US 7,509,236 B2
Remote maintenance system, monitoring center computer used for the same, monitoring system and method of communication for maintenance
Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Naka (Japan); Hidenori Inoue, Hitachi (Japan); Toshihiro Morikawa, Naka (Japan); Jinichiro Goto, Hitachi (Japan); and Masatoshi Takada, Hitachi (Japan)
Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 04, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/266,191.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-321440 (JP), filed on Nov. 05, 2004; and application No. 2005-293121 (JP), filed on Oct. 06, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0136774 A1, Jun. 22, 2006
Int. Cl. G06F 19/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 702—184 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A remote maintenance system, comprising:
a monitoring computer for monitoring a facility to be maintained; and
a monitoring center computer for monitoring information held with said monitoring computer and sending maintenance information to said monitoring computer, through a pay station line,
wherein said monitoring computer has a database for storing image data of said monitored facility, and said monitoring center computer includes:
a database for storing CAD data for said monitored facility;
a function for providing coordinates to said image data sent from the monitoring computer to form image coordinate data;
a function for superposing said image coordinate data and CAD coordinate data for said CAD; and
a function for locating a needed maintenance spot on the basis of a result of said superposition processing;
a tag having a storage and being installed in said monitored facility; and
mobile equipment being connected with said monitoring computer through pay station line,
wherein said mobile equipment has:
a function for receiving said tag information via radio communication; and
a function for sending the received tag information to said monitoring center computer,
wherein said monitoring center computer further has:
a database for storing said maintenance information for said monitored facility;
a function for receiving said tag information sent from the mobile equipment;
a function for retrieving said maintenance information from said database on the basis of said tag information; and
a function for sending said retrieved maintenance information to either said mobile equipment or said monitoring computer, or both.