AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM
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Abstract
Even at spots, such as a window side and the back side of a room, where air conditioning loads are different from each other, a comfortable air condition is obtained at low cost using a common air conditioning unit.
One indoor apparatus 310 and wireless transmitting means 400 having a ZigBee-compliant transmission device are installed in the room. Sensor units 410a to 410n having temperature/humidity sensors and ZigBee-compliant wireless transmitting means are installed at plural indoor spots, such as the window side and the back side, where the air conditioning loads are different from each other. Controlling means 311 in the indoor-apparatus 310 receives sensor information (temperature/humidity information) via the wireless transmitting means 400 from the sensor units 410a to 410n, and computes a weight average based on the sensor information and weight values that are pre-stored in the storing means and that correspond to the sensor units. Using the computed value as a control value, the controlling means 311 controls an air conditioning unit.
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29 Claims
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14. An air conditioning system comprising:
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plural sensor units each having a sensor for detecting temperatures and/or humidities of space to be air-conditioned and outputting the temperatures and/or the humidities as sensor values, unit-identification setting means for generating identification information for identifying the corresponding sensor units, and first wireless transmitting means for modulating the identification information generated by the unit-identification setting means and the sensor values outputted by the sensors and transmitting the modulated identification information and sensor values; and an air conditioning unit having second wireless transmitting means for receiving the identification information and the sensor values from the first wireless transmitting means in the sensor units and demodulating the identification information and the sensor values, and controlling means for adjusting the temperatures and/or the humidities of the space to be air-conditioned, based on a weighted average value tinged with weight values, relating to the sensor values of the sensor units identified based on the identification information demodulated by the second wireless transmitting means, the sensor values being demodulated by the second wireless transmitting means. - View Dependent Claims (15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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16. An air conditioning system comprising:
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plural sensor units each having a sensor for detecting temperatures and/or humidities of space to be air-conditioned and outputting the temperatures and/or the humidities as sensor values, unit-identification setting means for generating identification information for identifying the corresponding sensor units, and first wireless transmitting means for modulating the identification information generated by the unit-identification setting means and the sensor values outputted by the sensors and transmitting the modulated identification information and sensor values; a reception unit having second wireless transmitting means for collectively receiving the identification information and the sensor values from the first wireless transmitting means in the plural sensor units and demodulating the identification information and the sensor values and first transmitting means for transmitting the identification information and sensor values demodulated by the second wireless transmitting means; a setting unit having second transmitting means for receiving the identification information and the sensor values from the first transmitting means in the reception unit, storing means for storing weight values, determining means for outputting, as a control value, a weighted average value tinged with the weight values stored in the storing means, relating to the sensor values received by the second transmitting means, and third transmitting means for transmitting the control value outputted from the determining means; and an air conditioning unit having fourth transmitting means for receiving the control value from the third transmitting means in the setting unit and demodulating the control value, and controlling means for adjusting the temperatures and/or the humidities of the space to be air-conditioned, based on the control value demodulated by the fourth transmitting means. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29)
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