KR101926434B1 - System for middle adopted with hierarchy structure and dynamic environment of script - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, a middleware system applied with a hierarchical structure and a dynamic environment of a script is a system in which a plurality of middleware devices forming an upper and lower hierarchical structure are connected to each other to communicate with each other. The middleware device comprises: a receiving unit for receiving state information from a lower middleware device, which is a lower middleware device, and a target terminal device which is a terminal device grouped in the middleware device; an information processing unit for generating feedback information by processing the received state information, and transmitting the feedback information to an upper middleware device; and a main control unit for managing the lower middleware device and the target terminal device by driving an n^th (n is a natural number greater than or equal to 1) driving logic which is an algorithm for management and control of the lower middleware device and the target terminal device. Accordingly, it is possible to implement a more user-oriented environment and to actively reflect various environments for control and management of devices.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hierarchical structure and a middleware system to which a dynamic environment of a script is applied.

The present invention relates to a system implemented by a plurality of middleware devices, and more specifically, a system in which a plurality of middleware devices are hierarchically connected to each other, The present invention relates to a middleware system implemented to be able to actively and organically reflect changes in environment, conditions, and the like to an object to be controlled by configuring the object to be dynamically changed based on input script logic.

Industrial facility facilities such as buildings, power plants, plants, electric power facilities and communication infrastructures are communicably connected to various terminal devices such as sensors, instruments, motors, air conditioners, Control stations, and so on.

This integrated control system is configured to collect various status information of the field by controlling the predetermined driving algorithm and schedule, display the monitoring result, and perform feedback control and management according to the result.

Particularly, the integrated control system has a structure in which the whole building as a target object such as Korean Patent Laid-open Publication Nos. 10-2016-0010858 and 10-2012-0096742 is unified in the building so that cooling and heating, power, air conditioning, System.

Generally, such an integrated control system is constructed such that drive algorithms or programs are manufactured based on initially designed operation policies or plans, and the drive algorithms thus produced are mounted on various drive and control hardware constituting the integrated control system, Control, communication, monitoring, alarm, schedule, history management, and the like.

However, since such a system is basically operated by a fixed driving program, it is difficult to respond promptly to various situations or policy changes in the field.

Of course, such a drive program may be replaced with a situation such as a terminal device or a control point newly added or replaced in the field, and it is designed to have adaptability so as to enable communication between devices using heterogeneous protocols, And the driving program itself is not a method to be modified or changed according to the situation and the environment. Therefore, the driving program itself is operated only in a closed and fixed form, so that there is a limitation that it can not actively reflect various changes of the system can do.

Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2016-0010858 (Jan. 28, 2016) Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2012-0096742 (Aug. 31, 2012)

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a middleware apparatus, which is capable of performing device control, management and communication, And can be optimized to actively reflect various environmental or policy changes in the field.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following description, and it will be apparent from the description of the embodiments of the present invention. Further, the objects and advantages of the present invention can be realized by a combination of the constitution shown in the claims and the constitution thereof.

In order to achieve the above object, a middleware system to which a dynamic environment of a hierarchical structure and a script is applied according to the present invention is a system in which a plurality of middleware apparatuses having hierarchical hierarchies are communicably connected to each other, A receiving unit for receiving status information from a target terminal device which is a terminal device grouped to the lower middleware device; An information processing unit for processing the received state information to generate feedback information and transmitting the feedback information to an upper middleware apparatus; And a main controller for controlling the lower middleware device and the target terminal device by driving an nth (n is a natural number greater than or equal to 1) driving logic that is an algorithm for management control of the lower middleware device and the target terminal device .

In addition, the present invention may further include an administrator client that transmits the script logic to the middleware apparatus when a script logic is input from an administrator. The middleware apparatus of the present invention may further include a logic receiver ; And a logic processor for converting the received script logic into subsequent drive logic.

In this case, the main control unit of the middleware apparatus of the present invention sets the following driving logic as the (n + 1) -th driving logic when the next driving logic is inputted from the logic processing unit and drives the And manage and control the middleware device and the target terminal device.

Also, the middleware apparatus of the present invention parses and compares the (n + 1) -th driving logic and the (n + 1) th driving logic, which is the driving logic before the (n + 1) -th driving logic, to obtain information on the changed parameters and the changed values And a history generating unit for generating and storing the change history data including the change history data.

More preferably, the manager client of the present invention can be configured to transmit the script logic to the middleware device, further including identification information of the manager.

In this case, the middleware apparatus of the present invention may include a manager DB unit storing manager class information in which identification information and authority information of an administrator are correlated; A reference information storage unit for storing information on the changeable parameters and information on the range of the changeable value for each parameter, the reference information being differentially set according to the authority information of the administrator; And an alarm information processor for generating alarm information when the change history data and the identification information of the corresponding manager do not match the reference information and transmitting the alarm information to one or more administrator clients.

The alarm information processing unit of the present invention is configured to transmit the alarm information to a senior manager client having a right to change a parameter changed by the manager. In this case, the main controller receives approval information from the senior manager client And if it is not received within the reference time, drives the n-th driving logic to manage and control the lower middleware device and the target terminal device.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the middleware apparatus of the present invention includes: a manager DB unit storing manager rank information correlated with manager's identification information and authority information; And a reference information storage unit that stores information on the changeable parameters and information on the range of the changeable value for each parameter, the reference information being differentially set according to the authority information of the administrator.

In this case, the manager client of the present invention is configured to transmit the script logic to the middleware apparatus, further including identification information of the manager, and the logic processing unit of the middleware apparatus may transmit the script logic to the middleware apparatus, Parsing the information to be changed in the script logic, and converting the received script logic into subsequent driving logic only when the parsed result and the identification information of the corresponding manager correspond to the reference information.

According to the present invention, since the driving logic that is mounted and driven in the middleware device is configured to be able to be modified or changed by the logic inputted from the administrator client through the script environment, it is possible to realize a more user- It is possible to implement a system that can actively reflect various environments for control and management of the system.

In addition, the present invention can accurately ascertain the case where the modification of the authority or the like is performed by effectively utilizing the history data on the modification or the change of the driving logic, or the like, Effect can be provided.

Further, according to the present invention, the processing of matching the identification information of the administrator who inputs the script logic or the DB which is differentially classified by the manager or the privilege information by the administrator, and the processing of storing and managing the history information of the driving logic in a time- It is possible to fundamentally prevent an attempt to change the driving logic that deviates from the current driving logic, and furthermore, even if the driving logic is changed, the driving logic can be subsequently switched to the previous driving logic, .

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate preferred embodiments of the invention and, together with the detailed description of the invention given below, serve to better understand the technical idea of the invention, And shall not be construed as limited to such matters.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 is a general view of a middleware system and related configurations according to the present invention;
2 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of a middleware apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating a processing procedure according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention for converting script logic to drive logic; FIG.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure of the present invention for determining whether to return the converted drive logic using the change history data, the rank information of the manager, and the reference information,
5 is a flowchart illustrating a drive processing process according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms and words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as limited to ordinary or dictionary terms, and the inventor should appropriately interpret the concepts of the terms appropriately It should be interpreted in accordance with the meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that it can be defined.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the present specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are merely the most preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to represent all of the technical ideas of the present invention. Therefore, various equivalents It should be understood that water and variations may be present.

FIG. 1 is a diagram generally showing a middleware system (hereinafter referred to as 'middleware system') 1000 to which a dynamic environment of a hierarchical structure and a script according to the present invention is applied, and related configurations.

1, the middleware system 1000 includes a plurality of middleware devices 100 and an administrator client 200. The plurality of middleware devices 100 are controlled and managed according to an embodiment of the present invention. And a control server 300 for collectively collecting and monitoring various information about points to be controlled by the control server 300.

1, the middleware devices 100, 100-1 and 100-2 of the present invention can be connected to communicate with the control server 300 in a communicable manner and can communicate with the upper layer And the lower middleware device (#M-2 middleware device) located in the lower layer and communicably connected to the upper middleware device (#M middleware device) located in the lower layer.

The middleware apparatus 100 of the present invention is connected to the administrator client 200 that can be implemented in the form of a PC or a mobile phone so as to be communicable via a communication network such as a LAN, an intranet, the Internet, CDMA, or LTE And various information including script logic can be input from the administrator client 200 as described later.

The middleware device 100 of the present invention directly controls the target terminal device which is the terminal device 20 that is grouped by itself and is the object of its own control as well as the lower middleware device 100 located in the lower layer And collects information according to a predetermined schedule from the lower middleware apparatus 100 and the target terminal apparatus 20 and transmits the information to the upper middleware apparatus 100 or the control server 300 through appropriate computation or the like .

The terminal device 20 may be constituted by at least one variety of on-site equipment such as a sensor, a motor, a meter, an air conditioner, an air conditioner, and the like as well as a direct digital controller (DDC) and a programmable logic controller .

The middleware apparatus 100 according to the present invention may be configured such that the lower middleware apparatus 100 connected to the middleware apparatus 100 according to the location and configuration of each layer through the system architecture and the various target terminal apparatuses 20 And controls and manages the lower middleware apparatus 100 and the target terminal apparatuses 20.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of a middleware apparatus 100, which is a main configuration of the middleware system 1000 of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a middleware system 100 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure. Fig.

Hereinafter, the detailed configuration of the middleware apparatus 100 according to the present invention and the processing according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2 and FIG.

2, the middleware apparatus 100 of the present invention includes a receiving unit 110, an information processing unit 120, an information processing unit 120, The main information processing unit 190 includes a main control unit 130, a logic receiving unit 140, a logic processing unit 150, a history generating unit 160, a manager DB unit 170, a reference information storage unit 180, .

Prior to the description of the present invention, each component of the inventive middleware device 100 shown in FIG. 2 should be understood as a logically distinct component rather than as a physically distinct component.

That is, since each constitution corresponds to a logical constituent element for realizing the technical idea of the present invention, even if each constituent element is constituted integrally or separately, if the function performed by the logical constitution of the present invention can be realized, It is to be understood that any component that performs the same or similar function should be interpreted as falling within the scope of the present invention regardless of the consistency of the name.

The receiving unit 110 of the middleware apparatus 100 according to the present invention receives various information including the status information from the lower middleware apparatus 100 located at a lower layer than the lower middleware apparatus 100 and the terminal apparatuses 20 grouped to the lower middleware apparatus 100 3, S300).

When the status information is received in the receiving unit 110 of the present invention, the information processing unit 120 of the present invention generates feedback information processed according to a predetermined specification or the like on the received status information or the like (S310) To the upper middleware apparatus 100 or the control server 300, which is an upper middleware apparatus (S320).

The main control unit 130 of the middleware apparatus 100 according to the present invention executes the driving logic which is an algorithm for management control of the lower middleware apparatus 100 and the target terminal apparatus 20, And controls and manages the terminal device 20.

The driving logic is software installed in the middleware apparatus 100 and is used as various software such as identification information of the lower middleware device 100 and the target terminal device 20, characteristic information, control variables, filtering range of information transmission / reception, schedule information, It can be a form that includes parameters and functions.

In the present invention, such driving logic is not fixed, and modifications, changes, and the like are easily implemented so that changes in various environments or conditions constituting the system are flexibly and more flexibly reflected in the driving and control of the middleware device 100 do.

In the following description, the driving logic at present time is referred to as n (n is one or more natural number) driving logic as the driving logic for management control of the lower middleware device 100 and the target terminal device 20. [ It goes without saying that the first drive logic may be the drive logic that is defaulted to the middleware device 100 at the time of initial system design.

The main control unit 130 of the present invention drives and executes the n-th driving logic, which is the current driving logic, to manage and control the lower middleware device 100 and the target terminal device 20 as described above.

The administrator client 200 of the present invention provides a predetermined script interface environment and inputs script logic written in the form of a script related to the driving logic from the administrator through the provided interface environment and transmits the script logic to the middleware apparatus 100 of the present invention do.

3, if the script logic is not received from the administrator client 200 (S330), the main controller 130 of the present invention drives / runs the n-th driving logic which is the driving logic at the current time, And manages and controls the lower middleware device 100 and the target terminal device 20 (S340).

When the logic receiving unit 140 of the middleware apparatus 100 according to the present invention receives the script logic from the administrator client 200 at step S330, the logic processing unit 150 of the present invention processes the received script logic to generate subsequent driving logic (S350).

When the subsequent driving logic is generated, the main controller 130 sets the subsequent driving logic to the (n + 1) -th driving logic at step S360 and drives the (n + 1) And the target terminal device 20 (S370). When the (n + 1) -th driving logic for controlling and managing the lower middleware 100 and the target terminal 20 is driven through this process, the (n + 1) -th driving logic is set to the current driving logic in a time-series manner S370).

If a specific termination condition does not occur (S380), the above-described processing may be performed cyclically.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure of the present invention for determining whether or not to return the converted drive logic using the change history data, the manager rating information, and the reference information. Hereinafter, another preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1, FIG. 4, and the like.

Manager class information associated with manager identification information, telephone number information, and authority information is stored in the manager DB section 170 of the middleware apparatus 100 according to the present invention (S400 in FIG. 4).

In the reference information storage unit 180 of the middleware device 100, information on the changeable parameters among the various parameters constituting the drive logic, information on the range of the changeable value for each parameter or the type of the changeable algorithm function, The reference information that is set differentially according to the authority information of the manager is stored (S400).

The history generating unit 160 of the present invention stores the driving logic for each point in time and changes the driving logic of the n + 1th driving logic and the driving logic of the n + 1th driving logic (S410), and generates and stores change history data including changed parameters, changed control values, schedule information, and the like (S420).

In this regard, when transmitting the script logic to the middleware apparatus 100, the administrator client 200 of the present invention is configured to further include identification information of the manager.

When the identification information of the manager is transmitted to the middleware apparatus 100 of the present invention together with the script logic, the alarm information processing unit 190 of the present invention is stored in the manager DB unit 170 and the reference information storage unit 180 Information is read and accessed to determine whether the change history data and the manager identification information match the rights information and the reference information at step S430.

As a result of the determination, if the change history data and the manager identification information match the authority information and the reference information, the main controller 130 of the present invention maintains the (n + 1) -th drive logic converted by the script logic as described above And controls and manages the lower middleware apparatus 100 and the target terminal apparatus 20 (S440).

Alternatively, when the change log data and the manager identification information do not conform to the authority information and the reference information, for example, a parameter, a control value, a schedule, etc., which can not be modified, When it is determined that the administrator has been modified / changed / added / deleted by the script logic inputted, the alarm information processing unit 190 of the present invention generates alarm information thereof (S450).

Also, the alarm information processing unit 190 may use the manager class information and the reference information stored in the manager DB unit 170 to obtain manager information having authority to modify upper managers or the parameters or the like, And transmits alarm information generated by the confirmed upper manager client 200 or the like (S460).

It goes without saying that the alarm information may be transmitted to the administrator client 200 that inputs the script logic according to the embodiment so that the manager can directly take follow-up action.

The alarm information may be transmitted via an e-mail or the like, but it is preferable that the alarm information is transmitted to the mobile terminal 200 of the superordinate manager through a medium such as SMS or MMS so that more rapid follow-up can be induced Do.

The main controller 130 of the present invention is configured such that when the approval information is received from the senior manager client 200 within the reference time (S470), the changed (n + 1) If the approval information is not received from the administrator client 200 (S470), the nth driving logic, which is the previous driving logic stored in the history generating unit 160, is read and the nth driving logic is restored and driven, (S480). ≪ / RTI >

According to the present invention, the driving logic for managing and controlling the lower middleware device 100 and the target terminal device 20 can be easily modified and applied through script logic, and at the same time, It is possible to promptly and accurately grasp whether or not the modification / modification of the information has been performed, and to prompt the subsequent processing to be performed promptly.

Furthermore, even if the driving logic is changed by the administrator's script logic, it can be adaptively switched to the previous driving logic at any time, so that stable operation of the entire system can be maintained.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a drive processing process according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention.

As described above, manager class information correlated with the manager identification information and the authority information is stored in the manager DB unit 170 (S500), and the reference information storage unit 180 stores information on the changeable parameters and corresponding parameters And the reference information in which the information on the range of the changeable value is set differentially according to the authority information of the manager is stored (S500).

When a predetermined script editing environment is displayed (S510) by the administrator client 200 and the script logic is input from the administrator through the editing environment (S520), the inputted script logic is displayed with the identification information of the manager And input / transmitted to the inventive middleware device 100 (S530).

3, the logic processor 150 of the present invention does not convert the input script logic into the immediately following driving logic, but instead outputs the current driving logic (n-th driving logic) and the received driving logic And to parse the changed information in the received script logic against the script logic (S540).

The logic processing unit 150 of the present invention converts the received script logic into subsequent driving logic only when the parsing result and the manager identification information match the reference information or the like (S550). The process after the conversion into the posterior driving logic corresponds to that described with reference to FIG. 3 and the like, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

If the parsing result and the manager identification information do not match with the reference information or the like (S550), the received script logic is not converted into the subsequent driving logic so that the driving logic of the current point is maintained unchanged (S570).

4, when the script logic is input, the input script logic is firstly converted into the drive logic, and subsequently, processing such as approval and confirmation process is performed, The embodiment described with reference to FIG. 5 may be applied to an embodiment that enables more stable system operation by performing processing of an approval or confirmation process in the course of converting script logic into drive logic .

5, when the script logic is applied or not applied as the driving logic, guidance information according to each of the driving logic is generated (S580), and generated guidance information is transmitted to the manager client 200 (S585) (S590) so that the administrator who inputs the script logic can recognize the status of application.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the details thereof and that various changes and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art. And various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of the appended claims.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed. It should be understood that various modifications may be made in the ordinary skill in the art.

1000: Middleware system of the present invention
100: Middleware device 200: Administrator client
110: Receiver 120: Information processor
130: main controller 140: logic receiver
150: logic processing unit 160: history generating unit
170: Administrator DB unit 180: Reference information storage unit
190: an alarm information processor

Claims (6)

A system in which a plurality of middleware apparatuses having hierarchical hierarchies are interconnected,
The middleware apparatus comprises:
A receiving unit for receiving status information from a lower middleware apparatus, which is a lower middleware apparatus, and a target terminal apparatus grouped to the lower middleware apparatus;
An information processing unit for processing the received state information to generate feedback information and transmitting the feedback information to an upper middleware apparatus;
A main controller for controlling the lower middleware device and the target terminal device by driving an nth (n is a natural number greater than 1) driving logic that is an algorithm for management control of the lower middleware device and the target terminal device;
A logic receiver for receiving the script logic from an administrator client transmitting the script logic to the middleware device when the script logic is input from an administrator; And
And a logic processor for converting the received script logic into subsequent drive logic,
The main control unit of the middleware apparatus sets the following driving logic as the (n + 1) -th driving logic when the next driving logic is inputted from the logic processing unit, drives the (n + 1) And a middleware system to which a dynamic environment of a script is applied. delete The apparatus according to claim 1,
And generates and stores change history data including information on the changed parameter and the changed value between the n + 1th driving logic and the nth driving logic which is the driving logic before the (n + 1) The hierarchical structure and the dynamic environment of the script are applied to the middleware system. 4. The system according to claim 3,
Transmitting the script logic to the middleware apparatus, further including identification information of the manager,
The middleware apparatus comprises:
An administrator DB unit for storing manager class information correlated with the manager's identification information and the authority information;
A reference information storage unit for storing information on the changeable parameters and information on the range of the changeable value for each parameter, the reference information being differentially set according to the authority information of the administrator; And
Further comprising an alarm information processor for generating alarm information when the change log data and the identification information of the corresponding manager do not match the reference information and transmitting the alarm information to one or more administrator clients And a middleware system with dynamic environment of script. 5. The apparatus according to claim 4,
The alarm information is transmitted to the manager client having the authority to change the parameter changed by the manager,
The main control unit,
And if the approval information is not received within the reference time from the senior management client, drives the nth driving logic to manage and control the lower middleware device and the target terminal device. system. The apparatus according to claim 1,
An administrator DB unit for storing manager class information correlated with the manager's identification information and the authority information; And
Further comprising a reference information storage unit for storing reference information that is differentially set according to information on a changeable parameter and information on a range of a changeable value for each parameter according to the authority information of the manager,
Wherein the manager client transmits the script logic to the middleware device, further including identification information of the manager,
The logic processing unit of the middleware apparatus parses information that is changed in the received script logic in comparison with the current driving logic, and only when the parsed result and the identification information of the corresponding manager correspond to the reference information, And converting the logic into a subsequent driving logic. The hierarchical structure and the dynamic environment of the script are applied to the middleware system.

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