Air-conditioner control interface device, air conditioner, and air-conditioner control system

摘要

An air-conditioner control interface device that connects an air conditioner to an external device, including: an air-conditioner-information input/output unit that transmits or receives information to or from the air conditioner; an external-device-information input/output unit that transmits or receives information to or from the external device; an interface-control-information input/output unit that acquires interface control information, in which definitions of the information transmitted or received between the external device and the air conditioner and methods of transmitting or receiving the information, are described; and an interface controller that controls the external-device-information input/output unit and the air-conditioner-information input/output unit to transmit or receive information based on the interface control information.

主权项

1. An air-conditioner control interface device that communicates information between an air conditioner and an external device, comprising:
an air-conditioner-information input/output unit that transmits or receives information to or from the air conditioner; an external-device-information input/output unit that transmits or receives information to or from the external device; an interface-control-information input/output unit that retrieves stored predetermined interface control information, the interface control information including (1) definitions of air-conditioner manipulating information to be transmitted to the air conditioner from the external device and operating information on the air conditioner to be transmitted to the external device from the air conditioner and (2) methods by which respective information is received from the air conditioner and is to be transmitted to the external device and respective information is received from the external device and is to be transmitted to the air conditioner; and an interface controller that receives the interface control information from the interface-control-information input/output unit, interprets the interface control information and controls both the external-device-information input/output unit and the air-conditioner-information input/output unit to transmit the operating information on the air conditioner from the air conditioner to the external device and to transmit the air-conditioner manipulating information from the external device to the air conditioner based on (1) the definitions of the air-conditioner manipulating information and the operating information and (2) the methods by which respective information is received from the air conditioner and is to be transmitted to the external device and respective information is received from the external device and is to be transmitted to the air conditioner, included in the interpreted interface control information.