Patent ID: 9671124
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: F24F,G05B,G06F

Claim:
1. A management apparatus for managing an air-conditioning apparatus, the management apparatus including a memory to store data, and managing an operation of an air-conditioning apparatus including a plurality of indoor units and an outdoor unit, the management apparatus comprising: a remaining memory capacity acquisition unit to acquire a remaining memory capacity of the memory; a memory leak determination unit to determine whether or not a memory leak is present in the memory based on the remaining memory capacity acquired by the remaining memory capacity acquisition unit; a usage limit estimation unit to estimate, when the memory leak determination unit determines that the memory leak is present, a usage limit period being a length of time to a point when the memory reaches a preset usage limit threshold; a schedule table storing an operation schedule of the air-conditioning apparatus and the management apparatus, wherein the operation schedule for one of the plurality of indoor units, in the operation schedule stored in the schedule table, has an operation period which is independent of an other of the plurality of indoor units; a schedule management unit to search the schedule table for an all-stop period in which operations of all of the plurality of Indoor units are stopped within the usage limit period estimated by the usage limit estimation unit, and set a restart schedule for restarting the management apparatus in the schedule table in accordance with the all-stop period searched out; and an equipment control unit to restart the management apparatus according to the restart schedule set in the schedule table by the schedule management unit.