JPH11296444A - Monitoring device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a monitoring device that can have a common device perform monitoring control with monitor control information from plural monitor control equipment. SOLUTION: This device is equipped with plural monitor control equipment 11 to 13 which monitor and control electronic equipment, a protocol converter 20 which converts monitor control information transmitted by a corresponding communication protocol from each of these monitor control equipment 11 to 13 into a common protocol, a data processor 21 for processing data in accordance with the common protocol from this protocol converter 20, and a data display device 22 for displaying the data of this data processor 21.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a monitoring device for monitoring and controlling a plurality of monitoring and control devices for monitoring and controlling electronic devices.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when electronic devices such as a computer and a measuring device are monitored and controlled by a monitoring control device such as a robot, monitoring control information from the monitoring control device is centrally transmitted using a communication device such as a LAN using a communication protocol. The data is transmitted to the data processing device of the monitoring device, and the data processed by the data processing device is displayed on the data display device.

[0003]

Conventionally, when there are a plurality of supervisory control devices, data processing is performed for each communication protocol corresponding to each supervisory control device, so that the same number of supervisory devices as the supervisory control devices are required. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a monitoring device capable of monitoring and controlling monitoring control information from a plurality of monitoring control devices with a common device.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, a monitoring apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a plurality of monitoring and control devices for monitoring and controlling an electronic device, and each of the monitoring and control devices is transmitted by a corresponding communication protocol. A protocol conversion device for converting the monitoring control information into a common protocol, a data processing device for processing data according to a common protocol from the protocol conversion device, and a data display device for displaying data of the data processing device. It is characterized by the following.

The protocol converter has a function of converting information of a common protocol into a communication protocol corresponding to each monitoring control device.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the operation of the protocol conversion device of FIG. That is, the first monitoring and control device (device 1) 11, the second monitoring and control device (device 2) 12, and the third monitoring and control device (device 3) 13 are electronic devices such as a computer and a measuring device, respectively. The monitoring and control information of each of the monitoring and control devices 11 to 13 uses the corresponding communication protocol (format) P1, P2, or P3 using the communication device 14, 15, or 16 such as a LAN. And the protocol conversion device 20 by the communication processing devices 17, 18 and 19.
Is transmitted to This protocol conversion device 20 has a communication protocol P corresponding to each of the monitoring control devices 11 to 13 respectively.
The monitoring control information of P1, P2, and P3 is converted into a corresponding common protocol (format) P4 and output to the data processing device 21. The data processing device 21 processes data according to the common protocol P4 input from the protocol conversion device 20, and outputs the processed data to the data display device 22. The data display device 22 displays data input from the data processing device 21. In FIG. 2, A, B,
C, D... Are protocol (format) items.

The protocol conversion device 20 has a function of converting information of the common protocol P4 into communication protocols P1, P2, and P3 corresponding to the respective monitoring control devices 11 to 13.

Thus, different communication protocols P1,
By converting P2 and P3 into the common protocol P4, the items of monitoring control are limited, but many monitoring control devices 11
To 13 can be shared by the common data processing device 21 and data display device 22 and can be monitored by one monitoring device. By converting different communication protocols into common protocols, different types of monitoring control devices can be monitored by the same monitoring device.

When the number of items to be monitored and controlled by the monitoring control devices 11 to 13 increases, items A, B, C, D... Are added to the common protocol P4, and when the number of monitoring control devices increases, The system can be easily upgraded by adding a communication processing device.

[0010]

As described above, according to the present invention, monitoring control information from a plurality of monitoring control devices can be monitored and controlled by a common device by converting different communication protocols into a common protocol.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of an operation of the protocol conversion device in FIG. 1;

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 First monitoring and control equipment 12 Second monitoring and control equipment 13 Third monitoring and control equipment 14 Communication device 15 Communication device 16 Communication device 17 Communication processing device 18 Communication processing device 19 Communication processing device 20 Protocol conversion Device 21 Data processing device 22 Data display device

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of monitoring and control devices for monitoring and controlling an electronic device, a protocol conversion device for converting monitoring and control information transmitted from each of the monitoring and control devices by a corresponding communication protocol into a common protocol, A monitoring device comprising: a data processing device that processes data according to a common protocol from the device; and a data display device that displays data of the data processing device. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the protocol conversion device has a function of converting information of the common protocol into a communication protocol corresponding to each monitoring control device.
The monitoring device as described.