Air-conditioning system, information processing device, and method for controlling air-conditioning device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Air-conditioning systems often fail to maintain a healthy environment by neglecting air quality while managing temperature and humidity, and ventilation control prioritizing air quality can reduce indoor comfort levels.
Innovation Solution
An air-conditioning system that includes an air-conditioning apparatus, a ventilation apparatus, a detection unit, a storage unit, a fluid analyzing unit, a comfort level calculation unit, and a determination unit to determine a control pattern that balances thermal comfort and air quality by calculating thermal environment and air age distribution information, ensuring both comfort and air quality standards are met.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If air-conditioning apparatus conditions air focusing on temperature and humidity management, then thermal comfort is improved, but air quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the control of air-conditioning by separating temperature/humidity control from air quality control. The air-conditioning apparatus manages thermal parameters while the ventilation apparatus manages air quality parameters, allowing independent optimization of both functions without interference
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges the air-conditioning apparatus and ventilation apparatus into a coordinated control system. By integrating both devices and controlling them together based on comprehensive environmental data, the system achieves simultaneous optimization of thermal comfort and air quality that neither device could achieve alone
2Object-affected harmful factors
If ventilation control prioritizes air quality, then air freshness is improved, but indoor comfort level deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback from environmental sensors to continuously monitor both air quality parameters and thermal comfort parameters. This feedback loop allows the control system to adjust ventilation and air-conditioning operations dynamically, ensuring that improvements in air quality do not compromise thermal comfort
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the operation of both ventilation and air-conditioning apparatus based on real-time environmental conditions. The control patterns are not fixed but adapt to changing conditions, allowing the system to maintain both air quality and comfort levels under varying operational scenarios
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AI summary
An air-conditioning system includes an air-conditioning apparatus, a ventilation apparatus, a detector configured to detect an environment state in an air-conditioning target space and a position and an activity state of a person present in the air-conditioning target space, a storage device configured to store a plurality of control patterns, and a controller configured to calculate, for each of the control patterns, thermal environment distribution information and air age distribution information in the air-conditioning target space by using operation states and the environment state, calculate, for each of the thermal environment distribution information, a local comfort level index from the position and the activity state of the person, and determine, a control pattern to be set to the air-conditioning apparatus and the ventilation apparatus which satisfies a pre-determined standard.