Relay device and air conditioning system

An air conditioning system comprising an upper-level air conditioning system and a lower-level air conditioning system connected with each other through a relay device, the upper-level air conditioning system including at least one central control device, at least one outdoor device, and at least one indoor device that are connected via a first bus and performing communication using an address allocated to each device, the lower-level air conditioning system including at least one outdoor device and at least one indoor device that are connected via a second bus and performing communication in a master-slave method with any one of the outdoor devices being as a master device and other devices being as slave devices, the relay device comprising:

• an upper-side communicator configured to be connected to the first bus, and to transmit and receive communication packets to and from the upper-level air conditioning system;
• a lower-side communicator configured to be connected to the master device, and to transmit and receive communication commands to and from the lower-level air conditioning system;
• an association information memory configured to store association information obtained by associating the address in the upper-level air conditioning system allocated to each device in the lower-level air conditioning system with identification information on each device in the lower-level air conditioning system;
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• a processor configured to perform a mutual conversion on the communication packets and the communication commands based on the association information stored in the association information memory.

An air conditioning system comprising an upper-level air conditioning system and a lower-level air conditioning system, the upper-level air conditioning system including at least one central control device, at least one outdoor device, and at least one indoor device that are connected via a first bus and performing communication using an address allocated to each device, the lower-level air conditioning system including at least one outdoor device and at least one indoor device that are connected via a second bus and performing communication in a master-slave method with any one of the outdoor devices being as a master device and other devices being as slave devices, the master device comprising:

• an upper-side communicator configured to be connected to the first bus, and to transmit and receive communication packets to and from the upper-level air conditioning system;
• an internal communicator configured to be connected to the second bus, and to transmit and receive communication commands to and from each of the slave devices;
• an association information memory configured to store association information obtained by associating the address in the upper-level air conditioning system allocated to each device in the lower-level air conditioning system with identification information on each device in the lower-level air conditioning system;
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• a processor configured to perform a mutual conversion on the communication packets and the communication commands based on the association information stored in the association information memory.