Air conditioning control system
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional air conditioning energy management systems require significant time for comfort level restoration after energy adjustments, leading to potential discomfort and missed opportunities for energy conservation and incentives if adjustments are made too frequently or too late.
Innovation Solution
An air conditioning control system that assesses environmental parameters, such as temperature, to determine the optimal timing for subsequent energy adjustments, allowing for individual and overall property assessments to decide when to perform next adjustments based on restoration conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If energy adjustment control is performed during a predetermined adjustment time period, then energy conservation is achieved, but the comfort level restoration time increases and may cause discomfort
Solution Approach 1:
The assessment apparatus continuously monitors environmental parameters (temperature, humidity) and provides feedback to determine when comfort restoration is complete. This feedback mechanism allows the system to automatically identify the optimal moment to perform next energy adjustment, ensuring comfort is restored before subsequent adjustments. The system uses this feedback loop to balance energy conservation with comfort maintenance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary assessment of environmental parameters after each energy adjustment to determine readiness for the next adjustment. By assessing temperature and humidity recovery status in advance, the system prepares for the next energy adjustment only when comfort conditions are met, preventing discomfort while maximizing energy conservation opportunities.
2Loss of energy
If multiple energy adjustments are performed within a single day, then energy conservation opportunities increase, but comfort level may deteriorate if adjustments are made before restoration
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses real-time feedback from environmental parameter monitoring to assess whether comfort restoration is complete before permitting the next energy adjustment. This feedback ensures that multiple adjustments per day are only performed when comfort conditions are satisfied, maintaining comfort level stability while capturing energy conservation opportunities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the timing of energy adjustments based on real-time environmental conditions rather than using fixed schedules. This dynamic approach allows multiple adjustments per day when conditions permit, while automatically preventing adjustments that would compromise comfort, thus adapting to changing environmental conditions.
3Reliability
If energy adjustment timing is delayed to ensure comfort restoration, then comfort is maintained, but energy conservation opportunities and incentive procurement may be missed
Solution Approach 1:
The assessment apparatus provides continuous feedback on environmental parameter recovery, enabling the system to identify the precise moment when comfort restoration is complete. This allows the system to perform energy adjustments immediately when appropriate, maximizing energy conservation efficiency without compromising comfort. The feedback mechanism eliminates unnecessary delays while ensuring comfort standards are met.
Solution Approach 2:
The system autonomously determines the optimal timing for energy adjustments by self-assessing environmental parameters without external intervention. This self-service capability allows the system to immediately act when comfort restoration is detected, capturing energy conservation opportunities and incentives without delay, while independently ensuring comfort requirements are satisfied.
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AI summary
An air conditioning control system adjusts a consumed energy amount of air conditioners installed in a property in an adjustment time period. The air conditioning control system includes a control apparatus and an assessment apparatus. The control apparatus performs adjustment control of the air conditioners so that the consumed energy amount is adjusted in the adjustment time period. The assessment apparatus adjusts, after the adjustment time period, a possible amount of a next adjustment control based on an environmental parameter of an air conditioned space.