Information collecting system and information collecting method
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorSeiji Mizutani
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Abstract
An information collecting system includes a first device including a counter, a second device that collects data from one or more sensing devices in response to a command from the first device, and a third device including a time-measuring unit that manages time. The first device adds, to the data collected by the second device, a first count value output from the counter at a timing when the second device collects the data, to generate a first data set. The third device adds, to the first data set, a correspondence relationship between a time output from the time-measuring unit and a second count value output from the counter of the first device.
Claims18
An information collecting system comprising:
- a first device including a counter;
- a second device configured to collect data from one or more sensing devices in response to a command from the first device;
- and
- a third device including a time-measuring unit configured to manage time,
- wherein the first device is configured to add, to the data collected by the second device, a first count value output from the counter at a timing when the second device collects the data, to generate a first data set, and
- the third device is configured to add, to the first data set, a correspondence relationship between a time output from the time-measuring unit and a second count value output from the counter of the first device,
- wherein:
- the first device is configured to transmit, only when a predetermined condition is satisfied, a count value output from the counter to the third device as the second count value, and
- the third device is configured to associate a time output from the time-measuring unit when the second count value is received from the first device with the second count value received.
An information collecting method that is performed by an information collecting system comprising a first device, the first device including a counter, the information collecting method comprising:
- collecting, by a second device, data from one or more sensing devices in response to a command from the first device;
- adding, by the first device, a first count value output from the counter at a timing when the second device collects the data to the data collected by the second device, to generate a first data set;
- adding, by a third device including a time-measuring unit configured to manage time, a correspondence relationship between a time output from the time-measuring unit and a second count value output from the counter of the first device to the first data set;
- transmitting, by the first device, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, a count value output from the counter to the third device as the second count value, and
- associating, by the third device, a time output from the time-measuring unit when the second count value is received from the first device with the second count value received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.