JPH02266497A - Remote monitoring device for building - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it unnecessary for a supervisor in a monitoring center to collate the check equipments for inspection by providing the building terminal equipment side with a reader and an output device, reading the monitoring information of the building facilities equipment by an information storage medium storing the information and coping with the information by the building terminal equipment. CONSTITUTION:Corresponding information between the facilities equipments to be monitored and a sensor is written in an IC card by a card writer K6 equipped in the monitoring center K so that the information is read out/written from/in an IC card reader/writer at the time of executing the maintenance/ inspection of a field. Thereby, the corresponding information of the IC card can be collated with the output of the sensor by a controller C in the building terminal equipment T1 and the collated result can be outputted by the card reader/writer CR. Thereby, the manual collation and check of the facilities equipments by the supervisor in the monitoring center K can be omitted and the need for connecting a maintenance mean to the supervisor in each time can be eliminated, so that communication cost can be reduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a building remote monitoring device that monitors equipment in a building via a telephone line.

[Prior Art] Generally, in order to omit the need for a supervisor to monitor building equipment, a building remote monitoring device is used to remotely and centrally monitor a plurality of buildings. As such a remote monitoring device, for example, as shown in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 121551/1983, sensors are installed in equipment such as air conditioning equipment, power receiving and substation equipment, elevators, etc. A system has been proposed in which a building terminal device transmits information via a telephone line, and a monitoring center that receives this information monitors equipment, and has been put into practical use in some cases.

Generally, this type of building remote monitoring device is required to be periodically inspected to ensure data transfer in the event of an abnormality. This inspection is carried out by maintenance personnel at the equipment management company who operate sensors that detect abnormal conditions in the monitoring equipment, perform automatic dialing, connect to the communication device of the center equipment installed at the maintenance company, and receive printed or displayed information. The air traffic control staff at the center compared the information received from subsequent phone calls from maintenance staff and conducted an inspection.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Since the conventional building remote monitoring equipment had the above-mentioned configuration, if regular inspections were performed at a set time once or twice a month, the monitoring center would Air traffic controllers must interrupt their normal duties to respond to abnormalities and conduct equipment verification and communication with maintenance personnel at equipment management companies. Therefore, as the number of terminal devices and equipment increases, it is necessary to increase the number of communication devices on the side of air traffic controllers and the center device.

An object of the present invention is to provide a building remote monitoring device that can perform periodic inspections in a short period of time without increasing the equipment or control capacity of a monitoring center.

[Means for Solving the Problem] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a building terminal device with:
A reading device that reads the correspondence information of an information storage medium that stores correspondence information between equipment and sensors, and outputs a result of comparing the output of the building terminal device and the correspondence information when a predetermined sensor is operated. It is characterized by being provided with an output device.

[Operation] Since the building remote monitoring device according to the present invention has the above-described configuration, when inspecting equipment, first insert the information storage medium that stores the correspondence information between the equipment and the sensor into the reading device, and then check the corresponding information. The information can be taken into the control device of the building terminal device, and then the sensor can be operated in a simulated manner and its output can be taken into the building terminal device, and the previous corresponding information and the sensor output can be compared and outputted by the output device. The output from this output device allows maintenance personnel to perform the conventional verification performed by air traffic controllers on the building side.

[Example] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 shows a block diagram of the building remote monitoring device.
Building terminal devices T□ to T are arranged in a plurality of buildings 1 to 1°, and these building terminal devices T□ to T, consist of a control device C and a communication device t. The control device C of the building terminal device includes:
A plurality of equipment S to S0 and a card reader/writer CR that are installed in the same building and equipped with sensors (not shown)
is connected. These multiple building terminal devices T-T
A is connected to the monitoring center K by a telephone line.

The monitoring center K is equipped with a communication device 2 for receiving alarm information from each building terminal device, a control device 2, an input device 1, a printing device and a storage device k.
s, card writer kG is connected.

Since each of the buildings 1 to 1fi has the same configuration, the following explanation will be given using building 1.

Now, when performing maintenance and inspection of the sensor (not shown) of equipment S
IC written with correspondence information of equipment and sensors by
Insert the card into the card reader/writer CR of the building terminal device 1. At this time, the control device C of the building terminal equipment T is
Based on the information from the card reader/writer CR, it is recognized that maintenance and inspection are being carried out, and corresponding information is taken in.

Corresponding information is written into this IC card by a card writer from 5 to a storage device in which information such as a building name, building management number, monitoring equipment name, failure state, etc., which differ for each building, is stored in advance.

Next, the maintenance person operates a sensor (not shown) of the equipment S□. At this time, the control device C of the building terminal equipment T equipment recognizes the alarm during maintenance inspection, so it does not issue an alarm to the monitoring center, but instead captures the sensor output and compares it with the previous corresponding information. For example, if there is a discrepancy, the card reader/writer CR outputs the necessary information for maintenance and inspection, such as date, day of the week, and time. Upon completion of the maintenance work, the maintenance worker pulls out the inserted IC card. Thereafter, the building terminal device T1 recognizes that the maintenance inspection has been completed, and transmits to the monitoring center K the information that has been written on the IC card so far.

As described above, in this embodiment, the correspondence information of the equipment and sensors to be monitored is written to the IC card by the card writer installed in the monitoring center K, so that it can be read and written by the IC card reader/writer during on-site maintenance inspection. The control device C of the building terminal equipment T can check the correspondence information of the IC card and the output of the sensor, and output the result to the card reader/writer CR, thus reducing the need for the control staff at the monitoring center. There is no need to check the equipment by using the system, and communication costs are also reduced because there is no need for maintenance personnel and control personnel to contact each other as in the past.

Although the above embodiment has been described as an example using an IC card, other information storage media such as a magnetic card may also be used, and the creation thereof may also be performed outside the monitoring center. In addition, in this embodiment, the card reader/writer CR
was used as a reading device for reading information from an information storage medium and an output device for outputting the output from the operation of a predetermined sensor and the matching result of the corresponding information. An output device that outputs the matching result of the information and the correspondence information may be configured separately. A display device or a printing device can be used as the output device, and the output device can output all of the output of the sensor and the corresponding information of the information storage medium, or
It is possible to output only when there is a difference between the two, or to adopt various methods.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, a reading device and an output device are provided on the building terminal device side, whereby monitoring information of building equipment is read by the information storage medium storing it and is read by the building terminal device. This eliminates the need for equipment verification checks by controllers at the monitoring center, reduces communication costs, and allows regular inspections to be performed reliably and quickly without increasing the number of equipment or controllers at the monitoring center. can be done.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a building remote monitoring device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A monitoring center equipped with a sensor that detects abnormal conditions in building equipment, and a control device that receives abnormal information via a telephone line and analyzes the received information when the sensor detects an abnormal condition. In the building remote monitoring device, the building terminal device includes a reading device for reading the correspondence information of an information storage medium storing the correspondence information of the equipment and the sensor, and a reading device for reading the correspondence information of the equipment and the sensor when the sensor is activated. A building remote monitoring device comprising: an output device that outputs a comparison result of the output of the building terminal device and the correspondence information.