JP5629181B2 - Resident request notification transfer apparatus and method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a resident request notification transfer apparatus and method for transferring a request for air conditioning from a resident notified via a network.

  In general, in a large-scale building such as a commercial facility that confiscates a plurality of tenants, air conditioning control is performed on each floor and on each floor. In such air conditioning control, aiming at providing a comfortable space for residents, temperature and humidity are controlled by various methods based on the measured temperature and humidity. However, in such air conditioning control, the sensitivity to the environment such as temperature and humidity is different for each resident, and there are cases where the air conditioning control that conforms to the resident's request is not necessarily performed.

  Here, for example, a system is proposed in which a terminal device that accepts requests for each section is provided, requests for air conditioning input to the terminal devices are collected via a network, and air conditioning is performed for each section in response to each collected request (See Patent Document 1). According to such a system, it is possible to perform air-conditioning control that meets the needs of residents without performing sophisticated and complicated control.

JP 2003-254593 A

  However, in the above-described technology, a network failure such as network congestion and a failure of the air conditioning control device are caused due to the concentrated occurrence of many requests, and the air conditioning control is hindered. For example, there may be a case where many requests such as “I want to lower the temperature further” are concentrated in a short time due to an environment such as extreme heat. In such a case, due to network congestion or the like, an abnormality occurs in the air conditioning control, such as a delay in remote control of the air conditioning performed using this network. In such a state, the resident's request cannot be satisfied.

  In order to prevent network congestion, an upper limit bandwidth is set for each route of the network, and the current used bandwidth is monitored for each route, and the current used bandwidth is considered after considering the communication type (traffic classification). There is a bandwidth control technology for limiting new communication requests exceeding the upper limit bandwidth. However, in such a band control technique, the arrival to the desired air conditioning control device sent from the terminal device is delayed and obstructed, and accurate air conditioning control cannot be performed. As described above, the conventional technology has a problem that accurate air conditioning control cannot be performed in response to a request from a resident.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object thereof is to enable accurate air conditioning control in response to a request from a resident.

The resident request notification transfer device according to the present invention includes a request notification receiving means for receiving a request notification regarding the thermal environment sent from the resident terminal device, and a resident terminal included in the request notification received by the request notification receiving means. Information acquisition means for extracting terminal information and request contents for identifying the device, and requests according to the set request type information for each set terminal classification according to the set terminal classification information. A request content totaling unit that totals request notifications by type, a storage unit that stores the results totaled by the request content totaling unit, and a plurality of request contents of the same type totaled for each terminal classification are set. A request notification discarding unit that discards request notifications of the number of request contents exceeding a certain threshold from the storage unit, and a request notification stored in the storage unit after the processing of the request notification discarding unit And a request notification transfer means for transferring the transfer destination being constant.

  In the resident request notification transfer device, the request content may be a request for changing the air conditioning setting in the area where the resident terminal device is installed.

Also, resident desires notification transfer method according to the present invention includes a first step of receiving a request notification on the thermal environment sent from the resident terminal device, resident terminal device included in the request notification received in the first step The second step of extracting terminal information and request contents for identifying the request type according to the set request type information for each terminal class according to the set terminal class information for each set time The third step of totalizing request notifications and storing them in the storage unit, and request notifications for the number of request content exceeding the set threshold from among the plurality of request content of the same type totaled for each terminal classification the comprises a fourth step discarded from the storage unit, after the fourth step, a fifth step of transferring to a transfer destination of the request notifications stored in the storage means is set.

  As described above, according to the present invention, the request notifications for the request contents whose number exceeds the set threshold value are discarded from the plurality of request contents of the same type totaled for each terminal classification. Therefore, it is possible to obtain an excellent effect that accurate air conditioning control can be performed in response to a request from a resident.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a configuration of a resident request notification transfer apparatus 101 according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram for explaining an example of the setting contents stored in the setting storage unit 108. FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an operation example of the resident request notification transfer apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the total result.

[Principle of the Invention]
First, the principle of the invention according to the present invention will be described.

  In bandwidth control technology, when the current bandwidth limit exceeds the upper limit bandwidth when trying to limit communication, it performs as much processing as possible from a communication request with a high priority, and those that could not be processed are transferred with a delay. To do. This is based on the idea that it is better to respond to all communication requests as soon as possible in the information communication field that the bandwidth control technology has conventionally dealt with.

  On the other hand, in a situation where a communication request occurs that causes the use band to exceed the upper limit band in air conditioning control, the indoor thermal environment is very hot or very cold. ”And“ I want you to raise the temperature ”rarely occur in large numbers at the same time. When bandwidth control technology is applied to this situation, some of the requests are processed with a delay, so that after the indoor environment has already been improved, the environment is further deteriorated due to further air conditioning (for example, excessive cooling in summer) And too warm in winter).

  Actually, in such a situation, considering a general air conditioning control mechanism, it is sufficient to respond to a certain request of “I want you to lower” or “I want you to raise”, and even if you cancel more requests The controlled thermal environment is equivalent.

  In this way, by discarding an extreme request, it is possible to avoid occurrence of a network failure or a failure of the air conditioning control device, and an accurate air conditioning control according to a required request becomes possible.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a configuration of a resident request notification transfer apparatus 101 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The resident request notification transfer device 101 includes a receiving unit (request notification receiving unit) 102 that receives request notifications sent from the terminals (resident terminal devices) 111, 112, and 113, and a request notification received by the receiving unit 102. It includes terminal information for specifying the included terminals 111, 112, and 113, and an information acquisition unit 103 that extracts desired contents.

  In addition, the resident request notification transfer device 101 sends a request notification with a request type according to the set request type information for each terminal classification according to the set terminal classification information for each set time. Aggregated totaling unit (request content totaling means) 104, storage unit 105 that stores the totalized result by totaling unit 104, and a plurality of request contents of the same type totaled for each terminal classification are set. After the processing of the discarding unit (desired notification discarding unit) 106 that discards the request notifications of the requested content exceeding the threshold (allowable number) from the storage unit 105 and the processing of the discarding unit 106, the request notification is stored in the storage unit 105 A transmission unit (request notification transfer unit) 107 that transfers the request notification to a set transfer destination.

  Each setting information and setting value is stored in the setting storage unit 108. In addition, the resident request notification transfer apparatus 101 is connected to the terminals 111, 112, and 113 via the network 121 and can communicate with each other. Further, the resident request notification transfer device 101 is connected to the air conditioning control device 131 via the network 122 so as to be communicable. The air conditioning control device 131 controls the air conditioning equipment in the section where the terminals 111, 112, and 113 are arranged. For example, the network 121 is a local area network (LAN) provided in a large-scale commercial facility, and the terminals 111, 112, and 113 are provided in tenants in the commercial facility. The network 121 is a WAN (Wide Area Network) such as the Internet.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 2, terminal classification information for identifying a terminal is stored in the setting storage unit 108 in association with information on a section in which the terminal is installed. In addition, for each section, a time interval for collecting received requests and an allowable number (threshold value) of request contents are stored in association with each other. Note that the above-described setting information and setting values stored in the setting storage unit 108 can be newly registered, changed, and deleted by input control from the setting input unit 109 by the user's operation. The request is, for example, a request to change the air conditioning setting in the area (zone) where the terminals 111, 112, and 113 are installed. In addition, you may make it handle the whole air-conditioning area as one division.

  Next, an example of the operation of the resident request notification transfer apparatus (resident request notification transfer method) in the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  First, when the receiving unit 102 receives a request transmitted from the terminals 111, 112, and 113 (step S301), the information acquisition unit 103 specifies terminal information that identifies the terminals 111, 112, and 113 included in the received request notification and The requested content is extracted (step S302). The extracted terminal information and desired content may be temporarily stored in the storage unit 105.

  Next, the request that is set for each terminal classification (section) according to the set terminal classification information for each time (interval) set (stored) in the setting storage unit 108 by the counting unit 104. The request notifications are totaled according to the desired type according to the type information, and the totaled result is stored in the storage unit 105 (step S303). For example, as shown in FIG. 4, there are a total of 12 requests for “I want to lower the temperature” from any of the terminals (resident terminal devices) arranged in the section A, and any of the terminals arranged in the section B There are a total of 8 requests for “reducing the temperature” from that terminal, and a total of 16 requests for “reducing the temperature” from any terminal (resident terminal device) located in section C. It is totaled that there was. In addition, these total results are stored in the storage unit 105.

  Next, the discarding unit 106 checks whether or not there are more request contents than the set allowable number from among a plurality of request contents of the same type that are aggregated for each section (step S304), and the allowable number The request contents exceeding the number are discarded from the storage unit 105 (step S305). For example, as shown in FIG. 4, there are 12 total requests for “I want to lower the temperature” in the section A, which exceeds the allowable number of 4, so 8 requests are discarded. In addition, the total number of requests for “I want to lower the temperature” in section C is 16, which exceeds the allowable number of 5, so 11 requests are discarded.

  On the other hand, there are eight requests for “I want to lower the temperature” in the section B, and since the allowable number 12 is not exceeded, it is not discarded. In addition, “I want you to raise the temperature” in each section is not a target for discarding because there is no request (the number of requests is 0).

  Next, the transmission unit 107 transfers the request notification stored in the storage unit 105 to the air conditioning control device 131 that is the set transfer destination (step S306). For example, as a result of discarding by the discarding unit 106 described above, the storage unit 105 stores four “I want to lower the temperature” as transfer targets as requests from the section A as shown in FIG. In addition, as a request from the section B, eight “I want you to lower the temperature” are stored in the storage unit 105 as transfer targets. The storage unit 105 stores five “desired to lower the temperature” as transfer targets as requests from the section C. As described above, the transmission unit 107 transfers the transfer target request remaining in the storage unit 105 as a result of the discard to the air conditioning control device 131.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the request sent to the air conditioning control device 131 is discarded by the resident request notification transfer device 101 in a portion exceeding the set allowable number. . As a result, since the number of requests is limited and transferred to the air conditioning control device 131, such as congestion in the network 122 between the resident request notification transfer device 101 and the air conditioning control device 131, delay in data transmission / reception, etc. Communication failures can be suppressed, and system failures in the air conditioning control device 131 can be suppressed. Moreover, a request is notified without being obstructed. As a result, accurate air-conditioning control can be performed in response to a request from a resident.

  Also, if the request is a request to change the air conditioning setting in the area (area) where the terminals 111, 112, and 113 are installed, conflicting requests such as “I want you to lower the temperature” and “I want you to raise the temperature” However, since both do not occur in large quantities during the same time period, even if some requests are discarded and notified, there is no significant effect on air conditioning control, and it is possible to ensure an appropriate environment for the living space. is there.

  Here, the resident request notification transfer device 101 is a computer device such as a server or a router provided with a CPU, a main storage device, an external storage device, a network connection device, etc., and the CPU is controlled by a program developed in the main storage device. By operating, each function mentioned above is realized. Each function may be distributed among a plurality of computer devices.

  It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above, and that many modifications can be implemented by those having ordinary knowledge in the art within the technical idea of the present invention. It is obvious. For example, in the above-described embodiment, the resident request notification transfer apparatus 101 is provided between the LAN and the WAN. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The resident request notification transfer apparatus 101 may be provided in the LAN. The resident request notification transfer apparatus 101 may be provided in a communication path that requires higher communication reliability. Moreover, although the case where it has three terminals was demonstrated above, it is not restricted to this, It is the same also when it has four or more terminals.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 ... Residential request notification transfer apparatus, 102 ... Receiving part (request notification receiving means), 103 ... Information acquisition part, 104 ... Counting part (request content totaling means), 105 ... Storage part, 106 ... Discarding part (destroying request notification) Means), 107 ... transmission unit (request notification transfer means), 108 ... setting storage unit, 109 ... setting input unit, 111, 112, 113 ... terminal (resident terminal device), 121 ... network, 122 ... network, 131 ... Air conditioning control device.

Claims (3)

A request notification receiving means for receiving a request notification about the thermal environment sent from the resident terminal device;
Information acquisition means for extracting terminal information and request contents for specifying a resident terminal device included in the request notification received by the request notification receiving means;
For each set time, for each terminal classification according to the set terminal classification information, a request content totaling means for totaling the request notification with a request type according to the set request type information;
Storage means for storing the result of the request content counting means;
A request notification discarding unit that discards the request notifications of the request content of the number exceeding the set threshold from the plurality of request content of the same type totaled for each terminal classification,
A resident request notification transfer device comprising: a request notification transfer unit configured to transfer the request notification stored in the storage unit to a set transfer destination after the processing of the request notification discard unit. In the resident request notification transfer device according to claim 1,
The request content is a request for changing the setting of air conditioning in an area where the resident terminal device is installed. A first step of receiving a request notification regarding the thermal environment sent from the resident terminal device;
A second step of extracting terminal information and request content for specifying a resident terminal device included in the request notification received in the first step ;
For each terminal classification according to the set terminal classification information, for each set time, the request notification is totaled and stored in the storage unit by the request type according to the set request type information. Steps,
A fourth step of discarding, from the storage means , request notifications of the number of request contents exceeding the set threshold value from among a plurality of request contents of the same type totaled for each terminal classification;
A resident request notification transfer method comprising: a fifth step of transferring a request notification stored in the storage means to a set transfer destination after the fourth step.

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