JPH09222915A - Fault reporting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device with which a fault can be surely reported even when a maintenance person stays at any place. SOLUTION: When the fault is detected by respective sensors 1a and 1b provided at an institution, transmitters 2a and 2b transmit a fault generate signal through a public line 3 to a fault reporting computer 4, the fault reporting computer 4 analyzes the contents and factors of that fault from that fault generate signal, and a pocket beeper 5 carried with the maintenance person is called. At the same time, the position of fault generation, fault contents and fault factors are transmitted to a terminal computer 6 carried with the maintenance person corresponding to a data request signal from the terminal computer 6 so that the generation of fault can be surely reported even when the maintenance person stays at any place.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a maintenance worker who repairs a failure when a failure occurs in a facility such as a parking lot, an automatic warehouse, a power station, etc. having a transport mechanism for moving or moving an automobile. The present invention relates to a failure notification device that notifies occurrence.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Facilities such as a parking lot, an automatic warehouse, and a power plant having a transport mechanism for moving or moving an automobile are equipped with a system for monitoring the failure of machinery and control equipment.

For example, in a multi-storey car park, sensors and surveillance cameras are provided in various machines and control devices, and when a failure such as a motor disconnection, a contact failure in a relay circuit, or a gear damage occurs, a switchboard in a control room is installed in a switchboard. A remote monitoring system is used to notify a failure by lighting a lamp indicating that a failure has occurred at a failure point, sounding an alarm buzzer, or displaying an image. In recent years, it has been practiced to monitor the failure occurrence status of a plurality of multi-storey parking lots at one service center using a public line.

[0004]

By the way, since the conventional remote monitoring system has no means for automatically notifying the SE (service engineer), the maintenance staff stands by at the location of the failure monitoring device for 24 hours, and always I had to monitor surveillance cameras and switchboards. In addition, even if a failure occurs, the details cannot be known, and the cause will be examined after the maintenance staff arrives at the site from the service center. If the necessary parts were not found in the service car, it was necessary to go to the parts center, procure the parts, and then go to the site again, and it took time to start repairs from the failure.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems and to provide a failure notification device capable of reliably notifying a failure of a maintenance staff at any place.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has caused a failure in a facility such as a parking lot, an automatic warehouse, a sluice gate, a power plant, etc., which has a transport mechanism for moving or lifting an automobile. Sometimes, in a failure notification device that notifies maintenance personnel who repair the failure of the occurrence of a failure, a sensor that is installed in multiple facilities and detects when a failure occurs in the facility and a public line when a detection signal from the sensor is received A transmitter that transmits a failure occurrence signal that indicates the occurrence of a failure and a failure condition, and a pager that is connected to a public line and that is carried by a maintenance person is called from the failure occurrence signal, and a data request signal from a terminal computer carried by the maintenance person is sent. When receiving, a failure notification computer for transmitting a signal indicating a failure occurrence location, a failure content, and a failure cause to the terminal computer is provided.

The maintenance personnel can know the facility where the failure occurred due to the pager. Further, more detailed information about the failure can be obtained from the terminal computer.

In addition to the above configuration, in the present invention, the fault notification computer may diagnose the fault content and cause from the fault occurrence signal.

In addition to the above configuration, the present invention is directed to a case where the failure notification computer does not respond by a data request signal from a terminal computer or a dial tone signal to a specific telephone within a predetermined time after calling a pager. Alternatively, pagers carried by other maintenance personnel may be sequentially called.

With the above construction, when a failure occurs in the facility, the sensor detects it, and when the transmitter receives the detection signal from the sensor, the failure occurrence signal is transmitted to the failure notification computer via the public line. As soon as the failure notification computer receives the failure occurrence signal, it calls the pager carried by the maintenance personnel and at the same time diagnoses the failure occurrence location, failure details and cause from the failure occurrence signal from the transmitter, and the maintenance personnel operates the terminal computer. When the data request signal is transmitted to the failure notification computer, the failure notification computer transmits the data to the terminal computer. The terminal computer displays the failure occurrence location, the failure content, and the failure cause on the monitor screen. Therefore, the maintenance personnel can know the occurrence of the failure, the cause thereof, etc. without any help from anywhere. Since maintenance personnel can know the details of the failure and the cause of the failure before arriving at the location where the failure occurred, it may be possible to arrive at the site via the site or the parts center after determining whether there are any parts required for repair. Therefore, the time from the occurrence of a failure to the repair can be shortened. Therefore, the maintenance personnel can be surely notified of the occurrence of the failure no matter where they are. In addition, when the maintenance staff has already repaired another facility, the other maintenance staff can be called by calling the pager of the other maintenance staff, and the facility can be reliably restored. .

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, in the present embodiment, a case will be described in which a plurality of parking lots having a transport mechanism for moving or moving an automobile up and down as facilities are present at distant places.

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing an embodiment of a failure notification device of the present invention.

In the figure, reference numerals 1a and 1b denote various sensors provided in a plurality of (two locations in the figure, but not limited to) parking zones for detecting a failure of a transport mechanism or a control device. Reference numerals 2a and 2b are transmitters which, when receiving detection signals from the various sensors 1a and 1b, transmit a failure occurrence signal indicating a failure occurrence and a failure situation to the public line 3. A failure notification computer 4 is connected to the public line 3, and the failure notification computer 4 diagnoses the details of the failure and the cause of the failure from the failure occurrence signal. Fault notification computer 4 is pager 5
When a data request signal is received from a terminal computer (a handheld computer, a portable small computer, etc., hereinafter referred to as a “terminal personal computer”) 6, a signal indicating a failure occurrence location, a failure content, and a failure cause is sent to the terminal personal computer 6 Transmit to. Each maintenance person carries one pager 5 and one terminal personal computer 6, and can connect the public line 3 and the terminal personal computer 6. If the maintenance staff does not carry the terminal personal computer with them, call the tone decoder of the failure notification computer with a touch-tone telephone to confirm the dispatch. The sensors 1a and 1b, the transmitters 2a and 2b, and the failure notification computer 4 constitute a failure notification device.

In such a failure notification device, when a failure occurs in the parking lot having the sensor 1a and the transmitter 2a, the sensor 1a detects the failure, and the transmitter 2a is sent to the failure notification computer 4 via the public line 3. Transmit a failure occurrence signal. When the failure notification computer 4 receives the failure occurrence signal, it immediately calls the pager 5 and sends the transmitter 2
The failure occurrence point, failure content and failure cause are diagnosed from the failure occurrence signal from a. When the maintenance staff called by the pager 5 connects the terminal PC 6 to the public line 3 via the modem and transmits the data request signal to the failure notification computer 4, the failure notification computer 4 causes the terminal PC 6 to generate a failure. Etc. data is transmitted. The terminal personal computer 6 displays the failure occurrence location, the failure content, and the failure cause on the monitor screen. Therefore, the maintenance personnel can know the occurrence of the failure, the cause thereof, etc. without any help from anywhere.
Since maintenance personnel can know the details of the failure and the cause of the failure before arriving at the location where the failure occurred, it may be possible to arrive at the site via the site or the parts center after determining whether there are any parts required for repair. Therefore, the time from the occurrence of a failure to the repair can be shortened. Therefore, it is not necessary for maintenance personnel to be stationed at a place where the failure monitoring device is located, for example, a service center.

On the other hand, the failure notification computer 4 confirms the dispatch of the maintenance personnel by logging in from the terminal personal computer 6 or by dial tone. At this time, if the maintenance person has already repaired another facility, there is no response from the terminal computer 6 of the maintenance person, so the failure notification can be surely made by sequentially calling the pager of the other maintenance person. Can be done
The time from the occurrence of facility failure to the start of repair can be shortened.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the maintenance personnel can reliably notify the occurrence of the failure regardless of the place. Moreover, the time from the occurrence of a failure to the start of repair can be shortened.

In the present embodiment, the case where the facility is a multi-storey parking lot has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention can be applied to notification or monitoring of a failure of a facility such as an automated warehouse or a power plant. Good.

[0018]

In summary, according to the present invention, the following excellent effects are exhibited.

When each sensor provided in the facility detects a failure, the transmitter transmits a failure occurrence signal to the failure notification computer via the public line, and the failure notification computer analyzes the failure content and cause from the failure occurrence signal. Since the information is transmitted to the pager carried by the maintenance personnel and the failure occurrence location, the details of the failure and the cause of the failure are transmitted to the terminal computer upon request from the terminal computer carried by the maintenance personnel.
No matter where the maintenance staff is, it is possible to reliably notify the occurrence of a failure.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing an embodiment of a failure notification device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1a, 1b Sensor 2a, 2b Transmitter 3 Public line 4 Failure notification computer 5 Pager 6 Terminal computer (terminal personal computer)

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification code Internal reference number FI Technical display location G08B 23/00 G08B 23/00 H04M 11/00 301 H04M 11/00 301 (72) Inventor Takashi Kambayashi 2-2-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Ishi Kawashima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. Main office (72) Inventor Takeo Tahara 2-2-1, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. When a failure occurs in a facility such as a parking lot, an automated warehouse, a sluice gate, a power station, etc. having a transport mechanism for moving or moving an automobile up and down, the maintenance person who repairs the failure is notified of the occurrence of the failure. In the failure notification device, a sensor provided in a plurality of facilities and detecting when a failure occurs in the facility,
A transmitter that transmits a failure occurrence signal indicating a failure occurrence and a failure situation to a public line when receiving a detection signal from the sensor,
When connected to the public line and calling the pager carried by the maintenance staff from the failure occurrence signal, and receiving the data request signal from the terminal computer carried by the maintenance staff, the failure occurrence location, the failure content, and the failure cause are displayed. A failure notification device, comprising: a failure notification computer that transmits a signal to the terminal computer. 2. The failure notification device according to claim 1, wherein the failure notification computer diagnoses the failure content and cause from the failure occurrence signal. 3. If the failure notification computer does not respond by a data request signal from the terminal computer or a dial tone signal to a specific telephone within a predetermined time after calling the pager, other 3. The failure notification device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the pager carried by the maintenance person is sequentially called.