JP2008040986A - Comprehensive home monitoring system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a comprehensive home monitoring system effectively utilizing an energy monitoring function and automatically setting a security function. <P>SOLUTION: The comprehensive home monitoring system is provided with: the energy monitoring function for monitoring the amount of energy consumed such as electric power, gas and water service; and the security function having a door opening/closing sensor for detecting the opening/closing of a door to monitor the state of a building and outputting alarm when an abnormal state occurs. The security function is set in a security mode when the amount of energy consumed falls below a predetermined value and fixed time elapses, and releases the security mode of the security function when the door is normally opened/closed or when the amount of energy consumed exceeds the predetermined value while the door is not opened/closed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an in-house comprehensive monitoring system that monitors energy and security in a house.

  Conventionally, in order to monitor energy such as electric power, gas, and water in a house, an energy monitoring device that measures the amount of energy used and accumulates the measured amount of usage data so that it can be checked as needed. (For example, refer to cited document 1). In addition, there is a security device that has various sensors such as a door opening / closing sensor that detects opening and closing of a house door and a window opening and closing sensor that detects opening and closing of a window, and monitors abnormalities in a building (for example, see Patent Document 2). These energy monitoring devices and security devices were provided separately.

JP 2004-13194 A JP 2006-4040 A

  The energy monitoring device aims to raise energy-consciousness by displaying the amount of energy used and contribute to energy saving, but it has not been used effectively. In addition, the security device has to manually set and release the alert state, and has a problem that a dedicated key must be prepared for releasing the security.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an energy monitoring function for monitoring the usage amount of energy such as electric power, gas, and water, and at least a door opening / closing sensor for detecting opening / closing of the door. It is equipped with a security function that monitors the status and outputs an alarm when an abnormality occurs, and the security function is set to a warning status when the amount of energy used falls below a specified value and a certain period of time has elapsed. And

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, in the in-house comprehensive monitoring system according to the first aspect, when the door is normally opened or closed, or when the door is not opened or closed, the amount of energy used is A warning state of the security function is canceled when a predetermined value is exceeded.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is an effect that the energy monitoring function can be effectively used and the security function can be automatically set.

  According to the invention described in claim 2, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 1, it is not necessary to prepare a dedicated release key, and the security function can be automatically released. There is an effect.

  Security that monitors the status of buildings with an energy monitoring function that monitors the usage of energy such as electric power, gas, and water, and door opening and closing sensors that detect the opening and closing of doors, and outputs an alarm when an abnormality occurs The security function is set to a warning state when the amount of energy used falls below a predetermined value and the door is opened or closed normally, or the door is not opened or closed. When the energy usage exceeds a predetermined value in the state, the alert state of the security function is released.

  A first embodiment of an in-house monitoring system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings of FIGS.

  The home monitoring system 1 is an energy monitoring function that constantly measures the amount of energy used such as electric power 2, gas 3, and water 4, and accumulates the measured amount of usage data so that it can be checked as needed. It has a door opening / closing sensor 5 that detects opening / closing of the door and a window opening / closing sensor 6 that detects opening / closing of the window, and has a security function that monitors the state of the building and outputs an alarm 7 when an abnormality occurs. ing.

  The security function can be set or canceled manually or automatically. Therefore, the operation of the security function will be described.

  When the security function is in the non-warning state, it is monitored whether the warning state is manually set (step S1). Therefore, when the warning state is manually set (step S1-Y), a warning start process is performed (step S2), and the state can be shifted to the warning state. Further, in a state where a manual alert state is not set (step S1-N), it is determined whether or not the amount of energy used is equal to or less than a predetermined value set in advance to check whether a person is active in the building. Monitoring is performed (step S3). At this time, if the amount of energy used is not less than or equal to the predetermined value (step S3-N), it is determined that a person is active in the building, and monitoring is continued to determine whether a warning state has been manually set ( Step S1) If the amount of energy used is less than or equal to the predetermined value (Step S3-Y), it can be determined that a person has left the building or that the person has rested and stopped the activity, but this is confirmed. Therefore, it is checked whether a predetermined time or less has passed for a predetermined time (step S4). And when the state below a predetermined value has not passed for the predetermined time (step S4-N), it judges that the person in a building has not stopped activity, and returns to step S1 again and is a warning state manually. If the state below the predetermined value has elapsed for a predetermined period of time (step S4-Y), it is determined that a person has left the building or the activity has been stopped due to rest, and a warning start process (Step S2), and shift to a warning state (step S2).

  Further, in the alert state, it is monitored whether there is an abnormality by a sensor such as a door opening / closing sensor or a window opening / closing sensor (step S11). If the sensor has responded (step S11-Y), it is checked whether the door has been normally opened or closed (step S12). If the door has not been opened or closed normally (step S12-N), It is determined that there is an abnormality and an alarm is output (step S13). The alarm output may be manually stopped once and returned to the warning state, or it is automatically stopped and returned to the warning state after a predetermined time without any operation. Further, when the door is normally opened and closed (step S12-Y), it is determined that there is no abnormality and the warning state is released (step S14), and the state is shifted to the non-warning state. In step S11, if the sensor is not responding (step S11-N), it is monitored whether the monitoring state is manually released (step S15). If the monitoring state is manually released (step S15). -Y) performs a monitoring state release process (step S14). In a state where the warning state is not manually released (step S15-N), it is monitored whether the amount of energy used is equal to or greater than a set value (step S16). If the amount of energy used is lower than the set value (step S16-N), it is determined that there is no person in the building or that the person is resting, and the alert state is continued. S16-Y), it is determined that the person in the building has started the activity, and the warning state is released (step S14).

It is explanatory drawing of the home integrated monitoring system which concerns on this invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the non-warning state of the home integrated monitoring system which concerns on this invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the alert state of the home integrated monitoring system which concerns on this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 Home monitoring system 2 Electric power 3 Gas 4 Water 5 Door open / close sensor 6 Window open / close sensor 7 Alarm

Claims (2)

  It has an energy monitoring function that monitors the amount of energy used such as electric power, gas, and water, and at least a door opening / closing sensor that detects the opening and closing of the door, monitors the state of the building, and outputs an alarm if an abnormality occurs And a security function, wherein the security function is set in a warning state when the amount of energy used falls below a predetermined value and a predetermined time has elapsed.   When the door is normally opened or closed, or when the amount of energy used exceeds a predetermined value when the door is not opened or closed, the warning state of the security function is released. The in-house comprehensive monitoring system according to claim 1.

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