JP4523432B2 - Integrated elevator maintenance information provision system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an integrated elevator maintenance information providing system that integrates an elevator remote inspection system operated for each elevator manufacturer and its maintenance company and provides integrated maintenance information to a customer.

  Conventionally, as an elevator remote inspection system, a monitoring information center, a communication control device installed on the monitoring information center side, an elevator control panel having maintenance information for each elevator, and a communication control device installed on the elevator side are provided. The communication control device includes a maintenance information recording address for storing an address where maintenance information is recorded, and a maintenance information collecting function for acquiring maintenance information recorded on the elevator control panel with reference to the maintenance information recording address. And a scheduled notification function for notifying the monitoring information center of maintenance information periodically acquired by the maintenance information collecting function via the existing telephone line and the communication control device (for example, patents). Reference 1).

JP 2003-221175 A

  In the conventional elevator remote inspection system as described above, each elevator manufacturer employs its own hardware, software, and signal transmission method, so the system is individually operated by a maintenance company affiliated with the elevator manufacturer, for example. Therefore, the owner of a building where elevators of multiple elevator manufacturing companies are installed, or the owner of a building where elevators of different elevator manufacturing companies are installed for each building (both customers) In integrated management, measures such as providing a special interface are required, making system construction complicated, and data is not unified between elevator manufacturers, so it takes time to grasp maintenance information. There was a problem that required it.

  The present invention was made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and maintenance information from the elevator remote inspection system individually operated by each elevator manufacturing company affiliated maintenance company is integrated and is a customer. An object is to provide an integrated elevator maintenance information providing system provided to an elevator (building) owner.

The present invention relates to a plurality of remote inspection devices for elevators and maintenance information of elevators connected to the remote inspection devices for elevators of the same elevator manufacturing company and obtained by each remote inspection device via a public line. Collecting and storing a plurality of monitoring information centers that handle the maintenance information of elevators of different elevator manufacturing companies, and collecting maintenance information from each of the above monitoring information centers via public lines, the elevators of different elevator manufacturing companies Maintenance information is compiled and stored in unified maintenance information based on a comparison table of maintenance information for each company and integrated maintenance information after integrated editing, and the above-mentioned storage for the customer via the Internet is stored. An integrated elevator maintenance information providing system including an integrated information center that supplies the integrated maintenance information.

  According to the present invention, the maintenance information of elevators from different elevator manufacturing companies can be provided as integrated maintenance information obtained by integrating and editing these.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an integrated elevator maintenance information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The building BL shows an example of a building provided with elevators of different elevator manufacturing companies. The company A elevator of the company A which is the elevator manufacturing company as a maintenance target (here, described as A company elevator 1a) Company A control panel 2a and Company A remote inspection device 3a are provided. The A company remote inspection device 3 a is connected via a public line 4 to a company A monitoring information center 5 a of a company A affiliated maintenance company (manufacturer maintenance company: company a). The company a monitoring information center 5a includes a company database 50a for storing maintenance information described later. The company a monitoring information center 5a is connected to a company LAN 6a of company a using a public line, for example, and the company a LAN terminal 7a is connected to the company a LAN 6a.

  Similarly, a B company elevator of company B, which is the elevator manufacturing company to be maintained (herein described as B company elevator 1b), is provided with a B company control panel 2b and a B company remote inspection device 3b. The B company remote inspection device 3b is connected via a public line 4 to a B company monitoring information center 5b of a B company affiliated maintenance company (manufacturer maintenance company: b company). The b company monitoring information center 5b includes a b company database 50b for storing maintenance information described later. The b company monitoring information center 5b is connected to a b company LAN 6b in the b company using a public line, for example, and a b company LAN terminal 7b is connected to the b company LAN 6b.

  Both the company a and company b monitoring information centers 5a and 5b are connected to an integrated information center 10 that integrates maintenance information handled by them through the public line 4. The integrated information center 10 includes a database 11 for storing integrated integrated maintenance information and the like, and is further connected to the Internet 8, and for example, an Internet terminal 9 of the owner (customer) of the building BL is connected to the Internet 8. ing. For example, the remote inspection devices 3a and 3b for the A company and the B company are electronic control devices including a microprocessor, the LAN terminals 7a and 7b for the a company and the b company, and the Internet terminal 9 are monitored by a personal computer (PC), and monitored by the a company and the b company. The information centers 5a and 5b and the integrated information center 10 are composed of PCs (personal computers) and general-purpose computers.

  FIG. 2 shows a functional block diagram of the A / B company remote inspection devices 3a, 3b, the a company / b company monitoring information centers 5a, 5b, and the integrated information center 10. Since the A company and B company remote inspection devices 3a and 3b and the a company and b company monitoring information centers 5a and 5b have the same configuration, the B company remote inspection device 3b and the b company monitoring information center 5b side are simply shown. .

  The operation will be described below. On the side of the A company remote inspection device 3a and the a company monitoring information center 5a, the A company control panel 2a controls the operation of the A company elevator 1a according to a call signal generated by operating a landing button or a car button (not shown). The company A remote inspection device 3a monitors the control signal of the company A elevator 1a on the company A control panel 2a (control signal monitoring means 31), and based on the control signal, various devices and sensors ( Operation data including inspection data indicating operation status (not shown) (operation is performed within a predetermined setting range) and operation data of the elevator company 1a (car stop floor, load load, operation speed, etc.) Etc.) (inspection / operation data creating means 32) and stored in a memory (not shown) (data storage means 33). Also, modulation and abnormality of various elevator equipment and sensors are detected from the inspection / operation data (equipment modulation / abnormality detection means 34), and the result is converted into apparatus modulation / abnormality data (maintenance information) via the public line 4a. Report to the company monitoring information center 5a, and also transmit inspection data and operation data stored in the memory in response to a request from the company a monitoring information center 5a or periodically (report / transmission means 35, public line communication) Function 36).

  Company A monitoring information center 5a collects maintenance information including inspection data, operation data, equipment modulation / abnormality data from each company A remote inspection device 3a, including those from other buildings (not shown) ( The maintenance information collecting means 51 and the public line communication function 56) are stored in the database 5a (maintenance information storage means 53). At this time, for example, editing (maintenance information editing means 52) is performed by adding an index so that it can be searched by a desired item such as each region, building, customer, elevator number, elevator model, type, manufacturing time, etc. You may go. The maintenance information is used by the a company LAN terminal 7a by the a company LAN 6a using the public line, for example (maintenance information use managing means 54, public line communication function 56).

  On the other hand, the maintenance information collected or further edited is transmitted to the integrated information center 10 in response to a request from the integrated information center 10 or periodically (maintenance information notification / transmission means 55, public line communication function 56). ) However, urgent information in the device modulation / abnormal data (determined with a tag indicating urgent etc.) is transmitted immediately.

  A similar operation is performed on the B company remote inspection device 3b and the b company monitoring information center 5b side. The company a monitoring information center 5a and the company b monitoring information center 5b also give instructions for dispatching technicians based on the maintenance information.

  In the integrated information center 10, the maintenance information from the monitoring information centers 5a and 5b of each company is collected (maintenance information collecting means 101, public line communication function 105) as described above. Here, the maintenance information collected from each company's monitoring information centers 5a and 5b has different names of data. Therefore, integrated editing of maintenance information (maintenance information integrated editing means 102) is performed so that the current state can be easily grasped from the maintenance information. For example, as an example, the maintenance information has a different notation method or name itself such as a building name, a customer name, various device or sensor component names for each company. Therefore, these terms are unified. For example, the target table of the name in the maintenance information for each company and the name in the integrated maintenance information after integrated editing is stored in the database 11 in advance, and this is performed based on this. Furthermore, the inspection data and operation data are aggregated based on the unified name.

  The integrated maintenance information integrated and edited is stored in the database 11 (integrated maintenance information storage means 103), and regularly checks the operation state of an elevator installed in a customer's building, for example, via the Internet 8. Is supplied (distributed) (integrated maintenance information supply means 104, Internet function 106) to the Internet terminal 9 which is a monitoring result display device or a PC. The Internet terminal 9 receives the supply of integrated maintenance information (Internet function 92), displays it on a display unit (not shown) (information display means 91), and confirms the operation state of the elevator. At this time, for customers who are owners of buildings where elevators of multiple elevator manufacturing companies are installed or owners of multiple buildings where elevators of different elevator manufacturing companies are installed for each building, multiple elevators The maintenance information of the elevator of the manufacturing company can be collectively received as integrated maintenance information searched by, for example, a building name and a customer name. Note that urgent information in the device modulation / abnormal data (determined by attaching an emergency tag or the like) is supplied immediately.

  In addition, by issuing ID numbers and passwords to customers who are subscribed to the integrated elevator maintenance information providing system, and the customer inputs these ID numbers and passwords from the Internet terminal 9, the database of the integrated information center 10 is provided. The integrated maintenance information within the range of a predetermined area in accordance with the input ID number or password may be made available and usable.

  In this way, maintenance information from the monitoring information centers of a plurality of elevator manufacturing companies is integrated and edited in the integrated information center to be integrated maintenance information, so that elevators of a plurality of elevator manufacturing companies are installed. For customers who are owners of buildings or owners of multiple buildings where elevators of different elevator manufacturing companies are installed for each building, the integrated maintenance information related to the customers searched by the building name and customer name is displayed. It can be obtained collectively, no special interface is required, and the customer can obtain maintenance information of elevators of a plurality of elevator manufacturing companies together with inexpensive equipment.

  For example, the maintenance information sent from the remote inspection devices 3a and 3b includes, for example, an elevator number for specifying an individual elevator or the like in the maintenance information sent from each of the monitoring information centers 5a and 5b. In the monitoring information centers 5a and 5b, detailed attribute information (e.g., installation area, building, customer name, elevator number, elevator model, model, manufacturing time, etc.) separately held in advance in the databases 50a and 50b, etc. Search) based on this elevator number, and editing by adding a desired index. Further, each remote inspection device 3a, 3b may send the maintenance information in a state where the attribute information of the elevator serving as the desired index is attached in advance. Further, the LANs 6a and 6b, the LAN terminals 7a and 7b, and the maintenance information utilization management means 54 related thereto may not be provided.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the integrated elevator maintenance information provision system by one Embodiment of this invention. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the remote inspection device, the monitoring information center, the integrated information center, and the Internet terminal of FIG. 1.

Explanation of symbols

  1a A company elevator, 1b B company elevator, 2a A company control panel, 2b B company control panel, 3a A company remote inspection device, 3b B company remote inspection device, 4 public line, 5a company a monitoring information center, 5b company b Monitoring Information Center, 6a a company LAN, 6b b company LAN, 6 LAN, 7a a company LAN terminal, 7b b company LAN terminal, 8 Internet, 9 Internet terminal, 11 database, 50a a company database, 50b b company database, BL building.

Claims (4)

Collect the maintenance information of the elevators connected to the remote inspection devices for elevators and the remote inspection devices for elevators of the same elevator manufacturer via the public line. Collect multiple maintenance information centers that handle the maintenance information of elevators of different elevator manufacturing companies that are stored, and maintenance information from each of the above monitoring information centers via public lines, and collect maintenance information of elevators of different elevator manufacturing companies. The integrated maintenance information stored for each customer is edited and stored in a unified integrated maintenance information based on a comparison table between each maintenance information and the integrated maintenance information after integrated editing. An integrated elevator maintenance information providing system characterized by comprising an integrated information center for supplying the information. Each of the above remote inspection devices
  Control signal monitoring means for monitoring the control signal of the in-house elevator on the elevator control panel;
  Based on the above control signal, inspection data indicating the operating state related to whether or not the various devices constituting the elevator are operating within a predetermined setting range, and operation data including the stop floor, load load, and operating speed of the elevator. Inspection / operation data creation means for creating
  Data storage means for storing the inspection data and operation data;
  Device modulation / abnormality detection means for detecting modulation and abnormality of various types of elevator equipment from the inspection data and operation data,
  The result of abnormality detection is reported as device modulation / abnormal data to the above-mentioned monitoring information center via the public line, and further stored in the above-mentioned data storage means in response to a request from the own monitoring information center or periodically Reporting / transmission means for transmitting inspection data and operation data,
  Including
  Each of the above monitoring information centers
  Maintenance information collecting means for collecting maintenance information consisting of inspection data, operation data, equipment modulation / abnormality data from the above-mentioned remote inspection device;
  Maintenance information storage means for storing the maintenance information;
  Maintenance information editing means for editing the maintenance information by adding an index so that it can be searched by a desired item of region, building, customer, elevator number, elevator model, type, and production time;
  Maintenance information notification / transmission means for transmitting the collected or further edited maintenance information to the integrated information center in response to a request from the integrated information center or periodically;
  Including
  The integrated information center
  Each company maintenance information collection means for collecting maintenance information from the monitoring information center of each company,
  Maintenance information integrated editing means for editing the collected maintenance information of each company into unified maintenance information based on a comparison table of maintenance information for each company and integrated maintenance information after integrated editing,
  Integrated maintenance information storage means for storing the integrated maintenance information;
  Integrated maintenance information supply means for periodically supplying the accumulated integrated maintenance information to the Internet terminal;
  The integrated elevator maintenance information providing system according to claim 1, wherein Each of the monitoring information centers is a maintenance company center of the elevator manufacturing company group of the elevator, and a LAN of a maintenance company of the elevator manufacturing company group for using the maintenance information is connected to the monitoring information center. The integrated elevator maintenance information provision system according to claim 1 or 2 . The integrated elevator maintenance according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising a customer monitoring result display device connected to the Internet as an Internet terminal for receiving the supply of the integrated maintenance information. Information provision system.

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