摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power management apparatus and an electronic appliance registering method capable of efficiently registering an electronic appliance as an object of power management. <P>SOLUTION: The power management apparatus include a managed appliance registering unit that carries out authentication on an electronic appliance connected to a power network, and registers an electronic appliance for which the authentication has succeeded as a managed appliance, and a control unit that controls the operation of the managed appliance and the supply of power to the managed appliance. The managed appliance registering unit transmits, to one or a plurality of the electronic appliances, a challenge message that is used when registering the electronic appliance, and collectively verifies response messages sent back from one or a plurality of electronic appliances to the challenge message. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT</p> |