Air-Conditioning Schedule Transfer for Limited Controller Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional air-conditioning management systems face challenges in managing and storing a large number of schedule patterns due to storage capacity limitations, leading to users being unable to select desired schedules.
Innovation Solution
An air-conditioning management system that includes an information processing terminal capable of receiving, managing, and transmitting user-input schedule information to centralized monitoring apparatuses, allowing for the selection and transmission of desired schedule patterns to air-conditioning apparatuses, along with protection controls to maintain operation in case of data failures or losses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the centralized monitoring apparatus manages all possible schedule patterns (50 groups × 37 days × 2 types = 3700 patterns), then complete schedule coverage is achieved, but storage capacity is exceeded
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the schedule management function into two segments: the information processing terminal stores and manages the complete schedule information (3700 patterns), while the centralized monitoring apparatus only transmits selected schedules. This segmentation allows the system to handle all possible patterns without overloading the centralized monitoring apparatus storage capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The information processing terminal acts as an intermediary between the user and the centralized monitoring apparatus. It receives schedule information from the user, manages the comprehensive schedule patterns, and transmits only the necessary schedules to the centralized monitoring apparatus, thereby resolving the storage capacity conflict.
2Quantity of substance
If the centralized monitoring apparatus stores limited schedule patterns, then storage capacity is preserved, but user schedule preferences cannot be fulfilled
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of having the centralized monitoring apparatus store all schedule patterns and the terminal select from them, the patent inverts the roles: the information processing terminal stores and manages all schedule patterns, while the centralized monitoring apparatus only handles transmission. This inversion enables users to select from comprehensive schedules while the centralized apparatus maintains limited storage.
3Adaptability or versatility
If schedule information is transmitted from information processing terminal to centralized monitoring apparatus, then user-desired schedules are achieved, but data transmission and management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the schedule storage and management function from the centralized monitoring apparatus and places it in the information processing terminal. This extraction reduces the data management burden on the centralized apparatus, as it only needs to handle transmission of selected schedules rather than managing the complete schedule database.
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AI summary
An air-conditioning management system including air-conditioning apparatuses, a centralized monitoring apparatus, and an information processing terminal connectable to the centralized monitoring apparatus via a communication line, wherein the information processing terminal includes a schedule information reception unit that receives an input of schedule information of the air-conditioning apparatuses from a user, a schedule information management unit that stores, and a schedule information transmission unit that selects, from the plurality of items of the schedule information stored in the schedule information management unit, schedule information to be transmitted to the air-conditioning apparatuses and transmits the selected schedule information to the centralized monitoring apparatus, and wherein the centralized monitoring apparatus acquires the schedule information transmitted from the information processing terminal via the communication line and transmits the acquired schedule information to the air-conditioning apparatuses.