Facility management system using geographic information system

• US 8,838,631 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2008
• Issued: 09/16/2014
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Girma, Anteneh
• Assistant Examiner(s): HUANG, MIRANDA M
• Application Number:
  US13/000,188
• Publication Number:
  US 20110167076A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,182 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 records for each of a plurality of rails or roads, each record comprising a name of the rail or a road where the facility is located, a kilometer post representing a distance from a reference point specifically associated with that particular rail or road and located 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;

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; and

a kilometer post information management section configured to manage records comprising the name of the rail or the road where the facility is located, the kilometer post on the rail or the road where the facility is located, and coordinate data of the facility on the general map, 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. The facility management system according to claim 4, 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.

6. The facility management system according to claim 4, 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.

7. 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.

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 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.

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 7, 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, 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.

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 9, 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.

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. 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 at least one reference point location as orthogonal (x,y) coordinate data and a form of a facility located on a railway or a road on the general map at said reference point;

a facility register database configured to manage maintenance records comprising line identifier information corresponding to 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;

a kilometer post linking table that defines associations between;

(a) reference point locations identified in said facility GIS database expressed as orthogonal (x,y) coordinate data and (b) kilometer post locations corresponding to those reference point locations;

an attribute search section configured to search the facility register database using the line identifier information and the kilometer post information to retrieve a maintenance record and being further configured to use the kilometer post linking table to relate the retrieved maintenance record to at least one reference point location within the facility GIS database; and

a kilometer post information management section configured to manage records comprising the name of the rail or the road where the facility is located, the kilometer post on the rail or the road where the facility is located, and coordinate data of the facility on the general map, 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.

25. The facility management system of claim 24, wherein the facility GIS database and facility register database are configured as a layered architecture, wherein said orthogonal (x,y) coordinate data are stored in a first layer and wherein said kilometer post locations are stored in at least one second layer, the first and second layers being sized such that when the first and second layers are overlaid upon one another, reference points expressed as orthogonal (x,y) coordinate data in said linking table overlie their associated kilometer post locations.