Data collection apparatus

• US 20060267754A1
• Filed: 05/11/2006
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Yokogawa Meters & Instruments Corporation (Yokogawa Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Yokogawa Meters & Instruments Corporation (Yokogawa Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Uchida, Shinya, Sugiyama, Shunji, Takeda, Kazumi, Murakami, Kenji, Yonezawa, Masaaki
• Application Number:
  US11/431,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20060267754A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/506
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0264 Control of logging system, e.g. decision on which data to store; time-stamping measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A data collection apparatus enables to connect to a support center via a network. The data collection apparatus has a measuring section which measures a physical quantity, a data storing section which stores measurement data obtained by the measuring section, in association with at least one of sound data and image data, a data communicating section which transmits and receives data to and from the support center, and an outputting section which reproduces and displays the transmitted and received data.

Claims

1. A data collection apparatus which enables to connect to a support center via a network, comprising:

a measuring section which measures a physical quantity;

a data storing section which stores measurement data obtained by the measuring section, in association with at least one of sound data and image data;

a data communicating section which transmits and receives data to and from the support center; and

an outputting section which reproduces and displays the transmitted and received data.

2. The data collection apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the support center comprises an apparatus management data storing section which stores at least one of various kinds of management data including connection diagrams, installation diagrams, operation manuals, and version-up information of an apparatus to be maintained and the data collection apparatus, and information of toxic substances in discarding the apparatus.

3. The data collection apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an operation history storing section which stores an operation history of the data collection apparatus.

4. The data collection apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the support center reproduces operations performed to the data collection apparatus, based on operation history data transmitted from the data collection apparatus.

5. The data collection apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a work progress management data storing section which stores work progress management data.

6. The data collection apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the data collection shares work progress management data of other data collection apparatus each other via the support center.