Control method for information apparatus and computer-readable recording medium that control devices connected to network via device icons displayed on floor plan

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 a first target device of the one or more target devices has been newly registered in the information management system, from the first 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 and 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 same building ID, determining an attribute of a first room corresponding to a type of a first device icon representing the first target device, based on the received registration notification;
• transmitting, via the network, third information indicating the type of the first device icon representing the first target device and fourth information indicating the determined attribute of the first room corresponding to the type of the first device icon representing the first target device, to an information apparatus which is associated with the same building ID and which displays the display screen representing the floor plan on a display;
• and
• displaying, at the information apparatus, the first device icon representing the first target device in a region on the display screen corresponding to the first room that corresponds to the first device icon representing the first target device, based on the third information and the fourth information,
• wherein it is determined, using the first information and the second information, whether the first device icon of the one or more device icons corresponds to a plurality of rooms of the one or more rooms,
• when it is determined that the first device icon corresponds to the plurality of rooms of the one or more rooms, a largest room of the plurality of the rooms of the one or more rooms is detected as the first room, and
• information indicating an attribute of the detected largest room is transmitted as the fourth information to the information apparatus via the network.

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 a first device icon of the one or more device icons in a region on the display screen corresponding to a first room of the one or more rooms, the first room corresponding to the first device icon of the one or more device icons in accordance with a type of the first device icon of the one or more device icons;
• when the displayed first device icon of the one or more device icons is selected in the region of the display screen corresponding to the first room of the one or more rooms included in the floor plan, display a control screen for at least one of an operation or state confirmation of a target device corresponding to the selected first device icon on the display screen representing the floor plan;
• and
• output, to the network, a control command for at least one of the operation or the state confirmation of the target device corresponding to the selected first device icon, based on an operation on the control screen,
• wherein it is determined, using the first information and the second information stored in the at least one memory, whether the first device icon of the one or more device icons corresponds to a plurality of rooms of the one or more rooms,
• when it is determined that the first device icon corresponds to the plurality of rooms of the one or more rooms, a largest room of the plurality of rooms of the one or more rooms is detected as the first room, and
• the first device icon is displayed in a region on the display screen corresponding to the detected largest room of the plurality rooms of the one or more rooms.