Operating Rule Violation Quantification in Device Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Device management systems often compromise on environmental comfort due to inappropriate operating rules, leading to violating actions by installation devices that are not accurately quantified, affecting the management objectives such as energy saving.

Innovation Solution

A device management system equipped with a storage section for operating rules, a detecting component to identify violating actions, and a calculating component to quantify these actions, allowing for accurate assessment and correction to ensure compliance with the rules.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of energy

If operating rules are strictly enforced to achieve management objectives like energy saving, then energy saving is improved, but environmental comfort deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenergy savingVSAvoidenvironmental comfort
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by detecting violating actions of the installation device and calculating a violating quantity that quantifies the extent of rule violations. This feedback mechanism allows the system to monitor and evaluate the balance between energy saving and environmental comfort, enabling informed adjustments to operating rules to resolve the contradiction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If operating rules are created appropriately to ensure compliance, then management objectives are achieved, but environmental comfort is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance with operating rulesVSAvoidenvironmental comfort
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The detecting component and calculating component provide continuous feedback on rule compliance by identifying violating actions and quantifying them. This enables the system to assess whether operating rules are appropriately created and enforced, allowing for adjustments that maintain reliability while improving environmental comfort.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Object-affected harmful factors

If violating actions are allowed to maintain environmental comfort, then environmental comfort is improved, but the impact on management objectives cannot be accurately assessed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental comfortVSAvoidassessment of impact on management objectives
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies parameter changes by introducing a violating quantity parameter that quantifies the extent of rule violations. This numerical parameter transforms qualitative violating actions into measurable data, enabling precise assessment of the impact on management objectives while allowing violating actions that maintain environmental comfort.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

4Adaptability or versatility

If multiple control command paths are prepared (compliance path and violating action path), then flexibility is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflexibility in executing control commandsVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges the compliance path and violating action path into a unified control framework. The detecting component and calculating component integrate both paths, evaluating violating actions quantitatively rather than maintaining separate complex pathways. This reduces system complexity while preserving the flexibility to handle both compliant and violating actions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS9135592B2Device management system
Publication Date: 2015.09.15 DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD
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AI summary

A device management system is equipped with a storage section, a detecting component, and a calculating component and manages an installation device. The storage section stores operating rules of the installation device. The detecting component detects a violating action of the installation device running counter to the operating rules. The calculating component calculates a violating quantity that quantitatively expresses the violating action.