JP-7855429-B2 - Water supply management system, water supply management method and program

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Inventors

丸田敏之

Assignees

メタウォーター株式会社

Dates

Publication Date: 20260508
Application Date: 20220707

Claims (4)

Multiple terminal devices are provided at each of the multiple water taps , The water business operator has an information processing device that receives information via the aforementioned multiple terminal devices and network, Each of the aforementioned multiple terminal devices detects water tap status information, including the degree to which the water tap is opened and the amount of water dispensed from the water tap or the water pressure of the water dispensed from the water tap. If the degree to which the water tap is opened and the amount of water or water pressure in the water tap status information do not correspond, the terminal device determines that the water tap is shut off. If the water shut off is determined, the terminal device transmits the water shutoff information to the information processing device via the network. The information processing device is a water management system that identifies the area where the water outage occurred, including the location of the water tap where the water outage occurred, based on the water outage information received from the plurality of terminal devices .
The water supply management system according to claim 1 , further comprising a notification means for notifying that there is a water outage when the water tap is opened in the area where the water outage has occurred.
A water management method implemented by a water management system, The aforementioned water supply management system is Multiple terminal devices are provided at each of the multiple water taps , The water business operator has an information processing device that receives information via the aforementioned multiple terminal devices and network, Each of the aforementioned multiple terminal devices detects the degree to which the water tap is opened and water tap status information including the amount of water dispensed from the water tap or the water pressure of the water dispensed from the water tap, determines that the water tap is shut off if the degree of opening and the amount of water or water pressure in the water tap status information do not correspond, and transmits the water shutoff information to the information processing device via the network when the water shutoff is determined. A water supply management method comprising: the information processing device identifying the area where the water outage occurred, including the location of the water tap where the water outage occurred, based on water outage information received from the plurality of terminal devices .
The water supply management system has a plurality of terminal devices provided at each of the plurality of water taps, and an information processing device provided at the water utility that receives information from the plurality of terminal devices via a network, and the information processing device has a processor in the information processing device . The aforementioned multiple terminal devices detect the degree to which the water tap is opened and the amount of water dispensed from the tap or the water pressure of the water dispensed from the tap, determine that the water tap is shut off if the detected degree of opening does not correspond to the amount of water or the water pressure, and receive water shutoff information transmitted via the network when the water shutoff is determined. A program that performs the following steps: Based on water outage information received from the aforementioned multiple terminal devices, it identifies the area where the water outage occurred, including the location of the water tap where the outage occurred.

Description

This disclosure relates to a water management system, a water management method, and a program. Conventionally, systems or devices for detecting abnormalities in water supply have been proposed. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a communication mechanism that detects water leaks from the connection between a faucet and a water pipe by comparing the sum of individual flow sensors (which detect the flow rate for each faucet) and a total flow sensor (which detects the total flow rate) with the sum of the individual flow rates. Furthermore, Patent Document 2 discloses a pressurized water supply device in which a pressure detection unit is attached to the water supply pipe via a branch pipe, etc., and monitors whether a water outage has occurred based on the detected pressure within the water supply pipe. Japanese Patent Publication No. 2002-367070Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 10-204940 Figure 1 is a block diagram illustrating a water supply management system according to one embodiment of the present disclosure.Figure 2 shows an example of the configuration of the water supply management system shown in Figure 1.Figure 3 illustrates the procedures to be followed in the event of a water outage.Figure 4 illustrates the treatment of abnormal water quality. The water supply management system according to the embodiment of this disclosure will be described below with reference to the drawings. In each drawing, identical or corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference numerals. In the description of this embodiment, the description of identical or corresponding parts will be omitted or simplified as appropriate. (Water supply management system) Figure 1 is a block diagram of the water supply management system 1 according to this embodiment. Figure 2 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of the water supply management system 1 in Figure 1. The water supply management system 1 is a system for managing the quality and status of water supply, used by water operators who supply and process water and by water users. The water supply management system 1 includes a terminal device 100 installed on a water tap and an information processing device 10 that can communicate with the terminal device 100 via a network 40. Here, the water tap can be any object that a user operates when using water, and is not limited to a tap on a public water supply. The water tap includes various devices used in facilities that use water, such as agricultural water, industrial water, and firefighting water, for turning water on, off, and adjusting the flow rate. The network 40 is, for example, the internet. As shown in Figure 2, there may be multiple terminal devices 100. When describing each of the multiple terminal devices 100 separately, they may be referred to as terminal device 100A and terminal device 100B, etc. However, since the components of the terminal device 100 are the same, only one terminal device 100 is shown in Figure 1. (Information processing device) The information processing device 10 has the following hardware configuration. The information processing device 10 comprises a communication unit 11, a storage unit 12, a control unit 13, an input unit 20, and a display unit 21. The information processing device 10 may be a computer installed by a water business operator. The communication unit 11 is one or more communication interfaces that communicate with the terminal device 100 via the network 40. The communication unit 11 can send and receive various types of data with the terminal device 100. The communication unit 11 also includes communication interfaces that communicate with the input unit 20 and the display unit 21. These communication interfaces may be, for example, USB. The storage unit 12 is one or more memory devices. These memories are, for example, semiconductor memory, magnetic memory, or optical memory, but are not limited to these and can be any type of memory. The storage unit 12 is, for example, built into the information processing device 10, but it can also be configured to be connected to the information processing device 10 externally via any interface. The control unit 13 is one or more processors. The processors are, for example, general-purpose processors or dedicated processors specialized for specific processing, but are not limited to these and can be any processor. The control unit 13 controls the overall operation of the information processing device 10. The information processing device 10 has the following software configuration. One or more programs used to control the operation of the information processing device 10 are stored in the storage unit 12. When a program stored in the storage unit 12 is read by the control unit 13, the control unit 13 functions as an acquisition means 14, a identification means 15, a notification means 16, and an output means 17. The outlines of each means are as follows: The acquisition means 14 acquires information regar