JP2005272062A - Elevator remote monitoring system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator remote monitoring system that eliminates a telephone call state by a telephone from other than a monitoring center such as a general telephone, and certainly performs abnormality report from a monitoring device to a monitoring center when abnormality occurs in the elevator. <P>SOLUTION: The elevator remote monitoring system comprises a control panel 2 for controlling the elevator, the monitoring device 3 that is connected to the control panel 2 and monitors the elevator, the monitoring center 5 connected to the monitoring device 3 via a telephone line 4, and a number display 8 which is built in the monitoring device 3 and receives transmission origin telephone number via the telephone line 3. The monitoring device 3 is constituted so that, when the transmission origin telephone number received by the number display 8 is other than the telephone number of the monitoring center 5, the telephone line 4 is connected between it and the transmission origin of the transmission origin telephone number and then is disconnected instantly. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator remote monitoring system using a number display.

In a conventional elevator remote monitoring system, a receivable source telephone number is stored in a monitoring device, and a number display adapter device is connected to the monitoring device. It is known that a telephone line is connected only when the telephone number is taken into the number display adapter unit and the telephone number is matched with the transmission source telephone number stored in the monitoring device and the two match. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).
JP 2003-212447 A (paragraph number 0082 to paragraph number 0083, FIG. 1)

  However, the elevator remote monitoring system described above connects the telephone line only when the telephone number of the telephone that has been placed on the monitoring device matches the source telephone number stored in the monitoring device, and the monitoring is performed. Since the source telephone number stored in the device is only the telephone number of the monitoring center, when a phone call from other than the monitoring center such as a general telephone is placed on the monitoring device, the telephone is not connected to the monitoring device. As a result, the telephone call continues.

  When this telephone call continues, an abnormality occurs in the elevator. Even if you try to report an abnormality from the monitoring device to the monitoring center using the telephone line, it is in the telephone call state. There was a problem that it was impossible to report an abnormality.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems. The purpose of the present invention is to eliminate a telephone call state from a telephone other than a monitoring center such as a general telephone, and if an abnormality occurs in the elevator, the monitoring apparatus The object of the present invention is to provide an elevator / elevator remote monitoring system that reliably reports abnormality to the monitoring center.

  The above object is built in the control panel for controlling the elevator, a monitoring device connected to the control panel for monitoring the elevator, a monitoring center connected to the monitoring device via a telephone line, and the monitoring device. In the elevator remote monitoring system comprising at least a number display for receiving a sender telephone number via the telephone line, when the sender telephone number received by the number display is other than the telephone number of the monitoring center, This can be achieved by configuring the monitoring device so that the telephone line is disconnected after the telephone line is connected to the transmission source of the transmission source telephone number.

  According to the present invention, when a call is received from a place other than the monitoring center, the telephone call state by the telephone is immediately released, so that the abnormality notification from the monitoring device to the monitoring center is made due to the telephone call state. It was possible to provide an elevator / elevator remote monitoring system that can prevent the machine from being blocked.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of an elevator remote monitoring system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of an entire elevator remote monitoring system showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a monitoring device related to an elevator remote monitoring system showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of an elevator remote monitoring procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  A remote elevator monitoring system shown in FIG. 1 includes a control panel 2 that controls an elevator 1 such as an elevator, a monitoring device 3 that is connected to the control panel 2 and monitors the elevator 1, and a telephone line 4 connected to the monitoring device 3. And a monitoring center 5 connected to each other. A regular telephone 6 is connected to the telephone line 4. The elevator car 1A of the elevator 1 is controlled by the control panel 2 so as to move up and down in the hoistway.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the monitoring device 3 includes an MPU (central processing unit) 7, a number display (ND) 8, a ROM (read only memory) 9, a RAM (read / write memory) 10, an I / O (input / output port). ) 11, a modem 12, a voice synthesizer 13, and an NCU 14. The MPU 7, number display 8, ROM 9, RAM 10, I / O 11, modem 12, speech synthesizer 13, and NCU 14 are connected by a bus 15. The number display 8, the modem 12, and the voice synthesizer 13 are connected to the telephone line 4 via the NCU 14.

  The monitoring device 3 has a function of monitoring the state of the control panel 2 connected to the I / O 11. A monitoring center 5 and a general telephone 6 are connected to the monitoring device 3 via a telephone line 4 connected to the NCU 14. In the RAM 10 of the monitoring device 3, the telephone number of the monitoring center 5 is stored in advance. A monitoring program for monitoring the state of the control panel 2 is stored in advance in the ROM 9 of the monitoring device 3. The voice synthesizer 13 has a function of transmitting a voice indicating that the call is a wrong call to the sender of the sender telephone number.

  Next, an example of a monitoring procedure by the elevator remote monitoring system of the above embodiment will be described in detail based on FIG.

  First, in the elevator remote monitoring system of the above embodiment, in the normal state, the monitoring device 3 monitors the state of the control panel 2 via the I / O 11 by the monitoring program stored in the ROM 9, and the monitoring center When a command for confirming the state of the elevator 1 is issued from 5 to the monitoring device 3, the telephone line 4 enters the telephone calling state. As a result, in the monitoring device 3, a calling signal is input to the number display 8 and the modem 12 via the NCU 14.

  When the calling signal is input to the number display 8, it is determined whether or not there is an information receiving terminal activation signal as shown in step S1 of FIG. If it is determined in step S1 of FIG. 3 that there is an information reception terminal activation signal, a telephone number reception operation is performed as shown in step S2 of FIG. 3, and the process proceeds to step S3 of FIG.

  In step S3 in FIG. 3, it is determined whether or not the transmission source telephone number received in step S2 in FIG. 3 matches the telephone number of the monitoring center 5 stored in advance in the RAM 10 of the monitoring device 3. In step S3 of FIG. 3, when the transmission source telephone number received in step S2 of FIG. 3 matches the telephone number of the monitoring center 5, the process proceeds to step S4 of FIG.

  In step S4 of FIG. 3, the NCU 14 of the monitoring device 3 is operated by the command of the MPU 7 of the monitoring device 3 so that the telephone line 4 is connected to the monitoring device 3, so Communicate. Thereafter, when the communication is completed, the NCU 14 of the monitoring device 3 is operated by the command of the MPU 7 of the monitoring device 3 to disconnect the telephone line 4 connected to the monitoring device 3.

  In step S3 of FIG. 3, if the source telephone number received in step S2 of FIG. 3 and the telephone number of the monitoring center 5 do not match due to an erroneous call from the ordinary telephone 6 or the like, the process proceeds to step S5 of FIG. move on.

  In step S5 of FIG. 3, the NCU 14 of the monitoring device 3 is operated by the command of the MPU 7 of the monitoring device 3 so that the telephone line 4 is connected to the monitoring device 3, and the speech synthesizer 13 is operated. For example, after sending a voice message such as “This phone number is a line for monitoring the elevator. Please check the phone number” to the sender of the wrong phone via the phone line 4, connect to the monitoring device 3. The connected telephone line 4 is immediately disconnected.

  As described above, according to the elevator remote monitoring system of the above-described embodiment, when a wrong call is made from the general telephone 6 to the monitoring device 3, the wrong call is connected to the monitoring device 3, and the monitoring device 3 A voice message is transmitted to the sender of the wrong call, and thereafter, the telephone call of the wrong call is automatically disconnected from the monitoring apparatus 3, so that the telephone call to the monitoring apparatus 3 may be continued. Therefore, whenever an elevator malfunction occurs, an abnormality report from the monitoring device to the monitoring center can be reliably performed using the telephone line 4. Further, since the voice message is transmitted from the monitoring device 3 to the transmission source of the erroneous call, even if the telephone line 4 is disconnected by the monitoring device 3, the transmission source is not uncomfortable.

  In the above embodiment, when there is an erroneous call, a voice message is transmitted to the transmission source of the erroneous call via the telephone line 4, but the present invention is not limited to this. After the telephone line 4 is once connected, the telephone line 4 connected to the monitoring device 3 may be immediately disconnected without transmitting a voice message. Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the number display 8 and the modem 12 are provided separately, it is not limited to this. The modem 12 incorporated in the monitoring device 3 can include the function of the number display 8.

  Even when a telephone call is made from the general telephone 6 to the monitoring device 3 with the telephone number non notification setting, a telephone line connected to the monitoring device 3 is transmitted after the voice message is transmitted from the monitoring device 3 to the transmission source. In the case of the telephone number notification setting, if the telephone line 4 connected to the monitoring device 3 is immediately disconnected without immediately transmitting the voice message after the telephone line 4 is disconnected immediately As with, the telephone call state can be canceled.

It is a functional block diagram of the whole elevator remote monitoring system which shows one Embodiment of this invention. It is a functional block diagram of the monitoring apparatus concerning the elevator remote monitoring system which shows one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the example of an elevator remote monitoring procedure concerning one Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 Elevator 2 Control panel 3 Monitoring device 4 Telephone line 5 Monitoring center 6 General telephone 7 MPU
8 Number display 9 ROM
10 RAM
11 I / O
12 modem 13 speech synthesizer 14 NCU
15 bus

Claims (3)

  A control panel that controls the elevator, a monitoring device that is connected to the control panel and monitors the elevator, a monitoring center that is connected to the monitoring device via a telephone line, and a telephone line that is built in the monitoring device In an elevator remote monitoring system comprising at least a number display for receiving a sender telephone number via the telephone, when the sender telephone number received by the number display is other than the telephone number of the monitoring center, the sender telephone number The elevator remote monitoring system, wherein the monitoring device is configured to disconnect the telephone line after connecting the telephone line to a transmission source of the telephone.   A control panel that controls the elevator, a monitoring device that is connected to the control panel and monitors the elevator, a monitoring center that is connected to the monitoring device via a telephone line, and a telephone line that is built in the monitoring device In the elevator remote monitoring system comprising at least a number display for receiving a transmission source telephone number via the mobile phone, a voice synthesizer is built in the monitoring device, and the transmission source telephone number received by the number display is the monitoring center. The telephone line is connected to the sender of the sender telephone number, and the voice synthesizer transmits a voice message indicating a wrong call to the sender of the sender telephone number. The elevator remote monitoring system is characterized in that the monitoring device is configured to immediately disconnect the telephone line. The elevator remote monitoring system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the modem built in the monitoring device includes the function of the number display.

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