JP2000348276A - Building remote monitoring device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a building remote monitoring device which is excellent in security protection on data communication against the intrusion of illegal command data from the outside. SOLUTION: In case the air conditioning equipment of a building managed by a small scale monitoring system unit 3a breaks down, and an equipment remote monitoring device 2a detects the abnormality and transmits an abnormal message to a large scale monitoring system unit 1 through a general communication line 4, a transmission address of the unit 3a is read from an opposite address storing part and transmitted through an ISDN line 5, and when a transmitter-receiver of the unit 3a receives it, an incoming call is once disconnected, an information reception controlling part inquires whether the transmission address of a transmission source is registered in the opposite address storing part, commands the transmitter-receiver to perform call back transmission when the address is registered, in the case the transmitter- receiver of the unit 1 is called out, an information distribution controlling part confirms that the received transmission address is registered from the opposite address storing part, performs the call back transmission to reconnect the unit 3a after once disconnecting the incoming call and starts to transmits result data obtained by analyzing abnormal notification.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facility equipment installed in another building and managed by another manager together with a plurality of facility remote monitoring terminals for detecting abnormalities of the facility equipment installed in a plurality of buildings. The present invention relates to a building remote monitoring device in which a remote monitoring terminal installed in a remote place remotely monitors a facility remote monitoring terminal for detecting an abnormality.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a building, various equipment such as a passenger transport device such as an elevator and an abnormality detection device such as a fire alarm are installed. Recently, detection information of these equipment is transmitted via a communication line. They are transferred to specialized maintenance companies and security companies, where they are constantly monitored, and a remote monitoring system that can respond immediately to the occurrence of abnormalities is adopted. By the way, some buildings or groups of buildings have their own small-scale remote monitoring system, and a part of the monitoring system may be outsourced to a specialized maintenance company in a complementary manner. .

For example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-107207 discloses a specialized large-scale monitoring system for remotely monitoring, via a general communication line, a plurality of terminal devices for detecting an abnormality of equipment provided in a building. A receiving device that receives a report from a facility remote monitoring device provided in a building managed by a customer or the like, a storage device that stores data related to the management content of the customer or the like, and a storage device that reads out the storage device based on the report received by the receiving device. A transmission device for transmitting information to a small-scale monitoring system managed by a customer or the like via a general communication line, and a large-scale notification from a facility remote monitoring device provided in a building managed by the customer or the like. The information is received by a receiving device provided in the monitoring system device, and information corresponding to the received information is read from a storage device based on the received information. By transmitting the data to the model monitoring system device, the maintenance cost can be reduced while maintaining the small-scale monitoring system managed by the customer or the like, and the equipment can be managed efficiently as well as the large-scale monitoring system. Is disclosed.

[0004]

According to the above prior art, ISD is used to transmit important various management information of a customer or the like from a large-scale monitoring system to a small-scale monitoring system.
N lines are used. However, it is difficult to prevent the intrusion of illegal command data from outside with the ISDN line, and it is not always perfect in terms of confidentiality in data communication. An object of the present invention is to solve such a problem in the prior art and to provide a building remote monitoring device which is excellent in confidentiality in data communication against intrusion of illegal command data from the outside.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a remote monitoring system device for establishing an integrated service digital network based on an abnormal notification from a facility remote monitoring terminal managed by another administrator. When a remote monitoring device managed by another administrator is called out by transmitting a source address signal via the network, the remote monitoring device confirms that the received source address is already registered, and through the integrated service digital network. When the remote monitoring system device receives the call back from the remote monitoring device and confirms that the received transmission address has been registered, the remote monitoring system device performs remote monitoring via the integrated service digital network. The apparatus is configured to transmit abnormality information of equipment managed by another administrator to the apparatus.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a large-scale monitoring system device, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a small-scale monitoring system device. In these figures, reference numeral 1 denotes a large-scale monitoring system for professionally monitoring various equipment installed in a building based on a report from each building, and 2 (a to d) are installed in each building. Equipment remote monitoring device (terminal) that is connected to various equipment and constantly monitors its status and monitors its abnormalities.
(A, b) is a small-scale monitoring system device for a customer or the like that monitors various equipment installed in the building based on a report from each building, 4 is a large-scale monitoring system device 1 and a facility remote monitoring device 2a. 5 is an ISDN line for communication-connecting the large-scale monitoring system device 1 with the small-scale monitoring system devices 3a and 3b.

[0007] In the internal configuration of the large-scale monitoring system device 1, reference numeral 10 denotes a monitoring system device which is a main part thereof, and reference numeral 11 denotes reception of various abnormality reports from the equipment remote monitoring devices 2a to 2d via the general communication line 4. The device, 12 is a communication device interface (i / F) unit for exchanging data of the received equipment abnormality information, 13 is a display unit for displaying the received equipment abnormality information on a screen, and 14 is a monitor for an abnormality countermeasure. An operation unit for inputting information such as commands, 15 is an information storage unit for storing various information for remote monitoring of various equipment, 151 is a management code of a building in which the equipment is installed,
A building information storage unit that stores building information such as a name, a location, an emergency contact, and names and types of equipment, and 152 is a partner address storage that stores information such as the ISDN transmission number address of the small scale monitoring system devices 3a and 3b. And 16 an information reception control unit for controlling distribution of the equipment abnormality information received by the receiving device 11, and 17 a printing unit for printing desired information such as equipment abnormality information.

Reference numeral 20 denotes an information distribution device for distributing the data of the analysis result of the equipment abnormality information analyzed by the information reception control unit 16 to the small-scale monitoring system devices 3a and 3b, 21 an information distribution control unit for controlling the same, Reference numeral 22 denotes a communication device interface (i / F) for controlling data transfer when data is distributed to the small-scale monitoring system devices 3a and 3b, and 30 denotes an ISDN line 5 between the small-scale monitoring system devices 3a and 3b.
This is a transmission / reception device for exchanging data via the Internet.

In the internal configuration of the small-scale monitoring system device 3, the ISDN 31 communicates with the large-scale monitoring system device 1.
A transmission / reception device for exchanging data via the line 5; 32, a communication device interface (i / F) for controlling mutual connection in data exchange; 33, a display for displaying received equipment abnormality information on a screen; Reference numeral 34 denotes an operation unit for the supervisor to input information such as a command for coping with abnormality, 35 denotes an information reception control unit for controlling distribution of the equipment abnormality information received by the transmission / reception device 31, and 36 denotes equipment abnormality information. A printing unit 37 for printing desired information such as an IDN, a counterpart address storage unit 37 for storing information such as an ISDN transmission number address of the large-scale monitoring system device 1 and a communication unit 38 via the ISDN line 5 are disabled. This is a facsimile machine that automatically prints equipment abnormality information sent from the large-scale monitoring system device 1 when the system is in operation.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. The large-scale monitoring system device 1 constantly monitors the status of all outsourced equipment remote monitoring devices 2a to 2d, including those managed by customers and the like, and issues an abnormal alert from any of them via the general communication line 4. Is received, the information reception control unit 16 displays the information on the screen of the display unit 13 to notify the monitoring personnel, and sends the information from the large-scale monitoring system device 1 when communication via the ISDN line 5 is disabled. This is a facsimile machine that automatically prints out equipment abnormality information.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. The large-scale monitoring system device 1 constantly monitors the status of all outsourced equipment remote monitoring devices 2a to 2d, including those managed by customers and the like, and issues an abnormal alert from any of them via the general communication line 4. Is received, the information reception control unit 16 displays the information on the screen of the display unit 13 to notify the person in charge of the large-scale monitoring system device 1 and the device remote monitoring device 2 managed by the customer or the like. In this case, the information is transmitted to the small-scale monitoring system device 3 associated with the customer or the like via the ISDN line 5. When the small-scale monitoring system device 3 receives the abnormality information, the information reception control unit 35 transfers the information to the display unit 33 to display the information on the screen, and notifies a monitor of the small-scale monitoring system device 3 of the information.

For example, an air conditioner of a building managed by the small-scale monitoring system device 3a breaks down, and the equipment remote monitoring device 2a detects the abnormality and sends an abnormality report to the building. , Location, emergency contact phone,
The data is transmitted to the large-scale monitoring system 1 via the general communication line 4 together with the equipment data such as the name and type of the equipment in which the abnormality has occurred. More specifically, when the receiving device 11 of the monitoring system device 10 receives the abnormality report, the information reception control unit 16 sends the facility data necessary for the analysis of the abnormality report received in the information storage unit 15 from the building information storage unit 151. Request read. The equipment data transferred from the information storage unit 15 is analyzed by the information reception control unit 16, and the result is transferred to the display unit 13 and the printing unit 17 to be displayed and printed, respectively.

The result of this analysis is also transferred from the information reception control unit 16 to the information distribution control unit 21 of the information distribution device 20.
When the information distribution control unit 21 receives the information of the analysis result, it requests the information storage unit 15 of the monitoring system device 10 to read the transmission address of the small-scale monitoring system device 3a from the partner address storage unit 152. The information storage unit 15 searches the requested transmission address from the data stored in the other party address storage unit 152 and transfers the searched transmission address to the information distribution control unit 21. The information distribution control unit 21 controls the communication device i /
The abnormality information is transmitted to the transmission / reception device 30 via the F unit 22 together with the transmission address of the small-scale monitoring system device 3a.

The transmission / reception device 30 transmits, via the ISDN line 5, a transmission address signal of the small-scale monitoring system device 3a related to the equipment remote monitoring device 2a that has issued the abnormality. The transmitting / receiving device 31 of the small-scale monitoring system device 3a is ISDN
After receiving the transmission address signal via the line 5 and confirming the transmission source, that is, the transmission address signal of the large-scale monitoring system device 1, the incoming call is temporarily disconnected. The information reception control unit 35 transfers the transmission source address of the transmission source received by the transmission / reception device 31 to the destination address storage unit 37, and inquires whether or not it is registered therein. If it has been registered, the information reception control unit 35 transfers the transmission source address of the transmission source to the transmission / reception device 31 via the communication device i / F unit 32, and instructs a call back transmission.

The transmission / reception device 31 performs call back transmission at the transmission address via the ISDN line 5, and calls the transmission / reception device 30 of the large-scale monitoring system device 1. The information distribution control unit 21 inquires of the partner address storage unit 152 whether the received transmission address is registered. If it has been registered, the information distribution control unit 21
After disconnecting the incoming call, the call is recalled and the small-scale monitoring system device 3a is reconnected. If the transmission address received by the transmission / reception device 30 is other than the small-scale monitoring system device 3a and has not been registered in the partner address storage unit 152, the information distribution control unit 21 instructs the transmission / reception device 30 to make no response. , The incoming call is disconnected.

When the transmission / reception device 31 of the small-scale monitoring system device 3a receives the transmission address signal via the ISDN line 5, the information reception control unit 35 stores the transmission source address of the transmission source received by the transmission / reception device 31 in the destination address storage unit. 37
To the originating address, and if it is registered as that of the large-scale monitoring system device 1,
The incoming call via the DN line 5 is connected. Then, the large-scale monitoring system apparatus 1 starts receiving data obtained by analyzing the abnormal alarm from the equipment remote monitoring apparatus 2a.

The abnormality information received by the transmission / reception device 31 is transferred to the information reception control unit 35 via the communication device i / F unit 32. The information reception control unit 35 transfers the abnormality information regarding the equipment remote monitoring device 2a to the display unit 33 and the printing unit 36,
It is displayed and printed, respectively, to notify the monitoring staff of the small-scale monitoring system device 3. For example, the observer visually recognizes the abnormality information on the equipment remote monitoring device 2a displayed on the display unit 33, determines an appropriate countermeasure, and instructs the operation by operating the operation unit 34.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, a remote monitoring system device can be connected to another service management digital network via an integrated service digital network based on an abnormality notification from a facility remote monitoring terminal managed by another administrator. When the administrator calls the remote monitoring device managed by the administrator, it confirms that the transmission address received by the remote monitoring device has been registered, while the transmission address received by the remote monitoring system device that has received the call back has been registered. Is confirmed, the abnormal information is transmitted to the remote monitoring device via the integrated service digital network, so the incoming call is disconnected for a call from another source whose calling address is not registered. Therefore, it is possible to maintain excellent confidentiality in data communication against intrusion of illegal command data from outside.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a large-scale monitoring system according to the embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the small-scale monitoring system device according to the embodiment;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Large-scale monitoring system device 2 (ad) Equipment remote monitoring device (terminal) 3 (a, b) Small-scale monitoring system device 4 General communication line 5 ISDN line 11 Receiving device 12, 22, 32 Communication device i / F Units 13, 33 Display unit 14, 34 Operation unit 15 Information storage unit 16, 35 Information reception control unit 17, 36 Printing unit 20 Information distribution device 21 Information distribution control unit 30, 31 Transmission / reception device 37, 152 Counterpart address storage unit 38 Facsimile Device 151 Building information storage unit

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facility for detecting an abnormality of equipment installed in another building and managed by another manager together with a plurality of equipment remote monitoring terminals for detecting abnormality of equipment installed in a plurality of buildings, respectively. A remote monitoring terminal is communicatively connected via a communication line, and a remote monitoring system device installed at a remote location remotely monitors all the equipment including the equipment managed by the other manager, and When the equipment remote monitoring terminal managed by the manager of the above-mentioned equipment issues an alarm via a communication line, the remote monitoring system apparatus is operated by the other manager via the integrated service digital network based on the notification of the abnormality. In the building remote monitoring device configured to transmit the abnormality information to the remote monitoring device to be managed, the remote monitoring system device is configured to transmit the abnormality information based on an abnormality notification from the equipment remote monitoring terminal managed by the other manager. When the remote monitoring device managed by the other manager is called by transmitting a transmission address signal via the integrated service digital network, the remote monitoring device confirms that the received transmission address has been registered. Then, the remote monitoring system device is recalled and transmitted via the integrated service digital network, and the remote monitoring system device receives the recall transmission from the remote monitoring device and confirms that the received transmission address is registered. A building remote monitoring device, wherein the abnormality information of the equipment managed by the other manager is transmitted to the remote monitoring device via a comprehensive service digital network.