JP5384820B2 - Integrated monitoring apparatus and integrated monitoring method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention uses a management unit for data collection as a subsystem, receives a request from a user terminal connected via a communication line, acquires data collected in the subsystem, and uses the acquired data as a user The present invention relates to an integrated monitoring apparatus and an integrated monitoring method that are returned to a terminal.

  Conventionally, in facilities such as tenant buildings, hotels, and hospitals, data such as temperature and humidity in the facilities is collected and managed for each facility. That is, a large number of management points are defined as data collection target points in the facility, and data of these management points is collected. Further, the management point data collected in the facility is sent to the user terminal via the communication line so that the data for each facility can be browsed on the user terminal (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  FIG. 6 shows an example of a conventional data collection system. In the figure, S1 and S2 are facilities, the facility S1 is provided with data collection devices DC1-1 to DC1-m, and the facility S2 is provided with data collection devices DC2-1 to DC2-n. Yes. The data collection devices DC1-1 to DC1-m in the facility S1 and the data collection devices DC2-1 to DC2-n in the facility S2 are connected to the user terminal UT via the communication line L1.

In the facility S1, the data collection device DC1-1 collects and accumulates data of the management points P1 _{1 to} P1x in the facility S1. The data collection device DC1-m collects and accumulates data of the management points Pm _{1 to} Pmx in the facility S1. Data (actual data) collected and accumulated by the data collection devices DC1-1 to DC1-n is sent to the user terminal UT via the communication line L1 in response to a request from the user terminal UT.

In the facility S2, the data collection device DC2-1 collects and accumulates data of the management points P2 _{1 to} P2x in the facility S2. The data collection device DC2-n collects and accumulates data of the management points Pn _{1 to} Pnx in the facility S2. Data (actual data) collected and accumulated by the data collection devices DC2-1 to DC2-n is sent to the user terminal UT via the communication line L1 in response to a request from the user terminal UT.

In FIG. 6, only two facilities S1 and S2 are shown as facilities S, but there are many similar facilities S. In the user terminal UT, for example, when all the facilities S are designated as the browsing destination facilities, the user terminal UT sequentially accesses the data collection device DC in the facility S for each facility S, and the data collection device. The data (actual data) collected and stored in the DC is taken in.

JP 2001-111704 A

  However, in the data collection system shown in FIG. 6, the user terminal UT sequentially accesses the data collection device DC in the facility S and takes in the data collected and stored in the data collection device DC. The load on the user terminal UT increases as the number of facilities S designated as the browsing destination facilities increases. For this reason, a computer having a large processing capability must be used as the user terminal UT. A plurality of such user terminals UT are provided, for example, for each facility S or provided in a central monitoring room. When viewed as the entire data collection system, the processing capability as the user terminal UT The cost increase by using a large computer becomes excessive.

  In this data collection system, the facility S is used as one management unit for data collection. In the present invention, one management unit for data collection is called a subsystem. In the system shown in FIG. 6, the facility S1 is referred to as subsystem A, and the facility S2 is referred to as subsystem B.

  The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and the object of the present invention is to use a computer with a small processing capacity as a user terminal and to reduce the cost of the entire data collection system. And an integrated monitoring method are provided.

In order to achieve such an object, the present invention acquires the management point actual data collected in the subsystem in response to a request from the user terminal via the communication line to the data collection system described above. And a request message receiving means for receiving a request message specifying a desired subsystem from the user terminal, and a request message receiving means for providing the integrated monitoring apparatus for returning the actual data to the user terminal. Is collected in the request message transfer means that forwards the received request message to the specified subsystem, and the subsystem sent from the specified subsystem in response to the request message transferred by this request message transfer means. collecting data to get the actual data Obtaining means is obtained by providing the collected data returning means for returning to the user terminal by integrating the actual data from the subsystem specified that this collected data acquisition means has acquired.

According to the present invention, for example, when the subsystem A and B are designated from the user terminal and the request message is transmitted to the integrated monitoring apparatus, the integrated monitoring apparatus designates the subsystems A and B from the user terminal. The request message is received, and the received request message is transferred to the designated subsystems A and B. Subsystems A and B receive a request message from the integrated monitoring device, and return actual data of management points collected in subsystems A and B. The integrated monitoring apparatus acquires the actual data returned from the subsystems A and B, integrates the acquired actual data from the subsystems A and B, and communicates a response message in which the integrated actual data is filed. Return it to the user terminal via the line .

  In this case, the user terminal only has to specify the subsystems A and B and send a request message to the integrated monitoring device. The data collected in the subsystems A and B is integrated, and the integrated data is integrated and integrated. Since the integrated monitoring apparatus performs the return of data to the user terminal, a load on the user terminal is small, and a computer with a small processing capability can be used as the user terminal.

In the present invention, a monitoring device for managing actual data collected in the subsystem is provided in the subsystem, and a request message from the user terminal is transferred to the monitoring device of the specified subsystem, and the transferred request The actual data collected in the subsystem sent from the monitoring device of the designated subsystem in response to the message is acquired. Further, the present invention can be realized not as an integrated monitoring device used in a data collection system but also as an integrated monitoring method applied to the data collection system.

According to the present invention, in the integrated monitoring apparatus, a request message specifying a desired subsystem from the user terminal is received, the received request message is transferred to the specified subsystem, and the transferred request message The actual data of the management point collected in that subsystem sent from the specified subsystem in response is acquired, and the acquired actual data from the specified subsystem is integrated , and this integrated actual data Since the response message in the form of a file is returned to the user terminal via the communication line, the user terminal only needs to specify the subsystem and send the request message to the integrated monitoring device. Of data collected in, integration of actual data captured The return of the actual data to the user terminal is performed by the integrated monitoring device, and the load on the user terminal is small, and a computer having a small processing capacity is used as the user terminal, thereby reducing the cost of the entire data collection system. Is possible.
Further, according to the present invention, the subsystem is provided with a monitoring device that manages the actual data collected in the subsystem, and the request message from the user terminal is transferred to the monitoring device of the designated subsystem, and this transfer is performed. The load on the monitoring device and the integrated monitoring device is distributed by acquiring actual data collected from the monitoring device of the specified subsystem in response to the request message. It becomes possible to use a computer with a small processing capability as an integrated monitoring device or monitoring device.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a data collection system using an integrated monitoring apparatus according to the present invention. In FIG. 6, the same reference numerals as those in FIG. 6 denote the same or equivalent components as those described with reference to FIG.

In this embodiment, the facility S1 (subsystem A) is provided with a monitoring device SMS1, and is connected to the communication line L1 in the same manner as the data collection devices DC1-1 to DC1-m. The monitoring device SMS1 periodically accesses the data collection devices DC1-1 to DC1-m, takes in the data (actual data) collected and accumulated in the data collection devices DC1-1 to DC1-m, and the facility S1. Is stored in the database DB1 as the data collected in step.

The facility S2 (subsystem B) is provided with a monitoring device SMS2, and is connected to the communication line L1 in the same manner as the data collection devices DC2-1 to DC2-n. The monitoring device SMS2 periodically accesses the data collection devices DC2-1 to DC2-n, takes in the data (actual data) collected and stored in the data collection devices DC2-1 to DC2-n, and the facility S2 Is stored in the database DB2 as data collected in step S2.

  In this embodiment, the integrated monitoring device 100 is provided on the communication line L1 as a device unique to this embodiment. In this embodiment, the communication line L1 is an IP protocol network. In this embodiment, only two facilities S1 and S2 are shown as facilities S, but there are many similar facilities S. In this embodiment, only one user terminal UT is shown, but there are many similar user terminals UT.

  FIG. 2 shows an outline of the hardware configuration of the integrated monitoring apparatus 100. In the figure, 100A is a CPU, 100B is a RAM, 100C is a ROM, 100D is a storage device such as a hard disk, and 100E is an interface. The CPU 100A operates according to a program stored in the ROM 100C or the storage device 100D while accessing the RAM 100B. The storage device 100D stores an integrated monitoring program as a program unique to the present embodiment. The integrated monitoring program is provided in a state where it is recorded on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM, and is read from the recording medium and installed in the storage device 100D.

  Hereinafter, the processing operation executed by the CPU 100A of the integrated monitoring apparatus 100 according to the above-described integrated monitoring program will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. In this example, the user terminal UT browses data of the facilities S1 and S2.

  When the user wants to browse the data of the facilities S1 and S2 on the user terminal UT, the user designates the facilities S1 and S2 on the monitoring screen of the user terminal UT and makes a data browsing request. Upon receiving this data browsing request, the user terminal UT sends a request message specifying the facilities S1 and S2 to the integrated monitoring apparatus 100 via the communication line L1 (FIG. 4: arrow (1)).

  When CPU 100A of integrated monitoring apparatus 100 receives the request message specifying facilities S1 and S2 from user terminal UT (YES in step S101), it analyzes the received request message (step S102). By this analysis, the CPU 100A knows that the received request message is a data browsing request, and that the data browsing request destinations are facilities S1 and S2.

  Then, the CPU 100A acquires the destination of the request message from the user terminal UT from the analysis result in step S102 (step S103). In this example, since the data browsing request destinations are the facilities S1 and S2, the IP addresses of the monitoring device SMS1 in the facility S1 and the monitoring device SMS2 in the facility S2 are acquired as the destination of the request message from the user terminal UT.

  Then, the CPU 100A creates a data browsing request message for each acquired destination (step S104), and transmits the created request message for each acquired destination (step S105). That is, a request message from the user terminal UT is used as a request message and transferred to the monitoring device SMS1 in the facility S1 and the monitoring device SMS2 in the facility S2 via the communication line L1 (FIG. 4: arrows (2) and (3)). .

When the monitoring device SMS1 in the facility S1 receives the request message from the integrated monitoring device 100, the monitoring device SMS1 returns the data collected in the facility S1 collected and stored in the database DB1 to the integrated monitoring device 100 via the communication line L1. (FIG. 4: Arrow (4)).
When the monitoring device SMS2 in the facility S2 receives the request message from the integrated monitoring device 100, the monitoring device SMS2 returns the data collected in the facility S2 collected and stored in the database DB2 to the integrated monitoring device 100 via the communication line L1. (FIG. 4: Arrow (5)).

  When the CPU 100A of the integrated monitoring device 100 receives the data collected in the facility S1 from the monitoring device SMS1 and the data collected in the facility S2 from the monitoring device SMS2 (step S106), the CPU 100A collects the data in the received facility S1. The data and the data collected in the facility S2 are integrated (step S107), and a response message in which the integrated data is filed is returned to the user terminal UT via the communication line L1 (step S108, FIG. 4: arrow (6) )).

  When the response message is sent from the integrated monitoring apparatus 100, the user terminal UT extracts the integrated data included in the sent response message, and displays the extracted integrated data on the screen. Display above. Thereby, the data collected in the facility S1 and the data collected in the facility S2 are displayed on the screen of the user terminal UT.

  As can be seen from the above description, in the present embodiment, the user terminal UT simply designates the facility S1 (subsystem A) and the facility S2 (subsystem B) and transmits a request message to the integrated monitoring apparatus 100. Well, since the integrated monitoring apparatus 100 performs the acquisition of data collected in the facility S1 (subsystem A) and the facility S2 (subsystem B), integration of the acquired data, and return of the integrated data to the user terminal UT, The load applied to the user terminal UT is small, and a computer with a small processing capability can be used as the user terminal UT, so that the cost of the entire data collection system can be reduced.

  For reference, FIG. 5 shows a functional block diagram of a main part of the integrated monitoring apparatus 100 in the above-described embodiment. The integrated monitoring apparatus 100 includes a request message receiving unit 1A, a request message analyzing unit 1B, a request message transferring unit 1C, a collected data acquiring unit 1D, a collected data integrating unit 1E, and a response message creating / transmitting unit 1F. ing.

  The request message receiving unit 1A receives a request message specifying a desired subsystem from the user terminal UT. The request message analyzing unit 1B analyzes the request message received by the request message receiving unit 1A, and sends the analysis result to the request message transfer unit 1C. The request message transfer unit 1C acquires the destination of the request message from the user terminal UT from the analysis result from the request message analysis unit 1B, and transfers the request message (request message) for each acquired destination.

  The collected data acquisition unit 1D acquires the data collected in the subsystem returned from the destination subsystem in response to the request message transferred by the request message transfer unit 1C, and integrates the acquired data into the collected data Send to means 1E. The collected data integration unit 1E integrates the data from the collected data acquisition unit 1D and sends the integrated data to the response message creation transmission unit 1F. The response message creation / transmission means 1F creates a response message in which the integrated data from the collected data integration means 1E is filed, and returns the created response message to the user terminal UT.

It is a figure which shows one Embodiment of the data collection system using the integrated monitoring apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows the outline of the hardware constitutions of the integrated monitoring apparatus in this data collection system. It is a flowchart which shows the processing operation according to the integrated monitoring program which CPU in this integrated monitoring apparatus performs. It is a figure which shows the flow of the message and data for demonstrating the processing operation according to the integrated monitoring program which CPU in this integrated monitoring apparatus performs. It is a functional block diagram of the principal part of this integrated monitoring apparatus. It is a figure which shows an example of the conventional data collection system.

Explanation of symbols

DC (DC1 (DC1-1 to DC1-m), DC2 (DC2-1 to DC2-n)) ... Data collection device, SMS (SMS1, SMS2) ... Monitoring device, DB (DB1, DB2) ... Database, L1 ... Communication line, P (P1 ₁ -P1x, Pm ₁ -Pmx, P2 ₁ -P2x, Pn ₁ -Pnx) ... management point, S (S1, S2) ... facility (subsystem), 100 ... integrated monitoring device, 100A ... CPU, 100B ... RAM, 100C ... ROM, 100D ... storage device, 100E ... interface, 1A ... request message receiving means, 1B ... request message analyzing means, 1C ... request message transferring means, 1D ... collected data acquiring means, 1F ... collecting Data integration means, 1E... Response message creation / transmission means.

Claims (2)

One management unit of actual data collection is a subsystem, receives a request from a user terminal via a communication line, acquires actual data of management points collected in the subsystem, and acquires the acquired actual data as the user An integrated monitoring device that returns to the terminal,
A request message receiving means for receiving a request message specifying the desired subsystem from the user terminal;
Request message transfer means for transferring the request message received by the request message reception means to the designated subsystem;
Collected data acquisition means for acquiring actual data collected in the subsystem sent from the designated subsystem in response to the request message transferred by the request message transfer means;
Collected data return means for integrating actual data from the specified subsystem acquired by the collected data acquisition means and returning a response message in which the integrated actual data is filed to the user terminal via the communication line And
The subsystem is
A monitoring device for managing the actual data collected in the subsystem;
The request message transfer means includes:
Transferring the request message received by the request message receiving means to the monitoring device of the designated subsystem;
The collected data acquisition means includes
An integrated monitoring apparatus characterized by acquiring actual data collected in the subsystem sent from the monitoring apparatus of the designated subsystem in response to the request message transferred by the request message transfer means. One management unit of data collection is used as a subsystem, and upon receiving a request from a user terminal via a communication line, actual data of management points collected in the subsystem is acquired, and the acquired actual data is used as the user terminal. Integrated monitoring method to return to
A request message receiving step of receiving a request message specifying the desired subsystem from the user terminal;
A request message transfer step for transferring the request message received in the request message reception step to the designated subsystem;
A collected data acquisition step of acquiring actual data collected in the subsystem sent from the designated subsystem in response to the request message transferred in the request message transfer step;
Collected data return step of integrating the actual data from the specified subsystem acquired in the collected data acquisition step and returning a response message in which the integrated actual data is filed to the user terminal via the communication line And
The subsystem is
A monitoring device for managing the actual data collected in the subsystem;
The request message transfer step includes:
Transferring the request message received in the request message receiving step to the monitoring device of the designated subsystem;
The collected data acquisition step includes:
An integrated monitoring method comprising: acquiring actual data collected in the subsystem sent from the monitoring device of the designated subsystem in response to the request message transferred in the request message transfer step.

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