Monitoring and control system and monitoring and control device

• US 20110074542A1
• Filed: 09/23/2010
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakanishi, Mari, Nabeshima, Hideo
• Application Number:
  US12/923,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20110074542A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.62
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/195 the transmission using visible or infrared light

Abstract

A remote monitoring and control system includes a monitoring and control device operated to control loads; and a load control device for controlling the loads based on the operation of the monitoring and control device. The monitoring and control device includes: a display unit for displaying an operation screen including operation keys for controlling corresponding loads; an input receiving unit for receiving an input through the displayed operation keys; a reading unit for reading out a user ID; a storage unit for storing load-identifying information identifying loads and control information having control contents of the loads; and a determining unit for searching the storage unit if a user ID is read out, and determining the load-identifying information and the control information which correspond to the user ID, and the load control device controls the loads identified based on the load-identifying information, depending on the control contents of the control information.

Claims

1. A remote monitoring and control system comprising:

a monitoring and control device being operated to control one or more loads; and

a load control device for controlling the loads based on the operation of the monitoring and control device,

wherein the monitoring and control device includes;

a display unit for displaying an operation screen including one or more operation keys for controlling corresponding ones of the loads;

an input receiving unit for receiving an input of the displayed operation keys;

a reading unit for reading out a user ID;

a storage unit for storing load-identifying information identifying loads and control information having control contents of the loads in a corresponding relationship to each user ID; and

a determining unit for searching the storage unit if a user ID is read out by the reading unit, and determining the load-identifying information and the control information which correspond to the read-out user ID, and

the load control device controls the loads identified based on the load-identifying information determined by the determining unit, depending on the control contents of the control information determined by the determining unit.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the input receiving unit includes a touch sensor, provided on the display unit, for detecting a position touched on the operation screen and, if a touched position is detected by the touch sensor, receives an input of the operation key displayed at the touched position detected by the touch sensor.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the reading unit reads out the user ID from a tag including a battery, the tag transmitting the user ID by a power supplied from the battery.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the reading unit includes an antenna and induces a power to a non-contact IC card including another antenna to read out the user ID from the non-contact IC card.

5. A monitoring and control device connected to a load control device for controlling one or more loads and installed separately from the loads, the monitoring and control device comprising:

a display unit for displaying an operation screen including one or more operation keys for controlling corresponding ones of the loads;

a touch sensor, provided on the display unit, for detecting a position touched on the operation screen;

an input receiving unit for receiving an input of an operation key displayed at the touched position detected by the touch sensor;

a reading unit for reading out a user ID;

a storage unit for storing load-identifying information identifying loads and control information having control contents of the loads in a corresponding relationship to each user ID;

a determining unit for searching the storage unit if a user ID is read out by the reading unit and determining the load identifying information and the control information which correspond to the read-out user ID; and

a transmission unit for transmitting to the load control device the load-identifying information and the control information determined by the determining unit.

6. A monitoring and control device used in a remote monitoring and control system including the monitoring and control device and a load control device for controlling one or more loads based on an operation of the monitoring and control device, the monitoring and control device being operated to control the loads, the device comprising:

a display unit for displaying an operation screen including one or more operation keys for controlling corresponding ones of the loads;

a touch sensor, provided on the display unit, for detecting a position touched on an operation screen;

a reading unit for reading out a user ID;

a storage unit for storing user IDs and a plurality of display data used to display the operation screen, the display data respectively corresponding to the user IDs;

a determining unit for determining one of the display data based on the user ID that is read out by the reading unit;

a display controller for displaying the operation screen including the operation keys on the display unit by using the determined display data; and

an input receiving unit for receiving an input of the operation key displayed at the touched position detected by the touch sensor.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein at least one of the display data stored in the storage unit corresponds to at least two of the user IDs.

8. The device of claim 6, wherein the operation screen includes a plurality of tabs, each of which has at least one operation key, and

the display controller displays on the display unit the operation screen including a plurality of tab keys indicating the tabs and at least one operation key included in one selected from the tab keys;

and, if the input receiving unit receives an input of a tab key that is not selected, displays the operation screen including the tab keys and at least one operation key included in the tab corresponding to the input.

9. The device of claim 6, wherein the reading unit reads out the user ID from a tag including a battery, the tag transmitting the user ID by a power supplied from the battery.

10. The device of claim 6, wherein the reading unit includes an antenna and induces a power to a non-contact IC card including another antenna to read out the user ID from the non-contact IC card.

11. A monitoring and control device used in a remote monitoring and control system including the monitoring and control device and a load control device for controlling one or more loads based on an operation of the monitoring and control device, the monitoring and control device being operated to control the loads, the device comprising:

a reading unit for reading out a user ID;

an authentication unit for performing an authentication based on the user ID;

a display controller for displaying an operation screen for controlling a load on a display unit if the authentication by the authentication unit is succeeded, and suppressing the operation screen from being displayed on the display unit if the authentication is failed;

an input receiving unit for receiving an input through the operation screen; and

a transmission unit for transmitting operation information related to the received input to the load control device.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the reading unit reads out the user IDs and history information including entering authentication records from a storage medium carried by a user, and

the display controller does not display the operation screen on the display unit if the authentication records included in the history information does not satisfy a predetermined condition even when the authentication by the authentication unit is succeeded.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein, if the authentication records included in the history information do not satisfy the predetermined condition, the display controller displays on the display unit an urging screen for urging users to obtain a normal entering authentication record.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein, if the authentication records included in the history information does not satisfy the predetermined condition, notification information indicating an abnormal access is transmitted to a preset target place.

15. The device of claim 11, further comprising:

an obtaining unit for obtaining an operation state of each load,

wherein the operation screen displayed by the display unit further includes the obtained operation states.

16. The device of claim 11, wherein the reading unit reads out the user ID from a tag including a battery, the tag transmitting the user ID by a power supplied from the battery.

17. The device of claim 11, wherein the reading unit includes an antenna and induces a power to a non-contact IC card including another antenna to read out the user ID from the non-contact IC card.