JP2946162B2 - Facility management system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facility management system for analyzing and processing alarm information created and input based on sensor information from various devices arranged in a facility.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Various facilities are arranged in facilities such as high-rise buildings, apartment houses, hospitals, factories and the like. For example, the equipment includes equipment systems such as air conditioning equipment, electric power equipment, security equipment, disaster prevention equipment, and heat source equipment, and these equipments are provided with a large number of various equipment as equipment equipment. 2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, intelligent buildings and the like have been provided with a building automation system (hereinafter, referred to as a BAS device) that can receive sensor information from various devices and manage the state of these devices. This BAS
The apparatus includes a sub-control unit, a control unit, a keyboard, a display, and the like, and has a monitoring control function, a trend graph function, a daily and monthly report bar graph function, and the like.

With respect to this BAS device, the present applicant has started to develop a building management system (hereinafter, referred to as a BMS device). This BMS device is installed in a workstation, analyzes and processes information from a BAS device and information from an operator, and strongly backs up the operation management of a building on a screen. BM promoted by the present applicant
The S-device has the following functions as application functions: equipment ledger management function, operation result management function, equipment history management function, trouble handling support function, spare / consumables management function, energy management function, equipment load factor management function, centralized meter reading / charge calculation function,
It has a maintenance schedule function, etc., allows a user to select a desired application function from the main menu bar and display a screen related to the selected application function in a pull-down manner. For example, when the trouble support function is selected as the application function, a trouble support screen is displayed in a window. And
If the trouble handling support screen is further pulled down, a detailed information / edit screen of the alarm reception list can be displayed. This detailed information / edit screen contains BAS
Based on the alarm information from the device, detailed information of the alarm information specified on the alarm reception list screen (point address or device symbol unique to the device) is displayed in an edited form.

[0004]

However, in the above-described BMS device, the alarm information from the BAS device is input off-line, and the device-specific point address included in the alarm information is artificially changed to a device symbol that can be managed by the BMS device. It is supposed to be converted. For this reason, there is a problem that it takes time and effort to convert the point address into the device symbol, and the operability is poor. Further, since the device symbol in the BMS device is abstract, it is difficult for humans to understand, and it has not been possible to search for alarm information by device type, by installation category, by floor, or the like.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to improve operability by eliminating the need to manually convert a point address into a device symbol. Another object of the present invention is to provide a facility management system capable of efficiently searching for alarm information.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention manages the state of these devices by inputting sensor information from various devices arranged in a facility and managing the status of these devices. A first facility management device (BAS device) for creating alarm information based on the sensor information;
In a facility management system including a second facility management apparatus (BMS apparatus) for inputting, analyzing, and processing alarm information created by the first facility management apparatus online, the second facility management apparatus includes a first facility management apparatus. Point address conversion means for automatically converting a device-specific point address included in the alarm information from the device into a device type, an installation class, and a device symbol represented by a floor number that can be managed by the second facility management device.
And the machine converted by this point address conversion means.
Alarm information including the device symbol and the point address before conversion
And a detailed information display means for displaying on the same screen together with the details .

[0007]

Therefore, according to the present invention, when alarm information is input from the first facility management apparatus, the second facility management apparatus changes the point address included in the alarm information to the equipment type-installation section-floor connection. Automatically converted to the device symbol represented by the
The dress and the details of the alarm information are displayed on the same screen.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail based on embodiments. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a building management system including one embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is BAS
The device 2 is a BMS device.

The BAS device 1 includes a sub-control unit (SCU) 1-1 for inputting sensor information from various devices such as an air conditioner, a power plant, a crime prevention facility, a disaster prevention facility, and a heat source facility arranged in a building; Unit (C
U) 1-2, 1-3 and keyboard (KB) 1-4, 1
-5, display (CRT) 1-6, 1-7, computer interface (CIF) 1-8, bus (BUS) 1-9, etc., a monitoring control function, a trend graph function, a daily and monthly report bar. It has a graph function and the like.

The BMS device 2 is provided in a workstation, and has a central processing unit (CPU) 2-1, a keyboard (KB) 2-2, and a display (CRT) 2-3.
Mouse (MS) 2-4 and printer (PRT) 2-
5, a magnetic tape device (MT) 2-6, a floppy disk (FD) 2-7, and a database (DB) 2-8
Analyzes and processes information from the BAS device 1 via the CIF 1-8 and information from the operator via the keyboard 2-2 and mouse 2-4, and backs up the operation management of the building on the display 2-3. .

The BMS device 2 has, as application functions, a device ledger management function, an operation result management function, a device history management function, a trouble handling support function, a spare / consumables management function, an energy management function, an equipment load factor management function, and a centralized function. It has a meter reading / charge calculation function, a maintenance schedule function, etc., selects a desired application function from the main menu bar on the display 2-3, and displays a screen related to the selected application function in a pull-down manner. be able to.

For example, when a trouble support function is selected as an application function, a trouble support screen is displayed in a window. If the trouble handling support screen is further pulled down, the detailed information / edit screen 2-31 of the alarm reception list as shown in FIG. 2 can be displayed. This detailed information / edit screen 2-3
1 displays, in an edited form, details of the alarm information specified on the alarm reception list screen (point addresses and device symbols unique to the device) based on the alarm information from the BAS device 1.

Here, the device symbol 2-311 displayed on the detailed information / edit screen 2-31 is a device type-installation category-
It is represented by a floor serial number. That is, “AC” indicating an air conditioner (air conditioner) is assigned as a device type, “AR1” indicating area 1 is assigned as an installation category, and “0001” indicating floor 1 is assigned as a floor serial number. The device symbol 2-311 is obtained by automatically converting the point address included in the alarm information in the BMS device 2 when the alarm information is input from the BAS device 1 online. In FIG. 2, 2
-312 is a point address before conversion.

Therefore, the detailed information / edit screen 2-31
In the device symbol 2-311 in FIG.
With -311, it is possible to immediately know that the details of the alarm information of the air conditioner on the floor 1 in the area 1 are displayed.

Although the detailed information / edit screen 2-31 of the alarm reception list has been described above as an example, the automatically converted device symbol is displayed on other screens such as device history management and operation result management. It will be. Further, according to the present embodiment, based on the automatically converted device symbol,
The alarm information can be efficiently searched for each installation section, each floor, and the like.

[0016]

According to apparent the present invention since it has been described above, the alarm information is input from the first facility management apparatus, the second facility management system, points included in the alarm information The address is automatically converted to the equipment symbol represented by the equipment type-installation category-floor serial number,
And the point address before conversion
Since the details are displayed on the same screen together with the details, no manual conversion work is required, and the operability is improved. Also, move to another screen.
Check details of alarm information on one screen without performing
Screen operation is simplified,
Disappears. In addition, the converted device symbol and the
Since the point address is displayed on one screen,
Manager of the second facility management device (for example, building manager)
Indicates the location of the alarm in an easy-to-understand
Can be recognized from the second facility management device side.
Communication to the facility management equipment side (for example,
The location of the alarm before it is converted to a device symbol.
By using a point address to define
Reliable and quick response to alarms on the facility management device side
Can be performed. Also, a first facility management device
On the side, based on the automatically converted device symbol, it is also possible to efficiently search for alarm information for each device type, each installation category, and each floor.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a building management system including an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a view showing a detailed information / edit screen of an alarm reception list displayed on a display of the BMS device shown in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 BMS device 2-1 Central processing unit (CPU) 2-2 Keyboard (KB) 2-3 Display (CRT) 2-4 Mouse (MS) 2-31 Detailed information / edit screen of alarm reception list 2-311 Equipment Symbol 2-312 Point address

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Masatoshi Kudo 1-4-3 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo NTT Facilities Corporation (72) Inventor Osamu Kakuno, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo No.4-33 NTT Facilities Corporation (72) Inventor Hirohito Ito 1-4-33 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo NTT Facilities Corporation (72) Inventor Takeshi Yamamoto 54 Suzukawa, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Yamatake Honeywell Co., Ltd. Isehara Plant (56) References JP-A-5-83761 (JP, A)

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A first facility management device for inputting sensor information from various devices arranged in a facility to manage the states of these devices and creating alarm information based on the sensor information from the various devices; And a second facility management apparatus for inputting, analyzing, and processing the alarm information created by the first facility management apparatus online, wherein the second facility management apparatus includes: automatically translating the device symbol represented by floor number - alarm before the specific point addresses devices included in the information recording second facility management apparatus may manage device type from the facilities control device - installation segment Point address translator
And the device description converted by the point address conversion means.
And the point address before conversion
A facility management system, comprising: a detailed information display means for displaying on a same screen with details .