Management server for remote monitoring system

• US 10,171,317 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2012
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd. (Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Yanmar Company Limited (Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shinohara, Yoshihiko, Sakamoto, Hirofumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Keller, Michael A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Moreau, Austin J
• Application Number:
  US14/357,882
• Publication Number:
  US 20140310412A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,260 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 79/005 Precision agriculture
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 49/00 Arrangements of nautical instruments or navigational aids nautical measuring instruments G01C; radio navigation, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/267 Diagnosing or detecting failure of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/02 Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation

Abstract

The management server causes an output section to output a startup date and time, shutdown date and time, minimum, maximum, and average values, and an occurrence count and durations of a predetermined event, for each of the operation time periods from the startup to shutdown in a unit of the remote monitoring terminal device, and causes the output section to output the startup date and time, shutdown date and time, and a movement locus of the mobile work vehicle or vessel based on the location information, for each of the operation time periods from the startup to shutdown in the unit of the remote monitoring terminal device.

Claims

1. A remote monitoring system for monitoring a mobile work vehicle or vessel, the mobile work vehicle or vessel having a remote monitoring terminal device mounted thereon, the remote monitoring system comprising:

a management server for communicating with the remote monitoring terminal device, the management server configured to have;

a control section configured to process information;

the control section having a storage section configured to store the information processed by the control section; and

a communication section configured to communicate with the remote monitoring terminal device, wherein, the communication section receives;

a startup date and time of the remote monitoring terminal device from the remote monitoring terminal device when the remote monitoring terminal device is started up; and

a shutdown date and time of the remote monitoring terminal device, and minimum values, maximum values, and average values of data detected by the remote monitoring terminal device during an operation of the mobile work vehicle or vessel, and occurrence counts and durations of predetermined events from the remote monitoring terminal device when the remote monitoring terminal device is shut down,

wherein the control section distinguishes, by a daily report in a unit of an operation day for at least one operation time period from a startup to shutdown, the startup date and time, the shutdown date and time, the minimum values, the maximum values, the average values, and the occurrence counts and the durations of the predetermined events, which are received by the communication section, and the control section stores the received and distinguished information in the storage section in a unit of terminal identification information of the remote monitoring terminal device,

wherein the control section causes a display screen of a display section to selectably display the at least one operation time period for which the mobile work vehicle or vessel is operated,

wherein, when one of the at least one operation time period is selected on the display screen, the control section reads, from the storage section, the minimum values, the maximum values, the average values, and the occurrence counts and the durations of the predetermined events, all of which correspond to the selected operation time period, out of the startup date and time, the shutdown date and time, the minimum values, the maximum values, the average values, and the occurrence counts and the durations of the predetermined events, which are stored in the storage section in a unit of the terminal identification information, and causes another display screen of the display section to display together with the startup date and time and the shutdown date and time, the minimum values, the maximum values, the average values, and the occurrence counts and the durations of the predetermined events, which are read from the storage section, and

the work vehicle or vessel includes at least one work section and the remote monitoring terminal device further includes a power supply control section and multiple types of connection terminals connected to output elements at which data on an operation state is supplied external to the remote monitoring terminal device to various electronic control devices to control multiple operating states of multiple work sections,

wherein the at least one work section includes a startup switch SW and a battery BT,

wherein the power supply control section has a timer function and is connected to the battery BT via a power supply connecting line Lbt to periodically start up a power supply, no matter whether the startup switch SW is being turned off or on, and

wherein the power supply control section periodically starts up the power supply while the startup switch SW of the mobile work vehicle or vessel is being turned off, such that the power supply control section in the remote monitoring terminal device is always fed with electric power from the battery BT, and that the power supply to the control section is not turned off by the power supply control section when the startup switch SW is turned off.

2. The remote monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the startup date and time and shutdown date and time received from the remote monitoring terminal device correspond to a coordinated universal time, wherein the communication section receives a startup location information that is location information obtained upon a startup of the remote monitoring terminal device or shutdown location information that is location information obtained upon a shutdown of the remote monitoring terminal device, and wherein the control section converts the startup date and time and shutdown date and time that are received from the remote monitoring terminal device and correspond to the coordinated universal time into local date and time at a location obtained upon the startup or location obtained upon the shutdown of the remote monitoring terminal device, based on the startup location information or the shutdown location information received by the communication section, and causes the display section to display the local date and time.

3. The remote monitoring system according to claim 2, wherein the remote monitoring terminal device further includes a GPS sensor, a location detection section, a location information storage section, wherein the GPS sensor receives radio waves from GPS satellites, and wherein the location detection section detects the location information of the mobile work vehicle or vessel in the radio waves received through the GPS sensor, and wherein the location information storage section temporarily stores therein the location information detected by the location detection section, wherein the location information contains information on the latitude, longitude, velocity, and orientation of the mobile work vehicle or vessel, herein the location information storage section is connected to the power supply control section so as to be always fed with electric power from the battery BT so as to maintain the location information even while the startup switch SW is turned off.

4. The remote monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the control section includes an operation transmission control section, wherein the operation transmission control section further operates as a work section containing a manual turn-off operation receiving section and a data transmission section, wherein power supply to the control section is not turned off by the power supply control section when the startup switch SW is manually turned off, and wherein the power supply is turned off by the power supply control section after the data transmission section has transmitted the maximum, minimum, and average values, the occurrence counts and durations of an event, and the location information and date and time.

5. The remote monitoring system according to claim 2, wherein the control section includes an operation transmission control section, wherein the operation transmission control section further operates as a work section containing a manual turn-off operation receiving section and a data transmission section, wherein power supply to the control section is not turned off by the power supply control section when the startup switch SW is manually turned off, and wherein the power supply is turned off by the power supply control section after the data transmission section has transmitted the maximum, minimum, and average values, the occurrence counts and durations of an event, and the location information and date and time.

6. The remote monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the remote monitoring terminal device further includes a GPS sensor, a location detection section, a location information storage section, wherein the GPS sensor receives radio waves from GPS satellites, and wherein the location detection section detects the location information of the mobile work vehicle or vessel in the radio waves received through the GPS sensor, and wherein the location information storage section temporarily stores therein the location information detected by the location detection section, wherein the location information contains information on the latitude, longitude, velocity, and orientation of the mobile work vehicle or vessel, wherein the location information storage section is connected to the power supply control section so as to be always fed with electric power from the battery BT so as to maintain the location information even while the startup switch SW is turned off.

7. The remote monitoring system according to claim 6, wherein the control section includes an operation transmission control section, wherein the operation transmission control section further operates as a work section containing a manual turn-off operation receiving section and a data transmission section, wherein power supply to the control section is not turned off by the power supply control section when the startup switch SW is manually turned off, and wherein the power supply is turned off by the power supply control section after the data transmission section has transmitted the maximum, minimum, and average values, the occurrence counts and durations of an event, and the location information and date and time.