JPH10210186A - Remote management device for building - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a remote management device for a building which efficiently transmits facsimile data. SOLUTION: A facsimile transmission data processor 16 which collects plural facsimile data that have the same transmission place among facsimile data which are sent from a processor 12 and performs transmission processing at one time is provided between the processor 12 of a supervisory center unit 10 and a facsimile 17 and minimizes the dialing count of the facsimile 17. Thus, sending instruction is rapidly given by a facsimile and also communication costs are reduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote management apparatus for a building for remotely managing equipment provided in the building, and more particularly, to a facsimile provided in a monitoring center apparatus for transmitting facsimile data to the outside. The present invention relates to a remote management device for a building.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a building remote management device is provided in each of a plurality of buildings, and is connected to a terminal device for detecting an abnormality of equipment in the same building via a communication line. A communication device, a processing device that performs predetermined processing based on information received by the communication device, a monitoring device that has a facsimile and a distribution device that transmits information processed by the processing device to an outside, for example, another building management company; It has. The other building management company includes a communication device connected to the distribution device and another facsimile connected to the facsimile.

In such a building remote management device, when an abnormality occurs in a building managed by the other building management company, a terminal device in the same building detects the abnormality and outputs the abnormality. Is transmitted to the communication device of the monitoring center device via the communication line. Next, the processing device creates anomaly information and facsimile data based on the anomaly data, sends the anomaly information to the communication device of the other building management company via the distribution device, and sends the facsimile data to the facsimile. To the facsimile of the other building management company. Then, the other building management company takes necessary measures based on the abnormality information and the facsimile data.

As a remote management apparatus for a building of this type, there is, for example, one described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 8-22587.

[0005]

In the above-mentioned conventional remote management device for a building, abnormal data from a plurality of terminal devices in a specific area are not output for a certain period of time due to a power failure, an earthquake, or the like. When a so-called centralized alert that continues for more than a few times occurs, it is necessary for the facsimile of the monitoring center device to continuously transmit facsimile data to the same location. However, since the facsimile data transmitted by the facsimile must be transmitted one by one despite transmission to the same place, when the facsimile data becomes large, the facsimile performs connection processing, that is, dialing. This requires repetition, which causes transmission delay and increases communication costs.

The present invention has been made in view of such a situation in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a remote management apparatus for a building capable of efficiently transmitting facsimile data.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a terminal provided in a plurality of buildings, respectively, for detecting an abnormality of equipment in the same building, and a communication line with these terminals. , A processing device for performing predetermined processing based on information received by the communication device, and a monitoring center device having a facsimile for transmitting facsimile data created by the processing device to the outside. In a remote management device for a building, a plurality of facsimile data items, each of which is the same transmission location, among a plurality of facsimile data created by the processing device, are collectively transmitted between the processing device and the facsimile at one time. And a facsimile transmission data processing device for converting facsimile data that can be transmitted.

According to the present invention configured as described above, the facsimile transmission data processing device provided between the processing device and the facsimile is the same transmission point in the facsimile data sent from the processing device. A plurality of facsimile data are combined into one, that is, facsimile data that can be transmitted by one transmission process. Then
The facsimile performs connection processing with a predetermined transmission location and transmits the combined facsimile data.
As a result, the number of times of dialing of facsimile can be minimized, so that facsimile data can be transmitted efficiently.

[0009]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a building remote management apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a building remote management apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the building remote management apparatus of FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, the building remote management device according to the present embodiment is a terminal device 2a for detecting an abnormality of equipment (not shown) provided in each building of the large-scale building group A.
The monitoring center device 10 of the building management company 1A, which is connected to these terminal devices 2a via the communication line 3a and manages the building group A, and is provided in each building of the small building group B (not shown). Terminal device 2b for detecting abnormality of equipment
And a monitoring device 30 of a building management company 1B that is connected to these terminal devices 2b via the communication line 3b and manages the building group B, and a facility (not shown) provided in each building of the small building group C. A terminal device 2c for detecting a device abnormality, connected to the terminal device 2c via a communication line 3c,
And a monitoring device 40 of a building management company 1C that manages the building group C.

The monitoring center device 10 communicates with the terminal device 2a via the communication line 3a through a plurality of communication devices 11a, and communicates with the terminal device 2b through the communication line 3b.
A communication device 11b that performs communication with the terminal device 2c via the communication line 3c and information from the terminal devices 2a, 2b, and 2c are analyzed, and abnormality information and facsimile are performed based on the information. A processing device 12 for creating data, a storage device 13 for storing information necessary for creating the abnormality information, a monitoring operation device 14 for displaying the created abnormality information and performing various input operations and the like, an abnormality information etc. , A facsimile 17 for sending facsimile data to be described later to the building management company 1B or 1C, a delivery device 18a for delivering abnormality information to the building management company 1B via the communication line 4a, A distribution device 18b that distributes information to the building management company 1C via the communication line 4b, a processing device 12, and a facsimile 17
And a facsimile transmission data processing device which, among the facsimile data transmitted from the processing device 12, combines a plurality of facsimile data at the same transmission point into facsimile data that can be transmitted in one transmission process. 16 are provided.

The monitoring device 30 of the building management company 1B includes a communication device 31 for receiving the abnormality information from the monitoring center device 10, a display console 32 for displaying the abnormality information and performing an input operation and the like. The printer includes a printing device 33 for printing abnormal information and the like, and a facsimile 34 for receiving the facsimile data.

The monitoring device 40 of the building management company 1C includes a communication device 41 for receiving the abnormality information from the monitoring center device 10, a display console 42 for displaying the abnormality information and performing an input operation and the like. The printer includes a printing device 43 for printing abnormal information and the like, and a facsimile 44 for receiving the facsimile data.

In this embodiment, when an abnormality occurs in equipment of a building monitored by the terminal device 2b of the building group B, the terminal device 2b displays an abnormal equipment code, an abnormal state code, etc. In addition to creating the data, the monitoring center device 10 connects to the communication device 11b via the communication line 3b. The terminal device 2b transmits the abnormal data created when the connection process is completed to the communication device 1b via the communication line 3b. In response to this transmission, the processing device 12 of the monitoring center device 10 first stores the received abnormal data in the storage device 13. Next, based on each code included in the abnormal data, information for each building such as a building name, a building location, an equipment configuration, and monitoring contents stored in the storage device 13; Then, information common to each building, such as a response method, a response result name, and a display destination of abnormality information, is searched, and abnormality information is created based on these information. Thereafter, the distribution device 18 that performs connection processing with the monitoring device 30 of the building management company 1B, which is the display destination of the abnormality information.
a, and sends the abnormality information to the monitoring device 3a.
0 is performed via the communication line 4a, and upon completion of the connection process, the abnormality information is transmitted to the communication line 4a.
Is transmitted to the communication device 31 via. The communication device 31 sends the received abnormality information to the monitoring console 32 and the printing device 33. The monitoring console 32 converts the abnormality information into display information, and the printing device 33 converts the abnormality information into printing information.
Display and print respectively.

Further, as shown in FIG.
Along with the creation of the abnormality information, facsimile data is created in step S1. Next, the facsimile transmission data processing device 16 receives the facsimile data in step S2, determines whether or not the facsimile 17 is in a transmittable state in step S3. If the facsimile 17 can be transmitted, the facsimile 17 is transmitted in step S6. The facsimile data is transmitted to the facsimile 34 of the monitoring device 30 via the facsimile.

On the other hand, if the facsimile 17 is not in a transmittable state in step S3, for example, if the facsimile 17 is transmitting other facsimile data to the facsimile 44 of the monitoring device 40 of the building management company 1C, the monitoring device 30 Since the facsimile data cannot be transmitted to the facsimile 34, the facsimile data is held in the facsimile transmission data processing device 16.

At this time, if new facsimile data is created by the processing device 12 and sent to the facsimile transmission data processing device 16, the facsimile transmission data processing device 16 temporarily stores the facsimile data in step S4. The data and the transmission destination of the newly transmitted facsimile data are compared, and when a plurality of facsimile data are at the same transmission point, these facsimile data are put together as one step, ie,
It is facsimile data that can be transmitted in one transmission process. On the other hand, if the destination is different, the facsimile data is held as separate facsimile data, and as soon as the facsimile 17 can be transmitted, the facsimile 17 is sequentially transmitted to the destination by the facsimile 17 in step S6.

The response personnel who has recognized the abnormality based on the displayed contents, the printed contents, and the contents of the facsimile transmission, confirms the building name, the details of the abnormality, the response method, etc., and then obtains a site map, equipment layout drawing, equipment drawing, Carry parts and other items necessary for response and go to the building where the abnormality occurred. The response staff who arrives at the site checks the status of the abnormal equipment and takes measures such as replacing parts as necessary. In addition, abnormal equipment often operates normally when it arrives at the site. In this case, too, it is investigated whether there is a temporary malfunction or any potential inconvenience. The response personnel arriving from the site after completing the response inputs the result of the response on the site, for example, the distinction between a failure and a malfunction, the response content, the local arrival time, the recovery time, and the like through the monitoring console 32. This input information is written as the corresponding result to the abnormal history information,
It is stored in the storage device 13.

When the terminal device 2c of the building group C detects an abnormality of the equipment, the communication lines 3c and 4b, the communication device 11c of the monitoring center device 10, the distribution device 18b, the communication device 41 of the monitoring device 40, Display console 42, printing device 4
3. The same processing as described above is performed by the facsimile 44.

In the embodiment configured as described above, the number of times of facsimile dialing can be minimized by combining a plurality of facsimile data which are the same transmission point, and therefore, the facsimile data can be transmitted efficiently. It can be carried out.

In the present embodiment, the facsimile transmission data processing device 16 performs a process of collecting a plurality of pieces of facsimile data at the same transmission location when the facsimile 17 is performing the transmission process. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the facsimile transmission data processing device may hold facsimile data for a certain period of time, and may perform a process of collecting a plurality of facsimile data at the same transmission location when the certain time is reached. It may be. Further, the transmission destination of the facsimile data is the other building management companies 1B and 1C, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the facsimile data may be transmitted to a general facsimile.

[0023]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, it is possible to transmit facsimile data efficiently, so that facsimile dialing can be performed even if transmission by facsimile occurs frequently due to centralized alerting. The transmission time can be shortened by reducing the number of times to the minimum necessary number, so that the dispatch instruction by facsimile can be made quick. Further, the number of times of dialing can be reduced, and therefore communication costs can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of a building remote management device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of a remote management device for a building in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 1A, 1B, 1C Building management company 2a-2c Terminal device 3a-3c, 4a, 4b Communication line 10 Monitoring center device 11a-11c, 31, 41 Communication device 12 Processing device 13 Storage device 14 Monitoring and operating device 15, 33, 43 Printing device 16 Facsimile transmission data processing device 17, 34, 44 Facsimile 18a, 18b Distribution device 32, 42 Display console A, B, C Building group

──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification symbol FI H04N 7/18 H04N 7/18 D H04Q 9/00 301 H04Q 9/00 301C 311 311J (72) Inventor Makoto Kuratani Adachi-ku, Tokyo 4-16-16 Nakagawa Hitachi Elevator Techno Service Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A terminal device provided in each of a plurality of buildings for detecting an abnormality of equipment in the same building, a communication device connected to these terminal devices via a communication line, A remote management device for a building including a processing device that performs predetermined processing based on information and a monitoring center device that has a facsimile that transmits facsimile data created by the processing device to the outside; In the meantime, a facsimile transmission data processing device is provided which, among the facsimile data sent from the processing device, collectively converts a plurality of facsimile data at the same transmission point into facsimile data that can be transmitted in one transmission process. A remote management device for buildings. 2. The facsimile transmission data processing device, when the facsimile is performing transmission processing, collectively converts a plurality of facsimile data at the same transmission point into facsimile data that can be transmitted in one transmission processing. 2. The building remote management device according to claim 1, wherein: 3. The facsimile transmission data processing device, when the facsimile is performing transmission processing, retains the facsimile data transmitted from the processing device, and transmits the facsimile data to another facsimile data transmission destination. 2. A remote management apparatus for a building according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of facsimile data which are the same transmission location are combined into facsimile data which can be transmitted in one transmission process.