Environmental control device, environmental control method, and environmental control program

Abstract

An environmental control device of the invention includes a learning processing unit configured to create a control model by collecting relationships between past examples of changes in temporal or spatial happiness of a person who is subjected to environmental control and past examples of changes in a temporal or spatial environmental indicator regarding the person, and an environmental control unit configured to, based on the created control model, determine a temporal or spatial environmental indicator for boosting happiness of a person who is newly subjected to the environmental control and perform the environmental control while targeting the determined environmental indicator.

1 . An environmental control device comprising:
 a learning processing unit configured to
 create a control model by collecting relationships between past examples of changes in temporal or spatial happiness of a person who is subjected to environmental control and past examples of changes in a temporal or spatial environmental indicator regarding the person, and 
 create the control model by collecting relationships among past examples of changes in the happiness, past examples of changes in the environmental indicator, and past examples of changes in temporal or spatial energy consumption related to the environmental control; and 
 an environmental control unit configured to 
 based on the created control model, determine the temporal or spatial environmental indicator for boosting happiness of a person who is newly subjected to the environmental control and perform the environmental control while targeting the determined environmental indicator, and 
   determine the temporal or spatial environmental indicator for saving the energy consumption in a period in which the person is habituated to an indicator of the happiness.   
     
     
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         3 . The environmental control device according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the environmental indicator includes at least one of a predicted mean vote, illuminance, a smell, a sound, and a design of a space.   
     
     
         4 . The environmental control device according to  claim 3 , wherein
 the happiness includes values based on a cerebral blood flow, components of saliva, or a heart rate.   
     
     
         5 . The environmental control device according to  claim 4 , wherein
 the learning processing unit is configured to create a pattern of changes in the temporal or spatial environmental indicator.   
     
     
         6 . The environmental control device according to  claim 5 , wherein
 the changes in the environmental indicator include at least one of a change width of the environmental indicator, a change speed of the environmental indicator, a maintaining time at a same level of the environmental indicator, and a time integration value of a deviation from a predetermined value of the environmental indicator.   
     
     
         7 . The environmental control device according to  claim 6 , wherein
 the changes in the happiness include at least one of a level of a maximum value of the happiness, a time integration value of a deviation from a predetermined value of the happiness, and a period of the happiness.   
     
     
         8 . The environmental control device according to  claim 7 , wherein
 the happiness includes a noninvasive or noncontact alternative value.   
     
     
         9 . The environmental control device according to  claim 8 , wherein
 the pattern repeatedly inverts the environmental indicator once lowered or raised.   
     
     
         10 . The environmental control device according to  claim 9 , wherein
 the environmental control unit is configured to determine one representative when there are a plurality of persons who are newly subjected to the environmental control.   
     
     
         11 . The environmental control device according to  claim 10 , wherein
 the environmental control unit is configured to collect, as a part of the control model, a result of performing the environmental control while targeting the determined environmental indicator.   
     
     
         12 . The environmental control device according to  claim 11 , wherein
 the environmental control unit is configured to determine a balance between the happiness and the saving of the energy consumption according to a weight specified by a user.   
     
     
         13 . The environmental control device according to  claim 12 , wherein
 the learning processing unit is configured to create the control model for a plurality of different spaces, and   the environmental control unit is configured to perform the environmental control for the plurality of different spaces.   
     
     
         14 . An environmental control method of an environmental control device, the environmental control method comprising:
 by a learning processing unit of the environmental control device,
 creating a control model by collecting relationships between past examples of changes in temporal or spatial happiness of a person who is subjected to environmental control and past examples of changes in a temporal or spatial environmental indicator regarding the person, and 
 creating the control model by collecting relationships among past examples of changes in the happiness, past examples of changes in the environmental indicator, and past examples of changes in temporal or spatial energy consumption related to the environmental control; and 
   by an environmental control unit of the environmental control device,
 based on the created control model, determining the temporal or spatial environmental indicator for boosting happiness of a person who is newly subjected to the environmental control and performing the environmental control while targeting the determined environmental indicator, and 
 determining the temporal or spatial environmental indicator for saving the energy consumption in a period in which the person is habituated to an indicator of the happiness. 
   
     
     
         15 . An environmental control program for causing a computer to function as:
 a learning processing unit configured to
 create a control model by collecting relationships between past examples of changes in temporal or spatial happiness of a person who is subject to environmental control and past examples of changes in a temporal or spatial environmental indicator regarding the person, and 
 create the control model by collecting relationships among past examples of changes in the happiness, past examples of changes in the environmental indicator, and past examples of changes in temporal or spatial energy consumption related to the environmental control; and 
 an environmental control unit configured to 
 based on the created control model, determine the temporal or spatial environmental indicator for boosting happiness of a person who is newly subjected to the environmental control and perform the environmental control while targeting the determined environmental indicator, and 
 determine the temporal or spatial environmental indicator for saving the energy consumption in a period in which the person is habituated to an indicator of the happiness.