Patent ID: 8378779

Claim:
A facility equipment cooperation system including a gateway apparatus connecting to a plurality of pieces of facility equipment in a building via a control system network, and an agent apparatus installed for each of a plurality of tenants in the building, each agent apparatus communicating with the gateway apparatus via an information system network other than the control system network, the agent apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store not less than one piece of virtual point information defining a virtual point combined with not less than one piece of facility equipment as an operation target; a user authentication unit configured to perform user authentication for a user associated with a client apparatus; a request reception unit configured to receive a request for control on any of the virtual points from the client apparatus; a first command creation unit configured to create a remote control command based on a specific remote protocol for the facility equipment associated with the request based on the virtual point information associated with the request when the request has been received from the client apparatus and the user authentication associated with the client apparatus has succeeded; and a first command transmission unit configured to transmit the remote control command to the gateway apparatus via the information system network when tenant authentication for a tenant associated with the agent apparatus which is performed by the gateway apparatus has succeeded, and the gateway apparatus comprising: a tenant authentication unit configured to perform the tenant authentication associated with the agent apparatus; a command reception unit configured to receive the remote control command from the agent apparatus via the information system; a second command creation unit configured to create a local control command based on a specific local protocol for the facility equipment associated with the remote control command based on the remote control command when the remote control command has been received from the agent apparatus and the tenant authentication associated with the agent apparatus has succeeded; and a second command transmission unit configured to transmit the created local control command to the facility equipment or a controller of the facility equipment associated with the local control command via the control system network.