CA2182722A1 - Apparatus for remotely monitoring controllable devices - Google Patents
Apparatus for remotely monitoring controllable devicesInfo
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M5/00—Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way; Accessories therefor, e.g. filling or cleaning devices, arm-rests
- A61M5/14—Infusion devices, e.g. infusing by gravity; Blood infusion; Accessories therefor
- A61M5/168—Means for controlling media flow to the body or for metering media to the body, e.g. drip meters, counters ; Monitoring media flow to the body
- A61M5/172—Means for controlling media flow to the body or for metering media to the body, e.g. drip meters, counters ; Monitoring media flow to the body electrical or electronic
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M2205/00—General characteristics of the apparatus
- A61M2205/58—Means for facilitating use, e.g. by people with impaired vision
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Abstract
An apparatus for remotely monitoring a plurality of controllable devices, particularly in hospitals. Each device (El, En) includes a control unit (32) actuated in response to a data sequence. The apparatus further includes a portable controller (10) comprising a unit for storing all or part of the control dab related to each device together with device identification data, said data sequence including device operation time data; a unit for generating time data; and a unit for comparing said operation time with the elapsed time data and for generating an alarm signal according to the result of said comparison.
Description
~. O ~182722 APPARATUS FOR REMOTELY MONITOE~ING coNTRor T ~Rr r' DEVICES
The present inverltion relates to an installation for remote monitoring of a plurality of controllable equipments, in particular equipments usable in hospitals, such as pumps 5 for perfusion or for administering medication.
More precisely, the invention relates to an installation for remote and secure monitoring of equipments, in particular hospital equipments for administering liquids injectable into patients, which installation makes it 10 possible simultaneously to verify continuously and remotely the modes of operation of said equipments and the operating stages thereof, and also, preferably but not necessarily, to control them remotely.
It will be understood that in a hospital, the various 15 equipments to be verified, in particular pumps for administering medication, are situated in different premlses and are intended for different patients, with a single person being responsible for verifylng that they are operating properly. It is therefore advantageous to provlde 20 the person in charge of verifying operation of the equipments with means l~aking it posslble at all times to know the operating sta tus of each of the equipments .
It is also possible for the possibility of access to controlling the equipment, optionally to modify the 25 proyl, 1 n~ to be strictly limited to the person in charge of operation, or to be limited at least to a small number of authorized people.
In this type of remote control installation it is also desirable to be able, in the event of an error in 30 pl~y~l 1 n~ or control of an equipment that has given rise to damaging consequences, e. g. for a patient, to know which particular person in t~le staf f of the hospital is responsible for the wrong proyl i n~.
An ob~ect of the present invention is to provide a 35 device for remote monitoring of a plurality controllable equipments, in particular equipment encountered in a hospital or the like, ~n;~hl; ng progress in the operatlon of the equipments to be monitored continuously and remotely, and preferably ensuring that the pnSCt h~ l; ty of proyl ~ n~ or modifying the proyl. ; ng of the equipments is restricted to authorized people .
According to the invention, this ob~ect is achieved by an installation for remote monltoring of a plurality of controllable equipments which i8 characterlzed in that i t compri ses:
- a portable control device including:
means for memorizing at least a portion of the control information relating to each equipment in association with information identifying said equipment, said sequence of information including information representative of the operating duration of said equipment;
means for generating time information;
means for init~ ~l i 71 n~ the time information relative to said equipment effectively being controlled, thereby obtaining elapsed time information; and means for comparing said operating duration with the elapsed time information and for issuing an alarm signal as a function o~ the result of said comparison.
Preferably, the illstallation further includes means for authorizing a sequence of operating information to be input lnto an equipment only in response to a specific item of information.
It will be understood that by means of such a remote monitoring installation, any person responsible for using the equipments is continuously informed by the portable device he or she holds about the time during which an equipment or each equipment has been in operation and thus about the operatillg time L~ 1n~n~, Further, such people are informed whl~n the equipment comes to the end of its operation, thereby ~n;!lhl i n~ them to go and verify visually that the equipment has stopped and possibly take required action with the patient. It should also be specified that the term "information representative of the duration of equipmant operation" should be understood as meaning either information cnnrPrn1 n5 actual operating duration, e.g. for a pump, or else, e.g. for drip feed equipment, information concerning a volume to be administered which will have been converted to an equivalent time by an initlal measurement of the operation of the drip Feed equipment.
In a first embodiment, the control means of each equipment include means for transmltting the sequence of informatlon for controlling operation and said portable device includes means ~or receiving said sequence of information.
In this embodlment, the equlpments are controlled directly by the person responsible. The operation control information sequences are automatically transmitted to the por table device held by the person rPsr~n~lhle and they are automatically memorized therein, thereby avoiding any risk of error.
In a second embodiment, the monitoring installation further includes:
- a plurality of receiver devices for recelving sald control informatlon, each receiver device being mounted on a respectlve one of said equipments;
said portable control device further including:
means for generating said sequence of information for controlling the operatLon of an equipment; and means for transmitting said sequence of control information to a receil,~er device;
each recelver device comprislng:
means for recei~lng sald transmltted control information; and means for controlling said equipment as a function of said information.
In this second emlDodiment, the portable device serves firstly to transmit control information to the receiver devices associated with the equipments, and secondly to memorize said control information and to verify the operating dllration of the equipment.
In a preferred embodiment, the control information sequence further includes information identifying the controlled equipment, a~nd each receiver device further includes means for memorizing information identifying the equipment on which it i s mounted, means for comparing the memorized identification information with the received identification information, and means for authorizing performance of at least some of the other information only if the two items of identification information correspond.
In a variant embodiment, the sequence of instructions further includes information identifying the portable control device, and each receiver device includes means for memorizing the identification information of the portable control device, means for comparing the memorized identification information with the identification information received subsequently, and means for performing at least some of said control information only if the two items of identification information correspond.
It will be understood that with these two preferred embodiments, it is possible to verify the insertion of operating information or of information for modifying operation into the control means of each equipment, thereby protecting the equipments against erroneous control instructions being inserted. In other words, they make it pr~q~ 1 hl P to authorize only a limited number of people to intervene on the operation of the controlled equipments .
Also in a preferred embodiment, each receiver device further includes transnlitter means for re-transmitting at least a portion of the received control information .. 4 2I8272~
seguence, and said portable control device includes means for receiving re-transmitted information, means for comparing the re-transnlitted information with the transmitted information, and means for transmitting an acknowledge signal if the transmitted information and the re-transmitted information corresponds.
In this preferred embodiment, it can be seen that it is possible to ensure that the control information transmitted between the portable control device and the receiver devices associated with each eguipment has been correctly decoded by the receiver devic~s of the eguipments, thus naturally making it posslble to eliminate any risk of error resulting from remote tr~nrm~RR~on of information seguences. This also makes it possible to initialize the counting down of operating time .
Other characteristics and advantages of the present invention appear more clearly on reading the following description of several embodiments of the invention given as non-limiting examples. The description refers to the , ylng figures, in which:
Figure 1 is a simplified outside view of a portable monitoring device;
Figure 2 is a simplified view of a first embodiment of a remote monitoring and control installation;
Figure 3 is a diagram showing the internal circuits of the Figure 1 remote monitoring and control device;
Figure 4 shows a portion of a variant embodiment of a remote monitoring and control installation; and Figure 5 is a silmplified view of another embodiment of an installation providing remote monitoring only .
With reference initially to Figures 1 to 4, an embodiment of the invention is described which provides both remote monitoring and remote control of eguipments.
~ 2182722 With reference to Figure 1, the outside appearance of the portable controL device is described. This device is conventional in appearance, comprising a housing 10 which includes a transmitter of ele~ gnl~tic radiation 5 and preferably of infr~red radiation. The housing preferably further includes a receiver of radiation which may, for example, be tlle same as the transmitter. On its front face 14, the hou~3ing 10 has a display screen 16, e . g . a liquld crystal display, and a keypad 18 10 constituted by keys 20 enabling information to be input into the control device. The houslng preferably also includes an alarm device 22 providing a sound and/or light and/or vibration alarm.
Figure 2 is a diagram showlng an entlre remote 15 control lnstallatlon for equlpments constltuting a first embodiment. This lnstallation has at least one control device 10 whlch is hel~ by a person in charge of managing the operation of the equipments, and a plurality of equlpments El ... En to be Controlled and monitored. In 20 the example shown, the equipments E~ to En are pumps, e . g .
perlstaltlc pumps 24 helvlng small wheels that are used for admlnlsterlng medlcation to a patient via tubing 26.
In ti~e embodiment, eacil equlpment Ei is installed in a ward Pl ... PN' Each ellulpment Ei ls provlded with a 25 control clrcult 28 for the assoclated equlpment and with a unlt for recelvlng and processlng operating information. Each receiver unlt Rl, Rz, ... essentially comprlses an ele~ n~tlc radlation receiver, preferably an infrared beam receiver 30 which is 30 connected to a processor clrcult 32, preferably assoclated wlth a re-writable memory 34. Each receiver unit Ri may advantageously further comprlse an lnfrared beam transmltter 30 ' . The processor clrcult 32 is of conventional type and i s capable of ~ n~ the signals 35 received by the detector 30 to transform them into instructions for controlling the operation of the equlpment El and thus for applying control slgnals to the control circuit 28 of the equipment. In addition, the equipment E1 preferably includes a manual emergency stop member 36 which enables the operation of the equipment to be stopped when it is activated and in the absence of the 5 remote control.
With reference now to Figure 3, the various circuits of the control device 10 are described in greater detail, as are the various fun,stions the device can implement.
The circuit of the control device is essentially 10 constituted, for example, by a microprocessor 40 assoclated firstly with a program memory 42 which may be an EEPROM type memory, for example, and secondly with a data memory 44 which, for example, is a RAM type memory or the like.
The microprocessor 40 can receive instructions issued by the user via the keypad 18. The decoder 46 convarts the signals d,31ivered by actuating the keys of the keypad into digital control signals that are directly usable by the microprocessor. The ml~,Lu~L.,c~ssor 40 is also connected to an lnfrared beam transmit/receive cell 12. More precisely, t]le mlcroprocessor 40 is connected to a control and encoding clrcuit 48 which controls ~ml c~l mn by the diode 50 whenever lt operates as a transmitter and which serves to perform analog-to-digital conversion of the signals received by the cell 50 whenever lt operates as a recelver. The microprocessor is also connected to t]le display circuit 16 via an encoder circuit 52 that is well known per se. The circults of the control devlce 10 also include a clock signal or time base 54 which delivers time pulses on an output 54a that are ap])lied to an input 40a of the mlcro-processor 40. Finally, one of the outputs, preferably an analog output, of the ~nicroprocessor is connected to the audible alarm device 22.
There follows an explanatlon of how the control devlce 10 is used to program the operation of equipments El ... E" associated wlth respective recelver devices Rl ... R". To program an equipment, the holder of the control device lO uses the keypad 18 to enter operating instructions for the equipment that is to be controlled.
This sequence of instructions nPrPc2qArily includes 5 information representative of operating duration which may be constituted, as already PYrl~inPf~, by actual duration information Ol^ by information concerning a volume to be administered, and preferably includes information for identifying the controlled equipment and 10 information that identlfies the control device. This sequence of informatiorl may also include instructions concerning the operatlrlg rate of the equipment when it is constituted by a pump, or other operating instructions.
These instructions are received by t~e microprocessor 40 15 which causes them to be displayed in q~ PqQ~n on the display circuit 16 so that the user can check visually that they are right.
In response to these instructions, the micro-processor causes the irlstructions to be recorded in the 20 data memory 44 and it clctivates the control circuit 48 so that the infrared transmitter 50 transmits a coded signal representative of the various instructions. The infrared signal is received by the receiver 30 of the equipment E
to be controlled. The control circuit 32 of the 25 equipment which is essentially constituted by a micro-processor, preferably causes the transmitter 30 ' to re-transmit the sequence of instructions as received back to the control device. T~lis re-transmitted information is received by the detector 50 and the miuLu~Luut:ssor checks 30 that the transmitted ir~formation matches the received information. If there is a match, it causes the transmitter 50 to transmit an acknowledge signal to the equipment E1. ûn recep,tion of the acknowledge signal, the processor circuit 32 of the equipment conveys to the 35 control circuit 28 the operating instructions for the equipment, e.g. the associated pump 24.
2I82~22 In a variant, it is possible to provide two procedures making it possible to ensure that the instructions conveyed ~1re conveyed legally, i.e. by an authorized person. In a first verification mode, the memory 34 associated with the processor circuit 32 includes lnformatlon speclfic to the equipment. The processor circuit 32 compares sald lnformation with the corresponding informati on in the control information sequence received from the control device lO. When there is a match, the lnstructions are indeed conveyed to the control circuit 28 of the associated equipment. In a verification variant, the memory circuit 34 includes an instruction for identifying the control device and the information sequence transmitted by the portable device lO also includes identification information. The processor circuit 32 compares the two items of identification information and the instructions for controlling operation of the equipment are not performed unless the two items of identification information match.
When the control device transmits the acknowledge signal, the microprocessor 40 is caused to execute a time countdown SUb~LUY1CIII which serves to compare the time information provided by the time base 54 with the instructed operating duration of the equipment as stored in the memory 44 in association with information identifying the equipment. When the comparison subprogram detects that the time which has actually elapsed has become equal to the operating duration of the equipment, the microprocessor 40 causes the alarm device 22 to be excited. In a variant embodiment, it is posslble to provide for the comparison SUbPLU~Ldl~l to generate a f irst compa~ison signal when the elapsed time corresponds to the ~royl~ d operating duration minus a predet~rm1n-~fl pre-alarm duration stored in the memory 42, which duration may be equal to 5 minutes, for example.
ûn detecting the pre-alarm instant, the ~ ,~nn~nt 22 transmlts a special signal to inform the user that the equipment concerned E1 will shortly come to an end of its operation. The equipment is identified in the memory of the portable device by a ward number, a bed number, a pump number, etc.
The above-described lnstallation for remote control of equipment presents numerous advantages over manual control of said equipment.
The person respon~,lble for managing a set of equipments and who hol~1s the portable control device can f ind out at any time w~lat the operating parameters are of each of the eq~ he or she is in charge of, since these parameters are stored in the memory of the device.
They can therefore be modified, where appropriate, by using the device to transmlt new values for the parameters to the equipment ~nn~~PrnP~i In particular, it is possible to establish at any time the operating duration that remains ~ or each equipment. In addition, the person r~sp~)nRl hl ~ is automatically informed whenever an equipment has ceased to operate.
Because of the information identifying the control device and the equipments, it is p(~F:Ri hl ~ to authorize the holder of a given control device to act only on a given equipment, or more likely on a given group of equipments .
Finally, since the operating instructions for the equipments remaln in t~le memory of the control device, in the event of a problem it is po5~:1 hl ~ to find out who gave the operating instructions, since that person will be the holder of the control device in the corrf~sp~-n~ i ns time period . In additi on, by passing the portable device to another nurse, the other nurse has avallable, and without risk of error, all of the information relating to the equipments she is taking charge of.
Figure 4 shows an improved embodiment of a remote control installation irl a first embodiment. In the figure, there can be seen equipments E1 with respective receiver devices R1, each receiver device being provided 11 21 ~2 722 with an infrared receil~er 30 and an infrared transmitter 30 ' . Each equlpment Ei is installed in a ward P1. Each ward P1 is fitted with an infrared receiving tprm~n~l B~
capable of receiving t~e infrared signals transmitted by 5 the transmitter 30' of the equipment E1. Each tPrm1nAl B
is connected by an electrical conductor C1 to a concentrator 60 which iis in turn connected to a remote monltoring desk 62 installed in a monitoring room LS. In this embodiment, the ci rcuits 28 and 32 of the receiver 10 devices R1 are configured to cause the transmitter 30 ' to transmit an infrared a] arm signal in the event of faulty operation of the equipment with which it is associated.
This alarm signal is received by the ~rm;nAl Bi and is conveyed to the remote monitoring desk 62.
In the simplified embodiment shown in Figure 5, that serves to perform remote monitoring only of the equipments, the install.ation comprises at least one remote monitoring appli.ance 10 ' and a plurality of equipments E'1 to Eln to be monitored that are installed 20 in respective wards P ' 1 . P ' n The monitoring appliance lO ' is simplified compared with the monitoring and control appliance lO. It essentially comprises an ele~ gnPtic signal receiver, preferably for receiving infrared signals, said receiver being referenced 70. The 25 receiver 70 is connected to circuits inside the appliance and given general reference 72. These circuits 72 are PTrl A~nP-l below with reference to the diagram of Figure 3. The appliance also includes an alarm device 74 which may provide an alarm th.at is optical, audible, or by 30 means of vibration. The appliance preferably also defines a card reader 76, the reader essentially including a card insert.ion slot 78, and when the card 80 is of the electronic memory type, a connector 82 which is connected to the circuit 72. Naturally, the card could 35 be of the magnetic type, for example, in which case the reader corresponds thereto. The card essentially contains in its memory information for identifying each ~ 2l82722 person who may be in charge of the lnstallation. When the card is inserted in the reader 76, the circuit 72 reads the information identifying the holder, which information is stored in the memory portion of the 5 circuit 72. As explained below, this makes it possible to associate each set of operating information for an equipment E'i with information identifying the person who ~yL ~ the equipment.
Each equipment E ' comprises, for example, a pump 24 10 associated with control and processing circuits 32 ' and with a memory 34, whic~ unit forms the receiver device R ' i . To control the p~lmp 24, each equipment includes an information input member, e.g. a keypad 84 which serves to input instructions for controlling the operation of 15 the pump 24. When the person responsible has finished inputting information for controlling the operation of the pump 24, the processor circuit 32 ' controls a transmitter 30 ', e.g. an infrared transmitter, to cause it to send signals to the receiver 70 of the monitoring 20 device lO ' corresponding to all of the sequence of control information previously input by the person responsible .
The installation for remote monitoring is used as follows: when the person responsible seeks to program an 25 equipment, e.g. the equipment E'1, that person inserts the card 80 into the housing of the portable device lO ' and uses the keypad 84 to input instructions for controlling the operation of the pump 24. These instructions are stored in the memory 34 and they are 30 processed by the processor circuits 32 ' . When the person responsible has confirmed the sequence of instructions, the processor device 32 ' causes the infrared transmitter 30 ' to transmit a signal representative of the various instructions input together with information identifying 35 the equipment . The po]-table device lO ' is disposed in such a manner that its receiver 30 receives these signals. The processor circuit 72 converts these signals 21 82 72~
into digital data which is stored in a portion of the memory of the circuit 72. The information stored in the memory has the identification information as read from the card 80 added thereto. Thus, after successively 5 controlling a plurality of eq~ , E'i, the memory of the portable device 10 ' contains sets of information each including the identity of the equipment, the identity of the person responsible, and the instructions for controlling the operation of the corrr3crr~nr~ i n~ ecuipment .
10 The circuit 72 includes elements analogous to those shown in Figure 3 for generating information relating to the time that has elapsed since said data was input into the portable device, which corresponds to the b~innin~ of operation of the corresponding equipment, and means for 15 comparing the time that has elapsed since said initialization with information representative of the programmed operating dwration for the equipment. The circuits 72 include, , t ra which control the alarm device 74 when the ope~ ating duration has been reached or 20 possibly, as already ~ rl a1 nr~d above with reference to the preceding figures, which issues a pre-alarm signal followed by an alarm signal.
It should be added that with the portable device 10 of the first embodiment described with reference to 25 Figures 1 to 4, it is also possible to provide for the portable device to include a magnetic or electronic card reader integrated in its housing and into which the person r~qp~n~hle must insert a card to enable the control and monitoring device 10 to operate.
The present inverltion relates to an installation for remote monitoring of a plurality of controllable equipments, in particular equipments usable in hospitals, such as pumps 5 for perfusion or for administering medication.
More precisely, the invention relates to an installation for remote and secure monitoring of equipments, in particular hospital equipments for administering liquids injectable into patients, which installation makes it 10 possible simultaneously to verify continuously and remotely the modes of operation of said equipments and the operating stages thereof, and also, preferably but not necessarily, to control them remotely.
It will be understood that in a hospital, the various 15 equipments to be verified, in particular pumps for administering medication, are situated in different premlses and are intended for different patients, with a single person being responsible for verifylng that they are operating properly. It is therefore advantageous to provlde 20 the person in charge of verifying operation of the equipments with means l~aking it posslble at all times to know the operating sta tus of each of the equipments .
It is also possible for the possibility of access to controlling the equipment, optionally to modify the 25 proyl, 1 n~ to be strictly limited to the person in charge of operation, or to be limited at least to a small number of authorized people.
In this type of remote control installation it is also desirable to be able, in the event of an error in 30 pl~y~l 1 n~ or control of an equipment that has given rise to damaging consequences, e. g. for a patient, to know which particular person in t~le staf f of the hospital is responsible for the wrong proyl i n~.
An ob~ect of the present invention is to provide a 35 device for remote monitoring of a plurality controllable equipments, in particular equipment encountered in a hospital or the like, ~n;~hl; ng progress in the operatlon of the equipments to be monitored continuously and remotely, and preferably ensuring that the pnSCt h~ l; ty of proyl ~ n~ or modifying the proyl. ; ng of the equipments is restricted to authorized people .
According to the invention, this ob~ect is achieved by an installation for remote monltoring of a plurality of controllable equipments which i8 characterlzed in that i t compri ses:
- a portable control device including:
means for memorizing at least a portion of the control information relating to each equipment in association with information identifying said equipment, said sequence of information including information representative of the operating duration of said equipment;
means for generating time information;
means for init~ ~l i 71 n~ the time information relative to said equipment effectively being controlled, thereby obtaining elapsed time information; and means for comparing said operating duration with the elapsed time information and for issuing an alarm signal as a function o~ the result of said comparison.
Preferably, the illstallation further includes means for authorizing a sequence of operating information to be input lnto an equipment only in response to a specific item of information.
It will be understood that by means of such a remote monitoring installation, any person responsible for using the equipments is continuously informed by the portable device he or she holds about the time during which an equipment or each equipment has been in operation and thus about the operatillg time L~ 1n~n~, Further, such people are informed whl~n the equipment comes to the end of its operation, thereby ~n;!lhl i n~ them to go and verify visually that the equipment has stopped and possibly take required action with the patient. It should also be specified that the term "information representative of the duration of equipmant operation" should be understood as meaning either information cnnrPrn1 n5 actual operating duration, e.g. for a pump, or else, e.g. for drip feed equipment, information concerning a volume to be administered which will have been converted to an equivalent time by an initlal measurement of the operation of the drip Feed equipment.
In a first embodiment, the control means of each equipment include means for transmltting the sequence of informatlon for controlling operation and said portable device includes means ~or receiving said sequence of information.
In this embodlment, the equlpments are controlled directly by the person responsible. The operation control information sequences are automatically transmitted to the por table device held by the person rPsr~n~lhle and they are automatically memorized therein, thereby avoiding any risk of error.
In a second embodiment, the monitoring installation further includes:
- a plurality of receiver devices for recelving sald control informatlon, each receiver device being mounted on a respectlve one of said equipments;
said portable control device further including:
means for generating said sequence of information for controlling the operatLon of an equipment; and means for transmitting said sequence of control information to a receil,~er device;
each recelver device comprislng:
means for recei~lng sald transmltted control information; and means for controlling said equipment as a function of said information.
In this second emlDodiment, the portable device serves firstly to transmit control information to the receiver devices associated with the equipments, and secondly to memorize said control information and to verify the operating dllration of the equipment.
In a preferred embodiment, the control information sequence further includes information identifying the controlled equipment, a~nd each receiver device further includes means for memorizing information identifying the equipment on which it i s mounted, means for comparing the memorized identification information with the received identification information, and means for authorizing performance of at least some of the other information only if the two items of identification information correspond.
In a variant embodiment, the sequence of instructions further includes information identifying the portable control device, and each receiver device includes means for memorizing the identification information of the portable control device, means for comparing the memorized identification information with the identification information received subsequently, and means for performing at least some of said control information only if the two items of identification information correspond.
It will be understood that with these two preferred embodiments, it is possible to verify the insertion of operating information or of information for modifying operation into the control means of each equipment, thereby protecting the equipments against erroneous control instructions being inserted. In other words, they make it pr~q~ 1 hl P to authorize only a limited number of people to intervene on the operation of the controlled equipments .
Also in a preferred embodiment, each receiver device further includes transnlitter means for re-transmitting at least a portion of the received control information .. 4 2I8272~
seguence, and said portable control device includes means for receiving re-transmitted information, means for comparing the re-transnlitted information with the transmitted information, and means for transmitting an acknowledge signal if the transmitted information and the re-transmitted information corresponds.
In this preferred embodiment, it can be seen that it is possible to ensure that the control information transmitted between the portable control device and the receiver devices associated with each eguipment has been correctly decoded by the receiver devic~s of the eguipments, thus naturally making it posslble to eliminate any risk of error resulting from remote tr~nrm~RR~on of information seguences. This also makes it possible to initialize the counting down of operating time .
Other characteristics and advantages of the present invention appear more clearly on reading the following description of several embodiments of the invention given as non-limiting examples. The description refers to the , ylng figures, in which:
Figure 1 is a simplified outside view of a portable monitoring device;
Figure 2 is a simplified view of a first embodiment of a remote monitoring and control installation;
Figure 3 is a diagram showing the internal circuits of the Figure 1 remote monitoring and control device;
Figure 4 shows a portion of a variant embodiment of a remote monitoring and control installation; and Figure 5 is a silmplified view of another embodiment of an installation providing remote monitoring only .
With reference initially to Figures 1 to 4, an embodiment of the invention is described which provides both remote monitoring and remote control of eguipments.
~ 2182722 With reference to Figure 1, the outside appearance of the portable controL device is described. This device is conventional in appearance, comprising a housing 10 which includes a transmitter of ele~ gnl~tic radiation 5 and preferably of infr~red radiation. The housing preferably further includes a receiver of radiation which may, for example, be tlle same as the transmitter. On its front face 14, the hou~3ing 10 has a display screen 16, e . g . a liquld crystal display, and a keypad 18 10 constituted by keys 20 enabling information to be input into the control device. The houslng preferably also includes an alarm device 22 providing a sound and/or light and/or vibration alarm.
Figure 2 is a diagram showlng an entlre remote 15 control lnstallatlon for equlpments constltuting a first embodiment. This lnstallation has at least one control device 10 whlch is hel~ by a person in charge of managing the operation of the equipments, and a plurality of equlpments El ... En to be Controlled and monitored. In 20 the example shown, the equipments E~ to En are pumps, e . g .
perlstaltlc pumps 24 helvlng small wheels that are used for admlnlsterlng medlcation to a patient via tubing 26.
In ti~e embodiment, eacil equlpment Ei is installed in a ward Pl ... PN' Each ellulpment Ei ls provlded with a 25 control clrcult 28 for the assoclated equlpment and with a unlt for recelvlng and processlng operating information. Each receiver unlt Rl, Rz, ... essentially comprlses an ele~ n~tlc radlation receiver, preferably an infrared beam receiver 30 which is 30 connected to a processor clrcult 32, preferably assoclated wlth a re-writable memory 34. Each receiver unit Ri may advantageously further comprlse an lnfrared beam transmltter 30 ' . The processor clrcult 32 is of conventional type and i s capable of ~ n~ the signals 35 received by the detector 30 to transform them into instructions for controlling the operation of the equlpment El and thus for applying control slgnals to the control circuit 28 of the equipment. In addition, the equipment E1 preferably includes a manual emergency stop member 36 which enables the operation of the equipment to be stopped when it is activated and in the absence of the 5 remote control.
With reference now to Figure 3, the various circuits of the control device 10 are described in greater detail, as are the various fun,stions the device can implement.
The circuit of the control device is essentially 10 constituted, for example, by a microprocessor 40 assoclated firstly with a program memory 42 which may be an EEPROM type memory, for example, and secondly with a data memory 44 which, for example, is a RAM type memory or the like.
The microprocessor 40 can receive instructions issued by the user via the keypad 18. The decoder 46 convarts the signals d,31ivered by actuating the keys of the keypad into digital control signals that are directly usable by the microprocessor. The ml~,Lu~L.,c~ssor 40 is also connected to an lnfrared beam transmit/receive cell 12. More precisely, t]le mlcroprocessor 40 is connected to a control and encoding clrcuit 48 which controls ~ml c~l mn by the diode 50 whenever lt operates as a transmitter and which serves to perform analog-to-digital conversion of the signals received by the cell 50 whenever lt operates as a recelver. The microprocessor is also connected to t]le display circuit 16 via an encoder circuit 52 that is well known per se. The circults of the control devlce 10 also include a clock signal or time base 54 which delivers time pulses on an output 54a that are ap])lied to an input 40a of the mlcro-processor 40. Finally, one of the outputs, preferably an analog output, of the ~nicroprocessor is connected to the audible alarm device 22.
There follows an explanatlon of how the control devlce 10 is used to program the operation of equipments El ... E" associated wlth respective recelver devices Rl ... R". To program an equipment, the holder of the control device lO uses the keypad 18 to enter operating instructions for the equipment that is to be controlled.
This sequence of instructions nPrPc2qArily includes 5 information representative of operating duration which may be constituted, as already PYrl~inPf~, by actual duration information Ol^ by information concerning a volume to be administered, and preferably includes information for identifying the controlled equipment and 10 information that identlfies the control device. This sequence of informatiorl may also include instructions concerning the operatlrlg rate of the equipment when it is constituted by a pump, or other operating instructions.
These instructions are received by t~e microprocessor 40 15 which causes them to be displayed in q~ PqQ~n on the display circuit 16 so that the user can check visually that they are right.
In response to these instructions, the micro-processor causes the irlstructions to be recorded in the 20 data memory 44 and it clctivates the control circuit 48 so that the infrared transmitter 50 transmits a coded signal representative of the various instructions. The infrared signal is received by the receiver 30 of the equipment E
to be controlled. The control circuit 32 of the 25 equipment which is essentially constituted by a micro-processor, preferably causes the transmitter 30 ' to re-transmit the sequence of instructions as received back to the control device. T~lis re-transmitted information is received by the detector 50 and the miuLu~Luut:ssor checks 30 that the transmitted ir~formation matches the received information. If there is a match, it causes the transmitter 50 to transmit an acknowledge signal to the equipment E1. ûn recep,tion of the acknowledge signal, the processor circuit 32 of the equipment conveys to the 35 control circuit 28 the operating instructions for the equipment, e.g. the associated pump 24.
2I82~22 In a variant, it is possible to provide two procedures making it possible to ensure that the instructions conveyed ~1re conveyed legally, i.e. by an authorized person. In a first verification mode, the memory 34 associated with the processor circuit 32 includes lnformatlon speclfic to the equipment. The processor circuit 32 compares sald lnformation with the corresponding informati on in the control information sequence received from the control device lO. When there is a match, the lnstructions are indeed conveyed to the control circuit 28 of the associated equipment. In a verification variant, the memory circuit 34 includes an instruction for identifying the control device and the information sequence transmitted by the portable device lO also includes identification information. The processor circuit 32 compares the two items of identification information and the instructions for controlling operation of the equipment are not performed unless the two items of identification information match.
When the control device transmits the acknowledge signal, the microprocessor 40 is caused to execute a time countdown SUb~LUY1CIII which serves to compare the time information provided by the time base 54 with the instructed operating duration of the equipment as stored in the memory 44 in association with information identifying the equipment. When the comparison subprogram detects that the time which has actually elapsed has become equal to the operating duration of the equipment, the microprocessor 40 causes the alarm device 22 to be excited. In a variant embodiment, it is posslble to provide for the comparison SUbPLU~Ldl~l to generate a f irst compa~ison signal when the elapsed time corresponds to the ~royl~ d operating duration minus a predet~rm1n-~fl pre-alarm duration stored in the memory 42, which duration may be equal to 5 minutes, for example.
ûn detecting the pre-alarm instant, the ~ ,~nn~nt 22 transmlts a special signal to inform the user that the equipment concerned E1 will shortly come to an end of its operation. The equipment is identified in the memory of the portable device by a ward number, a bed number, a pump number, etc.
The above-described lnstallation for remote control of equipment presents numerous advantages over manual control of said equipment.
The person respon~,lble for managing a set of equipments and who hol~1s the portable control device can f ind out at any time w~lat the operating parameters are of each of the eq~ he or she is in charge of, since these parameters are stored in the memory of the device.
They can therefore be modified, where appropriate, by using the device to transmlt new values for the parameters to the equipment ~nn~~PrnP~i In particular, it is possible to establish at any time the operating duration that remains ~ or each equipment. In addition, the person r~sp~)nRl hl ~ is automatically informed whenever an equipment has ceased to operate.
Because of the information identifying the control device and the equipments, it is p(~F:Ri hl ~ to authorize the holder of a given control device to act only on a given equipment, or more likely on a given group of equipments .
Finally, since the operating instructions for the equipments remaln in t~le memory of the control device, in the event of a problem it is po5~:1 hl ~ to find out who gave the operating instructions, since that person will be the holder of the control device in the corrf~sp~-n~ i ns time period . In additi on, by passing the portable device to another nurse, the other nurse has avallable, and without risk of error, all of the information relating to the equipments she is taking charge of.
Figure 4 shows an improved embodiment of a remote control installation irl a first embodiment. In the figure, there can be seen equipments E1 with respective receiver devices R1, each receiver device being provided 11 21 ~2 722 with an infrared receil~er 30 and an infrared transmitter 30 ' . Each equlpment Ei is installed in a ward P1. Each ward P1 is fitted with an infrared receiving tprm~n~l B~
capable of receiving t~e infrared signals transmitted by 5 the transmitter 30' of the equipment E1. Each tPrm1nAl B
is connected by an electrical conductor C1 to a concentrator 60 which iis in turn connected to a remote monltoring desk 62 installed in a monitoring room LS. In this embodiment, the ci rcuits 28 and 32 of the receiver 10 devices R1 are configured to cause the transmitter 30 ' to transmit an infrared a] arm signal in the event of faulty operation of the equipment with which it is associated.
This alarm signal is received by the ~rm;nAl Bi and is conveyed to the remote monitoring desk 62.
In the simplified embodiment shown in Figure 5, that serves to perform remote monitoring only of the equipments, the install.ation comprises at least one remote monitoring appli.ance 10 ' and a plurality of equipments E'1 to Eln to be monitored that are installed 20 in respective wards P ' 1 . P ' n The monitoring appliance lO ' is simplified compared with the monitoring and control appliance lO. It essentially comprises an ele~ gnPtic signal receiver, preferably for receiving infrared signals, said receiver being referenced 70. The 25 receiver 70 is connected to circuits inside the appliance and given general reference 72. These circuits 72 are PTrl A~nP-l below with reference to the diagram of Figure 3. The appliance also includes an alarm device 74 which may provide an alarm th.at is optical, audible, or by 30 means of vibration. The appliance preferably also defines a card reader 76, the reader essentially including a card insert.ion slot 78, and when the card 80 is of the electronic memory type, a connector 82 which is connected to the circuit 72. Naturally, the card could 35 be of the magnetic type, for example, in which case the reader corresponds thereto. The card essentially contains in its memory information for identifying each ~ 2l82722 person who may be in charge of the lnstallation. When the card is inserted in the reader 76, the circuit 72 reads the information identifying the holder, which information is stored in the memory portion of the 5 circuit 72. As explained below, this makes it possible to associate each set of operating information for an equipment E'i with information identifying the person who ~yL ~ the equipment.
Each equipment E ' comprises, for example, a pump 24 10 associated with control and processing circuits 32 ' and with a memory 34, whic~ unit forms the receiver device R ' i . To control the p~lmp 24, each equipment includes an information input member, e.g. a keypad 84 which serves to input instructions for controlling the operation of 15 the pump 24. When the person responsible has finished inputting information for controlling the operation of the pump 24, the processor circuit 32 ' controls a transmitter 30 ', e.g. an infrared transmitter, to cause it to send signals to the receiver 70 of the monitoring 20 device lO ' corresponding to all of the sequence of control information previously input by the person responsible .
The installation for remote monitoring is used as follows: when the person responsible seeks to program an 25 equipment, e.g. the equipment E'1, that person inserts the card 80 into the housing of the portable device lO ' and uses the keypad 84 to input instructions for controlling the operation of the pump 24. These instructions are stored in the memory 34 and they are 30 processed by the processor circuits 32 ' . When the person responsible has confirmed the sequence of instructions, the processor device 32 ' causes the infrared transmitter 30 ' to transmit a signal representative of the various instructions input together with information identifying 35 the equipment . The po]-table device lO ' is disposed in such a manner that its receiver 30 receives these signals. The processor circuit 72 converts these signals 21 82 72~
into digital data which is stored in a portion of the memory of the circuit 72. The information stored in the memory has the identification information as read from the card 80 added thereto. Thus, after successively 5 controlling a plurality of eq~ , E'i, the memory of the portable device 10 ' contains sets of information each including the identity of the equipment, the identity of the person responsible, and the instructions for controlling the operation of the corrr3crr~nr~ i n~ ecuipment .
10 The circuit 72 includes elements analogous to those shown in Figure 3 for generating information relating to the time that has elapsed since said data was input into the portable device, which corresponds to the b~innin~ of operation of the corresponding equipment, and means for 15 comparing the time that has elapsed since said initialization with information representative of the programmed operating dwration for the equipment. The circuits 72 include, , t ra which control the alarm device 74 when the ope~ ating duration has been reached or 20 possibly, as already ~ rl a1 nr~d above with reference to the preceding figures, which issues a pre-alarm signal followed by an alarm signal.
It should be added that with the portable device 10 of the first embodiment described with reference to 25 Figures 1 to 4, it is also possible to provide for the portable device to include a magnetic or electronic card reader integrated in its housing and into which the person r~qp~n~hle must insert a card to enable the control and monitoring device 10 to operate.
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- l/ An installation for remote monitoring of a plurality of controllable equipments, characterized in that each equipment includes control means activated in response to a control information sequence including duration of operation information, and in that the installation further includes:
- a portable control device (10) held by the person responsible for monitoring and comprising:
memorizing means for memorizing at least a portion of the control information relating to each equipment in association with information identifying said equipment, said memorized information including at least the information representative of the operating duration of said equipment;
means for generating time information;
means for initializing the time information relative to said equipment effectively being controlled, thereby obtaining elapsed time information; and means for comparing said operating duration with the elapsed time information and for issuing an alarm signal as a function of the result of said comparison. - 2/ A remote monitoring installation according to claim 1, characterized in that it further includes means for authorizing a sequence of operating information to be input into an equipment only in response to a specific item of information.
- 3/ A remote monitoring installation according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the control means of each equipment further include means for transmitting the sequence of information for controlling operation and in that said portable device includes means for receiving said sequence of information and for storing said sequence of information in the memorizing means.
- 4/ A remote monitoring installation according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it further includes:
- a plurality of receiver devices (Ri) for receiving said control information, each receiver device being mounted on a respective one of said equipments:
said portable control device further including:
means (40) for generating said sequence of information for controlling the operation of an equipment; and means (12, 50) for transmitting said sequence of control information to a receiver device, each receiver device comprising:
means (30) for receiving said transmitted control information; and means (28) for controlling said equipment as a function of said information. - 5/ An installation according to claim 3, characterized in that said control information sequence further includes information identifying the controlled equipment, and in that each receiver device (Ri) further includes means (34) for memorizing information identifying the equipment on which it is mounted, means (32) for comparing the memorized identification information with the received identification information, and means for authorizing performance of at least some of the other information only if the two items of identification information correspond.
- 6/ An installation according to claim 4, characterized in that said sequence of instructions further includes information identifying the portable control device (10), and in that each receiver device (Ri) includes means (34) for memorizing the identification information of the portable control device, means (32) for comparing the memorized identification information with the identification information, received subsequently, and means for performing at least some of said control information only if the two items of identification information correspond.
- 7/ An installation according to any one of claims 4 to 6, characterized in that each receiver device (Ri) further includes transmitter means (30') for re-transmitting at least a portion of the received control information sequence, and in that said portable control device includes means (12, 50) for receiving re-transmitted information, means (40) for comparing the re-transmitted information with the transmitted information, and means for transmitting an acknowledge signal if the transmitted information and the re-transmitted information corresponds.
- 8/ An installation according to claim 7, characterized in that said acknowledge signal received by said portable control device initializes the means for generating time information (54) relating to the equipment which transmitted the acknowledge signal.
- 9/ An installation according to any one of claims 4 to 8, characterized in that said information is transmitted in the form of electromagnetic waves.
- 10/ An installation according to claim 9, characterized in that said information is transmitted in the form of an infrared signal.
- 11/ An installation according to claim 9 or 10, characterized in that said portable control device comprises a housing with a keypad (18), a display device (16), means (12, 50) for transmitting an electromagnetic wave, and electronic circuits for generating said information on the basis of data input via the keypad, for storing said information, and for controlling the means for transmitting the electromagnetic wave as a function of the generated information.
- 12/ An installation according to claim 9 or 10, characterized in that each receiver device (Ri) further includes means (32, 30') for transmitting information relating to the actual operation of the equipment (Ei) on which said receiver device is mounted, and in that said installation further includes at least one terminal (Bi) suitable for receiving said information about actual operation and for forwarding it to a monitoring center (60, 62).
- 13/ An installation according to claim 4 or 8, characterized in that said portable control device (10) further includes means (40) for programming time duration information, and in that said means for transmitting an alarm signal includes means for transmitting a pre-alarm signal at an instant that precedes the operating duration of at least one of the equipments by a length of time equal to said programmed time duration.
14/ An installation according to claim 5, characterized in that it includes a plurality of equipment (Ei), a plurality of receiver devices (Ri), and a plurality of portable control devices (10), each receiver device including means for memorizing a plurality of items of portable control device identification information and means for authorizing performance of at least some received control information if the identification information of the control device that transmitted said information is stored in said receiver device.
15/ An installation according to any one of claims 1 to - 14, characterized in that said portable device further includes means for reading information identifying the user of the portable device and stored in a removable information medium, and means for memorizing said user identification information together with the sequence of information for controlling the operation of an equipment .
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