Disaster prevention monitoring and control facility

• US 4,901,316 A
• Filed: 05/18/1987
• Issued: 02/13/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nohmi Bosai Kogyo Company Limited (Secom Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Nohmi Bosai Kogyo Company Limited (Secom Company Limited)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Takashi, Igarashi, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Jerry
• Assistant Examiner(s): BEAUSOLIEL JR, ROBERT W
• Application Number:
  US07/050,476
• Time in Patent Office: 1,002 Days
• Field of Search: 371/37, 371/22, 371/20.1, 371/20.6, 371/37.1, 371/20.2, 371/53, 371/54, 340/825.08, 340/825.07, 340/825.06, 340/825.16, 340/825.17, 364/200 MS File
• US Class Current: 340/506
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 26/002 only replying the state of the sensor
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/24 Self-calibration, e.g. compensating for environmental drift or ageing of components

Abstract

A disaster prevention monitoring and control facility for polling a plurality of terminal units from a receiver to read terminal information from the plurality of terminal units, judging the terminal information as required, displaying the judged result, or controlling the plurality of terminal units, which frame checks data transmitted from the receiver to the terminal units or data transmitted from the terminal units to the receiver.

Claims

1. A disaster prevention monitoring and control facility comprising:

a plurality of terminal units;

a central unit for connection to said plurality of terminal units, and having means for transmitting and receiving data information signals to and from each of said plurality of terminal units;

sum checking means, disposed in each of said terminal units and central means, for summing selected portions of each of said data information signals transmitted and received by said central unit and by each of said terminal units, and for determining whether each of said data information signals contains an error on the basis of the thus summed selected portions of each of said data information signals;

a polling means, disposed in said central unit, for polling each of said terminal units, said polling means conducting P polling attempts during a first polling cycle, P being an integer greater than 1, wherein said central unit initiates a transfer to another process when a terminal unit fails to properly respond to said P polling attempts, said polling means further conducting Q polling attempts during a second polling cycle after said transfer to another process, Q being a positive integer less than P;

wherein, during said first and second polling cycles, each subsequent polling attempt is conducted when said sum checking means indicates that said data information signal received in response to a previous polling attempt from one of said terminal units contains an error and when an absence of a data information signal is detected in response to a previous polling attempt from one of said terminal units.

2. A disaster prevention monitoring and control facility as claimed in claim 1, wherein said sum checking means includes means for adding an address code and a command code.

3. A disaster prevention monitoring and control facility as claimed in claim 2, wherein said sum checking means includes means for adding a mode signal indicating a type of data transmitted from said terminal units to said central unit.

4. A disaster prevent monitoring and control facility as claimed in claim 1, wherein said sum checking means includes means for adding a mode signal indicating a type of data transmitted from said terminal units to said central unit.

5. A disaster prevention monitoring and control facility as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of said terminal units is a repeater.

6. A disaster prevention monitoring and control facility as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of said terminal units is a fire sensor.

7. A disaster prevention monitoring and control facility as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of said terminal units is a fire detector.

8. A disaster prevention monitoring and control facility as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of said terminal units is a smoke eliminator.

9. A disaster prevention monitoring and control facility as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of said terminal units is a fire extinguisher.

10. A disaster prevention monitoring and control facility as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of said terminal units is an antitheft unit.

11. A disaster prevention monitoring and control facility comprising:

a central unit having means for connection to a plurality of terminal units, and having means for transmitting and receiving data information signals to and from each of said plurality of terminal units;

a polling means, disposed in said central unit, for polling each of said terminal units, said polling means conducting P polling attempts during a first polling cycle, P being an integer greater than 1, wherein said central unit initiates a transfer to another process when a terminal unit fails to properly respond to said P polling attempts, said polling means further conducting Q polling attempts during a second polling cycle after said transfer to another process, Q being a positive integer less than P.