JPH04295994A - Remote monitor equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the corresponding processing of a monitor for the reception of an abnormality signal relating to a broad area accident. CONSTITUTION:This equipment is equipped with a reception data processor 5 which discriminates the fact that the broad area accident occurs when the abnormality signals representing the same abnormal state are received from plural terminal equipment in the same area within a prescribed time, and a broad area accident display device 6 which displays the broad area accident corresponding to the discrimination of the reception data processor 5. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the labor of the monitor and to quickly perform the recovery of the broad area accident.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a remote monitoring device.
In particular, the present invention relates to a remote monitoring device that uses a monitoring center device to monitor terminal devices installed in a plurality of buildings.

0002

[Prior Art] Conventional remote monitoring devices include, for example,
As disclosed in Publication No. 9-242260, a building in which equipment such as air conditioners and elevators and sensors are installed is provided with a terminal device that is electrically connected to these equipment and sensors. A plurality of terminal devices and a monitoring center device provided at a service company or the like are connected to each other via telephone lines. For example, when an abnormality occurs in equipment, the terminal device uses a building code that is a combination of a 4-digit area code that can be determined down to the municipal level that represents the installation location of the terminal device and a 4-digit code that represents a specific building, and The status data is sent as an abnormal signal to the monitoring center device via the telephone line. The monitoring center device that receives this abnormal signal reads out the building name and equipment name stored in the storage device based on the building code, stores the abnormal signal, and then displays the abnormal signal on the display device and printing device. Outputs the equipment name, abnormal condition name, building name, etc. where the error occurred. Then, the monitor at the monitoring center looks at the display on the display device and contacts the necessary departments to take appropriate countermeasures, and if necessary, service personnel go to the building where the abnormality occurred and repair the abnormal situation. Do the work. In addition, the terminal device monitors the power supply voltage, and if a power outage is detected, it uses battery backup power to issue an abnormal signal to the monitoring center device to notify that it is no longer possible to monitor equipment due to the power outage. report. The monitoring center device that has received the abnormality signal displays the abnormality signal on a display device, and the monitoring staff who sees this display contacts the department that can promptly restore the power outage state and take action. Then, when the power outage is restored, the terminal device issues a restoration signal to the monitoring center device to notify that the power has been restored.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the above-mentioned conventional remote monitoring device, when a wide area power outage occurs, for example, all terminal devices in the area send an abnormal signal to the monitoring center device to notify that a power outage has occurred. On the other hand,
Since the monitoring center device outputs the abnormality signals to the display device and the printing device in the order in which they are received, the plurality of display devices are filled with the display of abnormality signals related to power outages. At this time, unless the guard clears the screen of the display device one after another to display a new abnormal signal, it will receive an abnormal signal that requires emergency response, such as a fire, crime prevention, or entrapment accident in which a passenger is trapped in the car. I can't even display it. Moreover, since the monitor is busy with the process of erasing the screen as described above, even if an abnormal signal that requires emergency response is displayed, there is a risk that the monitor may erase it without noticing it.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the actual situation in the prior art, and its purpose is to provide a remote monitoring device that can reduce the processing required by a monitoring staff in response to the reception of abnormal signals related to a wide-area disaster. It is about providing.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a terminal device installed in each of a plurality of buildings, which issues an abnormal signal via a telephone line, and which receives the abnormal signal. In a remote monitoring device comprising a monitoring center device that remotely monitors the terminal device, when the monitoring center device receives abnormal signals indicating the same abnormal state from a plurality of terminal devices in the same area within a predetermined time. The system is configured to include a received data processing device that determines that a wide area disaster has occurred, and a wide area disaster display device that displays that a wide area disaster has occurred according to the determination by the received data processing device.

[0006]

[Operation] Since the present invention is constructed as described above, the receiving data processing device of the monitoring center device receives abnormal signals indicating the same abnormal state within a predetermined time from a plurality of terminal devices in the same area. It is determined that a disaster has occurred, and based on this determination, the wide area disaster display device displays the fact that a wide area disaster has occurred. As a result, an abnormal signal related to a wide-area disaster is displayed by the wide-area disaster display device, while an abnormal signal related to, for example, a fire or a trapping accident in which passengers are trapped in a car is displayed by a normal display device. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the response processing required by the monitoring staff in response to the reception of an abnormal signal related to a wide-area disaster.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the remote monitoring device of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the remote monitoring device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the first half of the reception process, and FIG. 3 is the second half of the reception process following parts A and B in FIG. FIG.

The remote monitoring device of this embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is installed in a plurality of buildings (not shown), and includes terminal devices T1 to Tn that issue abnormal signals via a telephone line L, and It is received by the line receiving device 1 and the terminal device T
1 to Tn remotely. The monitoring center device K also includes a storage device 2 that stores building names, equipment names, and abnormal signals, a display device 3 that displays the abnormal signals, and a printing device 4 that prints the abnormal signals.

[0009] When the above-mentioned monitoring center device K receives abnormal signals from multiple terminal devices in the same region a predetermined number of times within a predetermined time and also indicates the same abnormal state, a wide-area disaster occurs. a wide-area disaster display device 6 that displays a wide-area disaster according to the determination of the received data-processing device 5; It is equipped with a wide-area disaster printing device 7 that prints a message to that effect.

In this embodiment, the monitoring center device K
For example, if a wide area power outage occurs in the area monitored by
Each of the terminal devices T1 to Tn in the area issues an abnormal signal to the monitoring center device K via the telephone line L indicating that a power outage has occurred. The monitoring center device K receives an abnormal signal from the line receiving device 1 as step S1, and outputs this abnormal signal to the received data processing device 5. The reception data processing device 5 reads out, for example, the building name and the equipment name stored in the storage device 2 based on the abnormal signal, and also reads the issuing time, building name, and equipment name related to the abnormal signal in step S2. It is stored in the storage device 2. Next, in step S3, based on the area code included in the abnormal signal, it is stored in the storage device 2 whether abnormal signals from the same region have been received a predetermined number of times, for example, 5 times, within a predetermined time period, for example, 5 minutes. Make decisions based on data. At this time, since it is determined that 5 abnormal signals from the same area have not been received within 5 minutes after receiving the abnormal signal related to the power outage, the received data processing device 5 3 and the printing device 4, the data including the abnormality signal, for example, the name of the building, the power supply equipment as the name of the equipment where the abnormality occurred, the power outage, the time of occurrence of the power outage, and the contact information of the person responding to the abnormality are output as the status name. The display device 4 displays the data as step S5 shown in FIG. 3, while the printer 4 prints the data as step S6. As a result, the monitor notifies the relevant department by phone or fax that a power outage has occurred in the building in question.

[0011]Furthermore, after the sixth abnormal signal related to a power outage is received, it is determined that five abnormal signals from the same area have been received within 5 minutes during the above determination, so step S4 is performed. It is determined whether each abnormal signal indicates the same abnormal state. At this time, if it is determined that the respective abnormal signals indicate the same abnormal state, that is, abnormal signals related to a power outage, the receiving data processing device 5 determines that a wide-area disaster has occurred, and as shown in FIG. In step S7 shown in , it is checked whether the wide area disaster display device 6 is displaying the occurrence of a wide area disaster in the same area, and if it is not displayed, data related to the area where the wide area disaster has occurred is outputted to the wide area disaster display device 6. Wide area disaster display device 6
In step S8, a display is performed based on the data. Next, the data is output to the wide-area disaster printing device 7, and the wide-area disaster printing device 7 prints at high speed in a simplified print format based on the data in step S9. However, if it is determined at the time of the determination that the signal is an abnormal signal indicating another abnormal state, the received data processing device 5 outputs the data to the display device 3 and the printing device 4, displays the data as step S5,
On the other hand, the printing device 4 prints the data in step S6.

In the embodiment configured as described above, by separating the output of an abnormal signal related to a wide-area disaster and the output of a normal abnormal signal, it is possible to improve the response of a watchman when receiving an abnormal signal related to a wide-area disaster. Processing can be reduced, and the display device 3 and printing device 4 will not be occupied for a long time when an abnormal signal related to a wide-area disaster is received.
At this time, even if an abnormal signal requiring emergency response is received, it can be displayed and printed quickly, and therefore, the abnormal signal requiring emergency response can be quickly responded to. In addition, since observers can quickly determine when a wide-area disaster has occurred, for example, if they determine that a large number of personnel are needed for recovery work, they can request the dispatch of workers from other areas. , it is possible to quickly recover from wide-area disasters.

[0013]

[Effects of the Invention] Since the present invention is constructed as described above, it is possible to reduce the response processing of the monitoring personnel in response to the reception of abnormal signals related to a wide-area disaster, so that the labor of the monitoring personnel can be reduced. Abnormal signals related to wide-area disasters can be responded to quickly, and therefore recovery from wide-area disasters can be quickly performed.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the first half of reception processing.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the second half of the reception process.

[Explanation of symbols]

5 Received data processing device 6 Wide area disaster display device 7 Wide area disaster printing device L Telephone line T1~Tn Terminal device

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: A terminal device installed in each of a plurality of buildings that issues an abnormal signal via a telephone line, and a monitoring center device that receives the abnormal signal and remotely monitors the terminal device. In the remote monitoring device, a reception data processing device determines that a wide area disaster has occurred when the monitoring center device receives abnormal signals indicating the same abnormal state within a predetermined time from a plurality of terminal devices in the same area. ,
A remote monitoring device comprising: a wide area disaster display device that displays a wide area disaster according to determination by the received data processing device.