Control apparatus and control system
AssigneeDaikin Industries, Ltd.
InventorTakayuki Nakahara
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Abstract
A control apparatus is communicably connected to a first apparatus to perform a control on the first apparatus. The control apparatus includes a data collecting unit, a collection interval determining unit, and a storing unit. The data collecting unit collects, by polling and from the first apparatus, data in order to perform the control. The collection interval determining unit determines, based on a setting content of the control, a collection interval of the data collected by the data collecting unit. The control apparatus performs a plurality of the controls on one first apparatus. The storing unit stores, for each of the controls, one data item or a plurality of data items constituting the data. The storing unit further stores, for each of the data items, the collection interval.
Claims19
A control apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a storage, the storage storing a program and information regarding a plurality of data items to be collected during each of a plurality of control modes,
- the control apparatus being configured to be communicably connected to an external apparatus different from the control apparatus and control the external apparatus in accordance with any one of the plurality of control modes,
- the processor being configured to execute the program to
- acquire a plurality of setting contents for the plurality of control modes, each of the plurality of setting contents including at least one value used to control the external apparatus in accordance with each of the plurality of control modes,
- determine a plurality of collection intervals based on the plurality of setting contents, each of the plurality of collection intervals corresponding to one of the plurality of data items,
- receive a selection of one control mode among, the plurality of control modes,
- determine at least one specific data item, among the plurality of data items, to be collected during execution of the one control mode based on the information regarding the plurality of data items,
- control the external apparatus in accordance with the one control mode, and
- collect data corresponding to each of the at least one specific data item from the external apparatus periodically in accordance with a corresponding collection interval among the plurality of collection intervals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.