Method, system and device for registering specific information to information unit having communications function, and information unit having communications function, and method and system for managing specific information

• US 20050152285A1
• Filed: 12/17/2004
• Published: 07/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Koike, Tomoyuki, Oyagi, Masayuki, Hisano, Atsushi, Shimizu, Takanobu
• Application Number:
  US11/014,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20050152285A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

Specific information is registered to only a sensor, which is arranged adjacently to a base unit, by way of a radio output from the base unit. The radio output is a faint radio wave for short-range communications by which the base unit can be communicable with only the sensor adjacently arranged. Then, the specific information is registered to only another sensor, which is arranged adjacently to the sensor with the registered specific information, by way of a radio output from the sensor with the registered specific information. The radio output is a faint radio wave for short-range communications by which the communications can be made only between the sensors arranged adjacently to each other. The specific information registration is sequentially repeated between the sensors arranged adjacently to each other.

Claims

1. A method for registering specific information to information units equipped with a communications function as subordinate units, the method comprising:

registering the specific information to a information unit equipped with a communications function as a subordinate unit arranged adjacently to a base unit from the base unit by way of a radio output for short-range communications communicable with only the information unit; and

registering the specific information to another information unit equipped with a communications function as another subordinate unit arranged adjacently to the information unit from the information unit by way of a radio output for short-range communications communicable with only another information unit.

2. The method for registering specific information to an information unit according to claim 1, wherein the specific information includes a group ID number and a node number of the information unit.

3. The method for registering specific information to an information unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

changing the specific information of another information unit by one information unit of the information units by changing own specific information or reading out previously registered fixed information and transmitting changed or read out information to another information unit; and

changing the specific information stored in the base unit by transmitting the changed specific information to the base unit from the information unit which is arranged most adjacently to the base unit among the information units.

6. The method for registering specific information to an information unit according to claim 1, wherein the information unit is a sensor or an actuator, and wherein the radio output for short range communications is a faint radio wave, infrared rays, a sonic wave, a laser wave, or an oscillatory wave for short range communications.

14. The method for registering specific information to an information unit according to claim 1, wherein the registration of the specific information between adjacently arranged information units are repeatedly performed for other information units as subordinate units.

4. A method for registering specific information to information units equipped with a communications function as subordinate units, the method comprising:

registering, in a radio wave shielding enclosure accommodating one or more the information units equipped with a communications function as subordinate units, the specific information to the one or more information units accommodated in the radio wave shielding enclosure from a base unit by way of a radio output for short range communications.

5. The method for registering specific information to an information unit according to claim 4, further comprising:

allowing the registration of specific information to one or more the information units accommodated in the radio wave shielding enclosure only when the radio wave shielding enclosure is shut and it is confirmed that the radio wave shielding enclosure is shielded from the outside in terms of wireless communications.

7. A system for registering specific information to an information unit equipped with a communications function as a subordinate unit, the system comprising:

a base unit having a short range communications section for performing short range communications by way of a radio output for short range communications; and

an information unit equipped with a communications function as a subordinate unit arranged adjacently to the short range communications section of the base unit, the information unit having a short range communications section for performing short range communications by way of a radio output for short range communications, the information unit performing short range communications with the base unit by way of the radio output for short range communications via its short range communications section, the information unit performing short range communications with another adjacently arranged information unit as another subordinate unit by way of the radio output via its short range communications section to register the specific information to another information unit.

8. The system for registering specific information to an information unit according to claim 7, wherein one information unit of the information units has a function of changing own specific information or previously setting fixed information, the one information unit transmits changed or fixed information to another information unit and changes the specific information of the another information unit, and the information unit which is arranged most adjacently to the base unit among the information units transmits the changed specific information to the base unit and changes the specific information stored in the base unit.

9. A system for registering specific information to an information unit equipped with a communications function as a subordinate unit, the system comprising:

a base unit including a short range communications section for performing short range communications by way of a radio output for short range communications; and

one or more information units equipped with a communications function as subordinate units, which is accommodated in a radio wave shielding enclosure, and to which specific information is registered from the base unit by way of short range communications using radio output for short range communications.

10. A device for registering specific information to an information unit equipped with a communications function as a subordinate unit, the device comprising:

a short range communications section for transmitting a radio output for short range communications capable of communicating with only an information unit as a subordinate unit adjacently arranged;

a long range communications section for receiving specific information from the information unit arranged in a distance; and

a storage unit for storing an information unit information list which associates the data transmitted from the short range communications section to the data received by the long range communications section.

11. An information unit equipped with a communications function as a subordinate unit, the information unit comprising:

a short range communications section for transmitting a radio output for short range communications capable of communicating with only an adjacently arranged base unit for registering specific information and another adjacently arranged information unit as another subordinate unit;

a long range communications section for transmitting specific information to the base unit arranged in a distance; and

a specific information storage section for storing an information unit information list which associates the data received by the short range communications section to the data transmitted by the long range communications section.

12. A method for managing specific information to information units equipped with a communications function as subordinate units, the method comprising:

registering the specific information to a information unit equipped with a communications function as a subordinate unit arranged adjacently to a base unit from the base unit by way of a radio output for short-range communications communicable with only the information unit; and

registering the specific information to another information unit equipped with a communications function as another subordinate unit arranged adjacently to the information unit from the information unit by way of a radio output for short-range communications communicable with only the another information unit,

wherein the base unit manages the specific information set in information units equipped with a communications function as subordinate units by way of the radio.

15. The method for managing specific information to information units according to claim 12, wherein the registration of the specific information between adjacently arranged information units are repeatedly performed for other information units as subordinate units.

13. A system for managing specific information to an information unit equipped with a communications function as a subordinate unit, the system comprising:

a base unit having a short range communications section for performing short range communications by way of a radio output for short range communications; and

an information unit equipped with a communications function as a subordinate unit arranged adjacently to the short range communications section of the base unit, the information unit having a short range communications section for performing short range communications by way of a radio output for short range communications, the information unit performing short range communications with the base unit by way of the radio output for short range communications via its short range communications section, the information unit performing short range communications with another adjacently arranged information unit as another subordinate unit by way of the radio output via its short range communications section to register the specific information to another information unit,

wherein the base unit manages the specific information set in information units equipped with a communications function as subordinate units by way of the radio.