ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER SETTING AIDING DEVICE AND METHOD

• US 20150204560A1
• Filed: 01/20/2015
• Published: 07/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Azbil Corporation (Azbil BioVigilant Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Azbil Corporation (Azbil BioVigilant Incorporated)
• Inventors: TAKAHASHI, Tetsuya, KOYANAGI, Takashi, SUZUYAMA, Akihiro
• Application Number:
  US14/600,127
• Publication Number:
  US 20150204560A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/30 for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/46 Improving electric energy efficiency or saving
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/52 Indication arrangements, e.g. displays
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/54 using one central controller connected to several sub-controllers
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/62 characterised by the type of control or by internal processing, e.g. using fuzzy logic, adaptive control or estimation of values
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/63 Electronic processing
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/64 using pre-stored data
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/70 Control systems characterised by their outputs; Constructional details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/00 Control inputs relating to air properties
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2120/00 Control inputs relating to users or occupants
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2120/20 Feedback from users
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2140/60 Energy consumption

Abstract

An environmental parameter setting aiding device includes: a data acquiring system that acquires, and saves as environmental parameter information, a current parameter value of an environmental parameter of an air conditioning controlling system, and acquires, and saves as complaint information, complaints from various occupants indicating perceptions that a temperature environment, using the parameter value, is too hot or too cold; a complaint proportion calculating portion that calculates, from the complaint information that has been stored, a complaint proportion, indicating a proportion of perceptions of being too hot or too cold, for each individual parameter value; a parameter value selecting portion that selects, as a recommended parameter value, the parameter value wherein the complaint proportion is nearest to 50%; and an aid screen displaying portion that presents the recommended value in an aid screen.

Claims

1. An environmental parameter setting aiding device for aiding a setting of an environmental parameter that is a target value for an air-conditioning controlling system, based on a complaint from an occupant, the environmental parameter setting aiding device comprising:

a data acquiring system that acquires, and saves as environmental parameter information, a current parameter value of an environmental parameter of the air conditioning controlling system, and acquires, and saves as complaint information, complaints from various occupants indicating perceptions that a temperature environment, using the parameter value, is too hot or too cold;

a complaint proportion calculating portion that calculates, from the complaint information that has been stored, a complaint proportion, indicating a proportion of perceptions of being too hot or too cold, for each individual parameter value;

a parameter value selecting portion that selects, as a recommended parameter value, the parameter value wherein the complaint proportion is nearest to 50%; and

an aid screen displaying portion that presents the recommended value in an aid screen.

2. The environmental parameter setting aiding device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the complaint proportion calculating portion estimates a complaint proportion for a parameter value wherein there is insufficient complaint information, based on a complaint proportion for a parameter value wherein there is complaint information for the parameter value.

3. The environmental parameter setting aiding device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the parameter value selecting portion selects, from among the parameter values, a “

comfort value,”

which is the parameter value that has the complaint proportion that is nearest to 50%, and selects, from among parameter values wherein the complaint proportion is within the tolerance range that has been set in advance, an “

energy-saving value,”

which is the parameter value that saves the most energy; and

the aid screen displaying portion provides, in the aid screen, the comfort value and the energy-saving value.

4. The environmental value setting aiding device as set forth in claim 1,

further comprising:

an environmental parameter setting portion that acquires a value that is determined by an operating input by the aid screen, and sets, as a new target value for the air-conditioning controlling system, an environmental parameter that is the determined value.

5. An environmental parameter setting aiding method used in an environmental parameter setting aiding device for aiding the setting of an environmental parameter that is a target value for an air-conditioning controlling system, based on a complaint from an occupant, the method comprising:

a data acquiring step wherein a data acquiring system acquires, and saves as environmental parameter information, a current parameter value of an environmental parameter of the air conditioning controlling system, and acquires, and saves as complaint information, complaints from various occupants indicating perceptions that the temperature environment, using the parameter value, is too hot or too cold;

a complaint proportion calculating step wherein a complaint proportion calculating portion calculates, from the complaint information that has been stored, a complaint proportion, indicating the proportion of perceptions of being too hot or too cold, for each individual parameter value;

a parameter value selecting step wherein a parameter value selecting portion selects, as a recommended parameter value, the parameter value wherein the complaint proportion is nearest to 50%; and

an aid screen displaying step wherein an aid screen displaying portion presents the recommended value in an aid screen.