EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PROGRAM

• US 20150134814A1
• Filed: 06/26/2012
• Published: 05/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Ishizaka, Taichi, Suzuki, Shigeki, Ito, Takahiro, Komiya, Noriyuki, Kuroiwa, Takeru
• Granted Patent: US 10,348,587 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3013 where the computing system is an embedded system, i.e. a combination of hardware and software dedicated to perform a certain function in mobile devices, printers, automotive or aircraft systems testing or monitoring of control systems or parts thereof G05B23/02
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3065 Monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in reporting the monitored data error or fault reporting or logging G06F11/0766
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/45 Network directories; Name-to-address mapping
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54

Abstract

An equipment manager manages connected equipment. A Web server is able to provide Web contents that include a monitoring program for monitoring the states of equipment managed by plural equipment management devices. A Web-contents-display controller acquires the Web contents that are transmitted from the Web server, executes the monitoring program, acquires an equipment-management-device-address list, uses the acquired equipment-management-device-address list to connect to each of the plural equipment management devices, acquires equipment data that is managed by each of the equipment management devices, and displays that equipment data on one screen of the Web browser.

Claims

1. An equipment management system for managing equipment using by each of plural equipment management devices, comprising:

a Web server that provides Web contents that include a monitoring program for monitoring the state of the equipment managed by each of the plural equipment management devices and a screen-configuration file that indicates the configuration of one screen;

address holders that hold address information for each of the plural equipment management devices; and

a Web browser that acquires the Web contents provided by the Web server and the address information that is held by the address holders, acquires information about the states of the equipment from each of the plural equipment management devices based on the acquired address information by executing the monitoring program included in the acquired Web contents, and displays the acquired information about the states of the equipment on one screen disposed according to the configuration of the screen indicated by the screen-configuration file that is included in the acquired Web contents.

10. The equipment management system according to claim 1,

wherein the equipment management system comprises the plural equipment management devices and a monitoring terminal that communicates with each of the plural equipment management devices;

at least one of the plural equipment management devices comprises the Web server and the address holders; and

the monitoring terminal comprises the Web browser.

11. The equipment management system according to claim 10,

wherein each of the plural equipment management devices and the monitoring terminal are always-connected;

and

each of the plural equipment management devices further comprises an equipment-data communicator that sends information about a change in the state of equipment to the monitoring terminal when a change in the state of the equipment managed by each of the equipment management devices occurred.

12. The equipment management system according to claim 10,

wherein each of the plural equipment management devices comprises the Web server and the address holders;

and

the Web browser acquires Web contents provided by the Web server and address information held by the address holders from a representative equipment management device which is any one of the plural equipment management devices.

13. The equipment management system according to claim 10,

wherein each of the plural equipment management devices comprises the Web server and the address holders;

and

the Web browser acquires Web contents provided by the Web server and address information held by the address holders from an equipment management device that corresponds to the user of the monitoring terminal among the plural equipment management devices predetermined for every user.

14. The equipment management system according to claim 1,

wherein each of the plural equipment management devices further comprises operating-state-data holders that hold information about the operating state of the equipment managed by each of the equipment management devices;

wherein

the Web browser acquires information about the operating states of each piece of equipment that is held in the operating-state-data holders from each of the plural equipment management devices based on the acquired address information.

15. The equipment management system according claim 1, further comprising:

floor-plan-data holders that hold floor-plan data that indicate a floor-plan image of an area where the plural equipment are installed; and

display-position data holders that hold display-position data that indicate display positions of plural pieces of the equipment on the floor plan;

wherein

the Web browser acquires the floor-plan data held by the floor-plan-data holders, and the display-position data held by the display-position data holders, and displays the one screen in which icons corresponding to each of the plural pieces of equipment are disposed at the position indicated by the display-position data on the floor-plan indicated by the floor-plan data.

16. The equipment management system according to claim 15,

wherein the icon indicates the operating state of the corresponding equipment.

17. The equipment management system according to claim 1,

wherein each of the plural equipment management devices further comprises data updaters that send changed data to other equipment management devices when a change occurred in the data internally held by each of plural equipment management devices.

2-9. -9. (canceled)

18. An equipment management device that manages an equipment comprising:

address holders that hold address information of equipment management devices; and

a Web server that provides Web contents that include a screen-configuration file that indicates the configuration of one screen and a monitoring program for acquiring information about the states of the equipment based on the address information held by the address holders, and for displaying the information about the states of the acquired equipment on one screen disposed according to the screen configuration indicated by the screen-configuration file.

19. An equipment management method that manages an equipment comprising:

address holders holding address information of equipment management devices; and

a Web server providing Web contents that include a screen-configuration file that indicates the configuration of one screen and a monitoring program for acquiring information about the states of the equipment based on the address information held by the address holders, and for displaying the information about the states of the acquired equipment on one screen disposed according to the screen configuration indicated by the screen-configuration file.

20. A non-transitorily computer readable medium storing a program for a computer that allow the computer to function as:

address holders that hold address information of equipment management devices; and

a Web server that provides Web contents that include a screen-configuration file that indicates the configuration of one screen and a monitoring program for acquiring information about the states of the equipment based on the address information held by the address holders, and for displaying the information about the states of the acquired equipment on one screen disposed according to the screen configuration indicated by the screen-configuration file.