Surveillance control apparatus for security system

• US 4,658,243 A
• Filed: 11/05/1984
• Issued: 04/14/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nittan Co. Ltd. (Old) (Secom Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Nittan Co. Ltd. (Old) (Secom Company Limited)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Takashi, Tanaka, Seiichi, Kimura, Tetsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Crosland, Donnie L.
• Application Number:
  US06/668,496
• Time in Patent Office: 890 Days
• Field of Search: 340/505, 340/518, 340/825.06-825.17, 340/825.54, 340/825.55, 340/825.44-825.48, 340/311.1, 340/525, 179/2 EC, 455/89
• US Class Current: 340/505
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/003 Address allocation methods and details
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 26/00 Alarm systems in which substations are interrogated in succession by a central station

Abstract

In a polling type surveillance control apparatus for a security system, inherent addresses are assigned to respective terminal devices such as smoke detectors, temperature sensors, gas leakage detectors, fire partitions and smoke dampers. When a self address detector in the terminal device detects a coincidence between the address signal from a central station and a preset self address, the terminal device indicates it has been accessed or energized and power control thereof may also be performed.

Claims

1. A surveillance control system for a security system in which data signals are exchanged between a central station and a plurality of terminal devices, comprising:

the terminal devices being connected in parallel with each other to a common line extending from said central station;

each terminal device having a self address detector means for detecting whether a received address signal coincides with a self address stored in the detector means unique for each respective terminal device, the detector means then creating an output;

each terminal device having a display driver means for responding to said output from said self address detector means each and every time when address coincidence occurs, and a display unit driven by said display driver means;

said central station having means for generating address signals corresponding to the addresses of the plurality of terminal devices; and

said central station having means for storing an address of a terminal device which is not to be accessed and for selectively not addressing said terminal device when the other terminal devices are being addressed,

whereby through observation of the display unit at the terminal device it can readily be determined whether the terminal device is being accessed by the central station.

2. A system according to claim 1 wherein said display unit comprises an indicator lamp and means are provided for maintaining the lamp in an illuminated condition for a time period longer than a time period that said output is present from the self address detector means.

3. A system according to claim 1 wherein the detector means in each of said plurality of terminal devices has a programmable read-only memory means for storing specific data which designates said unique self address thereof.

4. A system according to claim 1 wherein said self address detector means comprises a self address setting section means for storing a unique address for a given terminal and an address comparator means for comparing the terminal unique address with incoming addresses from the central station so as to determine the coincidence.

5. A surveillance control system for a security system in which data signals are exchanged between a central station and a plurality of terminal devices during a defined access period for each device, comprising:

the terminal devices being connected in parallel with each other to a common line extending from said central station;

each terminal device having a self address detector means for detecting whether a received address signal coincides with a self address stored in the detector means unique for each respective terminal device, the detector means then creating an output based on each coincidence;

each terminal device having a controlling means directly responsive to each of the outputs from said self address detector means and including a time constant circuit means for providing a time constant longer than the access period, said controlling means having an output which drives a switching means;

said switching means connecting to at least one of an indicating device or an environmental parameter detecting device; and

said central station having means for generating address signals corresponding to the addresses of the plurality of terminal device,

whereby said switching means is activated at the terminal device and is held in its switched condition for a given time constant whenever the terminal device is accessed.

6. A system according to claim 5 wherein each terminal device has a programmable read-only memory means for storing specific data which designates said unique self address thereof.

7. A system according to claim 5 wherein said switching means is connected to switch on a security detecting element for a period corresponding to said time constant.

8. A system according to claim 7 wherein an indicator means is connected to also be switched on when the security detecting element is switched on.

9. A system according to claim 5 wherein said central station has means for storing an address of a terminal device which is not to be accessed and for not addressing said terminal device when the other terminal devices are being sequentially addressed.

10. A system according to claim 5 wherein said self address detector means comprises a self address setting section means for storing a unique address for a given terminal and an address comparator means for comparing the terminal unique address with incoming addresses from the center station so as to determine the coincidence.

11. A system according to claim 5 wherein said switching means activates an indicator means for indicating that the terminal device is being accessed, said indicator means remaining on for the given time constant.

12. A surveillance contol system for a security system in which data signals are exchanged between a central station and a plurality of terminal devices and wherein an inhibit command at the central station may be employed to prevent a data signal exchange with given terminal devices, comprising:

the terminal devices being connected in parallel with each other to a common line extending from said central station;

each terminal device having a self address detector means for detecting whether a received address signal coincides with a self address stored in the detector means, the detector means then creating an output;

said detector means having a programmable read only memory means for storing the self address;

said central station having means for generating address signals corresponding to the addresses of the plurality of terminal devices;

said central station having means for storing an address of a terminal device which is not to be accessed and for automatically not addressing the terminal device not to be accessed during the addressing;

at each terminal device providing said element as at least one of the elements selected from the group consisting of indicating device and environmental parameter detector device so that such element is activated only when the terminal device is accessed.

13. A system according to claim 12 wherein said element being controlled is the indicator means which permits an observer at the terminal device to determine that the device is being accessed.

14. A system according to claim 13 wherein said element comprises switching means for activating the environmental parameter measuring means only when the terminal device is accessed.

15. A system according to claim 14 wherein the environmental parameter measuring means comprises a gas detector.

16. A system according to claim 12 wherein said element being controlled is the environmental parameter measuring means and also the indicating means so that the environmental parameter measuring means is activated only when the device is accessed and the indicator means indicates only when the terminal device is accessed so that an observer viewing the terminal device can detect such access.

17. A system according to claim 12 wherein the controlling means includes a time constant circuit means to ensure a continuous activation of said element for a given time period after access.

18. A system according to claim 12 wherein a programmable read-only memory means is provided for storing a unique self address in each terminal device.

19. A method for operating a surveillance control system wherein a central station generates address signals for various terminal devices and skips over addresses of those terminal devices for which an input command has been made to inhibit access to the corresponding terminal device, and wherein data signals are exchanged between the central station and the respective terminal devices by use of a self address detector in each terminal device which detects whether a received address signal coincides with a self address stored in the detector, comprising the steps of:

providing in each terminal device a controlling means responsive to the output from the detector so as to control an element at the terminal device every time the terminal device is accessed; and

at each terminal device providing said element as at least one of the elements selected from the group consisting of indicating device and environmental parameter detector device so that such element is activated only when the terminal device is accessed.

20. A system according to claim 19 wherein the memory means comprises an EPROM which is programmed for its unique address through circuit means for applying a high voltage at the location of the terminal device, and is erased through ultraviolet ray erasure means provided at the terminal device.

21. A method according to claim 19 including the step of providing said element as the indicating device so that an observer observing the terminal device can observe whether or not it is being accessed and providing a delay means so that the indicating device continues to be activated for a predetermined time period after the terminal device has been accessed so that an observer can easily observe the indicating device even though the output from the detector is no longer present.

22. A system according to claim 21 wherein the erasure means includes a light access aperture means at the terminal device which ultraviolet rays can be selectively provided to expose the EPROM.

23. A method according to claim 19 including the step of providing the element as the environmental parameter detector device so that the detector device is activated only when the terminal device is accessed.