JPH05128391A - Remote control monitoring informing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the remote control monitoring informing system capable of accurately and speedily sensing the generation of abnormality to be informed by making the film of a place when sensing an abnormality by the remote control of a computer and automatically informing the abnormality generation information by controlling the program. CONSTITUTION:When a controller receives a fire sensing signal from a fire sensor (step 105), abnormal generation data including the troubled place is set (steps 107 and 109). Based on it, an abnormal generation message is prepared by the combination of voice codes to be outputted for pagers, speakers, and telephone sets (step 113). The picture information from the troubled place is received and recorded by the remote control (steps 115,117,119) to be observed by a monitor (step 121).

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

[Industrial field of use] Centrally monitor disasters such as fires in remote areas, detect the occurrence of disasters early and accurately, and take appropriate measures against the occurrence of disasters. The present invention relates to a remote operation monitoring / reporting system for accurately notifying the occurrence of a disaster through.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a device of this type, a fire detection and extinguishing system installed in a large building or a crime prevention monitoring system installed in a bank or a financial institution near an ATM installation place and a handling window or in a store Etc.

As an example of the former, for example, a large number of sprinklers or fire detectors are arranged from a fire monitoring board to a necessary place in each room, while fire extinguishing water is distributed from a water supply to each sprinkler. In the case of a wet type, as soon as the sprinkler detects a fire, it sprays fire-fighting water to fire the fire and notifies the fire-monitoring panel of that fact. On the other hand, in the case of the dry type, when the fire detector detects the occurrence of a fire, it notifies the fire monitoring panel of that fact and opens the valve of the fire extinguishing water to distribute the water to the sprinkler. Furthermore, when the fire monitoring panel knows that a fire has occurred regardless of whether it is wet or dry, it notifies the fire monitoring system in the center of the building that the fire has occurred, lights the lamp corresponding to the location of the fire, and notifies it with a bell. .. The observer confirms this, operates the switch, and informs the concerned people of the fire through a bell or speaker, and takes other appropriate measures such as fire extinguishing guidance.

As an example of the latter, a camera is installed at a place where a customer can be photographed if necessary, and pictures are taken intermittently.
There is a crime prevention system mainly composed of a camera or a video camera, in which the criminal is identified when necessary and the shop is constantly photographed by a video camera to prevent shoplifting.

[0005]

However, in the conventional fire monitoring system, crime prevention system, etc., when a fire or shoplifting occurs, an observer looks at it and takes appropriate measures. There was a problem that if there was no member or did not notice, appropriate measures could not be taken, it would be very troublesome to identify the criminal later, and there was a risk that it would be seriously delayed.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and when the occurrence of an abnormality such as a fire is constantly monitored and the occurrence of the abnormality is sensed, the computer controls the occurrence of the abnormality and the location thereof. In addition to generating and reporting an appropriate message, it is possible to automatically report the occurrence of an abnormality without the need for constant monitoring by an observer by calling automatically by dialing. To aim.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a sensor for detecting an abnormality such as a fire, an image of a predetermined place, an object, etc., and a video signal output to arrange at least one or more of them. The specified camera, the image transmission device that selectively connects the camera and receives the video signal, and outputs the image to the monitor and the still video, and the system control function, and the abnormality from the sensor. Receiving the detection of the location, confirming the location, selecting and instructing the second image transmission device connected to the camera for the location, receiving and recording the video signal from the camera for the location, and generating the abnormality. A monitor control device that outputs a message, a pager that is connected to the monitor control device and that notifies the abnormality occurrence received, and voice data selected corresponding to the received abnormality occurrence that is converted into a voice message. A sound generating device that makes a sound and an automatic dialing device that automatically dials a predetermined telephone selected in response to the received abnormality are recorded, and an image of the place where the abnormality is detected is automatically recorded. In addition to monitoring, output to a pager to pronounce the selected voice message and automatically dial the selected predetermined telephone to automatically call the voice message. The featured remote operation monitoring and reporting system was provided.

Further, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention collects and creates anomaly occurrence information including a place where the anomaly detection signal is generated by computer control by receiving the anomaly detection signal, and generates a pager notification and a speaker. There is provided a remote operation monitoring and reporting method characterized in that a notification, a telephone call is made by automatically dialing, etc., image information taken by a camera is displayed remotely on a monitor television and stored in a storage means.

[0009]

The present invention enables remote control of a computer to detect an abnormality such as a fire so that the location can be photographed, displayed on a monitor and recorded, and the abnormality can be reported by a pager and a speaker or automatically dialed by a telephone. Also, by automatically reporting the occurrence of an abnormality message, it is possible to accurately and promptly detect the occurrence of an abnormality such as a fire, and at the same time, automatically provide the necessary notification.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings FIGS. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a remote operation monitoring and reporting system according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a detailed explanatory diagram of the remote operation monitoring and reporting control device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG.
2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment shown in FIG. In FIG. 1, 1 is a video camera (may be a camera) equipped with a required number of places to be monitored, and 3 is a camera controller that connects a plurality of video cameras and controls on / off of shooting thereof, 5 is an image transmission device B for storing the video signal taken by the video camera and outputting the video signal via a telephone line in response to a command from the control device, 7 is a telephone exchange, 9 is a fire detector (smoke detector, etc. May be an anomaly detector), 11 is a disaster monitoring board that connects a plurality of fire detectors 9 and relays the fire detection signals coming from there to the central control unit, and 15 is an image taken by the video camera 1 via a telephone line The signal is received from the image transmission device B (5) and monitored,
An image transmission device A, 17 that stores the state and outputs the state to the control device includes a floppy disk and is a still video that can store and read the image captured by the video camera 1.
Reference numeral 9 denotes a monitor television capable of displaying four images, which monitors images captured by the video camera 1.

Reference numeral 21 includes a computer (which may be a personal computer) and executes a software program to control the system, and at the same time constantly monitors the fire detector 9 and the like, and outputs a fire detection signal from the disaster prevention monitor board 11 and Input / output converter 25
When it is received via the image transmission device A (15) and the telephone exchange 7, it sends a command to the image transmission device B (5).
Receive the video signal from the video camera 1 at the place where the fire is stored and store it in the still video 17, and at the same time, send the signal to the pager, speaker and telephone to activate it and send the necessary message. Remote operation monitoring and reporting control device (hereinafter simply referred to as control device) for reporting
Is.

Reference numeral 23 is a computer display, and 25
Is an input / output conversion device for converting an analog signal from the fire detector 9 into a digital signal that the control device 21 can receive, 2
Reference numeral 9 is a modem for receiving a pager transmission signal from the control device 21 and transmitting it to the pager 31 via a telephone line. Reference numeral 33 is for converting a message digital signal from the control device 21 into an analog voice signal and issuing an alarm from a speaker 35. A voice conversion device for generating a message, 41 is an automatic dial device for receiving an automatic dial signal from the control device 21 and automatically dialing according to the command, 37 is a dial number from the automatic dial device 41 and the voice conversion device 3
3 is an adapter for transmitting a voice message from the telephone 3 to a remote telephone 39 via a telephone line.

Next, the operation of the remote operation monitoring and reporting system will be described with reference to FIG. In normal times, the control device 21 is constantly monitoring the fire detector 9, and when the fire detector 9 transmits a fire detection signal via the disaster prevention monitoring distribution board 11, the input / output conversion device 25 causes a digital signal to be output. And input to the control device 21. When the control device 21 receives the fire detection signal, the control device 21 knows from which fire detector 9 the fire detection signal is received, confirms the fire place, collects detailed data on the fire occurrence place, and collects an appropriate data such as a program. Store in a data storage location. Then, the still video 17 is instructed to turn on the power to be in the ready state.

Therefore, the control device 21 rings the pager notification signal including the information of the fire occurrence place via the modem 29 and the telephone line, and displays the fire occurrence place on its display panel. Further, the control device 21 assembles and creates a voice code for a message including a fire occurrence place, its situation, countermeasures, etc., and sends the voice code to the voice conversion device 33, where it is converted into a voice message signal which can be produced by a speaker. , Generate a fire alarm by voice from a speaker installed in a required place. At the same time, the control device 21 sends an automatic dial signal to the automatic dial device 41,
The telephone number is transmitted to a predetermined remote telephone 39 through the adapter 37. The other party is the telephone 39
When the handset is lifted, the automatic dial device 41 senses it and notifies the control device 21 accordingly. Control device 2
1 immediately transmits the above-mentioned message signal to the telephone 39 through the voice conversion device 33 and the adapter 37 to talk the message.

The control device 21 commands the image transmission device A (15) to send a video signal from the video camera 1 installed at that location. Image transmission device A (15)
Automatically dials the instructed telephone number of the video camera installation location and calls the corresponding image transmission device B (5).
The image transmission device B (5) returns the stored image signal from the video camera 1 instructed to be sent to the image transmission device A (15) via the telephone line and the telephone exchange 7. The image transmission device A (15) executes the command of the control device 21,
The control device 21 is notified of the operation result that the video signal taken from the instructed video camera at the fire occurrence location is normally received and stored.

When the control device 21 receives the notification, the image transmission device A (15) is instructed to send the video signal stored therein to the still video 17, and the still video 17 is sent. Instruct to store the received video signal. The control device 21 also instructs the image transmission device A (15) to display the received video signal on the monitor television 19. As a result, the image transmission device A (15) sends the stored video signal to the monitor TV 19
It is transmitted to the still video 17 and stored while being displayed on the entire surface of the screen or on a screen divided into four.

Next, the control device 21 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. In FIG. 2, 51 is a processing control function for controlling the whole, 53 is a fire monitoring and reporting function for constantly monitoring the reception of a fire detection signal from the fire detector 9 via the input / output conversion device 25, and 55 is an image transmission device A. An image monitoring function that issues a command to (15) and controls to receive and store the video signal of the fire occurrence place photographed by the video camera 1, and 57 monitors and processes the command execution state of the image transmission device A (15). A status information management function for measuring the performance of
Still video control function for instructing the still video 17 to receive and store the video signal stored in 5), 61
Is a pager notification function for generating a pager notification signal including information display of a fire occurrence location or the like to the pager 31,
Reference numeral 63 is a voice notification function for assembling and outputting message signals for the speaker 35 and telephone 39, and 65 is a printer control function for controlling printing in the printer.
A telephone notification function 67 operates the automatic dial device 41 to automatically dial the telephone 39 to notify the voice notification function 63 that the other party has lifted the handset.

The operation of the control device 21 shown in FIG. 2 is included in what has already been described with reference to FIG. 1, and since the signal input / output there is program-controlled, it will be omitted. However, only the voice notification function 63 will be described. As described above, the voice report function 63 assembles and outputs a voice code for generating a voice message signal, such as a fire occurrence location and its occurrence status, so that the control device 21 causes the fire detector 9 to generate a voice message. And the fire information received from the video camera 1 is analyzed and correctly evaluated and judged,
It operates to assemble the result into a voice code. The contents of the message are such that voice codes for possible messages such as time, place, and size of fire are recorded in advance, and are classified into several groups such as time and place. Each group then contains a significant number of different message voice codes. For example, in the case of a group of audio codes indicating a location, if 10 video cameras 1 are arranged, 10 different audio codes are prepared and a message for displaying the arrangement location of each of the 10 cameras is prepared. It will have to be done. Therefore, in reality, one voice code is selected from several types of voice code groups to assemble one message sentence, so that hundreds to thousands of different messages can be generated.

Next, the program control when a fire occurs by the remote operation monitoring and reporting system will be described with reference to FIG. In the description of this embodiment, a case of a fire will be described, but the present invention can be applied not only to the case of a fire but also to all disasters, abnormalities and obstacles such as theft and destruction. For example, fire prevention such as a smoke sensor and a gas leak sensor, crime prevention such as an infrared sensor and a window opening / closing sensor, and communication such as a switch are examples. This system automatically monitors and notifies a fire by program control centered on a controller 21 (which may be a personal computer) which is a computer. In Figure 3, the fire monitoring and reporting function (5 in Figure 2
3) is started (block 101), block 1
In 03, the state of the fire detector 9 is checked, and the process proceeds to block 105. If the fire detector 9 (hereinafter, refer to FIG. 1 for the component number) is off, the block 10 is again displayed.
Returning to No. 3, if the fire detector 9 is turned on, proceed to the next block 107, and based on the information from the fire detector 9, fire data (date and time of occurrence, place, position of video camera, report destination and its telephone). Number, pager number, pager message content, voice code to report, fire detector 9
(Name of) is confirmed and collected. Proceeding to block 109, the fire data is stored in the data section of the program and displayed on the display 23 of the control device 21. After that, the display 23 sequentially displays the result of control by the program, the notification state, and the contents thereof.

Next, the process proceeds to block 111, the power of the still video 17 is turned on, the still video 17 is set to the ready state, and the process proceeds to block 113 to perform notification processing. The report media include pager report, telephone report, voice report, etc., but other report media can be used. The pager report is made by searching the pager report information (message and pager number) prepared in advance and pulling out the modem 29.
To pager 31 via. The control device 21 checks whether the communication with the pager 31 has succeeded and retries a predetermined number of times. As for voice notification, first, a notification message is assembled and created based on sensor information. As described above, the notification message is a voice code that is created in advance by selecting a voice code that specifies the corresponding phrase from each voice code group of several types of phrases that make up one sentence. The phrase corresponding to is extracted from the voice message data file to create a signal forming a one-sentence voice message. The control device 21 sends voice notification information consisting of the voice message signal (digital) and the number of times of repetition to the voice conversion device 33, converts the information into a voice signal, and the speaker 35 gives a voice warning for the number of repetitions. ..

In the case of a telephone call, first, telephone call information including the above-mentioned voice message, contact telephone number, number of call repetitions and number of dial retries is selected, and a signal is sent to the automatic dial device 41 to go on-hook. Send a phone number via and have them dial. After confirming that the other party picked up the handset, as described above,
A digital voice message signal is sent to the voice conversion device 33, and converted into a voice signal which can be sounded there, and the adapter 3
7 is transmitted and sent to the telephone 39, and voice communication is performed a predetermined number of times from the receiver picked up by the other party.
If you are busy when you dial, the number of dial retries will be retried.

Next, in block 115, the controller 2
Reference numeral 1 designates an image transmission from the video camera 1. That is, since the fire occurrence location is known from the fire occurrence information from the fire detector 9 at the fire occurrence location, the control device 21 controls the image transmission device B corresponding to the image transmission device A (15).
Dial (5) to instruct to send the image captured by the video camera 1 already stored therein. The video camera 1 shoots the place according to the command. The control device 21 proceeds to block 117 to check whether the video signal of the image captured by the video camera 1 is normally received, and proceeds to block 119, where reception is not completed or is not normally received. Returns to block 115 and retries again.

When it is found in block 119 that the video signal has been normally received, the process proceeds to block 121, where a command is issued to the still video 17 to instruct the still video 17 to record the video signal, and the image transmission device A (15) is also sent. Then, the received video signal is instructed to be output to the still video 17 for recording, and the recording is performed. The control device 21 commands the image transmission device A (15) to send the received video signal to the monitor television 19 so that the image taken by the video camera 1 is displayed. Also, if necessary, still video 1
It is also possible to reproduce the image stored in 7 and display it on the monitor TV 19. When the storage of the image in the still video 17 and the display on the monitor TV 19 are normally performed, the process proceeds to block 123, and the result is sent to the control device 21.
The control device 21 stores the result and displays it on the display 23.

In the above description, the notification process is prior to the image transmission. However, when a fire is detected, the image transmission is first performed, the image is first checked, and the state of fire occurrence is confirmed, which is suitable for that. It is also possible to use a remote operation monitoring and reporting system that reports.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The location of the abnormality is confirmed by the sensor information, the state is accurately known by the camera, and the pager, speaker, and
Since it is possible to make a necessary notification at an early stage by using a notification means such as a telephone, it is possible to provide an abnormality monitoring and warning system capable of immediately coping with a fire or the like competing for an instantaneous delay.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a remote operation monitoring and reporting system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed explanatory view of the remote operation monitoring and reporting control device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1: Video Camera 3: Camera Controller 5: Image Transmission Device B 7: Telephone Switch 9: Fire Detector 11: Disaster Monitoring Board 15: Image Transmission Device A 17: Still Video 19: Monitor TV 21: Remote Operation Monitoring Notification Control Device 23: display 25: input / output converter 27: printer 29: modem 31: pager 33: voice converter 35: speaker 37: adapter 39: telephone 41: automatic dial device

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A sensor for detecting an abnormality such as a fire, a camera for photographing a predetermined place, an object, etc., and outputting a video signal to provide at least one or more cameras, and selectively connecting the cameras by designating the cameras. An image transmission device that receives a video signal and outputs the image to a monitor and a still video, and a system control function, receives an abnormality detection from the sensor, confirms the location, and a camera for the location. A second image transmission device connected to the monitor is selected and commanded to receive and record a video signal from a camera for the location, and a monitoring control device that outputs an abnormality and a receiving and connecting to the monitoring control device are received. A pager for notifying the occurrence of the abnormality, a voice generator that converts the voice data selected in response to the received occurrence of the abnormality into a voice message and sounds the voice message, and supports the received occurrence of the abnormality. An automatic dialing device for automatically dialing a selected predetermined telephone, which automatically records and monitors the image of the place where the abnormality is detected, and outputs it to a pager to output the selected voice. A remote operation monitoring and reporting system characterized in that a message is uttered, and the selected predetermined telephone is automatically dialed to automatically call the voice message. 2. Upon receipt of the abnormality detection signal, abnormality occurrence information including the location of the abnormality detection signal is collected and created by computer control, and pager notification, speaker notification,
A remote operation monitoring and reporting method characterized in that image information photographed by a camera is displayed on a monitor television by remote operation by performing a telephone call or the like by automatically dialing and storing the information in a storage means.