FACILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

• US 20110167076A1
• Filed: 09/25/2008
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JR East Consultants Co. (East Japan Railway Company)
• Original Assignee: JR East Consultants Co. (East Japan Railway Company)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Mitsuaki, Kurosaki, Fumio
• Granted Patent: US 8,838,631 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 27/53 for trackside elements or systems, e.g. trackside supervision of trackside control system conditions

Abstract

A facility management system has a facility GIS database configured with electronic map data and facility management GIS data containing data for identifying a location and a form of a facility located along a railway or a road, a facility register database configured to manage a name of a rail or a road, a kilometer post and attribute information in association with one another, and a kilometer post information management section configured to manage coordinate data of the facility on the general map and the kilometer post in association with each other. When searching for attribute information from the facility register database, the kilometer post information management section is referred to obtain kilometer post information by using the coordinate data of the facility and the attribute information of the facility is searched from the facility register database by using the kilometer post information.

Claims

1. A facility management system using a geographic information system, comprising:

a facility GIS database configured with electronic map data for displaying a general map, and facility management GIS data containing data for identifying a location and a form of a facility located on a railway or a road on the general map;

a facility register database configured to manage a name of a rail or a road where the facility is located, a kilometer post representing a distance from a reference point on the rail or the road where the facility is located, and attribute information of the facility other than the kilometer post and the name of the rail or the road, in association with each other; and

an attribute search section configured to, when searching for the attribute information of the facility from the facility register database, search for attribute information of a search target facility from the facility register database by using kilometer post information assigned in advance to the search target facility.

2. The facility management system according to claim 1,

further comprising a kilometer post information management section configured to manage coordinate data of the facility on the general map, the name of the rail or the road where the facility is located, and the kilometer post on the rail or the road where the facility is located, in association with each other,

wherein, when searching for the attribute information of the facility from the facility register database, the attribute search section is configured to refer to the kilometer post information management section to obtain kilometer post information corresponding to the facility based on the coordinate data of the facility, and search for the attribute information of the facility from the facility register database by using the kilometer post information.

3. The facility management system according to claim 1, wherein

the facility management GIS data contains kilometer post information assigned to the facility as well as the data for identifying the location and the form of the facility located on the railway or the road on the general map, and

when searching for the attribute information of the facility from the facility register database, the attribute search section is configured to obtain kilometer post information of the search target facility from the facility management GIS data and search for the attribute information of the facility from the facility register database by using the obtained kilometer post information.

4. The facility management system according to claim 1, wherein the facility GIS database has a layer structure in which the facility management GIS data is layered by facility types.

5. The facility management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a receiving section configured to receive a request from a client device via a communication network; and

a distributing section configured to distribute the electronic map data and the facility management GIS data, which are retrieved from the facility GIS database, to the client device in response to the request received by the receiving section.

6. The facility management system according to claim 5, wherein, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating coordinate data of the facility, the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of the facility designated by the client device from the facility register database and transmit the searched attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.

7. The facility management system according to claim 5,

further comprising a data obtaining section configured to, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating a facility type and a map area of the facility, obtain coordinate data of each facility which has the designated facility type and located in the designated map area, from the facility management GIS data,

wherein the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of each facility, of which the coordinate data is obtained by the data obtaining section, from the facility register database, and transmit the retrieved attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.

8. The facility management system according to claim 2, wherein the facility GIS database has a layer structure in which the facility management GIS data is layered by facility types.

9. The facility management system according to claim 3, wherein the facility GIS database has a layer structure in which the facility management GIS data is layered by facility types.

10. The facility management system according to claim 2, further comprising:

a receiving section configured to receive a request from a client device via a communication network; and

a distributing section configured to distribute the electronic map data and the facility management GIS data, which are retrieved from the facility GIS database, to the client device in response to the request received by the receiving section.

11. The facility management system according to claim 3, further comprising:

a receiving section configured to receive a request from a client device via a communication network; and

a distributing section configured to distribute the electronic map data and the facility management GIS data, which are retrieved from the facility GIS database, to the client device in response to the request received by the receiving section.

12. The facility management system according to claim 4, further comprising:

a receiving section configured to receive a request from a client device via a communication network; and

a distributing section configured to distribute the electronic map data and the facility management GIS data, which are retrieved from the facility GIS database, to the client device in response to the request received by the receiving section.

13. The facility management system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a receiving section configured to receive a request from a client device via a communication network; and

a distributing section configured to distribute the electronic map data and the facility management GIS data, which are retrieved from the facility GIS database, to the client device in response to the request received by the receiving section.

14. The facility management system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a receiving section configured to receive a request from a client device via a communication network; and

a distributing section configured to distribute the electronic map data and the facility management GIS data, which are retrieved from the facility GIS database, to the client device in response to the request received by the receiving section.

15. The facility management system according to claim 10, wherein, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating coordinate data of the facility, the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of the facility designated by the client device from the facility register database and transmit the searched attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.

16. The facility management system according to claim 11, wherein, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating coordinate data of the facility, the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of the facility designated by the client device from the facility register database and transmit the searched attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.

17. The facility management system according to claim 12, wherein, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating coordinate data of the facility, the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of the facility designated by the client device from the facility register database and transmit the searched attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.

18. The facility management system according to claim 13, wherein, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating coordinate data of the facility, the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of the facility designated by the client device from the facility register database and transmit the searched attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.

19. The facility management system according to claim 14, wherein, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating coordinate data of the facility, the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of the facility designated by the client device from the facility register database and transmit the searched attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.

20. The facility management system according to claim 10,

further comprising a data obtaining section configured to, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating a facility type and a map area of the facility, obtain coordinate data of each facility which has the designated facility type and located in the designated map area, from the facility management GIS data,

wherein the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of each facility, of which the coordinate data is obtained by the data obtaining section, from the facility register database, and transmit the retrieved attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.

21. The facility management system according to claim 11,

further comprising a data obtaining section configured to, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating a facility type and a map area of the facility, obtain coordinate data of each facility which has the designated facility type and located in the designated map area, from the facility management GIS data,

wherein the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of each facility, of which the coordinate data is obtained by the data obtaining section, from the facility register database, and transmit the retrieved attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.

22. The facility management system according to claim 12,

further comprising a data obtaining section configured to, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating a facility type and a map area of the facility, obtain coordinate data of each facility which has the designated facility type and located in the designated map area, from the facility management GIS data,

wherein the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of each facility, of which the coordinate data is obtained by the data obtaining section, from the facility register database, and transmit the retrieved attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.

23. The facility management system according to claim 13,

further comprising a data obtaining section configured to, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating a facility type and a map area of the facility, obtain coordinate data of each facility which has the designated facility type and located in the designated map area, from the facility management GIS data,

wherein the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of each facility, of which the coordinate data is obtained by the data obtaining section, from the facility register database, and transmit the retrieved attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.

24. The facility management system according to claim 14,

further comprising a data obtaining section configured to, when the client device requests attribute information of a facility by designating a facility type and a map area of the facility, obtain coordinate data of each facility which has the designated facility type and located in the designated map area, from the facility management GIS data,

wherein the attribute search section is configured to search for the attribute information of each facility, of which the coordinate data is obtained by the data obtaining section, from the facility register database, and transmit the retrieved attribute information to the client device via the distributing section.