Alarm notifying device and computer program

• US 6,727,813 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2001
• Issued: 04/27/2004
• 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, Ltd., Hitachi Techno Engineering Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.), Hitchi Keiyo Engineering & Systems Limited
• Inventors: Iwasaki, Yasuhiko, Kurokawa, Seigo, Takahashi, Ichiro, Fujimoto, Manabu, Kaneko, Hiromitsu, Kakuta, Kouji, Nakano, Kiyohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Crosland, Donnie L.
• Application Number:
  US09/942,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20020158758A1
• Time in Patent Office: 970 Days
• Field of Search: 340/531, 340/539, 340/500, 340/501, 340/502, 340/3.1, 340/3.54, 340/7.29, 340/539.17, 340/539.18, 700/17, 700/83, 379/37-41, 379/93.24
• US Class Current: 340/531
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence

Abstract

An alarm notifying device comprises a circuit which performs communications via a communication line, a circuit which detects a signal indicative of an operating condition of a facility to be monitored, and an alarm signal sent therefrom, and a CPU. The alarm notifying device notifies an alarm to the outside when the alarm signal is detected. The alarm notifying device has the function of receiving a mail, the function of analyzing the contents of a text of the received mail, and the function of changing information lying inside the device according to the contents of the text of the received mail.

Claims

1. An alarm notifying device comprising:

a circuit which performs communications through a communication line;

a circuit which detects a signal indicative of an operating condition of a facility to be monitored, and an alarm signal sent therefrom;

a CPU;

said alarm notifying device notifying an alarm to the outside when the alarm signal is detected;

the function of receiving a mail;

the function of analyzing the contents of a text of the received mail; and

the function of changing information lying inside the alarm notifying device according to the contents of the text of the received mail.

2. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including the function of reading an ID and a password from the received mail and determining whether the read ID and password coincide with one of combinations of IDs and passwords pre-set to the alarm notifying device by comparison.

3. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including the function of transmitting the information lying inside the alarm notifying device through the communication line.

4. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including the function of transmitting a reply to the received mail to a mail'"'"'s sender.

5. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including the function of receiving a mail from a telephone line.

6. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including the function of confirming whether a mail is regularly received.

7. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including the function of receiving a mail from a circuit for receiving a signal by way of a LAN.

8. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including the function of receiving a mail from a circuit for receiving a signal by way of RS-232C.

9. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including the function of receiving a mail from a contact signal circuit.

10. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including the function of receiving a mail from an analog signal circuit.

11. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including the function of by-mail transmitting a reply to the received mail to a pre-registered transmitted destination.

12. The alarm notifying device according to claim 1, further including the function of changing a mail destination by buttons of a telephone.

13. A computer readable medium having a computer program used in an alarm notifying device having a circuit which performs communications through a communication line, a circuit which detects a signal indicative of an operating condition of a facility to be monitored, and an alarm signal sent therefrom, and a CPU, said alarm notifying device notifying an alarm to the outside when the alarm signal is detected,

said computer program causing the alarm notifying device to operate the function of receiving a mail, the function of analyzing the contents of a text of the received mail, and the function of changing information lying inside the alarm notifying device according to the contents of the text of the received mail transmitting the information through the communication line.