摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a water heater control system promoting boiling-up power leveling of the whole aggregation of residence including a hot water storage type water heater using electric power for boiling-up operation.SOLUTION: A water heater control device 2 connected to a home gateway of residence through a communication network 4 collects operation situations of electric apparatuses 5, 6, 7, 8, and determines whether a resident is in a home every predetermined unit time. Stay-at-home time is predicted for each residence from determined stay-at-home information, and on the basis of the prediction time, a boiling-up time zone of a water heater is distributed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 |