JPH10208174A - Information device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information device for informing a user whether information is given to an informing destination or not and making the user take a next measure if need. SOLUTION: When an information signal is inputted to an abnormality informing/detection circuit 12 from outside, a control circuit 11 transmits a dial signal for calling the informing destination which is previously set to a public network 4. When a line state detection circuit 14 detects that a line with the informing destination called by the dial signal is closed, an informing destination display lamp 18a provided in accordance with the informing destination is continuously lighted. When the line with the informing destination is not closed, the informing destination display lamp 18a is flickered.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is mainly used for residential emergency notification, and receives a notification signal from the outside generated by various sensors and switches to a preset notification destination through a public network. The present invention relates to a notification device that performs notification notification.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a home automation system or the like, a security management device for integrally managing notification signals from various sensors and switches has been known. As this type of security management device, there are an alarm device for receiving a notification signal and notifying a user (a house or the like) and a public network (telephone line) for a notification destination such as a security company.
And a notification device for performing notification notification through the Internet.

[0003]

By the way, in the above-described notification device, when the notification destination is busy or the telephone number of the notification destination is changed, the notification according to the notification signal is not performed. Sometimes. In such a case, although the user is supposed to be notified to the notification destination, no notification is made to the notification destination,
In some cases, no action can be taken against the notification. In particular, urgency is required when a report is issued for the purpose of crime prevention or disaster prevention, but prompt measures cannot be taken unless the report destination has been notified.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has as its object to notify a user whether or not a notification has been made to a notification destination, and provide the user with the following countermeasures as necessary. It is an object of the present invention to provide a notifying device that can take the notification.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information detecting means for detecting an external notification signal, and a dial signal for calling a preset notification destination when the information detection means detects the notification signal. Sending means for sending a call to the public network, line state detecting means for detecting a connection with the notification destination called by the dial signal, and information detecting means when the connection with the notification destination is detected by the line state detecting means. A notification notification means for performing notification notification according to the type of notification signal detected in the above, and a notification for notifying the failure of notification notification when the line status detection means does not detect a connection with the notification destination when calling by a dial signal And a success / failure notification means. According to this configuration, the line status detection unit is provided to detect whether or not the connection with the notification destination is established. If the connection with the notification destination is not detected, the notification success / failure notification unit notifies the failure of the notification notification. When the notification signal is not notified to the notification destination in response to the notification signal, it is possible to notify the user to that effect. That is, when the notification to the notification destination is not made, it is possible to cope with another method such as making a notification to the notification destination by the user himself.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the notification success / failure notification means is means for performing visual notification. According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the notification success / failure notification means is means for performing audible notification. The inventions of claims 2 and 3 are desirable embodiments, and a visual notification or an audible notification is appropriately selected as a notification mode according to a use environment or a user.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first to third aspects of the present invention, there is provided a notification destination setting means capable of setting a plurality of notification destinations, and a notification success / failure notification means is provided for each notification destination. It is. According to this configuration, it is possible to perform notification notification to a plurality of notification destinations, and since the notification success / failure notification means is provided for each notification destination, the notification notification is not established for any notification destination. It can be easily confirmed whether or not there is. That is, it is possible to perform necessary measures only for the notification destination for which the notification notification has not been established.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the first to fourth aspects of the present invention, the notification destination is repeatedly called up to a preset number of times when the connection with the notification destination is not detected by the line state detecting means. It has retransmission means. According to this configuration, the notification destination can be repeatedly called up to the predetermined number of times. Therefore, by setting this number appropriately to a numerical value, the probability of calling the notification destination increases.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A notification device used in this embodiment
The device 1 is configured as shown in FIG.
Alarm device 2 is connected in the same way as
Emergency switch 3 is connected. Emergency switch 3 is a terminal
t_FifteenAnd the alarm device 2 is connected to the terminal t. ₁₆Connected to.

The alarm device 2 is connected to various sensors and switches for disaster prevention or crime prevention. As shown in FIG. 2, the alarm device 2 has an indicator light 21 for indicating the operating state of the various sensors and switches. Push button switch 2 for emergency notification
2 are provided. Further, an intercom slave unit for communication between the rooms can be connected to the alarm device 2, and a handset 23 is provided for communicating with the interphone slave unit. The alarm device 2 monitors outputs of various connected sensors and switches, and is configured to transmit a notification signal to the notification device 1 when an abnormality is detected. Also, when the push button switch 22 is pressed, a notification signal is sent to the notification device 1.

The notification device 1 is a notification signal from the alarm device 2.
Alarm signal detection circuit 1
2. Receive the notification signal from the microcomputer
To the control circuit 11. In other words, the abnormality notification detection circuit
Reference numeral 12 functions as information detection means. The control circuit 11
Notification destination telephone numbers are preset according to the content of the notification signal
Have been. The control circuit 11 starts from the abnormality notification detection circuit 12
Upon receiving the contents of the notification signal, it connects to the public network (telephone line) 4.
Switching contact r consisting of connected relay contacts₁₁, R₁₂To
Phone 5 is disconnected from public network 4 by switching
You. One switching contact r₁₁The common contact of is the line status detection means
Terminal t via the line state detection circuit 14₁₁Connected to
And the other switching contact r₁₂Is a common contact₁₂Direct contact with
Connected to both terminals t ₁₁, T₁₂Is connected to the public network 4. Ma
Switching contact r₁₁, R₁₂One of the contacts has a terminal t
₁₃, T₁₄The telephone 5 is connected via. Therefore,
Switching contact r ₁₁, R₁₂Telephone 5 connects to public network 4 via
The telephone 5 can make a call.
You.

[0012] A D is provided between the other of the switching contacts r ₁₁ and r _12.
P signal contact r ₂ of the (dial pulse signal) for generating are inserted, the secondary winding and the contact r ₃ of the transformer T ₁ is in contact r ₂
Are connected in parallel. Therefore, when the telephone 5 is disconnected from the public network 4 by the switching contacts r ₁₁ and r ₁₂ and the contact r ₂ is opened and closed with the contact r ₃ turned off, a DP signal can be transmitted to the public network 4.
Opening and closing of the contacts r ₂ is controlled by the dial transmission circuit 13, comprising a telephone number of the notification destination to be sent to the public network 4 by DP signal.

Meanwhile, the call control circuit 15 to the primary winding of the transformer T ₁ is connected. Call control circuit 15 selects whether to connect either a dial transmitting circuit 13 and the telephone circuit 16 and the voice synthesizing circuit 17 to the transformer T _1. Dial transmission circuit 13, a public network a DTMF signal when has a function of outputting a DTMF signal (push button dial signal) over a traffic control circuit 15, the contact r ₃ contacts r ₂ is off is turned on 4 can be sent. The communication circuit 16 enables so-called hands-free communication without using a handset, and includes a microphone and a speaker.

The voice synthesizing circuit 17 has previously registered a message corresponding to the notification signal.
When an instruction corresponding to the notification signal is received by 1, a message is transmitted by a synthetic voice. For example, when a fire is detected by a fire detector connected to the alarm device 2, a message such as "a fire has occurred" is transmitted as a synthesized voice. Thus, the control circuit 11
The call control circuit 15 and the voice synthesizing circuit 17 constitute a notification notifying unit.

In short, the DTMF signal is transmitted to the public network by selectively connecting _one of the dial transmission circuit 13, the communication circuit 16 and the voice synthesis circuit 17 to the transformer T1 by the communication control circuit 15. Or make a call with the notification destination, or transmit a message by synthetic voice to the notification destination. In the present embodiment, be capable of delivering both the DTMF signal and the DP signal to the public network 4, a control circuit 11 and the dial transmission circuit 13 and the contact r _2, r ₃ and call control circuit 15 dial transmission means is constituted by a transformer T _1. DTMF signal and D
Which of the P signal is to be adopted is selected by an operation unit 20 described later provided in the control circuit 11.

The present embodiment relates to a case where the notification destination is busy or the notification destination is changed when the notification destination is notified, and the notification destination can be notified. If not, it has a function to notify the user of this. That is, the control circuit 11 has a display unit 18 having a notification destination indicator lamp 18a as notification success / failure notification means for performing visual notification (visible notification) by turning on / off.
And a sound generation circuit 19 as a notification success / failure notification means for performing acoustic notification (audible notification) by a voice message or a notification sound. Further, an operation unit 20 including a switch group is provided as a notification destination setting unit for setting a telephone number of a notification destination. The operation unit 20 includes a cancel button 20 for collectively canceling the notification by the notification success / failure notification means.
a is also provided. A plurality of notification destinations can be set, and a notification destination indicator lamp 18a is provided for each notification destination (see FIG. 2). That is, the control circuit 11 sends the notification destination indicator 1 based on the output of the line state detection circuit 14 for each notification destination.
It is determined whether the turning on / off of 8a or the notification of the voice message is necessary. The display unit 18 is also provided with a notification lamp 18b that blinks while calling a notification destination and performing notification notification.

Further, the control circuit 11 also has a function as a retransmitting means for recalling the notification destination for which the notification notification has not been established after each notification destination has completed one round of calling. The resending means recalls only the notification destination for which the notification was not established, and the maximum number of retransmission calls can be set by the operation unit 20. In general, if the number of calls is increased, the possibility of establishing notification is increased. However, if the number of calls is increased, external calls cannot be made. Therefore, the number is set to an appropriate number as needed. In the present embodiment, the number of calls is 0
It can be set in the range of ~ 99.

Next, the operation will be described. As shown in FIG.
When receiving the notification signal from the alarm device 2 or the emergency switch 3 (S1), the abnormality notification detection circuit 12 provides a notification signal to the control circuit 11 (S2). Here, the notification lamp 18b starts blinking at a relatively short cycle (S3). The switching contacts r ₁₁ and r ₁₂ always connect the telephone 5 to the public network 4, but when a notification signal is given to the control circuit 11, the control circuit 11 switches the switching contacts r ₁₁ and r ₁₂ . disconnect the telephone 5 from the PSTN 4 is connected a series circuit of the contact r ₃ and the transformer T ₁ to the public network 4, connected to the PSTN 4 by turning off after turning on the contact r ₃ for a certain time Is canceled (S4), and a notification destination is selected (S4).
6). Here, the reason to disconnect the contact r ₃ to a predetermined time only the public network 4 on, even through a call during call by telephone 5 is reliably opened a direct current loop of the next call This is to make it possible. So, DTMF
When the signal is selected (S8), the telephone 5 is disconnected from the public network 4 off the contact r _2, to turn on the contact r _3, the dial transmission circuit 13 via the call control circuit 15 to the transformer T ₁ Connect the DTMF signal to the public network 4
(S9). On the other hand, when the DP signal is selected (S8), and turns off the contact r _3, sends a DP signal to a public network 4 by repeating the opening and closing of the contact r ₂ by the dial transmission circuit 13 (S10). After sending the DP signal corresponding to the telephone number of the notification destination, to turn off the contact point r ₂ after turning on the contact r ₃ (S11). Contacts r ₂ , r
₃ from operating in this order, there is a possibility that the direct current loop and to turn off the contact point r ₂ above is opened. During the dialing, the notification destination indicator lamp 18a corresponding to the notification destination blinks at a relatively long cycle (S
7).

After dialing the telephone number of the notification destination as described above, if the line status detection circuit 14 detects that the line is closed (the DC loop of the public network 4 is closed) within a predetermined time, (S12),閉結line is notified from the line state detection circuit 14 to the control circuit 11, the control circuit 11 to the notification destination by connecting the speech synthesizer circuit 17 to the transformer T ₁ via the call control circuit 15 after notifying the required message from the voice synthesizing circuit 17 Te, it connects the call circuit 16 to allow the call with the broadcast destination transformer T ₁ (S13). Thereafter, when a predetermined time elapses or the notification destination ends, the notification notification ends (S14). Until this point, the notification destination indicator lamp 18a is flickered at a relatively long cycle, and after the notification notification is established, the notification destination indicator lamp 18a is continuously turned on (S15).

On the other hand, after the dialing of the telephone number of the notification destination, if the line state detecting circuit 14 does not detect the closing of the line within a predetermined time (S12), after the predetermined time has elapsed, Discontinue notification to the notification destination (S1
6) The notification destination indicator light 18a corresponding to the notification destination is caused to blink at a relatively short cycle (a cycle similar to the blinking of the notification light 18b) (S17). Also, if necessary, the sound generation circuit 19
As a result, an acoustic notification (audible notification) to the effect that the notification notification to the notification destination has not been established is performed (S18).

Since a plurality of notification destinations can be set, when a plurality of notification destinations are set, steps S5 to S18 are repeated (S19). However, for the notification destinations for which the notification notification has not been established, dialing is sequentially performed for each notification destination, and after dialing for each notification destination has been completed, dialing is sequentially performed only for those for which notification notification was not established. (S20). Also,
The maximum number of dialings to one notification destination is determined by the control circuit 1
1 is limited to the number of calls set as retransmission means (S5).

As described above, each notification destination indicator lamp 18a provided for each notification destination blinks at a relatively long period while calling a notification destination corresponding to the notification destination indicator lamp 18a and notifying a message. On the other hand, when the notification is established, the light is continuously turned on, and when the notification is not established, the light is blinked at a relatively short cycle. As described above, the notification destination indicator 18 of the notification destination for which the notification notification has been established.
Since "a" is continuously lit, the user can know whether or not the notification to the notification destination has been established based on whether or not the notification destination indicator lamp 18a is continuously lit. Further, the continuously lit or blinking notification destination indicator lamp 18a is connected to the operation unit 20.
By pressing the cancel button 20a provided in the above, the lights can be turned off collectively. At this time, the acoustic notification from the sound generation circuit 19 also stops.

FIGS. 4 and 5 show examples of the operation. In the illustrated example, three notification destination indicator lamps 18a are provided. FIG. 4 shows a case where the notification notification is established, and FIG. 5 shows a case where the notification notification is not established. In addition, the number of calls of the retransmission means is 3
(The number of retransmissions is three, so the call is made up to four). In each figure, (a) shows the presence or absence of a notification signal, (b) shows the state of turning on and off the notification lamp 18b, and (c).
(E) and (g) show the state of calling each notification destination, and (d), (f) and (h) show the respective notification destination indicator lights 18.
A light-on / light-off state, and (i) shows the presence or absence of acoustic notification by the sound generation circuit 19.

In the example shown in FIG. 4, the notification destination of (c) is a notification notification by the third call, and the notification destination of (e) is 2
The report is established by the second call, and the report destination of (g) is established by one call. The call is performed in the order of (c), (e), and (g). Thus, when the notification signal is input as shown in FIG. 4A, the notification lamp 18b starts blinking as shown in FIG. 4B and calls the notification destination as shown in FIG. During the call, the notification destination indicator lamp 18a blinks in a long cycle as shown in FIG. 9D (the cycle is set so as to be continuously lit during the call) in the drawing. Since the notification is not established in the call, the notification destination indicator lamp 18a blinks in a short cycle after the call. At the third call, notification is established, and the notification destination indicator lamp 18a is continuously lit. In addition, since the notification destination is established once in the notification destination shown in FIG. 9G as shown in FIG. 11H, no call is made thereafter. In this manner, if all the notification destination indicator lamps 18a are continuously lit, it is known that the notification notification to all the notification destinations has been established. Therefore, by pressing the cancel button 20b, all the notification destination indicator lamps 18a are collectively turned on. It can be turned off.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 5, when no notification is made by any of the four notification destinations, all the notification destination indicator lamps 18a blink in a short cycle. When the notification destination is called cyclically and the notification notification is not established up to the last notification destination, acoustic notification (audible notification) is performed. Here, as the acoustic notification, a message is valid, and a sound such as “not report” or “not report” may be output. Further, in the illustrated example, the acoustic notification is performed when the notification notification is not established for all the notification destinations. However, when the notification notification is not established for any one of the notification destinations, the acoustic notification may be performed to that effect. .

[0026]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, an information detecting means for detecting a notification signal from the outside and a dial signal for calling a preset notification destination when the notification signal is detected by the information detecting means are transmitted to the public network. Dial sending means for sending, line state detecting means for detecting a connection with the notification destination called by the dial signal, and notification detected by the information detecting means when the connection with the notification destination is detected by the line state detecting means Report notification means for performing report notification according to the type of signal, and report success / failure notification means for reporting failure of report notification when the connection with the report destination is not detected by the line state detection means when calling by a dial signal A line status detecting means is provided to detect whether or not the connection with the notification destination is established, and when the connection with the notification destination is not detected, the notification success / failure notification means is provided. Since reports the unsatisfied notification informing I, when the notification informing of the notification destination is not made to the notification signal, it can advantageously inform the user. As a result, there is an advantage that when the notification notification to the notification destination is not made, the user can cope with the notification destination by another method such as making a notification to the notification destination.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the notification success / failure notifying means can be a means for performing a visual notification, and as in the third aspect of the invention, the notification success / failure notifying means can be a means for performing an audible notification. There is an advantage that the notification mode can be appropriately selected from the visual notification and the audible notification depending on the user and the user. According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a notification destination setting means capable of setting a plurality of notification destinations, wherein the notification success / failure notification means is provided for each notification destination. This is possible, and the notification success / failure notification means is provided for each notification destination. Therefore, there is an advantage that it is possible to easily confirm to which notification destination the notification notification has not been established. In other words, there is an advantage that necessary measures can be taken only for a notification destination for which notification notification has not been established.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, when the line state detecting means does not detect the connection with the notification destination, the communication apparatus includes retransmission means for repeatedly calling the notification destination up to a preset number of times. Can be repeatedly called up to a predetermined number of times, and by setting this number appropriately to a numerical value, there is an advantage that the probability of calling the notification destination increases.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an appearance of the above.

FIG. 3 is an operation explanatory diagram of the above.

FIG. 4 is an operation explanatory view of the above.

FIG. 5 is an operation explanatory view of the above.

[Explanation of symbols]

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 11 control circuit 12 abnormality notification detection circuit 13 dial transmission circuit 14 line state detection circuit 15 communication control circuit 16 communication circuit 17 voice synthesis circuit 18 display unit 18 a notification destination indicator light 18 b notification light 19 sound generation circuit 20 operation unit r ₁₁ , r ₁₂ switching contacts r r ₂ contacts r ₃ contacts

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An information detecting means for detecting a notification signal from the outside, and a dial transmitting means for transmitting a dial signal for calling a preset notification destination to a public network when the notification signal is detected by the information detecting means, A line status detecting means for detecting a connection with the notification destination called by the dial signal, and a notification according to the type of the notification signal detected by the information detection means when the connection with the notification destination is detected by the line state detection means It is provided with a notification notifying means for notifying, and a notification success / failure notifying means for notifying that the notification notification is not established when the connection with the notification destination is not detected by the line state detecting means when calling by a dial signal. Notification device. 2. The notification device according to claim 1, wherein the notification success / failure notification means is means for performing visual notification. 3. The notification device according to claim 1, wherein the notification success / failure notification means is means for performing audible notification. 4. The notification device according to claim 1, further comprising: notification destination setting means capable of setting a plurality of notification destinations, wherein the notification success / failure notification means is provided for each notification destination. 5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising retransmission means for repeatedly calling the notification destination up to a preset number of times when the connection with the notification destination is not detected by the line state detection means. Notification device as described.