CN107888440A

CN107888440A - A kind of method for monitoring state, equipment and system

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Publication number: CN107888440A
Application number: CN201610874448.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李新星; 李良; 胡开埂; 练开锋; 胡龙文
Original assignee: Vertiv Tech Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vertiv Tech Co Ltd
Priority date: 2016-09-30
Filing date: 2016-09-30
Publication date: 2018-04-06

Abstract

The invention discloses a kind of method for monitoring state, equipment and system, can pass through the running state information of each equipment in wiredly and/or wirelessly communication mode collection rack；And the running state information collected can be sent to corresponding processing equipment by communication, shown with being sent the running state information to Surveillance center by the processing equipment.Compared to prior art, the running state information collected is to be sent to corresponding processing equipment by communication, the laying and maintenance of the communications cable need not thus be carried out, without the distribution for carrying out port, solve the problems, such as that the cost present in existing method for monitoring state is higher, difficulty is larger and the wasting of resources is more serious.

Description

State monitoring method, device and system

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of monitoring technologies, and in particular, to a method, a device, and a system for monitoring a state.

Background

With the rapid development of the internet, many companies tend to place their own servers of their company websites in the operator's machine room (or data center and base station), which puts high security requirements on the corresponding devices (such as cabinets and the like) in the operator's machine room for placing the company servers. Although, all install the camera in the computer lab, can guarantee the safety in the computer lab to a certain extent, nevertheless to the operation conditions of each equipment in the rack, can't carry out real-time monitoring, for example because equipment damage or short circuit that lead to such as excess temperature, excessive humidity etc. in order to solve above-mentioned problem, in industry often through the running state of following mode real-time supervision rack equipment:

specifically, as shown in fig. 1, corresponding communication cables (e.g., cables or optical cables) are arranged between the collection devices (e.g., the collection device 11 to the collection device NN shown in fig. 1) corresponding to the cabinet devices, the processing devices (e.g., the processing device 1 to the processing device N shown in fig. 1), the switching device (which is optional) and the background monitoring center (i.e., the monitoring terminal), so as to send the running state information (e.g., temperature information, humidity information, etc.) collected by each collector to the monitoring center in a wired communication manner, thereby implementing real-time monitoring of the running states of the multiple devices in the multiple cabinets in the multiple machine rooms, and thus ensuring the running safety of the devices in the cabinets. However, as the number of machine rooms, the number of cabinets and the number of devices are increasing, more and more communication cables are used for transmitting various kinds of operation state information, and each cable needs to occupy a corresponding communication port, so that the wiring cost is increased, the difficulty of wiring and maintenance is increased, and mutual interference between lines may be increased, and more communication resources are wasted.

In summary, the existing state monitoring method has the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a state monitoring method, equipment and a system, which are used for solving the problems of higher cost, higher difficulty and more serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method.

The embodiment of the invention provides a state monitoring method, which is applied to a monitoring scene of the operation state of equipment in a cabinet and comprises the following steps:

collecting the running state information of each device in the cabinet in a wired and/or wireless communication mode;

and sending the collected running state information to corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the processing equipment sends the running state information to a monitoring center for displaying.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a state monitoring method, which is applied to a monitoring scene of the running state of equipment in a cabinet and comprises the following steps:

receiving operation state information of each device in a cabinet, which is sent by at least one acquisition device in a wireless communication mode and corresponds to the at least one acquisition device;

checking the received running state information;

and sending the running state information after the verification processing to a monitoring center so that the running state information is displayed by the monitoring center.

Correspondingly, the embodiment of the invention provides a collecting device, which is applied to a monitoring scene of the running state of a device in a cabinet, and comprises the following steps:

the acquisition module is used for acquiring the running state information of each device in the cabinet in a wired and/or wireless communication mode;

and the sending module is used for sending the collected running state information to corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode so that the processing equipment sends the running state information to a monitoring center for displaying.

Correspondingly, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a processing device, which is applied to a monitoring scenario of an operation state of a device in a cabinet, and includes:

the receiving unit is used for receiving the running state information of each device in the cabinet, which is sent by at least one acquisition device in a wireless communication mode and corresponds to the at least one acquisition device;

the processing unit is used for verifying the received running state information;

and the sending unit is used for sending the running state information after the verification processing to a monitoring center so that the running state information is displayed by the monitoring center.

Further, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a state monitoring system, which is applied to a monitoring scenario of an operation state of a device in a cabinet, and includes a monitoring center, where the state monitoring system further includes at least one acquisition device described in the embodiment of the present invention and at least one processing device described in the embodiment of the present invention, where:

for any acquisition equipment in the at least one acquisition equipment, the acquisition equipment is used for acquiring the running state information of each equipment in the cabinet corresponding to the acquisition equipment and sending the running state information to the processing equipment corresponding to the acquisition equipment in a wireless communication mode;

for any processing device in the at least one processing device, the processing device is configured to receive one or more pieces of running state information sent by one or more acquisition devices corresponding to the processing device in a wireless communication manner, check the one or more pieces of running state information respectively, and send the one or more pieces of running state information to the monitoring center;

the monitoring center is used for receiving one or more pieces of running state information sent by one or more processing devices and displaying the running state information.

The invention has the following beneficial effects:

the embodiment of the invention provides a state monitoring method, equipment and a system, which can acquire the running state information of each equipment in a cabinet in a wired and/or wireless communication mode; and the collected running state information can be sent to corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the running state information is sent to a monitoring center by the processing equipment to be displayed. Compared with the prior art, the collected running state information is sent to the corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the arrangement and maintenance of communication cables are not needed, the distribution of communication ports is also not needed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method are solved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a prior art condition monitoring system;

fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart illustrating a status monitoring method according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a collection device based on wired collection according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of an acquisition device based on wireless acquisition according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating an internal structure of a first acquisition device according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating an internal structure of a second acquisition device according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating an internal structure of a processing apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating a first communication manner between a processing device and a monitoring center according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram illustrating a second communication manner between a processing device and a monitoring center according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating a third communication manner between a processing device and a monitoring center according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic flow chart illustrating a status monitoring method according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 12 is a schematic flow chart illustrating a status monitoring method according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of an acquisition device provided in the fourth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a processing apparatus provided in the fifth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 15 is a schematic structural diagram of a condition monitoring system according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 16 is a schematic internal structural diagram of a condition monitoring system according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The first embodiment is as follows:

in order to solve the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste of the existing state monitoring method, an embodiment of the present invention provides a state monitoring method, which can be applied to a monitoring scene of an operating state of a device in a cabinet, as shown in fig. 2, which is a schematic flow diagram of the state monitoring method in the first embodiment of the present invention. Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, the method for monitoring a status according to the first embodiment of the present invention may include the following steps:

step 201: collecting the running state information of each device in the cabinet in a wired and/or wireless communication mode;

step 202: and sending the collected running state information to corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the processing equipment sends the running state information to a monitoring center for displaying.

It should be noted that the execution main body of the state monitoring method in the first embodiment of the present invention may be any acquisition device capable of executing the state monitoring method, as long as the execution main body has an acquisition function and a wireless transmission function, for example, an acquisition device having an acquisition sub-module for acquiring the running state information of the device in the cabinet, a communication sub-module for wireless communication, and the like, which are not described in detail in the first embodiment of the present invention.

That is, in the embodiment of the present invention, the operation state information of each device in the cabinet may be collected through wired and/or wireless communication; and the collected running state information can be sent to corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the running state information is sent to a monitoring center by the processing equipment to be displayed. Compared with the prior art, the collected running state information is sent to the corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the arrangement and maintenance of communication cables are not needed, the distribution of communication ports is also not needed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method are solved.

As can be seen from the above, acquiring the operating state information of each device in the cabinet may include:

and collecting the running state information of each device in the cabinet in a wired and/or wireless communication mode.

Because the collecting device in the embodiment of the present invention may generally include a collecting submodule (i.e., a collector probe, a sensor probe, etc.) and a communication submodule (having a wireless communication function and a wired communication function), if the distance between the collecting device and a corresponding cabinet (the cabinet where the device corresponding to the operation state information that the collecting device needs to collect is located) is short (if the collecting device is located in the corresponding cabinet, or the distance is smaller than a set threshold, etc., the set threshold may be flexibly set according to an actual situation), the collecting submodule and the communication submodule may be connected by a wire, that is, the collecting device collects the operation state information of each device in the cabinet by a wire communication manner, as shown in fig. 3;

if the distance between the collection device and the corresponding cabinet is long (e.g., the collection device is located outside the corresponding cabinet, or the distance between the collection device and the corresponding cabinet is not less than a set threshold value, etc.), in order to reduce the wiring cost and the maintenance cost of the communication cable, the collection submodule and the communication submodule may be in wireless connection, that is, the collection device collects the operating state information of each device in the cabinet in a wireless communication manner, as shown in fig. 4, which is not described in detail in the embodiment of the present invention.

Specifically, the operation state information may include at least any one or more of temperature information, humidity information, water immersion information, and smoke sensation information. Of course, it should be noted that the operation state information may also include any other information capable of characterizing the operation state of each device in the cabinet, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Optionally, the Wireless Communication mode may include at least one or more of an infrared Communication mode, a bluetooth Communication mode, an NFC (near field Communication) mode, a WiFi (Wireless FIdelity) mode, and a ZigBee (ZigBee Communication) mode. In the embodiment of the invention, in order to effectively reduce power consumption, a ZigBee mode can be generally adopted. It should be noted that, of course, the wireless communication method described in the embodiment of the present invention may also include any other communication method (generally, a communication method based on a 6Low WPAN wireless network) capable of implementing wireless communication, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited thereto.

Specifically, the wired communication method described herein may generally include a network technology that performs transmission in an ethernet/serial port manner, and may also include any other communication network that performs data transmission in a wired manner, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present invention, the collection device may collect the operation state information of each device in the cabinet through a wired and/or wireless communication manner, and the communication manner between the collection device and the corresponding processing device is a wireless communication manner, which not only can reduce the wiring cost and maintenance cost, but also can improve the use experience compared with the wired communication manner adopted in the prior art; moreover, when the acquisition device or the processing device needs to be updated or replaced, the communication cable does not need to be laid or detached, so that the flexibility and the practicability of the state monitoring method can be improved, and further description is omitted.

It should be noted that, in general, the correspondence between the processing device and the collecting device and the correspondence between the processing device and the monitoring center may be:

each acquisition device can correspond to a unique processing device; each processing device can correspond to one or more (the specific number can be flexibly set according to the actual situation) acquisition devices which are different from each other; each processing device can correspond to a unique monitoring center; each monitoring center can correspond to one or more (the specific number can also be flexibly set according to the actual situation) processing devices which are different from each other.

Further, the sending the collected operation state information to a corresponding processing device in a wireless communication manner may include:

and sending the collected running state information to corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode between the communication sub-module of the processing equipment and the communication sub-unit of the corresponding processing equipment.

That is to say, the collection device may generally include a communication sub-module for wirelessly communicating with a corresponding processing device, and the communication sub-module may wirelessly communicate with a communication sub-unit in the corresponding processing device to send the collected operating state information to the corresponding processing device, so that the collection device and the corresponding processing device do not need to be wired and maintained by a communication cable, thereby reducing the wiring cost and improving the utilization rate of resources.

Specifically, each acquisition device can be added to a local area network established by a processing device corresponding to the acquisition device based on a communication submodule of the acquisition device (specifically, the acquisition device can be based on a networking ID and a channel number of the acquisition device), so that the acquisition device can send acquired running state information to the corresponding processing device through the local area network, and further wireless communication between the acquisition device and the processing device is realized, and the running state information can be transmitted between the acquisition device and the processing device without a communication cable.

Furthermore, after each processing device receives the corresponding running state information and correspondingly checks the running state information, the running state information can be sent to the monitoring center in a wired and/or wireless communication mode, which is not described in detail herein.

Further, as shown in fig. 5, it is a schematic diagram of an internal structure of the acquisition device in the embodiment of the present invention (taking an example that a communication mode adopted between the acquisition sub-module and the communication sub-module is a wireless communication mode). As can be seen from fig. 5, the collecting device according to the embodiment of the present invention may include, in addition to the corresponding collecting sub-modules (the collecting sub-module may specifically include a temperature collecting sub-module, a humidity collecting sub-module, a water immersion collecting sub-module, a smoke sensing collecting sub-module, etc.), a communication sub-module (and the communication sub-module may be a wired communication sub-module or a wireless communication sub-module), a power supply sub-module, a power conversion sub-module, an energy saving control sub-module, a status display sub-module, a status query sub-module, a networking configuration sub-module, a sampling circuit sub-module, a. Of course, it should be noted that the acquisition device may further include other sub-modules, which are not described in detail in this embodiment of the present invention.

The collection sub-module may be configured to collect operation state information of a corresponding device in the cabinet, and send the collected operation state information to the communication sub-module of the collection device (at this time, the collection sub-module may further have a corresponding wired/wireless sending function). Furthermore, the collection sub-module may generally include one or more (the specific value may be flexibly set according to the situation) temperature collection sub-modules, one or more humidity collection sub-modules, one or more water immersion collection sub-modules, and one or more smoke detection sub-modules, which are not limited thereto.

It should be noted that, when the acquisition device includes only one acquisition sub-module, the schematic diagram of the internal structure of the acquisition device may also be shown in fig. 6. The acquisition sub-module and the communication sub-module in the acquisition device may be integrated together to serve as an acquisition communication sub-module (such as the acquisition communication sub-module shown in fig. 6), and at this time, the acquisition device may be only used to acquire the operation state information of a single point, but cannot acquire the operation state information of multiple points, which is not described herein again.

In addition, it should be noted that, since the acquisition sub-modules of the acquisition device described in the embodiment of the present invention may be connected in a cascade manner, the acquisition sub-modules may acquire operation state information in a shielded environment, such as operation state information of each device in a cabinet, and details thereof are not described here.

The communication submodule can be used for receiving the operation state information acquired by the acquisition submodule and sending the operation state information to the processing equipment, and generally can comprise a wireless communication submodule and a wired communication submodule. It should be noted that, when the acquisition sub-module and the communication sub-module adopt a wireless communication mode, the communication sub-module may also only include a wireless communication sub-module, which is not described in detail herein.

The power supply module can generally be any power supply device capable of sending the output voltage (which can be reasonably selected according to the power consumption, service life and required materials of the acquisition device) to the battery or power adapter of the power conversion sub-module, such as a lithium-argon battery, a ferro-manganese battery and the like capable of storing large-capacity electric energy, and certainly, the power supply module can also be any other battery capable of storing electric energy.

The power supply conversion submodule can be used for converting the voltage output by the power supply submodule into various voltages capable of meeting the actual requirements and supplying power to other submodules in the acquisition equipment, such as a communication submodule, an energy-saving control submodule and an acquisition submodule.

The energy-saving control submodule can be used for effectively controlling the voltage input into the acquisition submodule and the drive expansion submodule so as to prolong the service life of a battery in the power supply submodule. It should be noted that this submodule may be omitted if the battery life is not required.

The status indication sub-module may include a display interface (or an indicator light, etc.) for implementing human-computer interaction, and may be configured to display a networking status of the acquisition device (e.g., whether the acquisition device is successfully added to a local area network, etc.), display a working status of the acquisition sub-module, and display an electricity usage status of the power supply sub-module, etc. The display mode may be a static mode or a dynamic mode. Furthermore, after the acquisition device is added to the local area network, the state indication sub-module may be in a dormant state (such as turning off the screen), and if various kinds of operation state information need to be checked, the state indication sub-module may be triggered by the state query sub-module, which is not described herein.

And the state query submodule can be used for querying the real-time state of the acquisition equipment.

The networking configuration submodule can be used for clearing networking configuration information of the acquisition equipment so as to restore all configuration information of the acquisition equipment to factory default values.

The sampling circuit submodule can be used for collecting the power supply voltage of the acquisition equipment, and an alarm (such as a flashing light, voice and the like) is sent out when the electric quantity output by the power supply submodule is low (namely the electric quantity of a battery in the power supply submodule is smaller than a set electric quantity threshold value, and the set electric quantity threshold value can be flexibly set according to actual conditions) so as to prompt the replacement or shutdown of the battery and the like.

And the drive expansion submodule can be used for ensuring the stability of communication between the acquisition submodule and the communication submodule when the acquisition submodule is far away from the communication submodule. It should be noted that, when the acquisition submodule is closer to the communication submodule, the drive expansion submodule may be omitted, which is not described herein again.

Further, after each acquisition device sends the acquired running state information to the corresponding processing device in a wireless communication manner, the processing device may:

checking the received running state information;

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present invention, the processing device may receive the operation state information sent by the at least one acquisition device, perform corresponding verification processing on the received operation state information, and then send the operation state information to a corresponding monitoring center. Compared with the prior art, the communication mode between the processing equipment and the acquisition equipment is a wireless communication mode, so that the arrangement and maintenance of communication cables are not needed, the distribution of communication ports is also not needed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method are solved.

Further, receiving the operation state information of each device in the cabinet, which is sent by at least one collection device in a wireless communication manner and corresponds to the at least one collection device, may include:

and receiving the running state information of each device in the cabinet, which is sent by the at least one acquisition device in a wireless communication mode and corresponds to the at least one acquisition device, through a wireless communication mode between the communication sub-unit of the acquisition device and the communication sub-module of the at least one acquisition device.

That is to say, the processing device may generally include a communication subunit for wirelessly communicating with the corresponding acquisition device, and the communication subunit may wirelessly communicate with a communication submodule in the corresponding acquisition device to receive the operation state information sent by the acquisition device, so that the deployment and maintenance of a communication cable between the acquisition device and the corresponding processing device are not required, thereby reducing the wiring cost and improving the utilization rate of resources.

In order to ensure the accuracy and the security of the operating status information, the method may further include performing a verification process on the received operating status information, specifically, performing a verification process on the received operating status information, and may include:

analyzing the received running state information; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

verifying the received running state information; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

storing the received running state information; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

and encrypting the received running state information.

It should be noted that the check processing on the operation state information may further include other processing manners, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

And then, the processing equipment can also send the running state information after the verification processing to the monitoring center so that the running state information is displayed by the monitoring center.

That is, the processing device may generally include a control subunit (specifically, an embedded control system) and a communication subunit, where the communication subunit may be configured to implement receiving and sending of the operation state information, and the control subunit may be generally configured to perform verification processing, such as parsing, storing, and the like, on the received operation state information.

It should be noted that the processing device may construct a local area network based on its own communication subunit, so that each acquisition device corresponding to the processing device (each acquisition device capable of searching the local area network constructed by the processing device) may be added to the local area network, and further, wireless communication between the acquisition device and the processing device may be implemented, so that transmission of operation state information may be implemented between the acquisition device and the processing device without a communication cable.

As can be seen from the above, in the embodiment of the present invention, the communication between the acquisition device and the processing device substantially depends on the communication sub-module on the acquisition device and the communication sub-unit on the processing device, that is, the communication manner between the acquisition device and the processing device may be substantially the communication manner between the communication sub-module of the acquisition device and the communication sub-unit of the processing device, which is not described in detail herein.

Further, as shown in fig. 7, it is a schematic diagram of an internal structure of the processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As can be seen from fig. 7, the processing device may further include a power supply subunit, an interface subunit, a power conversion subunit, a status indication subunit, and an on-chip storage subunit, in addition to the control subunit and the communication subunit. Of course, the processing device may further include other sub-units, which are not described in detail in this embodiment of the present invention.

Specifically, the control subunit may generally include an embedded control system (e.g., linux control system, windows control system, etc.), so as to implement upgrading of the communication subunit and checking processing (e.g., parsing, storing, encrypting, etc.) of the operation state information received by the communication subunit. It should be noted that the control subunit may also be configured to control the communication subunit to send the received operation state information to a corresponding exchange device in a wired communication or wireless communication (which may be wired communication generally), or send the operation state information to a corresponding monitoring center in a wired and/or wireless communication manner, which is not described herein again.

The communication subunit may be configured to receive one or more pieces of operation state information sent by the corresponding acquisition device, and send the one or more pieces of operation state information after verification processing to the corresponding monitoring center or the corresponding exchange device. It should be noted that the communication subunit may also be configured to implement the establishment of a local area network and various configurations of the processing device, which is not described herein again.

It should be noted that, in addition to being integrated in the processing device as an integrated sub-unit of the processing device, the communication sub-unit may also be independent from the processing device as an independent sub-unit of the processing device in an independent manner, for example, being connected to the processing device through an interface such as a USB, and the like, which is not described in detail herein in this embodiment of the present invention.

The power supply unit may be generally configured to output corresponding voltage and current to the power conversion unit, for example, output a commercial power or a direct current (e.g., 20V-60A) required by a data center, a cabinet device, and the like, which is not described herein again.

The interface subunit includes various communication interfaces, such as an ethernet port, an RS232 Serial port (asynchronous transfer standard interface), an optical port, a USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface, an SD Card (Secure Digital Memory Card), and the like, and may be connected to a corresponding PC (Personal Computer) to implement control of the processing device, such as checking related configuration, signal quality, and collected data of a local area network built by the processing device.

The power conversion subunit may be configured to convert the voltage output by the power supply subunit into various voltages capable of meeting the requirements, and supply power to other subunits in the processing device, such as a communication interface subunit, a status indication subunit, an on-chip storage subunit, and a control subunit.

The status indication subunit may generally include a display interface (or an indicator light, etc.) for implementing human-computer interaction, and may be configured to display a networking status of the processing device (e.g., whether a local area network is successfully established, whether a corresponding acquisition device is completely added, etc.), a connection status between the communication interface subunit and the communication submodule, and a connection status between the processing device and a corresponding exchange device, etc.

The on-chip storage subunit may generally include one or more memories, such as a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), and the like, and may be configured to implement storage of various system files in the control subunit, caching of various operation state information in the communication subunit, saving of configuration information, and the like.

Further, the sending, by the processing device, the running state information after the verification processing to the monitoring center may include:

the running state information after the verification processing is sent to the monitoring center in a wired and/or wireless communication mode; or,

and sending the running state information after the verification processing to switching equipment, so that the switching equipment sends the running state information to the monitoring center.

As can be seen from the above, when the processing device sends the operating status information to the monitoring center, two ways are usually available, one way is to send the operating status information to the corresponding monitoring center through a wired and/or wireless communication way, for example, as shown in fig. 8 and 9, if only one processing device that needs to be monitored by the monitoring center is provided and the communication way adopted between the processing device and the monitoring center is a wired communication way, or if one or more processing devices that need to be monitored by the monitoring center are provided and the communication way adopted between each processing device and the monitoring center is a wireless communication way, then there is no need to provide a corresponding switching device between the processing device and the monitoring center;

another is to send the operating status information to the corresponding switching device, so that the switching device forwards the operating status information to the monitoring center, for example, as shown in fig. 10, if the number of processing devices to be monitored by the monitoring center is multiple (for example, 6) and the communication mode adopted between each processing device and the monitoring center is a wired communication mode, the corresponding switching device needs to be set between each processing device and the monitoring center, so as to send the operating status information received by the multiple processing devices to the monitoring center.

Furthermore, when the monitoring center has only one processing device to be monitored, the processing device can be used as the monitoring center through a wired and/or wireless communication mode. It should be noted that, at this time, besides monitoring a plurality of pieces of running state information received by the processing device based on the display interface of the processing device through a wired and/or wireless communication manner (for example, accessing a related web page on the processing device through a wired and/or wireless communication manner), corresponding monitoring software (for example, a siteep application program and the like) may be installed in the processing device, so as to implement real-time monitoring and dynamic monitoring of the running state of the rack device.

In addition, it should be noted that, the existing monitoring center usually can only simply display various kinds of operation state information, but cannot dynamically monitor and display the operation state information in each cabinet device in real time, so that the existing monitoring center has a problem of poor flexibility. In the embodiment of the invention, the Siteweb application software can be installed on the corresponding monitoring center, so that the collected temperature information or humidity information in the cabinet equipment can be dynamically checked in real time, the monitoring flexibility and accuracy are improved, and the use experience and satisfaction of users are further improved.

Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, the monitoring center may generally be a terminal device (e.g., a PC, a tablet computer, a server, or even a smart phone) capable of displaying the running state information, such as a terminal device installed with corresponding monitoring software (e.g., siteeweb application software). Of course, the monitoring center may also be other devices that can be connected to the terminal device installed with the corresponding monitoring software in a wired or wireless (e.g., USB or WiFi) manner, such as a mobile phone and a tablet computer connected to a PC installed with siteeweb application software. As can be seen from the above, the monitoring center in the embodiment of the present invention may be an existing monitoring center, and may also be other intelligent terminal devices, which is not described in detail herein.

The embodiment of the invention provides a state monitoring method based on acquisition equipment, which can acquire the running state information of each equipment in a cabinet in a wired and/or wireless communication mode; and the collected running state information can be sent to corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the running state information is sent to a monitoring center by the processing equipment to be displayed. Compared with the prior art, the collected running state information is sent to the corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the arrangement and maintenance of communication cables are not needed, the distribution of communication ports is also not needed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method are solved.

Example two:

in order to solve the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste of the existing state monitoring method, a second embodiment of the present invention provides a state monitoring method based on a processing device, which is applied to a monitoring scene of an operation state of a device in a cabinet, as shown in fig. 11, which is a schematic flow diagram of the state monitoring method described in the second embodiment of the present invention. As can be seen from fig. 11, the status monitoring method may include the following steps:

step 1101: receiving running state information which is sent by at least one acquisition device in a wireless communication mode and represents the running state of cabinet equipment corresponding to the at least one acquisition device;

step 1102: checking the received running state information;

step 1103: and sending the running state information after the verification processing to a monitoring center so that the running state information is displayed by the monitoring center.

It should be noted that, an execution main body of the state monitoring method according to the second embodiment of the present invention may be any processing device (e.g., a Catcher device) capable of executing the state monitoring method, as long as the state monitoring method has corresponding communication functions and processing functions, for example, a processing device having a communication subunit for wireless communication and a control subunit for verifying the received operation state information, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited thereto.

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present invention, the operation state information, which is sent by at least one collection device in a wireless communication manner and represents the operation state of the rack device corresponding to the at least one collection device, may be received; the received running state information can be checked, and the checked running state information can be sent to a corresponding monitoring center so that the monitoring center can display the running state information. Compared with the prior art, the received running state information is sent by the acquisition equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the arrangement and maintenance of communication cables are not needed, the distribution of communication ports is also not needed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method are solved.

Optionally, the wireless communication mode may include at least any one or more of an infrared communication mode, a bluetooth communication mode, a near field wireless communication mode, a wireless fidelity communication mode, and a zigbee communication mode. It should be noted that, of course, the Wireless communication method described in the embodiment of the present invention may also include any other communication method (generally, a communication method based on a 6Low WPAN Wireless Network) capable of implementing Wireless communication, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited thereto.

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present invention, the communication mode between the acquisition processing and the corresponding acquisition device is a wireless communication mode, which can reduce the wiring cost and the maintenance cost, and improve the use experience, compared with the wired communication mode adopted in the prior art; moreover, when the acquisition device or the processing device needs to be updated or replaced, the communication cable does not need to be laid or detached, so that the flexibility and the practicability of the state monitoring method can be improved, and further description is omitted.

Specifically, the operation state information at least includes any one or more of temperature information, humidity information, water immersion information, and smoke sensation information. In the embodiment of the present invention, in order to reduce power consumption, a zigbee communication mode may be generally adopted. Of course, it should be noted that the operation state information may also include other information capable of arbitrarily characterizing the operation state of the cabinet device, such as pressure information, and the like, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Further, the checking the received running state information may include:

and encrypting the received running state information.

Further, the step of sending the running state information after the verification processing to a monitoring center includes:

For example, if only one processing device that needs to be monitored by the monitoring center is provided, and the communication mode adopted between the processing device and the monitoring center is a wired communication mode, or if one or more processing devices that need to be monitored by the monitoring center are provided, and the communication mode adopted between each processing device and the monitoring center is a wireless communication mode, then there is no need to set a corresponding exchange device between the processing device and the monitoring center; or, assuming that the processing devices to be monitored by the monitoring center are multiple and the communication mode adopted between each processing device and the monitoring center is a wired communication mode, a corresponding exchange device needs to be set between each processing device and the monitoring center to send the running state information received by the multiple processing devices to the monitoring center, which is not described in detail herein.

In general, in order to ensure real-time performance and accuracy of sending the operating state information, the processing device needs to send the received operating state information to the monitoring center in a wired communication manner; of course, in order to save the use of communication cables, the processing device may also transmit the received operation state information to the monitoring center by way of wireless communication. In practical application, different modes can be selected for transmitting the running state information based on different actual requirements, for example, if the real-time performance and accuracy of the running state information need to be ensured, the received running state information can be sent to the monitoring center in a wired communication mode; if the use of the communication cable needs to be saved and the cost of the state monitoring needs to be reduced, the received running state information can be sent to the monitoring center in a wireless communication mode, which is not described in detail herein.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the number of the acquisition devices corresponding to the processing device may be flexibly set according to actual requirements, for example, 10, 20, or 30, and the like, which is not limited in this respect in the embodiment of the present invention.

The second embodiment of the invention provides a state monitoring method based on processing equipment, which can receive running state information which is sent by at least one acquisition equipment in a wireless communication mode and represents the running state of cabinet equipment corresponding to the at least one acquisition equipment; and the received running state information can be sent to a corresponding monitoring center, so that the running state information is displayed by the monitoring center. Compared with the prior art, the received running state information is sent by the acquisition equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that wiring and communication port distribution are not needed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste of the existing state monitoring system are solved.

Example three:

next, a state monitoring method (including an acquisition device, a processing device, a switching device, and a monitoring center) according to an embodiment of the present invention will be specifically described by taking an example of interactive execution of the acquisition device and the processing device. As shown in fig. 12, which is a schematic flow chart of a state monitoring method according to a third embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 12, the state monitoring method applied in a monitoring scenario of an operation state of a device in a cabinet may include the following steps:

step 1201: the method comprises the steps that collection equipment collects running state information representing running states of all cabinet equipment corresponding to the collection equipment in a wired and/or wireless communication mode and sends the running state information to processing equipment in a wireless communication mode;

step 1202: the processing equipment checks the received running state information;

step 1203: the processing equipment sends the received running state information to the switching equipment corresponding to the processing equipment;

step 1204: the switching equipment sends the received running state information to a monitoring center corresponding to the switching equipment;

step 1205: and the monitoring center displays the received running state information.

The third embodiment of the invention provides a state monitoring method implemented by interaction of acquisition equipment and processing equipment, wherein the acquisition equipment can send acquired running state information to the processing equipment in a wired and/or wireless communication mode, the processing equipment can verify the received running state information and send the running state information to switching equipment, and the switching equipment sends the running state information to a monitoring center. Compared with the prior art, the collection equipment can collect the running state information of each equipment in the cabinet in a wired and/or wireless communication mode, and the communication mode between the collection equipment and the processing equipment can also be a wireless communication mode, so that wiring is not needed, communication ports are not needed to be distributed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method are solved.

Example four:

based on the same inventive concept as the first embodiment of the present invention, a fourth embodiment of the present invention provides a collection device, which is applied to a monitoring scenario of an operation state of a device in a cabinet, as shown in fig. 13, and is a schematic structural diagram of the collection device described in the fourth embodiment of the present invention. Specifically, as can be seen from fig. 13, the acquisition device 13 according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention may include:

the acquisition module 131 is used for acquiring the running state information of each device in the cabinet in a wired and/or wireless communication mode;

the sending module 132 may be configured to send the collected operation state information to corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication manner, so that the processing equipment sends the operation state information to a monitoring center for display.

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present invention, the collection device may collect the operation state information of each device in the cabinet; and the collected running state information can be sent to corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the running state information is sent to a monitoring center by the processing equipment to be displayed. Compared with the prior art, the collected running state information is sent to the corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the arrangement and maintenance of communication cables are not needed, the distribution of communication ports is also not needed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method are solved.

Specifically, the collection module 132 may be specifically configured to send the collected operation state information to the corresponding processing device in a wireless communication manner between the communication sub-module of the collection module and the communication sub-unit of the corresponding processing device.

Specifically, the operation state information at least includes any one or more of temperature information, humidity information, water immersion information, and smoke sensation information.

Optionally, the wireless communication mode at least includes any one or more of an infrared communication mode, a bluetooth communication mode, a near field wireless communication mode, a wireless fidelity communication mode, and a zigbee communication mode. In the embodiment of the invention, in order to effectively reduce power consumption, a ZigBee mode can be generally adopted. It should be noted that, of course, the wireless communication method described in the embodiment of the present invention may also include any other communication method (generally, a communication method based on a 6Low WPANWireless Network) capable of implementing wireless communication, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited thereto.

That is to say, in the embodiment of the present invention, the collection device may collect the operating state information of each device in the cabinet through a wired and/or wireless communication manner, and the communication manner between the collection device and the corresponding processing device is a wireless communication manner, which not only can reduce the wiring cost and the maintenance cost, but also can improve the use experience compared with the wired communication manner adopted in the prior art; moreover, when the acquisition device or the processing device needs to be updated or replaced, the communication cable does not need to be laid or detached, so that the flexibility and the practicability of the state monitoring method can be improved, and further description is omitted.

The fourth embodiment of the invention provides acquisition equipment, which can acquire the running state information of each equipment in a cabinet in a wired and/or wireless communication mode; and the collected running state information can be sent to corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the running state information is sent to a monitoring center by the processing equipment to be displayed. Compared with the prior art, the collected running state information is sent to the corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the arrangement and maintenance of communication cables are not needed, the distribution of communication ports is also not needed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method are solved.

Example five:

based on the same inventive concept as that of the second embodiment of the present invention, a fifth embodiment of the present invention provides a processing device, which is applied to a monitoring scenario of an operation state of a device in a cabinet, as shown in fig. 14, and is a schematic structural diagram of the processing device described in the fourth embodiment of the present invention. Specifically, as can be seen from fig. 14, the processing device 14 according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention may include:

the receiving unit 141 may be configured to receive operation state information of each device in the cabinet, which is sent by at least one collection device in a wireless communication manner and corresponds to the at least one collection device;

the processing unit 142 may be configured to perform verification processing on the received running state information;

the sending unit 143 is configured to send the running state information after the verification processing to a monitoring center, so that the monitoring center displays the running state information.

That is to say, the processing device may receive the operation state information, which is sent by at least one collection device in a wireless communication manner and represents the operation state of the rack device corresponding to the at least one collection device; the received running state information can be checked, and the checked running state information can be sent to a corresponding monitoring center so that the monitoring center can display the running state information. Compared with the prior art, the received running state information is sent by the acquisition equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the arrangement and maintenance of communication cables are not needed, the distribution of communication ports is also not needed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method are solved.

Optionally, the wireless communication mode may include at least any one or more of an infrared communication mode, a bluetooth communication mode, a near field wireless communication mode, a wireless fidelity communication mode, and a zigbee communication mode.

Specifically, the operation state information may include at least any one or more of temperature information, humidity information, water immersion information, and smoke sensation information.

The receiving unit 141 may be configured to receive, in a wireless communication manner between a communication sub-unit of the receiving unit and a communication sub-module of the at least one acquiring device, operation state information of each device in the cabinet, which is sent by the at least one acquiring device in the wireless communication manner and corresponds to the at least one acquiring device.

Specifically, the processing unit 142 is specifically configured to perform analysis processing on the received running state information; and/or, carrying out verification processing on the received running state information; and/or, storing the received running state information; and/or encrypting the received running state information. It should be noted that the check processing on the operation state information may further include other processing manners, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Specifically, the sending unit 143 is specifically configured to send the running state information after the verification processing to the monitoring center in a wired and/or wireless communication manner; or the running state information after the verification processing is sent to the exchange equipment, so that the exchange equipment sends the running state information to the monitoring center.

The fifth embodiment of the present invention provides a processing device, where the processing device may receive running state information, which is sent by at least one acquisition device in a wireless communication manner and represents a running state of a cabinet device corresponding to the at least one acquisition device; the received running state information can be checked, and the checked running state information can be sent to a corresponding monitoring center so that the monitoring center can display the running state information. Compared with the prior art, the received running state information is sent by the acquisition equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the arrangement and maintenance of communication cables are not needed, the distribution of communication ports is also not needed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method are solved.

Example six:

an embodiment of the present invention provides a state monitoring system, which is applied to a monitoring scene of an operation state of a device in a cabinet, and may include a monitoring center 15, where the state monitoring system may further include at least one acquisition device 13 according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention and at least one processing device 14 according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention (fig. 15 takes an example including one acquisition device, one processing device, and one monitoring center), where:

for any acquisition device of the at least one acquisition device, the acquisition device 13 may be configured to acquire operation state information of each device in the cabinet corresponding to the acquisition device, and send the operation state information to a processing device corresponding to the acquisition device in a wireless communication manner;

for any processing device of the at least one processing device, the processing device 14 may be configured to receive one or more pieces of operation state information sent by one or more acquisition devices corresponding to the processing device in a wireless communication manner, check the one or more pieces of operation state information, and send the one or more pieces of operation state information to the monitoring center;

the monitoring center can be used for receiving one or more pieces of running state information sent by one or more processing devices and displaying the running state information.

It should be noted that, in a general case, if there are many processing devices in the status monitoring system, the status monitoring system may further include a switch device 15, where the switch device 15 may be configured to receive multiple pieces of operation status information sent by multiple processing devices, and send the multiple pieces of operation status information to the monitoring center.

For example, assuming that the condition monitoring system may include 6 acquisition devices (each of which may include 1 communication sub-module, N temperature/humidity set sub-modules), 3 processing devices, 1 switching device, and 1 monitoring center, a specific structure diagram of the condition monitoring system may be as shown in fig. 16. As can be seen from fig. 16, the plurality of collecting devices may respectively transmit the collected pieces of running state information to the processing device through their own communication sub-modules in a wireless communication manner; the processing device may perform verification processing on the received pieces of running state information through its own communication subunit (not shown in fig. 16), and then the processing device may send the running state information after the verification processing to the switching device; the switching equipment can send the received running state information to the monitoring center. Compared with the prior art, the acquisition equipment can send the acquired running state information to the corresponding processing equipment in a wireless communication mode, so that the arrangement and maintenance of communication cables are not needed, the distribution of communication ports is also not needed, and the problems of high cost, high difficulty and serious resource waste in the existing state monitoring method are solved.

It should be noted that, in order to further save communication cables and reduce wiring cost, the plurality of processing devices in the state monitoring system may further send the plurality of running state information to the monitoring center in a wireless communication manner, and at this time, the state monitoring system may not include the switching device, which is not described in detail in this embodiment of the present invention.

The sixth embodiment of the invention provides a state monitoring system, which comprises a monitoring center, at least one acquisition device and at least one processing device, wherein each acquisition device can transmit acquired running state information to the corresponding processing device in a wireless communication mode.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, apparatus (device), or computer program product. Accordingly, the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The present invention has been described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (devices) and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications in those embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the invention.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention and their equivalents, the present invention is also intended to include such modifications and variations.

Claims

1. A state monitoring method is applied to a monitoring scene of the operation state of equipment in a cabinet, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

2. The method for monitoring the state of claim 1, wherein the step of sending the collected operation state information to a corresponding processing device in a wireless communication manner comprises the steps of:

3. The condition monitoring method according to claim 1, wherein the operation condition information includes at least any one or more of temperature information, humidity information, water immersion information, and smoke sensation information.

4. A state monitoring method according to any one of claims 1 to 2, characterized in that the wireless communication mode at least comprises any one or more of an infrared communication mode, a Bluetooth communication mode, a near field wireless communication (NFC) mode, a wireless fidelity (WiFi) communication mode and a ZigBee communication mode.

5. A state monitoring method is applied to a monitoring scene of the operation state of equipment in a cabinet, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

checking the received running state information;

6. The method for monitoring the status of claim 5, wherein the receiving the operation status information of each device in the cabinet corresponding to at least one collection device, which is sent by the at least one collection device in a wireless communication manner, comprises:

7. The condition monitoring method according to claim 5, wherein the checking process of the received operation condition information includes:

and encrypting the received running state information.

8. The condition monitoring method according to claim 5, wherein transmitting the operation condition information after the verification processing to a monitoring center includes:

9. The utility model provides a collection equipment, is applied to the monitoring scene to equipment running state in the rack, its characterized in that includes:

10. The acquisition device according to claim 9, wherein the acquisition module is configured to send the acquired operating state information to the corresponding processing device in a wireless communication manner between its own communication sub-module and the communication sub-unit of the corresponding processing device.

11. The utility model provides a processing equipment, is applied to the monitoring scene to equipment running state in the rack, its characterized in that includes:

12. The processing device according to claim 11, wherein the receiving unit is configured to receive, through a wireless communication manner between its own communication sub-unit and the communication sub-module of the at least one acquisition device, the operation status information of each device in the cabinet, which is sent by the at least one acquisition device through the wireless communication manner and corresponds to the at least one acquisition device, by the at least one acquisition device.

13. The processing device according to claim 11, wherein the processing unit is specifically configured to perform parsing processing on the received running state information; and/or, carrying out verification processing on the received running state information; and/or, storing the received running state information; and/or encrypting the received running state information.

14. The processing device according to claim 11, wherein the sending unit is specifically configured to send the running state information after the verification processing to the monitoring center in a wired and/or wireless communication manner; or the running state information after the verification processing is sent to the exchange equipment, so that the exchange equipment sends the running state information to the monitoring center.

15. A condition monitoring system applied to a monitoring scene of an operation condition of equipment in a cabinet, comprising a monitoring center, wherein the condition monitoring system further comprises at least one acquisition device according to any one of claims 9 to 10 and at least one processing device according to any one of claims 11 to 14, wherein: