Patent ID: 7519437
Filing Date: 2009-04-14
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A control method of controlling devices existing in an arbitrary place, comprising: storing, in a first memory, a plurality of device lists, the device lists corresponding to a plurality of places respectively and each including device information items which indicate devices existing in a corresponding one of the places; storing, in a second memory, a plurality of control information lists corresponding to the places respectively, each of the control information lists including control information items which indicate control operations for the devices existing in a corresponding one of the places; acquiring device information items indicating the devices; calculating a degree of concordance between the device information items of each of the device lists and the device information items acquired, to obtain degrees of concordance with respect to the device lists; detecting, as an existence place of the devices, one of the places which corresponds to one of the device lists whose degree of concordance is higher than a preset value and is a maximum of the degrees of concordance; selecting a control information list corresponding to the existence place of the devices among the control information lists; and controlling the devices, based on the control information list corresponding to the existence place of the devices.