Facility congestion degree information providing apparatus and facility congestion degree information providing method

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a facility congestion degree information providing device and a facility congestion degree information providing method that achieve estimation of a congestion degree for respective facilities even when the amount of data on available location information is small.SOLUTION: A facility congestion degree information providing device 100 according to the present invention comprises: a facility type estimation section 11 that calculates stay-time-related information for each facility on the basis of stay time of users for each facility acquired, estimates a facility type for each facility on the basis of the stay-time-related information, and estimates the corresponding relationship between the number of people staying and average stay time for each facility; a facility type storage section 12 that stores the corresponding relationship between the number of people staying and average stay time for each facility; a location information acquisition section 1 that acquires present stay information for each facility; and a congestion degree estimation section 22 that acquires the corresponding relationship between the number of people staying and average stay time and the present stay information for each facility and estimates a congestion degree for each facility on the basis of the corresponding relationship between the number of people staying and average stay time and the present stay information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1