JP2016116083A - Building equipment remote monitoring system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a building equipment remote monitoring system for making it possible to mitigate monitoring work's load on a control staff of a monitoring center of another company, and rapidly restore building equipment from abnormality.SOLUTION: A building equipment remote monitoring system comprises: a terminal device 1C for reporting abnormality information on building equipment 1a, 1b to an own company's control center 3 through the Internet 2; communication means 5A, 8 that are provided at another company's monitoring center 5 connected to the own company's control center 3 through the Internet 2 and access the own company's control center 3 at predetermined time interval in predetermined order; occupant counting devices 12, 13 that are provided in the own company's control center 3 and count the number of occupants in the other company's monitoring center 5 in the case of having detected access from the other company's monitoring center 5; and a transmission destination management device 15 that transmits abnormality information to be distributed to the other company's monitoring center 5 to the own company's control center 3, when it is determined by the occupant counting devices 12, 13 that the other company's monitoring center 5 have no occupants.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a remote monitoring system for building equipment.

  In recent years, with the widespread use of personal computers and the Internet, the number of companies that remotely monitor building equipment has increased, and companies that perform remote monitoring have dispatched bases throughout the country, and instructed to respond to the dispatched bases from their own control centers. There are various types of companies such as small-scale companies (hereinafter referred to as “own”), small-scale companies that monitor building facilities and equipment in the area limited to the municipal level, and privately-managed companies (hereinafter referred to as other companies).

  In addition, when another company borrows its own control center that receives building equipment and equipment abnormality information, and the abnormality information for other company's equipment is sent to the own control center, the relevant control information is reported from the own control center to the other company's monitoring center. A technique is disclosed (Patent Document 1).

  Also, in other company monitoring centers, on Saturdays and Sundays, holidays, and at night (for example, 18: 00 to 8:00), the company's own control center may be requested to perform monitoring work including abnormality recovery work for equipment. , A technology is disclosed to deal with abnormal information from equipment monitored by other company's monitoring center, if the reception date of the company's own control center is a holiday or night (patent) Reference 2).

Japanese Patent No. 5314741 Japanese Patent No. 3445863

  The techniques of Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 described above transmit the abnormal information on the building equipment to the other company's monitoring center via the company's own control center, and switch the abnormality information on holidays and nights from the other company's monitoring center to the company's own control center. Is effective in reducing capital investment in small-scale monitoring centers of other companies, and in reducing operations of control personnel in other monitoring centers.

  However, the control personnel of other companies' monitoring centers often have other duties, and they are not always dedicated to monitoring the building equipment. There was a case where the controller could not handle the abnormal information of the equipment and equipment, and there was a problem that the restoration work was delayed and inconvenienced the residents of the building.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a remote monitoring system for building equipment that can alleviate the burden of monitoring work by a control member of another company's monitoring center and can quickly cope with the recovery of the building equipment that has an abnormality.

  In order to achieve the above-described object, the present invention provides the company connected via the Internet when an abnormality is detected in the building equipment monitored by another company's monitoring center and the building equipment monitored by its own control center. To the control center, the terminal device for issuing the abnormality information and the provider of the abnormality information monitored by the other company monitoring center connected to the company's own control center via the Internet are connected to the other company monitoring center during weekdays. In a remote monitoring system for building equipment that includes a monitoring schedule storage device serving as the company's own control center at night and on holidays, the remote control system is provided in the other company's monitoring center, and is provided to the company's own control center in a predetermined order at predetermined time intervals. Communication means to access, provided in the company's own control center, and when the access is detected, the resident room of the other company's monitoring center Occupant counting device, and when the occupant counting device determines that there is no occupant in the other company monitoring center, transmission destination management that transmits abnormal information to be distributed to the other company monitoring center to the own control center The occupant counting device is provided with an authentication code stored in advance in a card possessed by a monitor of the other company monitoring center on the entrance side and the exit side of the door of the other company monitoring center. The entrance / exit history read and stored by the side card reader and the exit side card reader is obtained, and the entrance / exit history is added / subtracted to determine the number of people in the other company monitoring center.

  According to the present invention, even if it is abnormal information that the other company's monitoring center performs monitoring work, if it is determined that there is no occupant in the other company's monitoring center, the monitoring control by the company's own control center is performed. It is possible to promptly respond to the recovery of equipment and equipment that have occurred.

It is a block diagram which shows one Embodiment of the remote monitoring system of the building equipment apparatus of this invention. . It is a figure of the occupant storage device shown in FIG. It is a flowchart explaining operation | movement of one Embodiment of the remote monitoring system of the building equipment apparatus of this invention.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a remote monitoring system for building equipment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  1 and 2, the buildings 1 to 1N are provided with a water receiving tank facility 2 and a power receiving facility 3 that are equipment, and a monitoring terminal 1c connected to the water receiving layer facility 1a and the power receiving facility 1b. A water-reduction signal or a full-water signal that is an abnormal signal that is output when the water-receiving tank facility 1a detects a water level abnormality such as low water or full water, a recovery signal that is output when the water level returns from the low or full water to a normal water level, and a power-receiving facility 1b When power is detected, a power failure signal and a power recovery signal that are output are transmitted to the terminal device 1c. The terminal device 1c outputs alarm information including an abnormal signal to the own control center 3 via the Internet 2, and the own control center 3 Are stored in a later-described report history database 4.

  In addition, the water reduction signal of the water tank facility 1a of the building 1 stored in the report history data pace 4 is provided in the other company monitoring center 5 that accesses the company control center 3 through the Internet 2 at a predetermined cycle, By distributing the information to the personal computer 5A (hereinafter referred to as the personal computer 5A) that performs the monitoring work for the equipment of the building 1 under the contract, the monitoring personnel (not shown) of the other company monitoring center 5 performs the monitoring work.

  Here, the other company's monitoring center 5 carries out the monitoring operation of the equipment according to the contract of the customer who is the owner of the building 1, for example, and the abnormality signal of the equipment is directly transmitted from the terminal device 1c installed in the building 1 to the other company. It is not transmitted to the personal computer 5A of the monitoring center 5, but is configured to be distributed via the company control center 3.

  On the other hand, for the monitoring operation of the equipment and equipment according to the contract of the customer who is the owner who owns the building 1N with the company, it is distributed to any of the monitoring consoles 3A to 3N provided in the company control center 3.

  In addition, the other company monitoring center 5 can also entrust monitoring work at, for example, a holiday and at night from 18:00 to 7:59 to the company control center 6, and the monitoring schedule data for the reception time of the notification information is provided. This can be realized by changing the distribution destination from the personal computer 5A of the other company's monitoring center 5 to the monitoring consoles 3A to 3N of the company's own control center 3 according to the date, day of the week, and time stored in advance in the storage device 6.

  The other company's monitoring center 5 is provided in one room of the building 7, and in the vicinity of the doors 7A to 7C of each room of the building 7, there are card readers 7Aa to 7Ca for entrance that read a card (not shown) with an authentication code attached. , Exit card readers 7Ab to 7Cb are provided, and these entrance / exit card readers 7Aa to 7Cb transmit an authentication code to the terminal device 8 to be connected, and receive an unlock signal of a locking device (not shown) of the doors 7A to 7C. It is acquired from the terminal device 8.

  Further, the terminal device 8 is connected to the input / output unit 8A connected to the doors 7A to 7C and the entrance / exit card readers 7Aa to 7Cb, and is connected to the input / output unit 8A to control each device provided with the terminal device 8. Control unit 8B to perform, storage for each authentication code that is connected to the control unit 8B and enables unlocking of the locking device (not shown) of the doors 7A to 7C, and the authentication code of the input card (not shown) or unlocked The doors 7A to 7C are not shown in response to the authentication code transmitted from the entry / exit card readers 7Aa to 7Cb according to the command of the control unit 8B and the storage unit 8C including the entrance / exit history storage 8Ca for storing the doors 7A to 7C. Compared with an authentication code that enables unlocking of the locking device, an authentication unit 8D that outputs to the control unit 8B whether or not the locking device (not shown) can be unlocked, and to the control unit 8 and the personal computer 5A of the other company monitoring center 5 It is continued, and a communication unit 8E connecting the control center 3 and remotely house via the Internet 2, in being configured.

  Here, the control unit 8 outputs an unlocking signal to the locking devices (not shown) of the doors 7A to 7C via the input / output unit 8A, and stores it in the entry / exit history storage 8Ca upon request from the company control center 3. The entry / exit history data is transmitted to the company control center 3.

  The communication unit 8E connects the personal computer 5A and the company control center 3 via the Internet 2 by accessing the personal computer 5A in a predetermined cycle.

  Next, the company control center 3 is connected to the Internet 2 and connected to the communication device 9 for transmitting and receiving the alert information and the communication device 9 and the monitoring consoles 3A to 3N, and controls the transmission and reception of the alert information. Transmission / reception control device 10 connected to the transmission / reception control device 10, and a data collection device 11 that separates and stores received notification information and the like, and is connected to the data collection device 11 and received from the terminal device 8. An entrance / exit history storage device 12 for storing exit / exit history data, and a occupant counting device that is connected to the entrance / exit history storage device 12 and measures the number of people in the other company's monitoring center 5, for example, a room from the entrance / exit history data. 13, a occupant number storage device 14 connected to the occupant counting device 13 and storing the number of people in the other company monitoring center 5, for example, a data collection device 11, and a monitoring schedule to be described later A report history database 4 connected to the device 15 for storing report information, a report history database 4, a resident number storage device 14, a monitoring schedule storage device 6, and a monitoring schedule device connected to the transmission / reception control device 10. 15 and at least.

  Further, the transmission / reception control device 10 distributes the notification information transmitted from the monitoring terminal 1C to the personal computer 5A of the other company monitoring center 5, transmits it to the monitoring consoles 3A to 3N, and the other company monitoring center 5 for the terminal device 8. Control for transmission, such as a request for transmission of entry / exit history data, detection information transmitted from the monitoring terminal 1C, detection of access from the other company monitoring center 5, and entry / exit distributed from the terminal device 8 The received information such as history data is identified and controlled.

  Further, when the transmission / reception control device 10 detects the access of the personal computer 5A of the other company's monitoring center 5, the monitoring schedule device 15 stores the entry / exit history to the control unit 8B of the terminal device 8 via the transmission / reception control device 10 and the communication device 9. The distribution schedule data of the other company monitoring center 5 stored in the part 8Ca is requested, and the monitoring schedule of the other company monitoring center 5 stored in the monitoring schedule storage device 6 according to the date and time when the personal computer 5A is accessed, With reference to the number of people in the other company monitoring center 5 stored in the room number storage device 14, the alarm information monitored by the other company monitoring center 5 stored in the alarm history database 4 is distributed to the personal computer 5A. Whether to transmit to the monitoring consoles 3A to 3N is determined.

  The entry / exit history data of the other company monitoring center 5 acquired from the entry / exit history storage unit 8Ca and stored in the entry / exit history storage device 12 by the data collecting device 11 is entered by the occupant counting device 13 into the card reader 7Aa for entering the room. Is added when the authentication code of the card (not shown) is read, and is subtracted when the card reader 7Ab reads the authentication code of the card (not shown), and the result is stored in the occupancy number storage device 14.

  Here, the number of occupants of the other company monitoring center 5 stored in the occupant number storage device 14 will be described with reference to FIG.

  In FIG. 2, the occupancy number storage device 14 indicates the door 7A from the door number 14A for identifying the door 7A of the other company monitoring center 5 and the authentication code authenticated by the entrance card reader 7Aa and the exit card reader 7Ab. An authentication code 14B that allows the unlocking of the locking device not to be unlocked, and an authentication time 14C at which the entrance card reader 7Aa and the exit card reader 7Ab authenticate the authentication code 14B that permits the unlocking of the locking device (not shown) of the door 7A, The number of occupants 14D of the other company monitoring center 5 counted by the occupant counting device 13 includes, for example, an authentication time 14C of “17:57” and an authentication code 14B of “0007-003” (not shown). Since the card reader 7Aa authenticates the card, the number of occupants 14D is “2” and it is determined that there are two occupants, and the authentication time 14C is “1”. : 02 ”, the leaving card reader 7Ab authenticates a card (not shown) whose authentication code 14B is“ 0007-002 ”, so the number of occupants 14D is“ 1 ”and it is determined that one person is resident. .

  Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  In FIG. 3, when the communication device 9 of the own control center 3 detects information transmission or the like at 18:31 (step S1) (step S1), the transmission / reception control device 10 receives information from other company monitoring centers including the other company monitoring center 5. It is determined whether or not the access is based on a predetermined period (step S2), and if it is determined that the access is not based on the predetermined period of the other company's monitoring center, the transmission / reception control device 10 determines whether or not there is abnormality information related to an abnormality or restoration of the building equipment. If it is determined (step S3) and it is determined that the information is abnormal information, the data collection device 11 is activated, and the data collection device 11 stores the transmitted abnormality information in the notification history database 4 (step S4). Here, when the reception control device 10 determines in step S3 that the information is not abnormal information, other processing is performed (step S5).

  Next, when the transmission / reception control device 10 determines in step S2 that the access is from another company's monitoring center, it specifies an access destination (step S6). Here, the access destination can be specified by collating the destination IP address to be added to the transmission information. In the case of access from the personal computer 5A of the other company monitoring center 5, the access destination is attached to the communication unit 8E of the terminal device 8. Can be identified by the IP address.

  Next, the transmission / reception control device 10 instructs the data collection device 11 to extract abnormality information for the equipment that is monitored by the other company's monitoring center 5 that is the access destination. , The presence / absence of abnormality information for the other company's monitoring center 5 is determined (step S7). If there is no abnormality information, “no abnormality” is set (step S8). If there is abnormality information in step S7, a notification is issued. Abnormal information for the other company monitoring center 5 is extracted from the history database 4 (step S9).

  In step S6, the transmission / reception control device 10 identified as the access destination of the other company's monitoring center 5 activates the monitoring schedule device 15, and the monitoring schedule device 15 controls the control unit via the accessed communication unit 8E. 8B is requested from the entry / exit history storage unit 8Ca to distribute the entry / exit history data of the unreceived part to the other company monitoring center 5.

  Next, when the entry / exit history data of the other company monitoring center 5 of the non-reception unit is distributed from the entry / exit history storage unit 8Ca of the terminal device 5, the transmission / reception control device 10 activates the data collection device 11 to be distributed. The entry / exit history data is stored in the entry / exit history storage device 12 (step S10).

  Next, the occupant counting device 13 determines the occupancy status of the other company monitoring center 5 from the entry / exit history data of the other company monitoring center 5 distributed from the terminal device 5 and stored in the enrollment room history storage unit 12. Accordingly, the above-described calculation is performed, and the result shown in FIG. 2 is stored in the occupant storage device 14 (step S11).

  Next, the monitoring schedule device 15 refers to the monitoring schedule storage device 6 to check whether the other company's monitoring center 5 monitors the abnormality information received at 18:31 (step S12). The monitoring business destination is determined (step S13).

  Next, when the monitoring schedule device 15 determines that the monitoring business is the other company's monitoring center 5, the monitoring schedule device 15 refers to the occupant storage device 14 and determines whether there is a resident in the other company's monitoring center 5 (step S14). . Here, as shown in FIG. 2, the occupant at 18:30 of the other company's monitoring center 5 is “O” and there is no occupant, so the abnormality information extracted in step S9 is used as the own control center 3. Are transmitted to any one of the reception desks 3A to 3N (step S15). Here, the process of the monitoring schedule device 15 performed in step S14 and step S15 indicates the transmission destination management device.

  Further, the monitoring schedule device 15 that has determined in step S14 that there is a resident in the other company monitoring center 5 distributes the abnormality information to the personal computer 5A of the other company monitoring center 5 (step S16).

  In step S13, if the monitoring schedule device 15 determines that the other company's monitoring center 5 is entrusting the monitoring work to the company control senk 3 at 18:00 to 7:59 at night, the process proceeds to step S15. The abnormality information is sent back to any of the receiving consoles 3A to 3N of the company control center 3.

  According to the present embodiment, when the other company monitoring center 5 receives the abnormality information for performing the monitoring work, the data collecting device stores it in the report history database 4, and the other company monitoring center 5 uses the personal computer 5A to the own control center 3. When an access at a predetermined cycle is detected, the monitoring schedule device 15 of the own control center 3 acquires the entry / exit history of the other company monitoring center 5 to confirm the occupancy status of the other company monitoring center 5, and the occupant counting device 13 When the occupants of the other company monitoring center 5 are counted, and the occupant is not present, the abnormal information that the other company monitoring center 5 stores in the report history database 4 carries out the monitoring work is displayed on the monitoring console 3A of the own control center 3. Send to any of ~ 3N.

  Because it did in this way, even if the other company monitoring center 5 performs the monitoring work, when there is no resident in the other company monitoring center 5, the monitoring control by the company control center 3 is implemented. It is possible to promptly restore equipment that has malfunctioned.

1-1N Building 1a Water-receiving tank facility 1b Power-receiving facility 1c Monitoring terminal 2 Internet 3 In-house control center 3A-3N Monitoring console 4 Report history database 5 Other company monitoring center 5A Personal computer 6 Monitoring schedule storage device 7 Building 7A-7C Door 7Aa- 7Ca entry card reader 7Ab to 7Cb exit card reader 8 terminal device 8A input / output unit 8B control unit 8C storage unit 8Ca entry / exit history storage unit 8D authentication unit 8E communication unit 9 communication unit 10 transmission / reception control unit 11 data collection unit 12 enlistment Room history storage device 13 occupant counting device 14 occupant storage device 14A door number 14B authentication code 14C authentication time 14D number of occupants 15 monitoring schedule device

Claims (2)

When an abnormality is detected in the building equipment monitored by another company's monitoring center and the building equipment monitored by the company's own control center, a terminal that issues the abnormality information to the company's own control center connected via the Internet Monitoring device is provided with the abnormality information monitored by the other company's monitoring center connected to the company's own control center via the Internet, to the other company's monitoring center on weekdays and to the company's own control center on weekday nights and holidays. In a remote monitoring system for building equipment including a schedule storage device,
Communication means provided in the other company's monitoring center and accessing the company's own control center in a predetermined order at predetermined time intervals;
A occupant counting device that is provided in the company control center and counts occupants of the other company's monitoring sen when detecting the access;
When this occupant counting device determines that there are no occupants in the other company monitoring center, a transmission destination management device that transmits abnormal information to be distributed to the other company monitoring center to the company control center,
A remote monitoring system for building equipment, characterized by comprising: The remote monitoring system for building equipment according to claim 1,
The occupant counting device includes an entrance side card reader and an exit side provided on an entrance side and an exit side of a door of the other company monitoring center with an authentication code stored in advance in a card possessed by a monitor of the other company monitoring center. A remote monitoring system for building equipment characterized by obtaining an entry / exit history read and stored by a card reader and adding / subtracting the entry / exit history to determine the number of people in the other company's monitoring center.