JP2000242878A - Remote monitor system dealing with earthquake - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a remote monitor system dealing with earthquake in a monitoring center, which is provided with a means for obtaining the earthquake sensor operation state of an elevator in an earthquake occurrence area from a remote place and by which the operation condition of the means can be optionally set for every important customer rank and occurrence area. SOLUTION: When a controller recognizes an earthquake occurrence by news or the like, operates the input part 69 of a monitoring center device 6 and retrieves objects where an earthquake sensor 1 of the elevator is arranged. Then, the device 6 successively executes monitoring the states for every object and recognizes the working states of the elevators. A person for maintenance connects portable terminal equipment 7 to a telephone line 10, obtains object data generated by the center device 6 and successively executes a restoring work in accordance with data. After the completion of restoration, completion is registered in the equipment 7, latest data of the object is updated again and the maintenance person goes to a next building. Thus, the restoring works can be efficiently executed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote monitoring system for earthquakes, and more particularly, to an early monitoring system in which a plurality of elevators in an earthquake occurrence area are shut down simultaneously when a middle-scale earthquake is detected. The present invention relates to an earthquake response remote monitoring system that can recover from elevators that need to respond.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A building having an elevator, for example, a building is provided with an earthquake detector, and when an earthquake of a certain magnitude or more is detected, the operation of the elevator is automatically stopped. In this way, if the operation of the earthquake detector causes the elevator to stop operating, the equipment related to the elevator may be out of order due to the earthquake. Generally does not restart operation. Therefore, when an earthquake occurs, elevator maintenance personnel are urgently dispatched to a building in the area in charge, and first check for any abnormalities that hinder elevator operation and take necessary measures. Then, the state of the seismic detector is returned to the standby state in which it is not operating (hereinafter, this processing is referred to as “recovery”), and the elevator recovery processing of restarting the normal operation of the elevator is performed. I have.

[0003]

A general seismic sensor is adjusted so as to operate when a seismic intensity of 4 or more is detected. Therefore, if a wide-area earthquake occurs with relatively large shaking, the number of elevators that are simultaneously shut down due to the operation of the above-mentioned seismic detectors increases, and the amount of work required for their recovery processing is enormous. Becomes On the other hand, considering the elevator users, especially those who were in use during an earthquake and were trapped in the car, they quickly rushed to the place where the elevator was shut down as soon as possible, Necessary recovery processes must be started.

[0004] Since an earthquake is a type of wave phenomenon that propagates near the surface of the earth, the type, size, direction, etc. of seismic waves are all different at different locations even in the same earthquake. Further, even if the seismic waves observed on the ground surface are the same, it is impossible that a building of completely the same structure has been built thereon. Therefore, the intensity of the quake that is actually sensed when an earthquake occurs differs depending on the building where the earthquake sensor is installed. In many cases, a building in which the elevator has stopped operating and a building in which the elevator continues to operate without operating the earthquake detector are mixed.

[0005] In the conventional recovery procedure, maintenance personnel who have experienced an earthquake are immediately dispatched to an area in charge and patrol a plurality of buildings belonging to the area in charge to rescue users and perform necessary recovery processing. Since it is assumed that the maintenance is performed, the maintenance personnel working on the site cannot mutually grasp the work status of other maintenance personnel. Therefore, for example, when multiple maintenance personnel are sharing the same area, another maintenance personnel who does not know it may rush to the site where the restoration work has already been completed, or conversely In spite of the necessity of the recovery process, there is a problem that many inconvenience cases are likely to occur such that none of the maintenance staff is rushed and left for a long time in an operation stop state.

[0006] When an earthquake occurs, work for rescuing users and necessary recovery processing is given top priority, and a report is sent to a management department that supervises all maintenance personnel. After that, there is a problem that it is difficult for the management department to accurately grasp the progress of the recovery process.

[0007] It is an object of the present invention to enable a maintenance staff working on site to mutually understand the work status of another maintenance staff, and to further monitor the progress of the recovery process in an earthquake response remote monitoring system. It is to provide a system.

[0008]

According to the present invention, there is provided a seismic sensor which is attached to a building having an elevator and outputs a seismic sensing signal when a predetermined or more predetermined shaking is detected. An elevator control device that puts the elevator in a normal operation state into an operation stop state according to the earthquake detection signal, and monitors the status of the elevator connected to the elevator control device, and responds to an inquiry signal received via a telephone line. In a monitoring terminal device that responds to the state of the elevator, and an earthquake response remote monitoring system that is connected to the monitoring terminal device via a telephone line and includes a monitoring center device including a storage unit that stores customer information in a predetermined area, A means for remotely acquiring the earthquake monitoring operation status of the elevator in the earthquake occurrence area; It is the arbitrarily settable and the configuration of the operating conditions of the.

[0009]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a remote monitoring apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a remote monitoring apparatus according to the present invention.

In the earthquake-based remote monitoring system according to the present embodiment, reference numeral 1 denotes an earthquake detector, 2 denotes an elevator control device, 3 denotes a monitoring terminal device, 4 denotes a host computer, and 5 denotes a host computer connected to a maintenance office or the like. A maintenance contract for elevator equipment is started with a customer from a staffing base,
An input terminal device for inputting customer management information when a contract content is changed (change of specifications such as installation of an earthquake sensor); 6
Is a monitoring center device, 7 is a portable terminal device carried by maintenance personnel, 8 is a telephone line used as a communication line, 9 is a communication line for communication between the host computer and the monitoring center device, and 10 is a mobile communication device with the monitoring center device 6. This is a communication line for communication between the terminal devices 7. Reference numeral 21 denotes a control unit of the elevator control device 2, 22 denotes a storage unit of the elevator control device 2, 3
1 is a control unit of the monitoring terminal device 3, 32 is a storage unit of the monitoring terminal device 3, 41 is a control unit of the host computer 4, 42 is a communication unit of the host computer 4, and 43 is customer information stored in the host computer 4. A storage unit for storing data, 61 is a control unit of the monitoring center device, 62 is a communication unit for performing data communication between the monitoring center device and the host computer 4, and 63 is a data communication between the monitoring center device and the portable terminal device 7. A communication unit 64 receives customer data input from the input terminal device 5 sequentially from the host computer 4, and a customer information storage unit that stores the received data, and 65 is information necessary for monitoring the monitoring terminal device 6 (for example, , A monitoring information storage unit for storing the monitoring terminal device 6 telephone number, etc.)
Reference numeral 66 denotes a corresponding information storage unit for storing that the elevator stopped operating due to the operation of the earthquake sensor, and 71 indicates a control unit of the mobile terminal device 7, and 72 indicates a connection between the monitoring center device 6 and the mobile terminal device 7. Communication unit for performing communication of
Denotes a display unit of the portable terminal device 7, and 74 denotes an input unit 74 of the portable terminal device 7.

When the earthquake sensor 1 detects a certain or more shaking (for example, a shaking with a seismic intensity of 4 or more), the elevator control device 2 determines that the shaking is caused by an earthquake, ROM in which a program in which the operation procedure of the control unit 21 is described is stored, and RAM used for temporary storage of input data, work data being processed, and the like.
And a storage unit 22 including the following. The elevator is put into an operation stop state according to the earthquake detection signal. The monitoring terminal device 3 connected to the elevator control device 2 has a control unit 31 for controlling the entire operation, a ROM in which a program describing the operation procedure of the control unit 31 is stored, and input data and work data in the middle of processing. And a storage unit 32 including a RAM used for temporary storage.
The operating status of the elevator is constantly monitored.

The monitoring center device 6 also has a 24 hour 3
65 When a controller is resident on a daily basis, and knows the occurrence of an earthquake in news or the like, the controller gives an instruction to confirm the operating status of the elevators installed in the earthquake target area. For the state confirmation instruction, the input unit 69 is operated to input the code of the target area (a number for specifying the specific area). Control unit 61
Detects the command of the input unit 69 and outputs the information to the customer information storage unit 64
Is searched for elevators installed in the area from among the elevator specifications for each customer stored in the relevant area. Next, the information of the monitoring terminal device stored in the monitoring information storage unit 65 is searched from the selected target property, and the status is sequentially monitored from the communication unit 67 to the monitoring terminal device 3 for each target property. When the monitoring terminal device 6 receives the status monitoring signal from the monitoring center device 6 connected via the telephone line 8, the monitoring terminal device 6 reads the data on the operating state of the elevator stored in the storage unit 32 of the monitoring terminal device 3,
Reply to the monitoring center device 6. The control unit 61 receives the elevator operation state received from the monitoring terminal device 3, and selects only the corresponding customer whose elevator is in the operation stop state.
Next, the control unit 61 determines whether or not the elevator is in a non-operating state and is in a building of an important facility such as a hospital or a government office.
The customer information storage unit 64 is searched, and list data is created for each important customer.

[0014] The maintenance personnel connect the portable terminal devices 7 carried respectively to the telephone line 10 and acquire the list data created by the monitoring center device 6. The acquired list data is displayed on the display unit 73 of the mobile terminal device 7. The maintenance staff carries out the recovery work sequentially from the building having the highest importance in the displayed data. Next, the maintenance staff performs an input operation on the input unit 74 of the portable terminal device 7 each time the recovery work is completed, transmits the result to the monitoring center device 6, and again performs the operation.
Obtain the latest list data, check the building for which the elevator operation status has not been restored from the data, and go to the next building.
In addition, the control unit 61 of the monitoring center device 6 sequentially stores the restoration completion data received from the mobile terminal device 7 in the correspondence information storage unit 66, and updates the list data to the latest data.

As described above, according to the remote monitoring system for earthquakes according to the present invention, after a middle-scale earthquake occurs,
Maintenance personnel who are performing restoration processing to return an elevator that has been shut down due to the operation of an earthquake detector to a normal operation state in a building such as a building with an elevator, will update the monitoring center device every time the restoration work is completed. It is possible to access information and perform restoration work sequentially from the building with the highest importance.

Furthermore, since the status of the recovery work performed by other maintenance personnel can be grasped, useless dispatch that reduces the work efficiency of the recovery work can be suppressed.

[0017]

As described above, according to the remote monitoring system for earthquakes according to the present invention, after a middle-scale earthquake occurs, the operation of the building such as a building having an elevator is stopped by the operation of the earthquake detector. Maintenance personnel who are performing restoration processing to return the lost elevator to normal operation state use the telephone line provided for the monitoring terminal device in the building where it is first dispatched in the area in charge, to the monitoring center device Since access is possible, it is possible to grasp a customer building for which the restoration work has not been completed, and to efficiently carry out the restoration work.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an earthquake response remote monitoring system according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Earthquake detector 2 Elevator control device 3 Monitoring terminal device 4 Host computer 5 Input terminal device 6 Monitoring center device 7 Portable terminal device 8-10 Communication line 21, 31, 41, 61, 71 Control unit 22, 32 Storage unit 42, 62, 63, 67, 72 Communication unit 43, 64 Customer information 65 Monitoring information 66 Corresponding information 68, 73 Display unit 69, 74 Input unit

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Masafumi Kadowaki 1-6-6 Kandanishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan Inside the Hitachi Building System Co., Ltd. (72) Kenichi Morita 1-6-6 Kandanishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Ltd. A term of Hitachi Building System Co., Ltd. 5C087 AA10 AA21 BB12 BB74 BB76 CC02 DD02 DD18 EE11 FF01 FF04 FF19 FF23 GG07 GG21 GG24 GG51 GG70

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A seismic sensor attached to a building having an elevator and outputting a seismic sensing signal when a predetermined or more predetermined shaking is detected, and suspending operation of the elevator in a normal operation state according to the seismic sensing signal. An elevator control device to be in a state, a monitoring terminal device connected to the elevator control device for monitoring the status of the elevator, and responding to the inquiry signal received via a telephone line with the status of the elevator, and the monitoring terminal device And a storage unit for storing customer information in a predetermined area and a monitoring center device, wherein the monitoring center device is connected to the monitoring center device by an earthquake monitoring operation of an elevator in an earthquake occurrence area. Remote monitoring of earthquake response by providing means for remotely acquiring the situation and enabling the operating conditions of this means to be set arbitrarily system.