Data collecting apparatus and gateway apparatus

• US 7,877,634 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2005
• Issued: 01/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Kawano, Seiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lohn; Joshua A
• Application Number:
  US11/912,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20090013220A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,106 Days
• Field of Search: 714/25, 714/26, 714/37, 714/40, 714/47, 714/48
• US Class Current: 714/26
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0235 based on a comparison with predetermined threshold or range, e.g. "classical methods", carried out during normal operation; threshold adaptation or choice; when or how to compare with the threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0262 Confirmation of fault detection, e.g. extra checks to confirm that a failure has indeed occurred

Abstract

This invention intends to provide a data collecting apparatus and a gateway apparatus capable of reducing the labor for setting the threshold value or condition used for a real running point, reducing the number of cases where the threshold value or condition is erroneously set and setting the threshold value or condition within a narrow range.

The data collecting apparatus includes device value collecting unit 2 for collecting device values from a plurality of devices, abnormal state storage unit 3 for storing the monitored device to be monitored and the threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal, abnormal state confirming unit 4 for comparing the device values of the plurality of devices with the threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal, determining whether or not the device is abnormal and if abnormal, sending the information that the monitored device is abnormal to a host managing device, device feature information detecting unit for detecting the feature information from device value collected by the device value collecting unit 2 and abnormal state editing unit 8 for editing the threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal, stored in the abnormal state storage unit 3, using the feature information detected.

Claims

1. A data collecting apparatus comprising:

device value collecting unit for collecting device values from a plurality of devices;

abnormal state storage unit for storing a monitored device to be monitored and a threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal;

abnormal state confirming unit for comparing the device values of the plurality of devices with the threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal, determining whether or not the monitored device is abnormal and if abnormal, sending the information that the device is abnormal to a host managing device;

device feature information detecting unit for detecting feature information from device values collected by the device value collecting unit; and

abnormal state editing unit for editing the threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal, stored in the abnormal state storage unit, using the feature information detected, wherein

the threshold value or condition is based on a time function in which a permissible range of said device value is narrowed with the passage of time,

wherein the feature information detecting unit detects at least one of maximum value, minimum value, local maximum value, and local minimum value and detects an occurred time of the at least one of the maximum value, minimum value, local maximum value, and local minimum value as the feature information, and

wherein the permissible range is consistently equal to or narrower than just before the permissible range.

2. A data collecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the feature information contains a period of a transition of the device value relative to passed time of said monitored device.

3. A data collecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the threshold value or condition is set on the basis of the device value of another monitored device.

4. A data collecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the feature information contains the computation result using the device values of the plurality of monitored devices, and said threshold value or condition is set on the basis of said computation result.

5. A gateway apparatus comprising a data collecting apparatus according to claim 1 and a converter for converting the information outputted from the data collecting apparatus into the application, language or communication specification conformed to a host production managing device, wherein the information inputted from the said production managing device at a higher rank is converted into the application, language or communication specification conformed to a device connected at a lower rank and outputted.

6. A data collecting apparatus comprising:

device value collecting unit for collecting device values from a plurality of devices;

abnormal state storage unit for storing a monitored device to be monitored and a threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal;

abnormal state confirming unit for comparing the device values of the plurality of devices with the threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal, determining whether or not the monitored device is abnormal and if abnormal, sending the information that the device is abnormal to a host managing device;

device feature information detecting unit for detecting feature information from device values collected by the device value collecting unit; and

abnormal state editing unit for editing the threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal, stored in the abnormal state storage unit, using the feature information detected,

wherein the threshold value or condition is set on the basis of the device value of the another monitored device, and

the threshold value or condition is based on a time function in which a permissible range of said device value is narrowed with the passage of time, wherein when a comparison result of comparing a first device value of the monitored device to a second device value of another monitored device, indicates that the first device value and the second device value are inverted, an abnormality is determined.

7. A data collecting apparatus comprising:

device value collecting unit for collecting device values from at least two of a plurality of devices;

abnormal state storage unit for storing a monitored device to be monitored and a threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal;

abnormal state confirming unit for comparing the device values of the at least two of the plurality of devices with the threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal, determining whether or not the monitored device is abnormal and if abnormal, sending the information that the device is abnormal to a host managing device;

device feature information detecting unit for detecting feature information from device values collected by the device value collecting unit; and

abnormal state editing unit for editing the threshold value or condition by which it is determined that the monitored device is abnormal, stored in the abnormal state storage unit, using the feature information detected, wherein

the monitored device and another monitored device each only produce ON and OFF device values, and

wherein the threshold value or condition is set based on at least one of a logical sum and logical product of the respective ON and OFF values of the monitored device and said another monitored device.