JP6512485B2 - Information system for collective housing - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an improvement of an information system for collective housing that transmits a call signal by connecting a home information terminal of each home to an intercom line.

  Recently, in the above-mentioned information system for collective housing, there has been proposed a technology for improving security by providing earthquake information from the server device to the information terminal of each house.

  For example, in the following Patent Document 1, when the alarm monitoring board receives an earthquake detection signal transmitted through a communication network, the alarm monitoring board transmits an earthquake alarm command signal to the house information terminal of each house, and the house information of each house When the terminal receives an earthquake warning command signal from the alarm monitoring board, there is a description of reading and notifying a predetermined earthquake message.

JP 2008-217435 A

  However, in the above-mentioned information system for collective housing, a system that provides weather alarm information from the server device to the information terminal of each house has not been proposed until now, and provision of highly accurate weather alarm information It was requested. An object of the present invention is to provide an information system for collective housing with a novel configuration that responds to such a demand.

According to the present invention, in the collective housing information system for connecting a home information terminal of each house to an intercom line and transmitting a call signal, each of the home information terminals is connectable to a wide area network via the interphone line, When weather warning information of a region including a headline is received from a server device on a wide area network, a weather warning screen prepared in advance as a local file and the headline are popped up and displayed.

  In the present invention, an accurate weather warning can be known by an information service through an interphone line, not by broadcasting such as television. As a result, it is possible to avoid going out and dealing with it in advance, so it improves safety.

It is a system figure showing an example of a collective housing information system to which the present invention is applied. It is a front view of the example of a house information terminal. (A), (b) is an example of a weather warning screen, respectively. It is a flow figure showing the basic operation of the intercom system for collective housing. (A)-(f) is an example of the various display screens in a house information terminal. (A)-(f) is other examples of the various display screens in a house information terminal. (A)-(c) is a block diagram of the protocol stack of a house information terminal, a gateway apparatus, and a server apparatus, respectively. It is a schematic format figure of communication data by an inter-phone protocol.

  The collective housing management system according to the present invention is based on an intercom system, to which a security service for fire and the like and an information service such as an electronic bulletin board are added.

  As shown in FIG. 1, in the system 1 illustrated as an embodiment, a line (interphone line) 12 in the ridge is laid from the control device 11 that controls the entire system to each house, common part, and manager's room A terminal device such as a home information terminal 13 is connected to this line via the branching unit 14.

  The in-building line 12 transmits a call signal, a video signal, a control signal, etc., which are indispensable in the intercom system, in a packet system. There is no particular limitation on the type of cable used for this line, and an inexpensive twisted pair cable may be used if a necessary communication band can be secured.

  In this example, 4 lines of in-building lines 12 are derived from the control device 11, whereby a line connecting the home information terminal 13, a line connecting the manager's room intercom 15, a line connecting the lobby intercom 16, and a gateway device The line connecting the 17 is separated. With such a configuration, for example, it is also possible to supply power only from the lobby intercom 16 from the in-building line 12. However, since the control device 11 has a router function (hub function), it is not necessary to separate a line for each type of terminal device unless there is a special request. Also, the number of lines in the line is not particularly limited.

  The house information terminal 13 includes a communication unit 13a, a control unit 13b, a display unit 13c, an operation unit 13d, an audio unit 13e and the like, and a door phone 13h and a security sensor 13i are connected. The communication unit 13a performs signal transmission in accordance with the intercom protocol defined for the in-building line 12. The control unit 13b causes the browser 13f to display a top screen, a call screen, a security screen, an information service screen, and the like on the display unit 13c, and also controls lighting of the status lamp.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the display unit 13 c is, for example, a color touch panel, and can display various fonts, images, and the like. The audio unit 13e is composed of a speaker, a microphone and the like. The operation unit 13d is formed of a physical button or a soft button appropriately displayed on a touch panel, and constitutes the language setting unit 13g. Here, the recovery / alarm stop button, fire confirmation button, menu button, end button, unlock button, call button are provided as physical buttons, but a lamp indicating arrival information is incorporated in the menu button It is also good.

  The basic screen on the house information terminal 13, ie, the top screen, the call screen, and the security screen, is prepared as a local document in the house information terminal 13 for a plurality of languages, such as a Japanese version and an English version. In this case, the screen of any language version is selected based on the setting of the written language by the language setting unit 13g.

  The gateway device 17 relays signal transmission across the in-building line 12 and the wide area network 2, specifically, signal transmission between the home information terminal 13 and the server device 3. Therefore, the communication unit 17 a corresponding to the in-building line 12, the relay unit 17 b for converting the protocol bi-directionally between the in-building line 12 and the wide area network 2, and the communication unit 17 c corresponding to the wide area network 2 are provided. The gateway device 17 also includes a web server unit 17 d that provides a maintenance screen of the system 1.

  The maintenance screen is accessed by the maintenance terminal 4 or the like detachably connected to the gateway device 17. In addition, although URL of the server apparatus 3 is preset by the house information terminal 13, rewriting is also possible through the website for maintenance.

  The server device 3 includes a communication unit 3a corresponding to the wide area network 2, a web server unit 3b, a storage unit 3c, and the like. The storage unit 3c stores an HTML document constituting an article of an electronic bulletin board, an image file, identification information of a house, and the like.

  Here, the basic operation of the system 1 will be briefly described. That is, the system 1 provides an interphone function as one of the main functions. That is, when a calling operation is performed by designating a room number by the lobby intercom 16, a ringing tone sounds at the house information terminal 13 of the corresponding house and a video of the visitor is displayed on the display unit 13c. When a response operation is performed at the home information terminal 13, an interactive call with the lobby intercom 16 becomes possible. If the housing information terminal 13 performs a predetermined operation, the electric lock 18 on the lobby door can be unlocked. In addition, a call communication between the housing information terminal 13 and the manager's room interphone 15 and a call communication between the housing information terminals 13 are also provided. These mutual calls are cut off by one of the closing operations or the elapse of a predetermined time.

  The system 1 also has a security function. For example, when the security sensor 13i in the house operates, the house information terminal 13 sounds an alarm sound. The security sensor 13i can also be turned on and off by mode switching operation. The manager's room intercom 15 has a function as an alarm monitoring board. That is, the manager's room intercom 15 monitors the operation state of the security sensor 13i in the in-building common area and each house, the operation state of the house information terminal 13, etc. and detects an abnormality. An acoustic device (not shown) and the house information terminal 13 of each house are operated to perform a district ringing, an entire ridge ringing, and the like.

  In addition, the system 1 has an information service function of distributing an electronic bulletin board and weather warning information. In particular, since distribution of weather warning information is a major feature, the distribution of the weather warning information will be described in detail below. In summary, during abnormal weather, weather alarm information is sent from the server device 3 on the wide area network 2 outside the wing to the home information terminal 13 based on the announced weather alarm of the local meteorological observatory etc. The corresponding weather warning screen is popped up from the housing information terminal 13. As described above, if weather warning is performed in each house based on information from the outside, since the accuracy of the warning is high, it is possible to expect the use of the resident even for paid services.

  The control unit 13b of the housing information terminal 13 is provided with a plurality of weather warning screens corresponding to each of the weather warning types. There are three types of weather warning, such as heavy rain, flood, storm, snowfall, heavy snow, waves, storm surges, etc. The weather warning screen shall correspond to each, and the warning message should be combined with the design showing the weather. Good. Alternatively, a weather warning icon may be prepared instead of the weather warning screen, and the icon may be incorporated into the top screen.

  In addition, if the weather warning screen prepares multiple versions for each language type that can be selected as the written language of the house information terminal 13 and selects the weather warning screen of the version corresponding to the selected written language, Japanese will be selected. Even foreigners who do not understand can understand the meaning of the weather warning screen.

  (A) of FIG. 3, (b) is an example of the heavy rain warning image of a Japanese version and an English version, respectively. In Fig. 3 (a), the warning message of "heavy rain warning has been announced" is combined with the design showing heavy rain, and in Fig. 3 (b), the warning of "Heavy rain warning has been announced!" The messages are combined. The same applies to other weather warning screens.

  Hereinafter, the basic operation concerning distribution and display of the weather alarm information of the system 1 will be described.

  In the server device 3, a weather alert to be distributed to the house information terminal 13 is appropriately registered by information communication with the service provider or the center device of the meteorological station. As a matter of course, the weather warning registered in the server device 3 is intended for the area including the location of the housing complex.

  When the weather warning is registered, the server device 3 generates weather warning information and distributes the same to each housing information terminal 13. When the house information terminal 13 receives the weather alarm information from the server device 3, the house information terminal 13 reads the corresponding weather alarm screen and causes the display unit 13c to pop up. The alarm sound may be sounded at the timing of the pop-up display. With such a system, the resident can know the accurate weather warning announced for the area without broadcasting such as television. Therefore, safety can be improved because it is possible to refrain from going out and to go out after dealing with it in advance.

  The weather warning screen may be automatically dismissed when a predetermined time has elapsed after pop-up display, or may be dismissed when a predetermined operation, for example, an operation of a confirmation button prepared in the weather alert screen is received. Further, the pop-up display of the weather warning screen may be performed only during the activity time zone of the resident. In this case, the house information terminal 13 determines whether or not the weather warning screen is popped up based on the current time. The activity time zone of the resident may be set uniformly at all the house information terminals 13, for example, from 6 am to 10 o'clock, and may not be changeable. It may be set uniquely by a predetermined operation. In this way, there is no problem that pop-up display disturbs sleep.

  Further, in the configuration in which the weather warning screen of the multiple language version is prepared, the weather warning screen to be displayed is selected from the set corresponding to the display language selected by the language setting unit 13g of the housing information terminal 13. Then, even if the resident is a foreigner who does not understand Japanese, he can see the weather warning screen and understand the contents.

  In an information service that distributes an electronic bulletin board or weather warning information, signal transmission according to a predetermined protocol is required between the home information terminal 13 and the server device 3, but HTTP may be adopted as the protocol. . However, HTTP is a simple protocol in which an HTTP response is returned from the server in response to an HTTP request of the client, and the server can not voluntarily transmit information. Therefore, we propose a method in which a client polls a server in order to realize a function substantially equivalent to sending information from the server. That is, the house information terminal 13 periodically transmits a dummy HTTP request to the server device 3, and appropriately embeds the information that the server device 3 wants to transmit in the HTTP response.

  Specifically, when the weather warning to be distributed to the housing information terminal 13 is registered, the server device 3 generates weather warning information and waits for an HTTP request from the housing information terminal 13. Then, when a dummy HTTP request is transmitted from the house information terminal 13, the server device 3 sends back an HTTP response including weather warning information. If there is no weather warning information to be returned, an empty HTTP response is returned.

  FIG. 4 shows the basic operations of the home information terminal 13 and the server device 3 regarding the distribution of weather warning information in time series.

  At time T1 to T2, the home information terminal 13 periodically transmits a dummy HTTP request by polling. However, at this time, since there is no weather warning information to be sent to the server device 3, an empty response is sent back.

  At time T3, new weather alarm information is registered in the server device 3.

  At time T4, in response to the dummy HTTP request from the home information terminal 13, the server device 3 sends back an HTTP response including the weather warning information.

  At time T5, the house information terminal 13 pops up a corresponding weather warning screen.

  At time T6, the weather warning screen is turned off by the confirmation operation.

  In addition, since distribution of a weather alert can be implemented as part of an electronic bulletin board service, such a modification will be described below.

  Here, the electronic bulletin board service is a service for distributing an article of a bulletin board composed of a headline and an article text. The weather warning articles should also be in line with the appearance of general articles. That is, type information etc. of an alarm is made into a headline, and it is set as the structure which added detailed alarm content as an article text by it.

  The server device 3 generates a new arrival information notification when a new article of a bulletin board or an article of a weather warning is registered by a manager or the like. That is, there are two types of notification of new arrival information, one related to an article on a bulletin board and one related to a weather warning. The latter will be specifically referred to as new arrival weather alert notification. The new arrival notification includes the headline of the article, and the new arrival weather alert notification includes the headline of the weather alert.

  The server device 3 spontaneously transmits a new arrival information notification or a new arrival weather alert notification to the home information terminal 13, and the home information terminal 13 having received the new arrival information notification pops up a new arrival information screen or a weather alert screen. . If it is a new arrival information screen, the headline of an article is described there, and if it is a weather warning screen, the type information of a weather warning is described there. For example, on the weather warning screen, a message (headline) such as "The heavy rain warning has been announced to the city ○ ○" is displayed. That is, the weather warning screen can transmit the same information as the weather warning screen.

  Then, a detail button is arranged on the new arrival information screen or the new arrival weather alarm screen. When the button is operated, the house information terminal 13 transmits a request signal to the server device 3, acquires the article, and displays the article text on the display unit. Thereby, the resident can know the detailed contents of the pop-up displayed weather warning.

  In addition, the server device 3 updates and holds an article list in which headlines of accumulated articles are arranged. When the house information terminal 13 receives a predetermined operation, the house information terminal 13 transmits a request signal to the server device 3, acquires the article list, and causes the display unit to display the list. Furthermore, when a selection operation of an article is received in the displayed article list, a request signal including identification information of the article is transmitted to the server device 3, the article is acquired, and the article text is displayed on the display unit . Here, the articles of the weather warning may be included in the article category of the electronic bulletin board and displayed in the same article list. Also, the article of the weather alert may be displayed as an independent category in its dedicated article list.

  Although (a)-(f) of FIG. 5 are examples of the various display screens in the communication terminal 13 for houses, Japanese is set as a classification of a display language.

  FIG. 5A is an example of the top screen W1. In the upper part, a notification icon is arranged. In the middle part, a state icon (at home, going out, etc.) indicating the current security mode and a mode switching button are arranged. In the lower part, a call / message button, an information button, and a recording management button are arranged.

  FIG. 5B shows an example of the information service screen W2. This screen is called by operating the information button on the top screen. A button for calling the subcategory of the information service is arranged.

  FIG. 5C shows an example of the article list screen W3 limited to the electronic bulletin board category. This screen is called by operating the digital bulletin board button on the information service screen. The headlines of the article are listed, and the detail button is arranged corresponding to each of them.

  FIG. 5D shows an example of the article screen W4. This screen is called by the selection operation on the display screen of the article list.

  FIG. 5E shows an example of the notification screen W5 of the newly arrived information. This screen is popped up for a predetermined time when new arrival information is received while the top screen W1 is being displayed (including being turned off). The headline of the article is described, and the confirmation button is arranged. By operation of the confirmation button, the article screen W4 shown in FIG. 5D is called.

  FIG. 5F is an example of the weather warning screen W6. This screen is automatically popped up when the home information terminal 13 receives the weather warning information.

  Among these screens, the screen information of the top screen W1, the notification screen W5 for new arrival information, and the weather alarm screen W6 is prepared in advance as a local document in the house information terminal 13. The other information service screen W2, article list screen W3 and article screen W4 are stored in the server device 3 and read by the browser 13f of the house information terminal 13.

  Although (a)-(e) of FIG. 6 are other examples of the display screen in the house information terminal 13, English is set as a classification of a display language. These correspond to the screens of (a) to (f) in FIG. 4 respectively, and only the type of the written language is different.

  In this embodiment, articles of the electronic circulation board, weather warning information and the like are transmitted by HTTP. Hereinafter, a mechanism of signal transmission by HTTP will be described in detail.

  As shown to (a)-(c) of FIG. 7, the house information terminal 13, the gateway apparatus 17, and the server apparatus 3 each comprise protocol stack PS. The protocol stack PS has a conceptual hierarchical structure, and at the time of data transmission, communication data sequentially flows from the upper layer to the lower layer and is output to the in-building line 12. At that time, necessary headers are appropriately added in each layer. On the other hand, at the time of reception, communication data input from the in-building line 12 sequentially flows from the lower layer toward the upper layer. At this time, headers that are no longer needed in each layer are removed.

  In the protocol stack PS of the home information terminal 13, the application layer is placed at the top, and the intercom protocol layer, the TCP / UDP layer, the IP layer, and the data link physical layer are placed below it in that order.

  The application layer includes a control program for the home information terminal 13 and a browser program for displaying an information service screen.

  The intercom protocol layer is controlled by the application layer, and transmits various command signals and response transmissions with the application layer of the information terminal of the communication partner.

  Here, the intercom protocol is a unique protocol defined for the in-building line 12, and the command signal and the response signal mutually transmitted between the information terminals are transmission source identification information, transmission destination identification information, command code , And command parameters etc. have a field-partitioned format. The identification information may be a local IP address or unique identification information. Since the browser 13 f of the home information terminal 13 transmits an HTTP message (request, response), a command signal and a response signal of the interphone protocol require a mechanism for including the HTTP message inside. This can be realized, for example, by defining a code indicating an HTTP message in a command signal or response signal of the intercom protocol, and embedding the body of the HTTP message in the command parameter (see FIG. 8).

  The TCP / UDP layer controls signal transmission defined between an application at a source information terminal and an application at a destination information terminal. At the time of transmission, a header including information for recovering a communication error and a port number for specifying an application of a transmission source and a transmission destination is added to communication data of the intercom protocol in this layer. It is desirable that the control signal such as the ringing signal be transmitted by TCP with a certain but somewhat low speed, and the audio signal and the video signal be transmitted by a high speed but uncertain UDP. Audio signals and video signals may be transmitted in a form encoded by a predetermined codec.

  The IP layer controls relayable signal transmission defined between the source information terminal and the destination information terminal. At the time of transmission, a header including the transmission source, the local IP address of the transmission destination, etc. is added here.

  The data link / physical layer performs signal transmission between information terminals physically connected by cables. In particular, in the system 1, since the in-building line 12 is configured by a twisted pair line, a communication packet (IP packet) specified in the IP layer is transmitted by differential serial communication. Serial communication may be synchronous or asynchronous.

  In the protocol stack PS of the gateway device 17, a relay program for interconversion between the intercom protocol and the wide area network protocol is placed at the top. Below that, there is a wide area consisting of an intercom protocol layer, a TCP / UDP layer, an IP layer, an in-building line side stack consisting of a data link and physical layer, an HTTP layer, a TCP / UDP layer, an IP layer and a data link and physical layer Network side stacks are arranged in parallel.

  The protocol stack PS of the server device 3 has a web server program providing HTML files of electronic bulletin boards and the like, under which HTTP layer, TCP / UDP layer, IP layer, data link and physical layer are placed .

  When the above protocol stack PS is configured, the HTTP request transmitted from the browser program of the home information terminal 13 is transmitted to the gateway device 17 through the in-building line 12 in a form incorporated in the communication data of the interphone protocol. Ru. The relay program of the gateway device 17 extracts the HTTP request from the communication data of the intercom protocol, and reconstructs the normal HTTP request. The HTTP request reconstructed by the gateway device 17 is transmitted to the server device 3 through the wide area network 2.

  On the other hand, the HTTP response transmitted from the server device 3 is transmitted to the gateway device 17 through the wide area network 2. The relay program of the gateway device 17 generates communication data of the intercom protocol incorporating the HTTP response. The communication data generated by the gateway device 17 is transmitted to the home information terminal 13 through the in-building line 12. The control program of the home information terminal 13 extracts the HTTP response from the communication data and passes it to the browser program.

  Such a procedure enables transmission of an HTTP request and response between the home information terminal 13 and the server device 3 through the in-building line 12.

  FIG. 8 is a format diagram showing a schematic structure of communication data according to the intercom protocol. Thus, as described above, the HTTP message is accommodated in the interphone protocol communication data as a command parameter following the identification code (command code) indicating the HTTP message. This communication data 20 is further divided into smaller packets by the data link / physical layer and transmitted by the in-building line 12.

1 Information system for collective housing.
12 intercom line 13 house information terminal 13a display unit 13b control unit 13f browser 13g language setting unit 17 gateway device 2 wide area network 3 server device

Claims (1)

In an integrated housing information system in which a home information terminal of each home is connected to an intercom line to transmit a call signal,
Each of the housing information terminals is
It can be connected to a wide area network via an intercom line,
An information system for collective housing characterized by pop-up display of a weather alarm screen prepared in advance as a local file and the headline when weather weather alarm information of a region including a headline is received from a server device on a wide area network.

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