Area notification system
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems fail to optimize the overall operation efficiency of air conditioning systems across multiple areas with interconnected utilization units, leading to inefficient energy consumption.
Innovation Solution
An area notification system that uses a control unit to learn and infer power consumption patterns across multiple areas, generating information to reduce energy consumption by optimizing the selection of areas for use based on machine learning and operation data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional air conditioning control systems are used, then individual area control is simple, but overall operation efficiency is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit continuously learns from historical operation data and power consumption patterns, using this feedback to optimize area assignments and improve overall system efficiency while reducing energy consumption
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs learning and inference operations in advance to determine optimal area assignments before actual use, allowing the air conditioning system to operate efficiently from the start rather than reacting to suboptimal conditions
2Use of energy by moving object
If machine learning operations are performed to optimize area selection, then power consumption is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit performs multiple functions including data collection, learning, inference, and area notification within a single integrated system, avoiding the need for separate complex subsystems for each function
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AI summary
To provide an area notification system capable of optimizing the overall operation efficiency of an air conditioning system that performs air conditioning over a plurality of areas. An area notification system (100) notifies a user (U) of a facility (10), of a first area to be used by the user (U) among a plurality of areas (A) in the facility (10). In the facility (10), air conditioning is performed over the plurality of areas (A) using the air conditioning system (20) in which a plurality of utilization units (23) are connected to one heat source unit (21). A control unit (110) of the area notification system (100) learns a plurality of patterns of operation information of the air conditioning system (20) in a first period and power consumption of the air conditioning system (20) in association with each other, infers the power consumption of the air conditioning system (20) for each of the plurality of patterns of the operation information of the air conditioning system (20) in a second period based on a result of the learning, and based on a comparison among results of the inference, generates information on the first area so that power consumption of the air conditioning system (20) is reduced.