JPH05325078A - Remote monitor device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the remote monitor device which detects the occurrence of a fault to immediately report it to a monitor center in the case of the occurrence of a fault in a terminal equipment installed in a building. CONSTITUTION:A terminal equipment 1 is provided with an abnormality discriminating part 10 which discriminates whether the operating state of the terminal equipment is normal or not and an alarm device 12 to which an abnormality output part 11, which reports abnormality to the alarm device 12 at the time of detecting the abnormality by the abnormality discriminating part 10, is connected and which reports the operation abnormality of the terminal equipment 1 to a monitor center 2 through a communication line 3 at the time of data output from the abnormality output part 11.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote monitoring device, and more particularly to a remote monitoring device for informing a monitoring center of an abnormality of a terminal device when an abnormality such as a failure occurs in the terminal device installed in a building. ..

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When an anomaly occurs in equipment of a building which is placed in each of a plurality of buildings, a terminal device for detecting the anomaly is connected to the terminal device through a communication line to monitor the anomaly detection of the equipment. Remote monitoring device is used.

[0003] Figure 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional remote monitoring system, the monitoring center 2 and the terminal device 1 is connected via a communication line 3 to each other, or abnormal equipment 4 ₁ to 4n occurs, When the equipment is monitored by the equipment monitoring unit 5 and an abnormality is detected, the abnormality detection equipment data is transferred to the central processing unit 6. The central processing unit 6 issues a command to the dial transmission unit 7,
Make a dial call. Further, the central processing unit 6 issues a command to the data processing unit 8, synthesizes the identification code (building number) for identifying the terminal device at the monitoring center with the abnormality detection equipment data, and transmits the data to the monitoring center. Upon receiving this signal, the operator of the monitoring center telephones the sales office to instruct the dispatch of a staff member. Based on this instruction, the staff at the sales office will go to the building, perform the necessary work, and restore the equipment.

[0004]

In the conventional remote monitoring device as described above, in order to confirm whether the terminal device is operating normally, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No.
As shown in Japanese Patent No. 169464, the line is checked about once a week. When an abnormality is found in the terminal device by this line check, the center device calls the terminal device and confirms whether the terminal device is operating normally. By the way, if the terminal device fails immediately after the line check is performed, the confirmation is not performed for about one week, and there is a problem that the monitoring center cannot monitor even if the failure occurs.

Further, depending on the equipment, there is a possibility that a terminal device may fail and the monitoring center cannot be notified of the content of the failure when a time-consuming equipment failure such as a fire alarm or elevator confinement occurs. Discovery is an urgent matter.

The present invention has been made in view of the actual situation in the prior art, and its purpose is to detect and immediately notify a monitoring center when a failure such as a hardware failure occurs in a terminal device. It is to provide a remote monitoring device that can be used.

[0007]

In order to solve this problem, the present invention relates to a terminal device which grasps the states of an elevator and equipment installed in a building and outputs an abnormal signal in response to the occurrence of an abnormality. In a remote monitoring device that is connected to these terminal devices through a telephone line and has a monitoring center that monitors the equipment, the terminal device includes abnormality determining means for determining the operating state of the terminal device, According to the judgment of the judgment means, the monitoring center is provided with an output means for outputting an output signal to an alarm device for notifying an abnormality via a telephone line, and when an abnormality of the terminal device is detected, the alarm device informs the monitoring center. Only the recognition data for recognizing the terminal device is transmitted.

[0008]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, when a failure occurs in the terminal device, the failure is detected in the terminal device and a signal is issued to the alarm device. The alarm device outputs a recognition code after dialing according to the signal. As a result, it is possible to notify the monitoring center that the terminal device has a failure.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A remote monitoring device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining an embodiment of a remote monitoring device of the present invention. In addition, in FIG.
The same components as those shown in FIG. 2 described above are designated by the same reference numerals. The terminal device 1 includes an abnormality determination unit 10 and an abnormality determination unit 1 that determine whether the operating state of the terminal device is normal.
When an abnormality is detected by 0, the abnormality output unit 11 that notifies the alarm device 12 of the abnormality is connected to the terminal device 1, and when data is output from the abnormality output unit 11, monitoring is performed via the communication line 3. An alarm device 12 for notifying the center of an abnormal operation of the terminal device 1, a central processing unit 13 for controlling the alarm device 12, a dial transmitting unit 14 for controlling dial transmission to the monitoring center 2, and a monitoring center 2 for the monitoring center 2. Required data, for example, a data output unit 15 for transmitting an identification code for identifying which terminal device the monitoring center is, a data storage unit 16 for storing the identification code data, a telephone line for controlling the telephone line. It is composed of the control unit 17.

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described. When a hardware abnormality occurs in the terminal device 1, for example,
Even if the facility device monitoring unit 5 detects a facility device abnormality and tries to transmit the abnormality report data to the monitoring center 2, the data is not transmitted correctly and the communication fails. In the central processing unit 6,
The abnormality determination unit 10 is notified each time communication fails. The abnormality determination unit 10 counts the failure based on the information from the central processing unit 6, and, for example, if re-communication is performed 9 times or more,
The abnormality output unit 11 notifies the alarm device 12 of the abnormality.

When the alarm device 12 receives the notification from the abnormality output unit 11 of the terminal device 1, the central processing unit 13 instructs the dial transmission unit 14 to perform dial transmission. further,
A command is issued to the central processing unit 13, and the terminal device 1 is sent to the monitoring center.
The identification code (building number) for identifying the
Then, the data output unit 15 transmits the data to the monitoring center 2.

The operator of the monitoring center 2 operates the alarm device 1
Based on the data received from 2, the dispatch of a staff member is instructed to the building where the terminal device 1 in which the failure has occurred. Based on this instruction, the staff member goes to the building and restores the abnormal maintenance equipment and the defective portion of the terminal device 1.

As described above, according to the embodiment, a failure occurs due to a hardware failure of the terminal device 1, and the monitoring center 2
When the abnormal report data cannot be transmitted to the terminal device, the number of failures is counted, and when the number of failures exceeds a predetermined number, the alarm device 12 connected to the terminal device 1 is notified that the terminal device 1 has a failure. The alarm device 12 transmits the identification code (building number) of the terminal device 1 to the monitoring center 2. In this way, when an abnormal operation is found in the terminal device 1, it is notified to the monitoring center immediately. Therefore, even if a failure occurs in the equipment in a state where the terminal device 1 has an error immediately after the line check, It can be monitored at the monitoring center.

Further, when the alarm device 12 receives an abnormal signal from the terminal device 1, only the recognition code needs to be transmitted to the monitoring center 2. Therefore, the hardware of the alarm device 9 is simpler than that of the terminal device 1. It can be composed of various circuits.

[0016]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, even when a failure such as a hardware failure occurs in the terminal device, it is detected in the terminal device, a signal is issued to the alarm device, and the alarm device is issued. Is configured to transmit the identification code of the terminal device to the monitoring center by the signal,
Immediately after checking the line, if an error occurs in the terminal device,
Even if a failure occurs in the equipment, the monitoring center can quickly and surely monitor.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional remote monitoring device.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Terminal Device 2 Monitoring Center 3 Communication Line 4 _{1 to} 4n Equipment 5 Monitoring Equipment 6 Central Processing Section 7 Central Processing Section 7 Dial Transmitting Section 8 Data Processing Section 9 Telephone Line Control Section 10 Abnormality Judgment Section 11 Abnormality Output Section 12 Alarm Device 13 Central Processing device 14 Dial transmission unit 15 Data output unit 16 Telephone line control unit 17 Data storage unit

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁵ Identification number Reference number within the agency FI Technical indication location H04M 11/04 8627-5K (72) Inventor Kenichi Morita 1-6 Kanda Nishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Share Inside the Hitachi Building System Service

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A terminal device which grasps a state of an elevator and equipment installed in a building and outputs an abnormal signal when an abnormality occurs, and a terminal device which is connected to these terminal devices through a telephone line and has the above facility. In a remote monitoring device having a monitoring center for monitoring equipment, an abnormality judging means for judging the operating state of the terminal device, and a telephone line to the monitoring center according to the judgment of the abnormality judging means for the terminal device. The alarm device for notifying an abnormality is provided with an output unit for outputting an output signal, and when the abnormality of the terminal device is detected, only the recognition data for recognizing the terminal device is transmitted from the alarm device to the monitoring center. Remote monitoring device.