KR20030084436A - Method for Alarm Report of Home Automation Device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for notifying the alarm of a home automation device is provided to rapidly inform other homes of the related information when an alarm is generated at a specific home due to an emergency status such as a fire, a gas leakage or the like. CONSTITUTION: A method for notifying the alarm of a home automation device includes the steps of: (S11) generating an abnormal sensing signal when an emergency status is occurred at a specific home; (S12) generating an alarm signal by receiving the abnormal sensing signal; (S13) transmitting the alarm message packet to the home gate away; (S14) sending the transmitted alarm message packet to the control server through the communication network; (S15) extracting the Internet protocol(IP) address after receiving the alarm message packet transmitted from the gate way; (S17) broadcasting to the other home gate ways with carrying the extracted alarm type data on the user datagram protocol(UDP); (S18) transferring the alarm type and the home information data to each of the home information terminals; and (S19) receiving the transferred alarm type and the home information data and informing the received alarm type and the home information data to the resident in each of the homes.

Description

Alarm Notification for Home Automation Devices {Method for Alarm Report of Home Automation Device}

According to the present invention, when an alarm occurs due to a fire, security, gas leak, etc. in a specific household, an alarm generation message and generation information generated by the alarm are transmitted to a generation information terminal of another generation by a user datagram protocol (UDP). The present invention relates to an alarm notification method of a home automation (HA) device that is broadcasted in a short name.

In general, home automation equipment is installed in a complex in which a large number of households are concentrated, such as an apartment, a townhouse, and an office, for the convenience of each householder.

Typically, such home automation devices provide various convenience functions such as alarm generation and notification function for each household's emergency, control of electronic devices in household, opening / closing doors, and calling with other households and management offices. Support.

In particular, the alarm occurrence and notification function for the emergency is an increasingly important function, and when the emergency occurs such as a fire, crime prevention or gas leakage, the alarm signal is generated and notified to the household and management office. It means the function.

1 and 2 are block diagrams showing the configuration of a system for an alarm notification method of a conventional home automation device for providing such an alarm generation and notification function, and a flowchart showing the flow thereof.

As shown in Fig. 1, the conventional alarm notification system includes a plurality of household information terminals 30 installed in each household and performing various home automation functions, and a plurality of household information installed in a central management room. The control unit (MC: Main Controller, 20) for performing a main server function through the terminal 30 and the communication network 10 interlocking.

At this time, each generation information terminal 30 is a plurality of alarm sources 40 installed in each region in the household, for example, a fire sensor 41 for detecting a fire occurrence, a security sensor for detecting unauthorized intrusion of outsiders 42, in conjunction with emergency detection sensors such as a gas leak sensor 43 for detecting a gas leak, and has a function of generating an alarm for notifying people when an emergency occurs.

The control unit 20 continuously polls each generation information terminal 30 to check each generation state. When an alarm occurs in any one generation information terminal 30a, the corresponding generation information terminal 30a controls the control unit. This is reported to (20), which is a flowchart illustrating the process.

When an abnormality is detected in at least one of the alarm sources 40a such as the fire detection sensor 41a, the security sensor 42a, and the gas leak sensor 43a installed in a specific household (step: S1), the detection signal is The generation information terminal 30a is transmitted to the generation information terminal 30a, and the generation information terminal 30a generates an alarm corresponding thereto (step S2), and then sends an alarm notification message in the form of a packet containing the alarm information through the communication network 10. Transfer to control unit 20 (step: S3).

The control unit 20 outputs an alarm bell so that the control unit 20 or the management room staff can know the emergency situation when the alarm notification message in the packet form is received (step: S4), so that the management room staff is associated with the emergency. All households will be notified of this fact (step S5) and will be able to take evacuation or follow-up accordingly.

However, according to the conventional alarm notification method, it is difficult for the household information terminal 30 other than the household information terminal 30a that detected the emergency to generate an alarm to obtain information on the occurrence of the emergency. There is a problem in that the alarm is generated manually by manually generating an alarm or notified every household through an interphone.

This is because, in the conventional alarm notification system, there is no function of automatically notifying an alarm generation of a specific generation to other households concerned, and corresponding contents of generation status related packets exchanged between each generation information terminal 30 and the control unit 20. This is because there is a problem in the traffic due to the increase in the packet capacity accordingly.

That is, the generation information terminal 30 and the control unit 20 interwork with a communication network 10 using a protocol such as TCP / IP (hereinafter, abbreviated as TCP / IP). In order to communicate with each other by exchanging packets, in order to share the alarm information of each generation, when another generation of information is added to the packet, the capacity of the packet increases, thereby adding traffic to the limited line capacity.

In addition, even with such an increase in packet capacity, it is very difficult to modify the communication scheme and protocol of the alarm notification system that has already been applied, so that human and physical costs for sharing other generation alarm information are excessively required.

Therefore, according to the alarm notification method of the conventional home automation equipment, the alarm situation occurring in a specific household cannot be immediately known to other households. As a result, other emergency situations such as fire, security, and gas leakage occurring in a specific household are not available. Problems arise that are difficult to respond quickly in generations.

The present invention was devised to solve these problems, and by providing an alarm notification method of a home automation device that promptly informs all other households of the relevant information when an alarm occurs due to an emergency in a specific household, The goal is to enable all generations to respond quickly to emergencies such as fire, security and gas leaks.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a system for an alarm notification method of a conventional home automation device,

2 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of an alarm notification method of a conventional home automation device;

3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a system for an alarm notification method of a home automation device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of an alarm notification method of a home automation device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10: communication network

40: alarm source

100: control server

200: database

300: generation gateway

400: generation information terminal

In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a plurality of alarm sources (for example, fire sensors, security sensors, gas sensors, etc.) installed in a major part of each household of a multi-family dwelling, such as an apartment, a business building, and a multi-family house. And a plurality of generation information terminals installed in each generation to perform home automation functions and interworking with alarm sources, and a plurality of generation information terminals installed to correspond to the plurality of generation information terminals to connect each generation information terminal to a communication network. It is composed of the generation gateway and the control server which is interoperable with the database and the database that stores the IP address of each generation gateway and the registration information of the household, and the respective generation information terminal and the communication network through each generation gateway. In the alarm notification method using a home automation device, Generating an abnormality detection signal after detecting the alarm source in the specific household when an emergency situation occurs in the unit; and receiving the abnormality detection signal generated by the alarm source by the generation information terminal of the specific household Generating an alarm signal and transmitting an alarm message packet including the type of alarm to a generation gateway connected to the generation gateway, and transmitting the transmitted alarm message packet to a control server through a communication network; The control server receives the alarm message packet transmitted from the gateway and analyzes the received alarm message packet to extract the alarm type and the IP address of the generation gateway, and the control server searches a database to retrieve the extracted IP. For household gateways with addresses Inquiring a household, extracting generation information on which an alarm has occurred, and broadcasting the extracted generation information data and the extracted alarm type data to a plurality of other generation gateways through UDP, and an alarm broadcasted by each other generation gateway. Receiving the type and household information data and transmitting the same to each household information terminal connected to the household information terminal, and the household information terminal receiving the transmitted alarm type and household information data and notifying the residents of each household about it; do.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention.

In addition, it should be noted that the same reference numerals are given to the same components, although belonging to different drawings for convenience of understanding.

3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a system for an alarm notification method of a home automation device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

As shown, the system for realizing the alarm notification method of the home automation device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is the alarm source 40 installed in the main part of each household, and each household is installed in each household A plurality of generation information terminals 400 interoperating with the alarm sources 40 while performing an automation function, and a plurality of generation gateways 300 connecting the respective generation information terminals 400 to the communication network 10; The IP address of each generation gateway 300 and the registration information of the corresponding household are stored in the database 200, and the database 200 can be linked to each generation information terminal through each generation gateway 300 ( 400 and the control server 100 interworked with the communication network 10.

4 is a flowchart showing the flow of the alarm notification method of the home automation device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and shows an example of a gas leak occurring in a specific generation of an apartment complex in which multiple households reside.

First, when a gas leakage accident occurs within a specific household, emergency sources such as alarm sources 40a installed in each major part of the household, that is, a fire sensor 41a, a security sensor 42a, and a gas leak sensor 43a, etc. The gas leak sensor 43a of the avalanche detection sensor detects a gas leak (step: S10), and generates a gas leak detection signal (step: S11).

When the gas leak detection signal is generated from the gas leak sensor 43a, the generation information terminal 400a receives the gas leakage alarm, generates a gas leak alarm (step S12), and generates a corresponding alarm message to the generation gateway connected to the gas generation sensor. Transmit to 300a (step: S13).

At this time, the information on the alarm type, that is, the data indicating the gas leak is inserted into the alarm message.

The generation gateway 300a transmits the alarm message packet transmitted from the generation information terminal 300a to the control server 100 through the communication network 10 via TCP / IP in order to notify the control server 100 of the gas leakage alarm. (Step S14).

When the alarm message packet transmitted from the generation gateway 300a is transmitted to the control server 100, the control server 100 receives the alarm message packet, analyzes the received alarm message packet, and transmits an alarm type and an alarm message packet. The IP address of the gateway 300a is extracted (step S15).

Subsequently, the control server 100 searches the database 200, finds a household corresponding to the generation gateway 300a having the extracted IP address, and extracts generation information in which the gas leakage alarm has occurred (step: S16), the extracted generation information data is loaded on UDP together with the alarm type data and broadcasted to all other generation gateways 300b (step S17).

Each other generation gateway 300b receives the broadcasted alarm type and generation information data and bypasses it to each generation information terminal 400b connected thereto (step: S18).

Each generation information terminal 400b receives the transmitted alarm type and generation information data to determine that a gas leak has occurred in the specific generation, and uses the liquid crystal display means or the audio output means to display the gas leak alarm and the generated generation information. Use the printout to notify the residents (step: S19).

For example, a liquid crystal display means outputs a text alarm message such as 'A gas leak has been detected in the X X X X', or outputs the same content as a voice announcement through an audio output means.

Therefore, a resident living in another household can recognize that a gas leak has occurred in the specific household and can quickly take measures such as evacuation.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention may be modified without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. It will be appreciated that modifications or variations may be made. Therefore, changes in the future embodiments of the present invention will not be able to escape the technology of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, when an alarm occurs due to an emergency in a specific household of a multi-family housing such as an apartment, a multi-family house, a business building, etc., the related information can be promptly notified to all other households. All generations have the advantage of being able to respond quickly to emergencies such as fire, security, and gas leaks from a particular generation.

Claims (3)

A plurality of alarm sources installed in a major part of each household of the multi-family housing complex, a plurality of household information terminals installed in each of the households to perform home automation functions, and interworking with the alarm sources; A plurality of generation gateways installed to correspond to each generation information terminal and connecting each generation information terminal to a communication network, a database storing the IP address of each generation gateway and registration information of the corresponding generation, and interworking with the database In the alarm notification method using a home automation device which is possible and comprises a control server which is interlocked with each generation information terminal and a communication network through each generation gateway, If an emergency occurs in a specific generation of each generation, detecting an alarm source in the specific generation and generating an abnormal detection signal; The generation information terminal of the specific generation receives an abnormal detection signal generated by the alarm source and generates an alarm signal according to the generation information, and transmits an alarm message packet including the type of the alarm to the generation gateway connected to the generation information terminal. step; The generation gateway transmitting the transmitted alarm message packet to the control server through a communication network; Receiving, by the control server, an alarm message packet transmitted from the gateway, analyzing the received alarm message packet to extract an alarm type and an IP address of the generation gateway; The control server searches the database, inquires a generation corresponding to the generation gateway having the extracted IP address, extracts generation information in which the alarm occurs, and then extracts generation information data and the extracted alarm type data. Broadcasting to a plurality of other generation gateways by loading a user datagram protocol (UDP) into a plurality of other generation gateways; Receiving, by the other generation gateway, the alarm type and generation information data, and delivering the alarm type and generation information data to each generation information terminal connected thereto; And receiving, by the household information terminal, the transmitted alarm type and household information data, and notifying the residents of each household of the household information in the household automation device. The method of claim 1, wherein the alarm type is any one of fire, security, and gas leak. The method of claim 1, wherein in the notification step of each generation information terminal, each generation information terminal outputs the transmitted alarm type and generation information data as a text alarm message or voice announcement by using a liquid crystal display means or an audio output means. Alarm notification method of a home automation device, characterized in that.