JP2910263B2 - Notification device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a notifying device for notifying a central monitoring device of a meter reading or the like at a predetermined time or a predetermined cycle when an abnormal condition occurs in a facility of a building or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An embodiment according to the prior art relating to the present invention will be described with reference to a timing chart shown in FIG.
In the figure, the horizontal direction indicates the elapsed time, and the vertical direction indicates, in order from the top, a status notification request to be issued when an abnormal condition occurs, and a time to request to be issued at a predetermined time. It shows a process of issuing a report request and actually notifying the central monitoring device via a communication line.

[0003] When the conventional notification device recognizes that the status notification request a has occurred, it performs a notification process A for the factor a. Next, when the time report request b occurs, a report process B for the cause b is performed. For example, even if the time notification request b occurs during the notification process A, the notification process B for the factor b is performed again after the process A is completed.

[0004]

However, in the above-described configuration, the reporting process based on the status report request and the reporting process based on the time report request are performed independently of each other. The monitoring equipment had to respond several times. Therefore, there has been a problem that costs such as communication line usage fees and labor costs on the central monitoring device side are high.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional problems, and provides a reporting device capable of promptly analyzing and responding to abnormalities without increasing the communication line usage fee or the labor cost of the central monitoring device. It is intended to do so.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a reporting device which issues a reporting request when a reporting factor such as an abnormal condition occurs. A periodic reporting unit for requesting periodic reporting, and a reporting unit for reporting to the central monitoring device via a communication line in response to a status reporting request from the status monitoring reporting unit or a time reporting request from the periodic reporting unit. And an alarm time determination unit that determines a time difference between an alarm request from the state monitoring alarm unit and a next alarm request time from the periodic alarm unit, and determines that the time difference is within a predetermined time. In such a case, the content of the report by the regular report unit is reported together with the report by the status report request.

[0007]

According to the present invention, when the time difference between the next alarm request generation time from the regular alarm unit and the alarm request from the state monitoring alarm unit is determined to be within a predetermined time, the alarm is generated. The content of the report by the regular report section is reported together with the report request.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a notification device according to the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes an abnormality detecting unit for detecting that an abnormal state has occurred in a facility device of a building, and a signal from the abnormality detecting unit 1 enters a state monitoring and alarming unit 2 and a state monitoring and alarming unit 2 Receives the signal input and requests the notification unit 5 to notify the central monitoring device 4 via the communication line 3 that a notification factor such as an abnormal condition has occurred. Reference numeral 6 denotes a meter having a meter reading value and the like. Reference numeral 7 denotes a regular notification unit which requests the reporting unit 5 to notify the central monitoring device 4 of the meter reading value and the like when a predetermined time comes. The notification unit 5 receives the above-mentioned request for notification and notifies the central monitoring device. That is, when the status report request is received, the abnormal state of the abnormality detection unit 1 is reported, and when the time report request is received, the meter reading value of the meter 6 and the like are reported. Reference numeral 8 denotes an alarm time determination unit that determines whether a time difference between the alarm request from the state monitoring alarm unit 2 and the next alarm request time from the periodic alarm unit 7 is within a predetermined time.

In the above configuration, the reporting unit 5 reports the abnormal state of the abnormality detecting unit 1 when receiving the status report request, and reports the meter reading value of the meter 6 when receiving the time report request. Further, if it is determined that the time difference between the status report request from the status monitoring report section 2 and the next report request generation time of the regular report section 7 is within a predetermined time, the report processing by the status report request is performed. Then, the report contents of the regular report section are collectively processed. With this configuration, there is an effect that it is possible to quickly analyze and deal with abnormalities without increasing a communication line usage fee or a labor cost of the central monitoring device. Although the abnormality detection unit 1 and the meter 6 are described as separate components in this embodiment, for example, in the case of a gas meter with a safety function, the information that the gas shutoff valve is closed due to an abnormality in the gas flow rate is used as the abnormality detection unit. The signal can be treated as a component of the same meter. The time report request from the regular report unit 7 may be a predetermined date and time of a calendar, a time determined by a cycle at a predetermined time interval, or the like. As described above, if the time information is transmitted together with the information of the periodic report such as the meter reading value, even if the information is reported to the central monitoring device together with the abnormality information, the processing can be performed without any trouble.

FIG. 2 is a timing chart of a notification process by the notification device of the present invention. As in FIG. 3, the horizontal direction indicates elapsed time, and the vertical direction indicates, in order from the top, a status notification request to be issued when an abnormal condition occurs, and a request to be issued at a predetermined time. A time notification request and a process of actually notifying the central monitoring device via a communication line are shown. When recognizing that the status notification request a has occurred, the apparatus determines whether the difference t ₁ between the occurrence time of the factor a and the time of the next notification request b of the periodic notification unit 7 is within a predetermined time T _S. The alarm time determination unit 8 determines whether or not the notification has been made. Then, when the factor a occurs earlier than the factor b by the time t1 as shown in the same figure, since it is within the predetermined time T _S , the reporting process B for the factor b is collectively performed as the reporting process A for the factor a. I do. However, if the difference between the occurrence times of the factors b and a is not within the predetermined time T _S , the notification process B for the factor b is performed independently of the notification process A for the factor a. Here, changing the predetermined time T _S according to the content of the factor a or the factor b also has an effect on the notification processing.

[0012]

As described above, according to the notification device of the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

When the difference between the next report request generation time of the regular report section and the state report request time is within a predetermined time, the report by the regular report section is made by the report report section. Since the contents are reported together, the number of times of use of communication lines can be reduced, and the central monitoring equipment side can also cope with them together, reducing line usage charges and suppressing an increase in personnel costs on the central monitoring equipment side. be able to.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a notification device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a timing chart of a notification process in the device.

FIG. 3 is a timing chart of a notification process in a conventional notification device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Status monitoring / reporting unit 3 Communication line 4 Central monitoring device 5 Reporting unit 7 Scheduled reporting unit 8 Reporting time judgment unit 9 Reporting device

────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Yoshiyuki Oishi 1006 Kazuma Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka Inside Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (56) References JP-A-2-51799 (JP, A) (58) Survey Field (Int.Cl. ⁶ , DB name) H04M 11/00

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A condition monitoring and reporting unit for requesting a report when a reporting factor such as an abnormal condition occurs, a regular reporting unit for requesting a report at a predetermined time or a predetermined cycle, and the condition monitoring and reporting unit A notification unit for notifying the central monitoring device via a communication line in response to a status report request from the system or a time report request from the scheduled report unit; a report request from the status monitor report unit and the scheduled report A notification time determination unit for determining a time difference from a next notification request time from the notification unit, and when the time difference is determined to be within a predetermined time, a periodic notification unit is added to the notification by the status notification request. A notification device that collectively reports the contents of alerts issued by