DE4231816C2 - Diagnostic and monitoring procedures for doors and gates - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a diagnostic and surveillance ver drive for automatic doors and gates, which with Senso equipped to monitor their control functions are and their regulation or control with a micropro processor is provided.

Such doors and gates run in Automatic operation and can, for example, revolving doors, Sliding doors, revolving doors, folding doors, curved sliding doors, In industrial doors and garage doors. In addition to individual farms However, there are investments in smaller business units also operators, be it airport companies or hotels chains or department store groups that are a big part of the world maintain number of houses, each with several automatic doors of various types are. While smaller units usually by the Be drivers through a service contract in connection with the Manufacturers are being monitored increasingly Plants of the aforementioned type from central locations supervised. This monitoring effort is relatively large because usually a person must be on site, for example prove the proper functioning of the door system can check.

Pages 48 to 53 of the magazine "Tankstelle" No. 2/85 published the Automation of fueling processes has been described. By the An Connection of readers to a central computer for storing all Transactions are automated.

EP 0 168 520-A1 discloses a device for automatic door Monitoring on the doors of mobile vehicles in people local transport. Via a control unit, which has a microprocessor and has a programmable read-only memory in addition to an interface, monitoring devices are also connected. This about security devices are connected by cables, so that a Query of different control variants is possible.

The object of the invention is to make a diagnosis and over to create surveillance procedures at the central location monitoring of the plant maintained by the operator is possible to save maintenance costs and in addition, in the event of a malfunction, a detailed error receive message.  

The object is reproduced in accordance with claim 1 Features resolved. Advantageous embodiments of the invention are specified in the subclaims.

Have been in the previous conventional telephone networks Signals are transmitted analogously, so are in today's world this information in digital form via the line ge sends. This happens because the ones to be transmitted Information is binary coded and how the recipient who decrypted and thus made audible or readable the. This simple digital form of transmission enables it, information from all the bodies to be monitored to transmit a line. Especially the transfer quality is much better and also low includes a lower error rate. Especially the teletex services are particularly suitable for the transmission of standards based information.

As a rule, automatic or ma nual operation a dialing between the data communication device can be built. Pass away an average of just 1.7 seconds to connect is made. By digitizing information NEN it is possible that the data communication device for example, a personal computer or a laptop.  

Here the data of the individual doors can be collected or are transmitted and sent to a central point where they are evaluated accordingly. By the rapid information exchange becomes an inexpensive Service possible through flexible action and all targeted sending of service technicians when they occur a certain error on an automatic door becomes.

The central unit of the door therefore reports itself automatically with the connected customer service before it becomes a Total failure of the entire system is coming. So it is possible small, poor performance at the door out of the Remotely fix it before the operator or user notice at all because the one supplied by the door Data information is so detailed that an error or a component failure can be precisely identified. Furthermore is a precisely timed planning of the service operations possible.

In addition to digital telecommunications that integrate services network there is a special form of data transmission the Telemetry Exchange. That kind of da transmission is used over the telephone line bar and is specially designed for applications in which Remote controls, remote measurements and remote monitoring at its specific amount of data are transmitted. Especially It is interesting that this data in addition to the phone service can be transmitted without disrupting the telephone calls can.

As multifunctional devices, such devices can be with which multiple services are used can. Personal computers are particularly suitable here, because they already exist in many companies and easily upgraded by another PC card as far as anyone  can that they also the data of the surveillance sites can query.

The invention is explained in more detail with reference to a schematically illustrated embodiment in FIG. 1. The data communication device ( 1 ), which is at a central location, is via a coupling to a telephone network, not shown, via the data connection lines ( 3 ), ( 5 ), ( 6 ), ( 8 ) and ( 12 ) with the at different locations automatic doors located. These surveillance sites ( 2 ), ( 4 ), ( 7 ), ( 9 ) and ( 10 ) can be connected to the data communication device ( 1 ) permanently or in a certain rhythm, who can report or report themselves. This can be done in a house, for example a department store, or can also be carried out in a city or worldwide. The existing at the monitoring location ( 2 ), ( 4 ), ( 7 ), ( 9 ) and ( 10 ) has an automatic serial interface, which makes it possible to monitor communication between the controller and the microprocessor within the controller Door and the data communication device ( 1 ). Depending on the software used, all error messages that occur permanently or only occasionally on an automatic door can thus be sent to the data communication device via the serial interface. However, it is also possible that the individual monitoring locations ( 2 ), ( 4 ), ( 7 ), ( 9 ) and ( 10 ) are assigned a special address number and thus this monitoring location is manually selected by the data communication device. In addition to the error status to be transmitted, it can also be selected from an electronic address register using computer-assisted telephone switching and monitoring locations can be selected automatically in a specific rhythm.

The incoming data are transmitted digitally, d. H. digital signals are no longer electrical vibrations, but about discrete voltage values.

It is also possible to call up a system status and thus system data for a door in addition to the error status. This is done in such a way that due to the software available on site, for example, the speed, waiting times or downtimes of the door can be abge orrege z. B. to determine the frequency of inspection of an automatic door. If an operator is not satisfied with individual parameters of the automatic door on the basis of the available data, he can easily change the system parameters centrally from the data communication device ( 1 ) via the corresponding data connection to the monitoring location, without the on-site appropriate software must be changed. As a receipt, a receipt printer ( 12 ) can be connected.

Because of the subject matter of the invention, it is therefore possible to optimally deploy and close the service staff remote monitoring of the in installed automatic doors. This is very important especially for large objects, such as at major airports where the security of the be particularly popular with the public, so in one Panic case also in part in escape and rescue routes existing automatic doors to full satisfaction work.

Due to the existing integrating text and data network, it is then also possible that, from the central point at which the data communication device ( 1 ) is located, again a message is automatically or manually sent to a specific service technician can, and an error message can be given directly to him within his order. This is also a measure to keep the service costs for automatic doors as low as possible.

Reference list

1 data communication device
2 monitoring location
3 data connection
4 monitoring location
5 Data connection
6 data connection
7 monitoring location
8 Data connection
9 monitoring location
10 monitoring location
11 Data connection
12 receipt printers.

Claims (3)

1. Diagnostic and monitoring methods for stationary automatically operated doors and gates, which are driven by a drive unit and are provided for automatic operation with sensors for monitoring and control, and a regulation or control provided with a microprocessor, and a data processing unit with a computer at the monitoring locations, as well as an integrating text and data network, which establishes a connection between a monitoring location ( 2 , 4 , 7 , 9 ) and a data communication device ( 1 ) in order to monitor the functional sequence of the doors or gates, and that Via the data communication device ( 1 ) an error status message of the connected monitoring locations ( 2 , 4 , 7 , 9 ) is automatically reported and furthermore system data are automatically reported via the data communication device ( 1 ), and in addition, when an error occurs at an over location ( 2 , 4 , 7 , 9 ) this mistake you ect is reported to the data communication device ( 1 ). 2. Diagnostic and monitoring method according to claim 1, characterized in that the data monitoring system ( 1 ) offers the possibility of changing system parameters. 3. Diagnostic and monitoring method according to claims 1 to 2, characterized in that a receipt printer ( 12 ) is connected to the data communication device ( 1 ).