Patent ID: 9506959
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G01R,G01W,H02J,Y02B,Y02E,Y04S

Claim Text:
1. An operation support system that supports the operation of a plurality of pieces of electrical equipment in a house, comprising: a weather information acquirer that acquires hourly weather information by way of a network; a detector that detects a state of use of the plurality of pieces of electrical equipment that are used by a user living in the house; a memory that stores the weather information and the state of use of the plurality of pieces of electrical equipment that have been correlated over time; an identifier that (i) refers to the memory, (ii) calculates hourly predicted power consumption in a future of the plurality of pieces of electrical equipment based on the state of use of the plurality of pieces of electrical equipment correlated with the hourly weather information in a past that matches with the hourly weather information in the future acquired by the weather information acquirer, and (iii) identifies the plurality of pieces of electrical equipment suitable for the operation from among the plurality of pieces of electrical equipment so that electricity cost becomes minimum; and a display that displays (i) the weather information and the state of use of the plurality of pieces of electrical equipment that are stored in the memory, and (ii) identification results of the identifier.