JPH0583761A - External alarm informing system - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] Regarding a method for a building management system that monitors the occurrence of abnormalities in building facilities to notify the outside when an alarm occurs, to notify the outside of the alarm information according to the importance of the alarm. The purpose is to [Structure] The central monitoring device 1 of the building management system is provided with a facility information table 12b for setting an alarm level according to the importance of each alarm item, and an alarm to be notified to the outside is classified into a plurality of types. When the occurrence of an alarm is detected, the equipment information table 12b is referred to and an alarm of an alarm level corresponding to the alarm item is notified to the outside.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an external alarm notification system for transmitting alarm information to the outside in accordance with the importance of an alarm in a building management system for monitoring the occurrence of abnormalities in building facilities.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a building management system, the status of monitored equipment such as fire alarms, air conditioning equipment, and electric power equipment distributed in the building is transmitted to a disaster prevention center or the like via a transmission control device installed on each floor. The central monitoring device installed in the central monitoring room is constantly monitoring, and when an alarm occurs due to an abnormal condition of a certain facility, a display device, printer, voice / buzzer, etc. attached to the central monitoring device It is designed to notify maintenance personnel (a dedicated building management operator) in the monitoring room. When the operator is absent from the central monitoring room at night or on holidays, an alarm notification line is sent to the outside of the central monitoring room such as a security room where people are stationed, a nap room, a security company, and a building maintenance company. The central monitoring device gives an alarm notification of an alarm occurrence.

[0003]

In actual building management, alarms have a level of importance, and blackouts and fire alarms are important, but minor failures in air conditioning equipment are not important. . In the conventional external alarm notification method, all kinds of alarm information detected by the central monitoring device are treated equally, and only the occurrence of an alarm is notified to the outside. Therefore, outsiders who are not specialized in building management
Since it is not possible to recognize the type of alarm that has occurred, it is unnecessary to take action for countermeasures even for minor equipment alarms (for example, ventilation fan clogging) that are urgent and do not require immediate action. It was happening. That is, since the external alarms are not classified according to the alarm item,
There was a problem that the administrator had a hard time responding.

The present invention has been made in view of these problems, and an alarm which is notified to the outside when an alarm is generated is provided with alarm levels classified according to the importance of the alarm so that an external administrator can rationalize the alarm level. The purpose is to be able to deal with.

[0005]

FIG. 1 is a principle block diagram of an external alarm reporting system of the present invention. In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the external alarm reporting method of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, a central monitoring device 1 monitors an alarm indicating an abnormality of various facilities 3 in a building via a transmission control device 2, In a building management system that notifies an alarm to the outside when an alarm occurs, the central monitoring device 1 is provided with a facility information table 12b for setting an alarm level according to the degree of importance of each alarm item, and an alarm to be notified to the outside is provided. The equipment information table 12b is divided into a plurality of types and when an alarm is detected.
Is configured to notify the outside of the alarm of the alarm level corresponding to the generated alarm item.

[0006]

[Function] Since the type of the alarm to be reported to the outside differs depending on the importance of the alarm, an external monitor can recognize the importance of the generated alarm and take measures according to the importance. be able to. That is, when an operator is absent in the central monitoring room at night, on holidays, etc., if an important alarm such as a fire or a power failure occurs, an emergency dispatch is immediately performed, but in the case of a minor alarm due to an equipment error that can be left unattended. For example, it is possible to take a reasonable action according to the importance of the alarm, such as recording only the occurrence of the alarm and notifying the operator the next day.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the external alarm notification system of the present invention. Note that the same reference numeral represents the same object throughout the drawings.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a central monitoring device which is installed in a central monitoring room (disaster prevention center, etc.) in a building. The central monitoring device 1 includes a processor 11, a memory 12, and a communication control unit 1.
3, a display device 14 with a keyboard, a printer 15, a voice notification device / buzzer 16, an alarm output unit 17, etc. The memory 12 is provided with a facility monitoring program 12a and a facility information table 12b for causing the processor 11 to perform a predetermined process.

In the device information table 12b, as shown in an enlarged view in the drawing, a device name, an alarm level, a facility classification, etc. are written in advance for each address of the monitoring point of each facility. The alarm level is a code indicating the degree of importance of the alarm of the equipment. For example, when the address of the monitoring point is a fire alarm, 1 is the most important, and also indicates the clogging of the ventilation fan of the air conditioning equipment. In the case of an alarm, 3 is set, which indicates a minor alarm. External alarm output section 17
Are three alarm notification lines 18a, 18b, which are provided under the control of the processor 11 so as to correspond to the three alarm levels, for example.
The alarm is sent out by selecting any one of 18c. The alarm notification lines 18a, 18b, 18c are connected to a nap room, a security room in the same building, or a security company or a building management company located in a place away from the building by a telephone line or a dedicated line. It is possible to know the importance of the generated alarm depending on whether the alarm is notified via the alarm notification line.

2-1 to 2-N are transmission control devices installed on each floor, and an information collecting unit 21 for collecting status information from the monitoring points 3 such as sensors and equipment installed on the floor.
And a communication control unit 22 that performs a process of transmitting the collected information to the central monitoring device 1.

The state information of each facility is periodically collected in the central monitoring unit 1 via the transmission control unit 2, the state of the facility in the building is regularly displayed on the display unit 14, and the printer 15 is also provided.
Print on.

When an alarm is generated at a monitoring point under its jurisdiction, the transmission control devices 2-1 to 2-N receive this alarm via the information collecting section 21, add the address of the monitoring point and add the communication control section 22. To the central processing unit 1 via. The central monitoring device sends this alarm information to the communication control unit 13
When it is received via, the alarm monitoring program 12a is started. The alarm monitoring program refers to the address of the monitoring point in the device information table 11b to acquire data such as equipment name, alarm level, equipment classification, etc.
The buzzer 16 reports the occurrence of an alarm, and the location, contents, time of occurrence, etc. are displayed on the display device 14 and the printer 15 and printed.

When the monitoring room is unattended and the central monitoring device cannot be directly monitored, an external alarm notification is set. Then, the alarm monitoring program controls the alarm output unit 17 according to the alarm level acquired from the address of the alarm occurrence monitoring point, and sends an alarm to the corresponding alarm notification line.
For example, when the alarm level is divided into three levels, three alarm notification lines for each level are connected, so the alarm notification line of the corresponding level is controlled to be connected to the earth. By doing so, it is notified to the outside as contact information.

This alarm level can be freely set by the operator by rewriting the data in the device information table from the keyboard of the central control unit.
It can be easily done by the building manager during operation of the building management system, and it was necessary to change the program in the past, but the building manager can easily change it according to the actual situation, so the building management is rational. Become.

Since data of the equipment category indicating the type of equipment can also be set in the equipment information table, by selecting an alarm notification line due to an alarm with reference to this equipment category, for example, disaster prevention, electric power, It is also possible to easily notify the outside by changing the type of alarm for each equipment category such as air conditioning.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, when an alarm occurs in a building facility, a person other than a dedicated building manager can easily set the importance of the alarm generated outside the central control room. Since the information can be recognized, it is possible to quickly perform the treatment according to the importance of the alarm, and it is possible to effectively manage the building.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle configuration diagram of an external alarm reporting system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an external alarm reporting system of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Central monitoring device, 12 ... Memory, 11a ... Alarm monitoring program, 12b ... Facility information table, 17 ... Alarm output part, 18a, b,
c ... Alarm notification line, 2 (-1 to -N) ... Transmission control device, 3 ... Building facilities and sensors

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A building management in which a central monitoring device (1) monitors an alarm indicating an abnormality of various facilities (3) in a building through a transmission control device (2) and notifies the alarm to the outside when an alarm occurs. In the system, the central monitoring device (1) is provided with an equipment information table (12b) that sets the alarm level according to the importance of each alarm item, and the alarms to be notified to the outside are classified into a plurality of types. An external alarm reporting system characterized in that, when an occurrence is detected, the facility information table (12b) is referred to and an alarm having an alarm level corresponding to the alarm item generated is notified to the outside.