JPH04304760A - System for monitoring subscriber's state - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To surely confirm the state more than that in voice by displaying a current status of a designated subscriber's system onto a character display device of a pager at hand in terms of characters. CONSTITUTION:In the case of making a request of character information of current status information of a subscriber's system 30, a general telephone set 11 dials a prescribed paging special number and a subscriber number to call the subscriber's system 30 and a pager 40 at hand and a call is given to the subscriber's system 30 via a paging system 20, the current status information is extracted from the subscriber's system 30 and it is displayed on a character display device of the pager 40 called from the paging system 20 by using the subscriber number in terms of characters.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an in-house condition monitoring system in which an in-house system that converts in-house conditions into information (encoded) by electronic means is monitored from a remote location by calling from a telephone.

0002

[Prior Art] Conventionally, this type of in-home status monitoring system involves dialing a subscriber number assigned to this system as the in-home calling number to the in-home system to be monitored from a telephone, and then connecting via the telephone network. , the home system is remotely controlled by a remote control signal from the telephone, such as a multi-frequency audible tone emitted by a pushbutton dial, and the status of the home system is notified, for example, by an audible signal tone or a synthesized voice.

0003

The above-mentioned conventional in-home status monitoring system dials the subscriber number of the in-home system to be monitored into a switching network to call a predetermined in-home system and check the desired functional status. Since the system is configured to notify the dialing telephone, if the public telephone or regular telephone does not have a character display and only receives information from an audible signal from the home system, only simple information can be obtained. With synthesized voice, if you miss a call, you have to call again, and now that the number of telephones with text display devices is small, it is not always possible to check the current status of your home system using text information anytime and anywhere. There was a point.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an in-house condition monitoring system that solves the above-mentioned problems by calling a portable receiver (pager) for calling only and having a character display from a paging system and displaying characters. It is in.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] One basic configuration of the home condition monitoring method according to the present invention is home condition monitoring in which a home system that converts the home condition into information (encoding) by electronic means is called up from a telephone and monitored from a remote location. In this method, a paging special number to call the paging system is set in advance, and the person carrying a portable receiver (hereinafter referred to as a pager) equipped with a character display makes a home call from a normal telephone to call the home system after the paging special number. When dialing a number and a pager calling number that calls the pager, the paging system is first activated by being called from the telephone network by a paging special number from the telephone, and dials the received home calling number to the telephone network. When predetermined current situation information is received from this home system, this current situation information is converted into character information, the characters are edited, the pager is called using the pager call number received separately, and the characters are sent to this pager. The edited current status information is sent and displayed in text on the pager's text display.

[0006] Another basic configuration is a home condition monitoring system in which a home system that converts home conditions into information (encoded) by electronic means is called up from a telephone and monitored from a remote location.
A paging special number for calling the paging system is set in advance, and a person carrying a portable receiver (hereinafter referred to as a pager) equipped with a character display can use a home calling number to call the home system after the paging special number from a normal telephone; When dialing a pager calling number that calls the pager, the paging system is first activated by being called from the telephone network by a paging special number from the telephone, and dials the received home calling number to the telephone network to connect the home system. When predetermined current status information is received from this home system, the pager is called using the separately received pager calling number, the current status information is transmitted to this pager, and the current status information received by this pager is converted into characters. Edit and display the characters on the character display.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block connection diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a telephone 11 is connected to a telephone network 12.
A home system 30 is connected to the telephone network 13. In normal voice control, the telephone 11 is connected to the home system 30 via the telephone networks 12 and 13 using the subscriber number of the home system 30, as shown by the broken line.

Further, as shown in FIG. 1, a feature of the present invention is that a paging system 20 is driven from a telephone 11 via a telephone network 12, and furthermore, a home system 30 is called from the paging system 20 via a telephone network 13. .

The paging system 20 includes an incoming relay device 21 for inputting calls from the switching network 12, a switch 22, an in-home system 30, a subscriber number receiving device 23 for receiving a subscriber number which is the calling number of a pager 40, and an in-home A subscriber number transmitting device 24 that dials the subscriber number of the system 30 to the telephone network 13, an output relay device 25 that terminates the communication path to the home system 30 via the telephone network 13, and a relay device 25 that transmits the home information from the home system 30. The home information receiving device 26 receives the home information, the character editing device 27 receives the home information output from the home information receiving device 26 and edits the characters so as to display it on the pager 40, and the pager call received by the subscriber number receiving device 23 It has a calling device 38 that receives the number and calls the pager 40 via the base station device 29, and also receives edited character information from the character editing device 27 and transmits it to the pager 40.

The operation of the switch 22 and the main operations in FIG. 1 will be explained with reference to FIG. 2 and FIG. 1 together. FIG. 2 is a procedure diagram showing an example of important operations in FIG.

First, a requester who carries a pager 40 and wants to know the current status of the home system 30 makes a call (
101) The procedure on the calling side will be explained.

The caller's dialing of the paging special number (102) causes the telephone network 12 to activate the paging system 20 (111). Next, transmission of the subscriber number which is the calling number of the home system 30 and pager 40 (10
3) is first sent to the pager 4 by the paging system 20.
0 rings (104) and is called, the home system 30
A control signal transmission request is displayed on the character display of the pager 40 (105).

When the requester looks at the screen and sends a predetermined current status transmission request (106) from the telephone 11, the pager 40
The current status information of the home system 30 is displayed on the screen (107) on the character display.

Next, the general operation status of the paging system 20 will be explained.

The paging system 20 is activated (111) from the telephone network 12 by the paging special number in step 102, connects the incoming relay device 21 to the subscriber number receiving device 23 via the switch 22, and connects the subscriber number receiving device 23 to the subscriber number receiving device. 23 receives the subscriber number (112).

The subscriber number receiving device 23 transfers the received subscriber number of the home system 30 to the subscriber number transmitting device 24.

The subscriber number transmitting device 24 activates the telephone network 13 from the outgoing relay device 25 via the switch 22, automatically transmits the in-home system subscriber number (113), and then transmits the telephone network 13 to the outgoing relay device 25. While connecting the transmission path to the input relay device 21 and the reception path to the in-home information receiving device 26, the connection with the subscriber number receiving device 23 and the subscriber number transmitting device 24 is released to open the communication path of the switch 22. Switch (1
14) Do.

When the called home system 30 receives activation (121) from the telephone network 13 in step 113, it first issues a control signal transmission request to the calling side (122).

The control signal transmission request is sent to the paging system 2.
At 0, the home information receiving device 26 receives the information via the output relay device 25 and the switch 22, and then the character editing device 27 edits the information received by the home information receiving device 26 into characters displayed on the pager 40 (115).

[0021] The calling device 28, which has received the character information from the character editing device 27, retrieves the subscriber number, which is the calling number of the pager 40, from the subscriber number receiving device 23, and calls the pager 40 from the base station device 29 (116). At the same time, a control signal transmission request is transmitted in the form of character information.

[0022] Based on the character information on the pager 40, the telephone 1
When there is a request to send predetermined current status information (106) from 1, this signal is sent to the input relay device 2 of the paging system 20.
1, received by the home system 30 via the switch 23 and the output relay device 25 (123). According to the reception of the signal,
The in-home system 30 transmits current status information (124).

In the paging system 20, the in-home information receiving device 26 receives the current status information, similar to the control information in step 115, and then the character editing device 27 drives the calling device 28, which edits the characters (117). The calling device 28 is the base station device 2
Since the pager 40 is called from 9 and transmits the current status information, the pager 40 displays the text information of the current status information on the screen (10
7) Do.

A description of the call release recovery procedure will be omitted.

In this embodiment, the information and signals from the home system 30 are illustrated and explained as being edited in the paging system 20, but they may also be edited in the pager 40.

Steps 102 and 103 in the operating procedure may be included in the calling procedure 101 depending on the system of the telephone network 12. The paging system 20 transfers the call to the in-home system 30 in the communication path switching step 114 following the automatic dialing in step 113.
Although it has been illustrated and explained that the pager 40 is called to display the control signal transmission request from the pager 40 in text, in step 114, both the transmission and reception paths of the output relay device 25 are connected to the telephone 11 via the input relay device 21, and the transmission and reception are performed using audible signals. After that, step 11
The pager 40 may be called up after the current status information is received and edited by the pager 7.

[0027] By performing character editing with a pager and passing current status information through the paging system,
Just prepare a pager that matches your home system.
System information can be transferred and displayed without affecting the paging system.

[0028]

As explained above, in the present invention, the paging system relays a call from the subscriber to the home system, receives the current status information of, for example, a home security system from the home system, and calls the pager to check the current status. By displaying information as text information, it is possible to grasp the current status of the in-house system using text information.

[0029] With this effect, it is possible to check, for example, whether the house is locked or the gas main valve is monitored by the home security system while the user is away from home.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a home condition monitoring system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a procedure diagram showing an example of main operations according to FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

11　　　Telephone 12,13 Telephone network 20 Paging system 22 Switch 26 In-house information receiving device 27 Character editing device 30 In-home system

Claims (2)

[Claims] Claim 1: In a home condition monitoring system in which a home system that converts home conditions into information (code) by electronic means is called up from a telephone and monitored from a remote location, a paging special number to call the paging system is set in advance and a character display is set. When a person with a portable receiver (hereinafter referred to as a pager) dials from a normal telephone the paging special number, the home calling number that calls the home system, and the pager calling number that calls the pager, the paging When the system is first activated by being called from the telephone network using a paging special number from the telephone, dials the received home calling number to the telephone network to call the home system, and receives predetermined current status information from the home system. Converting this current status information into character information and editing the characters, calling the pager using the separately received pager calling number, transmitting the character-edited current status information to this pager, and displaying the characters on the character display of the pager. A home condition monitoring method featuring [Claim 2] In a home condition monitoring system in which a home system that converts home conditions into information (code) by electronic means is called up from a telephone and monitored from a remote location, a paging special number to call the paging system is set in advance and a character display is set. When a person with a portable receiver (hereinafter referred to as a pager) dials from a normal telephone the paging special number, the home calling number that calls the home system, and the pager calling number that calls the pager, the paging When the system is first activated by being called from the telephone network using a paging special number from the telephone, dials the received home calling number to the telephone network to call the home system, and receives predetermined current status information from the home system. In the home, the pager is called using the separately received pager calling number, the current status information is transmitted to the pager, the current status information received by the pager is converted into characters, edited, and displayed on a character display. Condition monitoring method.