JP6109439B2 - Communication software and monitoring device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to communication software and a monitoring device used for monitoring a device to be monitored.

  Conventionally, a distributed system in which electronic devices configured by combining a plurality of units are distributed on a network is known.

  When monitoring an electronic device in a distributed system, it is necessary to connect a display device including a display device such as a tablet computer to the distributed system so that communication is performed between the display device and the electronic device. .

  When the display device is directly connected to the monitor target device with a dedicated line, it is necessary to rewire the monitor when changing the electronic device to be monitored, and the workability is lowered. For this reason, there is a case in which a display device and a device to be monitored are not directly connected but connected via a network.

  If the display device and the electronic device are directly connected by a dedicated line, an error that an electronic device different from the monitored device is monitored by the display device does not occur. However, when a display device and an electronic device are connected via a network, there is a possibility that an electronic device different from the monitoring target device may be monitored by the display device if communication settings are incorrect.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for reading tag management information from an ID database of a tag management server using an ID (identification) tag attached to a target article.

JP 2003-157477 A

  Since the electronic device can be identified by attaching an ID tag to the electronic device as in the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1, it is possible to confirm whether the communication partner of the display device is the device to be monitored. However, when an ID tag is attached to an electronic device, an attachment work is required, which causes a problem that labor is required.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object of the present invention is to obtain communication software capable of preventing an electronic device different from the device to be monitored from being monitored.

  In order to solve the above-described problems and achieve the object, the present invention is executed by a portable terminal including a camera and a calculation unit, and monitors the device to be monitored, which is composed of a plurality of units. Communication software included in monitor software that functions as a monitoring device, wherein the calculation unit captures image data of an image of a monitor target device photographed by a camera, and connected device information indicating a unit configuration of the monitor target device, and the A unit configuration recognition unit that acquires the unit information from a server in which unit information including image data of units applicable to the monitor target device is stored in advance, and recognizes the unit configuration of the captured monitor target device; and a server The connected device information of the monitored device is obtained from the unit configuration recognition unit If the collation result by the communication destination information collating unit and the communication destination information collating unit that collate with the unit configuration matches, the communication between the monitoring device and the monitoring target device is established and the monitoring target device is allowed to establish the monitoring target device. If the collation result by the communication destination information collation unit does not match, the device communication unit is configured to function as a device communication unit that does not establish communication between the monitoring device and the monitoring target device.

  The communication software according to the present invention has an effect that it is possible to prevent an electronic device different from the device to be monitored from being monitored.

The figure which shows the structure of Embodiment 1 of the monitoring apparatus to which the communication software concerning this invention is applied. The figure which shows the structure of the portable terminal applied to the monitoring apparatus concerning Embodiment 1. FIG. The figure which shows the function part comprised on the portable terminal which the arithmetic part performed monitor software and became the monitoring apparatus concerning Embodiment 1. The figure which shows an example of the unit information memorize | stored in the server connected with the monitoring apparatus concerning Embodiment 1 by a network. The figure which shows an example of the connection apparatus information memorize | stored in the server connected with the monitoring apparatus concerning Embodiment 1 by a network. The flowchart which shows the flow of operation | movement of the monitoring apparatus concerning Embodiment 1. FIG. The flowchart which shows the flow of operation | movement of the monitoring apparatus concerning Embodiment 1. FIG. The figure which shows an example of the image of the monitoring object apparatus which the monitoring apparatus concerning Embodiment 1 image | photographed with the camera. The figure which shows an example of the recognition of the unit structure by the unit structure recognition part of the monitoring apparatus concerning Embodiment 1. FIG. The figure which shows another structure of the monitoring apparatus to which the communication software concerning Embodiment 1 is applied. The figure which shows the structure of Embodiment 2 of the monitoring apparatus to which the communication software concerning this invention is applied. The figure which shows an example of the unit information memorize | stored in the server connected with the monitoring apparatus concerning Embodiment 2 by a network. The figure which shows the structure of Embodiment 3 of the monitoring apparatus to which the communication software concerning this invention is applied. The figure which shows an example of the connection apparatus information memorize | stored in the server connected with the monitoring apparatus concerning Embodiment 3 by a network. The figure which shows the structure of Embodiment 4 of the monitoring apparatus to which the communication software concerning this invention is applied. The figure which shows an example of the connection apparatus information memorize | stored in the server connected with the monitoring apparatus concerning Embodiment 3 by a network.

  Hereinafter, communication software and a monitoring device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of a monitoring device to which communication software according to the present invention is applied. The monitoring device 100 is configured by the mobile terminal 10 executing the monitor software 20. In other words, the mobile terminal 10 that is executing the monitor software 20 is the monitoring device 100. The mobile terminal 10 is a portable information processing apparatus, and examples of applicable devices include notebook computers, tablet computers, and smartphones.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of the mobile terminal applied to the monitoring apparatus according to the first embodiment. The portable terminal 10 includes a calculation unit 11 that executes the monitor software 20, an input unit 13 that receives an input operation, a display unit 14 that displays information, a communication interface 15 for communicating with other electronic devices, and an image. And a camera 16 for photographing. When the calculation unit 11 executes the monitor software 20, a plurality of functional units are configured on the mobile terminal 10. The input unit 13 is an input device such as a touch panel. The display unit 14 is a display device such as a liquid crystal display device.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating functional units configured on the mobile terminal that is the monitoring device according to the first embodiment when the arithmetic unit executes monitor software. The monitor software 20 includes communication software 30 that performs communication processing with other electronic devices. The calculation unit 11 that is executing the monitor software 20 includes an image acquisition unit 21 that captures image data captured by the camera 16, and a connection destination setting unit 22 that captures the contents of a connection destination setting operation performed on the input unit 13. A monitor processing unit 23 that performs processing for monitoring the monitoring target device 200, a unit configuration recognition unit 31 that analyzes the image data received from the image acquisition unit 21 and recognizes the unit configuration of the captured control system, and a monitor target Communication between the server 300 and the communication destination information collating unit 32 that collates the unit configuration recognized by photographing the device 200 with the camera 16 with the unit configuration indicated by the device information of the monitoring target device 200 registered in the server 300 in advance. A server communication unit 33 that performs processing and a device communication unit 34 that performs communication processing with the monitoring target device 200 are included.

  Monitoring device 100 and server 300 are connected via network 600. The network 600 may be a closed network such as a local area network or an open network such as the Internet. When the monitoring device 100 and the server 300 are connected via the Internet, the server 300 may be referred to as a cloud. Note that it is also possible to connect the monitoring apparatus 100 and the server 300 using a dedicated line instead of the network 600.

  The monitoring device 100 and the monitoring target device 200 are connected via a network 700. That is, the monitoring device 100 and the monitoring target device 200 are not directly connected by a dedicated line. The connection form between the monitoring device 100 and the network 700 may be wireless communication or wired communication.

  The server 300 stores unit information 301 and connected device information 302 in advance. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of unit information stored in a server connected to the monitoring apparatus according to the first embodiment via a network. The unit information 301 is data in which a unit name 3011, a unit image 3012, and a unit size 3013 of each unit that can be applied to the monitor target device are associated with each other. In FIG. 4, the difference in the appearance of the unit is shown by changing the hatching pattern. Appearance here means visually recognizable features such as the height, width, color or pattern of the unit.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of connected device information stored in a server connected to the monitoring apparatus according to the first embodiment via a network. The connected device information 302 is data in which a device name 3021, a device address 3022, and a unit configuration 3023 are associated with each other. In the connected device information 302 shown in FIG. 5, the device named “A” has an address “AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD”, a unit A in the power unit slot, and a CPU (Central Processing Unit) unit slot. 4 shows that the unit configuration is such that the unit B is installed in the 0th and 1st slots.

  6 and 7 are flowcharts illustrating the operation flow of the monitoring apparatus according to the first embodiment. In step S <b> 101, the connection destination setting unit 22 captures connection destination information from the connection destination setting operation performed on the input unit 13.

  In step S <b> 102, the image acquisition unit 21 takes in the image data of the monitor target device 200 captured by the camera 16 from the camera 16.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image of the monitoring target device captured by the monitoring apparatus according to the first embodiment with a camera. The monitor target device 200 has units mounted in the power supply unit slot, the CPU unit slot, the 0th slot, and the 1st slot among the power supply unit slot, the CPU unit slot, and the 0th to 5th slots. Slots 2 to 5 are empty slots with no units attached. In FIG. 8, the difference in units is shown by changing the hatching pattern. That is, FIG. 8 shows that the same type of unit is mounted since the 0th slot and the 1st slot have the same hatching pattern.

  In step S <b> 103, the monitor processing unit 23 receives a monitor start operation performed on the input unit 13.

  In step S104, the monitor processing unit 23 notifies the unit configuration recognition unit 31 that the monitor start operation has been accepted.

  In step S <b> 105, the unit configuration recognition unit 31 acquires the image data of the monitor target device 200 from the image acquisition unit 21.

  In step S <b> 106, the unit configuration recognition unit 31 acquires unit information 301 from the server 300 through the server communication unit 33 and the communication interface 15.

  In step S <b> 107, the unit configuration recognition unit 31 recognizes the unit configuration of the monitor target device 200 based on the unit information 301 acquired from the server 300. For example, the unit configuration recognizing unit 31 extracts a region having an aspect ratio indicated by the unit size 3013 from an image captured by the camera 16 and performs a process of comparing with the unit image 3012, thereby performing the monitoring target device 200. Recognize the unit configuration.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of unit configuration recognition by the unit configuration recognition unit of the monitoring apparatus according to the first embodiment. When the image of the monitor target device 200 captured by the camera 16 is analyzed based on the unit information 301 acquired from the server 300, the monitor target device 200 is unit A in the power unit slot and unit B, 0 in the CPU unit slot. The unit configuration is recognized in which the unit C is mounted in the number 1 slot and the number 1 slot, and the number 2 to number 5 slots are empty slots.

  In step S <b> 108, the unit configuration recognition unit 31 outputs the recognized unit configuration to the communication destination information verification unit 32.

  In step S109, the monitor processing unit 23 notifies the connection destination setting unit 22 that the monitor start operation has been accepted.

  In step S <b> 110, the connection destination setting unit 22 requests the server 300 to transmit the connected device information 302 of the set connection destination to the communication destination verification unit 32 through the server communication unit 33 and the communication interface 15.

  In step S <b> 111, the server communication unit 33 passes the connected device information 302 sent from the server 300 in response to the request to the communication destination information matching unit 32.

  In step S <b> 112, the communication destination information collating unit 32 collates the unit configuration recognized by the unit configuration recognizing unit 31 with the unit configuration 3023 included in the connected device information 302 acquired from the server 300.

  In the case of collation based on the connected device information 302 shown in FIG. 5 and the unit configuration recognition result by the unit configuration recognition unit 31 shown in FIG. 9, the unit A is in the power unit slot, and the unit B is in the CPU unit slot. Since the unit configuration is the same in that the unit C is installed in the first slot and the first slot and the second slot to the fifth slot are vacant slots, the collation results are the same.

  If both match in step S112 (step S112: match), in step S113, the communication destination information collation unit 32 causes the device communication unit 34 to start communication with the monitoring target device 200 set as the communication destination. After the start of communication, the monitor processing unit 23 communicates with the monitoring target device 200 using the device communication unit 34 and the communication interface 15 and causes the display unit 14 to display the received data.

  If they do not match in step S112 (step S112: mismatch), the process is terminated. In this case, the monitoring apparatus 100 does not communicate with the monitoring target device 200 set as the communication destination.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating another configuration of the monitoring device to which the communication software according to the first embodiment is applied. The monitoring device 100 ′ further includes a connected device information registration unit 39 in addition to the configuration shown in FIG. 1. The monitoring apparatus 100 ′ can register the connected device information 302 in the server 300 by photographing the monitored device 200 with the camera 16.

  When the monitor target device 200 is captured by the camera 16, the image acquisition unit 21 acquires the captured image data from the camera 16. The unit configuration recognition unit 31 acquires the image data of the monitor target device 200 from the image acquisition unit 21. The unit configuration recognition unit 31 acquires unit information 301 from the server 300 through the server communication unit 33 and the communication interface 15. Then, the unit configuration recognition unit 31 recognizes the unit configuration of the monitoring target device 200 based on the unit information 301 acquired from the server 300. The connected device information registering unit 39 associates the device name and address input to the input unit 13 with the unit configuration recognized by the unit configuration recognizing unit 31, and transmits it to the server 300 through the server communication unit 33 and the communication interface 15.

  When registering the connected device information 302 in the server 300, by making the image data of the monitored device 200 photographed by the camera 16 available, the operation of storing the connected device information 302 in the server 300 can be easily performed. It becomes possible.

  According to the first embodiment, in the monitoring apparatus 100, the unit configuration indicated by the connected device information 302 of the monitor target device 200 registered in the server in advance is a unit configuration in which the monitor target device 200 is captured by the camera 16 and recognized. If it does not match 3023, communication with the monitoring target apparatus 200 is not established. Therefore, it is possible to prevent an electronic device different from the monitoring target device 200 from being erroneously monitored.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a configuration of a second embodiment of the monitoring device to which the communication software according to the present invention is applied. The monitoring device 110 according to the second embodiment is different from the monitoring device 100 according to the first embodiment in that the character recognition unit 35 is included. The character recognition unit 35 has an optical character recognition (Optical Character Recognition, OCR) function, receives image data from the image acquisition unit 21, and recognizes a character string included in the image.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram of an example of unit information stored in a server connected to the monitoring apparatus according to the second embodiment via a network. The unit information 301 is data in which a unit name 3011, a unit image 3012, a unit size 3013, and a model name 3014 of each unit that can be applied to the monitor target device are associated with each other. In addition, in FIG. 12, the difference in the external appearance of the unit is shown by changing the hatching pattern. In FIG. 12, the reason that the hatching is the same between the unit C and the unit D is that the unit C and the unit D are different units, but there is no difference that can be distinguished in appearance.

  In Embodiment 2, since the character recognition unit 35 receives image data from the image acquisition unit 21 and recognizes a character string included in the image, if the model name of the unit is reflected in the image captured by the camera 16, Recognizes type names. Therefore, even if a unit having a similar appearance is included in units that can be applied to the monitoring target device 200, the unit configuration recognition unit 31 uses the model name extracted from the image and the model name 3014 in the unit information 301. The unit can be specified by comparing Therefore, the monitoring device 110 according to the second embodiment has higher accuracy of the matching process by the communication destination matching unit 32 than the monitoring device 100 according to the first embodiment.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a configuration of a third embodiment of the monitoring device to which the communication software according to the present invention is applied. The monitoring device 120 according to the third embodiment is different from the monitoring device 100 according to the first embodiment in that the mobile terminal 10 includes the positioning device 17 and the position information acquisition unit 36. The position information acquisition unit 36 receives the position information from the positioning device 17 and outputs it to the communication destination information matching unit 32. For example, the positioning device 17 is a receiver for a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal.

  FIG. 14 is a diagram of an example of connected device information stored in a server connected to the monitoring apparatus according to the third embodiment via a network. The connected device information 302 is data in which a device name 3021, a device address 3022, a unit configuration 3023, and position information 3024 are associated with each other. The position information 3024 is information for specifying the position where the monitor target device 200 is installed. In FIG. 14, the position information 3024 is the latitude and route of the point where the monitoring target device 200 is installed.

  In the monitoring device according to the third embodiment, the location information acquisition unit 36 receives location information from the positioning device 17 and outputs the location information to the communication destination information verification unit 32. Therefore, the communication destination information verification unit 32 is connected during the verification process. The position information 3024 included in the device information 302 can be compared with the position information received from the position information acquisition unit 36. Therefore, the monitoring apparatus 120 according to the third embodiment is different from the monitoring target device 200 based on the difference in the position information even when a device having the same unit configuration as the monitoring target device 200 is erroneously set as the connection destination. Can prevent different electronic devices from being monitored.

Embodiment 4 FIG.
FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a configuration of a fourth embodiment of the monitoring device to which the communication software according to the present invention is applied. The monitoring device 130 according to the fourth embodiment is different from the monitoring device 120 according to the third embodiment in that the mobile terminal 10 has the posture detection device 18 and a point having the posture information acquisition unit 37. The posture information acquisition unit 37 receives posture information from the posture detection device 18 and outputs the posture information to the communication destination information matching unit 32. Examples of the posture detection device 18 may include a gyroscope or a geomagnetic sensor.

  FIG. 16 is a diagram of an example of connected device information stored in a server connected to the monitoring apparatus according to the fourth embodiment via a network. The connected device information 302 is data in which a device name 3021, a device address 3022, a unit configuration 3023, position information 3024, and posture information 3025 are associated with each other. The posture information 3025 is information for specifying the direction in which the monitor target device 200 is installed. In FIG. 16, the posture information 3025 indicates the direction in which the monitor target device 200 faces in such a manner that the north direction is 0 °, the east direction is 90 °, the south direction is 180 °, and the west direction is 270 °. .

  In the fourth embodiment, since the posture information acquisition unit 37 receives posture information from the posture detection device 18 and outputs the posture information to the communication destination information verification unit 32, the communication destination information verification unit 32 performs connection device information 302 during the verification process. Can be compared with the posture information received from the posture information acquisition unit 37. Therefore, in the monitoring apparatus 130 according to the fourth embodiment, a device having the same unit configuration as that of the monitoring target device 200 is installed adjacent to the monitoring target device 200, and even if the device cannot be distinguished only by position information, If the installed directions are different, the monitoring target device 200 can be distinguished based on the posture information.

  The monitoring device 130 according to the fourth embodiment differs from the monitoring target device 200 based on the difference in posture information even when a device having the same unit configuration as the monitoring target device 200 is mistakenly set as a connection destination. It is possible to prevent the electronic device from being monitored.

  The configuration described in the above embodiment shows an example of the contents of the present invention, and can be combined with another known technique, and can be combined with other configurations without departing from the gist of the present invention. It is also possible to omit or change the part.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Portable terminal, 11 Computation part, 13 Input part, 14 Display part, 15 Communication interface, 16 Camera, 17 Positioning apparatus, 18 Attitude detection apparatus, 20 Monitor software, 21 Image acquisition part, 22 Connection destination setting part, 23 Monitor process Unit, 30 communication software, 31 unit configuration recognition unit, 32 communication destination information verification unit, 33 server communication unit, 34 device communication unit, 35 character recognition unit, 36 position information acquisition unit, 37 posture information acquisition unit, 39 connected device information Registration unit, 100, 110, 120, 130 Monitoring device, 200 Monitored device, 300 Server, 301 Unit information, 302 Connected device information, 600,700 Network, 3011 Unit name, 3012 Unit image, 3013 Unit dimensions, 3014 Model name , 3021 Device name, 3 022 address, 3023 unit configuration, 3024 position information, 3025 attitude information.

Claims (8)

Communication software included in monitor software that is executed by a mobile terminal including a camera and a calculation unit and causes the mobile terminal to function as a monitoring device that monitors a monitoring target device including a plurality of units.
The computing unit is
The image data of the monitor target device imaged by the camera is taken in, and connected device information indicating the unit configuration of the monitor target device and unit information including unit image data applicable to the monitor target device are stored in advance. A unit configuration recognition unit that acquires the unit information from a server and recognizes a unit configuration of the captured device to be monitored;
A communication destination information collating unit that obtains connected device information of the monitored device from the server and collates with a unit configuration recognized by the unit configuration recognizing unit;
If the collation result by the communication destination information collation unit is the same, communication between the monitoring device and the monitoring target device is established and the monitoring device is monitored by the monitoring device, and collation by the communication destination information collation unit If the results do not match, a device communication unit that does not establish communication between the monitoring device and the monitored device,
Communication software characterized by functioning as Causing the arithmetic unit to function as a character recognizing unit that extracts a character string included in an image of a monitor target device photographed by the camera;
It said unit configuration recognition unit acquires type name information associated with the image data of the unit from the image data and both the server collates the character recognition unit extracts the character string and said type name information 2. The communication software according to claim 1, wherein a unit included in the captured device to be monitored is specified. The calculation unit functions as a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information of the mobile terminal,
The communication destination information collating unit collates position information of the portable terminal when the camera captures an image of the monitor target device and position information of the monitor target device acquired together with the image data from the server. The communication software according to claim 1. Causing the computing unit to function as a posture information acquisition unit that acquires posture information of the mobile terminal;
The communication destination information collating unit collates posture information of the portable terminal when the camera captures an image of the monitored device and posture information of the monitored device acquired together with the image data from the server. The communication software according to claim 3. A monitoring device for monitoring a target device composed of a plurality of units,
A camera,
The image data of the monitor target device imaged by the camera is taken in, and connected device information indicating the unit configuration of the monitor target device and unit information including unit image data applicable to the monitor target device are stored in advance. A unit configuration recognition unit that acquires the unit information from a server and recognizes a unit configuration of the captured device to be monitored;
A communication destination information collating unit that obtains connected device information of the monitored device from the server and collates with a unit configuration recognized by the unit configuration recognizing unit;
If the collation result by the communication destination information collation unit is the same, communication between the monitoring device and the monitoring target device is established and the monitoring device is monitored by the monitoring device, and collation by the communication destination information collation unit If the results do not match, a device communication unit that does not establish communication between the monitoring device and the monitored device,
A monitoring device comprising: A character recognition unit that extracts a character string included in an image of the monitor target device captured by the camera;
It said unit configuration recognition unit acquires type name information associated with the image data of the unit from the image data and both the server collates the character recognition unit extracts the character string and said type name information 6. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 5, wherein a unit included in the photographed monitor target device is specified. A position information acquisition unit for acquiring position information of the monitoring device ;
The communication destination information collating unit collates position information of the monitoring device when an image of the monitoring target device is taken with the camera and position information of the monitoring target device acquired together with the image data from the server. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 5. Having an attitude information acquisition unit for acquiring attitude information of the monitoring device ;
The communication destination information collating unit collates posture information of the monitoring device when the camera captures an image of the monitored device and posture information of the monitored device acquired together with the image data from the server. The monitoring device according to claim 7.

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