JP2003208218A - Monitor control system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately announce failure, and to improve a function for facilitating measures against the failure by effectively utilizing various data processed/managed by a monitor controller or the like. <P>SOLUTION: A maintenance management device 2 and a picture server 3 are respectively provided with related data bases 8 and 9 in which various data processed/managed by those devices and a monitor controller 1 are stored so as to be related with each other. The monitor controller acquires the failure detection signal of the facility/equipment, and issues the picture display request of the fault facility/equipment to the picture server, and the picture server transfers the related information of the failure occurrence from the data base to the monitor controller side, and the monitor controller displays the related information. The monitor controller stores the picture when the failure occurs acquired from a camera group 6 into the data base, and transfers the measures against the failure as history information to the data base, and stores the link of the picture number to the failure history. The monitor controller outputs a report attached with the failure history and the picture of the fault facility/ equipment stored in the data base, and controls the camera group via the picture server. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a supervisory control system, and more particularly to failure notification and failure countermeasure support for monitored equipment / device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An example of a conventional supervisory control system is shown in FIG. On the central side, a supervisory control device 1 serving as a master station, a facility / apparatus maintenance management device 2, and an image distribution image server 3 are provided in a distributed manner. On the site side, a process controller 5 that serves as a slave station that directly monitors and controls the equipment / device group 4, and a camera group 6 that photographs the periphery of each equipment / device.
And an image compression / transmission device 7 for compressing an image / video from the camera group 6 and transmitting it to the center side. The center side and the site side are directly connected by Ethernet (registered trademark),
Alternatively, it enables transmission of the monitoring control information through another communication network.

In the above system configuration, the monitoring / measuring information from the process controller 5 and the camera group 6 is transmitted / collected to the monitoring / control device 1, and the control information from the monitoring / control device 1 based on the information is used as the process controller 5 or the like. To monitor and control the equipment group. As one of these supervisory control functions, means is provided for notifying the occurrence of a failure in the facility / equipment to be monitored on the central side, and for performing protection control on the site side.

[0004]

In the conventional system, the supervisory control device 1, the maintenance management device 2, and the image server 3 are configured to perform independent data processing and management, and effectively utilize various data. Not a thing.

Therefore, for example, when equipment failure occurs,
It is only enough to display a failure response in the operation guidance in response to an alarm. Normally, a supervisor must judge the failure status etc. from various detection signals, and must also determine protection measures. There was a lot of reliance on the experience, and the burden was heavy.

Further, since there is no function for registering a response at the time of failure occurrence and supplementing the maintenance and guidance thereof, the failure countermeasure function cannot be improved.

An object of the present invention is to provide a supervisory control system capable of improving appropriate fault notification and fault countermeasure functions by effectively utilizing various data processed / managed by the supervisory control device, the maintenance control device and the image server. is there.

[0008]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a related database for associating various data processed / managed by a supervisory control device, a maintenance management device, and an image server with each other. It is characterized by the following configuration.

(1) A central processing unit is provided with a supervisory control device, a facility / equipment maintenance management device, and an image distribution image server, and the facility / device group is directly supervised and controlled on the site side. A process controller, a group of cameras that take pictures of the surroundings of each facility / equipment, and an image compression transmission device that compresses and transmits the images / videos from these cameras are provided, and the center side and the site side are connected via a communication network. In the supervisory control system having a configuration capable of transmitting supervisory control information, the maintenance management device and the image server are provided with an associated database for associating and storing various data processed / managed by these devices and the supervisory control device, thereby causing equipment / device failure. Upon occurrence, the monitoring control device acquires the detection signal, and the monitoring control device requests the image server to display an image of the faulty equipment / device. The relevant information of the failure occurrence image server from the database and transferred to the monitor control apparatus side to the request, characterized by comprising means for displaying on the monitor control apparatus on the basis of the relevant information.

(2) The monitoring control device transfers the image acquired from the camera group at the time of failure so that the image can be stored in the database, and the correspondence to the failure as history information to the database and the image. And a means for keeping a link between the number and the failure history.

(3) The monitoring control device stores the failure history and the failure equipment / save stored in the database as needed.
It is characterized by comprising means for outputting in the form of a report with an image of the device and means for controlling the camera group via the image server.

[0012]

1 is a block diagram of a supervisory control system showing an embodiment of the present invention. 3 is different from FIG. 3 in that the maintenance management device 2 and the image server 3 have general-purpose related databases (management system:
RDBMS is also included) 8 and 9 are provided so that they can be linked to each other, and various data to be processed / managed by these 2, 3 and the monitoring control device 1 are associated and stored / processed.

Information processing when a failure occurs in the equipment / device group 4 having the above-described configuration is realized by a software configuration, which will be described. The supervisory control device 1 obtains the detection signal when the facility / equipment has failed (S1), and the supervisory control device 1 makes an image display request of the faulty equipment / device to the image server 3 (S2). On the other hand, the image server 3 transfers the information related to the occurrence of the failure (the order of the designated image display, the failure message and the image of the related equipment / device) from the attached database 9 to the monitoring control device 1 for display (S3). ).

Further, the supervisory control device 1 transfers the image at the time of failure acquired from the camera group 6 so that it can be stored in the database 9 (S4). Further, the monitoring control device 1
The response to the failure is transferred to the database 8 so that it can be left as history information (S5). At this time, the image number stored in the database 9 and the failure history are linked (S6).

Further, the monitor and control system 1 may, if necessary,
A function is provided to output in the form of a report with the failure history stored in the databases 8 and 9 and an image of the failed equipment / device.
Further, the camera group 6 can be controlled by the monitoring control device 1 via the image server 3.

The processing functions when a failure occurs up to this point will be described in detail below, including specific screen development.

FIG. 2 shows a processing screen when a failure occurs in the supervisory control device 1. In (a) of the same figure, a screen at the time of occurrence of a failure is shown, and a failure flash report is displayed when the failure occurs, and an image of related equipment / device is displayed. In this image display, the image to be displayed by the camera control in the image window is displayed. At this time, the camera to be controlled is the equipment /
It is automatically specified by linking with the device. Also,
A selection button for displaying or not displaying the image is also displayed.

FIG. 2B shows a response result input screen at the time of occurrence of a failure by the monitoring control device 1, in which it is possible to specify whether or not the response result can be input for each alarm displayed as a message list. For the data that can be input as the correspondence result, the correspondence result input selection area is displayed as "not yet" when an alarm is generated, and "completed" is displayed when the data has been inputted.

FIG. 2 (c) shows a response result display screen by the maintenance management device 2, which makes it possible to display the failure guidance by designating the guidance button of the failure bulletin, and to display the failure guidance. Displays the troubleshooting history and the image at that time. In addition, the above failure processing screen is not limited to the time when the failure occurs, and an arbitrary image can be displayed and the image can be saved as the maintenance information.

FIG. 2D shows a screen for creating a trouble report by the maintenance management device 2, in which a report is created by using the data stored in the database 8 by inputting the response result. At the same time, the images before and after the failure is taken out from the database 9 and displayed. The screen format of the report is expected to vary depending on the observer, so it is preferable to allow some changes.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the related database for associating the various data processed / managed by the supervisory control device, the maintenance management device, and the image server with each other is provided, the various data are effectively utilized. As a result, appropriate failure notification and failure countermeasure functions can be improved. Specifically, (1) the monitoring control device can display the failure status display including the image and the failure handling history display, and can provide more appropriate information to the monitoring staff.

(2) In the supervisory control device, by displaying the image taken by the camera, it is possible to make a primary response without going to the site when a failure occurs.

(3) By linking the maintenance and the image database, it is possible to effectively utilize not only the equipment / device failure history but also the maintenance information.

(4) Since a report at the time of failure can be easily created and an image can be added, an appropriate report can be easily created.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a screen configuration diagram showing a display mode of occurrence of a failure and a response result in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a conventional system configuration diagram.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Supervisory control device 2 ... Maintenance device 3 ... Image server 4 ... Facility / equipment group 5 ... Process controller 6 ... Camera group 7 ... Image compression transmission device 8, 9 ... Related database

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A process of providing a supervisory control device, a facility / equipment maintenance management device, and an image distribution image server on the central side in a distributed manner, and directly monitoring and controlling the facility / equipment group on the site side. A controller, a group of cameras that take pictures of the surroundings of each facility / equipment, and an image compression transmission device that compresses and transmits the images / videos from this group of cameras are provided, and the central side and the site side are monitored via a communication network. In a supervisory control system having a configuration capable of transmitting control information, the maintenance management device and the image server are provided with an associated database for storing various data processed / managed by these devices and the supervisory control device in association with each other. Then, the monitoring control device acquires the detection signal, and the monitoring control device requests the image server to display an image of the faulty equipment / device. Monitoring and control system in which an image server forwards the relevant information of the failure occurrence from the database to the monitor control apparatus, characterized by comprising means for displaying on the monitor control apparatus on the basis of the relevant information for the request. 2. The monitoring and control apparatus transfers a failure-acquired image acquired from the camera group so that the failure-savable image can be stored in the database, and a response to the failure as history information to the database and an image number. 2. The monitoring control system according to claim 1, further comprising: a means for keeping a link with the failure history. 3. The monitoring control device, if necessary, means for outputting in the form of a report with a failure history stored in the database and an image of the failed facility / device, and the camera group, the means for outputting the camera group. The supervisory control system according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising a controllable means via the.