Information processing system, information processing method, and program

Abstract

To detect more simply than before whether persons are seated on respective seating appliances.SOLUTION: An information processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: first wireless tags each attached to a seat surface or backrest surface of each of seating appliances and storing unique tag identification information; and an information processing device having a storage unit that stores users of the respective seating appliances and the tag identification information of the wireless tags attached to the respective seating appliances in association with each other. The information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires the tag identification information when the first wireless tag transmits a signal including the tag identification information; and a control unit that determines whether the user is seated on the seating appliance on the basis of whether the tag identification information has been acquired.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

[Technical Field]

[0001] The present invention relates to an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program. [Background technology]

[0002] Many technologies have been proposed to detect whether a person is seated on a chair or other seating equipment (occupancy detection technologies). Occupancy detection technologies can be used for a wide range of purposes, such as determining whether an employee is present or absent in the workplace, or determining whether a passenger is present or absent on a public transport such as a train or bus. For example, Patent Document 1 describes a system that detects whether a person is seated or not at a gaming machine. This system includes peripheral devices arranged around the gaming machine, infrared sensors provided in the peripheral devices that emit infrared rays in the direction of the chairs, a person detection processing unit that detects whether a person is present based on temperature information from the infrared sensor, a chair detection processing unit that detects whether a chair is present based on the temperature information from the infrared sensor, and a state determination processing unit that receives detection results from the person detection processing unit and the chair detection processing unit and determines the state around the gaming machine. Patent Document 2 also describes a technology for detecting an occupant using a capacitance sensor provided in an insulating film embedded in a seat. This sensor is configured to detect an occupant by detecting capacitance that changes in response to the pressure when the occupant is seated. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0003] [Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2018-000425 [Patent Document 2] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2006-226823 Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0004] However, conventional seat occupancy detection technologies are complex and expensive, making them difficult to apply to general purposes. For example, the system described in Patent Document 1 requires an infrared sensor to detect the temperature information of seated occupants, so the system becomes more complex and expensive, especially as the number of seats to be monitored increases. The capacitance sensor described in Patent Document 2 requires an insulating film to be embedded in the seat, making it less versatile.

[0005] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to make it possible to more easily detect whether or not a person is seated on a seating item than in the past. [Means for solving the problem]

[0006] One aspect of the present invention is For users to sit It is attached to the seat or back of the seating equipment, A sensor for detecting temperature is provided. a first wireless tag that stores unique tag identification information; a second wireless tag attached to the seating equipment at a position not close to the user when the user is seated on the seating equipment, the second wireless tag having a sensor for detecting temperature and storing unique tag identification information; and a second wireless tag for determining whether the user is seated on the seating equipment. an information processing device, wherein the information processing device is from Obtain the tag identification information and when the temperature detected by the first wireless tag is higher than the temperature detected by the second wireless tag, it is determined that the user is seated on the seating equipment. It is an information processing system. [Effects of the Invention]

[0007] According to one aspect of the present invention, it is possible to more easily detect whether or not a person is seated on a seating device than in the past. [Brief explanation of the drawings]

[0008] [Figure 1] 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of application of an embodiment of a seat leaving / taking-up detection system. [Figure 2] FIG. 2 is a front view of the chair shown in FIG. [Figure 3] FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data configuration of a seating presence database. [Figure 4] FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of each device of the seat leaving / taking-up detection system of one embodiment. [Figure 5] FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of an advertising packet transmitted from an IoT tag. [Figure 6]FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating measurement results for a tag attached to a seat surface. [Figure 7] 10A and 10B are diagrams illustrating measurement results for a tag attached to the backrest surface. [Figure 8] 2 is an example of a rear view of the chair shown in FIG. 1. [Figure 9] 10A and 10B are diagrams illustrating measurement results for a tag attached to the rear surface of a backrest. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0009] Hereinafter, a seat leaving / leaving detection system, which is one embodiment of an information processing system of the present disclosure, will be described with reference to the drawings. In this disclosure, "seating equipment" refers to furniture provided in a specific area for a person to sit on, such as a chair or sofa. In the following description, a chair is an example of seating equipment. The seating equipment will be described as a chair for one person, but is not limited to this.

[0010] In one embodiment, an IoT tag (an example of a wireless tag) is attached to a chair to detect whether a person is seated in the chair. In one embodiment, the IoT (Internet of Things) tag (hereinafter simply referred to as "tag") is an energy-harvesting communication device that generates power based on radio waves from the surrounding environment and operates without a battery, but is not limited thereto. The communication distance of the tag in this disclosure is not limited and can be changed or adjusted as appropriate depending on the application.

[0011] The tag can be attached to a chair in any position that comes into contact with or is close to the user when the user is seated, such as the seat or back of the chair. When the user is seated in the chair, part of the user's body covers the tag, preventing it from emitting radio waves (signals) or making the radio waves emitted from the tag weak. On the other hand, when the user is not seated in the chair, the tag can emit radio waves normally. The signal transmitted from the tag contains a tag ID (an example of tag identification information) that is unique to the tag. Therefore, if the signal transmitted from the tag can be received and the tag ID can be obtained from the signal, it can be determined that a user is not seated in the chair corresponding to the tag, and if the tag ID cannot be obtained, it can be determined that a user is seated in the chair corresponding to the tag. In one embodiment, the signal emitted from the tag can be received by a wireless device in the area where the seat presence / absence detection system is applied, while in another embodiment, the signal emitted from the tag can be received by a user terminal (e.g., a smartphone, tablet, etc.) carried by the user. In one embodiment, when a wireless device or user terminal within the area receives a tag ID from a tag, the received tag ID is transmitted to a server connected to the network, and the server determines whether a user has sat or left a specific chair associated with the tag ID based on whether the tag ID has been acquired.

[0012] The system configuration of a seating / leaving detection system 1 according to one embodiment will be described below with reference to Figures 1 to 3. Figure 1 is a diagram showing an application example of the seating / leaving detection system 1 according to one embodiment, which is configured to detect whether a user (e.g., an employee) who uses a chair leaves or sits down in a workplace where multiple chairs are arranged. 1, a plurality of chairs 3 are placed in an area AR to which the seating / leaving detection system 1 is applied. Within the area AR, a user is assigned to each chair 3 in advance, and the user sits in the chair 3 assigned to him / her as needed.

[0013] Fig. 2 is a front view of the chair shown in Fig. 1. Chair 3 includes a seat portion 31 and a backrest portion 32. As shown in Fig. 2, a tag T1 is attached to seat portion 31, and a tag T2 is attached to backrest portion 32. Tags T1 and T2 are each an example of a first wireless tag.

[0014] As will be described in detail later, the tags T1 and T2 are energy-harvesting communication devices that generate power using, for example, radio waves from the surrounding environment and do not have batteries. The tags T1 and T2 can have a built-in temperature sensor that detects the ambient temperature. The tags T1 and T2 are configured to transmit signals (packets, described below) containing unique tag IDs at predetermined intervals (for example, every short time, about 1 to 10 seconds). In one embodiment, the signal transmitted from each tag includes a tag ID unique to the tag that transmitted the signal. In another embodiment, the signal transmitted from each tag includes a temperature sensor detection value (referred to as "sensor data") along with a tag ID unique to the tag that transmitted the signal. In the following description, a case will be explained in which a signal transmitted from each tag includes a tag ID and sensor data. In the following description, the tag ID and sensor data will be collectively referred to as "tag information."

[0015] The communication distance of the tags T1 and T2 is not limited, but is, for example, in the range of 3 to 10 meters. Each tag T1 and T2 is configured to perform wireless communication with low power consumption, and examples of communication protocols include Bluetooth Low Energy (registered trademark) (hereinafter referred to as BLE), Bluetooth (registered trademark), and ZigBee (registered trademark). The following description will be given using an example of communication using BLE. If tags T1 and T2 comply with the BLE standard, they broadcast advertising packets (described later) to surrounding BLE devices. The packets sent by tags T1 and T2 contain tag information (tag ID and sensor data).

[0016] 1, the seat leaving / leaving detection system 1 includes a wireless device 2 and a management server 5 that can communicate with the wireless device 2 via a network NW. The network NW is not limited to, but may be, for example, a LAN (Local Area Network), a WAN (Wide Area Network), a mobile communication network, the Internet, etc. The wireless device 2 functions as a BLE wireless terminal that receives packets via BLE communication from tags T1 and T2 attached to the chair 3. When the wireless device 2 receives a packet from each tag, it transmits the tag ID and sensor data included in the received packet to the management server 5. When the tags T1 and T2 are able to transmit packets normally, they transmit packets at predetermined intervals as described above, and in response, the wireless device 2 also transmits tag information to the management server 5 at predetermined intervals.

[0017] The tags T1 and T2 are attached at positions that come into contact with or are close to a part of the user's body when the user is seated on the chair 3. When a user is seated in chair 3, part of the user's body covers tag T1 on the seat and tag T2 on the backrest, preventing the tags from transmitting radio waves properly, and therefore preventing wireless device 2 from receiving packets from the tags. In this case, management server 5 is unable to receive tag information from wireless device 2, which would be received periodically if the user were not seated, and therefore knows that the user of the corresponding chair 3 is seated. On the other hand, when the user is away from chair 3, tags T1 and T2 are exposed and each tag can transmit radio waves normally, so wireless device 2 receives packets from each tag and transmits the tag information contained in the received packets to management server 5. By periodically receiving tag information from wireless device 2, management server 5 can determine that the user of the corresponding chair 3 is away from their seat.

[0018] In FIG. 1, a user terminal 4 is an information processing terminal carried by a user, and examples thereof include, but are not limited to, a laptop-type personal computer, a tablet terminal, a smartphone, and the like. In one embodiment, the user terminal 4 has, for example, a BLE-compatible application, is capable of communicating with the management server 5 via the network NW, and functions similarly to the wireless device 2. That is, the user terminal 4 may receive packets from the tags T1 and T2 and transmit tag information included in the received packets to the management server 5. In other words, in the seating / leaving detection system 1, the route by which the management server 5 obtains tag information of tags T1 and T2 within the area AR is assumed to be at least either (i) a route by which the wireless device 2 receives tag information from the tag and transmits it to the management server 5, or (ii) a route by which the user terminal 4 receives tag information from the tag and transmits it to the management server 5, and is not limited to either one.

[0019] The management server 5 is an example of an information processing device that manages the seating status of users of each chair 3 in the area AR of FIG. The management server 5 includes a seating / leaving database, an example of which is shown in Fig. 3. In the example shown in Fig. 3, the seating / leaving database has one record for each chair 3 in the area AR. Each record corresponds to the tag ID of the tags T1 and T2 attached to the corresponding chair 3, the user ID which is the identification information of the user assigned to the corresponding chair 3, and seating / non-seat information (information indicating "seated" or "absent") which indicates whether the user is seated in the corresponding chair 3 or not. Depending on whether the management server 5 acquires tag information from the wireless device 2 or the user terminal 4, the seating / leaving information of the corresponding record is updated as appropriate.

[0020] Next, the configuration of each device of the seat leaving / leaving detection system 1 according to one embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. Fig. 4 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of each device in the seat leaving / taking-up detection system 1 of this embodiment. Fig. 5 is a diagram showing the configuration of advertising packets transmitted from tags T1 and T2. In the following, when referring to matters common to tags T1 and T2, they will be referred to as "tag T."

[0021] Referring to FIG. 4, the tag T includes, for example, a control unit 11, an antenna 12, a harvesting unit 13, a voltage control unit 14, an RF transceiver 15, and a sensor 16. Although the overall form of the tag T is not shown, it is, for example, a thin-film member in which a conductive metal foil with a predetermined pattern on which an antenna 12 and a sensor 16 are formed is connected to an IC chip connected to the metal foil. A control unit 11, a harvesting unit 13, a voltage control unit 14, and an RF transceiver 15 are mounted within the IC chip.

[0022] The control unit 11 has a microprocessor and a memory 111, and controls the entire tag T. The memory 111 is a RAM (Random Access Memory) or a ROM (Read Only Memory), and stores a program executed by the microprocessor, as well as a tag ID, which is identification information unique to the tag T, sensor data output by the sensor 16, and the like.

[0023] The harvesting unit 13 harvests energy from radio waves in the surrounding environment (for example, radio waves from surrounding wireless communications) and stores the generated power in an internal energy storage 131. In this embodiment, the harvesting unit 13 converts, for example, a radio signal received by the antenna 12 into a DC voltage and stores it in the energy storage 131. The energy storage 131 is, for example, a capacitor. In the case of a capacitor, it may be configured on a semiconductor chip (i.e., an on-die type capacitor).

[0024] The radio waves used for energy harvesting by the harvesting unit 13 are radio waves in a wide range of different frequency bands, such as radio waves generated by wireless communication in the frequency bands used in so-called mobile communication systems such as 3G to 5G, radio waves generated by wireless communication in the frequency bands used in communication standards such as Bluetooth (registered trademark) and Wi-Fi (registered trademark), radio waves generated by wireless communication in the 2.4 GHz band typified by communication protocols such as ZigBee (registered trademark) and Thread, and radio waves generated by wireless communication in the frequency bands used in RFID (for example, the 900 MHz band and the 13.56 MHz band). The radio waves exemplified here are generally applicable in almost all areas. The tag T operates on power obtained by environmental power generation by the harvesting unit 13 based on radio waves in the surrounding environment. This eliminates the need to install a battery in the tag T, thereby reducing system costs. Furthermore, since there is no need to install a battery, there is no need to replace the battery, and therefore there is no problem of not being able to obtain the tag ID even though the tag is present.

[0025] The voltage control unit 14 supplies an operating voltage to the control unit 11 and the RF transceiver 15, monitors the voltage of the energy storage 131, and switches the power mode depending on the monitoring result. When the voltage of the energy storage 131 is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold, the power mode is set to a first mode in which only a minimum number of circuits are operated, and at this time, the control unit 11 and the RF transceiver 15 do not generate packets or transmit radio signals, as described below. When the voltage of the energy storage 131 is charged to a predetermined threshold or higher, the power mode is set to a second mode in which a normal processing routine is executed, and at this time, the control unit 11 and the RF transceiver 15 perform various processes, including generating packets and transmitting radio signals.

[0026] Note that, for example, even when the power mode is the first mode, if the voltage of the energy storage 131 is charged to a predetermined threshold or higher, the control unit 11 may store the sensor data detected by the sensor 16 together with data on the detection time in the memory 111. In this case, the control unit 11 may generate and transmit a packet including the sensor data and data on the detection time stored in the memory 111 at the time the power mode is switched from the first mode to the second mode.

[0027] The sensor 16 detects data (i.e., sensor data) of the ambient temperature of the tag T. The sensor data is temporarily stored in the memory 111 for inclusion in a packet, which will be described later.

[0028] When the power mode is the second mode, the control unit 11 generates an advertising packet in accordance with the BLE protocol. An advertising packet is a packet that is transmitted using an advertising channel to realize broadcast communication in BLE, and has the packet configuration shown in Fig. 5. Hereinafter, the advertising packet will be simply referred to as a "packet" where appropriate.

[0029] 5, the preamble and address access are each a predetermined fixed value. The CRC is a cyclic check code, which is check data calculated using a predetermined generator polynomial for the packet payload (i.e., advertising channel PDU (protocol data unit)). An advertising channel PDU (hereinafter simply referred to as "PDU") consists of a header and a payload, and the payload consists of an ADV address and ADV data. The ADV address is the address of the advertiser (i.e., the tag T that is the entity that broadcasts), but it may be a random value set each time a transmission is made so as not to identify the sender. The ADV data is the advertiser's data (broadcast data) and corresponds to tag information including the tag ID and sensor data output by the sensor 16.

[0030] It is preferable that the control unit 11 encrypts the PDU. There are no particular restrictions on the encryption method, but for example, AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key length of 128 bits can be used.

[0031] The RF transceiver 15 performs a predetermined digital modulation (e.g., Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying (GFSK)) on the packet (baseband signal) to be transmitted, then performs quadrature modulation, and transmits the high-frequency signal (in the case of BLE, a signal in the 2.4 GHz frequency band) to the antenna 12.

[0032] The antenna 12 includes a transmitting antenna and a power-generating antenna. The transmitting antenna transmits high-frequency radio signals (packets) sent by the RF transceiver 15. On the other hand, the power-generating antenna receives, for example, radio waves from the surrounding environment and functions as a rectenna in cooperation with the harvesting unit 13.

[0033] As shown in FIG. 4, the user terminal 4 includes, for example, a control unit 41, a storage 42, an operation input unit 43, a display unit 44, a first communication unit 45, and a second communication unit 46.

[0034] The control unit 41 is mainly configured with a microprocessor, and controls the entire user terminal 4 . In one embodiment, the control unit 41 loads and executes a BLE-compatible application stored in the storage 42. The storage 42 is a storage device such as an SSD (Solid State Drive), and stores various programs executed by the control unit 41, such as the above-mentioned BLE-compatible application.

[0035] The operation input unit 43 is an input interface that accepts operation inputs from a user in order to execute various programs, and may be a touch panel input unit provided on a display panel of the display unit 44. The display unit 44 includes a display panel such as an LCD and a drive circuit for the display panel, and displays the results of the program executed by the control unit 41.

[0036] The first communication unit 45, for example, performs wireless communication with an object in a communication range narrower than that of the second communication unit, and is configured to receive packets broadcast by the tag T, for example.

[0037] The second communication unit 46 is a communication interface for communicating with the management server 5 via the network NW. In one embodiment, the control unit 41 receives a packet from the tag T via the first communication unit 45 and acquires tag information. The control unit 41 further transmits the tag information acquired from the tag T to the management server 5 via the second communication unit 46.

[0038] As shown in FIG. 4, the management server 5 includes, for example, a control unit 51, a storage 52, and a communication unit 53. The control unit 51 is mainly configured with a microprocessor, and controls the entire management server 5 . The storage 52 (an example of a storage unit) includes a large-scale storage device such as a hard disk drive (HDD), and stores the seating and leaving database. The communication unit 53 functions as a communication interface for communicating with the wireless device 2 and the user terminal 4.

[0039] The control unit 51 executes the server program, and thereby functions as an acquisition unit that acquires the tag ID via the wireless device 2 or the user terminal 4 when the tag T transmits a packet including the tag ID. The control unit 51 executes the server program to determine whether the user is seated in the corresponding chair 3 based on whether the tag ID has been acquired, and updates the seating status database (FIG. 3).

[0040] Specifically, the seating status database is updated as follows. Tags T1 and T2 attached to the seat and back of each chair 3 within the area AR broadcast packets at predetermined time intervals (for example, every short time of about 1 to 10 seconds). When the wireless device 2 or the user terminal 4 receives a packet, it transmits the tag information (tag ID and sensor data) included in the packet to the management server 5. If the wireless device 2 or the user terminal 4 cannot receive the packet, it does not transmit anything to the management server 5. Therefore, the control unit 51 of the management server 5 determines that the tag ID has been acquired when it receives the same tag ID a predetermined number of times or more within a predetermined time, and sets the seating / absence information corresponding to the tag ID to "absent." Conversely, if the same tag ID cannot be received within the predetermined time, or if it is received but the number of times is less than the predetermined number, the seating / absence information corresponding to the tag ID is set to "attended." If a tag ID is received once, or if a tag ID cannot be received once, it may be determined that the tag ID has been acquired or not and the seating / leaving information may be rewritten. However, the accuracy of the seating / leaving information can be improved by determining whether or not the tag ID can be acquired based on the number of times it is received within a specified period of time.

[0041] Next, with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7, the measurement results for the tags T1 and T2 attached to the seat and back of each chair 3, respectively, will be described. Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating the measurement results for the tag T1 attached to the seat surface of the chair 3. Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating the measurement results for the tag T2 attached to the backrest surface of the chair 3. 6 and 7 show the reception results (reception frequency, temperature) of tag information from tags T1 and T2 at management server 5 when a user repeatedly sits down and leaves chair 3 with tags T1 and T2 attached, as shown below. Here, reception frequency indicates the number of times (average value) tag information is received per minute in each period (approximately 15 minutes).

[0042] Period P0 (time t0 to time t1): Seated Period P1 (between time t1 and t2): Absent Period P2 (between times t2 and t3): Seated Period P3 (between t3 and t4): Absent Period P4 (between times t4 and t5): Seated Period P5 (between t5 and t6): Absent Period P6 (between times t6 and t7): Seated Period P7 (between t7 and t8): Absent

[0043] 6 and 7, the management server 5 hardly receives tag information from tags T1 and T2 during periods when the user is seated (P0, P2, P4, P6), but receives tag information from tags T1 and T2 more frequently during periods when the user is away from their desk (P1, P3, P5, P7). Therefore, by comparing the frequency of receiving tag information with a predetermined threshold, it is possible to determine whether the user is away from their desk or seated.

[0044] Furthermore, as shown in Figures 6 and 7, at times t1, t3, t5, and t7 immediately after the user leaves the seat, the management server 5 is able to immediately receive tag information, and the temperature indicated by the sensor data from tags T1 and T2 is high, and it can be seen that the temperature indicated by the sensor data gradually decreases as the chair 3 cools down.

[0045] As described above, in one embodiment of the seating / leaving detection system 1, the tags T1 and T2 attached to the chairs 3 are small and operate with low power consumption, and are configured to periodically transmit packets including at least the tag ID, for example, and the management server 5 acquires the tag ID via the wireless device 2 or the user terminal 4. Then, the management server 5 determines whether or not the user of the chair 3 is seated in the chair 3 based on whether or not the tag ID has been acquired. Therefore, according to one embodiment of the seating / leaving detection system 1, it is only necessary to attach a tag to the seat or back of each chair 3 within the area AR, and it is possible to detect whether or not a user is seated in the chair 3 more easily than before.

[0046] 6 and 7, immediately after a user who has been seated on chair 3 leaves the chair, the temperature of the seat and back of chair 3 rises. That is, while the user is seated, part of the user's body covers seat tag T1 and back tag T2, preventing the tags from transmitting packets normally. However, immediately after the user leaves the seat, the tags can transmit packets normally, and the sensor data included in the packets indicates a high temperature. Therefore, when the sensor data included in the tag information acquired by management server 5 indicates a value higher than a predetermined temperature, it can be determined with greater accuracy that a user, and not luggage or the like, has been seated.

[0047] In one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 8, tags T3 and T4 for measuring the room temperature in the area AR may be attached to a chair 3. FIG. 8 shows a rear view of the chair 3. Although two tags are attached in FIG. 8, this is not limited to this, and a single tag may be attached to the chair 3. Also, although FIG. 8 shows tags T3 and T4 attached to the underside of the backrest 32 of the chair 3, the location of the tags is not limited to this. Tags T3 and T4 may be attached to any location that is not affected by the body heat of a user when seated. For example, alternative locations may include the legs or the side of the backrest 32 of the chair 3. Tags T3 and T4 are each an example of a second wireless tag. The tags T3 and T4 are attached to the chair 3 at positions where the user's body does not come into contact with them, so that the management server 5 can receive tag information regardless of whether the user is seated or not.

[0048] As described above, immediately after a seated user leaves their seat, the temperature value indicated by the sensor data acquired from tags T1 and T2 will be higher than the room temperature. Therefore, in one embodiment, if the temperature value indicated by the sensor data acquired from tag T1 or tag T2 is higher than the temperature value indicated by the sensor data acquired from tag T3 or tag T4 (i.e., room temperature), it may be determined that the user had been seated up to that point. This allows for a more accurate determination that the user had been seated up to that point than if the determination were based solely on the temperature indicated by the sensor data acquired from tags T1 and T2.

[0049] Figure 9 shows the results of measuring the temperature indicated by the sensor data when tags T3 and T4 were attached to chair 3 in the same manner as tags T1 and T2. As shown in Figure 9, tag information from tags T3 and T4 was received throughout the entire time period from time t0 to t8, and the temperature values indicated by the sensor data from tags T3 and T4 were generally within the room temperature range of 17.5 to 20°C throughout the entire time period. In other words, at times t1, t3, t5, and t7 immediately after the user left their seat, the temperature indicated by the sensor data from tags T1 and T2 was significantly higher than the temperature values indicated by the sensor data from tags T3 and T4.

[0050] The above-mentioned tags T1 and T2 are environmentally-harvesting wireless tags that obtain energy from surrounding radio waves and are therefore suitable for long-term operation. However, the applicable wireless tags are not limited to those that use environmental power generation, and may be, for example, RFID tags that operate in the UHF band. In this case, it is preferable to provide the wireless device 2 with a reader / writer device for communicating with the RFID tag.

[0051] Although the embodiments of the information processing system, information processing method, and program of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. Furthermore, the above embodiments can be improved, modified, and combined in various ways without departing from the spirit of the present invention. [Explanation of symbols]

[0052] 1. Seat departure detection system T1, T2, T3, T4... Tags 11...Control unit 111...Memory 12...Antenna 13...Harvesting section 131...Energy Storage 14...Voltage control section 15...RF transceiver 16...Sensor 2...Wireless device 21...Control unit 22...Antenna 23...RF transceiver 24…Communications Department 3. Chair 31... Seat part 32...Backrest 4...User terminal 41...Control unit 42…Storage 43...Operation input section 44…Display section 45...1st Communications Department 46...Second Communications Department 5...Administration Server 51...Control unit 52…Storage 53…Communications Department NW...Network

Claims

1. A first wireless tag attached to the seat or back of a seating device for a user to sit on, having a sensor for detecting temperature, and storing unique tag identification information; a second wireless tag attached to the seating equipment at a position not close to the user when the user sits on the seating equipment, the second wireless tag having a sensor for detecting temperature and storing unique tag identification information; an information processing device that determines whether a user is seated on the seating equipment; Equipped with The information processing device includes: acquiring the tag identification information from the first wireless tag, and determining that a user has been seated on the seating equipment when the temperature detected by the first wireless tag is higher than the temperature detected by the second wireless tag; Information processing system.

2. the information processing device determines that the tag identification information has been acquired from the first wireless tag when the number of times the tag identification information has been received from the first wireless tag within a predetermined time is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; 2. An information processing system according to claim 1.

3. the first wireless tag and the second wireless tag operate by obtaining energy from surrounding radio waves; 3. An information processing system according to claim 1 or 2.

4. An information processing method between a first wireless tag and a second wireless tag and an information processing device, comprising: the first wireless tag is attached to a seat or a backrest of a seating device on which a user sits, has a sensor for detecting temperature, and stores unique tag identification information; the second wireless tag is attached to the seating equipment at a position not close to the user when the user sits on the seating equipment, has a sensor for detecting temperature, and stores unique tag identification information; The information processing method includes: a step in which each of the first and second wireless tags transmits a signal including tag identification information stored in each tag and detection information of a sensor included in each tag; and a step in which the information processing device acquires the tag identification information from the first wireless tag and determines that a user is seated on the seating equipment when the temperature detected by the first wireless tag is higher than the temperature detected by the second wireless tag. Information processing methods.

5. In an information processing device that processes information contained in signals transmitted by a first wireless tag and a second wireless tag, a program that causes a computer to execute a predetermined method, the first wireless tag is attached to a seat or a backrest of a seating device on which a user sits, has a sensor for detecting temperature, and stores unique tag identification information; the second wireless tag is attached to the seating equipment at a position not close to the user when the user sits on the seating equipment, has a sensor for detecting temperature, and stores unique tag identification information; The method comprises: determining whether the tag identification information has been acquired from the first wireless tag and whether the temperature detected in the first wireless tag is higher than the temperature detected in the second wireless tag; acquiring the tag identification information from the first wireless tag, and determining that a user has been seated on the seating equipment when the temperature detected by the first wireless tag is higher than the temperature detected by the second wireless tag, program.

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