Patent ID: 6820036
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: G05B,G21C,Y02E

Abstract:
A monitoring system comprising:an output device which presents monitor data to an operator; and a data processing device including a data collection part for collecting the monitor data, processing the data collected by said monitor data collection part, and passing the data thus processed to said output device as an output content, said data processing device comprising: a structured equipment information storage part for storing structured equipment information which includes equipment information on a plurality of pieces of equipment and relational information describing relations among the plurality of pieces of equipment; and a monitored equipment extraction part which extracts, from structured equipment information stored in said structured equipment information storage part, equipment information and relational information on those pieces of equipment which have a prescribed relation to a piece of equipment of interest, having a designation of attributes, the equipment of interest having the designation of attributes being set as a base point for extraction wherein said monitored equipment extraction part calculates a weight value for each of the pieces of equipment from equipment information and relational information extracted by using equipment of interest and relational information that connects said equipment of interest on a graphic structure in which equipment information is represented by a node and said relational information is represented by an arc, and finally extracts pieces of equipment information as a related equipment information set based on the weight values.