Patent ID: 8589123

Claim:
A device-layout guiding apparatus for devices arranged in a predetermined space on a screen and including at least an electronic device, an air-conditioning device, and a device housing, said device-layout guiding apparatus including a processor, said processor executing a process comprising: reading location information of an air-conditioning device and a device housing stored in a location-information management unit; reading a heat generation amount of an electronic device mounted in the device housing, a cooling amount and an air-blowing direction of the air-conditioning device, the heat generation amount, the cooling amount and the air-blowing direction being stored, as device features, in a device-feature management unit; estimating a cooling performance range of the air-conditioning device in which heat generation amounts of electronic devices mounted in device housings existing therein as a cooling target can be cooled down to an appropriate condition, based on the read location information of the air-conditioning device and the device housings, the read heat generation amounts of the electronic devices mounted in the device housings, and the read cooling amount and air-blowing direction of the air-conditioning device, the air-conditioning device included in the cooling performance range, of which a shape is determined by the air-blowing direction, and in which the cooling amount is greater than a sum of the heat generation amounts of the electronic devices existing therein; generating device-layout guide information including the estimated cooling performance range of the air-conditioning device; and outputting the generated device-layout guide information.