Air conditioner

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an air conditioner. An air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: an outdoor unit; a plurality of indoor units disposed to correspond to a plurality of regions, respectively; temperature sensors sensing indoor temperatures for the plurality of regions corresponding to the plurality of indoor units, respectively; and a controller, and the controller may group the plurality of indoor units into at least one group when powers of two or more indoor units adjacent to each other among the plurality of indoor units are on, determine at least one of the plurality of indoor units as a target of an operation control based on a priority for the at least one group, and stop an operation of the indoor unit determined as the target of the operation control. Various other embodiments are possible.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.