JP2009266654A - Illumination control system - Google Patents

Abstract

A lighting control system capable of notifying that a control monitoring point address has not been input is provided.
One or more controllers for controlling the light output of one or more lighting fixtures, a WWW server connected to the controller via a communication line, and a terminal connected to the server via the Internet. Device 2. Arrange the control monitoring point that defines the control type of the control and monitoring target such as lighting equipment and the control type at any position on the layout diagram of the building displayed on the terminal device. An illumination control system for controlling a set control target according to the control type and monitoring the controlled state, wherein the WWW server displays an address list indicating the control target address on the terminal device. Means.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a lighting control system that remotely controls lighting, lighting, and dimming of a lighting fixture by a terminal device while remotely monitoring the control state.

  Conventionally, as an example of this type of illumination control system, there is one described in Patent Document 1 below. This lighting control system remotely monitors and controls the current state of lighting fixtures, lighting, dimming, and the like with a terminal device connected to the WWW server device via the Internet.

  Therefore, according to this lighting control system, in an environment where a terminal device can be connected to the Internet, the lighting fixture can be remotely controlled and monitored from a place other than the building where the lighting fixture is disposed.

And in this lighting control system, various control monitoring which specified control methods, such as individual control of a lighting fixture, and group control, on the predetermined lighting area of layout drawings, such as a building interior displayed on the display part of a terminal unit By arranging icons as points, the position and control method of the lighting fixture are specified.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-255102

  However, in such a conventional lighting control system, there is a problem that the icon operation efficiency for arranging and setting icons on a layout drawing of a building or the like by the terminal device is low.

  That is, conventionally, when icons are arranged on a layout diagram, first, as shown in FIG. 11, an icon palette P for displaying a list of a plurality of icons is displayed based on a difference in control method and the like. One icon is selected, and this is pasted and arranged one by one on the required part of the layout diagram R by drag and paste as indicated by an arrow.

  This icon pasting operation is performed one by one by opening the icon palette P one by one for each icon and for each arrangement location on the layout diagram, so that the work efficiency is very poor.

  In addition, after placing an icon of the required control type, an operation to define the address of the lighting fixture to be controlled is required as part of the attribute, but even if this address definition (input) operation is not performed Since there is no means for notifying that the definition is forgotten (unassigned), there is a case where this address uninput (unassigned) is not noticed until the control confirmation operation stage. In this case, even if the icon is arranged, it cannot be controlled because it cannot be specified that the lighting apparatus is set.

  In addition, when an initial value address is defined after icon placement, an unentered address automatically becomes an initial value address, which causes a problem that it becomes impossible to control and monitor a desired lighting fixture.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a lighting control system capable of notifying that a control monitoring point address has not been input.

  A lighting control system according to claim 1 includes: one or more controllers that control light output of one or more lighting fixtures; a server connected to the controller via a first communication line; and a second communication line to the server And an address for specifying a control monitoring target such as a lighting fixture and its control type are defined at an arbitrary position on the layout diagram of the building displayed on the terminal device. By arranging the control monitoring point, the lighting control system that controls the controlled object arranged at the arrangement location by the control type and monitors the controlled state, the server sets the address of the controlled object. An address list display means for displaying the address list shown on the terminal device is provided.

  Here, the first and second communication circuits may use any communication line such as an Ethernet (registered trademark) telephone line such as the Internet or an intranet. The control monitoring point specifies a control target such as a lighting fixture and a control method thereof, and also specifies a monitoring target for monitoring the current state of the control target, and is displayed by an icon such as a figure or a symbol.

  In the lighting control system according to claim 2, the server causes the terminal device to display an address list corresponding to the control monitoring point, and an arbitrary cell of the address list is displayed at an arbitrary position on the layout diagram in the building. An input means such as an address for inputting an address and a control monitoring point by dragging and pasting to is provided.

  According to the lighting control system according to claim 1, since a list of addresses to be controlled such as lighting fixtures defined (input) to the control monitoring point is displayed on the terminal device, no address is input to the control monitoring point ( Unallocated) can be prevented or reduced.

  According to the lighting control system according to claim 2, the required cell of the address list corresponding to the control type of the control monitoring point displayed on the terminal device is dragged and pasted onto the required portion of the layout diagram in the building. Thus, the control monitoring point and the address can be input almost simultaneously. For this reason, the workability of the input operation of the control monitoring point and the address can be improved.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the accompanying drawings, the same or corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference numerals.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of a lighting control system 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  The lighting control system 1 connects a terminal device 2 as a client to a WWW server 4 via the Internet 3 so that bidirectional data communication is possible.

  The WWW server 4 is connected to a signal line of a lighting system 6 disposed in a required building 5 by a dedicated communication line 4a so that bidirectional data communication is possible. The lighting system 6 includes a plurality of controllers 7, 7, 7,... Arranged for each required area such as the number of floors in the building 5, and fluorescent lamps arranged for each illumination area in the required area. A plurality of lighting fixtures 8, 8, 8,... And a plurality of lighting control terminals 9 that perform lighting, extinguishing control (ON / OFF) and dimming control for each lighting fixture 8, 8,. , 9,..., And a plurality of human sensors 10, 10,... For detecting the presence or absence of a person arranged for each required illumination area. The addresses of the controllers 7, the lighting fixtures 8, and the human sensors 10 of the lighting system 6 are recorded in the storage device of the WWW server 4 as control target addresses.

  The WWW server 4 has a drawing function and a graphic control monitoring function. The drawing function displays a layout diagram in the required building 5 on a display unit such as a monitor of the terminal device 2 that is a client, and an icon that is an example of a control monitoring point is displayed on the layout diagram by the terminal device 2. It is a function to arrange. Note that the control monitoring point may be in a form such as a figure, a symbol, a character, or a picture.

  When the icon is arranged and operated by the terminal device 2 in this manner, the graphic control monitoring function is a control object such as specific lighting fixtures 8, 8, 8,... That are actually arranged in the illumination area where the icon is arranged. Is further specified from the icon type and its control method, such as turning on, turning off, dimming, etc., and control for controlling these specific lighting fixtures 8, 8, 8,... By a specific control method. The signal is given to the specific controller 7 and the lighting control terminal 9 of the lighting system 6 in the building 5 through the dedicated communication line 4a to control the lighting fixtures 8, 8,. This is a function for monitoring the control state or the like by the display color or the like.

  Next, a method for inputting the address of this icon after placing the required icon on the required location of the layout diagram in the building 5 by the terminal device 2 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4, black small circles indicate individual circuit icons, black squares indicate pillars 11a, reference numerals 11b indicate partition walls for partitioning the room, and 11c indicates an elevator.

  First, as shown in FIG. 2, a layout diagram 11 of a required illumination area in a required area (for example, the 11th floor in FIG. 2) in the building 5 is displayed on the display unit 2 a such as a monitor of the terminal device 2.

  Next, an icon of a required type such as an individual circuit or a group set as a control type is arranged on a space indicating a required illumination area in the layout diagram 11, and indicates that no address is set at this time. For example, an icon is set by automatically inputting characters such as “unassigned” as an address.

  Here, the individual circuit indicates a method of individually controlling the lighting fixtures 8, and the group indicates a method of controlling a plurality of lighting fixtures 8, 8, 8,... Set in advance as a group for each group. . The pattern control is a method of controlling according to the control pattern of the lighting fixture 8 set in advance according to the time, such as turning on the lighting fixture 8 at the employee's attendance time and turning it off at the leaving time. It is.

  Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 3, when the mouse cursor indicated by the white arrow in the figure is overlaid on the icon I arranged on the required illumination area in the layout diagram 11, the address is displayed, but the address is not entered. In this case, it is “unallocated”.

  Next, after setting the icon I, it is registered for storing the icon. If the address of the icon I is not input, it indicates that there is an icon for which the address is not input as shown in FIG. A message is displayed.

  Furthermore, the address list 12 shown in FIG. 5 is displayed. If no address is entered, “unassigned” is displayed. Then, a required address can be input to an “unallocated” cell in the address list 12.

  FIG. 6 shows the address list 12 when all the addresses of the icon I are input in this way. Thereby, it is possible to visually check for duplication of addresses. FIG. 7 is a controller list 13 and shows the IP address of the controller 11.

  Next, another embodiment of the present invention in which a required icon I and an address are set almost simultaneously on the layout diagram 11 will be described.

  First, as shown in FIG. 8, a layout diagram 11 in the building 5 is displayed on the display unit 2a of the terminal device 2, and a menu for arranging various icons I such as individual circuits and groups is opened.

  FIG. 9 shows a display example of the display unit 2a when, for example, an individual circuit is selected by the mouse cursor in the menu shown in FIG. 8. Here, as an address list 12, an icon for an individual circuit comprising a matrix table is displayed. A sub window displaying the address list 14 opens.

  The icon / address list 14 is a matrix table that defines the address of the icon I by assigning addresses of the lighting fixtures 8, 8,... To the vertical cell rows and assigning circuits to the horizontal cell rows. .

  Therefore, as shown in FIG. 9, a predetermined cell of the icon / address list 14 is selected by a mouse cursor indicated by a white arrow in the figure, and the required illumination on the layout diagram 11 is indicated by an arrow. When the area is arranged by drag and paste, for example, a small black circle icon indicating the control method of the individual circuit is displayed on the arrangement, and the address is set. After this address setting, a black small circle icon I is displayed in the cell of the icon / address list 14 to indicate that an address has already been set. For this reason, it is possible to visually perform an operation of not setting an already set address in another individual circuit or intentionally setting the same address, so that the setting operation is easy and setting errors are prevented. be able to. When an arbitrary portion of the title bar of the icon / address list 14 of the individual circuit is clicked with the mouse cursor, the group / pattern icon / address list 14 is sequentially and repeatedly displayed. These group and pattern icons are displayed by different figures, symbols, colors, etc. from the individual circuit icons. In the icon / address list 14, the icons I that have already been arranged are displayed in blue, for example, and the icons I that are selected to be arranged in the future are displayed in yellow, for example, and are displayed by color.

  Next, an icon I arranging method according to the third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

  This embodiment is characterized in that, for example, when a required icon I is selected from the icon palette P shown in FIG. 11 as in the conventional example, the type of the icon I is held (stored).

  Therefore, after the required icon I selected from the icon palette P or the like as shown in FIG. 10 is arranged on the required illumination area, for example, the circle 1 in the layout diagram 11, the icon I of the same type is continuously changed. It can arrange | position to the location circle | round | yen 2 of circle | round | yen, circle 3, etc. For this reason, it is not necessary to open the icon palette P every time the type of the icon I is selected and every time the icon I is arranged on the layout diagram 11, so that the efficiency of arranging the icon I can be improved. .

  As described above, according to the present invention, since a list of addresses to be controlled such as lighting fixtures defined (input) to the control monitoring point is displayed on the terminal device 2, no address is input to the control monitoring point ( Unproportioned) can be prevented or reduced.

  In addition, by dragging and pasting the required cell of the matrix table in which the control type of the control monitoring point displayed on the terminal device 2 is associated with the address of the control target to the required location in the layout diagram of the building, Monitoring points and addresses can be entered almost simultaneously. For this reason, the workability of the input operation of the control monitoring point and the address can be improved.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the illumination control system which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the display screen figure of the terminal device which shows the step which arrange | positions an icon on the layout figure in a building in the lighting control system which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the display screen of the terminal device in the step by which the message of an address non-input (unassignment) is displayed with respect to the icon after the arrangement | positioning. The figure which shows an example of the display screen of the terminal device in the step which displays the message which shows that the icon which does not input an address exists after the icon arrangement | positioning. The figure which shows an example of the display screen of a terminal device when the address list (when there exists unallocation) is displayed. The figure which shows an example of the display screen of a terminal device when the same address list (when there is no unallocation) is displayed. The figure which shows an example of the display screen of a terminal device when the controller list is displayed. The figure which shows an example of the display screen of the terminal device in the step which opens a menu in order to arrange an icon in the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the display screen of a terminal device when displaying the icon and address list. The figure which shows an example of the display screen of the terminal device in the case of arrange | positioning an icon by the 3rd Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the display screen of the terminal device for demonstrating the conventional icon arrangement | positioning method.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Lighting control system, 2 ... Terminal device, 2a ... Monitor, 3 ... Internet, 4 ... WWW server, 5 ... Building, 7 ... Controller, 8 ... Lighting fixture, 9 ... Lighting control terminal, 10 ... Human sensor, 11 ... layout diagram, 12 ... address list, 14 ... icon / address list.

Claims (2)

One or more controllers that control the light output of one or more luminaires;
A server connected to the controller via a first communication line;
A terminal device connected to the server via a second communication line;
By placing a control monitoring point that defines the address and control type of the control monitoring target such as a lighting fixture at an arbitrary position on the layout diagram of the building displayed on the terminal device, It is a lighting control system that controls the controlled object arranged at the arrangement location by the control type and monitors the controlled state,
The server includes an address list display means for displaying an address list indicating addresses to be controlled on the terminal device. The server displays an address list corresponding to the control monitoring point on the terminal device, and drags and pastes an arbitrary cell of the address list to an arbitrary position on the layout diagram of the building, thereby The lighting control system according to claim 1, further comprising an input unit such as an address for inputting a control monitoring point.

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