JP3438118B2 - Automatic notification device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic notification device, and in particular, it receives weather information announced and transmitted from a weather station, weather information such as earthquake and tsunami warnings, and reports the information to a plurality of terminal stations. The present invention relates to an automatic notification device for a disaster prevention system that performs

In recent years, the maintenance of disaster prevention systems in local governments and the like has been very important, and information reporting systems such as quick and reliable warnings using satellite lines are becoming widespread.

In such an information reporting system,
By duplicating the information transmission path when sending a report,
It is necessary to improve the reliability of the system and to improve the performance of notification processing by performing automatic reception and automatic notification so that quick and reliable alarm notification can be performed.

[0004]

2. Description of the Related Art In the conventional local government disaster prevention system,
From the weather information received from the meteorological satellite or the facsimile information transmitted from the meteorological observatory, a person judges whether or not the notification to each notification receiving terminal station is necessary, and the satellite line notification system, cable broadcasting system, etc. I was reporting.

[0005]

Therefore, if a failure or the like occurs in the receiving path of the alarm transmitted from the weather station, the notification itself cannot be executed. Also, even if you receive information,
It took time for the report to be made because people make judgments and process the report.

In addition, there is often a single notification medium, and there is a possibility that the notification will not reach due to a failure of the receiving device in each notification receiving terminal station or a line failure. Further, even if the notification can be made by a plurality of media, there is a problem that simultaneous notification of each media is difficult because a person intervenes in the notification process.

The present invention is intended to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and can more reliably and promptly receive a weather warning or the like and notify each notification receiving terminal station. It is intended to provide an automatic alarm device.

[0008]

1 to 5, an automatic notification device of the present invention will be described. Referring to FIGS. 1 to 5, one of a terrestrial broadcast line and a satellite broadcast line is a main line and the other is a slave line. It is a line and the report information follows the predetermined media classification
Of the contact information, facsimile information, and voice information by using one or more types of media to simultaneously transmit to the main line and the sub line, and the notification information received via the main line is validated. In an automatic notification device including a receiving terminal which processes and processes the notification information received via the secondary line as a failure due to a failure of the primary line, the transmitting terminal is
Notification information by facsimile sent from the sending terminal
When a notification is received from each notification receiving terminal station and the rate at which it does not end normally exceeds a certain rate, a fax is sent.
And a means for retransmitting processing report information with. In addition,
2 shows an example of the system state management table 4, and FIG.
Shows an example of the notification media definition table 6, FIG. 4 shows an example of the terminal station definition table 9 for each target area, and FIG. 5 shows an example of the receiving station definition table 10.

In FIG. 1, a meteorological station dedicated line transmission information receiving section 1 for realizing data reception from a data communication dedicated circuit (ground circuit) and a meteorological satellite information receiving section 2 for realizing data reception from a satellite circuit are always provided. Monitors the data received from the line and, if data is received, analyzes the received data
The fact recognition processing unit 3 is notified of the reception of the processing target data.

The received data analysis / fact recognition processing unit 3 recognizes whether or not the data is the automatic notification processing target data, and if the data is the target data, it is determined whether or not the data is received from the main system reception route defined in advance in the system. To determine.

Normally, the reception information from the main system reception path is processed as valid information, and in the case of reception from the main system reception path, the reception information is set in the system state management table 4 and the automatic notification processing control unit 5 is concerned. Notify the event. When the main system reception path is a failure, the information received from the subordinate reception path is automatically processed as valid information, and when receiving from the subordinate reception path, the same information data is already received from the main reception path. If it has been received, only the operation log of the reception fact is recorded.If it has not been received, it waits for the same information from the main system reception path for a certain period, and even if the certain period has elapsed. When there is no reception from the main system reception path, the reception information is set in the system state management table 4 and the automatic notification processing control unit 5 is notified of the event.

When receiving the information reception notification, the automatic notification processing control unit 5 refers to the reception information of the system state management table 4 to determine the area to be notified, and according to the definition information of the notification media definition table 6. The automatic notification medium is determined, the determination content is set in the system state management table 4, and a transmission processing request is sent to the transmission sequence control unit 7. Further, the automatic notification processing control unit 5 also performs the same processing as when the information is received by the notification of the training schedule instruction from the training schedule / instruction control unit 8.

Further, in the automatic notification processing control section 5, when the weather information having a higher notification priority than the information is received during the weather information reception or the transmission processing by the training instruction, the automatic sequence processing control section 5 is notified to the transmission sequence control section 7. , Instructing to forcibly terminate the ongoing transmission process, and during the transmission process by receiving the weather information,
When the information such as the change or cancellation of the information is received, the instruction for forcibly ending the transmission processing, the mask for the retransmission processing, or the like is given according to the content.

In the transmission sequence control unit 7, the notification receiving terminal station is decided from the terminal station definition table 9 for each target section according to the processing decision contents of the system state management table 4 according to the instruction from the automatic notification processing control unit 5, and the reception is performed. The destination station number of each terminal station is read from the station definition table 10, and the contact data transmission processing unit 11, the FAX data transmission processing unit 12, and the voice data transmission processing unit 13 are transmitted to the transmission processing unit corresponding to the automatic notification medium. Send processing instructions at the same time.

Further, the transmission sequence control unit 7 receives the result of the transmission processing from each transmission processing unit, requests the result notification processing to the result notification transmission processing unit 14, and sets the processing result in the system state management table 4. Then, the automatic notification processing control unit 5 is notified of the end of the transmission processing.

Further, the transmission sequence control unit 7
From the result of the X transmission processing, the FAX retransmission processing is instructed to the FAX data transmission processing unit 12, if necessary. Further, according to an instruction from the automatic notification processing control unit 5, forced termination of transmission,
Performs retransmission mask processing.

In the contact data transmission processing unit 11, the satellite broadcast line control unit 15 and the ground broadcast line control unit 16 simultaneously request a contact data transmission process to a designated terminal station in response to a transmission instruction from the transmission sequence control unit 7. After confirming the transmission result, the transmission sequence control unit 7 is notified of the result.

The FAX data transmission processing unit 12 selects the information corresponding to the transmission information from the FAX notification text file 17 according to the transmission instruction from the transmission sequence processing unit 7 and assembles the information to create the notification text information. Then, after the image conversion processing in the image conversion unit 18,
Satellite broadcast line control unit 15 or ground broadcast line control unit 16
To request the facsimile information transmission processing to the designated terminal station. After confirming the transmission result, the transmission sequence control unit 7
Notify the transmission result to.

When the transmission sequence processing unit 7 gives an instruction to retransmit, a transmission processing request is sent to each broadcasting line or the FAX mail apparatus cooperation processing unit 19, and the result is similarly notified.

The voice data transmission processing unit 13 selects the information corresponding to the transmission information from the voice notification data file 20 according to the transmission instruction from the transmission sequence processing unit 7 and assembles the information to create voice communication information. Then, the satellite broadcast line control unit 15 or the terrestrial broadcast line control unit 16 is requested to transmit the voice information to the designated terminal station. After confirming the transmission result, the transmission sequence control unit 7 is notified of the transmission result.

The training schedule / instruction processing unit 8 provides transmission scheduling and transmission instruction MMI from the terminals connected to the system, creates pseudo-meteorological data, and transmits the transmission instruction to the system state management table 4. Data set and automatic notification processing control unit 5
The training / test transmission process is executed by notifying the user.

The FAX report data edit processing unit 21 edits the text data based on the activation of the text editor from the terminal connected to the system, and creates a FAX report text file according to the file format unique to the system. The text data registration MMI is provided.

The voice data transfer processing unit 22 receives the voice data transferred from the voice mail device and provides the voice data registration MMI to the voice notification data file according to the file format specific to the system.

As a result, the weather information can be received and the information can be notified to each receiving terminal reliably and promptly, and the notification medium can be designated.
It becomes easy to construct the receiving equipment at the receiving station, and it is possible to customize the notification data.

Specific means for solving the problems of the present invention are listed below.

(1) In the automatic notification device of the present invention, the same information can be received from the two routes of the data communication dedicated line and the satellite line, one of these two receiving routes being the main system receiving route, and the other being the slave route. It is set as a system reception route, and normally, the reception information from the main system reception route is processed as valid information, and when the main system reception route is a failure, the reception information from the slave reception route is automatically processed as valid information. And receive the information through one or both of the satellite simultaneous line and the ground simultaneous line according to a predetermined route division,
According to a predetermined media classification, one or a plurality of media of contact information, facsimile information, and voice information is used to simultaneously notify the notification receiving terminal station predetermined for each reporting area.

(2) In the case of (1), the received information is converted into contact data and automatically output in real time via the satellite simultaneous line and the ground simultaneous line to notify a plurality of notification receiving terminal stations at the same time.

(3) In the case of (1), the received information is assembled into text information by a plurality of pre-registered text data, converted into facsimile data, and automatically output via the satellite simultaneous line to obtain a plurality of the above-mentioned information. Simultaneously report to the report receiving terminal station.

(4) In the case of (1), the reception information is assembled into voice information by a plurality of pre-registered voice data, and is automatically output via the terrestrial simultaneous line to notify a plurality of notification receiving terminal stations at the same time. To do.

(5) In the cases of (1) to (4), the information is used as a weather warning, warning, and information.

(6) In the case of (5), the media classification is determined according to the type and content of the weather information.

(7) In the case of (3), it has a function of discriminating whether or not the facsimile simultaneous transmission processing to each notification receiving terminal station is normally completed by a response from each terminal station, If it does not end normally beyond the rate, the facsimile data is retransmitted via the satellite simultaneous link.

(8) In the case of (7), it has a facsimile mail device cooperation function that enables a facsimile mail transmission request to the facsimile mail device and confirmation of the reception result,
When the facsimile simultaneous transmission process is not normally completed, the facsimile mail device cooperation function retransmits the facsimile data to the individual facsimile terminal installed in the notification receiving terminal station in which the communication is abnormally terminated.

(9) The automatic notification of the facsimile data in the case of (3), the automatic notification of the voice data in the case of (3), or the transmission result of the retransmission of the facsimile data in the case of (7) or (8) It is edited as result notification data and is sent by facsimile mail to a predetermined individual facsimile terminal by the facsimile mail device cooperation function.

(10) In the case of (3), a general-purpose text editor is provided so that a plurality of text data can be arbitrarily edited from a terminal connected to the automatic reporting device.

In the cases of (11) and (4), there is a data transfer function from the voice mail device which enables registration of voice data by push button operation from the telephone and transfer of registered data to another system. Then, a plurality of voice data for automatic notification can be registered from the telephone by push button operation.

In the cases of (12) and (5), the pseudo weather information generation and transmission scheduling functions are provided so that the terminal connected to the automatic reporting device can instruct the transmission of information for training and testing.

(13) The automatic notification device of the present invention comprises a weather station dedicated line transmission information receiving section 1 for receiving data from a data communication dedicated line, a meteorological satellite information receiving section 2 for receiving data from a satellite line, and received data. Recognizes whether or not it is the target data for automatic notification processing, and if it is the target data, it is judged whether or not it is received from the main system reception route, and if it is received from the main system reception route, it is judged from the main system reception route. Received data analysis that processes received information as valid information and, in the case of a main system receive path failure, automatically processes received information from the slave receive path as valid information and sets the received information in the system state management table 4.・ When the fact recognition processing unit 3 and the information reception notice are received,
While referring to the reception information of the system information management table 4 to determine the reporting target area, determine the automatic notification media according to the definition information of the notification media definition table 6,
According to the information of the automatic notification processing control unit 5 that sets the target area and the automatic notification medium in the system status management table 4, and the information receiving terminal in the system status management table 4, from the terminal station definition table 9 for each target area A transmission sequence control unit 7 that determines a station and issues a transmission processing instruction according to the information of the automatic notification medium of the system state management table 4, a satellite broadcast line control unit 15 that transmits information via a satellite broadcast line, A terrestrial broadcast line control unit 16 for transmitting information via a terrestrial broadcast line, and a satellite broadcast line control unit 15 and a terrestrial broadcast line control unit by converting received information into contact data when receiving a transmission processing instruction by contact information. 16 has received a contact data transmission processing unit 11 for transmitting to a notification receiving terminal station via 16 and a transmission processing instruction by facsimile data. , Select reception information from a plurality of pre-registered text data and assemble it to create notification text information, convert it to facsimile data, and send it to the notification reception terminal station via the satellite simultaneous line control unit 15. When receiving a FAX data transmission processing unit 12 and a transmission processing instruction by voice data, the reception information is selected from a plurality of pre-registered voice data and assembled to generate voice notification information, and the ground line control unit Audio data transmission processing unit 1 for transmitting to the notification receiving terminal station via 16
3 and 3.

[0039]

FIG. 6 shows one embodiment of the present invention, showing a tsunami warning automatic notification system in a municipality, in which a tsunami warning automatic notification device 31 is shown.
Corresponds to the automatic notification device that is the subject of the present invention.

The tsunami warning automatic tsunami warning device 31 located at the head office receives the tsunami warning, tsunami warning, received from the weather station 32 via the weather station dedicated line 33 and from the weather satellite Himawari 34 via the satellite communication line 35. Earthquake and tsunami information such as earthquake information is output in real time to the satellite simultaneous line 36 and the ground simultaneous line 37 as contact information for lamp / buzzer output, and is output to the satellite simultaneous line 36 as facsimile information and simultaneously as ground information as voice information. Output to line 37.

Information on the satellite simultaneous line / terrestrial simultaneous line is obtained from the private branch exchange 38 by the contact information and FAX information by the communication satellite 3
9, the contact information and the voice information are output to the respective branch offices and terminal stations via the terrestrial line, are received via the private branch exchange 40 at each branch office, and are received via the private branch exchange 41 at each terminal station. Be received.

As a result, in each branch office and terminal station,
Based on the received contact information for lamp / buzzer output, an alarm buzzer is output to the buzzer 42.
At the same time, the warning lamp is displayed and the information output for issuing the warning to the jurisdiction is obtained.

Further, at each branch station and terminal station, a simultaneous F
The AX 44 can receive a warning by facsimile from the simultaneous line, and the voice receiving device 45 can receive a warning by voice.

A voice facsimile mail device 46 is arranged in the head office and each branch office, and a private branch exchange 47 of the head office is installed.
And the branch exchanges 48 of the branch offices are connected via individual lines, so that the voice report data can be customized for each branch office.

Further, an individual FAX 49 is installed in each branch office and connected to the private branch exchange 48 of the branch office, and an individual FAX 49 is also installed in each terminal office so that the private branch exchange of the terminal office connected to the individual line may be installed. By connecting to 50, it is possible to perform FAX re-sending and result notification between the automatic notification device 31 such as a tsunami warning via a facsimile mail device. It should be noted that FAX retransmission and result notification between the head office and each branch office can also be transmitted via the dedicated multiplex line 51.

Further, by installing a voice registration device (recording terminal) 52 at the head office, each branch office, and each terminal station, it is possible to automatically receive and record a voice message.

FIG. 7 exemplifies the information transmission operation in the automatic notification device of the present invention, showing an example of duplication of information transmission media, (a) is an earthquake information transmission operation,
(B) shows the tsunami forecast command processing operation, and (c) shows the tsunami predicted arrival time command processing operation.

In the seismic information transmission operation shown in (a), the information of "Kanakinkyu Shind" indicating the occurrence of an earthquake with a predetermined seismic intensity or more is duplicated by the satellite line and the ground line to transmit the information. That is, the lamp is turned on by the lamp command on the satellite line and the ground line, and the lamp is turned off after a predetermined time T determined by the timer.

In the tsunami forecast command processing operation shown in (b),
"Tsunami" predicts tsunami invasion due to the occurrence of a major earthquake
The above information is duplicated and transmitted by a ramp command and a fax command on a satellite line, and is also duplicated and transmitted by a ramp command and a voice command on a terrestrial line.

That is, the lamp is turned on by the satellite command on the satellite line, the tsunami forecast is made by the FAX command, the lamp is turned on by the lamp command on the ground line, and the tsunami forecast is made by the voice command.

Then, according to the information of "Tsunami 1" indicating the cancellation of the tsunami forecast, the lamp is turned off by the satellite command by the lamp command, the tsunami cancellation is notified by the fax command, and the lamp is switched by the lamp command on the ground circuit. The tsunami is released by voice command while turning it off.

In the tsunami estimated arrival time command processing operation shown in (c), the tsunami estimated arrival time is calculated only by the FAX command on the satellite line in order to avoid confusion of information due to the "seismo" information indicating the estimated arrival time of the tsunami. Be notified.

[0053]

As described above, according to the present invention, the reliability of the system is improved by duplicating the communication path in the reception of the weather warning and the transmission of the notification, and the automatic reception and the automatic notification are performed. By doing
Since the performance of the notification process can be improved, it is possible to make a more reliable and speedy alarm notification.

Further, since the notification by a plurality of media is made possible and the media can be selected according to the received information, the notification processing can be ensured and speeded up, and an appropriate system can be provided and received. Since the system can be easily constructed at the station and the notification data can be customized during operation, a more general-purpose system can be formed and the system can be easily introduced. It greatly contributes to improvement and reliability.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a principle configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a system state management table.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a notification media definition table.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of contents of a terminal station definition table for each target section.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of contents of a receiving station definition table.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an information transmission operation in the automatic notification device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Meteorological Observatory dedicated line transmission information receiver 2 Meteorological satellite information receiver 3 Received data analysis / fact recognition processing unit 4 System status management table 5 Automatic report processing control unit 7 Transmission sequence controller 9 Terminal station definition table for each target area 11 Contact data transmission processing unit 12 FAX data transmission processing unit 13 Audio data transmission processing unit 15 Satellite simultaneous line control unit 16 Ground line control unit

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification code FI H04Q 9/00 311 H04Q 9/00 311J (72) Inventor Kazuhiko Shirakawa 1015 Uedotachu, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa Fujitsu Limited ( 56) References JP-A-52-150082 (JP, A) JP-A-6-242991 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) H03J 9 / 00-9 / 06 H04M 11/00-11/10 H04Q 9/00-9/16

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A terrestrial broadcasting line or a satellite broadcasting line is used as a main line and the other is a sub-line, and notification information is prepared in advance.
Contact information and fax according to the defined media classification
A transmission terminal that simultaneously transmits to the main line and the sub line by using one or more types of media of information and voice information, and validates the notification information received via the main line. In an automatic notification device including a receiving terminal for processing and processing the notification information received via the secondary line as a failure due to a failure of the primary line, the transmission terminal is a fax that is broadcast from the transmission terminal.
The notification information by the millimeter is based on the response from each notification receiving terminal station.
In addition, the automatic notification device is provided with means for retransmitting the notification information by the facsimile when the rate of abnormal termination exceeds a predetermined constant rate. 2. The transmission terminal includes a facsimile data transmission processing unit for transmitting facsimile data as the notification information, and facsimile data transmitted from the facsimile data transmission processing unit to the master line and the slave line, respectively. the communication whether or not it has been normally received by the notification receiving terminal station
Confirmed from the response from the information receiving terminal station , and does not end normally
2. The automatic notification device according to claim 1, further comprising a facsimile mail device cooperation processing unit for resending facsimile data to a facsimile terminal installed in a notification reception terminal station .