JPH05101289A - Remote monitoring device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a remote monitoring device which quickly performs the processing of more urgent abnormality information without delay by efficiently performing the processing by a central monitoring device in the case of the occurrence of regional concentration of abnormality report in a short time. CONSTITUTION:A power failure discriminating part 32 which discriminates the classification of abnormality report, a counting part 5 which counts the frequency in reception of specific abnormality report, a regional power failure discriminating part 41 which discriminates the abnormality report of regional power failure in the case of the counted value larger than a prescribed value, and a regional power failure occurrence confirming part 34 which operates a list printing part 43 which prints only specific contents for the abnormality alarm of regional power failure are provided. Thus, specific abnormality report is efficiently processed, and the other abnormality report is quickly processed to release the abnormal state as soon as possible.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote monitoring device for remotely monitoring a facility installed in a building for abnormalities by a central monitoring device via a terminal device provided in the building.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A terminal device is installed in a building, and an abnormal situation such as a failure of the device itself, a power failure accident, a fire, an intrusion of a suspicious person from the equipment installed in the building. 2. Description of the Related Art A remote monitoring system that detects an occurrence of an abnormal situation via a telephone line to a monitoring center such as a security company or a maintenance company has been conventionally used. Figure 4
Is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional remote monitoring system, in which terminal devices 21, 22, and 23 provided in each building are connected to the central monitoring device 20 through a line switch 30 and a common telephone line. The central monitoring device 20 includes the receiving unit 1, the report accumulating unit 14, the report printing unit 15, and the report display unit 16. The input terminal of the receiving unit 1 is connected to each of the terminal devices 21 to 23 through a common telephone line, and the report accumulating unit 14 is connected to the output terminal of the receiving unit 1.
The report storage unit 14 includes a report printing unit 15 and a report display unit 16
And are connected.

In this conventional remote monitoring system,
When each of the terminal devices 21 to 23 detects an abnormality in the facility equipment of the corresponding building, the terminal device 21 to 23 issues an abnormality report to the central monitoring device 20 through a common telephone line via the line switch 30. An alarm signal of an abnormal alarm from the terminal devices 21 to 23 is received by the receiving unit 1 of the central monitoring device 20, and after the content of the alarm signal is confirmed, the information of the alarm signal is stored in the alarm storage unit 1.
Accumulated in 4. Then, the information of the alarm signal is read from the alarm storage unit 14, printed by the alarm printing unit 15, and displayed by the alarm display unit 16.

[0004]

In the above-mentioned conventional remote monitoring system, every time an abnormal alarm is issued from the terminal devices 21 to 23, the printing by the alarm printing unit 15 and the alarm display unit 16 are performed.
Since it was displayed and the countermeasures for the content of the alarm signal were taken, if the abnormal alarm was intensively generated in a short time, the processing in the central monitoring device would not be performed promptly, and the alarm printing unit There is a problem that the printing at 15 and the display at the alarm display unit 16 are delayed. As an example of such an abnormal alarm being intensively generated, for example, there may be a power outage in which the power supply to a specific area is stopped due to a heavy rain, and the abnormal alarm of the regional blackout is intensively issued. is there. When the abnormal alarms for regional blackouts are concentrated in a short time in this way, the central monitoring unit is busy with the processing, and even if a more urgent new abnormal alarm occurs, this new abnormal alarm is generated. It will not be possible to respond promptly to the notification, and the service to customers will decline.

The present invention has been made in view of the current state of the remote monitoring system of this type as described above, and its purpose is to provide a central control system when abnormalities are locally concentrated in a short time. It is an object of the present invention to provide a remote monitoring device in which a monitoring device can efficiently perform the processing and preferentially and rapidly process a highly urgent alarm report.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned object, a terminal device is arranged in a building in which facility equipment is installed,
When the terminal device detects an abnormality in the equipment, it issues an abnormality report to the central monitoring device via a telephone line, and based on the abnormality notification, the display recording means of the central monitoring device informs the abnormality reporting information. The present invention, which is a remote monitoring device that displays and prints, displays the number of receptions of this specific abnormality report when the predetermined abnormality report is received and the determination means for determining the type of abnormality report. Counting means, and switching means for switching the operation of the display / recording means such that when the count value of the counting means exceeds a preset predetermined value, only a predetermined content is printed for a specific abnormality report. Is provided in the central monitoring device.

[0007]

With such a structure, when the central monitoring device receives an abnormal report from the terminal device, the type of the abnormal report is discriminated by the discriminating means, and the preset specific abnormal report is received. When it is determined that the number of the specific abnormality notifications received is counted by the counting means. Then, when the count value of the receiving means exceeds a preset predetermined value, the switching means switches the operation of the display recording means, and only the predetermined content is printed for the specific abnormality notification. For this reason, when another urgent abnormality report occurs, the display recording means displays and records the information of the occurred abnormality promptly without delay.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. Here, FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the embodiment, FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the overall operation of the embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the operation of setting the power failure flag of the embodiment. This is a case where an abnormal alarm of the occurrence of a regional power outage is set as the alarm.

As shown in FIG. 1, terminal devices 21, 22,
23 is connected to the central monitoring device 20 by a common telephone line via a line switch 29. This central monitoring device 2
0 is a receiving unit 31, a power outage determination unit 32, a region code determination unit 33, a regional power outage confirmation unit 34, a counting unit 35, a clock unit 3
9, a designated value unit 40, a regional blackout determination unit 41, a list storage unit 42, a list print unit 43, a report storage unit 14, a report print unit 15, a report display unit 16. The input terminal of the receiving unit 31 is connected to each of the terminal devices 21, 22 and 23 through a common telephone line via the line switch 29, and the output terminal of the receiving unit 31 is connected to the power failure judging unit 32. The power failure determination unit 32 is connected to the counting unit 35, the district code determination unit 33, and the report accumulation unit 14. Further, the district code determination unit 33 is connected to the counting unit 35, the regional power outage occurrence confirmation unit 34, and the report accumulation unit 14, and the time counting unit 39 is connected to the counting unit 35. Part 40
Is connected to the input terminal of the regional power outage determination unit 41, and the output terminal of the regional power outage determination unit 41 is connected to the counting unit 35. Further, the regional power outage confirmation unit 34 is connected to the list storage unit 42 and the report storage unit 14, and the list storage unit 4
2 is connected to the list printing unit 43, and the report storage unit 14 is connected to the report printing unit 15 and the report display unit 16.

Here, the power failure judging section 32 has a function of judging that the abnormal report is an abnormal report of power failure occurrence, and the district code judging section 33 confirms the district code in the abnormal report. Having a function, the regional blackout occurrence confirmation unit 34 has a function of confirming that the abnormal alarm is based on the occurrence of the regional blackout. Further, the counting unit 35 includes a district code storage column 36 for recording the district code, a number column 37 for recording the number of times of abnormal alarms due to power failure, and a flag column 38 for indicating the occurrence of regional power failure. Further, the time counting unit 39 has a function of supplying a count clock, the designated value unit 40 has a function of designating the number of times of power failure issuance, and the regional power outage determination unit 41 has a function of determining that a regional power outage has occurred. There is. Then, the report storage unit 14 has a function of supplying the stored abnormal report to the report printing unit 15 and the report display unit 16, and the report printing unit 15 and the report display unit 16 are provided.
Has a function of printing or displaying information of abnormality notification. Similarly, the list accumulating unit 42 has a function of accumulating list information of abnormal information on occurrence of regional blackout and supplying it to the list printing unit 43, and the list printing unit 43 has a function of printing abnormal information on occurrence of regional blackout. ing.

In the embodiment having such a configuration, the alarm printing section 15, the alarm display section 16 and the list printing section 43 constitute the display recording means of the invention, and the power failure judging section 32 and the counting section 3 are provided.
5. The regional blackout occurrence confirmation unit 24 corresponds to the determination means, the counting means, and the switching means of the invention, respectively.

Next, the operation of the embodiment having the above-described structure will be described with reference to the flow charts of FIGS.

When the terminal devices 21 to 23 detect an abnormality in the equipment installed in the corresponding building, the terminal devices 21 to 23 issue an abnormality report to the central monitoring device 20 via the telephone line, and in step S1 in FIG. The receiving unit 3 receives the alarm signal of the abnormal alarm.
1 is received, the received alarm signal is input to the power failure determination unit 32, the process proceeds to step S2, and the power failure determination unit 32
It is determined whether the abnormal report is due to a power failure or other abnormal situation. The determination in step S2 is Y
If it is ES, the process proceeds to step S3, and the district code judging unit 33 refers to the district code column 36 of the counting unit 34 to confirm whether or not the district code is registered. When it is confirmed that the district code is registered in step S3, the process proceeds to step S4, and the regional power outage confirmation unit 34 refers to the flag column 38 of the counting unit 35 to check whether the regional power outage has occurred. It is determined that if a flag is set, it is determined that a regional power outage has occurred. If it is determined in step S4 that a regional power outage has occurred, the process proceeds to step S5, the list information is read from the list storage unit 42, and the list printing unit 43 prints only the local power outage occurrence time corresponding to the site name. Steps S2 to S4
If the determination is NO, the information of the alarm signal of the abnormal alarm is read from the alarm accumulating unit 14 as usual, and is printed by the alarm printing unit 15 and displayed by the alarm display unit 16. .. Therefore, the abnormal report based on an abnormal situation other than the power failure, the abnormal report based on the power failure but the area code is not registered, and the abnormal report based on the power failure that is not the regional blackout are printed by the report printing unit 15 as usual. The display by the alarm display unit 16 is performed.

The setting of the regional blackout flag in the embodiment is as follows:
As shown in the flow chart of FIG. 3, when the counting unit 35 receives the abnormal report due to the power failure in step S10, it counts the number of reports due to the power failure for each district code and stores the district code in the district code column 36. The counting result is set in the column 37. Next, the regional power outage determination unit 41 determines the designated value unit 40.
The specified value from the number of times is compared with the value in the number of times column 37, and in step S11, it is determined whether or not the counted value exceeds the specified value. The flag column 8 is set in step S12. Then, in step S13, the counting unit 39 resets the number-of-times column 37 after the lapse of a predetermined time. In this way
When the number of power outages exceeding the specified value of the specified value portion 40 occurs within a predetermined time, it is determined that the power outage is a regional outage.

As described above, in the embodiment, when the regional blackout occurrence confirmation unit 34 confirms the area electrification, the list printing unit 43 responds to the occurrence of the regional blackout in response to the abnormal power failure notification. Only the time is printed. In this way, it is possible to improve the processing speed of the abnormal alarm notification of the occurrence of a regional power outage, and it is possible to quickly perform processing for other more urgent abnormal alarm notifications.

In the embodiment, the case has been described in which the preset specific abnormality notification is an abnormality notification based on a regional power outage, but the present invention is not limited to the embodiment, It is applied to abnormal alarms based on abnormal situations that occur intensively within a short period of time.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the abnormality notification received by the central monitoring device from the terminal device is a specific abnormality notification set in advance, a specific abnormality in the normal print content is specified. Since the operation of the display recording means is switched so that only the contents are printed, the processing of the specific abnormality notification is efficiently performed, and it is possible to respond promptly to other more urgent abnormality notifications. It enables early recovery of abnormal situations.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the overall operation of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a regional blackout flag setting operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional remote monitoring system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 14 Alert storage unit 15 Alert print unit 16 Alert display unit 20 Central monitoring device 21-23 Terminal device 29 Circuit switch 32 Power failure determination unit 33 District code determination unit 34 Regional power failure occurrence confirmation unit 35 Counting unit 41 Regional power failure determination Part 42 List storage part 43 List printing part

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A terminal device is installed in a building in which facility equipment is installed, and when the terminal device detects an abnormality in the facility equipment, an alarm is issued to a central monitoring device via a telephone line, and the abnormality is issued. The display / recording means of the central monitoring device is a remote monitoring device for displaying and printing the information of the abnormality notification based on the information, and the determination means for determining the type of the abnormality notification and the specific abnormality notification set in advance. When receiving, the counting means for counting the number of receptions of the specific abnormality report, and when the count value of the counting means exceeds a preset predetermined value, only the predetermined content is given for the specific abnormality report. To print
A remote monitoring device, wherein the central monitoring device is provided with switching means for switching the operation of the display recording means. 2. The remote monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein the counting means counts a specific abnormality report by region. 3. The remote monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein the specific abnormality notification is an abnormality notification of the occurrence of a regional power outage.