JP4681901B2 - Failure diagnosis system for disaster prevention equipment - Google Patents

Description

The present invention is, for example, when a failure occurs in a disaster prevention device such as a fire extinguisher, a sprinkler, a fire alarm, etc., and a manual for accurately diagnosing the state of the failure and, if necessary, solving the failure The present invention relates to a failure diagnosis system for a disaster prevention device that facilitates maintenance of the device.

  Conventionally, as this type of technology, for example, at least one work machine provided with a maintenance monitor device having communication means, a maintenance management server that manages failure information and operation information of the work machine for each work machine, Maintenance comprising a model-specific information server and a portable terminal for service personnel, wherein the maintenance monitoring device for the work machine, a maintenance management server, the model-specific information server, and the portable terminal are connected via the Internet The maintenance monitor device of the work machine collects operation information and failure information related to the work machine, stores them in a storage unit, and transmits the collected information to the maintenance management server via the communication unit and the Internet. The maintenance management server is configured to provide the operation information and the failure information. The operation information and the failure information are stored for each work machine, and the model-specific information server includes a manual database, a parts inventory database, and an estimation database for each model, and the work machine has a failure. Then, the maintenance monitor device transmits information related to the failure to the maintenance management server, and the maintenance management server transmits the occurrence fact of the failure to the portable terminal and displays it on the display unit. (See Patent Document 1).

  In the known technique disclosed in Patent Document 1, failure information of a work machine can be transmitted using a communication unit of a maintenance monitor device provided in the work machine, and information such as a manual can be obtained.

JP 2003-76416 A

However, in the publicly known technique of Patent Document 1, all work machines must be equipped with a maintenance monitor device having a communication means, which increases costs and is difficult to apply to existing devices. Has a problem.

Accordingly, there is a problem to be solved that failure diagnosis can be easily performed without providing communication means or the like in all apparatuses and that the apparatus can be easily applied to existing apparatuses.

As specific means for solving the problems of the conventional example described above, a disaster prevention device, a situation display means provided in the disaster prevention apparatus, a photography means capable of photographing the situation displayed on the situation display means, and the photography means Communication means for transmitting a photographed image to the server, and processing means for determining the status of the disaster prevention device from the image transmitted from the communication means to the server are provided. The status display means includes at least an operation confirmation lamp and a failure. A lamp including an occurrence confirmation lamp, and the processing unit stores in advance a normal image displayed on the status display unit including the lamp for each disaster prevention device , and the processing unit displays the status display that the image transmitted the normal time of the image displayed on the unit by the communication means as compared with the processing means for diagnosing a fault condition of the disaster prevention device, or the status display hand The encoded display of the status display means is captured by the imaging means and transmitted to the server, and the encoded display of the status display means is processed by the processing means to A failure diagnosis system for a disaster prevention device characterized by diagnosing a failure state of the disaster prevention device is provided.

In the above invention, as an additional requirement, the processing unit stores a manual for each disaster prevention device, and transmits a corresponding part of the manual corresponding to a failure state for each disaster prevention device to the communication unit. It is a waste.

  The failure diagnosis system for a disaster prevention device according to the present invention is a disaster prevention device, a situation display means provided in the disaster prevention apparatus, a photography means capable of photographing the situation displayed on the situation display means, and a photograph taken by the photography means. Communication means for transmitting an image to the server, and processing means for determining the status of the disaster prevention device from the image transmitted from the communication means to the server are provided, and the processing means includes a normal display displayed on the status display means. A time image is stored in advance for each disaster prevention device, and the normal image displayed on the status display means and the image transmitted by the communication means are compared by the processing means, and the failure of the disaster prevention device Diagnose the situation, or code the display of the status display means, take a picture of the coded display of the status display means by the photographing means and send it to the server, the coded state By processing the display image of the display means by the processing means and diagnosing the failure status of the disaster prevention device, the user is displayed on the status display means without providing communication means etc. in all the disaster prevention devices It is possible to easily check the failure status such as the cause of the failure just by sending the situation image to the server, and it can be easily applied to existing devices. Play.

Next, the present invention will be described in detail based on specific embodiments.
A failure diagnosis system for a disaster prevention device according to an embodiment of the present invention is used, for example, in a disaster prevention device such as a fire extinguisher, a sprinkler or a fire alarm. The situation and cause of the failure is easily diagnosed in a short time so that a manual for solving the failure can be easily presented if necessary.

  In this failure diagnosis system of the disaster prevention device, since the failure situation can be diagnosed based on the situation displayed on the situation display means 2 that is generally provided in the disaster prevention device 1 conventionally, it is also easy for the existing disaster prevention device 1 It can be applied to. An example of this status display means 2 is shown in FIG.

  The status display means 2 displays, for example, various operation confirmation lamps 3, failure occurrence confirmation lamps 4, code display portions 5 a and 5 b that code and display various information. Although not shown, the status display means 2 may be provided with, for example, a lamp for displaying the status / cause of the failure linked to an internal circuit, a terminal or a specific part.

The code display units 5a and 5b display information encoded in, for example, a character code, a barcode, a two-dimensional barcode, etc. composed of a plurality of digits of English / numeric characters. Examples of the information include one or two or more types of information such as failure status / cause (state ID), e-mail address, facility ID, device ID, or customer ID.

  FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of the failure diagnosis system for the disaster prevention device. First, in the situation display means 2 for displaying the situation of the disaster prevention device 1, when the situation display means 2 does not have the code display portions 5a and 5b that can display the information displayed by coding, the disaster prevention device is displayed in f1. At the time when the disaster prevention device 1 is installed, images of various lamps of the operation confirmation lamp 3 and the failure occurrence confirmation lamp 4 of the status display means 2 of the disaster prevention device 1 are displayed at the site where the disaster prevention device 1 is installed. Photographing f2 is performed by the photographing means. As this photographing means, for example, a camera-equipped mobile phone can be used.

  The images of the various lamps of the operation confirmation lamp 3 and the failure occurrence confirmation lamp 4 photographed by the photographing means are transmitted to the server f3 via the network using the communication means. As this communication means, for example, a mobile phone or the like can be used, and transmission can be performed from the communication means such as the mobile phone to a server, for example, by attaching an image to e-mail or the like. That is, by using a camera-equipped mobile phone as the photographing means and the communication means, an image photographed using the camera-equipped mobile phone can be easily transmitted to the server.

  This server is provided with a processing means, and this processing means is a normal operation of various lamps such as an operation confirmation lamp 3 and a failure occurrence confirmation lamp 4 displayed on the status display means 2 for each disaster prevention device 1. Images are stored in advance. This processing means may be, for example, a CPU provided in a server.

  When the server receives the images of the various lamps of the operation confirmation lamp 3 and the failure occurrence confirmation lamp 4 transmitted from the communication means, the processing means of the server stores the disaster prevention device 1 stored in the processing means in advance. A process of comparing the normal images of the various lamps displayed on each status display means 2 with the images of the various lamps transmitted by the communication means is performed f4.

  And as a result of performing the process which compares these normal images and the image transmitted by the communication means with the processing means, when there is no difference in the state of the various lamps in these images, the processing means is the disaster prevention device 1. Is determined to be operating normally, and if there is a difference, it is determined that a failure has occurred in the disaster prevention device 1, and the failure status of the disaster prevention device 1 is determined from the various lamp states. Is diagnosed f6.

  As the diagnosis of the failure status of the disaster prevention device 1, for example, whether the failure prevention device 1 cannot be operated due to the failure being identified or the cause of the failure is identified. It is possible to confirm whether or not the operation is possible.

  The result of the failure status of the disaster prevention device 1 diagnosed by this processing means is transmitted as it is to the communication means such as a mobile phone used for transmitting the image of the status display means 2 or other communication means registered in advance. However, a manual for each disaster prevention device 1 is stored in advance in the processing means, a corresponding part in the manual is searched from the diagnosed failure status, and a corresponding part of the searched manual is searched for in the communication You may make it transmit to a means f8.

  Further, when the status display means 2 includes the code display portions 5a and 5b, the disaster prevention device 1 is used at the site where the disaster prevention device 1 is installed when the disaster prevention device 1 is faulty or inspected. The image of the code display portions 5a and 5b displayed by coding the status display means 2 is photographed f9 by the photographing means.

  The images of the code display portions 5a and 5b photographed by the photographing means are transmitted to the server f3 via the network using the communication means such as a mobile phone, and transmitted from the communication means by the processing means provided in the server. The image of the code display parts 5a and 5b encoded by the status display means 2 is processed f4. At this time, if the coded information displayed on the code display units 5a and 5b includes information such as an email address, the code display unit 5a and the email address included in the information are included. You may make it transmit the image of 5b.

  Since the display of the code display units 5a and 5b is coded with the failure status in the disaster prevention device 1, the disaster prevention device 1 can be obtained simply by analyzing the coded display of the code display units 5a and 5b with a processing means. It is possible to easily determine whether the fault is normal f5 and to diagnose the fault condition f6 of the disaster prevention device 1, and hereinafter, the failure status is similar to the case where the code display units 5a and 5b are not provided. It is possible to send the result f7 and send the corresponding part of the manual according to the failure status f8, and also to transmit the failure status result to the mail address included in the coded information. It is.

  Thus, by transmitting the result of the failure status of the disaster prevention device 1 to the communication means f7, the user who has transmitted the image of the status display means 2 to the server using the communication means, the cause of the failure and the disaster prevention device 1 can easily check the failure status including the presence or absence of a failure, etc. Further, when the corresponding part of the manual corresponding to the failure status of each disaster prevention device 1 is transmitted to the communication means f8, the response of this manual Since the portion can be easily confirmed, for example, even a user who is not familiar with the disaster prevention device 1 can easily solve the failure.

It is the top view which showed schematically an example of the status display means used for the failure diagnosis system of the disaster prevention apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a flowchart of the failure diagnosis system of the disaster prevention apparatus.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Disaster prevention device 2 Status display means 3 Operation confirmation lamp 4 Failure occurrence confirmation lamp 5a, 5b Code display part

Claims (2)

Disaster prevention device, status display means provided in the disaster prevention device, photographing means capable of photographing the situation displayed on the situation display means, communication means for transmitting an image photographed by the photographing means to a server, and the communication And a processing means for determining the status of the disaster prevention device from the image transmitted from the means to the server,
The status display means includes at least a lamp including an operation confirmation lamp and a failure occurrence confirmation lamp, and the processing means previously displays a normal image displayed on the status display means including the lamp for each disaster prevention device in advance. were allowed stored, the processing means, that the image transmitted by the image and the communication means at the time of normal to be displayed on the status display unit as compared with the processing means for diagnosing a fault condition of the disaster prevention system ,
Or
The display of the status display unit is encoded, the image of the encoded display of the status display unit is captured by the imaging unit and transmitted to the server, and the encoded display image of the status display unit is processed by the processing unit A failure diagnosis system for a disaster prevention device, characterized by processing to diagnose a failure status of the disaster prevention device. The processing means includes
Remember the manual for each disaster prevention device,
The failure diagnosis system for a disaster prevention device according to claim 1 , wherein the corresponding part of the manual corresponding to the failure status of each disaster prevention device is transmitted to a communication means.

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