Radio service area quality information acquisition system

1. A radio service area quality information acquisition system comprising:

a base transceiver station that communicates with a plurality of wireless access terminals, and measures and outputs a performance value indicating a throughput of its own apparatus, the number of call connections, or the usage rate of the base transceiver station capacity; and

a maintenance apparatus that acquires area quality information of a radio area of the base transceiver station in accordance with the performance value of the base transceiver station,

wherein the maintenance apparatus

transmits a confirmation signal to the plurality of wireless access terminals through the base transceiver station,

receives an identifier of the wireless access terminal transmitted from one or the plurality of wireless access terminals having received the confirmation signal,

stores the received identifier of the wireless access terminal correspondingly to an identifier of the base transceiver station,

acquires a performance value of the base transceiver station from the base transceiver station,

reads an identifier of a first wireless access terminal corresponding to the identifier of the base transceiver station in a case where the acquired performance value is a previously determined limit value or less,

transmits an acquisition instruction of information to the first wireless access terminal in accordance with the read identifier of the first wireless access terminal, and

acquires the area quality information including position information of the first wireless access terminal and radio waves information between the first wireless access terminal at the position and the base transceiver station, which is transmitted from the first wireless access terminal in accordance with the acquisition instruction.

2. The radio service area quality information acquisition system according to claim 1 , wherein the maintenance apparatus

further acquires a second performance value including communication by the first wireless access terminal from the base transceiver station after transmitting the acquisition instruction,

reads an identifier of a second wireless access terminal corresponding to the identifier of the base transceiver station in a case where the acquired second performance value is the previously determined limit value or less,

transmits an acquisition instruction of information to the second wireless access terminal in accordance with the read identifier of the second wireless access terminal, and

acquires the area quality information including position information of the second wireless access terminal and radio waves information between the second wireless access terminal at the position and the base transceiver station, which is transmitted from the second wireless access terminal in accordance with the acquisition instruction.

3. The radio service area quality information acquisition system according to claim 1 , wherein the maintenance apparatus

sets an acquisition condition including a type of the radio waves information acquired by the wireless access terminal, a transmission time period of the information from the wireless access terminal, and a transmission cycle, and

transmits the set acquisition condition and the acquisition instruction to the first and/or the second wireless access terminal.

4. The radio service area quality information acquisition system according to claim 1 , further comprising

a billing server to bill for communication of the wireless access terminal,

wherein

the maintenance apparatus transmits to the billing server a billing stop instruction to stop billing for transmission of the identifier of the wireless access terminal and/or the area quality information from the first wireless access terminal.

5. The radio service area quality information acquisition system according to claim 1 , wherein

an application for transmitting the identifier of the wireless access terminal itself in accordance with the confirmation signal and for transmitting the area quality information in accordance with the acquisition instruction is previously installed in the wireless access terminal, and

among terminals capable of communicating with the base transceiver station, only the wireless access terminal in which the application is installed responds to the confirmation signal.

6. The radio service area quality information acquisition system according to claim 1 , wherein

the first and the second wireless access terminals acquire the radio waves information to the base transceiver station and the position information of the terminal themselves periodically in accordance with the acquisition instruction of the information, and

when a call connection to another wireless access terminal or device is made, or communication is started, the first and the second wireless access terminals buffers the radio waves information and the position information acquired during the call connection or the communication, and

after the call is broken, the first and the second wireless access terminals transmits the buffered radio waves information and position information to the maintenance apparatus.

7. The radio service area quality information acquisition system according to claim 1 , wherein the maintenance apparatus

determines the number of terminals according to the acquired performance value and a limit value, and reads identifiers of a plurality of wireless access terminals corresponding to the identifier of the base transceiver station in accordance with the determined number of terminals, and

transmits acquisition instructions of information to the wireless access terminals in accordance with the read identifiers of the plurality of wireless access terminals.

8. The radio service area quality information acquisition system according to claim 1 , wherein

the confirmation signal is transmitted through a plurality of the base transceiver stations, and

the maintenance apparatus

receives the identifier of the wireless access terminal transmitted from the wireless access terminal having received the confirmation signal from one of the base transceiver stations, and the identifier of the base transceiver station, and

counts the number of receptions of the identifiers of the wireless access terminals for each of identifiers of the base transceiver stations, and stores a counted value correspondingly to the identifier of the base transceiver station.

9. The radio service area quality information acquisition system according to claim 8 , wherein the maintenance apparatus

displays the counted value correspondingly to the identifier of the base transceiver station,

inputs the identifier of the base transceiver station selected by an administrator in accordance with the display, and

acquires the performance value of the base transceiver station in accordance with the inputted identifier of the base transceiver station.

10. The radio service area quality information acquisition system according to claim 8 , wherein the maintenance apparatus

selects the base transceiver station in which the counted value is a previously determined value or more, and

acquires the performance value of the selected base transceiver station.

11. The radio service area quality information acquisition system according to claim 1 , wherein in the maintenance apparatus,

when a radio waves information acquisition instruction including the identifier of the base transceiver station specified by an administrator is inputted, sets the limit value to be larger than the limit value to relax an acquisition condition of the radio waves information from the base transceiver station.

12. A radio service area quality information acquisition system comprising:

a base transceiver station that communicates with a plurality of wireless access terminals, and measures and outputs a performance value indicating a throughput of its own apparatus, the number of call connections, or a user reception state; and

a maintenance apparatus that acquires area quality information of a radio area of the base transceiver station,

wherein the maintenance apparatus

acquires the performance value of the base transceiver station from the base transceiver station,

determines a transmission cycle of information from the wireless access terminal based on the acquired performance value,

sets an acquisition condition including a type of radio waves information acquired by the wireless access terminal, a transmission time period, and the determined transmission cycle,

transmits the set acquisition condition and an acquisition instruction to the wireless access terminal, and

acquires area quality information including position information of the wireless access terminal and radio waves information between the wireless access terminal at the position and the base transceiver station, which is transmitted from the wireless access terminal at the determined transmission cycle in accordance with the acquisition instruction.