Air conditioner management system
OwnerTadashi Takai, Masanori Takagi +2inventors
InventorsTadashi Takai, Masanori Takagi, Yukio Ito, Makoto Itoh
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Abstract
An open network environment and a multi vendor system for an air conditioner is realized so that management and services can be made highly efficient. A management system for an air conditioner has a status database for storing collected running data, and a setting database for storing setting data of the air conditioner, the setting data including data regarding a running stop state, a running mode, an air quantity and a temperature, respectively of the air conditioner, wherein the running data stored in the status database is read to monitor the air conditioner and the setting data is rewritten to control the air conditioner.
Claims7
A management system for an air conditioner, the management system having a monitor apparatus for monitoring and controlling a plurality of air conditioners, including an indoor machine and an outdoor machine being connected via a refrigerating circulating path to constitute a refrigerating cycle, the indoor machine and the outdoor machine being connected via a transmission path and the air conditioners being controlled by a transmitted and received control message, comprising:
- a data converter for converting a data between the air conditioner and the monitor apparatus, connected between the air conditioner and the monitor apparatus;
- a status database, provided in the monitor apparatus, for storing a temperature and a pressure of units of the refrigerating cycle for a running data of the air conditioner;
- a setting database, provided in the monitor apparatus, for storing setting data of the air conditioner, the setting data including data regarding a running start/stop state, a running mode, an air quantity and a temperature, respectively of the air conditioner;
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- an engine for extracting a running data of the air conditioner from the control message being collected in a predetermined interval via the data converter and the transmission path, and for transmitting, if the setting data in the setting database is changed, the setting data as the control message to the transmission path via the data converter;
- wherein the running data is collected by reading the running data stored in the status database to monitor the air conditioner, and the setting data is rewritten to control the air conditioner, and the setting database is replaced to control the air conditioner.
A medium storing a program for realizing a monitoring function and a controlling function of a management system for a plurality of air conditioners, including an outdoor machine and an indoor machine being connected via a refrigerating circulating path to constitute a refrigerating cycle, the indoor machine and the outdoor machine being connected via a transmission path and the plurality of air conditioners being controlled by a transmitted and received control message, wherein the program realizes:
- a function of collecting the control message in a predetermined interval, extracting a temperature and a pressure from the control message as a running data of a main component of the air conditioner during a refrigerating cycle, forming a status database of the running data and storing formed data in a status database
- a function of storing a setting data regarding a running start/stop state, a running mode, an air quantity and a temperature, respectively of the air conditioner;
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- a function of transmitting the stored setting data as the control message to the air conditioner if the stored setting data is changed.
A program to be used with a management system for a plurality of air conditioners, including an outdoor machine and an indoor machine being connected via a refrigerating circulating path to constitute a refrigerating cycle, the indoor machine and the outdoor machine are connected via a transmission path and the plurality of air conditioners being controlled by a transmitted and received control message, wherein the program realizes:
- a function of collecting the control message in a predetermined interval, extracting a temperature and a pressure of a main component of the air conditioner from the control message as a running data during a refrigerating cycle, forming a status database of the running data and storing formed data in a status database;
- a function of storing setting data regarding a running start/stop state, a running mode, an air quantity and a temperature, respectively of the air conditioner;
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- a function of transmitting the setting data as the control message if the stored setting data is changed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.