Alarm notifying device

• US 6,700,485 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2001
• Issued: 03/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Keiyo Engineering & Systems Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.), Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Keiyo Engineering & Systems Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.), Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Techno Engineering Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Iwasaki, Yasuhiko, Kurokawa, Seigo, Fujimoto, Manabu, Nonaka, Koji, Kakuta, Kouji, Nakano, Kiyohiro, Takahashi, Ichiro, Kaneko, Hiromitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): Crosland, Donnie L.
• Application Number:
  US09/942,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20020158759A1
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• Field of Search: 340/531, 340/539, 340/500, 340/501, 340/502, 340/3.1, 340/3.54, 340/7.29, 340/539.1, 340/7.56, 340/7.52, 340/539.17, 340/539.18, 700/17, 700/83, 379/37-41, 379/93.24
• US Class Current: 340/531
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 1/08 using electric transmission ; transformation of alarm signals to electrical signals from a different medium, e.g. transmission of an electric alarm signal upon detection of an audible alarm signal
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence

Abstract

An alarm notifying device comprising apparatus for inputting an alarm signal of a facility to be monitored, apparatus for connecting to a mail server for delivering an electronic mail by way of a communication line, a memory for storing a guidance text corresponding to the contents of an alarm, and a CPU having the function of transmitting an electronic mail about the alarm. In the alarm notifying device, the CPU has the function of adding the contents of an alarm and a guidance text corresponding to the alarm contents to an electronic mail.

Claims

1. An alarm notifying device comprising:

means for inputting an alarm signal of a facility to be monitored;

means for connecting to a mail server for delivering an electronic mail by way of a communication line;

a memory for storing a guidance text, which includes a telephone number of a maintenance contact address and a method of coping with each alarm, corresponding to the contents of an alarm; and

a CPU having a function of transmitting an electronic mail about an alarm,

wherein the CPU has a function of adding the contents of an alarm and a guidance text corresponding to the alarm contents to an electronic mail.

2. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including a memory for storing said telephone number added to the guidance text.

3. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including a memory for storing said text indicative of a way of coping with an alarm added to the guidance text.

4. An alarm notifying device comprising:

means for inputting an alarm signal of a facility to be monitored;

means for connecting to a mail server for delivering an electronic mail by way of a communication line;

a memory for storing facility information for specifying a facility to be monitored; and

a CPU having the function of transmitting an electronic mail about an alarm,

wherein the CPU has the function of adding corresponding facility information to the title of the electronic mail about the alarm.

5. An alarm notifying device comprising:

means for inputting an alarm signal of a facility to be monitored;

means for connecting to a mail server for delivering an electronic mail by way of a communication line;

a memory for storing the number of alarms developed in facilities to be monitored; and

a CPU having the function of transmitting an electronic mail about an alarm,

wherein the CPU has the function of adding the number of occurrences of the corresponding alarms to the title of the electronic mail about the alarm.