Patent ID: 6647317
Filing Date: 2003-11-11
Classification: F24F

Abstract:
A management system for an air conditioner, the management system having a monitor apparatus for monitoring and controlling a plurality of air conditioners, including an indoor machine and an outdoor machine being connected via a refrigerating circulating path to constitute a refrigerating cycle, the indoor machine and the outdoor machine being connected via a transmission path and the air conditioners being controlled by a transmitted and received control message, comprising:a data converter for converting a data between the air conditioner and the monitor apparatus, connected between the air conditioner and the monitor apparatus; a status database, provided in the monitor apparatus, for storing a temperature and a pressure of units of the refrigerating cycle for a running data of the air conditioner; a setting database, provided in the monitor apparatus, for storing setting data of the air conditioner, the setting data including data regarding a running start/stop state, a running mode, an air quantity and a temperature, respectively of the air conditioner; and an engine for extracting a running data of the air conditioner from the control message being collected in a predetermined interval via the data converter and the transmission path, and for transmitting, if the setting data in the setting database is changed, the setting data as the control message to the transmission path via the data converter; wherein the running data is collected by reading the running data stored in the status database to monitor the air conditioner, and the setting data is rewritten to control the air conditioner, and the setting database is replaced to control the air conditioner.