Remote monitoring system, data collecting device and monitoring device

• US 9,267,815 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2011
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Kuroiwa, Takeru
• Primary Examiner(s): Bugg, George
• Assistant Examiner(s): Akki, Munear
• Application Number:
  US14/342,844
• Publication Number:
  US 20140225743A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,615 Days
• Field of Search: 340/3.9, 340/3.42, 340/3.43, 340/540, 340/5.1, 700/276, 700/204
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/002 Remote reading of utility meters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2825 Reporting to a device located outside the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with telemetering systems H04M11/002
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

A data collecting device collects operation data of facility equipment that constitute a facility device control system. Upon receiving a collection data request command from a monitoring device, the data collecting device reads one or multiple items of operation data of the type specified by the collection data request command from among multiple items of collected operation data, and sends to the monitoring device response data wherein the read data is stored in a prescribed format. When a user inputs an operation that requests monitoring of operation data, the monitoring device has the user select a desired operation data type from among the operation data types that can be disclosed to the user, and sends to the data collecting device a collection data request command wherein the selected operation data type is specified. Upon receiving the response data from the data collecting device, the monitoring device displays, in the prescribed format, one or multiple items of operation data included in the response data.

Claims

1. A remote monitoring system comprising a data collecting device and a monitoring device, wherein:

the data collecting device comprises;

an equipment communicator that accomplishes data communication with facility equipment that constitutes a facility equipment control system;

a first remote communicator that accomplishes data communication with the monitoring device;

an operation data collector that collects operation data indicating the operation status of the facility equipment, the operation data being numerical data;

an operation data storage that stores the operation data collected by the operation data collector; and

an operation data transmitter that groups multiple items of operation data read from the operation data storage according to an ID of the facility equipment and a type of the operation data, extracts a difference in the operation data in a chronological manner for each group to thereby generate compressed data, and transmits the generated compressed data to the monitoring device; and

the monitoring device comprises;

a second remote communicator that accomplishes data communication with the data collecting device;

an operation receiver that receives operation input from a user;

a user data storage that stores a user data table in which types of operation data disclosable to each user are defined;

an operation data requestor that, when operation input that requests monitoring of operation data is accomplished by the user, acquires types of operation data selectable by the user based on the user data table, and causes the user to select a desired type of operation data from the acquired types of operation data; and

an operation data display that decompresses the compressed data received from the data collecting device, restores one or multiple items of operation data, and displays contents of the restored one or multiple items of operation data on a display device.

2. The remote monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the operation data requestor of the monitoring device further causes the user to select a prescribed collection period for the desired type of operation data, generates a collection data request command designating the selected type of operation data and the selected collection period, and transmits the generated collection data request command to the data collecting device, and

upon receiving the collection data request command transmitted from the monitoring device, the operation data transmitter of the data collecting device transmits to the monitoring device the operation data read from the operation data storage in accordance with contents of the collection data request command.

3. The remote monitoring system according to claim 2, wherein

there are multiple data collecting devices and each responds to a different facility equipment control system;

in the monitoring device,

data collecting devices accessible to each user are further defined in the user data table; and

upon an operation input that requests monitoring of operation data being accomplished by a user, the operation data requestor does not transmit the collection data request command to data collecting devices not accessible by the user.

4. A data collecting device comprising:

an equipment communicator that accomplishes data communication with facility equipment that constitutes a facility equipment control system;

a remote communicator that accomplishes data communication with the monitoring device;

an operation data collector that collects operation data indicating the operation status of the facility equipment, the operation data being numerical data;

an operation data storage that stores the operation data collected by the operation data collector; and

an operation data transmitter that groups multiple items of operation data read from the operation data storage according to an ID of the facility equipment and a type of the operation data, extracts a difference in the operation data in a chronological manner for each group to thereby generate compressed data, and transmits the generated compressed data to the monitoring device.

5. A monitoring device, comprising:

a remote communicator that accomplishes data communication with a data collecting device that collects operation data indicating the operation status of facility equipment that constitutes a facility equipment control system, the operation data being numerical data;

an operation receiver that receives operation input from a user;

a user data storage that stores a user data table in which types of operation data disclosable to each user are defined;

an operation data requestor that, when operation input that requests monitoring of operation data is accomplished by the user, acquires types of operation data selectable by the user based on the user data table, and causes the user to select a desired type of operation data from the acquired types of operation data; and

an operation data display that decompresses compressed data received from the data collecting device, restores one or multiple items of operation data, and displays contents of the restored one or multiple items of operation data on a display device, the compressed data being generated by grouping multiple items of operation data according to an ID of the facility equipment and a type of the operation data and by extracting a difference in the operation data in a chronological manner for each group.

6. A remote monitoring method comprising:

collecting, by a data collecting device, operation data indicating the operation status of facility equipment, the operation data being numerical data;

upon an operation input that requests monitoring of operation data being accomplished by a user, acquiring, by a monitoring device, types of operation data selectable by the user based on a user data table in which types of operation data disclosable to each user are defined, and causing the user to select a desired type of operation data from the acquired types of operation data;

grouping, by the data collecting device, multiple items of operation data read from the operation data storage for storing the operation data collected from the facility equipment, according to an ID of the facility equipment and a type of the operation data, extracting a difference in the operation data in a chronological manner for each group to thereby generate compressed data, and transmitting the generated compressed data to the monitoring device; and

decompressing, by the monitoring device, the compressed data received from the data collecting device, restoring one or multiple items of operation data, and displaying contents of the restored one or multiple items of operation data on a display device.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored thereof a program that causes a computer to function as:

an operation data collector that collects operation data indicating the operation status of facility equipment, the operation data being numerical data; and

an operation data transmitter that groups multiple items of operation data read from an operation data storage for storing the operation data collected from the facility equipment, according to an ID of the facility equipment and a type of the operation data, extracts a difference in the operation data in a chronological manner for each group to thereby generate compressed data, and transmits the generated compressed data to the monitoring device.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored thereof a program that causes a computer to function as:

an operation data requestor that acquires, when operation input that requests monitoring of operation data indicating the operation status of facility equipment is accomplished by a user, types of operation data selectable by the user based on a user data table in which types of operation data disclosable to each user are defined, and causes the user to select a desired type of operation data from the acquired types of the operation data; and

an operation data display that decompresses compressed data received from a data collecting device, restores one or multiple items of operation data, and displays contents of the restored one or multiple items of operation data on a display device, the compressed data being generated by grouping multiple items of operation data according to an ID of the facility equipment and a type of the operation data and by extracting a difference in the operation data in a chronological manner for each group.