JPH0634278B2 - Remote monitoring device - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a remote monitoring device, and more particularly to a remote monitoring device for promptly taking measures against failures and abnormalities of equipment equipment of a building scattered in a remote place.

<Prior Art> For example, as proposed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 61-121551, there is a method of centrally monitoring the operating state of equipment equipment including an elevator installed in a building at a monitoring center of a management company. , Has been widely adopted in recent years.

In this type of remote monitoring device, a building is provided with a terminal monitoring device and a communication control device, and a management company is provided with a monitoring center. The terminal monitoring device monitors the operating state of the equipment including the elevator of the building, and when a failure or an abnormal state occurs in the equipment, the terminal monitoring device detects the failure or the abnormality.

Then, the communication control device operates to connect the terminal monitoring device and the monitoring center by a telephone line, and information about the failure or abnormality of the equipment is transmitted to the monitoring center.

In this way, in this type of remote monitoring device, it is possible to perform centralized monitoring of the equipment at the monitoring center based on the information on the failure or monitoring of the equipment of the building transmitted via the telephone line.

<Problems to be Solved by the Invention> In the above-described conventional remote monitoring apparatus, when the equipment of a building fails or becomes abnormal, information on the failure or abnormality is transmitted to the monitoring center through a telephone line. Therefore, the monitoring center knows the state of the equipment and the location of the building from the transmitted information, and a service technician goes to the site to take countermeasures such as repair of the equipment or replacement of parts.

However, such a quick response action is limited to those existing in the vicinity of a building or a large city and its near effect. When a building is located in a remote area, when the monitoring center receives information about abnormalities and breakdowns of equipment and devices, it will contact the business office that has jurisdiction over the location of the building and a service technician will go to the site. It will be.

In this case, the necessary measures must be ordered from the monitoring center, and the communication between the monitoring center and the business office is time-consuming, so that the handling procedure tends to be delayed.

The present invention has been made in view of the current state of the remote monitoring device of this kind as described above, and its object is to promptly respond to the occurrence of a failure or an abnormality in equipment equipment of a building existing in a remote place. It is to provide a remote monitoring device that can be treated.

<Means for Solving the Problems> In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a terminal monitoring device that monitors facility equipment installed in a building and detects occurrence of a failure and an abnormality, and the terminal monitoring device. When the occurrence of the failure or abnormality is detected, a telephone line is connected between the terminal monitoring device and a monitoring center, and a communication control device for transmitting information on the failure or abnormality detected by the terminal monitoring device to the building. In the remote monitoring device provided inside the remote monitoring device for monitoring the equipment based on the received information on the failure and abnormality, information processing for displaying and processing the wireless telephone device and the information received by the wireless telephone device. A maintenance patrol service car equipped with a device is arranged, is connected to the terminal monitoring device, and detects a patrol time zone of an area including the building of the maintenance patrol service car to detect a detection signal. A line connection that is connected to the time zone detection device that generates the signal and the terminal monitoring device, and connects a telephone line between the terminal monitoring device and the wireless telephone device based on a detection signal from the time zone detection device. And means.

<Operation> In the present invention, when a failure or abnormality occurs in the equipment installed in the building, the terminal monitoring device immediately detects the occurrence of the failure or abnormality.

Then, the communication control device is activated, the terminal monitoring device is connected to the monitoring center by a telephone line by means of automatic dialing, and information on the failure or abnormality of the equipment is transmitted to the monitoring center.

In particular, the present invention provides a maintenance patrol service car equipped with a radiotelephone device and an information processing device for displaying and processing information received by the radiotelephone device, and the building of the maintenance patrol service car. A time zone detecting device for detecting the traveling time zone of the area including is detected. When the time zone detecting device detects the traveling time zone, a detection signal is issued and input to the terminal monitoring device.

In this state, the communication control device operates, the terminal monitoring device is connected to the monitoring center by the telephone line by the means of automatic dialing, and after the failure or abnormality information is transmitted, the telephone line is monitored by the terminal. It is connected between the device and the wireless telephone device mounted on the maintenance patrol service car.

In this way, the information on the failure or abnormality of the equipment is analyzed from the terminal monitoring device, and the information on the failure or abnormality is analyzed by the information processing device mounted on the maintenance patrol service car. Based on this information, the maintenance patrol service car rushes to the site to repair the equipment or replace the parts.

<Embodiment> An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 1 showing the configuration thereof.

As shown in FIG. 1, in the embodiment, the building 13 is provided with an elevator device 14, an elevated water tank device 16 and an air conditioner 17 as equipment.

Further, the terminal monitoring device 1 is installed in the building 13, and the control panel 15, the elevated water tank device 16, and the air conditioner of the elevator device 14 are connected to the signal line 23, the signal line 24, and the signal device 25, respectively.
Is connected to the terminal monitoring device 1.

In the building 13, the terminal control device 1 is connected to the communication control device 2,
The time zone detection device 3 and the automatic dial device 4 are connected,
The communication control device 2 and the automatic dial device 4 are connected to each other.

Further, the communication control device 2 and the telephone station 5 can be connected to each other via a telephone line 18, and the telephone station 5 and a monitoring center 6 of a management company for maintaining equipment can be connected to each other via a telephone line 19. It is configured.

On the other hand, a maintenance patrol service car 12 is provided, and an automobile radio telephone device 7 is mounted on the maintenance patrol service car 12, and a modulation / demodulation device 8 is connected to the automobile radio telephone device 7 to provide a modulation / demodulation device. A personal computer 9 is connected to 8, and the personal computer 9
The display device 10 and the printer device 11 are connected.

Then, due to the propagation of the radio wave 20 between the antenna 22 attached to the automobile radio telephone device 7 and the automobile radio telephone device antenna 21 provided in the telephone station 5, the maintenance patrol service car 12 and the telephone station 5,
Wireless telephone lines are being configured.

Here, the operation status signals of the respective equipments are input to the terminal monitoring device 1 from the control panel 15, the elevated water tank device 16 and the air conditioner 17, and when these equipments fail or become in an abnormal operation state. The terminal monitoring device 1 outputs an information signal indicating an abnormality or failure of the equipment.

In addition, the time zone detection device 3 is the service car 12 for maintenance patrol.
However, the time zone in which the area including the building 13 is traveling is detected, and a detection signal is input to the terminal monitoring device 1.

Furthermore, the telephone number of the report destination is stored in the automatic dialing device 4, and the automatic dialing operation corresponding to the automatic dialing device 4 is performed by the signal from the terminal monitoring device 1.
The communication control device 2 is configured to be activated by this automatic dial operation.

When the communication control device 2 is activated, the information signal indicating the failure or abnormality of the equipment from the terminal monitoring device 1 is sent to the connected telephone line.

In the embodiment having such a configuration, the communication control device 2 and the automatic dialing device 4 constitute a line connecting means, and the modulation / demodulation device 8, the personal computer 9, the display device 10 and the printer device 11 constitute an information processing device. .

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described.

The terminal monitoring device 1 includes a control panel 1 for the elevator device 14.
5. The operation state signals are input from the high water tank device 16 and the air conditioner 17, respectively, but when a failure or abnormal operation occurs in these equipments, the terminal monitoring device 1 indicates a failure or a failure in the equipments. An abnormal information signal is output.

At the same time, a command signal is input from the terminal monitoring device 1 to the automatic dial device. Based on this command signal, the automatic dialing device 4 selects the telephone number of the monitoring center 6 of the management company of the equipment that has failed or has an abnormality, and performs the automatic dialing operation.

According to the automatic dialing operation of the automatic dialing device 4,
The communication control device 2 is activated to connect the terminal monitoring device 1 to the monitoring center 6 via the telephone line 18, the telephone station 5, and the telephone line 19.

For this reason, the terminal monitoring device 1 informs the monitoring center 6 via the telephone lines 18 and 19 of information on the failure or abnormality of the equipment, for example, the accident that the elevator device 14 becomes inoperable between the floors. Be transmitted to. In this way, since the information on the failure of the elevator device 14 is transmitted to the monitoring center 6, the monitoring center 6 can detect that the elevator device 14 of the building 13 has an inoperable accident.

In this case, when the time zone detection device 3 detects that the maintenance patrol service car 12 is patroling the area including the building 13, a detection signal is sent from the time zone detection device 3 to the terminal monitoring device 1. Is entered. Based on this detection signal, a service car call command signal is input from the terminal monitoring device 1 to the automatic dial device 4.

When a service car calling command signal is input to the automatic dialing device 4, the automatic dialing device 4 transfers the terminal monitoring device 1 to the monitoring center 6 by the automatic dialing means and the telephone lines 18 and 19 as described above. After connecting and transmitting a failure or abnormality information signal, the telephone lines 18 and 19 are opened, and the telephone number of the automobile wireless telephone device 7 is selected and automatically dialed.

Therefore, at the telephone station 5, a wireless transmitter (not shown)
The radio wave 20 is transmitted from the car radio telephone antenna 21 to call the car radio telephone 7 of the maintenance patrol service car 12. When the call signal from the telephone station 5 is received by the antenna 22, the vehicle radio telephone device 7
It is equipped with a communication control circuit that automatically closes the telephone line.

Therefore, the terminal monitoring device 1 and the automobile radio telephone device 7 are connected to each other by the telephone line 18 and the radio telephone line formed between the vehicle radio telephone device antenna 21 and the antenna 22.

Therefore, the terminal monitoring device 1 transmits the information about the accident in which the elevator device 14 cannot operate at the intermediate position between the floors to the automobile radio telephone device 7 through the telephone line 18 and the radio telephone line. It

The input signal of the automobile radio telephone device 7 is converted into a signal for the personal computer 9 by the modulation / demodulation device 8, and the input signal is analyzed by the personal computer 9 to display information such as a failure state and the location of the building 13. It is displayed on the device 10 and printed on the printer device 11.

Therefore, the service engineer on the maintenance patrol service car 12 indicates that the elevator device 14 of the building 13 is inoperable at the intermediate position between the floors by the display device 10 and the printer device 11. Knowing that, the location of the building 13 is confirmed, and the train is rushed to the site to repair the elevator device 14.

In this way, according to the embodiment, when a failure or abnormality occurs in the equipment during the maintenance patrol time, the maintenance patrol service car 12 that is patroling immediately rushes to the site, so that the buildings scattered in remote locations Proper and appropriate countermeasures are also taken for equipment.

Outside the maintenance patrol time zone of the maintenance patrol service car 12,
No detection signal is issued from the time zone detection device 3, no service car call command signal is issued from the terminal monitoring device 1,
Only command signals are input to the automatic dial device 4.

In this case, as described above, the elevator device 14 of the building 13 is provided only to the monitoring center 6 via the telephone lines 18 and 19.
Failure information is transmitted. Therefore, the monitoring center 6 analyzes the failure state of the elevator device 14, and the monitoring center 6 contacts the business office under the jurisdiction of the location of the building 13.

As described above, in the embodiment, in the maintenance patrol time zone of the maintenance patrol service car 12, if a failure or abnormal state occurs in the equipment of the building 13 in the maintenance patrol area, the monitoring center 6 and the maintenance patrol service. Information on a failure or abnormality is transmitted from the terminal monitoring device 1 to the car wireless telephone device 7 of the car 12.

Then, the failure or abnormality information transmitted to the automobile radiotelephone device 7 is analyzed by the personal computer 9, and the details of the failure or abnormality of the equipment are displayed and recorded on the display device 10 and the printer device 11. . For this reason, the maintenance patrol service car 12 rushes to the building 13 in which the equipment has failed or is in an abnormal state, so that quick and appropriate countermeasures can be taken even for buildings scattered in remote areas.

<Effects of the Invention> As described in detail above, according to the present invention, when a failure or abnormality occurs in equipment equipment of a building scattered in a remote place, a maintenance patrol service in an area including the building. During the time when the car is patroling, the failure or abnormality is directly notified to the maintenance patrol service car, which allows quick and appropriate response processing for the failure or abnormality.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the construction of the embodiment of the present invention. 1 ... Terminal monitoring device, 2 ... Communication control device, 3 ... Time zone detecting device, 4 ... Automatic dial device, 6 ... Monitoring center, 7 ... Automobile wireless telephone device, 9 ... Personal computer, 10 ... Display device, 11 ... Printer device, 13 ... Building, 14 ... Elevator device, 15 ...
Control panel, 16 ... High water tank device, 17 ... Air conditioner.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A terminal monitoring device for monitoring facility equipment installed in a building and detecting the occurrence of a failure and an abnormality; and when the terminal monitoring device detects the occurrence of the failure and an abnormality, a telephone line is used for the terminal. Connected between the monitoring equipment and the monitoring center,
A remote control is provided in the building, which includes a communication control device that transmits information on failures and abnormalities detected by the terminal monitoring device, and the monitoring center monitors the equipment based on the received information on the failures and abnormalities. In the device, a maintenance patrol service car equipped with a radiotelephone device and an information processing device for displaying and processing information received by the radiotelephone device is arranged, connected to the terminal monitoring device, and the maintenance patrol service is provided. A time zone detection device that detects a traveling time zone of an area including the building of the car and generates a detection signal, and a telephone line connected to the terminal monitoring device and based on the detection signal from the time zone detection device. And a line connecting means for connecting between the terminal monitoring device and the wireless telephone device.