Data logger, data saving method and program

• US 8,386,730 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2008
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Yamasaki, Kentaro
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M
• Application Number:
  US12/673,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20110055502A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,649 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 711/162
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 3/10 with provision for switching-in of additional or auxiliary indicators or recorders
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 9/005 Solid-state data loggers

Abstract

It is an object to provide a data logger which solves a problem in which data required to analyze a cause of occurrence of abnormality cannot be acquired. Temporary memory 102 stores newer data among data sequentially outputted from measurer 101 wherein the number of the newer data corresponds to a specific number of times. Manager 103 repeatedly calculates an index value indicative of stability of the data outputted from measurer 101 based on the data stored in temporary memory 102 at least until the index value satisfies a predetermined stability condition. Further, if manager 103 accepts an abnormal value trigger, manager 103 sequentially stores the data outputted from measurer 101 in main memory 104. When the index value satisfying the stability condition is calculated by manager 103, manager 103 stops saving the data in main memory 104.

Claims

1. A data logger comprising:

a first storage storing newer data among data sequentially outputted from a measurer such that number of stored data become a specific number;

second storage; and

a manager that, if a save instruction to save the data outputted from said measurer is accepted, repeatedly calculates an index value indicative of stability of the data outputted from said measurer based on the data stored in said first storage at least until the index value satisfies a predetermined stability condition, and sequentially saving the data outputted from said measurer in said second storage, and when the index value satisfying said predetermined stability condition is calculated, stops saving the data from said measurer in said second storage.

2. The data logger according to claim 1, wherein said manager copies the data stored in said first storage to said second storage if the save instruction is accepted.

3. The data logger according to claim 1, wherein said manager comprises:

a monitor that repeatedly calculates an evaluation value indicative of a degree of variation of the data outputted from said measurer based on the data stored in said first storage until the evaluation value satisfies a predetermined abnormal condition, and outputs the save instruction when the evaluation value satisfies said predetermined abnormal condition; and

a memory controller that accepts the save instruction from said monitor.

4. The data logger according to claim 1, further comprising third storage,

wherein when said manager stops saving the data in said second storage, said manager compresses the data stored in said second storage and saves the data stored in said second storage in said third storage.

5. The data logger according to claim 1, comprising a function controller that outputs the save instruction to said manager if a predetermined operation from outside is detected.

6. A data saving method performed by a data logger which includes first storage that store newer data among data sequentially outputted from measurer wherein number of the newer data corresponds to a specific number of times, and second storage, the method comprising:

if a save instruction to save the data outputted from said measurer is accepted, repeatedly calculating an index value indicative of stability of the data outputted from said measurer based on the data stored in said first storage at least until the index value satisfies a predetermined stability condition;

sequentially saving the data outputted from said measurer in said second storage if the save instruction is accepted; and

stopping saving the data from said measurer in said second storage when the index value satisfying said predetermined stability condition is calculated.

7. The data saving method according to claim 6, comprising copying the data stored in said first storage to said second storage if the save instruction is accepted.

8. The data saving method according to claim 6, comprising:

repeatedly calculating an evaluation value indicative of a degree of variation of the data outputted from said measurer based on the data stored in said first storage until the evaluation value satisfies a predetermined abnormal condition; and

outputting the save instruction when the evaluation value satisfies said predetermined abnormal condition.

9. The data saving method according to claim 6,

wherein the data logger comprises third storage, and

wherein the method comprises compressing the data stored in said second storage and saving the data stored in said second storage in said third storage when saving the data in said second storage is stopped.

10. The data saving method according to claim 6, comprising outputting the save instruction if a predetermined operation from outside is detected.

11. A non-transitory recording medium readable by a computer and storing therein a program causing a computer to execute data saving processing, the computer being connected to first storage for storing newer data among data sequentially outputted from measurer wherein number of the newer data corresponds to a specific number of times, and second storage, the data saving processing comprising:

calculating processing for, if a save instruction to save the data outputted from said measurer is accepted, repeatedly calculating an index value indicative of stability of the data outputted from said measurer based on the data stored in said first storage at least until the index value satisfies a predetermined stability condition;

saving processing for sequentially saving the data outputted from said measurer in said second storage if the save instruction is accepted; and

stop processing for stopping saving the data from said measurer in said second storage when the index value satisfying the stability condition is calculated.

12. The non-transitory recording medium according to claim 11, wherein said program causes the computer to execute copy processing for copying the data stored in said first storage to said second storage if the save instruction is accepted.