Air-conditioning control system
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsAtsuhiro YABUTA, Shigeo TAKATA
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Abstract
An air-conditioning control system, includes: an air-conditioning apparatus constructed by connecting one or a plurality of indoor units and one or a plurality of outdoor units by refrigerant pipes; a general-purpose device controller to which a general-purpose device that operates in cooperation with the air-conditioning apparatus is connected, configured to control the general-purpose device; and an energy management gateway, which is communicably connected to the air-conditioning apparatus and the general-purpose device controller through a transmission line, configured to control a device to be controlled, based on a signal related to communication.
Claims8
An air-conditioning control system, comprising:
- an air-conditioning apparatus constructed by connecting one or a plurality of indoor units and one or a plurality of outdoor units by refrigerant pipes;
- a general-purpose device controller to which a general-purpose device that operates in cooperation with the air-conditioning apparatus is connected, configured to control the general-purpose device;
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- an energy management unit, which is communicably connected to the air-conditioning apparatus and the general-purpose device controller through a dedicated communication line, configured to control a device to be controlled, based on a signal related to communication transmitted from the air-conditioning apparatus and the general-purpose device controller, wherein
- the general-purpose device controller includes
- a processing configuration unit configured to perform processing for controlling the general-purpose device based on management information related to air-conditioning control, and
- an interface configuration unit configured to perform intermediary processing for transmitting and receiving the management information between the dedicated communication line and the processing configuration unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.