JP2009274795A - Elevator monitoring device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator monitoring device for automatically displaying an optimum screen depending on the conditions that an elevator is malfunctioned. <P>SOLUTION: The elevator monitoring device 50 includes a system condition managing part 51 for monitoring the malfunction of the elevator and an elevator control system and outputting malfunctioned condition information showing a malfunctioned condition, a screen data storage part 52 for storing screen data for a plurality of candidate screens as the candidates of screens which are determined to be displayed depending on the contents of the malfunctioned condition information, with respect to each candidate screen, a system parameter storage part 53 having system parameters which are determined to correspond to the contents of the malfunctioned condition information and the screens to be displayed, a screen creating part 54 for inputting the malfunctioned condition information, selecting the screen data to be displayed as selected screen data from the screen data for the plurality of candidate screens in the screen data storage part 52 in accordance with the malfunctioned condition information and the system parameters, and downloading the selected screen data from the screen data storage part 52, and a screen display part 55 for displaying the downloaded selected screen data on a screen display 40. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator monitoring apparatus that monitors elevators and elevator systems such as elevators and passenger conveyors (escalators).

  Conventionally, there is a region for notifying an abnormality at a fixed portion of the screen, and the monitoring state is displayed there, and the occurrence of an abnormality in the elevator is notified by a lamp display or a buzzer sounding. However, it is difficult to understand intuitively when an abnormality occurs, and it is necessary to perform several screen operations until the location of occurrence and the type of abnormality are known. Also, when browsing the details, there was a possibility of being confused as to where to look.

Further, in the conventional technique (for example, Patent Document 1), the entire display screen of a plurality of elevators and the divided screen divided into a plurality of areas are switched and displayed. However, when an abnormality occurs, it is necessary for the monitoring person to manually switch and confirm the screen for confirming the occurrence of the abnormality, and there is a trouble of manually switching a plurality of screens.
JP-A-8-231149

  This invention automatically displays the optimal screen according to the situation when an abnormality occurs in the elevator, saving screen operation, and displaying a screen that makes it easy to intuitively understand the location and content of the abnormality. The purpose is to provide an elevator monitoring device.

The elevator monitoring device of this invention is
A monitoring unit that monitors the occurrence of an abnormality between the elevator and the system that controls the elevator, and outputs abnormal state information indicating an abnormal state when the occurrence of the abnormality is detected;
A screen data storage unit that stores, for each candidate screen, screen data of a plurality of candidate screens that are screen candidates determined to be displayed according to the contents of the abnormal state information;
A display screen designation information storage unit that stores display screen designation information in which correspondence between the contents of the abnormal state information and the screen to be displayed is designated;
The abnormal state information output from the monitoring unit is input, and based on the abnormal state information and the display screen designation information, from among the screen data of the plurality of candidate screens stored in the screen data storage unit Selecting the screen data of a screen to be displayed as selection screen data, and a screen data extraction unit for extracting the selected selection screen data from the screen data storage unit;
A screen display unit that displays a screen of the selection screen data extracted by the screen data extraction unit on a display device.

  With this invention, when an abnormality occurs in the elevator, the optimal screen corresponding to the situation is automatically displayed to save screen operation, and a screen that makes it easy to intuitively understand the location of the abnormality and the content of the abnormality is displayed. An elevator monitoring device can be provided.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
The first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

(Hardware configuration)
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of hardware resources of the elevator monitoring apparatus 50 according to the first embodiment. The elevator monitoring device 50 is a computer having hardware resources as shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 1, the elevator monitoring apparatus 50 includes a CPU 810 (Central Processing Unit) that executes a program. The CPU 810 is connected to a ROM (Read Only Memory) 811, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 812, an operation key 814, a communication board 816, and a magnetic disk device 820 via a bus 825, and controls these hardware devices. A storage device such as a flash memory may be used instead of the magnetic disk device 820.

  The RAM 812 is an example of a volatile memory. Storage media such as the ROM 811 and the magnetic disk device 820 are examples of nonvolatile memories. These are examples of a storage device, a storage unit, or a storage unit. The communication board 816, the operation keys 814, and the like are examples of an input unit and an input device. The communication board 816 is an example of an output unit and an output device.

  The communication board 816 is connected to a network and acquires information from the data conversion device 30 described later.

  The magnetic disk device 820 stores an operating system 821 (OS), a program group 823, and a file group 824. The programs in the program group 823 are executed by the CPU 810 and the operating system 821.

  The program group 823 stores a program that executes a function described as “˜unit” in the description of the embodiment described below. The program is read and executed by the CPU 810.

  The file group 824 includes information described as “screen data”, information described as “system parameter”, “process definition”, “determination result of”, “ Information described as “calculation result of”, “extraction result of”, “generation result of”, “processing result of”, data, signal values, variable values, parameters, etc. ~ "Database" is stored as each item. The “˜file” and “˜database” are stored in a recording medium such as a disk or a memory. Information, data, signal values, variable values, and parameters stored in a storage medium such as a disk or memory are read out to the main memory or cache memory by the CPU 810 via a read / write circuit, and extracted, searched, referenced, compared, and calculated. • Used for CPU operations such as calculation, processing, output, and display. Information, data, signal values, variable values, and parameters are temporarily stored in the main memory, cache memory, and buffer memory during the CPU operation of extraction, search, reference, comparison, calculation, calculation, processing, output, and display. Is done.

  Further, in the description of the embodiment described below, what is described as “to part” may be “to means”, “to apparatus”, “to circuit”, and “to device”. It may be “˜step”, “˜procedure”, “˜processing”. That is, what is described as “˜unit” may be realized by firmware stored in the ROM 811. Alternatively, it may be implemented only by software, only hardware such as elements, devices, substrates, wirings, etc., or a combination of software and hardware, and further a combination of firmware. The program is read by the CPU 810 and executed by the CPU 810. That is, the program causes the computer to function as “to part” described below.

FIG. 2 is a block configuration diagram of the monitoring system according to the first embodiment. The elevator monitoring device 50 is connected to the data conversion device 30 and the screen display device 40.
(1) The elevator 10 is an elevator such as an elevator or a passenger conveyor.
(2) The elevator control device 20 controls the elevator 10 and transmits the state of the elevator 10 to the elevator monitoring device 50.
(3) The data converter 30 converts the data from the elevator control device 20 into data that can be determined by the elevator monitoring device 50.
(4) The screen display device 40 displays the state of the elevator 10 by the output of the screen display unit 55.

(Elevator monitoring device 50)
The elevator monitoring device 50 manages (monitors) the state of the elevator 10, transmits data to the screen display device 40, and manages and controls data for controlling the elevator 10.
(1) The system state management unit 51 (monitoring unit) manages the state of the elevator 10 and the communication state with peripheral devices. The system state management unit 51 inputs data from the data conversion device 30.
(2) The screen data storage unit 52 stores various screen data. That is, the screen data storage unit 52 stores, for each candidate screen, screen data of a plurality of candidate screens that are screen candidates determined to be displayed according to the content of the abnormal state information output from the system state management unit 51. Yes. For example, various screen data for displaying the state of the elevator 10 such as the following (a) to (c) are stored.
(A) System configuration diagram that displays the connection relationship of each connected device;
(B) Elevator layout diagram in which the elevators 10 are laid out on a plan view and the position of each elevator 10 can be known;
(C) Elevator cross-sectional view that can be grasped with the image of the floor where the elevator 10 is currently viewed from the side,
(D) Detailed signal diagram that allows you to see detailed signals such as abnormal signals,
(E) List of abnormality occurrences allowing a list of abnormality data to be viewed (3) System parameter storage unit 53 (display screen designation information storage unit) will be described later with reference to FIG. The type of the screen to be displayed first is defined with respect to the location 12, the type 13, and each situation. This definition can be changed as appropriate. Also stored is a “process definition” of the type of display screen when multiple abnormalities occur.
(4) The screen creation unit 54 (screen data extraction unit) acquires the state of the elevator 10 and the communication state with peripheral devices from the system state management unit 51, and discriminates the device 11, the location 12 and the type 13 where the abnormality has occurred. Then, the necessary screen is determined from the system parameter storage unit 53 in accordance with the state of the abnormality that has occurred, and the screen data of the optimum screen to be displayed first when the abnormality occurs is extracted from the screen data storage unit.
(5) The screen display unit 55 outputs the screen data extracted by the screen creation unit 54 to the screen display device 40.

(System parameters)
FIG. 3 is an example of system parameters (display screen designation information) stored in the system parameter storage unit 53. The system parameter specifies which screen is to be displayed, along with the device 11 with the abnormality, the location 12 with the abnormality, and the type 13 of the abnormality. For example, in the record of “NO1”, the generating device 11 is a system, the occurrence location 12 is SV-GC, the type 13 is a communication error, and the occurrence locations 11 to 13 are in such a case as a screen to be displayed. System configuration diagram A is specified. In the generation point 12 of FIG. 3, “SV (Server)” means the elevator monitoring device 50. GC (Group Control) means a group management control device. In FIG. 2, the elevator control device 20 corresponds to the group management control device. In FIG. 2, the elevator control device 20 also has a function of each vehicle management control device (Car Control). In addition, this has shown the case where the elevator control apparatus 20 has the function of a group management apparatus and each stand management control apparatus as an example. CC (Car Control) corresponds to the elevator controller 20 that also has the function of each vehicle management controller. EV1 to EV3 indicates "Elevator 1 to Elevator 3". In addition, depending on the type of abnormality, it may be easier to understand if multiple screens are displayed at the same time. Therefore, multiple screen displays can be defined, such as the “NO4” record. It is.

(Process definition)
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of “process definition” stored in the system parameter storage unit 53. The process definition will be described in the following operation description.

(Operation)
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the basic operation of the screen creation unit 54.
(1) First, in step 100, the screen creation unit 54 acquires abnormal state information indicating an abnormality in the elevator 10 or peripheral device from the system state management unit 51. The abnormal state information includes information on the abnormality occurrence device 11, the abnormality occurrence location 12, and the abnormality type 13 described in FIG.
(2) In step 101, the screen creation unit 54 identifies the generation device 11, the generation location 12, and the type 13 included in the abnormal state information acquired in step 100.
(3) In step 102, the screen creation unit 54 selects the corresponding “No.” from the system parameters stored in the system parameter storage unit 53 based on the data specified in step 101 and the screen type (selection screen). Data). In other words, the screen creation unit 54 displays the screen of the screen to be displayed as “Record No.” determined by the generating device 11 to the type 13 specified by referring to the system parameters based on the generating device 11 to the type 13 specified from the abnormal state information. Select selection screen data that is data. Depending on the contents of the abnormal state information, a plurality of records may be specified in FIG.
(4) In step 103, the screen creation unit 54 determines whether a plurality of abnormalities have occurred based on the information specified in step 102. That is, the screen creation unit 54 determines whether a plurality of records are specified. If there are multiple occurrences, the process proceeds to step 104.
(5) In step 104, the screen creation unit 54 identifies what kind of abnormality has occurred. That is, the screen creation unit 54 identifies whether there are a plurality of generation devices 11, a plurality of occurrence locations 12, or a plurality of types of abnormalities 13 from the identified “record No.” regarding the abnormality. Then, the screen creation unit 54 specifies which screen is to be displayed from the “process definition” (FIG. 4) when a plurality of abnormalities occur. The “process definition” can be freely defined in advance or at the time of maintenance. Therefore, the screen to be displayed can be changed as needed after actual operation. As shown in FIG. 4, the process definition defines a display rule for the selected screen data when a plurality of screen data is selected as the selected screen data based on the system parameters shown in FIG. That is, as shown in FIG. 4, the process definition defines whether to display a multi-screen, or to display each screen of a plurality of selection screen data as a multi-screen when displaying a multi-screen. Yes.
(6) In step 105, it is determined whether the screen specified in step 104 is a multi-screen display. When performing multi-screen display, the process proceeds to step 106.
(7) In step 106, the type of the mixed screen of the multi-screen display is specified, and the process proceeds to step 108. Since multi-screen display is intended to be confirmed at a time, it is assumed that a plurality of screens are displayed in parallel on one screen. However, a display method such as a tag (display selection button) may be used.
(8) When performing single screen display, the process proceeds to step 107, and the screen creation unit 54 identifies the type of screen in the case of single screen display, and proceeds to step 108.
(9) In step 108, the screen creation unit 54 acquires the corresponding screen data from the screen data storage unit 52. In the case of step 106 → step 108, the screen creation unit 54 retrieves screen data from the screen data storage unit 52 in accordance with the process definition when a plurality of screen data is selected as selection screen data. That is, the screen creation unit 54 extracts a plurality of selection screen data from the screen data storage unit 52 according to the process definition, and configures a multi-screen from the plurality of selection screen data extracted.
(10) In step 109, the screen creation unit 54 transmits the screen acquired in step 108 to the screen display unit 55.

  The screen display unit 55 displays the screen transmitted from the screen creation unit 54 on the screen display device. In the case of a multi-screen, the screen display unit 55 causes the screen display device 40 to display the multi-screen configured by the screen creation unit 54.

  By the above operation of the elevator monitoring device 50, when an abnormality occurs, an optimal screen corresponding to the situation is first displayed, so that it is possible to save the trouble of operating several screens. In addition, it is possible to intuitively understand the location and content of the abnormality.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example in which the screen of “abnormality occurrence list” is displayed on the screen that is displayed first when an abnormality occurs (depending on the content of the abnormality). As shown in FIG. 6, the “abnormality occurrence list” is a table including items of occurrence locations 11 to 13 in FIG. For example, when an abnormality that causes a system configuration diagram to be displayed as a screen to be displayed first occurs, the system configuration diagram is displayed as a main screen, and an “abnormality list” is displayed thereon. As a result, it is possible to notify the abnormality more clearly. In this case, the screen data storage unit 52 stores screen data of the “abnormality occurrence list” screen. The screen creation unit 54 retrieves the screen data of the screen of the abnormality occurrence list from the screen data storage unit 52. The screen display unit 55 displays a system configuration diagram (screen of selected screen data) to be displayed on the screen display device 40, and displays the screen of the screen of the abnormality occurrence list taken out by the screen creation unit 54 as a system configuration diagram. Overlaid on the screen. When this abnormality list is closed, a screen to be displayed first appears. As a result, when an abnormality occurs, it is possible to first grasp the overall image of where the abnormality has occurred among the elevators of the entire system (building), and the subsequent response becomes easy.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a multi-screen displayed when the process proceeds to YES in step 105 in FIG. In this example, the images are displayed side by side in parallel, but this is an example of a default display, which may be arranged vertically on the screen. Further, the display may be shifted by performing enlargement / reduction after the display. As described above, when an abnormality occurs, the optimal screen displayed first is a multi-screen, so that it is easy to identify an abnormal place and a cause even when it is difficult to grasp the situation on one screen.

In the above embodiment,
A system state management unit that manages the state of the elevator and the communication state with peripheral devices;
A screen data storage unit for storing various screen data for displaying the state of the elevator;
A stem parameter storage unit that defines which screen to display according to the state of the elevator,
Determine the device, location, and type of error occurrence, determine what screen is necessary from the system parameter storage unit according to the state, and optimal screen data to be displayed first when an error occurs from the screen data storage unit A screen creation unit that retrieves
The elevator monitoring apparatus provided with the screen display part which outputs the produced screen to the screen display apparatus was demonstrated.

The figure which shows the example of the hardware resource of the elevator monitoring apparatus 50 in Embodiment 1. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a monitoring system according to Embodiment 1. FIG. 4 is a system parameter according to the first embodiment. The process definition in Embodiment 1. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the operation of the screen creation unit 54 in the first embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing display of an abnormality occurrence list in the first embodiment. 4A and 4B illustrate multi-screen display in Embodiment 1.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Elevator, 20 Elevator control apparatus, 30 Data conversion apparatus, 40 Screen display apparatus, 50 Elevator monitoring apparatus, 51 System state management part, 52 Screen data storage part, 53 System parameter storage part, 54 Screen creation part, 55 Screen display part .

Claims (4)

A monitoring unit that monitors the occurrence of an abnormality between the elevator and the system that controls the elevator, and outputs abnormal state information indicating an abnormal state when the occurrence of the abnormality is detected;
A screen data storage unit that stores, for each candidate screen, screen data of a plurality of candidate screens that are screen candidates determined to be displayed according to the contents of the abnormal state information;
A display screen designation information storage unit that stores display screen designation information in which correspondence between the contents of the abnormal state information and the screen to be displayed is designated;
The abnormal state information output from the monitoring unit is input, and based on the abnormal state information and the display screen designation information, from among the screen data of the plurality of candidate screens stored in the screen data storage unit Selecting the screen data of a screen to be displayed as selection screen data, and a screen data extraction unit for extracting the selected selection screen data from the screen data storage unit;
The elevator monitoring apparatus provided with the screen display part which displays the screen of the said selection screen data taken out by the said screen data extraction part on a display apparatus. The display screen designation information storage unit
Storing a process definition in which a display rule of the selection screen data is defined when a plurality of the screen data is selected as the selection screen data;
The screen data extraction unit
The elevator monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a plurality of screen data is selected as the selection screen data, the screen data is extracted from the screen data storage unit according to the process definition. The process definition stored in the display screen designation information storage unit is:
It is defined that each screen of the plurality of selection screen data is displayed as a multi-screen,
The screen data extraction unit
In accordance with the processing definition, a plurality of the selection screen data is extracted from the screen data storage unit, and a multi-screen is configured from the plurality of the selection screen data extracted,
The screen display unit
The elevator monitoring apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a multi-screen configured by the screen data extraction unit is displayed on the display device. The screen data storage unit
Stores the screen data of the screen of abnormal occurrence list,
The screen data extraction unit
The screen data of the screen of the abnormality occurrence list is extracted from the screen data storage unit,
The screen display unit
The screen of the selection screen data is displayed on the display device, and the screen of the screen of the abnormality occurrence list taken out by the screen data extraction unit is displayed over the screen of the selection screen data. The elevator monitoring apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3.

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