminal 300 is registered in the position information registration unit 301 of the radio base station monitoring apparatus 300. However, the position information described above is registered in the radio base station 200 itself. / Safety information may be registered. The present invention also includes a program that causes a computer to execute the operation of radio base station monitoring apparatus 300 in the above embodiment.

It is a system configuration figure of one embodiment of an emergency notification system of the present invention. It is a block diagram of one embodiment of a portable communication terminal of the present invention. It is a sequence diagram for operation | movement description of one Embodiment of this invention system.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Mobile communication terminal 101 Control part 102 Operation part 103 Position / safety notification button 104 Storage part 106 Display part 111 Radio part 200 Radio base station 300 Radio base station monitoring apparatus 301 Position information registration part 302 Emergency information notification part 303 Position information management part 400 User-related party terminal devices 501 and 502 General public network

Claims (2)

A mobile communication terminal that has a mail transmission / reception function, includes safety information of the owner at the time of receiving emergency information, and transmits a safety mail that does not include current location information;
A wireless base station having information registration means for registering at least the location information of the mobile communication terminal that is the transmission source of the mail based on the information of the received mail;
Emergency the event was received and a first function of notifying said emergency information to the mobile communication terminals existing in emergencies region and a predetermined region in the vicinity thereof via the wireless base station, a status inquiry mail When the location information of the mobile communication terminal that is the subject of the status inquiry email and is the source of the safety email is obtained from the information registration means in the radio base station, the obtained location information is emailed. A radio base station monitoring device having a second function of creating a position / safety information mail as a text and returning a response;
An emergency terminal comprising: a terminal device for a person concerned who receives the location / safety information email returned from the radio base station monitoring device by sending the status inquiry email to the radio base station monitoring device. Time notification system. An emergency notification method in which a radio base station monitoring device notifies emergency information via a radio base station to a mobile communication terminal located in an emergency occurrence area and a predetermined area nearby in the event of an emergency situation,
A first step of registering at least location information of the mobile communication terminal that is the transmission source of the mail in information registration means in the radio base station based on the information of the mail received by the radio base station;
A second step in which the radio base station monitoring device transmits the emergency information to the mobile communication terminal located in the predetermined area;
A third step in which the mobile communication terminal receives the emergency information transmitted from the radio base station monitoring device via the radio base station;
When the mobile communication terminal receives the emergency information, a safety e-mail including the safety information of the owner of the mobile communication terminal and not including the current position information is sent to the radio base station via the radio base station. A fourth step of transmitting to the station monitoring device;
A fifth step in which the radio base station monitoring device receives a safety mail transmitted from the mobile communication terminal in the fourth step;
The radio base station monitoring device acquires, based on the received safety mail information, at least position information of the mobile communication terminal that is the source of the safety mail from the information registration means in the radio base station. Steps,
The location information obtained by the radio base station monitoring device in the sixth step by the inquiry of the location information of the mobile communication terminal to the radio base station monitoring device from the terminal device for persons concerned A seventh step of creating a safety information mail and returning a response to the related party terminal device.

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