Mobile terminal and moving body operation management system

Abstract

The present invention relates to an operation management system for a moving body such as a vehicle using a mobile terminal. The present invention reliably and accurately records the operating conditions of vehicles, which enables management to gather accurate information regarding the work performed by a driver or crew in the moving vehicle. Moreover, the present invention realizes safe operation of a moving vehicle by detecting, during operation of a moving body, whether the moving body is exceeding the speed limit and informing the crew of this condition so that the driver will reduce speed to obey the speed limit. The present invention also deters theft of vehicles.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to an operation management system for a moving body such as a vehicle and an operation management terminal or a mobile terminal used in a moving body.[0003]Although the present invention is directed toward moving vehicles on a highway, the present invention can easily be applied to ships and aircrafts, or to terminals which may be carried by a person.[0004]2. Description of the Related Arts[0005]There is a demand for highly efficient management operation of moving vehicles, and for avoidance of any labor / management problems. For the existing operation management of moving vehicles, daily reports of operation, for example, have been presented. For example, in an existing method, when a vehicle, such as a taxi cab, picks up a passenger, a driver of the vehicle enters the pickup section into a daily report with its charge. After the driver returns to the office, the driver presents the daily r...

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Benefits of technology

[0015]An object of this invention is to provide a moving body operation management system for more reliably and accurately recording the operating conditions of moving bodies with a more simplified method by reducing the burden on a driver or other member of a crew wherein the moving body may be a vehicle or other transportable equipment used by such a driver or crew member in performing work pursuant to work instructing information, at a local or remote destination.

[0016]Another object of this invention is to collect information, such as operating conditions in the optimum interval depending on the kinds of roads and traffic conditions thereof, and moreover to prevent mistakes in collecting information by automatic selection of an information collecting interval without any manual operations.

[0017]A further object of this invention is to realize a mobile terminal, which can prevent theft and / or wrong use of a vehicle.

[0018]Another object of this invention is to save manual information input operation to prevent not only forgetting of input or input mistake but also dishonest input of work information.

[0019]Another object of this invention is to prevent input error and / or wrong demand of a toll, while traveling on a toll road, by saving the toll input in memory by a crew to the mobile terminal.

[0020]A further object of this invention is to realize safe operation of the moving body by detecting, during operation of the moving body, whether the moving body is exceeding the speed limit and informing the crew of this condition, causing the driver to obey the speed limit of each road.

Problems solved by technology

However, since the procedures are very complicated even in the method in which types of work and time are entered into the daily report or in the method in which the types of work are input using keys provided on the mobile terminal 1000, the driver often forgets to input data to the daily report or to the mobile terminal 1000 and it is very difficult to eliminate this problem.

As a result, the driver has an additional and complicated burden.

Furthermore, it is also probable that a worker makes false entry or key-operation at the time of inputting the type of work performed and it will result in a problem for labor management.

In an example of entering the types of work performed into the daily report, basically, there is no way of verifying whether the information entered into a daily report is correct.

However, this is not a perfect method.

The direction, in which a vehicle travels, cannot be read from the tachometer, and it is impossible to check the actual route taken by the driver of the vehicle.

In addition, even if the types of work performed by the driver are input by the key operations from a mobile terminal, it is probable that a worker will not input the data when the driver must execute the input operation or a worker will input false data by the key operations when the driver should not execute the key operations.

Further, since the routes of the vehicles are not recorded in the methods of the related art, it is very difficult to generate an effective and economical operation plan, including determination of future routes and sequence from the operating conditions in the past.

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