SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING CONTROL TARGET UNITS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING CONTROL TARGET UNITS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20160088696A1
• Filed: 09/17/2015
• Published: 03/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Akiyoshi Nakai, Kenta Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Morita, Osamu Kizaki, Toshihiro Isozaki, Yuji Ohue
• Inventors: KIZAKI, Osamu, MORITA, Nobuhiro, NAKAI, Akiyoshi, OHUE, Yuji, YAMAGUCHI, Kenta, ISOZAKI, Toshihiro
• Application Number:
  US14/857,397
• Publication Number:
  US 20160088696A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/11 by determining the brightness or colour temperature of ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

A system for controlling one or more control target units in a predetermined space includes a first control rule management unit managing heat source existence information and a control item of the control target unit associating with each other, a second control rule management unit managing position information indicating a position of the area and adjustment information associating with each other, a receiver receiving detection data indicating a temperature, a first generator generating heat source data including heat source existence information, a second generator obtaining a control item of the control target using the heat source existence information from the first control rule management unit, obtaining adjustment information from the second control rule management unit, and generating control data indicating a modified control item, and a transmitter transferring the control data generated by the second generator to one or more apparatuses each controlling the control target unit.

Claims

1. A system for controlling one or more control target units in a predetermined space, the system comprising:

a first control rule management unit to manage heat source existence information indicating whether a heat source exists at a specific area in the predetermined space and a control item of the control target unit in the predetermined space associating with each other;

a second control rule management unit to manage, for each area of the predetermined space, position information indicating a position of the area and adjustment information to be used for adjusting the control item associating with each other;

a receiver to receive detection data indicating a temperature at each of multiple areas in the predetermined space;

a first generator to generate heat source data including heat source existence information indicating whether a heat source exists for each of the multiple areas based on the detection data;

a second generator to obtain a control item of the control target using the heat source existence information for each of the multiple areas from the first control rule management unit, obtain adjustment information for each of the multiple areas using position information of each area from the second control rule management unit, and generate control data indicating a modified control item for each of the multiple areas based on the obtained control item and the obtained adjustment information; and

a transmitter to transfer the control data generated by the second generator to one or more apparatuses each controlling the control target unit.

2. The position information management system according to claim 1, wherein, when the control target unit is a light, the control item indicates a light level factor of the light.

3. The position information management system according to claim 2, wherein

the position information indicates whether the area is a window side or a hallway side if the predetermined space is a room, and

the adjustment information indicates that the light level factor of the light is near to a maximum value if the position information indicates that the area is a hallway side compared to the adjustment information whose position information indicates a window side.

4. The position information management system according to claim 2, wherein

the position information indicates that the area is at least one of a near work place, a clerical work place, and a rest place if the predetermined space is a room, and

the adjustment information indicates that the light level factor of the light decrease from a maximum value in order from the near work place, the clerical work place, and the rest place.

5. The position information management system according to claim 2, wherein the light is a LED.

6. A position management system, comprising:

the position information management system according to claim 1; and

a detection device that outputs the detection data.

7. A method of controlling one or more control target units in a predetermined space, the method comprising:

storing in a memory heat source existence information indicating whether a heat source exists at a specific area in the predetermined space and a control item of the control target unit in the predetermined space associating with each other;

storing in the memory, for each area of the predetermined space, position information indicating a position in the area and adjustment information to be used for adjusting the control item associating with each other;

receiving detection data indicating a temperature at each of multiple areas in the predetermined space;

generating heat source data including heat source existence information indicating whether a heat source exists for each of the multiple areas based on the detection data;

obtaining a control item of the control target using the heat source existence information for each of the multiple areas from the first control rule management unit;

obtaining adjustment information for each of the multiple areas using position information of each area from the second control rule management unit;

generating control data indicating a modified control item for each of the multiple areas based on the obtained control item and the obtained adjustment information; and

transferring the generated control data to one or more apparatuses each controlling the control target unit.

8. A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium storing a program that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the processors to implement a method of controlling one or more control target units in a predetermined space, comprising:

storing in a memory heat source existence information indicating whether a heat source exists at a specific area in the predetermined space and a control item of the control target unit in the predetermined space associating with each other;

storing in the memory, for each area of the predetermined space, position information indicating a position in the area and adjustment information to be used for adjusting the control item associating with each other;

receiving detection data indicating a temperature at each of multiple areas in the predetermined space;

generating heat source data including heat source existence information indicating whether a heat source exists for each of the multiple areas based on the detection data;

obtaining a control item of the control target using the heat source existence information for each of the multiple areas from the first control rule management unit;

obtaining adjustment information for each of the multiple areas using position information of each area from the second control rule management unit;

generating control data indicating a modified control item for each of the multiple areas based on the obtained control item and the obtained adjustment information; and

transferring the generated control data to one or more apparatuses each controlling the control target unit.