JPH08198541A - Remote monitor for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To carry out the efficient grasp of stop of each elevator by at least one of a monitoring center and a service point at the time of an earthquake. CONSTITUTION: A monitoring center 5 is provided with a storage part 11 for storing significance set every elevator 1a-1n, a central processing part 10 for determining access priority for calling monitor terminal equipments 3a-3n in regular order according to the significance, and a communication part 9 for receiving earthquake sensing information from the monitor terminal equipments 3a-3n on the basis of the access priority. The monitor terminal equipments 3a-3n are provided with information reading means 8a-8n for reading earthquake sensing information. The elevators stopped in association with an earthquake can thereby be restored rapidly and positively.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an elevator remote monitoring apparatus for remotely monitoring a plurality of elevators, and more particularly to an elevator remote monitoring apparatus having a plurality of seismic detectors.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an earthquake detector for detecting an earthquake and outputting earthquake detection information for stopping the operation of an elevator, a monitoring terminal device for monitoring the operation of the elevator and issuing an alarm when an abnormality occurs, and this monitoring terminal Connected to the device via a telephone line,
A remote monitoring device for an elevator has been proposed, which comprises a monitoring center for receiving the above-mentioned notification. The monitoring center is connected to a service base in charge of maintenance of the elevator via a telephone line different from the service base.

In this conventional elevator remote monitoring device, the monitoring terminal monitors the operation of the elevator in a normal time when no earthquake occurs, and when it detects that an abnormality has occurred in the operation of the elevator, the abnormal state thereof is detected. In response to this, the alarm is issued to the monitoring center via the telephone line. Next, at this monitoring center, based on the above-mentioned notification, the service base in charge of the maintenance of the elevator is called via the telephone line to notify the abnormality occurrence of the elevator, for example, the dispatch of a maintenance staff member who belongs to the service base. It is supposed to request. In addition, when an earthquake occurs, the seismic detector detects and outputs the seismic detection information. Therefore, according to the output of the seismic detection information, the elevator car is driven to the nearest floor, and then the nearest floor Stop the car with. by this,
The safety of the elevator can be increased in the event of an earthquake.

An example of such a conventional technique is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 57-1182.

[0005]

By the way, in the above-mentioned conventional remote monitoring device for an elevator, the operation of each elevator is stopped in accordance with the earthquake detection information output from the earthquake detector. Since the accompanying stop status of the elevators is not notified to the monitoring center one by one, there is a problem that the monitoring center cannot grasp whether or not each elevator has stopped.

In order to solve such a problem, for example, when an earthquake occurs, the maintenance staff first visits the elevator having the highest priority, for example, an elevator such as a public facility or a hospital, and performs the restoration. , Then go to the elevator with the next highest priority and perform restoration, and in this way, sequentially go to the elevator according to the priority to perform restoration, and for elevators with a lower priority, the administrator who manages that elevator There was a method of going to the elevator restoration only when there was a report of the elevator stop from etc. However, in this method, since some maintenance personnel go out without knowing whether or not the elevator having a relatively high priority has stopped, some of the elevators may be in operation. As a result, maintenance staff will be dispatched unnecessarily, and there is a concern that it will take a considerable amount of time to restore the elevator. Furthermore, for elevators with a low priority, there is a concern that the restoration of the elevator will be delayed if the administrator or the like neglects to notify the elevator that the elevator has stopped.

The present invention has been made in view of the actual situation in the prior art as described above, and an object thereof is to determine whether or not each of a plurality of elevators has stopped due to the occurrence of an earthquake, at least at one of a monitoring center and a service base. An object of the present invention is to provide an elevator remote monitoring device capable of efficiently grasping information.

[0008]

In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a plurality of seismic detectors for detecting earthquakes and outputting seismic detection information for stopping the operation of a plurality of elevators, and the operation of the elevators. In a remote monitoring device of an elevator having a plurality of monitoring terminals for respectively monitoring the above and issuing an alarm when an abnormality occurs, and a monitoring center connected to the monitoring terminals via a telephone line and receiving the notification, At least one of a monitoring center and a service base in charge of maintenance of the plurality of elevators, a storage unit that stores a degree of importance set in advance for each of the plurality of elevators, and the plurality of storage units according to the degree of importance. Order determining means for sequentially determining access priorities of the monitoring terminals, and the plurality of monitoring terminals based on the access priority. Are a configuration in which an information access means for obtaining a seismic sensor information.

[0009]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, when earthquake detection information is output from a plurality of earthquake detectors at the time of occurrence of an earthquake, the order determining means is determined according to the importance of each elevator stored in the storage unit. According to the access priority order for sequentially calling the plurality of monitoring terminals, the information access means acquires the earthquake detection information from the plurality of monitoring terminals based on the access priority. As a result, whether or not each of the plurality of elevators has stopped due to the occurrence of the earthquake can be efficiently grasped at at least one of the monitoring center and the service base.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of an elevator remote monitoring device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an elevator remote monitoring device of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating information stored in a storage unit of a monitoring center provided in the remote monitoring device of FIG.

The remote monitoring apparatus of this embodiment shown in FIG. 1 detects earthquakes and outputs earthquake detection information for stopping the operation of the elevators 1a-1n, respectively, and earthquake detectors 2a-2n.
And the monitoring terminals 3a to 3n that monitor the respective operations of the elevators 1a to 1n and issue an alarm in the event of an abnormality, and are connected to the monitoring terminals 3a to 3n via a telephone line 4 to issue the above-mentioned alarm. And a monitoring center 5 for receiving. The monitoring center 5 is provided with service points 7a to 7n which are in charge of maintenance of the elevators 1a to 1n via another telephone line 6.
Connected with.

Each of the above-mentioned monitoring terminals 3a to 3n is provided with information reading means 8a to 8n for reading the earthquake detection information output from the earthquake detectors 2a to 2n via the elevators 1a to 1n.

In the above-mentioned monitoring center 5, the monitoring terminal 3
a to 3n and a communication unit 9 that communicates with the telephone line 4;
A central processing unit 10 for controlling the communication unit 9 and the like, a storage unit 11 connected to the central processing unit 10, an input unit (not shown) for inputting various data and operation commands to the central processing unit 10, and a central processing unit. An output unit (not shown) that outputs the result processed by the processing unit 10 is provided. In the storage unit 11, as shown in FIG. 2, data 30 regarding the name of a building (not shown) in which the elevators 1a to 1n are installed.
And the data 31 regarding the degree of importance preset for each of the elevators 1a to 1n, and the past seismic detector 2
The data 32 etc. regarding the motion seismic intensity of a to 2n are stored. It should be noted that the central processing unit 10 constitutes an order determining means for determining an access priority order for sequentially calling the plurality of monitoring terminals 3a to 3n according to the importance of each elevator 1a to 1n stored in the storage unit 11, By the communication unit 9,
An information access means for obtaining the earthquake detection information from the plurality of monitoring terminals 3a to 3n via the telephone line 4 based on the access priority is constructed.

In this embodiment, when the earthquake is not occurring, the operation of the elevator 1a is monitored by the monitoring terminal 3a, and when it is detected that the operation of the elevator 1a is abnormal, for example, The monitoring center 5 is notified via the telephone line 4 in accordance with the abnormal state. Then
In the monitoring center 5, the communication unit 9 receives the notification and processes it in the central processing unit 10 and outputs the processing result from the output unit. Therefore, the monitor confirms the output information,
The service base 7a in charge of the maintenance of the elevator 1a is called via the telephone line 6 to inform the abnormality occurrence of the elevator 1a, and for example, the maintenance staff belonging to the service base 7a is requested to be dispatched. .

Further, for example, when the earthquake detectors 2a to 2n respectively detect an earthquake, these earthquake detectors 2a to 2n
Since the earthquake detection information is output from n, the operations of the elevators 1a to 1n are stopped in accordance with the output of the earthquake detection information. Next, the monitoring staff at the monitoring center 5
When a command for reading out the operating conditions of the seismic detectors 2a to 2n and information on the seismic intensity of the earthquake are input to the central processing unit 10 via an input unit (not shown) (not shown), they are stored in the storage unit 11. According to the data 31 regarding importance,
The central processing unit 10 determines the access priority order for sequentially calling the monitoring terminal devices 3a to 3n, and based on this access priority order, the communication unit 9 sequentially calls the monitoring terminal devices 3a to 3n via the telephone line 4. For example, when the monitoring terminal 3a is called, the elevator 1 is read by the information reading means 8a.
After the seismic detection information output from the seismic detector 2a is read via a, the seismic detection information is received by the communication unit 9 via the telephone line 4 and processed by the central processing unit 10, the processing result is output. Output from a section (not shown). Then, a plurality of monitoring terminals are sequentially called according to the access priority in the same procedure to read the seismic detection information, and then the operation of obtaining the series of seismic detection information is completed.

Then, the monitoring staff of the monitoring center 5 operates the service bases 7a ...
7n is contacted via the telephone line 6 and a request for maintenance personnel to be sent to the elevators 1a to 1n is made if necessary.

Further, the seismic detection information read out as described above is included in the data 32 relating to the operating seismic intensity of the seismic detectors 2a to 2n stored in the storage unit 11, so that the data will be stored in the monitoring center 5 when the next earthquake occurs. The input seismic intensity information is compared with the data 32, and one of the seismic detectors 2a to 2n that operates with a seismic intensity smaller than the seismic intensity information is output by the output unit.

In the embodiment thus constructed, it is possible to efficiently grasp from the monitoring center 5 whether or not each of the elevators 1a to 1n has stopped due to the occurrence of the earthquake. Further, based on the data 32 relating to the operating seismic intensity of the seismic detectors 2a to 2n, when the earthquake occurs, the information about the seismic detectors that have operated in the past with the seismic intensity smaller than the present seismic intensity is output. The worker can promptly respond by estimating the operation status of the earthquake detectors 2a to 2n according to the seismic intensity of the earthquake.

In the present embodiment, the monitoring center 5 is provided with a storage unit for storing the degree of importance set in advance for each of the elevators 1a to 1n, and the plurality of monitoring terminals according to the degree of importance. The service is provided with order determining means for determining access priority to be sequentially called, and information access means for obtaining the earthquake detection information from the plurality of monitoring terminals via the telephone line based on the access priority. The bases 7a to 7n may be provided with the above-mentioned storage unit, order determination means, and information access means. As a result, it is possible to omit the contact from the monitoring center 5 to the service bases 7a to 7n via the telephone line 6, and it is possible to respond more quickly to the occurrence of an earthquake. Furthermore, if necessary, both the monitoring center 5 and the service bases 7a to 7n can be provided with the above-mentioned storage unit, order determination means, and information access means.

[0020]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to efficiently determine whether or not the elevator has stopped due to the occurrence of an earthquake at at least one of the monitoring center and the service base. Maintenance personnel can be dispatched from the service base to the elevator quickly. Further, since it is not necessary to dispatch the maintenance personnel to the operating elevator, it is possible to prevent unnecessary maintenance personnel from being dispatched.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an elevator remote monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating information stored in a storage unit of a monitoring center included in the remote monitoring device of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1a-1n Elevator 2a-2n Earthquake detector 3a-3n Monitoring terminal 4 Telephone line 5 Monitoring center 6 Telephone line 7a-7n Service base 8a-8n Information reading means 9 Communication part (information access means) 10 Central processing part (ranking) Determining means) 11 Storage unit

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of seismic detectors that output seismic detection information that senses an earthquake and stops the operation of a plurality of elevators, and a plurality of monitoring terminals that respectively monitor the operation of the elevators and issue an alarm when an abnormality occurs. And a monitoring center connected to the monitoring terminal via a telephone line and receiving the notification, in a remote monitoring device for an elevator, the service center responsible for maintaining the monitoring center and the plurality of elevators. At least one of the storage units for storing the degree of importance preset for each of the plurality of elevators, and the order determination for determining the access priority order for sequentially calling the plurality of monitoring terminals according to the degree of importance Means and information access means for obtaining the earthquake detection information from the plurality of monitoring terminals based on the access priority. An elevator remote monitoring device characterized by the above. 2. The monitoring center determines a storage unit for storing the degree of importance set in advance for each of a plurality of elevators, and an access priority order for sequentially calling a plurality of monitoring terminals according to the degree of importance. 2. The elevator remote according to claim 1, further comprising: order determination means; and information access means for obtaining earthquake detection information from the plurality of monitoring terminals via a telephone line based on the access priority. Monitoring equipment. 3. Each of the monitoring terminals is provided with information reading means for reading the earthquake detection information output from the earthquake detector via an elevator, and the earthquake detection information read by the information reading means is read by the information access means. The remote monitoring device for an elevator according to claim 1, wherein the remote monitoring device is obtained.