JP2012238190A - Alarm cooperation system, alarm cooperation method and repeater - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable mutual function complement and extension by easily performing cooperation between an alarm system for detecting abnormality such as fire to perform alarming and a device management system for managing a device state such as consumption power without the necessity of changing respective devices.SOLUTION: An alarm system in a house 24 performs mutual cooperation among house alarms 10-1 to 10-4 by transmitting and receiving a signal according to a first communication protocol to perform alarming. A network system transfers a signal of, for example, home electric appliance consumption power by power outlet devices 100-1 to 100-5 in respective houses to a server 500 on the Internet 400 through a network adapter 200 to perform processing. A repeater performs protocol conversion between a first wireless communication protocol and a second wireless communication protocol to perform a relay. When fire is detected by the house alarms 10-1 to 10-4, a fire cooperation interlock signal is transferred to an alarm system in another house 24 to perform another house fire alarming.

Description

The present invention relates to an alarm linkage system, an alarm linkage method, and a repeater for linking an alarm system using a plurality of wireless interlocking alarm devices installed in a home and the like and a device management system that comprehensively manages power consumption of home appliances, etc. About.

  Conventionally, alarm devices that detect and warn of abnormalities such as fires and gas leaks in homes have become widespread. Of these, residential fire alarms are referred to as residential alarms.

  For example, in such a house alarm device, a sensor unit and an alarm unit are integrally provided in the house alarm device, and when a fire is detected from the detection signal of the sensor unit, a fire alarm of a predetermined pattern is output from the alarm unit. It is easy to install and inexpensive because it can be used for fire monitoring and alarms without requiring a dedicated receiving facility, etc. Yes.

  In addition, by communicating between multiple home alarms, we propose a linked alarm system that outputs fire alarms in conjunction with other home alarms when any home alarm outputs a fire alarm. Has been.

  In such an interlock type alarm system, when a fire is detected by a home alarm, the home alarm device that detects the fire has a predetermined pattern of fire alarm sound including an alarm sound and a message, for example, “Woo Woo Fire”. `` Check that the alarm has been activated '', on the other hand, output the fire alarm sound such as `` Please check if another fire alarm has been activated '' on the linked alarm. Yes.

  Furthermore, in the conventional interlocking type alarm system, a fire interlock signal is received from a transmitter that transmits an emergency report signal wirelessly to the house alarm by an emergency push button operation, and an emergency report alarm. In some cases, an interlocking illumination device that illuminates the installation area is also provided. A human sensor for detecting a human body is provided in the interlocking illumination device and used for illumination control.

  On the other hand, in recent years, HEMS (Home Energy Management System) is a management system that reduces power energy consumption by connecting home appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, and televisions with a network, with the goal of reducing power consumption at home. Development is underway.

In such a home appliance management system, a wireless transmission / reception IC is built into a power outlet that supplies power to the home appliance, and the power consumption is detected by a sensor. Is sent to the gateway device, sent from the gateway device to the server on the network, and necessary processing is performed by the power management application, and the processing result is sent to the user terminal such as a mobile phone owned by the user for viewing. . In addition, the user can control the power supply of the home appliance as needed by operating the mobile terminal.

JP 2010-020663 A JP 2011-014062 A JP 2009-259125 A

  By the way, because the background and purpose of the alarm management system that connects the conventional interlocked house warning device with a wireless line and the energy saving issue are different, the development of each system has been promoted. With regard to alarm systems that detect and warn, various systems have been developed and are becoming popular with legal installation obligations.

  For this reason, in the near future, an alarm system using a wireless network and a device management system will exist and function in the same environment of a home. Therefore, it is conceivable to integrate the alarm system and the device management system, for example, by sharing a wireless sensor network. However, the background and purpose of the two differ greatly, and the product standards are also unique.

  In both the alarm system that detects abnormalities and alarms, and the device management system that manages the power consumption of home appliances, whether or not a resident is at home in the managed house It is an important element in equipment management, and it is desirable to have a mechanism that can detect and use the home status in common in both management systems.

The present invention makes it easy to link an alarm system that detects and warns of abnormalities such as a fire and a device management system that manages a device state such as power consumption of home appliances without changing each device. Therefore, it is an object to provide an alarm cooperation system, an alarm cooperation method, and a repeater that complement each other and can be expanded.

(Alarm linkage system)
The present invention provides an alarm linkage system,
An alarm system provided with an alarm device that cooperates with each other by transmitting and receiving signals in accordance with a predetermined first communication protocol when an abnormality is detected;
A network system that overlaps the alarm system in whole or in part, and that transmits and receives signals in accordance with a predetermined second communication protocol between a device installed in the system and a network adapter connected to an external network;
A relay that relays signals by performing protocol conversion between the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol between the alarm device and the network adapter;
Provided,
When an abnormality is detected by an alarm device, it is transmitted to a server of the external network via a repeater and a network adapter for processing, and the processing result is transmitted to a user terminal for output.

  Here, a part or all of the alarm system operates a plurality of alarm devices in conjunction with each other.

  The network system is a device management system that manages the state of a device by transmitting it to a server via a network adapter.

  The device management system detects and manages the power consumption of the device.

  When the network system receives the abnormal cooperation link signal from the network adapter, the network system transmits the abnormal alarm signal from the server to the user terminal held by the user of the alarm system to output the abnormal alarm.

When detecting an abnormality, the alarm device outputs an abnormality alarm indicating an interlocking source and transmits an abnormality interlocking signal to another alarming device according to a predetermined first communication protocol, while the other alarming device outputs a first alarming signal. When the reception of the abnormal interlocking signal according to the communication protocol is detected, an abnormal alarm indicating the interlocking destination is output,
When the repeater detects the reception of the abnormal interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, it converts the abnormal interlocking signal according to the predetermined second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter. The data is transmitted to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the server and processed, and the server processing result is transmitted to the user terminal to output an abnormality notification alarm.

When the alarm recovery is detected, the alarm stops the abnormality alarm indicating the interlock source, and transmits the error recovery interlock signal to the other alarm devices according to the predetermined first communication protocol. When the reception of the abnormality recovery interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol is detected, the abnormality alarm indicating the interlocking destination is stopped,
When the repeater detects the reception of the abnormality recovery interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, it converts it into the abnormality recovery interlocking interlocking signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter. The data is transmitted to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the server and processed, and the server processing result is transmitted to the user terminal to stop the abnormality notification alarm.

When the alarm device detects its own alarm stop operation, the alarm device stops the abnormal alarm indicating the interlock source, and transmits an alarm stop interlock signal to the other alarm devices in accordance with the predetermined first communication protocol. When detecting the alarm stop interlocking signal in accordance with the first communication protocol from the alarm device, stop the abnormal alarm indicating the interlock destination,
When the repeater detects the reception of the alarm stop interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, the relay unit converts the alarm stop interlocking signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter. It transmits to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the server and processes it, transmits the processing result of the server to the user terminal, and stops the abnormality notification alarm.

When the alarm device detects its own failure, the alarm device outputs a failure alarm indicating the interlock source, and transmits a failure interlock signal to the other alarm devices in accordance with a predetermined first communication protocol. When the reception of the failure interlock signal according to the first communication protocol is detected, a failure alarm indicating the interlock destination is output,
When the repeater detects the reception of the failure-linked signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, the relay device converts the failure-linked signal to the network adapter according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter. The data is transmitted to the server via the conversion to the communication protocol to be processed, and the server processing result is transmitted to the user terminal to output a failure alarm.

  The alarm system detects a fire, gas leak or theft by an alarm and gives an alarm.

A human sensor is installed on the alarm to detect the human body.
When the server detects a home confirmation request from the user terminal, the server obtains a detection signal of a human sensor provided in the alarm device via a network adapter and a relay, generates home information, and generates the home information Display on the user terminal.

  The server displays the operation part of the home confirmation request and enables the home confirmation request operation when outputting the abnormality alarm from the user terminal.

The alarm system is further equipped with a transmitter with an emergency switch,
When the emergency switch is operated, the transmitter sends an emergency call interlock signal in accordance with the first communication protocol to the alarm device and the repeater to output an emergency alert alarm, while receiving an abnormal interlock signal from the alarm device. If this happens, an abnormal alarm is output,
When the repeater receives an emergency call interlocking signal in accordance with the first communication protocol from the transmitter, the repeater converts it into a failure cooperation interlocking signal in accordance with the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter. It is sent to the server via protocol conversion and processed, and the server processing result is transmitted to the user terminal to output an emergency call alarm.

(Alarm linkage method)
The present invention
An alarm system provided with an alarm device that cooperates with each other by transmitting and receiving signals in accordance with a predetermined first communication protocol when an abnormality is detected;
A network system that overlaps the alarm system in whole or in part, and that transmits and receives signals in accordance with a predetermined second communication protocol between a device installed in the system and a network adapter connected to an external network;
In the alarm linkage method that links
The relay device relays the signal by performing protocol conversion between the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol between the alarm device and the network adapter,
When an alarm is detected by an alarm device, it is transmitted to a server of an external network via a repeater and the network adapter for processing, and the processing result is transmitted to a user terminal for output.

  Other features of the alarm cooperation method of the present invention are basically the same as those of the alarm cooperation system described above.

(Repeater)
The present invention
An alarm system provided with an alarm device that cooperates with each other by transmitting and receiving signals in accordance with a predetermined first communication protocol when an abnormality is detected;
A network system that overlaps the alarm system in whole or in part, and that transmits and receives signals in accordance with a predetermined second communication protocol between a device installed in the system and a network adapter connected to an external network;
In a repeater that links
A protocol conversion unit is provided that relays signals by performing protocol conversion between the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol between the alarm device and the network adapter.

Other features of the repeater of the present invention are basically the same as those of the repeater in the alarm cooperation system described above.

  According to the present invention, for example, when an alarm device such as a housing alarm device provided in an alarm system such as a house detects a predetermined abnormality such as a fire, the alarm device itself outputs a fire alarm and a fire interlock signal to other alarm devices. To output a fire alarm, and the repeater converts a fire-linked signal according to the first wireless communication protocol into a fire-linked signal according to the second wireless communication protocol, for example, power consumption of home appliances, etc. A fire coordination interlock signal is sent to the server via an external network such as the Internet from the network adapter provided in the device management system that manages the fire, and the fire information is transmitted from the server to the user terminal, for example, a mobile phone. By installing a repeater, the alarm system can be easily linked to the device management system, and the device management system can be used to link the alarm system. Range simple and can be extended to a flexible, even a user even during the go, it is possible to appropriately correspond to know the operation of the alarm on the go.

  In addition, the difference in communication protocol between the alarm system and the device management system can be easily linked by protocol conversion using a repeater. For example, the existing alarm system and the device management system are not required to change the components of each system. Can be linked easily and easily.

  On the other hand, in the device management system that manages the power consumption of home appliances, a new function to detect and warn of fire can be added in cooperation with the alarm system. As a result, the services that can be provided as a device management system are enhanced, improving the convenience of service users and increasing the service user subscription.

  In addition, by providing a human sensor on the alarm device, when a fire alarm is output from the user terminal by the server, the operation button for home confirmation request of the house where the alarm device is activated is displayed in cooperation with the fire alarm. When the user performs a home confirmation request operation, the server acquires the detection signal of the human sensor provided on the alarm device, displays the home information on the user terminal, and the home status of the house where the alarm device is operating And can take appropriate action.

  In addition, a situation in which a fire is detected by an alarm device is a situation that does not normally occur, and an alarm system with multiple interlocked alarm devices is not used on a daily basis, In the present invention, since the presence sensor is provided in the alarm device, the server acquires the detection signal of the presence sensor provided in the alarm device by making a home confirmation request from the user terminal as necessary. The home information is displayed on the user terminal to enable daily use of the alarm system.

  In addition, the interlock type alarm device operates with a battery power source, and, for example, guarantees a battery life of more than 10 years. Therefore, power consumption will be increased if detection signals are frequently collected by human sensors. May increase the battery life. However, in the present invention, only when a home confirmation request is received from the user terminal, the server acquires the detection signal of the human sensor provided in the alarm device, and the degree of the home confirmation request is based on battery consumption. Is not so large as to be a problem, and home information can be used without affecting the battery life of the alarm.

  In addition, the alarm device will be installed on the wall near the ceiling overlooking the entire room, which is the monitoring area. By providing a human sensor on the alarm device, the detection area of the human sensor can be secured appropriately, Compared to the case where the sensation sensor is individually installed or built in the home appliance, the installation area is appropriately set and the human body can be detected reliably.

  Also in the device management system, for example, unnecessary home appliances are turned off by acquiring the detection signal of the human sensor provided in the alarm device by the server on the network as needed and grasping the home status. Can be controlled.

In addition, a transmitter is installed in the alarm system for homes, etc. When the emergency switch of the transmitter is operated, an emergency notification signal is transmitted to the alarm device, and an emergency notification alarm is output. An emergency call linkage signal is transmitted from a network adapter provided in the device management system that manages the server to the server via an external network such as the Internet, for example, and is processed by the server. Is output, for example, even when the user is out, it is possible to know the occurrence of an emergency on the go and take appropriate action.

Explanatory drawing which showed schematic structure of the cooperation system by this invention which linked the alarm system and equipment management system which were installed in the house Explanatory drawing which showed the external appearance of the house alarm device used by this invention Explanatory drawing showing a home confirmation request screen displayed on the mobile phone of FIG. The block diagram which showed embodiment of the residence guard used by this invention The block diagram which showed embodiment of the power outlet apparatus used by this invention The block diagram which showed embodiment of the gateway apparatus used by this invention The block diagram which showed embodiment of the repeater used by this invention Explanatory drawing which showed other schematic structure of the cooperation system by this invention which made the alarm system and apparatus management system which were installed in the house cooperate. Explanatory drawing showing the appearance of the transmitter used in the present invention Explanatory drawing showing a home confirmation request screen displayed on the mobile phone of FIG. Explanatory drawing which showed the at-home information screen displayed on the mobile phone of FIG. Explanatory drawing showing the fire alarm screen displayed on the mobile phone of FIG. Explanatory drawing showing the emergency call alarm screen displayed on the mobile phone of FIG. The block diagram which showed embodiment of the residence guard provided in FIG. The block diagram which showed embodiment of the transmitter provided in FIG.

  FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a schematic configuration of a linkage system according to the present invention in a case where an alarm system installed in a house or the like and a device management system for managing power consumption of household electrical appliances are linked.

  In the example of FIG. 1, a wireless interlocking residence police that detects fire and interlocks alarms in the respective alert areas (monitoring areas) of the kitchen, living room, children's room, and master bedroom provided in the house 24. Units (fire alarms for houses) 10-1 to 10-4 are installed to construct an alarm system.

  Hereinafter, the housing alarm devices 10-1 to 10-4 are collectively referred to as the housing alarm device 10 without being distinguished from each other. In addition, although a residence guard is also installed in a staircase etc., illustration is abbreviate | omitted.

  In addition, a case where alarm devices are linked in the alarm system is called “linkage”, and a case where devices of different systems are linked is called “linkage”.

  In addition, a signal transmitted and received between alarm devices in the alarm system is referred to as a “linked signal”, and a signal transmitted and received between devices in different systems is referred to as a “linked signal”. The former interlock signal includes a fire interlock signal, a fire recovery interlock signal, an alarm stop interlock signal, a failure interlock signal, and an emergency alert interlock signal. The latter interlock interlock signal includes a fire interlock interlock signal, a fire recovery interlock interlock signal, There is an alarm stop linkage signal, a failure linkage linkage signal, and an emergency call linkage signal.

  The home alarm device 10 has a function of wirelessly transmitting and receiving interlocking signals to each other, and monitors the presence or absence of a fire in the corresponding monitoring area in each place of the house. If a fire has occurred in the kitchen of the house 24, the home alarm device 10-1 detects the fire and starts an alarm. Detecting this fire and initiating an alarm is referred to as “reporting” at the home alarm.

  When the home alarm device 10-1 issues a report, the home alarm device 10-1 functions as an interlocking source, and wirelessly transmits a fire interlocking signal to the other interlocking devices 10-2 to 10-4 as the interlocking destination. To do. When the other home alarm devices 10-2 to 10-4 have received the fire interlock signal from the home alarm device 10-1 of the interlocking source effectively, the alarm operation as the interlocking destination is performed by the alarm sound and the alarm display.

  Here, when the group code included in the received interlocking signal matches the group code registered in the memory and the signal content is normally recognized, the resident alarm 10 confirms that the interlocking signal has been effectively received. I try to detect it. Furthermore, the resident guard 10 that has effectively received the interlocking signal relays the interlocking signal as necessary. The group code is set as a unique code for each alarm system, and each residential alarm can identify and process only the interlocking signal related to the alarm system to which it belongs.

  As an alarm operation of the home alarm device 10-1 that is the interlock source, for example, a fire alarm sound is output by a voice message such as “Please confirm that the Woo Woo fire alarm has been activated”. On the other hand, the interlocking home alarm devices 10-2 to 10-4 output a fire alarm sound with a voice message such as “Please confirm that another fire alarm device has been activated”.

  Moreover, as an alarm display accompanying the fire alarm of the residence police device 10-1 which became the interlocking source, for example, an LED is lit. On the other hand, in the interlocking residence police 10-2 to 10-4, the LED blinks. As a result, the alarm display by the LED in the interlock source alarm and the interlock destination alarm can be distinguished.

  When the home alarm device 10 detects a fire, the home alarm device 10 transmits a fire-linked signal according to a predetermined first communication protocol to the other home alarm devices. Moreover, the residence guard 10 receives a fire interlocking signal transmitted from another residence guard.

  The transmission and reception by the first communication protocol in the home guard 10 is, for example, STD-30 (a low-power security system radio station radio station) known as a standard of a specific low-power radio station in the 400 MHz band in Japan. Equipment standard) or STD-T67 (standard equipment for specific low power radio station telemeter, telecontrol and data transmission radio equipment). Of course, when used outside Japan, the content conforms to the standard of the assigned radio station in that region. The transmission power of the residential police device 10 compliant with the specific low power radio station is 1 mW or less, and in the case of 1 mW, the line-of-sight communication distance is about 100 meters.

  Furthermore, a human sensor 15 is provided in the home alarm device 10 to detect a human body and output a human detection signal. The human detection signal from the human sensor 15 is used to generate home information.

  2A and 2B are explanatory views showing the appearance of a wireless interlocking smoke-type home alarm used in the present invention. FIG. 2A shows a front view and FIG. 2B shows a side view. The side provided with the mounting hook 24 is the upper side.

  In FIG. 2, the housing of the residential alarm 10 according to the present embodiment includes a cover 12 and a main body 14. A protrusion is provided at the center of the cover 12, a plurality of smoke inlets are opened around the protrusion, and a smoke detector 16 is disposed in the inside thereof, so that smoke accompanying a fire flows into the smoke detector 16. When the predetermined concentration is reached, a fire is detected by an alarm control unit described later. As the smoke detector 16, for example, a known scattered light smoke detector mechanism can be applied.

  An acoustic hole 18 is provided on the lower left side of the cover 12, and a buzzer and a speaker are incorporated behind this so that an alarm sound and a voice message can be output. An alarm stop switch 20 is provided below the cover 12.

  The alarm stop switch 20 is configured to press a built-in push switch (not shown) when a switch cover formed of a translucent member is pressed. An LED 22 for displaying an alarm or the like is disposed near the push switch inside the switch cover.

  The alarm stop switch 20 also functions as an inspection switch that instructs the self-inspection of the function of the home alarm 10 from the outside. For example, when the alarm stop switch 20 is operated during the fire alarm output, the fire alarm is stopped, and when the alarm stop switch 20 is operated in a normal state, a self-inspection is performed for a predetermined function, and the result is obtained by an LED 22 or a speaker. Is notified. Here, the normal state refers to a state where at least a fire alarm is being output or a failure alarm is not being output.

  A human sensor 15 is provided on the upper right of the cover 12. The human sensor 15 detects infrared rays emitted from the human body and outputs a human detection signal, and the human sensor 15 is provided so as to have a directivity direction that is obliquely downward when the dwelling guard 15 is mounted on the upper wall surface of the room. It has been.

  Further, a mounting hook 24 having an insertion hole in the substantially central portion thereof is provided at the upper part on the back side of the main body 14, and a screw or the like is screwed into the wall of the room to be installed and hooked through the insertion hole of the mounting hook 24. The residential alarm 10 can be fixedly installed on the wall surface in a so-called wall-hanging manner.

  Referring again to FIG. 1, a network for connecting to power outlet devices 100-1 to 100-5 and the Internet 400 as a device for constructing a device management system for managing power consumption of home appliances in the house 24. A gateway device 200 that functions as an adapter is installed. As is well known, the gateway device 200 connects to the Internet 400 using a connection service provided by a server owned by an Internet service provider (ISP).

  A refrigerator 104 is connected to the power outlet device 100-1, a television 106 is connected to the power outlet device 100-2, and an air conditioner 108 is connected to the power outlet devices 100-3 to 100-5. Hereinafter, the power outlet devices 100-1 to 100-5 are collectively referred to as the power outlet device 100 without being distinguished from each other.

  The power outlet device 100 is provided with a sensor for detecting power consumption and a wireless transmission / reception chip. When power is supplied by connecting a plug of a home appliance to an outlet, the power consumption is periodically measured, and a power detection signal is generated. The data is transmitted from the wireless transmission / reception chip to the gateway device 200 according to a predetermined second wireless communication protocol.

  The gateway device 200 converts a power detection signal transmitted from the power outlet device 100 according to the second wireless communication protocol into an Internet communication protocol known as TCP / IP, and serves as a server on the network via the Internet 400. A power detection signal is transmitted to the server 500.

  The server 500 is provided with a function of the device management unit 502 as an application. Based on the power detection signal sent from the power outlet apparatus 100, for example, the total consumption specifying the power consumption per unit time and the period of the target device. The amount of power is being sought. The server 500 transmits browsing page information and the like to the user terminal, for example, the mobile phone 800 via the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700 and displays the information, and uses the power consumption information of the home appliances in the house 24 Can be viewed.

  In order to provide such a power management service, the server 500 includes, for example, a database 508 that stores subscriber information, power consumption information, and the like using the telephone number of the mobile phone 800 held by the service subscriber as an index. Yes.

  A service for managing power consumption provided by the server 500 is a paid service provided to the subscriber of the mobile phone 800.

  Note that taking the first wireless communication protocol and the second wireless communication program in the present embodiment corresponds to the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol in the claims.

  As signal transmission / reception performed according to the second wireless communication protocol by the wireless transmission / reception chip built in the power outlet device 100 and the gateway device 200 installed in the house 24, for example, RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A short-range wireless communication protocol for sensor networks known as Z-Wave (R) or ZigBee (R) using the 900 MHz frequency assigned to, ie 950-957 MHz.

  In particular, Z-Wave (R) is a wireless communication protocol developed for home automation, uses an intelligent mesh network topology, does not have a master node, for example, nodes A, B, and C are arranged. If the node A and the node C are at a distance that cannot communicate with each other, the relay function of the node B located between them can communicate from the node A to the node C. It is suitable as a two-wireless communication protocol.

  ZigBee (R) provided as a short-range wireless communication standard for home appliances can also be used. In ZigBee (R), a node that functions as a coordinator and a plurality of nodes that function as routers can be used to construct a star-type network and a topology based on the coordinator. In the case of only, a peer-to-peer network topology can be constructed.

  The short-range wireless communication of 900 MHz such as Z-Wave (R) and ZigBee (R) has a transmission power of 1 mW or less as in the case of the specific low-power wireless station of the resident alarm 10, and the line-of-sight communication distance is 1 mW. It is about several tens of meters, and is shorter than 100 meters, which is the line-of-sight communication distance of the residential alarm 10 using the 400 MHz band.

  In order to link the alarm system in which such house alarm devices 10-1 to 10-4 are arranged, the power supply consensus devices 100-1 to 100-5, and the device management system including the gateway device 200, in the present invention, For example, the repeater 300 is installed in a kitchen at a distance that allows mutual communication with the gateway device 200.

  The repeater 300 is between the signal according to the 1st wireless communication protocol and the signal according to the 2nd wireless communication protocol between the housing alarm device 10 provided in the alarm system and the gateway device 200 of the equipment management system. Relay with protocol conversion.

  For this reason, for example, when the fire is detected by the home alarm device 10-1 itself, a fire interlock signal according to the first wireless communication protocol is transmitted to the other home alarm devices 10-2 to 10-4 to perform the interlock alarm. The fire interlocking signal is also received by the repeater 300, converted into a fire interlocking interlocking signal according to the second wireless communication protocol, and transmitted to the gateway device 200. The gateway device 200 receives this, converts it into an Internet communication protocol known as TCP / IP, sends the address to the server 500 via the Internet 400 with the destination specified by the IP address. Upon receiving this, the server 500 processes the fire cooperation interlocking signal received by the function of the alarm management unit 504 provided as an application, and the processing result is transmitted to the user's mobile phone via the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700. Then, the mobile phone 800 outputs a fire alarm. Fire alarm output from the mobile phone 800 can be performed in an appropriate form such as display screen output or sound output from a speaker.

  In addition, when a fire is detected and alarmed by the home alarm device 10-1, when the fire recovery or alarm stop operation of the operation unit provided in the home alarm device 10-1 is detected, the home alarm device 10-1 The fire recovery interlock signal or the alarm stop interlock signal in the dwelling unit is transmitted to the alarm devices 10-2 to 10-4 according to the predetermined first protocol, and the fire recovery interlock signal or the alarm stop interlock signal is also received by the repeater 300. Then, it is converted into a fire recovery interlock signal or an alarm stop interlock signal in accordance with the second wireless communication protocol, and is transmitted to the gateway device 200. Upon receiving this, the gateway apparatus 200 converts it into an Internet communication protocol, sends the data to the server 500 after specifying the destination by the IP address via the Internet 400. Upon receiving this, the server 500 processes the disaster recovery linkage signal or the alarm stop linkage linkage signal received by the function of the alarm device management unit 504, transmits the processing result to the mobile phone 800 via the mobile phone base station 700, and Alarm stop or fire recovery is displayed on the alarm screen 802 of the telephone 800 to cancel the fire alarm. The fire alarm canceling operation on the mobile phone 800 can be an appropriate operation such as outputting a canceling effect in the same manner as the fire alarm output or simply stopping the fire alarm output.

  In addition, the interlocking signal and the relay interlocking signal between the residential alarms 10 according to the first wireless communication protocol, the interlocking signal from the residential alarm 10-1 to the relay 300, the cooperative interlocking signal from the relay 300 to the gateway device 200, Signals from the gateway device 200 to the server 500, the mobile phone base station 700, and the mobile phone 800 are not particularly distinguished except for the communication protocol for the sake of simplicity of explanation. If the information required for each communication section (for example, the fact that a fire has occurred) is included in a format that conforms to each communication standard or protocol, the content is not necessarily the same. Needless to say, the contents may be different as appropriate. This is the same when the transmission direction is reversed as described later, that is, when transmission is performed from the mobile phone 800 side to the alarm system side.

  The first wireless communication protocol and the second wireless communication protocol in the present embodiment correspond to the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol in the claims.

  Here, when the communication paths according to the respective protocols in FIG. 1 are arranged, for example, when looking mainly at the repeater 300 installed in the kitchen, the first wireless communication is between the repeater 300 and the residential guards 10-1 to 10-4. The protocol path 11a becomes the second wireless communication protocol path 11b between the repeater 300 and the gateway apparatus 200, the second wireless communication protocol path 11b also between the power supply consensus apparatus 200-1 and the gateway apparatus 200, and the gateway. An internet communication protocol path 11c is provided between the apparatus 200 and the server 500 via the internet 400. In addition, although illustration is abbreviate | omitted, the 1st radio | wireless communication protocol path | route 11a by direct or a relay is formed between residence police devices 10-1 to 10-4.

  FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a fire alarm screen 816 displayed on the mobile phone 800 of FIG. In FIG. 3, the mobile phone 800 displays an alarm screen 816 and outputs a fire alarm sound when a fire-linked signal based on the fire detection of the resident alarm 10 transmitted from the server 500 is received. On the alarm screen 816, for example, an alarm message such as “Check that the kitchen fire alarm has been activated” is displayed along with the installation location.

  Under the alarm message, a home confirmation button 818, a home automatic dial button 820, a 119 automatic dial button 822, a 110 automatic dial button 824, and an alarm stop button 826 are displayed as operation parts, and each button is a transparent touch panel. Therefore, necessary operations can be performed.

  For example, when the confirmation button 804 is operated, a confirmation signal is transmitted to the server 500 via the mobile phone base station 700 and the mobile phone network 600, so that the user can recognize that a fire alarm has been notified. Further, by operating the 119 automatic dial buttons 806 and 110 automatic dial buttons 808, it is possible to establish a call connection with a fire engine or a police agency as necessary.

  Further, the alarm stop button 810 is operated when checking the situation and stopping the fire alarm in the house 24. When the alarm stop button 810 is operated, an alarm stop signal is sent via the server 500, the gateway device 200, and the repeater 300 to the residential alarm device 10-1 that has detected the fire, and stops the interlocking source alarm. The alarm stop signal via the repeater 300 is also received by the other residential alarm devices 10-2 to 10-4, and stops the interlocking destination alarm.

  The fire alarm output by the mobile phone 800 is realized by the function of the alarm management unit 504 provided in the server 500 of FIG. The alarm management unit 504 functions effectively based on the subscriber's service application, and the database 508 used by the device management unit 502 stores information as necessary for alarm management in the housing alarm 10-installed in the house 24. Information indicating an installation location is registered in advance corresponding to an identification code of 1 to 10-4, for example, a serial number.

  For this reason, when the server 500 receives a fire-linked signal from the home alarm device 10 via the relay device 300 and the gateway device 200, the information on the installation location is acquired with reference to the database 508 by the home alarm device identification code, As shown in FIG. 3, it is possible to display an alarm indicating the installation location of the house alarm.

  Of course, any part or all of the functional configuration of the database and the alarm management unit 404 provided in the server 500 may be provided on the mobile phone 700 side. In addition, when the database is provided on the server 500 side, the registration of the above-mentioned resident alarm identification code, etc. is accessed from the mobile phone 800 or another personal computer to the user home page of the server 500 via the Internet 400. You may make it do.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the main part of the house alarm used in the present invention. This is only an example, and the separation and integration of each function can be performed arbitrarily. Each part or all of each function may be executed by software (program) or may be executed by hardware.

  Moreover, in FIG. 4, although it has shown about the residence guard 10-11 installed in the house 24-1, it becomes the same structure also about other residence guards 10-12 to 10-22.

  In FIG. 4, the home guard 10-11 is provided with a processor 28 known as a one-chip CPU, and a first wireless communication unit that transmits and receives a first wireless communication protocol including an antenna 32 to the processor 28. 30, a sensor unit 38, a notification unit 40, an operation unit 42, and a memory 44, and the battery power supply 46 supplies power to necessary units. In addition, the 1st radio | wireless communication part 30 in this embodiment respond | corresponds to the 1st communication part of a claim.

  The first wireless communication unit 30 is provided with a first transmission circuit 48 and a first reception circuit 50, and each is connected to an antenna 32. The first wireless communication unit 30 is in communication with the other residential alarm 10-12 via the antenna 32 in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol conforming to the standard of a specific low power wireless station in the 400 MHz band, for example. Send and receive various interlocking signals such as recovery, alarm stop, and failure.

  The transmission of the interlocking signal by the first wireless communication protocol in the first transmission circuit 48 of the first wireless communication unit 30 is the operation of transmitting the interlocking signal for a predetermined time T1, for example, T1 = 3 seconds, and the predetermined time T2, for example, T2 For example, four times with a pause of 2 seconds. This T1 = 3-second transmission and T = 2-second pause comply with the standard of a specific low-power radio station. Further, in the transmission operation of T1 = 3 seconds, for example, 2.8 seconds from the beginning of the transmission operation is a dummy signal transmission, and the interlocking signal is repeatedly transmitted in the remaining 0.2 seconds.

  Moreover, the reception by the 1st wireless communication protocol in the 1st receiving circuit 50 of a 1st wireless communication part receives intermittently the interlocking | linkage signal from the other resident guard 10-12 which belongs to the same group as the resident guard 10-11. . In the intermittent reception, the reception operation is repeated for a predetermined period T3, for example, every T3 = 7 seconds, for a receivable time T4, for example, T4 = 100 milliseconds, and during the receivable time T4, the transmission dummy signal is carrier sensed. When the signal is detected, the reception is switched to continuous reception for a predetermined time and the interlocking signal following the dummy signal is received.

  The received signal is decoded by an alarm control unit 60 provided in the processor 28. Hereinafter, it may be called reception including even this decoding. In particular, when the signal is determined to be valid as a result of decoding, it is called effective reception. Furthermore, in the case of the power outlet apparatus 100, the gateway apparatus 200, and the repeater 300 which are mentioned later, it decodes with the processors 128,228,328.

  Further, in the first wireless communication protocol, when the resident guard 10-11 itself detects a fire or an event other than a fire and transmits an interlock signal, it belongs to the same group as the resident guard 10-11 and receives it. It is monitored whether or not an acknowledgment signal (hereinafter referred to as “ACK signal”) indicating that the interlocking signal has been normally received from the home alarm device 10-12 is effectively received.

  When the other resident alarm is detected that the ACK signal is not received, the resident alarm 10-11 transmits the relay request presence interlock signal to the other resident alarm that has received the ACK signal. A relay signal with a relay request is relay-transmitted from the home alarm device that has received the interlock signal with the relay to the home alarm device that has not yet responded to the AKC signal. An ACK signal that has not received an AKC signal that has received a relay signal with a relay request returns an ACK signal in response to the relay signal with a relay request. After that, it is received by the interlocking home security device 10-11. Accordingly, if there is a residence guard that does not receive the ACK signal, it is determined as a communication failure or the like, and a predetermined notification process, a linkage process, a linkage process described later, and the like are performed.

  The relay function described above is useful when three or more home alarm devices are installed in one interlocking group, for example, the house 24-1. In the example of FIG. 1, since only two units of the residence guard 10-11 and the residence guard 10-12 are installed in the house 24-1, the residence guard 10-11 responds to the interlocking signal transmitted by itself. When an ACK signal (reply) is not received from the mortgage alarm device 10-12, it is determined as a communication failure or the like, and a predetermined notification process or a cooperation process described later is performed.

  A signal transmitted and received by the first wireless communication protocol is configured as a format including a serial number, a transmission source identification code, a group code, and an event code. A serial number is a code | symbol produced | generated independently for every residence warning device, and is a serial number which shows the production | generation order or transmission order of an interlocking signal. Based on this, management such as prohibition of re-relay can be performed. The identification code is, for example, the serial number of the home alarm device that identifies each home alarm device, and the group code is the home alarm device 10-11, 10 installed in each of the houses 24-1 and 24-2, as shown in FIG. It is a code | symbol for comprising the interlocking | linkage group which mutually interlock | cooperates within each group of -12 or 10-21, 10-22.

The event code is a code representing the content of an event such as a fire. In the present embodiment, a 4-bit code is used. For example, 0001 = fire 0010 = ACK
0011 = Alarm stop 0100 = Recovery 0101 = Sensor failure 0110 = Low battery failure.

  Note that the above-described code indicating “relay request is present” is omitted here, but it can be added to the event code by increasing the number of bits.

  In addition, both the identification code indicating the source (interlocking source) residence warning device and the identification code of the relaying residence policer are added to the linkage signal relayed and transmitted in the house. Further, an identification code for designating a transmission destination may be added.

  Further, although the above-described code indicating “relay request is present” is omitted here, for example, it can be added to the event code by assigning it to “1111”, for example. Further, for example, “0000” may be assigned for periodic communication confirmation. Of course, more event codes can be assigned by increasing the number of bits.

  The sensor unit 38 is provided with a smoke detection unit 16 that detects smoke based on, for example, a scattered light type smoke detection principle and outputs a smoke detection signal corresponding to the smoke density.

  The notification unit 40 is provided with a speaker 58 that is an acoustic output device that outputs an alarm sound and the like, and an LED 22 that displays an alarm and the like together with respective drive circuits (not shown). Under the control of the alarm control unit 58, the speaker 58 outputs a voice message, an alarm sound, or the like based on various data stored in the memory 44 or the like. The LED 22 notifies an abnormality or other event such as a fire by a display by blinking, blinking, or lighting.

  The operation unit 42 is provided with the alarm stop switch 20, and the alarm stop switch 20 also functions as an inspection switch as described above.

  The memory 44 stores a serial number, an identification code, a group code, and the like used for generating the interlocking signal.

  The battery power supply 46 uses, for example, a lithium battery or an alkaline battery having a predetermined number of cells, and supplies power to a necessary section. As the battery capacity, for example, a lifetime of 10 years is guaranteed by reducing the power consumption of the entire circuit unit in the residence guard 10-11.

  The processor 28 is provided with the function of the alarm control unit 60 as a function realized by executing the program.

  The alarm control unit 60 is provided in the sensor unit 38 based on the presence or absence of a fire based on the smoke detection signal output from the smoke detection unit 16 provided in the sensor unit 38, the presence or absence of an alarm stop instruction input or inspection instruction input by the operation unit 42. The smoke detection signal output from the smoke detector 16 is lowered and the fire detection state is resolved to detect whether there is a fire restoration, sensor failure or failure, low battery failure or the like. Also, the alarm control unit 60 detects information such as the presence / absence of interlocking signal effective reception and the interlocking contents obtained as a result of decoding the interlocking signals from the other residential alarm devices 10-12 via the first receiving circuit 50.

  When the alarm control unit 60 detects a fire (presence) based on the smoke detection signal of the smoke detection unit 16 provided in the sensor unit 38, the alarm control unit 60 notifies the notification unit 40 of a fire alarm sound indicating the interlock source, for example, “ "Woo Woo is a fire. Please confirm that it is a fire." The voice message is repeatedly output, the LED 22 is turned on and a fire alarm is displayed to indicate the link source. The first transmission circuit 48 is caused to transmit a fire interlocking signal in accordance with the first wireless communication protocol from the antenna 32 toward the other home alarm device 10-12.

  In addition, the alarm control unit 60 has effectively received the fire-linked signal in accordance with the first wireless communication protocol from the other residential alarm device 10-12 via the antenna 32 and the first receiving circuit 48 of the first wireless communication unit 30. When an alarm is detected, a control is made to repeatedly output a voice message such as “Please confirm that another fire alarm has been activated” from the speaker 58 of the notification unit 40 as an alarm operation indicating the linkage destination. At the same time, control is performed to cause the LED 22 to blink, for example, to display an alarm indicating the interlocking destination. Furthermore, the first transmission circuit 48 is controlled to transmit an ACK signal as a response signal (reply) accompanying the reception of the fire interlock signal from the interlock source.

  Further, the alarm control unit 60 has effectively received the fire cooperation interlocking signal from the dwelling unit 24-2 according to the first wireless communication protocol from the repeater 300-1 via the first receiving circuit 48 of the first wireless communication unit 30. When it is detected, an alarm sound indicating the link destination is repeatedly output from the speaker 58 of the notification unit 40, for example, “Please confirm that the fire alarm of the Dwelling Unit B has been activated.” For example, it is made to blink and the other unit fire alarm operation is performed. Here, it is possible to specify and notify which dwelling unit of “Dwelling Unit A” has detected a fire.

  Further, when the alarm control unit 60 detects the operation of the alarm stop switch 20 or the other house alarm device 10-12 while outputting the fire alarm sound indicating the interlock source, the alarm control unit 60 controls the notification unit 40 to output from the speaker 58. The fire alarm operation by the alarm sound output and the alarm display output of the LED 22 is stopped, and an alarm stop interlocking signal according to the first wireless communication protocol is transmitted from the antenna 32 to the first transmission circuit 48 of the first wireless communication unit 30. It is made to transmit toward the home guard 10-12.

  When the alarm control unit 60 detects the effective reception of the alarm stop interlocking signal from the other home alarm device 10-12 during the output of the fire alarm sound indicating the interlock source, the alarm control unit 60 The interlock source can be identified without stopping at least one of the fire alarm indications until at least a predetermined period has elapsed.

  When the alarm control unit 60 detects the operation of the alarm stop switch 20 or the effective reception of the alarm stop interlocking signal from the other residential alarm device 10-12 during the output of the alarm sound indicating the interlocking destination, the alarm control unit 60 The fire alarm operation by the alarm sound by the voice message from the speaker 58 and the alarm display of the LED 22 is stopped by controlling. Furthermore, the ACK signal accompanying the alarm stop interlock signal reception is returned in the same manner as when the fire interlock signal is received.

  In addition, since it is the same also in each case mentioned later, description is abbreviate | omitted about the reply of the ACK signal accompanying communication between residence police. It should be noted that the ACK signal transmission / reception processing can be performed in the same way in the communication between the resident alarm and the gateway device, but the description thereof is also omitted. Although communication retries can be performed as appropriate, the description is omitted in this specification.

  In addition, the alarm control unit 60 is provided with a low battery failure monitoring function in which the power supply voltage supplied from the battery power supply 46 is less than a predetermined level in cooperation with a voltage monitoring circuit (not shown). The test is automatically executed periodically in the background, and the result is updated and recorded in the memory 44 each time.

  Specifically, the low battery failure monitoring is performed by reading the power supply voltage supplied from the battery power supply 46 at a predetermined measurement time interval (cycle), for example, at an interval of 4 hours, and comparing it with a predetermined threshold voltage. The built-in test is performed, and when the battery voltage is lower than the threshold voltage, the low battery failure is preliminarily determined and stored in the memory 44, and when the low battery failure preliminary determination continues continuously for a predetermined number of times, the low battery failure is detected. Is determined (determined) and detected, the low battery failure flag is set, and the memory 44 is updated and stored.

  Further, the alarm control unit 60 is provided with a sensor failure monitoring function for monitoring a failure of the sensor unit 38, and is also automatically executed periodically in the background as a built-in test. Specifically, the sensor failure monitoring reads a smoke detection signal output from the smoke detector 16 of the sensor unit 38 at a predetermined measurement time interval (cycle), for example, at an interval of 1 second, and stores the smoke detection signal in the memory 44. The average value of the detected data for the last 10 minutes held in the memory 44 is obtained every time interval, for example, every 10 minutes, and the output is stopped when the average value falls below a predetermined reference level (referred to as the zero point level). It is determined that the sensor unit 38 has a fault, for example, as a state, and a sensor fault flag is set and updated and stored in the memory 44.

  When the alarm control unit 60 detects an inspection instruction operation (inspection instruction input) by operating the alarm stop switch 20 that functions as an inspection switch in a normal state, the low battery failure flag or the sensor failure flag is set and stored in the memory 44. If it is determined that the low battery failure alarm or sensor failure alarm is output from the notification unit 40, the low battery failure alarm or the sensor failure alarm is output from the notification unit 40 via the first transmission circuit 48 of the first wireless communication unit 30 according to the first wireless communication protocol. A battery fault interlocking signal or a sensor fault interlocking signal is transmitted to the other residential alarm devices 10-2 to 10-4 to output a low battery fault alarm or a sensor fault alarm indicating the fault interlocking destination.

  Needless to say, a low battery failure or a sensor failure may be notified and an interlocking signal transmitted when the failure is detected by a built-in test regardless of the inspection instruction operation.

  In addition to the low battery failure and the sensor failure, various types of circuit failures and failures such as aging may be detected and the same processing may be performed.

  FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a power outlet device used in the present invention. This is an example, and the separation and integration of each function can be performed arbitrarily. In addition, any or all of the functions may be executed by software (program) or may be executed by hardware.

  In FIG. 5, the power supply outlet device 100-1 is provided with the processor 108 and the second wireless communication unit 110 described above as a wireless transmission / reception chip, and is a commercially available product that conforms to the Z-Wave (R) wireless communication protocol. Is provided as a wireless transmission / reception IC chip including a processor 128, a second transmission circuit 122, and a second reception circuit 124.

  The power supply outlet device 100-1 is provided with an inlet 102 for inputting commercial AC power and two outlets 104 for branching and outputting the commercial AC power input from the inlet 102, so that a power plug of a home electric appliance can be connected. A sensor 106 is inserted and connected to one of the power lines for the output outlet 104, and for example, an alternating current consumed by a device connected to each outlet 104 is detected and input to the processor 108. One sensor 106 may be provided for two outlets 104 (one inlet 102). In this case, the sensor 106 detects the sum of alternating currents consumed by the devices connected to the two outlets 104.

  Specifically, plugs and sockets are used as the inlets 102 and outlets 104, and fuses, noise filters, and the like are appropriately inserted in power supply input and output lines (not shown).

  The second wireless communication unit 110 includes a second transmission circuit 122, a second reception circuit 124, and a processor 128. The antenna 112 uses, for example, a 900 MHz band according to a second wireless communication protocol compliant with Z-Wave (R). A signal is transmitted / received to / from the gateway device 200 via the.

  The processor 108 is provided with the function of the power measurement unit 126. The power measurement unit 126 performs AD conversion on the current detection signal detected by the sensor 108 at a predetermined sampling period and reads the predetermined current calculation using a predetermined AC rated voltage. The power consumption is calculated and the power consumption is integrated, and the processor 128 of the wireless communication unit 110 is instructed to perform control, and a power detection signal (power detection message) indicating the calculated power consumption and power consumption is output to the second. It is generated according to the communication protocol, and is transmitted from the second transmission circuit 122 of the second wireless communication unit 110 to the gateway device 200 via the antenna 112.

  Note that some or all of the calculation of power consumption and power consumption in the power measurement unit 126 may be performed on the gateway device 200, the server 500, or the mobile phone 800 side. In this case, for example, the second transmission circuit 122 is used. To the gateway device 200 is a signal indicating data before the completion of the calculation.

  The processor 108 receives the power control signal from the server 500 side transmitted from the gateway device 200 as needed by the second receiving circuit 124 of the second wireless communication unit 110 via the antenna 112 and decodes it by the processor 128. When it is detected that the signal is effectively received, control corresponding to the power control signal transferred from the processor 128 is performed. For such power control based on an instruction from the server 500 side, for example, a relay contact disposed in a power supply line for the outlet 104 is opened and closed, and power is turned on or off as necessary. In addition to this, control for changing a limit value of power that can be supplied from the outlet 104 to the device connected to the outlet 104 may be performed.

  A power indicator lamp 114, an operation unit 116, a memory 118, and a power circuit unit 120 are provided for the processor 108. The power circuit unit 120 generates a predetermined DC power source from a commercial AC power source supplied via the inlet 102. Then, the data is supplied to the processor 108, the second wireless communication unit 110, and other necessary units including the above-described relay.

  FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the gateway device 200 used in the present invention. This is an example, and the separation and integration of each function can be performed arbitrarily. In addition, any or all of the functions may be executed by software (program) or may be executed by hardware.

  The gateway device 200 is provided with a processor 202. For the processor 202, a wired communication unit 204, an antenna 212, a second wireless communication unit 210 that is a wireless transmission / reception chip, a display unit 214, an operation unit 216, a memory 218, and a commercial device. A power supply circuit unit 220 is provided for connecting an AC power supply (this inlet is not shown). The power supply circuit unit 220 generates a DC power source from a commercial AC power source and supplies it to each necessary unit.

  The second wireless communication unit 210 includes a second transmission circuit 222, a second reception circuit 224, and a processor 228. The antenna 212 uses, for example, a 900 MHz band according to a second wireless communication protocol compliant with Z-Wave (R). A signal is transmitted / received to / from the power outlet device 100 or the repeater 300 via the.

  The wired communication unit 204 is connected to a network device such as a router constituting the Internet 400 through a signal line 206, and transmits / receives a signal to / from the server 500 according to the Internet communication protocol. Of course, when a wireless network device is used, a predetermined wireless communication unit and an antenna can be provided instead of the wired communication unit 204 and the signal line 206, and this communication can be made wireless.

  The processor 202 is provided with the function of the protocol conversion unit 226. The processor 202 converts the IP signal (Internet protocol signal) according to the Internet communication protocol received by the wired communication unit 204 into a TCP signal (transfer protocol signal) and performs second wireless communication. The control signal is transferred to the processor 328 of the unit 210 and the control is instructed. Under the control of the processor 228, the TCP signal is converted into a signal in accordance with the two wireless communication protocol and transmitted via the second transmission circuit 322 and the antenna 212.

  In addition, the processor 228 provided in the second wireless communication unit 210 decodes a signal according to the second wireless communication protocol received via the antenna 212 and the second reception circuit 224, and detects the second signal when effective reception is detected. A signal in accordance with the wireless communication protocol is converted into a TCP signal and transferred to the protocol conversion unit 226 of the processor 202 to instruct control. The protocol conversion unit 220 converts the TCP signal transferred from the processor 328 into an IP signal according to the Internet communication protocol, transfers the IP signal to the wired communication unit 204, outputs the IP signal, and transmits the IP signal to the server 500 from the Internet 400.

  In this embodiment, the IP address of the destination server 500 is specified by the repeater 300 and the power outlet devices 100-1 to 200-5, but the gateway device 300 specifies the IP address of the destination server 500. You may do it.

  FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the repeater provided in FIG. This is an example, and the separation and integration of each function can be arbitrarily performed, and each part or all of each function is executed by hardware even if executed by software (program). It may be a thing.

  In FIG. 7, the repeater 300 is provided with a processor 302 known as a one-chip CPU. To the processor 302, a first wireless communication unit 304 to which an antenna 306 is connected and a second wireless communication to which an antenna 310 is connected. 308, a display unit 312, an operation unit 314, a memory 316, and a power supply circuit unit 318. The power supply circuit unit 318 generates a predetermined DC power source from a commercial AC power source supplied from the outside and supplies it to each necessary unit. . Note that a battery power supply may be used instead of the power supply circuit portion 318.

  The first wireless communication unit 304 includes a first transmission circuit 320 and a first reception circuit 322, and transmits / receives an interlocking signal according to the first wireless communication protocol to / from the resident alarm 10 via the antenna 306. The details of the first wireless communication unit 304 are basically the same as those of the first wireless communication unit 30 of the residential guard 10-1 shown in FIG. Transmit and receive signals according to

  The second wireless communication unit 308 includes a second transmission circuit 324, a second reception circuit 326, and a processor 328, and transmits and receives a cooperative interlocking signal according to the second wireless communication protocol to and from the gateway device 200-1. The details of the second wireless communication unit 308 are basically the same as those of the second wireless communication unit 140 of the power outlet apparatus 100-1 shown in FIG. 5, and for example, a second wireless communication protocol such as Z-Wave (R) is used. Send and receive signals accordingly.

  The processor 302 is provided with a protocol converter 330 as a function realized by executing the program. When the protocol conversion unit 330 detects the effective reception of the interlocking signal according to the first wireless communication protocol from the home guard 10, the protocol conversion unit 330 converts it into a cooperative interlocking signal according to the second wireless communication protocol with the gateway device 200 as the destination. Then send.

  In addition, when the second wireless communication unit 308 detects the effective reception of the cooperation interlocking signal according to the second wireless communication protocol destined for the repeater 300 from the gateway device 200, the protocol conversion unit 330 detects the second wireless communication unit 308. The cooperation interlocking signal according to the 2nd wireless communication protocol transferred from is converted into the cooperation interlocking signal according to the 1st wireless communication protocol, and it transmits to the dwelling keeper 10.

  More specifically, the protocol conversion unit 330 transmits a fire-linked signal in accordance with the first wireless communication protocol from, for example, the home guard 10-1 via the antenna 306 and the first reception circuit 322 of the first wireless communication unit 304. If it is received and decoded effectively, the processor 328 of the second wireless communication unit 308 is instructed to control, and in response to the fire-linked signal, the fire-linked signal in accordance with the second wireless communication protocol is sent. Generated, transmitted from the second transmission circuit 324 to the gateway device 200 via the antenna 310, transmitted to the server 500 via the Internet 400, processed, and the processing result is transmitted to the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone. The information is transmitted to the mobile phone 800 via the base station 700, and the display of the fire alarm screen 802 shown in FIG. To output the fire alarm by.

  Further, the protocol converter 330 receives, for example, the fire recovery interlock signal in accordance with the first wireless communication protocol from the home guard 10-1 via the antenna 306 and the first receiving circuit 322 of the first wireless communication unit 304. If it is received effectively by decoding, the processor 328 of the second wireless communication unit 308 is instructed to control, and in response to the fire recovery interlocking signal, the fire recovery cooperation interlocking signal according to the second wireless communication protocol is generated, This is transmitted from the second transmission circuit 324 to the gateway device 200 via the antenna 310, transmitted to the server 500 via the Internet 400, processed, and the processing results are transmitted to the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700. To the mobile phone 800 to stop the fire alarm.

  Further, the protocol conversion unit 330 receives an alarm stop interlock signal in accordance with the first wireless communication protocol from the residential alarm device 10-1, for example, via the antenna 306 and the first reception circuit 322 of the first wireless communication unit 304. If it is received effectively by decoding, the processor 56 of the second wireless communication unit 34 is instructed to control, and in response to the fire recovery interlocking signal, the alarm stop cooperation interlocking signal according to the second wireless communication protocol is generated, This is transmitted from the second transmission circuit 324 to the gateway device 200 via the antenna 310, transmitted to the server 500 via the Internet 400, processed, and the processing results are transmitted to the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700. To the mobile phone 800 to stop the fire alarm.

  Further, the protocol conversion unit 330 generates a failure interlock signal according to the first wireless communication protocol based on detection of a low battery failure or a sensor failure from, for example, the residential police device 10-1, and outputs the failure interlock signal according to the first wireless communication unit 304 of the antenna 306 and the first wireless communication unit 304. 1 When receiving and decrypting via the receiving circuit 322, the processor 328 of the second wireless communication unit 308 is instructed to control, corresponds to the failure interlocking signal, and follows the second wireless communication protocol. A failure cooperation interlocking signal is generated, transmitted from the second transmission circuit 308 to the gateway device 200 via the antenna 310, transmitted to the server 500 via the Internet 400, processed, and the processing result is transmitted to the mobile phone. A failure alarm is output by transmitting to the mobile phone 800 via the network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700.

  In addition, the alarm stop cooperation interlocking signal transmitted by operating the alarm stop button 810 of the mobile phone 800 is received via the server 500 and the gateway device 200 via the antenna 310 and the second receiving circuit 326 of the second wireless communication unit 308. If this is decoded by the processor 328 and effective reception is detected, the protocol conversion unit 330 is instructed to control, and the alarm stop cooperation interlocking signal according to the second wireless communication protocol transferred from the processor 328 is sent to It converts into the alarm stop cooperation interlocking | linkage signal according to 1 radio | wireless communication protocol, and transmits to dwelling device 10-1 to 10-4, and stops a fire alarm.

  FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing another schematic configuration of the cooperation system according to the present invention, and is characterized in that a human sensor is provided in the house alarm and an interlocking type transmitter is provided.

  In the example of FIG. 8, as in FIG. 1, a fire is detected and linked alarms are provided in the respective warning areas (monitoring areas) of the kitchen, living room, children's room, and master bedroom provided in the house 24. Wireless interlocking type house alarms (house fire alarms) 10-1 to 10-4 are installed.

  The home alarm 10 is provided with a human sensor 15, which detects a human body and outputs a human detection signal. The human detection signal from the human sensor 15 is used to generate home information. For example, the human sensor 15 is provided with a predetermined position of the cover 12 in the residential alarm 10 shown in FIG. 2, detects infrared rays emitted from the human body, and outputs a human detection signal. The human sensor 15 is provided so as to have a directivity direction that is obliquely downward when the home alarm device 10 is attached to the upper part of the wall surface of the room. The other functions and structure of the home alarm device 10 are the same as those shown in FIGS.

  A transmitter 1000 is provided in the child room. The transmitter 1000 is provided with an emergency push button switch. When the emergency push button switch is operated, an emergency notification signal according to the first wireless communication protocol is transmitted to the home alarm devices 10-1 to 10-4. From -1 to 10-4, output an emergency call warning sound such as “Woo-woo transmitter was activated”.

  In addition, the emergency call interlocking signal according to the first wireless communication protocol transmitted by the emergency push button switch operation of the home guard 1000 is also received by the repeater 300, and the emergency report cooperative interlocking according to the second wireless communication protocol by the repeater 300 is received. It is transmitted to the server 500 through conversion into a signal and conversion into an emergency call cooperation interlocking signal according to the Internet communication protocol by the gateway device 200.

  FIG. 9 is an explanatory view showing the appearance of a wireless interlocking transmitter used in the linkage system of FIG. 8, and FIG. 9 (A) shows a front view and FIG. 9 (B) shows a side view. . In addition, let the direction which has the attachment hook 1115 be an upper side.

  In FIG. 9, the casing of the transmitter 1000 according to this embodiment includes a cover 1112 and a main body 1114. An emergency push button switch 1116 is provided in the center of the cover 1112. The emergency push button switch 1116 includes a switch cover formed of a translucent member and a push switch (not shown) arranged inside the switch cover.

  An LED 1118 functioning as a transmitter lamp is disposed near the push switch inside the switch cover, and the operating light passes through the translucent switch cover of the emergency push button switch 1116 so that the operating state of the LED 1118 is external. It is made visible from.

  When the emergency push button switch 1116 is pushed in, the LED 1118 blinks or blinks. When it is confirmed that the emergency notification signal has been transmitted, the LED 1118 is turned on and turned off after a predetermined time. The emergency push button switch 1116 also functions as an alarm stop switch. For example, when the emergency push button switch 1116 is operated while the fire alarm is output, the fire alarm is stopped.

  A plurality of slit-like acoustic holes 1120 are provided on the lower left side of the emergency push button switch 1116, and a buzzer and a speaker are incorporated behind this so that an alarm sound and a voice message can be output.

  A mounting hook 1115 having an insertion hole in a substantially central portion is provided at the upper part on the back side of the main body 1114. A screw or the like is screwed into a wall surface or the like of a room to be installed and hooked through the insertion hole of the mounting hook 1115. The transmitter 1000 can be fixedly installed in a so-called wall-hanging position at a position where the wall surface can be reached.

  Referring to FIG. 8 again, the house 24 has a gateway for connecting to the power outlet devices 100-1 to 100-5 and the Internet 400 as devices for constructing a device management system for managing the power consumption of home appliances. The apparatus 200 is installed, and a server 500 of a device management system is provided on the Internet 400. Further, a mobile phone 800 serving as a user terminal is arranged via a mobile phone network 600 and a mobile phone base station 700.

  The configuration and function of a device management system for managing the power consumption of such home appliances is the same as that of the alarm linkage system of FIG.

  The alarm system in which the residential alarm devices 10-1 to 10-4 and the transmitter 1000 including the human sensor 15 are arranged, and the device management system including the power supply consensus devices 100-1 to 100-5 and the gateway device 200 are linked. For this reason, for example, the repeater 300 is installed in a kitchen having a distance that allows mutual communication with the gateway device 200.

  The repeater 300 includes a signal according to the first wireless communication protocol and a signal according to the second wireless communication protocol between the home alarm device 10 and the transmitter 1000 provided in the alarm system and the gateway device 200 of the device management system. And relay the protocol.

  When the fire alarm is detected and alerted by the home police 10-1 itself, a fire interlock signal in accordance with the first wireless communication protocol is transmitted to the other police guards 10-2 to 10-4. The signal is also received by the repeater 300, converted into a fire cooperation interlocking signal in accordance with the second wireless communication protocol, transmitted to the server 500 via conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the gateway device 200, and provided in the server 500. The function of the alarm management unit 504 causes a fire alarm to be output from the user's mobile phone 800 via the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700 by displaying a fire alarm screen and outputting an alarm sound.

  Further, when the emergency call switch is operated with the transmitter 1000, an emergency call interlocking signal according to the first wireless communication protocol is transmitted to the home alarm devices 10-1 to 10-4. 300 is also received, converted into an emergency call cooperation interlocking signal according to the second wireless communication protocol, transmitted to the server 500 through the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the gateway device 200, and the alarm management unit 504 provided in the server 500 With this function, an emergency alert is output from the user's mobile phone 800 via the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700 by displaying an emergency call screen and outputting an alarm sound.

  Furthermore, in the alarm linkage system of FIG. 8, the home management unit 506 has the function of the server 500 in accordance with the presence of the human sensor 15 in the home alarm device 10. When the home management unit 506 detects reception of a home confirmation request signal transmitted from the mobile phone 800 via the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700, the home management unit 506 passes through the Internet 400, the gateway device 200, and the repeater 300. Then, the detection signal of the human sensor 15 provided in the house alarm devices 10-1 to 10-4 is acquired to generate home information, and the generated home information is displayed on the mobile phone 800.

  FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a home confirmation request screen 812 displayed on the mobile phone 800 of FIG. The mobile phone 800 uses a display with a touch panel, and a home confirmation request operation guidance message 812 is displayed on the home confirmation request screen 812. When the activation button 814 is operated, the cellular phone base station 700 and the cellular phone are operated. An at-home confirmation request signal is transmitted to the server 500 via the network 600, and the at-home management unit 506 is provided in the residence police devices 10-1 to 10-4 via the Internet 400, the gateway device 200, and the repeater 300. The detection signal of the human sensor 15 is acquired, home information is generated, and the corresponding home information signal is transmitted to the mobile phone 800 via the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700, and the mobile phone 800 has FIG. The home information screen 820 shown as an example is displayed.

  The home information screen 820 shown in FIG. 11 indicates that the user is away from home based on the person detection signal of the human sensor 15 divided into each room of the house 24 as home information 824 following the time information 822. “Free” is displayed. With such an at-home confirmation function, the user can confirm the state of the house 24 as needed, such as when going out.

  The home information displayed by the home management unit 506 of the server 500 is not limited to the case where reception of the home confirmation request signal from the mobile phone 800 via the mobile phone base station 700 and the mobile phone network 600 is detected. When the human detection signal output from the ten human sensors 15 is transmitted to the server 500 via the repeater 300, the gateway device 200, and the Internet 400, and is detected by the home management unit 506 of the server 500, Information may be generated and a home information signal may be sent to the mobile phone 800 via the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700 for display.

  FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a fire alarm screen 802 displayed on the mobile phone 800 of FIG. In FIG. 12, the mobile phone 800 displays a fire alarm screen 802 based on the reception of the fire alarm signal generated and transmitted when the server 500 detects the reception of the fire cooperation interlocking signal from the home alarm device 10. A fire alarm sound is also output. On the alarm screen 802, for example, an alarm message such as “Check that the kitchen fire alarm has been activated” is displayed along with the installation location.

  Under the alarm message, a home confirmation button 826, a home automatic dial button 828, a 119 automatic dial button 806, a 110 automatic dial button 808 and an alarm stop button 810 are displayed as operation parts, and each button is a transparent touch panel. Therefore, necessary operations can be performed.

  For example, when the home confirmation button 826 is operated, a home confirmation request signal is transmitted to the server 500 via the mobile phone base station 700 and the mobile phone network 600, and the home information signal transmitted from the server 500 corresponding to this is sent to the mobile phone. When received via the network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700, the home information screen 820 shown in FIG. 11 is displayed. For example, the house 24 in which the home alarm device 10-1 installed in the kitchen detects a fire is displayed. If there is a person, the home automatic dial button 828 is operated to communicate, and the 119 automatic dial button 8806, 110 automatic dial button 808 is operated according to the situation. Thus, it is possible to establish a call connection with a fire department or a police organization.

  Home information that can be acquired and displayed in real time when a fire alarm is output in this manner is extremely important information for taking a quick judgment response to the fire alarm.

  Further, when the fire alarm in the house 24 is stopped after the situation is confirmed by the home information or the home phone, the alarm stop button 810 is operated. When the alarm stop button 810 is operated, an alarm stop cooperation interlocking signal is transmitted from the mobile phone 800, and a fire is detected via the mobile phone base station 700, the mobile phone network 600, the server 500, the gateway device 200, and the repeater 300. The interlocked fire alarm is stopped by being sent to the house keeper 10-1. The alarm stop signal via the repeater 300 is also received by the other residential alarm devices 10-2 to 10-4, and stops the interlocking destination fire alarm.

  FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of an emergency call alarm screen 832 displayed on the mobile phone 800 of FIG. In FIG. 13, the mobile phone 800 displays an emergency call alarm screen 832 based on the reception of the emergency call alarm signal that is generated and transmitted when the server 500 detects the reception of the emergency call linkage signal from the transmitter 1000. Display and output an alarm sound. For example, an alarm message such as “Please confirm that the transmitter has been activated” is displayed on the emergency call alarm screen 832.

  The emergency call alarm screen 832 has an operation part below the alarm message as an operation part, like the fire alarm screen 802 of FIG. 12, a home confirmation button 834, home automatic dial button 835, 119 automatic dial button 8362, 110 automatic dial button 838 An alarm stop button 840 is displayed and each button is a transparent touch panel, so that necessary operations can be performed.

  In particular, when the home confirmation button 834 is operated, a home confirmation request signal is transmitted to the server 500 via the mobile phone base station 700 and the mobile phone network 600, and correspondingly generated by the server 500 to be generated by the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone network. Based on the at-home information signal transmitted via the telephone base station 700, the at-home information screen 820 shown in FIG. 11 is displayed. For example, the at-home situation in which there is a person in the child room where the kitchen and the transmitter 1000 are operated. Can be confirmed, the home automatic dial button 835 is operated to communicate, and the 119 automatic dial button 836 and the 110 automatic dial button 838 are operated according to the situation, thereby establishing a call connection with the fire engine or the police organization. be able to.

  In this way, when an emergency call alarm is output from the mobile phone 800, it is extremely important to be able to obtain and display at-home information in real time in order to take a quick judgment response to the emergency call alarm.

  Further, when confirming the situation and stopping the emergency call alarm at the house 24, when the alarm stop button 840 of the mobile phone 800 is operated, the alarm stop cooperation interlocking signal is transmitted to the mobile phone base station 700, the mobile phone network 600, the server. 500, the gateway device 200, and the repeater 300 are sent to the transmitter 1000 to stop the emergency call alarm. Moreover, the alarm stop cooperation interlocking signal via the repeater 300 is also received by the residential alarm devices 10-1 to 10-4, and the emergency notification alarm is stopped.

  FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the main part of the residential alarm provided in FIG. 8. The human sensor 15 is provided in the sensor unit 38, the human sensor processing unit 64 is provided in the processor 28, and an alarm is provided. It is the same as the mortgage alarm device of FIG. 4 except that a process associated with the emergency call interlocking signal from the transmitter 1000 is added to the control unit 60.

  That is, when the alarm control unit 60 detects the effective reception of the emergency call signal according to the first wireless communication protocol from the transmitter 1000 via the antenna 32 and the first receiving circuit 50 of the first wireless communication unit 30. , An alarm sound indicating an emergency call from the speaker 66 of the notification unit 40, for example, repeatedly outputting a voice message “Please check that the Woo-woo transmitter has been activated” and flashing the LED 22 for example to display an alarm display indicating an emergency call. Let it be done.

  The human sensor processing unit 64 receives the home confirmation request signal sent from the mobile phone 800 via the mobile phone base station 700, the mobile phone network 600, the server 500, the gateway device 200, and the repeater 300 as the first wireless communication. When receiving through the antenna 32 and the first receiving circuit 50 of the communication unit 30 and decoding this to detect effective reception, the human detection signal according to the first wireless communication protocol is used as the human detection signal of the human sensor 15. And is transmitted via the first transmission circuit 50 and the antenna 32 of the first wireless communication unit 30 and sent to the server 500 via the repeater 300 and the gateway device 200 of FIG. A mobile phone that generates information and sends a home information signal corresponding to the generated home information via the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700 00 is transmitted to display the home information as shown in Figure 10, for example.

  FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the transmitter provided in FIG. This is an example, and the separation and integration of each function can be arbitrarily performed, and each part or all of each function is executed by hardware even if executed by software (program). It may be a thing.

  A transmitter 1000 in FIG. 15 includes a processor 1128 known as a one-chip CPU, and a first transmission circuit 1148 and a first reception circuit to which an antenna 1132 that transmits and receives a first wireless communication protocol is connected. A first wireless communication unit 1130 including 1150, a notification unit 1140 including a speaker 1164 and an LED 1118, an operation unit 1142 including an emergency push button switch 1116, a memory 1144, and a battery power source 1146 are provided.

  Details of the first wireless communication unit 130, the notification unit 140, the memory 144, and the battery power supply 146 are the first wireless communication unit 30, the notification unit 40, the memory 44, and the battery power supply 46 of the residential police device 10-1 shown in FIG. 14. Basically the same.

  The processor 1128 is provided with a transmission control unit 1160 as a function realized by executing the program.

  When detecting an emergency call operation by the emergency push button switch 1116, the transmission control unit 1160 sends an emergency call interlocking signal according to the first wireless communication protocol via the first transmission circuit 1148 and the antenna 1132 of the first wireless communication unit 1130. The LED 1118 functioning as a transmitter light is blinked or blinked for a predetermined time and transmitted to the home alarm device 10 and the repeater 300. Is notified. At this time, a switch operation acceptance sound such as “beep” may be output from the speaker 1164 of the notification unit 1140.

  The emergency call interlocking signal received by the repeater 300 is transmitted to the server 500 after being converted to the second wireless communication protocol and converted to the Internet communication protocol by the gateway device 200 and processed by the alarm management unit 540. It is transmitted to the mobile phone 800 via the telephone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700, and the emergency call alarm screen 830 shown in FIG. 13 is displayed on the mobile phone 800 to output an alarm sound.

  In addition, the transmission control unit 1160 receives the fire interlock signal from the home alarm device 10 according to the first wireless communication protocol via the antenna 1132 and the first reception circuit 1150 of the first wireless communication unit 1130, and decodes it. When effective reception is detected, a fire alarm sound such as “Please confirm that the Woo Woo fire alarm has been activated” is output from the speaker 1164, and the LED 1118 blinks, for example, to display an alarm indicating fire.

  In addition, when another transmitter is installed in the house 24, the transmission control unit 1160 performs first wireless communication from the other transmitter via the antenna 1132 and the first receiving circuit 1150 of the first wireless communication unit 1130. When an emergency call signal is received according to the protocol, and when it is decoded and valid reception is detected, an alarm sound indicating the occurrence of an abnormality from the speaker 1164 of the notification unit 1140, for example, “Woooo Another transmitter has been activated. Please repeatedly output ", and the LED 1118 blinks, for example, to display an alarm.

  Further, the transmission control unit 1160 stops the alarm output when detecting the stop operation of the emergency push button switch 1116 and the effective reception of the fire recovery interlock signal or the alarm stop interlock signal from the resident alarm 10 during the fire alarm. In addition, the transmission control unit 1160 relays the effectively received signal as necessary.

  Furthermore, the transmission control unit 1160 performs transmission control, reception control, and low battery failure monitoring in addition to this, and details thereof are the functions of the alarm control unit 60 provided in the residential alarm device 10-1 in FIG. Basically the same.

  The alarm system in the above embodiment is an example of an interlocking system of a residential alarm that detects and alerts a fire. However, a fire alarm other than a residential alarm, a gas leak alarm, a CO alarm It can be applied in the same way to various alarm devices, crime prevention alarms, earthquake alarms (emergency earthquake warning receivers, etc.), other alarm systems with any alarm devices, and mixed alarm devices. . Furthermore, the present invention can be applied to a system including a relay device and a receiving device in addition to these alarm devices.

  In addition, the residential alarm 10-1 of FIGS. 4 and 14 is provided with a smoke detection unit 16 and an example of a smoke-type fire alarm that observes smoke generated by a fire and detects a fire in the monitoring area. In addition to this, there are thermal dwellers equipped with temperature sensing elements such as thermistors that detect heat associated with fire, fire alarms that detect other environmental changes associated with fire, and gas leaks other than fire. Alarms to be detected, various alarms for detecting intruders, earthquakes, and other abnormalities, and alarms formed by combining these alarms are also included in the scope of the present invention.

  Further, the communication related to the alarm device linkage and the cooperation of each unit does not have to be performed by wireless communication, and may be performed by wired communication or by appropriately mixing wired and wireless communication. In this case, each communication protocol may be replaced with a protocol adapted to them. Also, the Internet 400 can be replaced with another network that can realize the functions of the present invention.

  Further, in the above embodiment, the conversion between the first wireless communication protocol and the second wireless communication protocol is performed on the side of the house alarm, but this may be performed on the gateway device side. In this case, the gateway device 200 of the above embodiment is provided with a first wireless communication unit, a conversion processing unit for the first wireless communication protocol and the second wireless communication protocol, and performs processing in cooperation with the second wireless communication unit. To. In such a system, the second wireless communication unit of the alarm device can be omitted.

  Moreover, the apparatus cooperation system of this invention does not prevent that the alarm device which comprises an alarm system is one.

  The device management system in the above embodiment is an example of managing the power consumption of home appliances. However, various environmental changes are detected by a sensor network to optimally control home appliances such as air conditioners. It is also possible to link with an appropriate device management system. Of course, it is good also as an apparatus cooperation system which performs power management control and such environmental management control in combination.

  In addition, the flowcharts in the above-described embodiments have described a schematic example of processing, and the order of processing is not limited to this. In addition, a delay time can be provided between the processes or between the processes, and other determination processes or other processes can be inserted.

  In the above embodiment, a mobile phone is taken as an example of the user terminal, but includes an appropriate user terminal such as a mobile terminal that can be connected to a server via a wireless network or a wired network.

  In addition, the processor shown in the above embodiment can replace some or all of its functions with other means such as wired logic. Other electrical and functional configurations including the processor can be appropriately integrated and abolished.

  In addition, the above embodiment can be applied not only to a house (dwelling unit) but also to a cooperation between an alarm system for various uses such as a building or an office and a device management system.

  The installation location and manager of each device are arbitrary. For example, the server 500 can be installed in an electric power company and managed by the electric power company, and the alarm device can be installed in the home.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, includes appropriate modifications that do not impair the objects and advantages thereof, and is not limited by the numerical values shown in the above-described embodiments.

10-1 to 10-4: House alarm device 24: Housing 28, 56, 108, 202, 228, 302, 328, 1128: Processor 30, 304: First wireless communication unit 210, 308: Second wireless communication unit 32 112, 306, 310: Antenna 38: Sensor unit 40: Notification unit 42: Operation unit 44: Memory 46: Battery power supply 48: First transmission circuit 50: First reception circuit 122, 222, 324: Second transmission circuit 124 , 224, 326: second receiving circuit 60: alarm control unit 62: cooperation processing unit 64: human sensor processing unit 100-1 to 100-5: power outlet device 104, 106: outlet 108: sensor 126: power measuring unit 200: Gateway device 204: Wired communication unit 300: Repeater 328: Protocol conversion unit 400: Internet 500: Server 502: Power management unit 5 4: alarm management unit 506: home management unit 508: database 600: mobile phone network 700: mobile phone base station 800: mobile phone 802: Alarm Screen 1000: transmitter 1160: transmission controller

Housing transmission and reception by the first wireless communication protocol to警器10 that contact only in the case of Japan, for example, STD-30 is known as a standard for specified low power radio stations in 400MHz band (Low Power Security system radio station Standard radio equipment standard) or STD-T67 (standard standard for radio equipment for specific low power radio station telemeter, telecontrol and data transmission). Of course, when used outside Japan, the content conforms to the standard of the assigned radio station in that region. The transmission power of the residential guard 10 compliant with the specified low-power radio station is 10 mW or less for STD-30, 10 mW or less or 1 mW or less for STD-T67, and the line-of-sight communication distance is approximately 100 meters. It becomes.

Z-Wave 900 MHz short-range wireless communications such as (R) or ZigBee (R) is a 1mW or less similar to the specified low power radio stations in home alarm 10 the transmission power, the communication distance outlook is generally several tens of meters a degree, compared to approximately about 100 meters the sight communication distance of home alarm 10 using the 400MHz band is shorter.

In FIG. 4, the home alarm device 10-11 is provided with a processor 28 known as a one-chip CPU, and a first wireless communication unit that transmits and receives the first wireless communication protocol connected to the antenna 32 with respect to the processor 28. 30, a sensor unit 38, a notification unit 40, an operation unit 42, and a memory 44, and the battery power supply 46 supplies power to necessary units. In addition, the 1st radio | wireless communication part 30 in this embodiment respond | corresponds to the 1st communication part of a claim.

The first wireless communication unit 30 first transmitting circuit 48 and the first receiver circuit 50 connected to the antenna 32 is found provided. The first wireless communication unit 30 is in communication with the other residential alarm 10-12 via the antenna 32 in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol conforming to the standard of a specific low power wireless station in the 400 MHz band, for example. Send and receive various interlocking signals such as recovery, alarm stop, and failure.

In addition, the alarm control unit 60 has effectively received the fire-linked signal according to the first wireless communication protocol from the other residential alarm device 10-12 via the antenna 32 and the first receiving circuit 48 of the first wireless communication unit 30. When an alarm is detected, a control is made to repeatedly output a voice message such as “Please confirm that another fire alarm has been activated” from the speaker 58 of the notification unit 40 as an alarm operation indicating the linkage destination. At the same time, control is performed to cause the LED 22 to blink, for example, to display an alarm indicating the interlocking destination. Furthermore, the first transmission circuit 48 is controlled to transmit an ACK signal as a response signal (reply) accompanying the reception of the fire interlock signal from the interlock source.

The wired communication unit 204 is connected to a network device such as a router constituting the Internet 400 through a signal line 206, and transmits / receives a signal to / from the server 500 according to the Internet communication protocol. Of course, when a wireless network device is used, instead of the wired communication unit 204 and the signal line 206, a predetermined wireless communication unit to which an antenna is connected can be provided to make this communication wireless.

More specifically, the protocol conversion unit 330 transmits a fire-linked signal in accordance with the first wireless communication protocol from, for example, the residential alarm 10-1 via the antenna 306 and the first receiving circuit 322 of the first wireless communication unit 304. If it is received and decoded effectively, the processor 328 of the second wireless communication unit 308 is instructed to control, and in response to the fire-linked signal, the fire-linked signal in accordance with the second wireless communication protocol is sent. Generated, transmitted from the second transmission circuit 324 to the gateway device 200 via the antenna 310, transmitted to the server 500 via the Internet 400, processed, and the processing result is transmitted to the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone. The information is transmitted to the mobile phone 800 via the base station 700, and the display of the fire alarm screen 802 shown in FIG. To output the fire alarm by.

Further, the protocol converter 330 receives, for example, the fire recovery interlock signal in accordance with the first wireless communication protocol from the home guard 10-1 via the antenna 306 and the first receiving circuit 322 of the first wireless communication unit 304. If it is received effectively by decoding, the processor 328 of the second wireless communication unit 308 is instructed to control, and in response to the fire recovery interlocking signal, the fire recovery cooperation interlocking signal according to the second wireless communication protocol is generated, This is transmitted from the second transmission circuit 324 to the gateway device 200 via the antenna 310, transmitted to the server 500 via the Internet 400, processed, and the processing results are transmitted to the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700. To the mobile phone 800 to stop the fire alarm.

Further, the protocol conversion unit 330 receives an alarm stop interlock signal in accordance with the first wireless communication protocol from, for example, the residential alarm 10-1 via the antenna 306 and the first reception circuit 322 of the first wireless communication unit 304. If it is received effectively by decoding, the processor 56 of the second wireless communication unit 34 is instructed to control, and in response to the fire recovery interlocking signal, the alarm stop cooperation interlocking signal according to the second wireless communication protocol is generated, This is transmitted from the second transmission circuit 324 to the gateway device 200 via the antenna 310, transmitted to the server 500 via the Internet 400, processed, and the processing results are transmitted to the mobile phone network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700. To the mobile phone 800 to stop the fire alarm.

Further, the protocol conversion unit 330, for example, based on detection of a low battery failure or a sensor failure from the resident alarm 10-1 , sends a fault interlocking signal according to the first wireless communication protocol to the antenna 306 and the first wireless communication unit 304. 1 When receiving and decrypting via the receiving circuit 322, the processor 328 of the second wireless communication unit 308 is instructed to control, corresponds to the failure interlocking signal, and follows the second wireless communication protocol. A failure cooperation interlocking signal is generated, transmitted from the second transmission circuit 308 to the gateway device 200 via the antenna 310, transmitted to the server 500 via the Internet 400, processed, and the processing result is transmitted to the mobile phone. A failure alarm is output by transmitting to the mobile phone 800 via the network 600 and the mobile phone base station 700.

In addition, the transmission control unit 1160 receives the fire-linked signal from the home alarm device 10 according to the first wireless communication protocol via the antenna 1132 and the first receiving circuit 1150 of the first wireless communication unit 1130 and decodes it. When effective reception is detected, a fire alarm sound such as “Please confirm that the Woo Woo fire alarm has been activated” is output from the speaker 1164, and the LED 1118 blinks, for example, to display an alarm indicating fire.

The outgoing call control part 1160, when the housing 24 is installed the other transmitter, the first radio via the antenna 1132 and the first receiving circuit 1150 of the other transmitters or we first wireless communication unit 1130 When an emergency call signal in accordance with the communication protocol is received, and when it is decoded and valid reception is detected, an alarm sound indicating the occurrence of an abnormality from the speaker 1164 of the notification unit 1140, for example, “Woooo Another transmitter has been activated. Please repeatedly output "and blink the LED 1118, for example, to display an alarm.

Claims (31)

An alarm system provided with an alarm device that cooperates with each other by transmitting and receiving signals in accordance with a predetermined first communication protocol when an abnormality is detected;
A network system that overlaps all or part of the alarm system, and that transmits and receives signals in accordance with a predetermined second communication protocol between a device installed in the system and a network adapter connected to an external network;
A relay that relays a signal by performing protocol conversion between the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol between the alarm device and the network adapter;
Provided,
When an abnormality is detected by the alarm device, it is transmitted to the server of the external network via the repeater and the network adapter for processing, and the processing result is transmitted to a user terminal for output. Alarm linkage system.
2. The alarm cooperation system according to claim 1, wherein a part or all of the alarm system operates a plurality of alarm devices in conjunction with each other.
2. The alarm linkage system according to claim 1, wherein the network system is a device management system that transmits and manages the state of the device to a server via the network adapter. .
4. The alarm cooperation system according to claim 3, wherein the device management system detects and manages power consumption of the device.
2. The alarm cooperation system according to claim 1, wherein when the network system receives an abnormal cooperation interlocking signal from the network adapter at the server, the user of the alarm system holds the abnormal alarm signal from the server. An alarm linkage system characterized by sending an abnormal alarm by sending it to a terminal.
In the alarm linkage system according to claim 1,
When detecting an abnormality, the alarm device outputs an abnormality alarm indicating an interlocking source, and transmits an abnormality interlocking signal to another alarming device according to the first communication protocol. When the reception of an abnormal interlocking signal according to one communication protocol is detected, an abnormal alarm indicating the interlocking destination is output,
When the repeater detects reception of an abnormal interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, it converts the abnormal interlocking signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter, An alarm linkage system, wherein the network adapter transmits to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol and processes the server, and the server processing result is transmitted to a user terminal to output an abnormality notification alarm. .
In the alarm linkage system according to claim 1,
When the alarm device detects abnormality recovery, it stops the abnormality alarm indicating the interlocking source, and transmits an abnormality recovery interlock signal to the other alarm devices according to the first communication protocol. When the reception of the abnormality recovery interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol is detected, the abnormality alarm indicating the interlocking destination is stopped,
When the relay detects the reception of the abnormality recovery interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, the relay repeater converts the abnormality recovery interlocking signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter. And sending to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the network adapter for processing, transmitting the processing result of the server to the user terminal, and stopping the alarm notification alarm Cooperation system.
In the alarm linkage system according to claim 1,
When the alarm device detects its own alarm stop operation, the alarm device stops an abnormal alarm indicating an interlocking source, and transmits an alarm stop interlocking signal to another alarm device according to the first communication protocol. When detecting the alarm stop interlocking signal in accordance with the first communication protocol from the alarm device, the abnormality alarm indicating the interlocking destination is stopped,
When the repeater detects reception of an alarm stop interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, it converts the alarm stop interlocking signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter. And sending to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the network adapter for processing, transmitting the processing result of the server to the user terminal, and stopping the alarm notification alarm Cooperation system.
In the alarm linkage system according to claim 1,
When the alarm device detects its own failure, the alarm device outputs a failure alarm indicating an interlocking source, and transmits a failure interlocking signal to another alarm device according to the first communication protocol. When detecting the reception of a fault interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol, a fault alarm indicating the interlocking destination is output,
When the repeater detects the reception of the failure-linked signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, it converts the failure-linked signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter, An alarm linkage system, wherein the network adapter transmits to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the network adapter for processing, and the server processing result is transmitted to a user terminal to output a fault alarm.
2. The alarm cooperation system according to claim 1, wherein the alarm system detects a fire, a gas leak, or a theft by the alarm device and gives an alarm.
In the alarm linkage system according to claim 1,
A human sensor for detecting a human body is provided in the alarm device,
When the server detects a home confirmation request from the user terminal, it generates a home information by obtaining a detection signal of a human sensor provided in the alarm device via the network adapter and the relay, An alarm linkage system, wherein the generated home information is displayed on the user terminal.
11. The alarm linkage system according to claim 10, wherein the server displays an operation part of a home confirmation request and enables a home confirmation request operation when an abnormal alarm is output from the user terminal. Alarm linkage system.
In the alarm linkage system according to claim 1,
The alarm system is further provided with a transmitter equipped with an emergency switch,
When the emergency switch is operated, the transmitter transmits an emergency notification interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol to the alarm device and the relay device to output an emergency notification alarm, while the alarm device When an abnormal interlock signal is received, an abnormal alarm is output,
When the relay receives an emergency call interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol from the transmitter, it converts the fault notification interlocking signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter, An alarm linkage system characterized in that a server adapter transmits to the server via a conversion to an Internet communication protocol by a network adapter for processing, and transmits the processing result of the server to a user terminal to output an emergency notification alarm.
An alarm system provided with an alarm device that cooperates with each other by transmitting and receiving signals in accordance with a predetermined first communication protocol when an abnormality is detected;
A network system that overlaps all or part of the alarm system, and that transmits and receives signals in accordance with a predetermined second communication protocol between a device installed in the system and a network adapter connected to an external network;
In the alarm linkage method that links
An alarm device relays a signal by performing protocol conversion between the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol between the alarm device and the network adapter,
When an abnormality is detected by the alarm device, it is transmitted to the server of the external network via the repeater and the network adapter for processing, and the processing result is transmitted to a user terminal for output. Alarm linkage method to do.
15. The alarm cooperation method according to claim 14, wherein a part or all of the alarm system operates a plurality of alarm devices in an interlocking manner.
15. The alarm cooperation method according to claim 14, wherein the network system is a device management system that transmits and manages the state of the device to a server via the network adapter. .
17. The alarm cooperation method according to claim 16, wherein the device management system detects and manages power consumption of the device.
17. The alarm cooperation method according to claim 16, wherein when the network system receives an abnormal cooperation interlocking signal from the network adapter by a server, the user of the alarm system holds the abnormal alarm signal from the server. An alarm linkage method characterized by transmitting an abnormality alarm by transmitting to a terminal.
In the alarm cooperation method according to claim 14,
When detecting an abnormality, the alarm device outputs an abnormality alarm indicating an interlocking source, and transmits an abnormality interlocking signal to another alarming device according to the first communication protocol. When the reception of an abnormal interlocking signal according to one communication protocol is detected, an abnormal alarm indicating the interlocking destination is output,
When the repeater detects reception of an abnormal interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, it converts the abnormal interlocking signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter, An alarm linkage method comprising: transmitting to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the network adapter and processing the server; and transmitting the processing result of the server to a user terminal to output an abnormality notification alarm. .
In the alarm cooperation method according to claim 14,
When the alarm device detects abnormality recovery, it stops the abnormality alarm indicating the interlocking source, and transmits an abnormality recovery interlock signal to the other alarm devices according to the first communication protocol. When the reception of the abnormality recovery interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol is detected, the abnormality alarm indicating the interlocking destination is stopped,
When the relay detects the reception of the abnormality recovery interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, the relay repeater converts the abnormality recovery interlocking signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter. And sending to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the network adapter for processing, transmitting the processing result of the server to the user terminal, and stopping the alarm notification alarm Cooperation method.
In the alarm cooperation method according to claim 14,
When the alarm device detects its own alarm stop operation, the alarm device stops an abnormal alarm indicating an interlocking source, and transmits an alarm stop interlocking signal to another alarm device according to the first communication protocol. When detecting the alarm stop interlocking signal in accordance with the first communication protocol from the alarm device, the abnormality alarm indicating the interlocking destination is stopped,
When the repeater detects reception of an alarm stop interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, it converts the alarm stop interlocking signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter. And sending to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the network adapter for processing, transmitting the processing result of the server to the user terminal, and stopping the alarm notification alarm Cooperation method.
In the alarm cooperation method according to claim 14,
When the alarm device detects its own failure, the alarm device outputs a failure alarm indicating an interlocking source, and transmits a failure interlocking signal to another alarm device according to the first communication protocol. When detecting the reception of a fault interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol, a fault alarm indicating the interlocking destination is output,
When the repeater detects the reception of the failure-linked signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device, it converts the failure-linked signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter, An alarm linkage method comprising: transmitting to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the network adapter and processing the server; transmitting the processing result of the server to a user terminal; and outputting a fault alarm.
15. The alarm cooperation method according to claim 14, wherein the alarm system detects a fire, a gas leak, or a theft by using the alarm device and makes an alarm.
In the alarm cooperation method according to claim 14,
A human sensor for detecting a human body is provided in the alarm device,
When the server detects a home confirmation request from the user terminal, it generates a home information by obtaining a detection signal of a human sensor provided in the alarm device via the network adapter and the relay, An alarm linkage method, wherein the generated at-home information is displayed on the user terminal.
25. The alarm linkage method according to claim 24, wherein the server displays an operation part of a home confirmation request and enables a home confirmation request operation when outputting an abnormality alarm from the user terminal. Alarm linkage method.
In the alarm cooperation method according to claim 14,
The alarm system is further provided with a transmitter equipped with an emergency switch,
When the emergency switch is operated, the transmitter transmits an emergency notification interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol to the alarm device and the relay device to output an emergency notification alarm, while the alarm device When an abnormal interlock signal is received, an abnormal alarm is output,
When the relay receives an emergency call interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol from the transmitter, it converts the fault notification interlocking signal according to the second communication protocol and transmits it to the network adapter, An alarm linkage method comprising: transmitting to the server via a conversion to an Internet communication protocol by a network adapter, processing the server, transmitting the processing result of the server to a user terminal, and outputting an emergency notification alarm.
An alarm system provided with an alarm device that cooperates with each other by transmitting and receiving signals in accordance with a predetermined first communication protocol when an abnormality is detected;
A network system that overlaps all or part of the alarm system, and that transmits and receives signals in accordance with a predetermined second communication protocol between a device installed in the system and a network adapter connected to an external network;
In a repeater that links
A relay device comprising a protocol converter that relays a signal by performing protocol conversion between the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol between the alarm device and the network adapter.
28. The repeater according to claim 27, wherein the protocol conversion unit detects the abnormal linkage signal according to the second communication protocol when detecting the reception of the abnormal linkage signal according to the first communication protocol from the alarm device. It is converted into a signal and sent to the network adapter, sent to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the network adapter, processed, and the server processing result is transmitted to the user terminal to report an abnormality. A repeater that outputs an alarm.
28. The repeater according to claim 27, wherein when reception of an abnormality recovery interlocking signal according to the first communication protocol is detected from the alarm device, the alarm is converted into an abnormality recovery interlocking interlocking signal according to the second communication protocol. Sent to the network adapter, sent to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the network adapter and processed, and the server processing result is transmitted to the user terminal to stop the abnormality notification alarm. A repeater characterized by that.
28. The repeater according to claim 27, wherein when reception of an alarm stop interlock signal according to the first communication protocol is detected from the alarm device, the alarm stop interlock signal is converted into an alarm stop interlock signal according to the second communication protocol. Sent to the network adapter, sent to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the network adapter and processed, and the server processing result is transmitted to the user terminal to stop the abnormality notification alarm. A repeater characterized by that.
  28. The repeater according to claim 27, wherein when the reception of a failure interlock signal according to the first communication protocol is detected from another alarm device in the same alarm system, the failure cooperation interlock according to the second communication protocol is detected. It is converted into a signal and sent to the network adapter, sent to the server via the conversion to the Internet communication protocol by the network adapter and processed, and the processing result of the server is transmitted to the user terminal to give a fault alarm. Is a repeater characterized in that

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