JP6908458B2 - Disaster status notification system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a disaster situation notification system, and more specifically, a combustion device including a burner and a controller for controlling opening and closing of a fuel gas supply path to the burner, and a terminal capable of communicating with the controller via a communication network. It is related to the one that can provide predetermined information to the terminal when a disaster occurs due to an earthquake.

Conventionally, a gas cooker (gas stove) as a combustion device is equipped with a seismic sensor that detects when the combustion device shakes due to an earthquake, and the seismic intensity of the combustion device detected by the seismic device is equal to or higher than a predetermined seismic intensity. In this case, a controller that controls the fuel gas supply path to be closed is known, for example, in Patent Document 1.

In addition, in the event of a disaster, the safety information of the registrant is acquired from the terminal used by the registrant via the communication network to investigate the safety, and the investigation information is provided to the destination terminal that provides the safety information of the registrant. For example, Patent Document 2 is known to be configured so that users (family members, acquaintances, etc.) who use the destination terminal can obtain the safety information. In this system, an earthquake in a house is detected by a seismic sensor installed in a net device such as a gas meter or a gas cooker installed in the house, and earthquake detection information including seismic intensity information at home is transmitted, and a communication network is used. Wide-area earthquake information including wide-area seismic intensity information is also acquired from the server via. Then, after comparing the seismic intensity of the home and the seismic intensity of a wide area and confirming whether or not to send the safety of the user to the contact information registered in advance according to the comparison result, the safety information of the user is set in advance. I am trying to send to the contact I made via the communication network. At this time, as in Patent Document 1, when the controller closes the fuel gas supply path in response to the shaking of the combustion device detected by the seismic sensor, the disaster situation of the house can be determined. If it is possible to provide not only the seismic intensity but also the operation information of the combustion device including the open / closed state of the fuel gas supply path, it is possible to improve the convenience of the user who is away from the disaster occurrence place.

Here, in the event of a disaster, there may be users in the house who do not have a (mobile) terminal, such as children and the elderly. As in Patent Document 2, simply acquiring the registrant's safety information from the terminal used by the registrant via the communication network, investigating the safety, and providing the safety information to the preset contact information is sufficient. Despite the concerns of users who are far from the place where the disaster occurred, the safety of users who are inside the house and do not have a terminal at the time of the disaster cannot be confirmed.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2006-23058 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2007-128398

In view of the above points, the present invention allows a user who is away from the disaster occurrence place to know the disaster situation of the house, and also knows the safety of the user who is inside the house at the time of the disaster. The challenge is to provide a disaster status notification system that enables this to be done.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention communicates with a plurality of combustion devices including a water heater, including a burner and a controller for controlling the opening and closing of a fuel gas supply path to the burner, and the controller via a communication network. It is a disaster situation notification system equipped with a flexible terminal, in which the controllers of a plurality of combustion devices are connected to each other via an indoor communication network, and one of the plurality of combustion devices is shaken by an earthquake. and a seismic intensity acquisition means for acquiring seismic intensity from shaking detected by the seismic vessel and the seismic instrument earthquake detecting this when, if seismic intensity obtained by the seismic acquisition unit is a predetermined seismic intensity or more, each combustion controller combustion device have line control for closing the fuel gas supply passage, comprising the shake caused by the earthquake seismic sensor is detected, the opening and closing states of seismic intensity and the fuel gas supply passage obtained by the seismic acquisition unit The operation information of the device is transmitted to the terminal via the communication network via the remote control of the water heater, and the control is performed to close the fuel gas supply path when the seismic intensity acquired by the seismic intensity acquisition means is equal to or higher than the predetermined seismic intensity. After that, when the burner ignition operation is performed for any one of the plurality of combustion devices , this is configured to be transmitted to the terminal via the communication network via the remote control of the water heater. It is characterized by that.

According to the present invention, when an earthquake occurs, the seismic intensity and the operation information of the combustion device including the open / closed state of the fuel gas supply path are provided from the controller of the combustion device to the terminal via the communication network, so that a disaster occurs. A user who is away from the place can judge the disaster situation of the house from the seismic intensity and the operation information of the combustion device, and can improve the convenience. Moreover, for example, when the burner is ignited by a user inside the house (whether or not the burner is actually ignited) after the shaking caused by the earthquake has subsided, this is done via the communication network. It is sent to the terminal. Therefore, a user who is away from the place where the disaster occurs can also know the safety of the user who is inside the house and does not have a terminal at the time of the disaster.

The schematic diagram explaining the disaster situation notification system of embodiment of this invention. The schematic diagram explaining the disaster situation notification system of the modification of this invention.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the disaster situation notification system of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings, taking as an example a case where the combustion device is a gas stove installed in the kitchen of a house.

With reference to FIG. 1, the disaster status notification system DS of the embodiment of the present invention includes a gas stove 1, a controller 11 of the gas stove 1 described later, and a terminal 3 capable of communicating via a communication network 2. .. The gas stove 1 has a box-shaped stove main body 12 and a top plate 13 covering the upper surface of the stove main body 12, and the stove main body 12 is provided with a plurality of stove burners 14a and 14b protruding on the top plate 13. Has been done. A gas supply pipe 15 as a fuel gas supply path for supplying fuel gas is connected to each of the stove burners 14a and 14b. The gas supply pipe 15 includes flow control valves 16a and 16b for adjusting the thermal power by increasing or decreasing the amount of fuel gas supplied by an operation knob (not shown), and an electromagnetic safety valve 17a for opening and closing the fuel gas supply path with a point fire extinguishing button (not shown). , 17b are provided respectively, and each gas supply pipe 15 is connected to a gas pipe 18 via a main plug 18a leading to a house facility.

Further, the stove body 12 incorporates a controller 11 composed of a microcomputer that controls the opening and closing of the electromagnetic safety valves 17a and 17b and the adjustment of the combustion amount of the stove burners 14a and 14b by the flow rate control valves 16a and 16b. It has been. Then, a cooking container (not shown) for boiling the food to be cooked is installed in the trivets 19a and 19b, which are placed on the top plate 1 so as to surround the stove burners 14a and 14b, respectively, and the stove burners 14a and 14b are placed. Is burned so that it can be cooked.

Further, the stove body 12 incorporates a seismic sensor As composed of an acceleration sensor or the like. Then, when the seismic sensor As detects the shaking of the gas stove 1 due to the earthquake, this is input to the controller 11, and the controller 11 is configured to be able to acquire the seismic intensity of the earthquake from the shaking detected by the seismic sensor As. ing. In this case, the controller 11 also serves as a seismic intensity acquisition means for acquiring the seismic intensity of the earthquake from the shaking detected by the seismic sensor As. When the acquired seismic intensity is equal to or higher than the predetermined seismic intensity, the controller 11 controls to close the electromagnetic safety valves 17a and 17b to close the gas supply path leading to the burners 14a and 14b. Since a known method can be used to acquire the seismic intensity of an earthquake from the shaking detected by the seismic sensor As, detailed description thereof will be omitted here.

As the terminal 3, a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, a smartphone, a tablet or a personal computer or an information terminal owned by a user who is located away from the house where the gas controller 1 is installed is used, and the communication network 2 is used. It is possible to communicate with the controller 11 via the controller 11. As the communication network 2, a wireless line network such as PHS or a mobile phone, the Internet, a cable TV network, or the like can be used. For example, via a management server device (web server) Ws on the communication network 2 operated by a business operator. The controller 11 and the terminal 3 can be connected to each other so as to be able to communicate with each other. In this case, the user operates the terminal 3 to access the management server device Ws, downloads the application software for displaying the operation information of the gas stove 1 transmitted from the controller 11, and downloads the application software to the terminal 3. It can be saved in advance. In the state where the application software is started on the terminal 3, the operation information of the gas stove 1 such as the open / closed state of the electromagnetic safety valves 17a and 17b and the point fire extinguishing state of the burners 14a and 14b may be displayed. The provision of predetermined information to the terminal 3 when a disaster occurs due to an earthquake will be described below.

When the gas stove 1 shakes due to the shaking of the house when an earthquake occurs, this is detected by the seismic sensor As and input to the controller 11. Then, the controller 11 acquires the seismic intensity of the earthquake from the shaking detected by the seismic sensor As, and when the acquired seismic intensity is equal to or higher than the predetermined seismic intensity, the electromagnetic safety valves 17a and 17b are closed and the stove burner 14a, Control is performed to close the gas supply path leading to 14b. Then, the controller 11 transmits the operation information of the gas stove 1 including the seismic intensity and the open / closed state of the fuel gas supply path to the terminal 3 via the communication network 2 via the management server device Ws. In this case, the terminal 3 is notified that the seismic intensity and the operation information have been notified, and when the user starts the application software on the terminal 3 in response to this notification, the terminal 3 is notified of the seismic intensity. Predetermined operation information is displayed.

Next, for example, when the users in the house perform an ignition operation (for example, an operation of a point fire extinguishing button) on the stove burners 14a and 14b after the shaking caused by the earthquake has subsided (actually, the stove burners 14a and 14b are operated). It does not matter whether it is ignited or not), this is input to the controller 11. Then, the controller 11 transmits the restart information regarding the ignition operation of the stove burners 14a and 14b to the terminal 3 via the communication network 2 via the management server device Ws. In this case, the terminal 3 is notified that the restart information has been notified.

According to the above embodiment, when an earthquake occurs, the seismic intensity and the operation information of the gas stove 1 are provided from the controller 11 to the terminal 3 via the communication network 2, so that the terminal can be used in a place away from the disaster occurrence location. The person can judge the disaster situation of the house from the seismic intensity and the driving information, and can improve the convenience. Further, the controller 11 transmits the ignition operation of the stoves 14a and 14b to the terminal 3 via the communication network 2 when the ignition operation of the stoves 14a and 14b is performed by the user in the house, for example, after the shaking caused by the earthquake has subsided. Therefore, a user who is away from the place where the disaster occurs can also know the safety of the user who is inside the house and does not have the terminal 3 at the time of the disaster.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above, and can be appropriately modified without departing from the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. In the above embodiment, the gas stove 1 has been described as an example as a combustion device including the (stove) burners 14a and 14b and the controller 11 for controlling the opening and closing of the fuel gas supply path to the burners 14a and 14b, but the present invention is limited to this. The present invention can also be applied to other combustion devices installed in a house, such as a gas fan heater, a gas rice cooker, and a gas water heater equipped with a remote control.

Further, in the above embodiment, the case of notifying the operation information of the gas stove 1 has been described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, a gas cooker 1 and a gas each having a burner (not shown) and a controller (not shown) via a wired or wireless indoor communication network 21 such as LAN or Wi-Fi. A plurality of combustion devices installed in a house such as a fan heater Gh, a gas water heater Hs, and a gas rice cooker Gc can be connected to each other, and operation information of each combustion device can be provided to the terminal 3 via a communication network 2. It may be. In this case, for example, if each combustion device is provided with a seismic intensity (not shown) and the seismic intensity of the earthquake is acquired from the shaking detected by each seismic intensity, and the acquired seismic intensity is equal to or higher than the predetermined seismic intensity. Controls to close the gas supply path leading to the burner. Then, for example, the remote controller Rc of the gas water heater Hs with a built-in known communication device is used as a hub, and when the seismic intensity and the operation information are input to the remote controller Rc from the controller of each combustion device, the router Rt manages the remote controller Rc. It may be transmitted to the terminal 3 via the communication network 2 via the server device Ws. It should be noted that the seismic sensor does not need to be provided in each combustion device, but is provided in only one of the combustion devices, and when the acquired seismic intensity is equal to or higher than the predetermined seismic intensity, the combustor equipped with the seismic sensor is provided. The controller may be controlled to communicate with the controller of another combustion device via the indoor communication network 21 to close the gas supply path leading to the burner. Further, when the ignition operation is performed on any one of the combustion devices, the restart information may be notified.

Further, in the above embodiment, the application software is downloaded to the terminal 3 in advance, and the seismic intensity and the operation information of the stove burners 14a and 14b are displayed in the activated state, but the present invention is limited to this. For example, the seismic intensity, the operation information, and the restart information may be transmitted to the terminal 3 by e-mail.

DS ... Disaster status notification system, 1 ... Gas stove (combustion device), 11 ... Controller, 14a, 14b ... Conroburner (burner), 15 ... Gas supply pipe (gas supply path), 17a, 17b ... Electromagnetic safety valve, 2 ... Communication Network, 3 ... Terminal.

Claims (1)

A disaster status notification system that includes a burner and a controller that controls the opening and closing of the fuel gas supply path to this burner, and a plurality of combustion devices including a water heater, and a terminal that can communicate with the controller via a communication network. There,
Controllers for multiple combustion devices are connected to each other via an indoor communication network
One of the plurality of combustion devices is provided with a seismic sensor that detects when the combustion device shakes due to an earthquake and a seismic intensity acquisition means that acquires the seismic intensity of the earthquake from the shaking detected by the seismic sensor. when seismic intensity obtained by the seismic acquisition unit is a predetermined seismic intensity above, have lines control the controller in each combustion device closes the fuel gas supply passage,
When the seismic sensor detects the shaking caused by the earthquake, the seismic intensity acquired by the seismic intensity acquisition means and the operation information of the combustion device including the open / closed state of the fuel gas supply path are transmitted to the communication network via the remote control of the water heater. After controlling the seismic intensity acquired by the seismic intensity acquisition means to close the fuel gas supply path when the seismic intensity is equal to or higher than the predetermined seismic intensity, the burner is used for any one of the plurality of combustion devices. A disaster status notification system characterized in that when an ignition operation is performed, it is configured to be transmitted to a terminal via a communication network via a remote control of a water heater.

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