Power supply control apparatus, power supply control system and power supply control method

A power supply control system comprising:

• a communication terminal,
• a processing apparatus that processes process information requested by a user of the communication terminal, and
• a power supply control apparatus that controls a power supply of the processing apparatus,
• the power supply control apparatus including:
• a positional-information-obtaining unit configured to obtain positional information of the communication terminal;
• a process-information-obtaining unit configured to obtain the process information requested by the user of the communication terminal;
• a distance-determination unit configured to, based on positional information of the processing apparatus that processes the process information obtained by the process-information-obtaining unit and the positional information of the communication terminal obtained by the positional-information-obtaining unit, calculate a distance between the processing apparatus and the communication terminal;
• and
• a power-supply-control unit configured to control the power supply of the processing apparatus based on the distance calculated by the distance-determination unit.

A power supply control method in a power supply control system including a communication terminal, a processing apparatus that processes process information requested by a user of the communication terminal, and a power supply control apparatus that controls a power supply of the processing apparatus, the power supply control method comprising:

• a positional-information-obtaining step of obtaining positional information of the communication terminal;
• a process-information-obtaining step of obtaining the process information requested by the user of the communication terminal;
• a distance-determination step of, based on positional information of the processing apparatus that processes the process information obtained in the process-information-obtaining step and the positional information of the communication terminal obtained in the positional-information-obtaining step, calculating a distance between the processing apparatus and the communication terminal;
• and
• a power-supply-control step of, based on the distance calculated in the distance-determination step, controlling the power supply of the processing apparatus.