Method for controlling information apparatus, computer-readable recording medium, and method for providing information

A method for providing information in an information management system which is connected to a network that controls one or more target devices associated with a same building ID and which manages information on the one or more target devices, the method comprising:

• receiving registration notification representing that one target device among the one or more target devices has been newly registered in the information management system, from the one target device via the network;
• using at least one memory that associates first information with second information, the first information indicating a type of each of one or more device icons representing each of the one or more target devices, the second information indicating an attribute of each of one or more rooms included in a display screen representing a floor plan of a building indicated by the building ID, and third information indicating a device icon of a second type that is in a relationship of being displayed in a region on the display screen corresponding to a same room as a device icon of a first type among types of the one or more device icons to determine whether or not the one device icon is a device icon of the second type;
• determining an attribute of a room corresponding to the device icon of the first type when the one device icon is determined to be a device icon of the second type;
• transmitting fourth information indicating a type of the one device icon and fifth information indicating the determined attribute of the room to an information apparatus which is associated with the same building ID and which displays a display screen representing the floor plan on a display via the network;
• and
• displaying the one device icon in a region on the display screen corresponding to a same room as a room in which the device icon of the first type is displayed based on the fourth information and the fifth information at the information apparatus.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium which stores a program to be executed by an information apparatus having a display and being connected to a network, over which one or more target devices are controlled,

• the program causing a computer of the information apparatus to:
• display on the display a display screen representing a floor plan including one or more rooms;
• using at least one memory that associates first information with second information, the first information indicating a type of each of one or more device icons representing the one or more target devices and the second information indicating an attribute of each of the one or more rooms, display each of the one or more device icons in a region on the display screen corresponding to a room that corresponds to each of the one or more device icons in accordance with the type of each of the one or more device icons;
• when selection of any of the one or more device icons is sensed in a region corresponding to any of the rooms included in the floor plan, display a control screen for at least any of operation and state confirmation of a target device corresponding to the selected device icon on the display screen representing the floor plan;
• and
• output to the network a control command for at least any of the operation and the state confirmation of the target device corresponding to the selected device icon, based on an operation on the control screen, wherein
• the one or more device icons include a device icon of a first type and a device icon of a second type that is in a relationship of being displayed in a region on the display screen corresponding to a same room as a room in which the device icon of the first type is displayed, and
• when it is determined that one device icon among the one or more device icons is the device icon of the second type, the one device icon is displayed in a region on the display screen corresponding to a same room as a room in which the device icon of the first type is displayed.