JP3025573B2 - Building remote monitoring 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 building remote monitoring apparatus, and more particularly to a building remote monitoring apparatus for remotely monitoring an abnormality of equipment installed in a building by a central monitoring apparatus via a terminal device of the building. About.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A building remote monitoring device for remotely monitoring a facility device installed in a building with a central monitoring device via a terminal device provided in the building without a resident of the building in the building is managed. It is widely used in consideration of cost reduction and other aspects.

In this type of building remote monitoring device, as disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 62-251900, a terminal device provided in the building detects an abnormality of equipment installed in the building. And an alarm device that performs an automatic dial operation when the sensor detects an abnormality. In addition, an operator is resident at the central monitoring device connected to the terminal device via a communication line, receives an alarm from the alarm device of the terminal device, performs necessary actions, and remotely controls the facility equipment of the building. Monitoring.

In such a conventional remote monitoring device, terminal devices in a plurality of buildings are intensively monitored by the central monitoring device, and an operator of the central monitoring device issues an alarm from the alarm device indicating an abnormality of the equipment. When the information is received, a request for dispatch of a technician to the building is made to the nearest service station of the building where the equipment is installed by using a facsimile or a telephone, and the equipment of the plurality of buildings is installed. Handle recovery work efficiently.

[0005]

In the conventional building remote monitoring apparatus, every time an abnormality occurs in equipment, the central monitoring apparatus displays and prints information on the abnormality by the display recording means. Measures were being taken to deal with the anomaly. For this reason, when a large number of alarms of equipment and devices occur simultaneously and centrally, the processing of the CPU of the central monitoring device is not performed promptly, and the display and printing of the error information by the display recording unit may be delayed. When this happens,
The problem was that the response to the abnormality on the central monitoring equipment was delayed.

[0006] As an example in which a large number of abnormal alerts are simultaneously generated in such a manner, the power supply to a specific area is stopped due to the torrential rain, and the terminal devices belonging to the area are simultaneously caused by the power failure. There is a local power outage alert that reports. in this case,
There is a particular problem if an abnormality with a high degree of urgency occurs during the process of processing such an abnormality with a low degree of urgency, because the response to the abnormality with a high degree of urgency is delayed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the present situation of a building remote monitoring apparatus as described above, and has as its object to perform a monitoring process even in the event of an emergency in which a large number of abnormalities of equipment and devices occur simultaneously. Is to provide a building remote monitoring device that can quickly perform the monitoring without delay.

[0008]

According to the present invention, a terminal device is provided in a building in which facility equipment is installed, and the terminal device detects a failure in the facility equipment by using a communication line. An alarm is issued to the central monitoring device through the central monitoring device. In the central monitoring device, a determination unit determines the type of the alarm notification, and a display recording unit displays and prints the information of the abnormality notification. In the apparatus, when the determination unit receives a specific abnormality report set in advance, a search unit that searches the report region of the abnormality report and counts the number of receptions of the abnormal report for each search area, Switching means for switching the operation of the display recording means so that when the count value of the counting means exceeds a predetermined value set in advance, the information of the specific abnormal alert is printed for each contact of the alert area. And the central monitoring device It is the installed configuration.

[0009]

With such a configuration, in the central monitoring device, when the discriminating means receives a predetermined specific abnormality report from the terminal device, the counting means operates to search and retrieve the area where the abnormality report is issued. Count the number of abnormal alerts received for each district.
When the count value of the counting means exceeds a predetermined value, the operation of the display recording means is switched by the switching means so as to print information on a specific abnormality report for each contact of the report area. . In this way, the specific abnormal alert that has been set in advance is promptly and efficiently processed intensively for each contact in the alert area.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. Here, FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of the embodiment, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of one half of the embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of another half of the embodiment. .

The embodiment is a case in which an abnormal alarm based on a local earthquake is set to a specific abnormal alarm. As shown in FIG. 1, the entire equipment is disposed in a building and the equipment installed in the building is installed. It comprises a plurality of terminal devices 21A to 21N to be monitored and a central monitoring device 20 connected to these terminal devices 21A to 21N via a communication line. In particular, in the embodiment, the central monitoring device 20 includes a local power outage determination unit 34, a contact address determination unit 40, and a list storage unit 41. When the local power outage determining unit 34 confirms a local abnormally occurring alarm, which is a preset abnormal alarm, the number of receptions in each area where the alarm is generated is counted. 40, the list storage unit 41 for each contact.
To be stored. Then, for each contact point of the occurrence area, information on the abnormality notification set in advance is collectively transmitted by the FAX transmission unit 42.

First, the configuration of the embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

In the central monitoring device 20, a power outage judging unit 32 is connected to the receiving unit 31. The power outage judging unit 32 is connected to a local power outage judging unit 34, a local power outage data sorting unit 33, and the alarm accumulation unit 14. I have. The local power outage judging section 34 is connected to a timekeeping section 35 and a local power outage data selecting section 33, and the local power outage data selecting section 33
And the contact address determination unit 40. The alert storage unit 14 is connected to an alert printing unit 15 and an alert display unit 16.

The contact address determination section 40 includes a list storage section 41
A to the list storage unit 41N are connected, and a list storage unit 50 is connected to these list storage units 41A to 41N. A data count unit 51 and an elapsed time count unit 52 are connected between the list storage units 41A to 41N and the list storage unit 50.
Is connected to a FAX transmission unit 42.

The receiving section 31 of the central monitoring device 20 having such a configuration is connected to the terminal devices 21A to 21N by a communication line via a circuit switch 29, and
The AX transmission unit 42 is connected to the service centers 61A to 61N by a communication line via the line switch 29a.

Here, the power outage judging section 32 corresponds to the judging means of the present invention, and has a function of judging whether or not the abnormal alarm received by the receiving section 31 is an abnormal alarm of a power outage. The unit 34 corresponds to the counting means of the present invention, and has a function of determining that an abnormal notification of the occurrence of a power failure is based on the occurrence of a local power failure. Then, the local power outage determination unit 34 determines whether the terminal device 21A
A district code record field 37 for recording a district code indicating the area of the building where 21N is installed, a frequency field 38 for adding and recording the number of abnormal power failures in the district, and a frequency field 3
When a predetermined number of times is recorded within a predetermined period of time counted by the counting clock input from the counting unit 35, a flag column 39 indicating the occurrence of a local power failure is provided.

The local power outage data selection section 33 corresponds to the switching means of the present invention. When the abnormal power outage is determined to be a local power outage by the local power outage determination section 34, the abnormal power outage is notified to the contact address determination section 40. Has the function of inputting to the Further, the alarm storage unit 14 has an ino for storing data of an abnormal alarm other than a power outage and an abnormal alarm due to a power outage other than a local power outage. It has a function of printing or displaying the data of the abnormality report stored in the report storage unit 14, respectively.

Similarly, the contact determination section 40 selects the contact information of the abnormality report input from the local power outage data selection section 33 to any of the preset service centers 61A to 61N and responds. It has a function of storing in the list storage units 41A to 41N. The list storage unit 50 stores
A function of storing the abnormality alerts input from the storage units 41A to 41N for each service center;
When the data count unit 51 for counting the number of abnormal alerts input from N reaches a predetermined count value, or when a predetermined time has elapsed since an abnormal alert was input from the accumulation units 41A to 41N, When it is detected by the time counting unit 52, it has a function of inputting the stored abnormal alarm data to the FAX transmitting unit 42. Then, the fax transmission unit 42
Has a function of transmitting the abnormal alarm data input from the list storage unit 50 as described above collectively for each service center 61A to 61N via the communication line via the line exchange 29a. ing.

Next, the operation of the embodiment having such a configuration will be described.

When an abnormality occurs in the equipment installed in the building, the terminal equipment of the building detects one of the terminal equipments 21A to 21N and performs central monitoring through the circuit switch 29 via a communication line. An alarm is issued to the device 20. The alert signal of the abnormal alert is received by the receiving unit 31 of the central monitoring device 20, and the received alert signal is input to the power failure determining unit 32, and it is determined whether the abnormal alert is based on the power failure. You.

As a result of the judgment by the power failure judging section 32, if the abnormal alarm is based on an abnormal situation other than the power interruption, the alarm signal is input from the power interruption judging section 32 to the alarm accumulating section 14, and the alarm is generated. It is stored in the storage unit 14. Then, the information of the alarm signal read from the alarm storage unit 14 is displayed on the alarm display unit 1.
6 is printed by the alert printing unit 15. Also,
If the power outage determination unit 32 determines that the abnormal power outage is due to the power outage, the power outage determination unit 32 outputs the area code indicating the alarm location to the local power outage determination unit 34, and at the same time, issues the alarm to the local power outage data selection unit 33. Outputs signal data.

As described above, when the district code is input to the regional power outage judging section 34, the local power outage judging section 34 sets the district code section 37 if the district code has already been set in the district code section 37. The number of times in the frequency column 38 of the district is incremented by one, and if the district code is not set in the district code column 37, the district code is set in the district code column 37 and the district frequency is set in the frequency column 38 of the district row. Set 1.

By the way, in the embodiment, when an abnormal alarm is generated in the same area based on five power failures in five minutes, it is determined that a local power failure has occurred. As described above, the flag is not set in the flag column 39 until the number of power failure alarms recorded in the frequency column 38 of the same area code occurs five times in five minutes. However, when the display of the number of times column 38 of the same district code in the district code column 37 reaches 5 in 5 minutes, the local power outage judging section 34
Sets a flag in the flag column 38 of the district code.

Therefore, until the display of the frequency column 38 of the same district code column 37 becomes 5, the local power outage data selection unit 3
3 determines that the district code column 37 has the same district code as the alarm data received from the power failure determination unit 32, but the flag is not set in the corresponding flag column 39.
It is not determined that a local power outage has occurred. For this purpose, the local power outage data selection unit 33 inputs the alarm data to the alarm accumulation unit 14 and stores it. Then, the information of the alarm signal read from the alarm storage unit 14 is displayed on the alarm display unit 16 and printed by the alarm printing unit 15.

However, the local power outage data selection section 14 has the same area code as the alarm data received from the power outage determination section 32 in the area code section 37 and the corresponding flag section 39.
If it is determined that the flag is set, the occurrence of a local power outage is determined, and alarm data is input to the contact selection unit 40. Therefore, the contact selection section 40 searches whether or not the alarm data has already been registered in the list storage sections 41A to 41N corresponding to the contact information of the input alarm data. Enter the alarm data into. If the alarm data is not yet registered in the list storage units 41A to 41N corresponding to the contact information of the input alarm data, the alarm data is input to the list storage unit of the contact information and registered. When the alarm data is received by the list storage units 41A to 41N in this way, the received alarm data is stored in the list storage unit 50.

On the other hand, the data number counting section 51 counts the number of alarm data stored in the list storage section 50 from the list storage sections 41A to 41N.
2 counts the time from when the alarm data was received. Then, when the count value of the data number counting unit 51 reaches a predetermined value set in advance or when the elapsed time counting unit 52 counts a predetermined time set in advance, the list storage unit 50 stores the generated alarm data. The data is output to the FAX transmission unit 42, and the list storage unit 50, the data number counting unit 51,
The elapsed time counting section 52 is cleared.

As described above, when the alarm data is input from the list storage unit 50, the FAX transmitting unit 42 summarizes the building name of the designated contact with the abnormal alarm that is controlled by the contact. FAX transmission.

As described above, in the embodiment, when the local power outage data selection unit 33 confirms the local power outage, the power outage abnormal notification is issued by the notification destination selection unit 40 for each service station in the area. At the same time, FAX is
By transmitting the information, an action for responding to the occurrence of the abnormal power failure caused by the relatively low urgency of the local power outage is automated. For this reason, it is possible to quickly perform processing for another alarm notification with a higher degree of urgency without delay.

Although the embodiment has been described in connection with the case where the specific abnormal alert set in advance is an abnormal alert based on a local power failure, the present invention is not limited to the embodiment. It is also possible to set an abnormal alert based on a specific abnormal alert.

[0030]

According to the present invention, the counting means counts, by region, the number of reports received by the central monitoring device from the terminal device and determined by the determining means to be a specific abnormal notification set in advance. Is exceeded, the specific recording of the abnormalities is collectively printed for each contact in the area by the display recording means whose operation has been switched by the switching means, so that the processing of the specific abnormalities is efficiently performed. In addition, even when abnormal alerts are concentrated, abnormal alerts with higher urgency can be promptly processed without delay.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of one half of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the other half of the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 14 Alarm storage unit 15 Alarm printing unit 16 Alarm display unit 20 Central monitoring device 21A to 21N Terminal device 29, 29a Circuit exchange 32 Power failure determination unit 33 Regional power failure data selection unit 34 Regional power failure determination unit 40 Contact selection unit 41 List storage unit 42 FAX transmission unit

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A terminal device is arranged in a building in which equipment is installed. When the terminal detects an abnormality of the equipment, the terminal issues an abnormality to a central monitoring device via a communication line, In the monitoring device, the determining means determines the type of the abnormal alert, and the display recording means displays and prints the information of the abnormal alert. When receiving the report, a counting means for searching the reporting area of the abnormal report and counting the number of abnormal reports received for each search area, and the count value of the counting means exceeding a predetermined value set in advance And a switching unit for switching the operation of the display recording unit so as to print the information of the specific abnormal alert for each contact point of the alerting area, provided in the central monitoring device. Building remote monitoring device.