JPH0934673A - Monitoring information display device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To provide a monitoring information display device capable of accumulating monitoring information and reproducing a past event on a display device from a designated date and time to update a screen display. [Configuration] The equipment information display device 1 includes an input / output circuit 11 and
Facility information storage control circuit 12 and facility information storage medium 13
And an equipment information extraction circuit 14, a display control circuit 15, and a printing control circuit 16, and equipment information 3 such as status, alarm, and measurement is input to the input / output circuit 11 via the input / output device 2. . The display device 4 is connected to the display control circuit 15, and the information output by the facility information output circuit 14 is displayed on the display device 4 by the instruction output output from the input / output circuit 11. Similarly, the printing device 5 is connected to the printing control circuit 16 and causes the printing device 5 to print the information retrieved by the facility information retrieval circuit 14 in response to an instruction output from the input / output circuit 11. The facility information extraction circuit 14 causes past events to be displayed in a time series from the past to the present or from the past time point to the past.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display device capable of displaying various monitoring information in time series from the past.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional monitoring information display device, for example, a display device in a building management system, facility information in a building is periodically fetched and displayed, or when there is any change during monitoring, it is paraphrased. For example, it was common to capture and display when a change occurred. That is, these displays were real-time displays during monitoring. Therefore, the past state can only be viewed by examining the print result or using the trend display function which is the display function of the measured value.

As a display device of this type capable of knowing the past state, for example, a display device disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 6-110633 is known. The CRT display device described in this publication is configured so that by designating a plant process state, a plant operating device, and a collection time, corresponding process information data at a past time can be read out to a CRT display area. .

[0004]

That is, in the above-mentioned publicly known example, the data of the designated date and time can be displayed, but the display is the data of the designated date and time, and the process up to that point. And, it is not possible to know the movement from that point. Therefore, when some inconvenience or abnormal situation occurs, it is not possible to follow it over time, so it takes time to investigate the cause, and the appropriate response to the inconvenience or abnormal situation will be delayed accordingly. .

The present invention has been made in view of the circumstances of the prior art as described above, and its object is to accumulate monitoring information,
It is an object to provide a monitoring information display device capable of reproducing a past event on a display device from a designated date and time and updating a screen display.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an information storage means for capturing, accumulating and retaining monitoring information input from a monitoring target, and information stored in this information storage means. And information fetching means for sending the fetched information to the display means and / or the printing means, wherein the information fetching means is a time-course information from the past time input by the input means to the present and / or Alternatively, time-series information that traces back to the past is output in time series to the display means and / or the printing means for display and / or
Alternatively, it is characterized by being printed.

In this case, the information storage means stores the information storage medium for accumulating and holding information and the monitoring information,
The information storage control circuit may store year / month / day / hour / minute (time) information in the information storage medium and set a storage location of the information in the information storage medium. In addition, for example, in-building equipment or plant equipment is selected as the monitoring target.

In the embodiments described later, the information storage means are the equipment information storage control circuit 12 and the equipment information storage medium 1.
3, the display means corresponds to the display control circuit 15 and the display device 4, the printing means corresponds to the print control circuit 16 and the printing device 5, and the input means corresponds to the input device 6.

[0009]

According to the above means, the monitoring information is accumulated in time series in the information storage medium by the information storage control means, and when the display request of the past date and time is made, the time or date and time when the monitoring information is input by the information extracting means is used as a reference. It is possible to trace back past events and arbitrarily know past events by taking them out in time series and making a screen advance return request.

[0010]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an embodiment in which the monitoring information display device of the present invention is applied to a facility information display device of a building. Hereinafter, the facility information display device will be described as an example. As shown in FIG. 1, the facility information display device 1 according to the embodiment includes an input / output circuit 11, a facility information storage control circuit 12, a facility information storage medium 13, a facility information extraction circuit 14, and a display control circuit 15. The print control circuit 16 is basically included, and the detection result of the equipment information 3 such as status, alarm, and measurement is input to the input / output circuit 11 from the detection means on the equipment side via the input / output device 2. . The display device 4 is connected to the display control circuit 15, and the information extracted by the facility information extraction circuit 14 is displayed by the instruction output output from the input / output circuit 11. Similarly, the printing device 5 is connected to the printing control circuit 16, and the information extracted by the facility information extracting circuit 14 is printed by the instruction output from the input / output circuit 11. An input device 6 is connected to the equipment information extraction circuit 14 so as to indicate information to be taken out and date and time to be taken out.

The equipment information storage control circuit 12 receives the equipment information 3 from the input / output device 2 via the input / output circuit 11.
Is stored in a preset area of the facility information storage medium 13 designated by date and time for each preset cycle, and the facility information extraction circuit 14 stores the facility information at the date and time designated by the input device 6. It is taken out from the storage medium 13 and output to the display control circuit 15 and the print control circuit 16. In the conventional display device of this type, the facility information taken in by the input / output device 2 is processed by the input / output circuit 11, and the in-building facility information is output to and displayed on the display device 4 by the display control circuit 15. The print control circuit 16 outputs to the printer 5.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration example of the facility information storage medium 13.

The input / output circuit 11 uses the input / output device 2 at a cycle of 1 second.
Assuming that the equipment information 3 is fetched from the equipment information storage control circuit 12, the equipment information storage control circuit 12 receives the data every 1 second from the input / output circuit 11, and the year 13a, the month day 13b, the hour 13c, and the 1 second corresponding to the hour. Data storage location 13
The storage area is divided together with d and stored in the facility information storage medium 13. The storage location of data every 1 to 6 seconds
Store data up to 0 seconds. Facility information storage medium 13
Consists of a floppy disk (FD), and the storage capacity is FD
It is secured by exchanging. Note that a magnetic disk such as a hard disk or a known storage medium such as a magneto-optical disk can be used instead of the FD.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an input method from the input device 6.

The screen to be displayed is displayed on the CRT screen 51, and the year / month / day / hour / minute to be displayed is input from the guidance field 52. In this example, a guidance column 52 and a facility display column 53 are provided, and the facility display column 53 is a symbolized display. That is, the equipment information 3 is the processed information when displayed. In addition,
The guidance column 52 is provided with stationary, forward and backward guidance and printing guidance, and when the year, month, day, and hour to be displayed is entered, the year column 54, month column 55, date column 56, hour column 57, and minute column are displayed. The entered date and time are displayed in the column 58.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing a display control procedure after inputting from the input device 6.

When the user wants to know a past event, first, a screen to be displayed is selected from the input / output device 6 (step 101),
The input device 6 is used to input the year, month, day, hour, and day to be reproduced (step 102). As a result, for example, as shown in FIG.
58, and the guidance field 52 is displayed as shown in FIG.
To (b). Next, guidance field 52
"Still" 61, "Advance" 62, "Return" 6 displayed in
Select the desired movement from 3 (Step 10
3).

When "advance" 62 is selected, the equipment information extraction circuit 14 causes the display device 48 to display the screen requested to be displayed via the display control circuit 15, and stores the equipment information data for the designated date. The location is checked from the facility information storage medium 13, the corresponding data is taken out from the storage location (area) of the facility information storage medium 13, and sent to the display control circuit 15 every one second. As a result, the display control circuit 15 causes the display device 4 to display the events from the designated year, month, day, hour and date. At this time, the equipment information extraction circuit 14 refers to the storage location (area) of the equipment information storage medium 13, and extracts data from the past to the present in time series as shown in a to b of FIG. It is sent to the circuit 15 (step 105).

When "Return" 63 is selected, the facility information extracting circuit 14 similarly displays the screen requested to be displayed on the display device 4.
8 through the display control circuit 15 to check the facility information data storage location for the designated date and time from the facility information storage medium 13 and retrieve the relevant data from the storage location (area) of the facility information storage medium 13. , From the corresponding storage location to the display control circuit 15 every one second, going back in the past as shown in c to d of FIG. The display control circuit 15 causes the display device 4 to display the data in accordance with the sent data. As a result, it is possible to trace the event while returning the time to the past from the designated date and time (step 106).

Further, step 105 and step 10
If the position of "stop" 64 is pressed and selected while the display is being performed in step 6, the equipment information extraction circuit 14 stops the data extraction and stops the screen update and displays it (step 10).
7). When "Still" 61 is selected, the screen display for the designated year, month, day, and time can be displayed as a stop image (step 104). Then, after performing these displays, if "return" 66 in FIG. 3B is selected, the state at the current time is displayed (step 108), and the initial state can be restored. In these cases, it is also possible to divide the display screen and display a plurality of screens at the same time so that they can be reproduced simultaneously from the past date and time or can be displayed retroactively.

Although only the control procedure for display is explained in the flow chart of FIG. 4, FIG.
If "Print" 65 is selected in the guidance display of (a),
Instead of the display, the printing by the printing device 5 can be executed in the same procedure. Further, in this embodiment, the data is taken in every one second, but this time can be set appropriately according to the monitoring target. In this case, the monitoring target includes various plant equipment and traffic monitoring in addition to the equipment in the building as in the embodiment.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, in the past, it was only possible to capture and display the in-building facility information at the present time, or it is possible to display only a still image of only the input date and time. Those that did not exist are displayed by advancing or returning the screen from the specified date and time, so it is possible to easily know the process until the event occurred and the influence after the event occurred.

[0024]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, the time-sequential information from the past time to the present and / or the time information traced back to the past is displayed in time series on the display means. Since the information is output to and / or printed by the printing means and / or printed, the monitoring information can be accumulated, and the events that occurred in the past can be reproduced on the display device or the printing device from the designated date and time to update the screen display. . As a result, it is possible to accurately capture an event that changes from the past to the present or retroactively with respect to a certain time point in the past, and thus it is possible to quickly perform trouble handling.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a building facility information display device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of a facility information storage medium in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a display example of a display device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a control procedure in displaying monitoring information in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Equipment Information Display Device 2 Input / Output Device 3 Equipment Information 4 Display Device 5 Printing Device 6 Input Device 11 Input / Output Circuit 12 Equipment Information Storage Control Circuit 13 Equipment Information Storage Medium 14 Equipment Information Extraction Circuit 15 Display Control Circuit 16 Printing Control Circuit

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An information storage means for capturing, accumulating and retaining monitoring information input from a monitoring target, and information stored in the information storage means for displaying and / or printing the retrieved information. And a time-sequential information from the past time input by the input means to the present time and / or time-sequential information going back to the past. A monitoring information display device characterized by outputting to display means and / or printing means for display and / or printing. 2. The information storage means stores an information storage medium for accumulating and holding information, monitoring information, stores time information in the information storage medium, and sets a storage location of the information in the information storage medium. 2. The monitoring information display device according to claim 1, further comprising: 3. The monitoring information display device according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring target is equipment in a building. 4. The monitoring information display device according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring target is a plant facility.