JP2002298249A - Disaster prevention system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a disaster prevention system which can check operating state, setting contents, etc., in the hot line state, set data and remotely monitor without exclusive telephone line. SOLUTION: A receiver of the disaster prevention facility is provided with a first storing means for renewing and storing the latest state of the disaster prevention state and a sending means for reading out and sending state data from the first storing means when a latest request is made from outside. A homepage making means for making a homepage which can be accessed from outside is provided at the receiver, and when there is a state change in the disaster prevention facility, this state change is renewed and stored in the homepage by the homepage making means, the disaster prevention facility is connected to a sever for internet, and a sending means is provided to send the status change data to the server when there is the status change in the disaster prevention facility, and the server has a making means for renewing and making a homepage for disaster prevention based on the received state data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a disaster prevention system including disaster prevention equipment such as fire alarm equipment or fire extinguishing equipment, and more particularly, to a communication network such as the Internet,
The present invention relates to a disaster prevention system suitable for transmitting a signal to a building integrated monitoring and control panel and other devices by connecting to a communication network such as an intranet or a BA network of an integrated building management system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, this type of disaster prevention equipment has been developed to include a receiver such as a fire receiver or a fire extinguisher control panel, a relay connected to the receiver via a signal line or the like, or a receiver and an external device. For example, a microcomputer (hereinafter, referred to as a CPU or a microcomputer) is mounted on a transmission IF for connecting a building centralized monitoring panel, and programs and various setting data stored in a storage device (for example, terminal Mac table data such as a fire detector, speed data). Disaster prevention equipment that performs monitoring, control, or notification based on dynamic control table data, fire alarm area or fire extinguishing section name data, display data for a display device such as a CRT, and the like is increasing.

Further, such disaster prevention equipment is connected to a communication network, for example, a BA network, and other equipment connected to the BA network, for example, electric equipment, air conditioning equipment, etc., is centrally monitored and centralized by a building integrated monitoring and control panel. A building management system that performs control has been adopted.

[0004]

By the way, in the conventional disaster prevention equipment and the like, when the software is changed in accordance with the equipment change after the installation or the version upgrade of the program,
At the factory, new programs such as EP-ROM
M was burned (stored) in M, or a writer was brought to the site and burned into ROM, and replaced with a ROM storing a new program.

[0005] For this reason, the change work is very troublesome, and the ROM is exchanged locally, so that the ROM
May be destroyed by static electricity, and if there are multiple buildings, such as a factory, each with a receiver, you must go to each place and work. there were.

The present invention has been made to solve such a conventional problem. In a disaster prevention facility in which a disaster prevention receiver is connected to a central device or the like via a communication network, it is easily confirmed from a browser or the like. It is intended to provide a disaster prevention system that can be set. It is another object of the present invention to provide a disaster prevention system capable of automatically sending e-mail.

[0007]

A disaster prevention system according to a first aspect of the present invention is a disaster prevention system in which disaster prevention equipment is connected to the outside via a communication network, wherein the disaster prevention equipment is the latest disaster prevention equipment. First storage means for updating and storing the state (state of the receiver, state of the terminal connected to the receiver, etc.), and state data from the first storage means when the latest state is requested from outside And a transmitting means for reading out and transmitting the data.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the disaster prevention system according to the first aspect, the state of the disaster prevention facility is changed (state of a receiver, state of a terminal connected to the receiver, and the like). Second storage means for storing a log.

A disaster prevention system according to a third aspect of the present invention is the invention according to the first aspect, wherein a request from the outside is determined, and when there is a request for the latest status, status data is stored in the first storage means. When there is a request for a log, there is provided a transmission means for reading and transmitting the requested log data from the second storage means.

A disaster prevention system according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is the third aspect of the invention according to any one of the first to third aspects, wherein the disaster prevention equipment updates and stores the latest setting state of the disaster prevention equipment.
Is provided.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the disaster prevention system according to the fourth aspect of the present invention, when the request for the latest setting state of the disaster prevention equipment is made, the transmission means transmits the request from the third storage means. This is to read out and transmit the setting state data.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the disaster prevention system according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, wherein the disaster prevention equipment includes a homepage creating means for creating an externally accessible homepage. Thus, when there is a state change in the disaster prevention equipment, the state change is updated and stored on the homepage.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided the disaster prevention system according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, wherein the disaster prevention facility is connected to an Internet server, and when the state of the disaster prevention facility changes, the state is changed. Transmission means for transmitting the change data to the server is provided, and the server has a creation means for updating and creating a disaster prevention homepage based on the received state change data.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the disaster prevention system according to any one of the first to seventh aspects, when the state of the disaster prevention equipment changes, the state change is updated on a homepage. It has a determining means for determining whether or not it is necessary to store it.

The disaster prevention system according to the ninth aspect of the present invention, wherein the disaster prevention equipment has an Internet server function.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system diagram showing an entire disaster prevention system including disaster prevention equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 10 is disaster prevention equipment such as fire alarm equipment and fire extinguishing equipment, 20 is air conditioning (air conditioning) equipment,
Reference numeral 30 denotes electrical equipment; 40, an integrated monitoring and control panel for monitoring and controlling various types of equipment 10 to 30 installed in a monitoring center on the premises; 41, a built-in integrated monitoring and control panel 40;
A transmission device having a CD-ROM device, a card slot, and the like, and L1 is a LAN, such as a BA net, which extends around the premises. Each equipment 10 to 30 and integrated monitoring and control panel 40
Are connected to each other via a BA net L1.

Reference numeral 50 denotes a connection connector connected to L1, 60 denotes a transmission device such as a personal computer (PC),
Reference numeral 1 denotes a connection connector to be connected to the connector 50. 7
Reference numeral 0 denotes an apparatus for connecting to the Internet L2, which is an example of an external communication network such as a PC or a workstation (WS), and is configured by one or a plurality of PCs or workstations (WS), and has an FTP server function. It has a mail server function, a gateway server function, a firewall server function, an authentication function, a web server function, a proxy server function, a router function, and the like.

Reference numeral 81 denotes a dial-up router, 8
2 is a modem connected to the public telephone line L3, 91 is a management center of a management company, 92 is a maintenance center of a manufacturing company, 93
Is the factory of the manufacturing company, the management center 91 and the maintenance center 9
2. The factory 93 is connected to L2 and L3, respectively.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a fire alarm system as an example of the disaster prevention system 10 of FIG. Disaster prevention equipment 1
At 0, 11 is a fire receiver, 12 is a fire receiver 11
, SE1 to S for connecting the transmission and the BA net L1
En is a fire detector, such as an analog fire detector, ER
1 to ERk are controlled devices, for example, smoke prevention devices,
The transmission IF 12 may be built in the fire receiver 11 or provided outside.

In the fire receiver 11, the CPU 11 is a microcomputer (microcomputer), the ROM 11 is a read-only memory, the ROM 12 is an electrically rewritable nonvolatile memory such as an EEP-ROM, for example, a flash memory, and the RAM 11 is a work random number. Access memory,
The RAM 12 is a random access memory that updates and stores the data whose status has changed. The ICC1 is an IC card having an electrically rewritable nonvolatile memory such as a compact flash (registered trademark) memory. The SL11 is a detachable IC card ICC1. An IC card connector such as a PC card slot, etc., which is mounted on the
Monitoring circuit for receiving and detecting signals from E1 to SEn, CN
C is a control circuit for controlling the controlled devices ER1 to ERk, D
P is a display unit having a liquid crystal panel, a display lamp, etc. and performing various displays, OP is an operation unit provided with a control switch, a test switch, a recovery switch, a write switch, etc., IF11
Is an interface for connection with a transmission IF 11 such as RS232C.

In the transmission IF 11, the CPU 21 is a microcomputer, the ROM 21 is a read-only memory, the ROM 22
Is an electrically rewritable nonvolatile memory such as an EEP-ROM, for example, a flash memory; a RAM 21 is a work random access memory; an ICC2 is an IC card having an electrically rewritable nonvolatile memory such as a compact flash memory; SL21 is an IC card IC
An IC card connector such as a PC card slot to which C2 is detachably mounted, DOP is a display operation unit provided with various indicators and various switches such as a power switch, a reset switch and a write switch, and IF21 is, for example, RS2
An interface for connection with the receiver 11 such as 32C,
The IF 22 is an interface for connecting a BA net L1 such as an Ethernet interface.

FIGS. 3 to 5 show the operation flow of the receiver 11 of the fire alarm system as an example of the disaster prevention system 10. A part of this flow also shows the operation of the transmission IF 12. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the transmission device 41 (60).

Next, the operation will be described. Disaster prevention equipment 1
When it is necessary to change any one of the receiver 11 and the transmission IF 12, for example, a program or setting data (hereinafter, referred to as a program) of the receiver 11, a storage medium storing the program, for example, FD (Floppy disk) is set in the transmitting device 41 of the integrated monitoring and control panel 40, or the transmitting device 60 in which a PC memory card storing the program is inserted into the PC card slot.
Is connected to the connector 50 by the connector 61.

In such a state, the transmitting device 41
The program change SW (not shown) of the operation unit (not shown) of (or 60) is turned on (Y in step S200),
When the receiver 11 of the disaster prevention facility 10 is designated as a program change target (step S202), the transmission device 41
A change program (new program or new setting data, for example, an interlock control table) is read from the FD set in the FD device in (or 60) (step S).
208). The read change program is stored in step S20.
Then, an address and a change command for instructing what program (or setting data) should be rewritten are added to the receiver 11 specified in 2 and transmitted to L1 (step S21).
0).

The receiver 11 receives data addressed to itself from L1 (Y in step S108). If there is a change command in the received data (Y in step S110), the version of the received change program (date may be used). ) And the version of the corresponding program stored in the ROM 12 of the receiver 11 are compared. As a result of the comparison, if the version is the same as or older than the corresponding program (N in step S112), the abnormal version reception information is transmitted to the transmission device 41 to L1 (step S116), and the state is maintained without rewriting the changed program. Move to monitoring (step S120).

When receiving the version error reception information from L1 (N in step S212), the transmission device 41 displays the version error on the liquid crystal panel or the indicator (step S214). As a result of the comparison, if the version is newer than the corresponding program (Y in step S112), the corresponding program is rewritten with the received change program (step S114).

Next, the receiver 11 comprises the fire detectors SE1 to SE1.
The state of SEn is monitored by, for example, polling to monitor for the occurrence of a fire or to monitor whether switches of the operation unit OP are operated (step S1).
20). In the case of this embodiment, this state monitoring is performed by S
One cycle of E1 to SEn and one cycle of various switches of the operation unit OP are performed.

When a state change is detected in the state monitoring, for example, when a fire occurrence is detected or any switch is turned on (Y in step S122), this is stored as a history in the history storage area of the RAM 11 and as a log in the ICC1. (Step S124).

If it is necessary to notify the status change (Y in step S122) to the integrated monitoring and control panel 40 or other equipment, for example, the air conditioning equipment 20 (step S1).
26, a message for the notification is created (step S12).
8) The data is transmitted to, for example, the integrated monitoring and control panel 40 via the L1 (step S130). This message for internal notification may be a code signal, a mail format, or another format.

Upon receiving the notification message from the receiver 11, the integrated monitoring and control panel 40 performs display and transmits control information to the receiver 11 or other equipment according to the content of the notification message. In addition, this state change (step S1)
22 (Y), if it is necessary to notify the management center 91 of the management company, the maintenance center 92 of the manufacturer, or the factory 93 (Y of step S132), a message for the notification is created (step S134), and it is transmitted through the Internet L2. It is determined whether or not to transmit (step S136).

In the case of using the Internet (step S
136, Y), for example, the E-mai1 address of the management center 91 and the E-mai1 address of the maintenance center 92 are added, and the notification message is transmitted to L1 by E-mai1, and transmitted from the mail server of the connection device 70 to L2. (Step S
138). In the case of using the telephone line L3 (step S13
6N), the router 81 and the modem 82 transmit a notification message to the management center 91 and the maintenance center 92 via the telephone line (step S140).

Incidentally, the disaster prevention equipment 10 connected to L1
When the other equipment, for example, the integrated monitoring and control panel 40 or the maintenance center 92 needs the specific information of the disaster prevention equipment 10, for example, the analog level history data of the specific fire alarm area, the integrated monitoring and control panel 40 or the maintenance center 92 is required. Transmits the history information request of the specific fire alarm area by designating the receiver 11 of the disaster prevention equipment 10. In the case of the maintenance center 92,
By transmitting an authentication number to the Internet, the connection device 70 is authenticated and the receiver 11 is accessed. As a result, the receiver 11 reads out the requested history information from the RAM 11 and sends it to the maintenance center 92.

In the case of the integrated monitoring and control panel 40, a history information request is transmitted to L1, and the receiver 11 receiving this transmits the requested history information to the integrated monitoring and control panel 40 via L1. Thereby, the integrated monitoring and control panel 40 and the air conditioning equipment 2
0 can collect necessary data from the disaster prevention equipment 10.

If the status change is to be updated and stored in the latest status information in the RAM 12 (step S142), the RA
The information is updated and stored in M12 (step S146). further,
The update storage data is transmitted to the Web server of the connection device 70 (Step S148). The Web server creates the latest state information of the receiver 11 in the HTML format based on the received update storage data, and stores the updated state information. As a result, for example, the management center 91 uses the browser to send the Web
The latest state of the disaster prevention equipment 10 can be known at any time by accessing the homepage of the disaster prevention equipment 10 of the server b via the Internet via L2.

When changing the program of the equipment other than the receiver 11 of the disaster prevention equipment 10, for example, the program of the transmission IF 12, the transmission device 41 (60) designates the transmission IF 12 and executes the change program in the same manner as described above. Just send it. When the maintenance center 92 changes the program of, for example, the receiver 11 of the disaster prevention equipment 10, the receiver 11 is designated, an authentication number is added, and the change program is transmitted to the Internet L2. Thus, when the authentication server of the connection device 70 to which the receiver 11 is connected accepts the authentication number, the change program executes
1 and the program is changed in the same manner as described above.

In the above embodiment, the receiver 1
When the write switch of the first operation unit OP is turned on (Y of step S102), the receiver 11 transmits the transmission device 41 (or 60) or the maintenance center 92 (or the factory 9).
A change program request is transmitted to 3) (step S1).
06).

The transmitting device 4 receiving the change program request
1 (Y in step S204), if there is a change program (Y in step S206), the receiver 11
(Step S208). In the case of the maintenance center 92 as well, if there is a change program, the change program is transmitted to the receiver 11 via the Internet. Further, the function of the connection device 70 is incorporated in a fire prevention equipment, for example, a fire receiver 11 of a fire alarm equipment, and the fire receiver 11
May have a server function. In this way, the disaster prevention equipment can be directly connected to the Internet communication network.

[0038]

As described above, according to the present invention, there is provided a disaster prevention system in which disaster prevention equipment is externally connected via a communication network, and the disaster prevention equipment updates and stores the latest state of the disaster prevention equipment. The first storage means, and a transmission means for reading and transmitting the state data from the first storage means when there is a request for the latest state from the outside. There is an effect that confirmation of setting contents and data setting can be performed.

Further, according to the present invention, the disaster prevention equipment is provided with a homepage creation means for creating a homepage which can be accessed from the outside, and when the state of the disaster prevention equipment changes by the homepage creation means, the status is changed. The change is updated and stored on a homepage, the disaster prevention equipment is connected to a server for the Internet, and a transmission means is provided for transmitting the state change data to the server when there is a state change in the disaster prevention equipment. Since there is a creation means for updating and creating a disaster prevention homepage based on the state change data, it is possible to transmit the operation state and the like by e-mail, and it is possible to remotely monitor without a dedicated telephone line. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing disaster prevention equipment according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the receiver according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the receiver according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the receiver according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of the transmitting apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention;

[Explanation of symbols]

10 disaster prevention equipment, 11 fire receiver, 12 transmission I
F, 20 air conditioning (air conditioning) equipment, 30 electrical equipment, 4
0 Integrated monitoring and control panel, 41 transmitting device, L1 LAN,
50 connector, 60 transmitter, 61 connector, 70 connector, 81 dial-up router, 82 modem, 91 management center, 92 maintenance center, 93 factory.

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Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A disaster prevention system in which disaster prevention equipment is externally connected via a communication network, wherein the disaster prevention equipment updates and stores the latest state of the disaster prevention equipment; And a transmitting means for reading and transmitting the state data from the first storage means when a request for the state is made. 2. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein said disaster prevention equipment further comprises a second storage means for storing a log of a state change of said disaster prevention equipment. 3. A request from the outside is discriminated, and when there is a request for the latest status, status data is read from the first storage means, and when a log request is received, the status data is read from the second storage means. 2. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, further comprising a transmission unit for reading and transmitting requested log data. 4. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein said disaster prevention equipment is provided with third storage means for updating and storing the latest setting state of said disaster prevention equipment. 5. The transmission means reads out the requested setting state data from the third storage means and transmits it when there is a request for the latest setting state of the disaster prevention equipment. Item 4. The disaster prevention system according to Item 4. 6. A homepage creating means for creating an externally accessible homepage in the disaster prevention equipment, and when the state of the disaster prevention equipment changes by the homepage creation means, the status change is updated and stored in the homepage. The disaster prevention system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein: 7. A connection means for connecting the disaster prevention equipment to a server for the Internet, transmitting means for transmitting the state change data to the server when there is a state change in the disaster prevention equipment, wherein the server receives the received state change data. The disaster prevention system according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising a creation unit for updating and creating a disaster prevention homepage based on the information. 8. The disaster prevention equipment according to claim 1, further comprising a judgment unit for judging whether or not the state change needs to be updated and stored on a homepage when the state of the disaster prevention equipment changes. Item 9. The disaster prevention system according to any one of Items 1 to 7. 9. A disaster prevention system, wherein the disaster prevention equipment has an Internet server function.