Facility controlling system and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8972063-B2
Application number	US-201213417414-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 12, 2012
Priority date	Mar 30, 2011
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

When, in an administering device, there has been an evaluation that a user is authorized to enter into any given controlled region, the occupant counts of a movement origin controlled region and of a movement destination controlled region are updated by an occupant count updating portion and stored in a storing portion, where the occupancy statuses specified by the individual occupant counts in the storing portion are reported to an air-conditioning controlling device. In the air-conditioning controlling device, electricity-saving control parameters corresponding to the applicable occupancy statuses are obtained from an electricity-saving control information storing portion by an air-conditioning controlling portion in response to occupancy statuses reported by the administering device, to cause air-conditioning equipment, corresponding to the applicable region, to perform electricity-saving operation based on the electricity-saving control parameters.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A facility controlling system comprising:
at least one reader terminal provided at each of controlled regions within a facility, sending an evaluation request requesting, in response to an operation by a user, an entry-authorization evaluation whether the user has entry authorization for either entering or exiting the controlled region;
a controlling device evaluating, in response to the evaluation request from the reader terminal, whether or not the…

Assignees

• Kobayashi Hiroaki
• Azbil Corp

Inventors

• Kobayashi Hiroaki

Classifications

• F24F2120/10

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24F11/64

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24F11/46 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24F11/30 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24F11/0034 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic