Patent ID: 8682492

Claim:
A setting value controlling method for controlling a temperature setting value that is set for an air-conditioned space wherein an air-conditioning device controls a room temperature, comprising the steps of: a first evaluating step evaluating whether a current temperature setting value is a more energy-conserving setting than a reference setting value when a specific resetting time has been reached; a setting value resetting step resetting the current temperature setting value to the reference setting value when it is evaluated, in the first evaluating step, that the current temperature setting value is not at least as an energy-conserving setting as the reference setting value; a second evaluating step evaluating whether an updated temperature setting value is a more energy-conserving setting than the reference setting value when a user has updated the temperature setting value before the specific resetting time is reached; a third evaluating step evaluating whether a specific time interval has elapsed since the temperature setting value has been updated, when it is evaluated, in the second evaluating step, that the updated temperature setting value is a more energy-conserving setting than the reference setting value; and a reference setting value updating step updating the reference setting value to the updated temperature setting value when it is evaluated, in the third evaluating step, that the specific time interval has elapsed.