JP3386321B2 - Monitoring and control system - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention is, monitoring and control system
About the.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a general supervisory control system (for example, a disaster prevention system). This type of supervisory control system (disaster prevention system) includes a supervisory control unit (for example, a receiver) 51 that controls the entire system, and a group of terminals (control terminal group 2 and controlled terminal group) that are supervised and controlled by the supervisory control unit 51. 3) and.

When this supervisory control system is configured as a disaster prevention system, for example, a fire detector or the like can be used for each control terminal of the control terminal group 2. Further, for each controlled terminal of the controlled terminal group 3, a smoke-exhausting facility such as a shutter or a fire door, an air conditioning facility, or the like can be used.

In such a supervisory control system (disaster prevention system), the supervisory control unit (receiver) 51 constantly keeps the state of each control terminal (each sensor) and each controlled terminal (smoke-proof terminal, etc.). It has a function to monitor and output a failure alarm when a failure of these terminals is detected. If it takes time for some reason to detect the failure of a certain terminal and repair it, or if it is clear that a failure alarm is issued at the time of on-site adjustment of a certain terminal, etc. There is also a system that further includes a function (target exclusion function (mask function)) that does not interfere with a monitoring function that is originally required, for example, by excluding alarms from terminals (not outputting a failure alarm).

When performing an exclusion operation (mask operation) that excludes a predetermined target (predetermined faulty terminal) from the alarm using such a target exclusion function (masking function), conventionally, information regarding the faulty terminal is used. Is displayed on the display or printed on the printer, the district number or device number (for example, physical address) of the faulty terminal that is displayed or printed is remembered by the person who is going to exclude it, and each district number is individually stored. A method of excluding each faulty terminal by generally specifying a device number or the like using a numeric keypad or the like has been generally used.

Further, in the supervisory control system as shown in FIG. 19, the supervisory control unit (receiver) 51 has a certain control terminal (sensor).
When there is an alert from, a predetermined controlled terminal (such as a smoke control terminal) is controlled in conjunction with this. In this case, the monitoring control unit 51 stops the control output to the predetermined controlled terminal when the activation response signal is returned from the controlled terminal, and the activation response signal is output from the controlled terminal within the specified time. When the terminal does not return, it is judged that the terminal is inactive and the control output is stopped. When a situation occurs where the controlled terminal is determined to be inoperative, information regarding the inactivated controlled terminal is displayed on the display or printed on the printer, and the inactivated controlled terminal displayed or printed is displayed. When specified by the operator, the monitoring control unit 5
1 is to retry the control operation for this controlled terminal, or to eliminate the cause of the malfunction,
It is possible to retry the control operation for this controlled terminal. As a method of designating the controlled terminal in order to retry the control operation of such an inactive controlled terminal, conventionally, the device number or district number of the inactive controlled terminal displayed or printed is used. It was common to specify such as using a numeric keypad.

[0007]

However, in order to exclude a faulty terminal, the district number or device number (eg, physical address) of the faulty terminal is stored by the person who is going to perform the exclusion operation, and the district number is individually In the conventional method described above, in which each failed terminal is excluded by specifying the device number or device number using the numeric keypad, etc., the operator remembers the device number or district number of the specified failed terminal, and the number input operation is performed again. Since this has to be performed, there is a drawback that the operation becomes complicated and an error is likely to occur especially when there are many target terminals, such as when adjusting the site.

In order to avoid such a drawback, a method of excluding all the terminals which have issued a failure alarm at that time by one operation has been proposed, but in this method, a failure terminal not intended by the operator is detected. There is a risk that they will be excluded, and it is inconvenient if only some terminals are excluded or not excluded from the terminal group issuing the failure alarm.

Further, in order to retry the control operation for the controlled terminal when the controlled terminal becomes inoperative, the controlled terminal is designated by its device number or district number. In the method, the operator has to memorize the device number or the district number of the inactive controlled terminal and perform the number input operation again, which makes the operation complicated,
There was a drawback that errors were likely to occur.

According to the present invention, when a terminal (target) in a failure state is excluded (excluded) from a failure alarm, for example, only those which the operator finds necessary to be excluded can be simply and error-corrected. and its object is to provide a possible monitoring control shea <br/> stearyl beam of omitting a small way.

The present invention is also directed to a supervisory control system capable of designating an inactive terminal in a simple and error-free manner when retrying a control operation for an inactive terminal.
The purpose is to provide

[0012]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 provides a supervisory control system in a supervisory control system comprising a group of terminals and supervisory control means for supervising and controlling the group of terminals. The means includes a display unit, a mode selection operation unit capable of selecting and displaying a list of terminals in a failure state as a failure terminal list screen as one mode on the display unit, and a failure terminal list screen on the display unit. A specific terminal selection operation unit for selecting and specifying a specific terminal from the list of failed terminals, and a process for specifying a predetermined process execution for the terminal selected and specified by the specific terminal selection operation unit An execution designation operation unit is provided, and the process execution designation operation unit is capable of designating the exclusion process execution for the terminal selected and designated by the specific terminal selection operation unit.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the supervisory control system according to the first aspect, the supervisory control means is
In the process execution specifying operation unit, when the exclusion process execution is specified for the terminal selected and specified by the specific terminal selection operation unit, the exclusion process is executed for the terminal and the output of the failure alarm is stopped. From the screen of the above-mentioned faulty terminals,
It is characterized in that the display relating to the terminals subjected to the exclusion processing is erased.

The invention according to claim 3 includes a terminal group,
In a supervisory control system provided with supervisory control means for supervising and controlling a terminal group, the supervisory control means displays a list of terminals in an inactive state as a mode on the display section and the display section. A mode selection operation unit that can be selected and displayed as a screen, and a specific terminal selection operation unit for selecting and designating a specific terminal from the inactive terminal list when the inactive terminal list screen is displayed on the display unit. And a process execution specifying operation unit for specifying a predetermined process execution for the terminal selected and specified by the specific terminal selecting operation unit, wherein the process execution specifying operation unit is The feature is that the retry of the control operation can be designated for the selected and designated terminal.

According to a fourth aspect of the invention, in the supervisory control system according to the third aspect, the supervisory control means is
In the process execution designation operation unit, it is possible to give a start instruction and a return instruction of the control operation to the terminal selected and designated by the specific terminal selection operation unit, and when the start instruction is issued, the terminal is selected. Is controlled, and when the return instruction is given, the terminal is controlled to be returned.

[0016]

[0017]

[0018] Thus, according to claim 1, the invention of claim 2 Symbol placement, when covered by the terminal (subject) for example fault alarm in the fault condition (exclude) the operator excluded Only those that are deemed necessary can be excluded in a convenient and error-free manner.

Further, according to claim 3, the invention of claim 4 Symbol mounting is
When retrying the control operation for an inactive terminal, the inactive terminal can be designated in a simple and error-free manner.

[0020]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a supervisory control system according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, the monitoring control system includes a monitoring control unit (for example, a receiver) 1 that controls the entire system, and a group of terminals (control terminal group 2 and controlled terminal group) that are monitored and controlled by the monitoring control unit 1. 3) and.

When this monitoring control system is configured as a disaster prevention system, for example, a fire detector or the like can be used for each control terminal of the control terminal group 2. Further, for each controlled terminal of the controlled terminal group 3, a smoke-exhausting facility such as a shutter or a fire door, an air conditioning facility, or the like can be used.

The monitoring control unit 1 and the terminal group (control terminal group 2 and controlled terminal group 3) are, for example, predetermined transmission lines.
Connected by (line or wireless).

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a specific example of this supervisory control system. Referring to FIG. 2, this system includes a receiver 11 and a group of terminals monitored and controlled by the receiver 11.
(Control terminal group 2, controlled terminal group 3) and receiver 11
Inside, there is a CPU 1 that controls the entire supervisory control system.
5 and the RO in which the control program of the CPU 15 and the like are stored
M16, RAM17 used as a work area of the CPU15, the display / operation unit 19, the control terminal group 2,
An interface unit 18 that functions as an interface (for example, a transmission interface) with the controlled terminal group 3 is provided.

When the system of FIG. 2 is configured as a disaster prevention system and an analog type sensor is used for the control terminal group 2, for example, the sensor group, the CPU 15 of the receiver 11 is used.
Calls each sensor by address polling (for example, assigns a physical address to each terminal and specifies each physical address to call each terminal), detects the status of each sensor, and responds according to the detection result. Then, a fire alarm is output, and a predetermined controlled terminal (for example, smoke-proof and exhaust equipment and air-conditioning equipment) is interlocked and controlled. That is, in this case, this system is constructed as a so-called R-type system.

Further, in FIG. 2, the CPU 15 and RO
The M16, the RAM 17, the interface unit 18, and the display / operation unit 19 have a function as the monitoring control unit 1 of FIG.

Further, in FIG. 2, the display / operation unit 19 is, for example, a touch panel type liquid crystal display.
Display means such as (LCD) or CRT display,
Input means such as a keyboard and a mouse can be used.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of the supervisory control unit 1 (display / operation unit 19) according to the present invention. In the example of FIG. 3, the monitoring control unit 1 (display / operation unit 19) has a display unit 21 on which predetermined information is displayed and a terminal group (control terminal group 2, target device 2) as predetermined information on the display unit 21. Control terminal group 3) Monitoring result of each terminal (normal, abnormal, failure, etc.) is displayed as a monitoring screen (in monitoring screen mode), or terminal group (control terminal group 2, controlled terminal) Mode selection operation unit 2 for selecting (making a mode selection) whether to display a list of terminals in a failure state in the group 3) as a failure terminal list screen (set in failure terminal list mode)
2 and a specific terminal selection operation unit 23 for selecting and designating a specific terminal from the monitoring screen or the faulty terminal list screen.
And a process execution designation operation unit 24 for designating a predetermined process execution for the terminal selected and designated by the specific terminal selection manipulation unit 23.

Here, regarding the state of the terminal group (control terminal group 2, controlled terminal group 3) (state such as normal, abnormal, and failure), for example, the CPU 15 polls each terminal via the interface unit 18 by, for example, address polling. It is possible to detect as a monitoring result by calling up with and detecting the state of each terminal, and the monitoring result of each terminal is stored in the RAM 17, for example. Specifically, for example, when a terminal in a failure state is detected, the CPU 15 informs the information about the terminal in the failure state (for example, the type of the terminal (eg, general sensor, thermal analog sensor, gas leak sensor). ，
Photoelectric analog sensor, shutter, etc.), information for specifying this terminal (specifically, the district number, room name, or physical address of the area where this terminal is installed), and this terminal Type of failure), for example, RA
It is designed to be stored in M17. Further, in this case, the CPU 15 outputs a failure alarm indicating that the failure terminal has a failure unless an exclusion (masking) operation as described later is performed.

The mode selection operation unit 22, the specific terminal selection operation unit 23, and the process execution designation operation unit 24 will be described later when the display / operation unit 19 is of the LCD-touch panel type, for example. Is displayed on the screen of the display / operation unit 19, and in that case,
Only one of the operation units 22, 23, 24 can be displayed as, for example, an icon on the screen at a certain time point. That is, each operation unit 22, 23, 24
It is not necessary to display all of them on the screen at the same time, and it is possible to sequentially display different operation units for each predetermined screen.

Further, the process execution designation operation section 24 has at least a function for designating the exclusion (mask) process execution for the selected and designated terminal.

4 to 12 are views for explaining an example of a target exclusion processing operation according to the present invention. In the examples of FIGS. 4 to 12, it is assumed that the display / operation unit 19 is of the LCD-touch panel type. Therefore, the mode selection operation unit 22, the specific terminal selection operation unit 23, and the process execution designation operation unit 24 are The operator is configured to perform a predetermined operation process by pointing a predetermined position (for example, a predetermined icon) on the screen. In other words, in this example, the display / operation unit 19 makes a predetermined display on the screen, and
A predetermined operation is performed on the screen.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the initial screen. This initial screen is automatically selected when the system is started, for example. Then, the operator can select the “monitoring screen” mode and the “failed terminal list screen” mode on this initial screen.

When the "monitor screen" mode is selected on the initial screen of FIG. 4, the monitor screen as shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the display / operation unit 19. This monitoring screen is, for example, RA
The information about each terminal stored in the M17 (that is, the monitoring result of each terminal (for example, status information such as normal, abnormal, failure, etc.)) is read by the CPU 15 and given to the display / operation unit 19 to be displayed. It That is, on this monitor screen, a terminal group (control terminal group 2, controlled terminal group 3)
The monitoring results (status of normal, abnormal, failure, etc.) of each terminal are displayed.

In fact, in the example of FIG. 5, as one of the terminals,
For example, information indicating that the terminal "photoelectric analog sensor" having the district number "Building No. 01, No. 002, No. 002", room name "hot water supply room", and physical address "1 system 41H" is in a failure state is displayed. .

The example of FIG. 5 shows a case where up to four pieces of information about each terminal can be displayed in one screen (when the number of terminals that can be displayed in one screen is four). ,
When the number of terminals exceeds four, it is possible to refer to four or more terminals by, for example, "screen switching operation (screen scroll operation)".

Further, in the example of FIG. 5, only the control terminal (sensor, etc.) is shown on the monitor screen, but it is also possible to display all control terminals and controlled terminals provided in the system. is there.

Further, in the monitoring screen as shown in FIG. 5, when the exclusion (masking) operation is performed on this terminal as information regarding each terminal, information indicating that, for example, "mask" is also displayed. It has become so.

As shown in FIG. 5, when the monitoring result (state information) of each terminal is displayed on the screen, the operator selects and designates a desired terminal from the monitoring results of each terminal displayed on the screen. be able to. For example, district number "Building No. 10, 01st floor No. 002", room name "hot water supply room", physical address "1 system 4"
To select the "1H" terminal "photoelectric analog sensor", the operator may point to the display location of this terminal as indicated by arrow A in FIG. In this way
When a predetermined terminal is selected from the terminals displayed as shown in FIG. 5, the drawing becomes as shown in FIG.
On the screen, functions that can be referenced or changed for the selected terminal are displayed, for example, in a menu format.

For example, when the terminal is an analog type sensor, when this terminal issues a dirt failure alarm, it is possible to refer to the analog value or the like from this terminal. Since it can be an important function in checking and investigating the failure alarm of, the buttons for designating these functions can be displayed in a menu format.

Specifically, on the screen of FIG. 6, icons (buttons) of "maintenance information", "mask", "mask release", and "transfer" are displayed in a menu format. here,
When the terminal selected in FIG. 5 is a photoelectric analog sensor (analog sensor), the “maintenance information” button is used to, for example, display an analog value of this analog sensor as a trend graph. Used. In fact, Figure 6
When the "Maintenance information" button is specified on the screen of, the screen becomes as shown in Fig. 7, and the trend graph of the photoelectric analog sensor is displayed on the screen. Therefore, it is possible to analyze in detail the failure state of the photoelectric analog sensor (the failure state can be confirmed and investigated).

In the screen shown in FIG. 6 or 7,
The “mask” button is used, for example, when a faulty terminal is selected in FIG. 5 and when the selected faulty terminal is excluded from the targets of the fault alarm, and the “mask release” button is used for “masking”. It is used to cancel the exclusion status (mask status) of a faulty terminal that has been excluded (masked) by the "button.

Actually, in the monitoring screen of FIG. 5, for example, the district number "building No. 10, 01st floor 002", room name "hot water supply room",
When the terminal "photoelectric analog sensor" of the physical address "1 system 41H" is selected and a screen similar to FIG. 6 or 7 is displayed for this terminal, on this screen,
When the "mask" button is specified, it is possible to prevent the failure alarm output from being issued for this terminal thereafter. Also, after the "Mask" button is specified for this terminal, when the screen shown in FIG. 5 is displayed again,
As shown in FIG. 8, on this screen, information “mask” indicating that a mask operation is performed is displayed as information regarding this terminal. When the "unmask" button is specified on the screen of FIG. 6 or 7, the masked state of this terminal can be canceled and the failure alarm output for this terminal can be restarted.

In the screen of FIG. 6 or 7,
The “transfer” button is used to transfer information regarding the terminal selected in FIG. 5 to, for example, another system (for example, an air conditioning system).

As can be seen from the above description, when the exclusion (masking) operation is performed on a predetermined faulty terminal, the operator wants to perform the exclusion operation on the monitoring screen as shown in FIG. In the example, the district number "Building No. 10 01"
"Floor 002", room name "hot water supply room", physical address "1 line 41H" terminal "photoelectric analog sensor"), and specify this faulty terminal on the screen as shown in FIG. 6 or 7. It suffices to point to the "mask" icon on the screen as shown in FIG. 6 or 7 for switching. That is, unlike the conventional case, the operator memorizes the device number or the district number of the predetermined faulty terminal, and easily performs the exclusion (masking) operation on the predetermined faulty terminal without the need to input the number again. be able to.

However, in the monitoring screen as shown in FIG. 5, when a faulty terminal desired to be excluded is designated, the monitoring screen also displays terminals in a normal state.
When the monitoring control system is provided with a large number of terminals, it may take some time to search for a predetermined faulty terminal to be excluded from the monitoring screen.

In order to quickly find a predetermined faulty terminal to be the target of the exclusion operation, the "faulty terminal list screen" mode can be selected in the present invention.

That is, according to the present invention, when the operator wants to display a list of terminals in a failure state, for example, in the initial screen of FIG. 4 or in the state where the monitoring screen of FIG. Points to the button (icon) on the "Failed device list screen". As a result, the screen becomes as shown in FIG. 9, and in the monitor control system, a list of terminals in a faulty state among the terminal group (control terminal group 2, controlled terminal group 3) is displayed on the screen. To be done.

The list of the faulty terminals is, for example, RAM17.
The CPU 15 reads the information about the terminal in which the failure is detected (the terminal in the failure state) stored therein, and supplies the information to the display / operation unit 19 to be displayed on the screen. In fact, in the example of FIG. 9, as one of the malfunctioning terminals, for example, the district number “building No. 10, 01st floor No. 002”, room name “hot water supply room”, physical address “1 system 41H” terminal “photoelectric analog sensor” "," Indicates that the failure status is "dirt failure".

In the example of FIG. 9, a maximum of four pieces of information about terminals in which a failure is detected can be displayed in one screen (when the number of failed terminals that can be displayed in one screen is four).
When the number of failed terminals exceeds four, it is possible to refer to four or more terminals by, for example, a "screen shift operation (scroll operation)".

Further, on the monitoring screen of FIG. 5, a certain faulty terminal is selected, and the faulty terminal is selected as shown in FIG. 6 or 7.
When the mask operation is performed on the screen of No. 3, the failure terminal is not displayed on the failure terminal list screen as shown in FIG. That is, in the faulty terminal list screen as shown in FIG. 9, the faulty terminals for which the mask operation has already been performed are not displayed.

As shown in FIG. 9, when the list of failed terminals is displayed on the screen, the operator can select and designate a desired failed terminal from the list of the failed terminals displayed on the screen. For example, district number “Building No. 10, 01st floor No. 002”,
If you want to select the faulty terminal "photoelectric analog sensor" with room name "hot water supply room" and physical address "1 system 41H",
The operator may point the display location of the faulty terminal as indicated by arrow B in FIG. In this way, FIG.
When a predetermined terminal is selected from the list of faulty terminals displayed as shown in, the screen becomes as shown in FIG. 10, and the screen allows reference or change operation for the selected terminal. Various functions are displayed in a menu format, for example.

For example, when the terminal is an analog type sensor, when this terminal issues a dirt failure alarm, it is possible to refer to the analog value or the like from this terminal. Since it can be an important function in checking and investigating the failure alarm of, the buttons for designating these functions can be displayed in a menu format.

Specifically, on the screen of FIG. 10, icons (buttons) of "maintenance information", "mask", and "transfer" are displayed in a menu format. Here, the button of "maintenance information" is similar to that in FIG. 6, for example, when the selected faulty terminal is a photoelectric analog sensor (analog sensor), the analog value of this analog sensor is Used to display as a trend graph. In fact, Figure 1
When the "maintenance information" button is specified on the 0 screen, the screen becomes as shown in FIG.
The trend graph of the photoelectric analog sensor is displayed, and the operator can analyze the failure status of this photoelectric analog sensor in detail from this trend graph (the failure status can be confirmed and investigated. it can).

Further, in the screen of FIG. 10 or FIG. 11, the “Transfer” button is used, for example, to transfer information regarding the selected faulty terminal to another system (eg, air conditioning equipment system), as in FIG. Used to believe.

Further, in the screen of FIG. 10 or FIG. 11, the “mask” button excludes the faulty terminals (photoelectric analog sensor in this case) selected on the faulty terminal list screen of FIG. 9 (for example, , Excluded from fault alarm output)
Used to.

Actually, when the "mask" button is designated on the screen of FIG. 10 or FIG. 11, it is possible to prevent the failure alarm output for this failure terminal thereafter. Then, after the “Mask” button is specified on the screen of FIG. 10 or FIG.
When returning to the monitoring screen as shown in FIG. 5 from the faulty terminal list screen like this and displaying the monitoring screen on the display unit 21 again, the monitoring screen displays information about this terminal in the same manner as shown in FIG. As a result, information "mask" indicating that a mask operation is performed is displayed.

Further, in the present invention, after the mask operation is performed on the screen of FIG. 6, FIG. 7, FIG. 10 or FIG. 11, after returning to the initial screen as shown in FIG. 4 or the monitoring screen as shown in FIG. , When the failure terminal list screen as shown in FIG. 9 is opened (opened) again,
The failure terminal list screen is as shown in FIG. 12, and as can be seen by comparing FIG. 12 with FIG. 9, the failure terminal list screen shows a failure terminal for which a mask operation has been performed (in this case, a photoelectric analog sensor). ) Information will no longer be displayed. On the other hand, in the monitoring screen as shown in FIG. 5, the information regarding the terminal on which the mask operation is performed is not erased, and the information “mask” indicating that the mask operation is performed is added as the information regarding this terminal. In order to display the information about the faulty terminal for which the mask operation is performed on the faulty terminal list screen again, the operator returns the screen to the monitoring screen as shown in FIG. 5, and points the terminal on the monitoring screen. A screen as shown in FIG. 6 or FIG. 7 may be displayed for this terminal, and the “unmask” button may be specified on this screen. If the "Unmask" button is specified, if the fault of this faulty terminal has not been recovered yet,
Release the masked state and display about this faulty terminal
(Display on the faulty terminal list screen), fault alarm output can be restarted.

As described above, according to the present invention, among the terminals provided in the supervisory control system, the terminals in the failure state,
That is, only the faulty terminal is displayed on the display unit 21 as the faulty terminal list screen, and on the faulty terminal list screen, the faulty terminal to be excluded (masked) from the displayed faulty terminal list is pointed on the screen. It is possible to perform an exclusion (mask) operation for the selected faulty terminal, so the terminal in the fault state (target)
For example, to exclude (exclude) from the fault alarm
In addition, it is possible to quickly and easily determine the terminal (failed terminal) that is the target of the exclusion operation, and it is possible to exclude only those that the operator deems necessary to exclude in a simple and error-free manner. .

As a more specific example of operation, when a failure alarm is issued for a certain terminal, the operator can click the button (icon) on the "failed terminal list screen" on the screen of FIG. 4 or 5.
9 to display a failure terminal list screen as shown in FIG. 9, and in the failure terminal list screen of FIG. 9, point to the location of the terminal at which the failure alarm is now issued and display the screen as shown in FIG. On the screen shown in FIG. 10, the operator points to the “maintenance information” button, displays the screen shown in FIG. 11, and confirms the analog value of the terminal. When it is desired to exclude this terminal from the failure alarm, the "mask" button can be pointed to and exclusion processing can be performed on this terminal. Thus, in a series of operations mask
(Exclusion) operation can be performed, and erroneous operation can be reduced. In particular, since the faulty terminal to be the target of the mask operation can be selected from the faulty terminal list screen in which only the information on the faulty terminal is displayed, the operator can easily and quickly find the faulty terminal to be the mask operation target. You can That is, the operator can perform the masking operation on the desired terminal only by the terminal designating operation from the faulty terminal list screen and the selecting operation of the “mask” button.

In the above example, the object exclusion processing function of the monitor control unit 1 (display / operation unit 19) has been described, but the monitor control unit 1 (display / operation unit 19) performs the above object exclusion processing. Instead of the function, or together with the exclusion processing function, the control operation is retried for a non-controlled terminal (a controlled terminal that is inactive but has tried to perform a predetermined control operation). The control operation of the controlled terminal which has become inactive may be retried, or the control operation of the controlled terminal may be retried after removing the cause of the malfunction). In this case, in the configuration of FIG.
Instead of the "broken terminal list screen" mode described above, or with the "broken terminal list screen" mode
It has a function to select the mode ("Inactive terminal list screen" mode) that displays the list of inactive terminals as the inactive terminal list screen among "Control terminal group 2 and Controlled terminal group 3". There is. Further, in this case, the specific terminal selection operation unit 23 has a function for selecting and designating a specific controlled terminal from the monitoring screen or the inactive terminal list screen. Further, the process execution designation operation unit 24 has a terminal control function for causing the selected and designated controlled terminal to perform the control operation again.

13 to 16 are views for explaining an example of the inactive terminal control processing operation according to the present invention. Note that in the examples of FIGS. 13 to 16, the display / operation unit 19 is of the LCD-touch panel type, as in the examples of FIGS. 4 to 12, and accordingly, the mode selection operation unit 22 and the specific terminal selection operation are performed. The unit 23 and the process execution designation operation unit 24 are configured to perform a predetermined operation by pointing to a predetermined position (icon) on the screen. Further, in the examples of FIGS. 13 to 16, it is assumed that only two modes, that is, a “monitor screen” mode and an “inactive terminal list screen” mode are provided.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of the initial screen.
This initial screen is automatically selected when the system is started, for example. In the present case, since it is said that only two modes, "monitor screen" mode and "inactive terminal list screen" mode are provided, the operator
On this initial screen, the "monitor screen" mode and the "inactive terminal list screen" mode can be selected.
When the “monitor screen” mode is selected on the initial screen of FIG. 13, the monitor screen similar to that shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the display / operation unit 19.

In the monitoring screen example of FIG. 5, the control terminal is
Although only sensors (sensors, etc.) are shown, it is also possible to display all the control terminals and controlled terminals equipped in the system. In this case, the monitoring screen also displays the inactive terminals from the monitoring screen. It is possible to display a button "inactive terminal list screen" for opening (opening) the list screen.

The monitoring screen is, for example, the RAM 17
By reading the information about each terminal stored in the inside (that is, the monitoring result of each terminal (for example, status information such as normal, abnormal, failure, inoperative) etc.) by the CPU 15 and giving it to the display / operation unit 19. , Displayed on the screen.

Further, when the operator wants to display a list of inactive terminals, for example, in the initial screen of FIG. 13 or when the same monitoring screen as that shown in FIG. 5 is displayed, The operator points to the button (icon) on the "Inactive terminal list screen". As a result, the screen becomes as shown in Fig. 14, and the screen shows
In this supervisory control system, a list of controlled terminals in the controlled terminal group 3 which are in an inactive state is displayed.

The list of inactive terminals is, for example, R
Inactive controlled terminal stored in the AM 17 (inactive controlled terminal that has tried to perform a predetermined control operation)
The CPU 15 reads the information on the information and gives it to the display / operation unit 19 to display it on the screen. In fact
In the example of FIG. 14, as one of the non-operation terminals, for example, the district number “building No. 10 28th floor 002”, the room name “hot water supply room”
The terminal "fire door" of the physical address "1 system 62H" is displayed.

In the example of FIG. 14, a maximum of four pieces of information about terminals in which a failure is detected can be displayed in one screen (when the number of failed terminals that can be displayed in one screen is four). Is displayed, and if the number of failed terminals exceeds four, for example, "screen change operation (screen scroll operation)"
For example, it is possible to refer to four or more terminals.

As shown in FIG. 14, when a list of inactive terminals is displayed on the screen, the operator selects and designates an inactive terminal to be re-controlled from the list of inactive terminals displayed on the screen. Can be done. That is, when a situation occurs in which a controlled terminal does not operate, it is desirable to retry the control operation of this controlled terminal, or after removing the cause of malfunction of this controlled terminal When retrying the control operation of the terminal, the operator can select the inactive controlled terminal from the inactive terminal list screen of FIG. For example, when the operator wants to select the inoperative terminal "fire door" with the district number "Building No. 28, No. 28, No. 002", the room name "Hot water supply room", and the physical address "1 system 62H", the operator uses an arrow in FIG. As indicated by B, it suffices to point to the display location of this inactive terminal.
In this way, when a predetermined inactive terminal is selected from the list of inactive terminals displayed as shown in FIG. 14, the screen becomes as shown in FIG.
A function for causing the selected inactive terminal to perform "starting control" or "returning control" is displayed in, for example, a menu format.

Specifically, on the screen of FIG. 15, icons (buttons) of "start control" and "return control" are displayed in a menu format. Here, the "start control" icon is a button for re-controlling (restarting) the inactive terminal selected on the screen of FIG. 14, and the "start control" button is designated on the screen of FIG. Then, CPU1
5 recontrols the inactive terminal selected on the screen of FIG. 14 (retrying the control operation).

The "return control" icon is a button for controlling the return of the controlled terminal (stopping the control operation), and when the "return control" button is designated on the screen of FIG. The CPU 15 controls the return of the inactive terminal selected on the screen of FIG.

As described above, in the screen of FIG. 15, when the "start control" operation is performed, if the cause of the malfunction of this inactive terminal is eliminated, this terminal operates normally (control operation is performed). ). Then, in this case, for example, by operating the button of “initial screen” to return to the initial screen as shown in FIG. 13 again, when the inactive terminal list screen as shown in FIG. 14 is opened again (when opened, ), The inactive terminal list screen is as shown in FIG. 16, and as can be seen by comparing FIG. 16 with FIG. 14, the inactive terminal list screen is displayed on the inactive terminals list. Terminal
Information about (fire door in this case) will not be displayed.

As described above, in the present invention, a list of inactive terminals is displayed on the display unit 21 as an inactive terminal list screen,
In the inactive terminal list screen, it is possible to select an inactive terminal to retry the control operation and perform the retry operation of the control operation for the selected inactive terminal. In a few ways, a retry of the control action of the dead terminal can be performed.

As a more specific example of operation, when an attempt is made to cause a controlled terminal to perform a control operation, and when a situation occurs in which the controlled terminal does not operate, the terminal remains in that state or does not operate. After removing the cause of the above, the operator may select, for example, the "inactive terminal list screen" on the initial screen of FIG.
14 is displayed to display an inactive terminal list screen as shown in FIG. 14, and in the inactive terminal list screen of FIG. As a result, the inactive terminal list screen becomes as shown in FIG. 15, and when the operator points the “start control” button on the screen of FIG. , The control operation can be retried.

As described above, in the present invention, the operator points and selects any one terminal from the inactive terminal list displayed on the inactive terminal list screen, and selects "start control". Or buttons such as "return control"
By operating (icon), the terminal can be caused to perform control operation.

Incidentally, the processing examples (operation examples) of FIGS. 13 to 16
In the initial screen of FIG. 13, the inactive terminal list screen is selectable. However, as a modification, the initial screen may be configured as shown in FIG. That is,
In the initial screen of FIG. 17, a button of “terminal control screen” is displayed instead of the button of “inactive terminal list screen” in the initial screen of FIG. 13, and when the operator specifies the button of “terminal control screen”. The terminal control screen as shown in FIG. 18 is displayed, and by designating the button of “inactive terminal list screen” on this terminal control screen, the inactive terminal list screen as shown in FIG. 14 can be displayed.

Further, FIGS. 4 to 12 and FIGS. 13 to 18
In the processing example described above, the initial screen as shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 13 or FIG. 17 is first displayed when the system is started, and the mode is selected from the initial screen. It is also possible to directly display a monitoring screen such as 5 and open (open) the failure terminal list screen, the inactive terminal list screen, or the terminal control screen from this monitoring screen. That is, for example, the mode can be selected from the monitoring screen.

In addition, each of the above-mentioned configuration examples (FIGS. 4 to 1)
2, examples of FIGS. 13 to 16), a combination of an LCD and a touch panel is used as the display / operation unit 19, but as the display unit of the display / operation unit 19, a CRT or 7 It is also possible to use segmented LEDs and the like. In this case, as the operation unit, a light pen, a mouse, a dedicated switch, or the like can be used in addition to the touch panel.

Specifically, when a 7-segment LED or the like is used as the display unit, for example, in order to display a list of failed terminals, the district number of the failed terminal can be digitally displayed as a failed area display window. it can.

However, when a combination of an LCD and a touch panel is used as the display / operation unit 19, for example, FIG.
In the failure terminal list screen as shown in FIG. 14 or the inactive terminal list screen as shown in FIG. 14, information about the failed terminal or the inactive terminal can be displayed in detail.

Specifically, information such as a physical address, a district number, a device name, a room name or an area name indicating an installation place, and the like can be added and displayed as the information about the terminal. With this, the operator can accurately determine the terminal to be subjected to the mask operation or the terminal to be retried for the control operation from the detailed information, and can more easily and more reliably perform the predetermined operation. It is possible to specify the execution of a predetermined process for this terminal by pointing to this terminal.

In the above description, fire detectors, fire doors, shutters, etc. used in the disaster prevention system as control terminals and controlled terminals have been taken as examples, but control terminals and controlled terminals are used in the disaster prevention system. However, any terminal can be used. For example, the control terminal may be a security sensor and the controlled terminal may be a controlled terminal used in a security system. In this case, the monitoring control system is a security system. Further, if the controlled terminal is an air conditioning facility, this monitoring control system becomes an air conditioning management system. When the controlled terminal uses a fire door, a shutter, etc. used in a disaster prevention system, and an air conditioning facility with transfer output control, this monitoring control system is a combined system of a disaster prevention system and an air conditioning management system. Become. Further, the supervisory control system may be constructed in any form such as a P type system (on / off type system) in addition to being constructed as the R type system as described above. The present invention can be similarly applied to the above. In the case of the P type system, for example, an ON / OFF type sensor can be used as the control terminal.

The above-described object exclusion method and terminal control method of the present invention can be configured as a software program, and can be, for example, a software package (for example, detachable and portable with respect to the system of FIG. 2). It can be provided as an information storage medium).

That is, the present invention may have a form in which the above-described object exclusion method and terminal control method are programmed and stored in a portable information storage medium, or the portable information storage medium may be stored in a portable information storage medium. The programs of the object exclusion method and the terminal control method stored in the information storage medium may be loaded (installed) in the RAM 17 of the receiver 11 of the system of FIG. 2, or, for example, It may be preset in the receiver 11 of the system of FIG.

[0084]

As described above, according to the present invention, according to claim 1, according to the invention of claim 2 Symbol placement, of the terminals which is provided in a given system, a terminal in a fault state as a fault terminal list screen Exclusion processing of the terminal is displayed by causing the specific terminal to be selected on the screen from the failure terminals displayed on the failure terminal list screen and execution of the exclusion processing is specified for the specific terminal. Terminal in a fault state
For example, when the (target) is excluded from the target of the failure alarm (when it is excluded), only the one that the operator considers necessary to be excluded can be excluded in a simple and error-free manner.

[0085] Also, according to claim 3, according to the invention of claim 4 Symbol mounting, of the terminals which is provided in a given system, to display the terminal in an inoperative state as inoperative terminal list screen, said non The control operation of the terminal is performed by selecting a specific terminal on the screen from the inactive terminals displayed on the operation terminal list screen and designating a retry of the control operation for the specific terminal. In this case, when the control operation is retried to the inactive terminal, the inactive terminal can be designated in a simple and error-free manner.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a supervisory control system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a specific example of the supervisory control system of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a display of a monitor control unit of the monitor control system of FIG.
It is a figure which shows the structural example of an operation part.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of a target exclusion processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an example of a target exclusion processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining an example of a target exclusion processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining an example of a target exclusion processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining an example of a target exclusion processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining an example of a target exclusion processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining an example of a target exclusion processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining an example of a target exclusion processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining an example of a target exclusion processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining an example of an inactive terminal control processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining an example of an inactive terminal control processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a diagram for explaining an example of an inactive terminal control processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a diagram for explaining an example of an inactive terminal control processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a diagram for explaining an example of an inactive terminal control processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a diagram for explaining an example of an inactive terminal control processing operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a general supervisory control system (for example, a disaster prevention system).

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Monitoring control unit 2 control terminals 3 Controlled terminal group 11 receiver 15 CPU 16 ROM 17 RAM 18 Interface part 19 Display and operation unit

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Takashi Suzuki 1-11-6 Hatagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Nittan Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hideto Amamiya 1-1-11 Hatagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo In the Tantan Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Kazumasa Inaba 2-12-19 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Yamatake Honeywell Co., Ltd. (56) Reference JP-A-58-109997 (JP, A) JP-A-63-9456 (JP, A) JP-A-4-350799 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G08B 17/00 G08B 23/00 G08B 25/00

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A supervisory control system comprising a group of terminals and supervisory control means for controlling the supervision of the terminal group, wherein the supervisory control means is in a failure state as one mode on the display section and the display section. A mode selection operation part that can select and display a list of terminals as a failure terminal list screen, and a specification for selecting and designating a specific terminal from the failure terminal list when the failure terminal list screen is displayed on the display It has a terminal selection operation unit and a process execution specification operation unit for specifying a predetermined process execution for the terminal selected and specified by the specific terminal selection operation unit, and the process execution specification operation unit is A monitoring control system, wherein execution of exclusion processing can be designated for a terminal selected and designated by a terminal selection operation unit. 2. The supervisory control system according to claim 1, wherein in the supervisory control means, the exclusion process execution is designated for the terminal selected and designated by the specific terminal selection manipulation part in the process execution designation manipulation part. At this time, the monitoring control system is characterized in that the exclusion process is executed for the terminal, the output of the failure alarm is stopped, and the display regarding the terminal for which the exclusion process is performed is deleted from the failure terminal list screen. 3. A supervisory control system comprising a group of terminals and a supervisory controller for supervising and controlling the group of terminals, wherein the supervisory controller is in a non-operational state as one mode on the display section and the display section. When the inactive terminal list screen is displayed on the mode selection operation part that can select and display a list of certain terminals as the inactive terminal list screen, select and specify a specific terminal from the inactive terminal list And a process execution specifying operation unit for specifying a predetermined process execution for the terminal selected and specified by the specific terminal selecting operation unit. Department is
A supervisory control system characterized in that a retry of its control operation can be designated for a terminal selected and designated by a specific terminal selection operation unit. 4. The supervisory control system according to claim 3, wherein the supervisory control means causes the process execution designation operation unit to instruct and restore the control operation to the terminal selected and designated by the specific terminal selection manipulation unit. A supervisory control system, which is capable of giving an instruction, controls activation of the terminal when an activation instruction is issued, and controls activation of the terminal when an activation instruction is issued.