Patent ID: 9303930
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: F24F,F28F

Claim Text:
1. An air conditioner control device that controls a plurality of air conditioners that are installed at different positions in a specified inhabited space, comprising: a management unit that manages information related to people in spaces air conditioned by each of the air conditioners; a number-of-people-in-a-room calculation unit that calculates, for each air conditioner, the number of people in a space that is air conditioned by an air conditioner based on the information related to people in the space that is managed by the management unit; a control time determination unit that reduces or increases a control time during which energy-saving control of each of the air conditioners is executed according to the number of people in a space that was calculated by the number-of-people-in-a-room calculation unit so that a total of the control times for the plurality of air conditioners is maintained to be a predetermined time, while a control time for one air conditioner is reduced and another control time for another air conditioner is increased among the control times for the plurality of air conditioners; and a control execution unit that repeatedly executes energy-saving control for each of the air conditioners according to the control time that is reduced or increased by the control time determination unit.