JPH11113192A - Power supply system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a power supply system, by which supply of electric power to a plurality of electric appliances and the ON/OFF operation of a contact are performed from a remote place. SOLUTION: Constituting information, in which supply of electric power to a plurality of electric appliances and the on/off state of a contact are contained is stored on a firmware part 1001 in a router device 1000. The supply part of electric power to an electrical appliance connected to a PS device 1010 and the on/off switch of a power supply are installed at the PS device or the like. Thereby, setting the firmware part 1001 from a host computer 1110, a system control operation including a power-supply control operation can be performed easily from a remote place.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a power supply system for turning on and off an electric device from a remote place, and more particularly, to turning on and off an electronic device that can be hot-started. Power supply system capable of

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a power supply system for turning on and off an arbitrary electric device from a remote place is provided with a plurality of branches 100 via a router 2 from a center 1 which is a high-order device in a head office as shown in FIG. To 300 are connected by a WAN (Wide Area Network) 3 and each branch 1
The electric appliances 104, 204, and 304 in 00 to 300 are turned on and off. Each of these branches is, for example, in the case of the branch 100, a router 101 connected to the WAN 3,
A hub device 102 connected to the router 101 by a LAN (Local Area Network)
(A line concentrator) and an electrical product 104 connected to the HUB device 102 and turned on and off. The IP address and the HU of the router 101 specified by the center 1 are provided.
The HUB device 102 is configured to control the turning on and off of the electric product 104 based on the IP address of the B device 102.

[0003]

The above-described power supply system according to the prior art requires a separate IP address for each router and HUB device in each branch, so that a large number of routers and HUB devices are required. There is a problem in that the configuration information of a large number of IP addresses must be set and managed, and the management work is complicated.

Further, a power supply system according to the prior art is:
Electrical products that require a hot start (supply power in advance and start immediately when needed), such as a monitoring video stick in a branch office, for simply turning on and off power to the electrical product. Power supply control is difficult.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art, and to provide a power supply system capable of easily supplying and disconnecting power and performing a hot start. That is.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a power supply system for controlling power supply to a plurality of electric products and turning on / off of a contact. And a plurality of PS devices for supplying power to electrical appliances connected to the ports and for turning off / on the contacts, and a power supply and OF of the contacts connected to the PS devices and corresponding to the plurality of ports of the plurality of PS devices.
A router including firmware for setting an F / ON state, and setting the power supply corresponding to a plurality of ports of a plurality of PS devices and the OFF / ON state of a contact as configuration information in the firmware of the router, A first feature is to control power supply to a plurality of electrical products and OFF / ON of contacts.

Further, according to the present invention, in the power supply system according to the first aspect, the router is connected to a host device from a remote place via a wide area network, and the host device stores a plurality of PS devices in firmware in the router. The second feature is that configuration information corresponding to a plurality of ports is set.

Further, according to the present invention, in the power supply system according to the first aspect, the plurality of PS devices are chain-connected by a dedicated interface, and a plurality of electric products connected to the plurality of PS devices are connected to a firmware in a router. Power supply and contact OFF / OFF based on the configuration information set in
The second feature is that the ON state is controlled.

Further, the present invention is a power supply system for controlling power supply to a plurality of electrical products and turning off / on of a contact. The power supply system has a plurality of ports corresponding to a plurality of electrical products. A router that includes a plurality of PS devices that supply power and turn off / on contacts, and firmware that is connected to the PS devices and that sets the power supply and OFF / ON states of the contacts corresponding to a plurality of ports of the plurality of PS devices. And identification information for each PS device, a power supply control signal, and a contact OFF / ON control signal.
An interface for connecting the S device, and setting the power supply corresponding to the plurality of ports of the plurality of PS devices and the OFF / ON state of the contacts as configuration information in the firmware of the router as configuration information, and setting the configuration information to the router. Monitors the power supply and the OFF / ON state of the contacts to the plurality of port-connected electrical appliances of the PS device identified using the power supply control signal and the contact OFF / ON control signal, and based on the monitoring result. The fifth feature is that the configuration information is configured to generate the configuration information of the firmware and / or to manually set the configuration information.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a power supply system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a configuration of an electric appliance system in a branch office to which the power supply system according to the present embodiment is applied.

The electric appliance system in the branch shown in FIG.
WA from the center 1 via the router 2 via the ISDN line
A router 1000 connected to N3 and a PS device 1010/1020/1030 which is a feature of the present embodiment described later.
And an electric product whose power is turned on and off, for example, an automatic door 1011 / shutter 1012 / surveillance camera 10
19 / PC for monitoring these 1014 / Air conditioner 1
022 / lighting fixture 1021 / server 1031.

The router 1000 has an ISDN port 1002 connected to the WAN 3 via an ISDN line.
And a firmware 1001 that is connected to the port 1001 and controls power supply and power-on / off, and is connected to a PS device described later, and transmits a PS device identification number, a power supply control signal, and a contact OFF / ON control signal. The interface port 1003 and the interface port 100
And an automatic door 1011 / shirt 10 based on a control signal input through the interface 1040, the interface 1040 being connected to the control signal 3 and transmitting the control signal.
12 / Monitoring camera system 1013 / PC 1014
And a PS device 1010 that controls the power supply contact of the lighting device 1021 via an interface. The PS device 1010 controls the power supply contact of the lighting device 1021. A
A PS device 1020 for supplying power of C100V;
PS device 10 that is connected to S device 1020 via an interface and supplies AC200 power to server 1031
20.

The interface 1040 includes identification information for each PS device, a power supply control signal, and a contact OFF / ON.
The surveillance camera system 1013 includes a control signal. The surveillance camera system 1013 includes a surveillance VCR, and activates the surveillance camera and the VCR, for example, when an approach of a person is detected by an infrared / ultrasonic detector connected to the surveillance camera. It is an electrical product that requires a hot start.

In the power supply system configured as described above, when the power of all the electric appliances in the branch 100 is turned on from the remote host 1, the host 1 uses the router 2 and the IS
ISD of router 1000 via WAN3 which is a DN network
Connect to N port 1002. This connected router 1
000 identifies the connected PS devices 1010 to 1030 based on the configuration information indicating the power supply and the contact OFF / ON state provided by the firmware 1001, and identifies each electric product connected to each PS device 1010 to 1030, Specifically, an automatic door 1011, a shirt 1012, a surveillance camera 1013, and a personal computer 10 connected to a PS device 1010
14, the power of the lighting apparatus 1021 and the air conditioner 1022 connected to the PS device 1020 and the power of the server 1031 connected to the PS device 1030 are also turned on.

As shown in FIG. 2, the firmware 1001 built in the router 2 is connected to an ISDN port 1002 and an interface port 1003 connecting the interface 1040 for connection to the ISDN network in the router shown in FIG. A memory space 2000 for storing configuration information to be described later,
A configuration information generation unit 2101 for automatically generating connection configuration information of the PS device connected via the third unit 3; and a configuration check for checking the configuration information set manually in advance and the automatically generated configuration information. Part 2102 and IS
An ISDN control unit 2103 that controls connection with a DN network;
Firmware control unit 2 for controlling each circuit function unit
The memory space 2000 includes an area 2010 for storing configuration information set manually in advance, and an area 2020 for storing configuration information automatically set by the configuration information generation unit 2101.
Areas stored in 0 and 2020 are device numbers arbitrarily assigned to the respective PS devices and device types A indicating, for example, whether or not to perform a hot start corresponding to the device numbers.
To X, and electrical products (1 to x) connected for each device number
OF corresponding to each power supply and contact OFF / ON port
A plurality of flags for setting F (disconnection) / ON (input) are stored. The configuration information shown in FIG. 2 is, for example, the device number 2 (PS device 1 of device type B) in area 2010 in FIG.
020), the lighting fixture 102 connected to port 1
1 indicates that the contact of the air conditioner 1022 connected to the port 2 is set to ON and the contact of the air conditioner 1022 connected to the port 2 is set to ON.

The manually set configuration information is based on the characteristics of each electrical product connected to each PS device by the administrator (whether a hot start is required, whether the power needs to be always on, and conversely, due to restrictions such as energy saving). Characteristics such as turning off at night)
The configuration information automatically set by the configuration information generation unit 2101 monitors, for example, a power supply state and a use state of each electrical product at regular time intervals, based on the monitoring result. It is set by automatically setting the configuration information of the electric product. This monitoring is performed by the configuration information generation unit 2101 by the identification information for each PS device included in the interface 1040, the power supply control signal, and the contact OFF.
The power supply control signal and the contact OFF / ON control signal are used to determine which PS device is connected to which device number by examining the / ON control signal. Power supply and power supply OFF /
This is done by investigating the ON state. The automatic setting of the configuration information is performed, for example, by setting a flag of a corresponding port to ON for a port that is always powered on, and often turning off the flag.
This is performed by setting OFF to the port to be set.

The power supply system configured as described above is
Configuration information including power supply and contact OFF / ON states corresponding to a plurality of electric products is stored in a router, and a PS device is provided with a power supply and power OFF / ON switch corresponding to the electric device connected to the PS device. This makes it possible to easily perform system management including power control from a remote location by setting only the router from the host device. Further, in this embodiment, the contact is turned on to always supply power to the surveillance camera including the surveillance VCR that requires a hot start.
Since it can be easily set from the router side as described above, it is possible to broaden the options of electric products when constructing the system.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, power is supplied to an electrical product connected to a port and OFF / O of a contact is performed.
N, and a router connected to the PS device and including firmware for setting power supply and OFF / ON state of contacts corresponding to a plurality of ports of the PS devices. Power supply for multiple ports of multiple PS devices to formware and OFF / O of contacts
By setting the N state as the configuration information, power supply to a plurality of electrical products and OFF / ON of the contacts can be controlled.

Further, according to the present invention, the router is connected to a host device from a remote location via a wide area network, and the host device sets configuration information corresponding to a plurality of ports of a plurality of PS devices in firmware in the router. Thus, power supply control of a plurality of electric appliances can be easily performed from a remote place. Further, the present invention provides a method for connecting the plurality of PS devices in a chain with a dedicated interface, and connecting a plurality of electrical products connected to the plurality of PS devices to power supply and contact OFF based on configuration information set in firmware in a router. / ON
By controlling the state, power control of a plurality of electric appliances connected to a plurality of PS devices can be easily performed by using the configuration information set in one router.

Further, according to the present invention, there is provided a power supply and a contact for a plurality of port-connected electric appliances of a PS device, wherein the configuration information is identified by the router using the power supply control signal and the contact OFF / ON control signal. Is configured to monitor the OFF / ON state of the device and generate configuration information of the firmware based on the monitoring result, and / or to manually set the configuration information. It can also be set manually based on characteristics such as hot start of the electrical product.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining an embodiment of a power supply control system to which a power supply system according to the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is an exemplary view for explaining firmware according to the embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a power supply control system according to the related art.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining another example of the power supply control system to which the power supply system according to the present invention is applied.

[Explanation of symbols]

1000: router, 1001: firmware, 100
2: ISDN port, 1003: interface port, 1010: PS device, 1011: automatic door, 101
2: shutter, 1013: surveillance camera, 1014: personal computer, 1020: PS device, 1021: lighting equipment, 10
22: air conditioner, 1030: PS device, 1031: server, 1100: router, 1110: host, 2000:
Memory space, 2010: manually set configuration information area, 20
20: character raging setting configuration information area, 2100: firmware controller, 2101: configuration information generator, 2102:
No configuration check, 2103: ISDN control unit.

Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification code FI H04Q 9/00 301 (72) Inventor Kenichi Miyagawa 1st Horiyamashita, Hadano-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Nichi Information Technology Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Motonori Sato 1 Horiyamashita, Hadano City, Kanagawa Prefecture

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A power supply system for controlling power supply to a plurality of electric appliances and turning off / on of a contact, comprising a plurality of ports corresponding to the electric appliances, and supplying power to the electric appliances connected to the ports. Contact OFF /
A plurality of PS devices that perform ON, and are connected to the PS devices;
A router including firmware for setting a power supply and an OFF / ON state of a contact corresponding to a plurality of ports of a plurality of PS devices, and a plurality of PSs in the firmware of the router.
Power supply and contact OFF /
A power supply system characterized in that power supply to a plurality of electric products and OFF / ON of contacts are controlled by setting an ON state as configuration information. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the router is connected to a host device from a remote place via a wide area network, and the host device sets configuration information corresponding to a plurality of ports of a plurality of PS devices in firmware in the router. The power supply system according to claim 1, wherein 3. A plurality of PS devices are connected in a chain by a dedicated interface, and a plurality of electrical products connected to the plurality of PS devices are supplied with power and turned off based on configuration information set in firmware in a router. 2. The power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the power supply system controls the / ON state. 4. A power supply system for controlling power supply to a plurality of electrical products and turning off / on of a contact, comprising a plurality of ports corresponding to the electrical products, and supplying power to the electrical products connected to the ports. Contact OFF /
A plurality of PS devices that perform ON, and are connected to the PS devices;
A router including firmware for setting a power supply and a contact OFF / ON state corresponding to a plurality of ports of a plurality of PS devices, and identification information for each PS device, a power supply control signal, and a contact OFF / ON control signal; An interface for connecting the router and the PS device is provided. In the firmware of the router, power supply corresponding to a plurality of ports of the plurality of PS devices and OFF / ON states of contacts are set as configuration information, and the configuration information is The router monitors the power supply and the OFF / ON state of the contacts to the plurality of port-connected electrical appliances of the PS device identified by using the power supply control signal and the contact OFF / ON control signal. Power supply characterized in that it is configured to generate firmware configuration information based on the configuration information and / or to manually set the configuration information Stem.