JPH02226496A - Emergency contact device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To contact a volunteer in charge when abnormality occurs by providing a centralized supervising device in a nursing organization, constantly placing a call to each solitary household or collecting information from the solitary, and supervising the ordinary life of the solitary. CONSTITUTION:According to a list stored into a computer in a centralized supervising device 1, the telephone call is placed to the solitary household. A controller 3 of the solitary household collects the turned on/off information of a light 51 and a television receiver 55 based on a current detectors 41 and 42, etc. The presence/absence of the change of current consumption in a constant period (for example several hours) is judged. When there is no change, the volunteer is called. Thus the controller 3 can automatically exchange the collection of everyday life information through communication equipment 2 with the nursing organization, and the solitary is not bothered.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention provides a system that automatically detects an emergency situation when an elderly person living alone, a sick person, etc. faces an emergency situation at home, and instructs appropriate treatment. Concerning an emergency communication device with a state.

(Conventional technology) In many cases, the only way to report emergencies such as someone becoming unwell was to contact a nursing care institution by telephone.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) If an elderly person is unable to contact the elderly person himself/herself, there is a risk that a few days will pass and the elderly person may become insecure.

In such cases, it would be possible to have volunteers visit, but there was a shortage of volunteers and it was impossible to make detailed judgments from outside.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a central monitoring device in a nursing care institution, periodically calls or collects information from each single-person household, and monitors the daily life of the single-person household. It is something.

In this case, public telephone lines are used to communicate between the monitoring device and each single-person household.

(Function) According to the present invention, regular monitoring of the daily lives of single households can be automatically carried out by a central monitoring device through a telephone line, and it is possible to efficiently manage the activities of a small number of volunteers.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described based on the drawings. 1st
The figure shows the system configuration. 1 is a centralized l1rB device installed in a nursing care institution, which has the function of determining and treating various situations; 2 is a communication device with a calling function, installed in a single-person household; 3 4 is a control device that judges various sensor signals;
A to 4n are current detection devices that detect the amount of current. 5
is a communication device that informs volunteers of emergencies, -
Boat telephones and other calling devices may be used. 11
and 13 are public telephone lines, and 12.3a to 3b, etc. indicate communication lines connecting each device.The parts surrounded by two-dot chain line 10 are devices in single-person households. There are two possible ways to use it. 1
One is a method in which a nursing care institution periodically sends a voice call to a single-person household (for example, at 11 a day), receives a response from the person living alone, and determines the situation based on whether or not the person responds. In this case, dialing, voice calls, and response decisions are all performed automatically, and instructions are issued to volunteers when an abnormality is confirmed. The internal configuration of the central monitoring device l in this case is the '21i! ff.

6 is a combiator device, 7 is an audio output confirmation device, and 8 is a line control device, in which the voice output recognition device 7 controlled by the combiator and the line t+llI device 8 (a commercially available modem can also be used) are linked, and the above-mentioned An example of the processing flow is shown in Figure 3.
2.23 is a line connecting each device. In Figure 3, the central monitoring device is operated by AT4i111JI! Step 101 by turning on a switch (not shown)
Then, a telephone call is made to one household living alone according to the grooves stored in advance in the comviator 6, and in step 102 it is determined whether or not the person living alone picks up the telephone. If the person living alone does not pick up the phone (No), step 105
Go ahead and give a signal to call for volunteers. It is effective to use a pager to call volunteers. If the person living alone picks up the speaker (when YES), the voice output recognition device 7 is activated in step 103.
Line from! A call is made by voice output through the M control device 8. Next, the process proceeds to step 104, where it is determined whether or not the person living alone responds. At this time, if there is no voice response from the person living alone (No.
), the voice output recognition device 7 operates and proceeds to step 105 to issue a signal to call a volunteer.

If there is a voice response from the person living alone (when YES), the voice output recognition device 7 determines that there is no abnormality, returns to step 101 to call the next person living alone according to the order of the list, and repeats the above-mentioned operation. It is.

The second method is to detect the usage status of electrical appliances as daily life information by detecting changes in electric current before the person living alone is aware of it. FIG. 4 shows an example of this method.

In Figure 4, 51 is a light and 55 is a television receiver, which are listed as devices that would normally be turned on and off frequently if a person living alone is normal, but other electrical appliances can also be used. . 41 is a current detector installed between power lines 52 and 53.

54 is a power line outlet and is connected to 11R.

A line 42 connecting the current detector 41 and the control device 3 is a current detector having the same structure as 41, 5G, and 57 are the same television power line as the electric light line, and are connected to the power source through an outlet 58. FIG. 5 shows a flowchart of an example of detection in the above case, starting by turning on the switch (not shown) of the central monitoring device 1 of the nursing care institution, step 11.
1, calls are made to households living alone according to a list stored in a computer in the central monitoring device 1. Step 11
Proceed to step 2 and the control device 3 of the single-person household detects current at 541.42.
On/off information of the electric light 51 and the television receiver 55 is collected from the above information. In step 113, it is determined whether or not there is a change in current consumption over a certain period (for example, several hours). If there is no change at this time (No), the process automatically proceeds to step 115.
After calling the volunteers, proceed to step 114.
If there is a change (if YES), proceed to step 114, select the next household in the list, return to step 111, and repeat the same flow.The control device 3 automatically collects lifestyle information via the communication device 2. to interact with nursing care institutions,
Those who live alone are not disturbed.

In addition, to distinguish it from a regular telephone, the control device 3 is attached only at a specific time.
The sixth step is to make sure that the line is captured.
The figure shows the configuration of the current detection device, where 55 is a television receiver as an example, 56, 57 is a power line, and 58 is a power line 5.
7 outlet 42 is a current detection device and the power line 56
．． The control device 3 has a resistance wire 42a on one side of the resistance wire 57, and uses the voltage difference caused by the current flowing through the resistance wire 42a to enable the control device 3 to turn on the switch of the television receiver 55,
It senses when it is off.

FIG. 7 shows an example of the internal structure of the control device 3, in which 31 is an amplifier, 32 is a rectifier, 31 is an A-Da conversion device, and 34 is a microcomputer 35 is a timer. A slight voltage difference when a current flows through the current detection device 42 is amplified by the amplifier 31, rectified by the rectifier 32, digitized by the A-D converter 31, and processed by the microcomputer 34. The necessary signals are sent to the communication device 2 and sent via line 11 to the nursing care institution and via line 15 to the volunteer. It is effective to use a peja (bokek, tobel) or the like for this signal. In addition, as the above-mentioned daily life information, electricity t! Although the usage status of the appliance is used as the information, it is also possible to use the usage status of water and gas as alternative information (effects of the invention). A central monitoring device can determine whether there is an abnormality in a single-person household regardless of whether or not a single-person household is being accommodated, and if there is an abnormality, the volunteer in charge can be contacted.
It can also compensate for the lack of manpower at Seki, and has extremely high practical value.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an internal configuration diagram of the central monitoring device in FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the second usage example, FIG. 6 is a configuration diagram of the current detection device, and FIG. 7 is a configuration showing an example of the internal configuration of the control device. It is a diagram. ■... Central monitoring device - 2... Communication device 3... Control devices 4a to 4n... Current detection device

Claims (1)

[Claims] A current detection device 4a to 4n that detects the current flowing into an electric appliance in the house, a control device 3 that determines the usage status of the electric appliance based on a signal from the current detection device, and a variety of information emitted from the control device 3 to be transmitted to the public. An emergency communication device characterized by comprising a communication device 2 that outputs to a telephone line, and a central monitoring device 1 that instructs emergency processing based on information sent from the communication device 2.