Patent ID: 8352093

Claim:
An intra-area environmental control system which includes a plurality of environmental devices that control environments in an area, and a control apparatus that monitors conditions in the area to control the respective environmental devices in accordance with the conditions in the area, the control apparatus comprising: a unit for setting control policies for the respective environmental devices in accordance with a work status in the area on the basis of predetermined evaluation indexes; a unit for obtaining information about power consumption of the respective environmental devices; a unit for detecting environmental information of the area; a unit for detecting the work status of each person in the area; and an evaluation index calculating and control device determining unit, wherein the evaluation indexes of the respective environmental devices are calculated on the basis of the environmental information of the area and the information about the power consumption of the respective environmental devices, a combination of controls of the respective environmental devices adapted to the control policies is determined on the basis of the calculated evaluation indexes, the set control policies, and the work status of each person in the area, and the respective environmental devices are controlled on the basis of the determined combination.