Patent ID: 11888939
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. A remote monitoring system comprising: a plurality of data collection adaptors each configured to collect apparatus data including information representing at least either an operational situation or operational detail of one or more installed apparatuses from the one or more installed apparatuses being air conditioning apparatuses operated to condition air, and a data aggregation server configured to communicate with the plurality of data collection adaptors and configured to receive and aggregate the apparatus data that the plurality of data collection adaptors have each collected,
wherein each data collection adaptor includes
a collection side storage configured to store collection side definition information defining one or more items for extracting the apparatus data from a set of data and a third identifier showing a type of the collection side definition information, and
at least one of a circuitry and processor with memory, configured to
acquire the set of data including the apparatus data from the one or more installed apparatuses,
extract the apparatus data from the set of data by using the collection side definition information, and
when a predetermined condition is satisfied, make a request to the data aggregation server to update the collection side definition information,

wherein the data aggregation server includes
an aggregation side storage configured to store sub-aggregation side definition information in association with the third identifier showing a type of the sub-aggregation side definition information which defining the one or more items each of the plurality of data collection adaptors uses for extracting the apparatus data from the set of data acquired by the data collection adaptor, and
at least one of a circuitry and processor with memory, configured to
when the request is received from one or more of the data collection adaptors, transmit information for updating based on the sub-aggregation side definition information associated with the third identifier that is stored in one or more of the data collection adaptors to the one or more of the data collection adaptors, and

wherein each of the one or more of the data collection adaptors is further configured to
update the collection side definition information by using the information for updating received from the data aggregation server,

wherein the request from the data collection adaptor includes
the set of data from which the apparatus data has not been able to be extracted by the data collection adaptor, and the third identifier stored in the data collection adaptor,

wherein the data aggregation server is further configured to
when the request is received, perform an extraction process of extracting, from the aggregation side definition information, the apparatus data indicated in the set of data included in the request by using the one or more items defined in the sub-aggregation side definition information associated with the third identifier included in the request; and, when the apparatus data is extracted by the extract, from the aggregation side definition information, the one or more items defined in the sub-aggregation side definition information associated with the third identifier,

wherein the data aggregation server is configured to transmit
the information for updating including the one or more items extracted by the data aggregation server to the data collection adaptor, which is a source of the request, and
wherein each of the data collection adaptors is configured to update the collection side definition information using the information for updating from the data aggregation server and use the updated collection side definition information to extract the apparatus data.