Setting method, program, and setting system

Abstract

A setting method includes a space analysis step, an environmental calculation step, a determination step, and a changing step. The space analysis step includes making a space analysis. The environmental calculation step includes calculating an average temperature and an average air speed in a specific space. The determination step includes determining, based on the result of the space analysis, whether the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment should be changed. The changing step includes changing the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment in accordance with a predetermined relationship between a target temperature and a target air speed and the average temperature and the average air speed calculated in the environmental calculation step. The setting method includes performing the space analysis step and the determination step once again based on the driving condition that has been changed.

1 . A setting method comprising:
 a space analysis step including making a space analysis based on a driving condition for air conditioning equipment provided for an indoor space and information about an installation location of the air conditioning equipment;   an environmental calculation step including calculating, based on a result of the space analysis, an average temperature and an average air speed in a specific space within the indoor space;   a determination step including determining, based on the result of the space analysis, whether the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment needs to be changed; and   a changing step including changing, when a decision is made, in the determination step, that the driving condition needs to be changed, the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment in accordance with a predetermined relationship between a target temperature and a target air speed which have been set in advance to turn the specific space into a desired PMV space and the average temperature and the average air speed that have been calculated in the environmental calculation step,   the setting method including performing, after having changed the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment in the changing step, the space analysis step and the determination step once again based on the driving condition that has been changed.   
     
     
         2 . The setting method of  claim 1 , wherein
 the determination step includes:   calculating, based on the result of the space analysis, a PMV value as a quantitative representation indicating a degree of thermal sensations that a human being present in the specific space feels and a PMV space volume ratio of the specific space; and   determining, based on the PMV space volume ratio thus calculated for the specific space, whether the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment needs to be changed.   
     
     
         3 . The setting method of  claim 2 , wherein
 the determination step includes calculating the PMV value and the PMV space volume ratio of the specific space based on the result of the space analysis and an amount of clothing, a level of physical activity, and humidity which have been set in advance.   
     
     
         4 . The setting method of  claim 2 , wherein
 the determination step includes calculating the PMV value and the PMV space volume ratio of the specific space on the supposition that the specific space has a uniform humidity and that a radiant temperature in the specific space is equal to a temperature in the specific space.   
     
     
         5 . The setting method of  claim 1  wherein
 the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment includes at least one of a preset temperature or a preset air speed. 
 
     
     
         6 . The setting method of  claim 1 , wherein
 the specific space is a space located at a level equal to or greater than 0.1 m and equal to or less than 1.7 m over a floor surface and separated by at least 1 m from a wall surface provided for the indoor space.   
     
     
         7 . The setting method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 an initial condition setting step including setting an initial condition for the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment by calculating a thermal load on the indoor space, wherein   the space analysis step includes making the space analysis based on the initial condition for the air conditioning equipment and the information about the installation location of the air conditioning equipment.   
     
     
         8 . The setting method of  claim 7 , wherein
 the thermal load is calculated for a situation where the air conditioning equipment is performing a cooling operation and a situation where the air conditioning equipment is performing a heating operation.   
     
     
         9 . The setting method of  claim 1 , wherein
 the determination step includes deciding, when the changing step has already been performed at least a predetermined number of times, that there is no need to change the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment.   
     
     
         10 . The setting method of  claim 1 , further
 comprising a location setting step including setting the installation location of the air conditioning equipment based on a location of at least one opening provided for the indoor space, wherein the space analysis step includes making the space analysis based on the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment and the information about the installation location of the air conditioning equipment that has been set in the location setting step.   
     
     
         11 . The setting method of  claim 10 , wherein
 the location setting step includes calculating, when the at least one opening includes an air supply port and an exhaust port, respective inner products of a first vector pointing from the air supply port toward the exhaust port and a plurality of second vectors as a plurality of normal vectors defined with respect to a plurality of wall surfaces provided for the indoor space, and setting a wall surface belonging to the plurality of wall surfaces which is associated with one of the plurality of second vectors that produces the largest one of the inner products to be the installation location of the air conditioning equipment.   
     
     
         12 . The setting method of  claim 10 , wherein
 the location setting step includes calculating, when the at least one opening is an air supply port and a doorway, respective inner products of a first vector pointing from the air supply port toward the doorway and a plurality of second vectors as a plurality of normal vectors defined with respect to a plurality of wall surfaces provided for the indoor space, and setting a wall surface belonging to the plurality of wall surfaces which is associated with one of the plurality of second vectors that produces the largest one of the inner products to be the installation location of the air conditioning equipment.   
     
     
         13 . The setting method of  claim 10 , wherein
 the location setting step includes calculating, when the at least one opening is an exhaust port and a doorway, respective inner products of a first vector pointing from the doorway toward the exhaust port and a plurality of second vectors as a plurality of normal vectors defined with respect to a plurality of wall surfaces provided for the indoor space, and setting a wall surface belonging to the plurality of wall surfaces which is associated with one of the plurality of second vectors that produces the largest one of the inner products to be the installation location of the air conditioning equipment.   
     
     
         14 . The setting method of  claim 10 , wherein
 the location setting step includes calculating, when the at least one opening is a doorway, respective inner products of a first vector pointing outdoors from the doorway and a plurality of second vectors as a plurality of normal vectors defined with respect to a plurality of wall surfaces provided for the indoor space, and setting a wall surface belonging to the plurality of wall surfaces which is associated with one of the plurality of second vectors that produces the largest one of the inner products to be the installation location of the air conditioning equipment.   
     
     
         15 . A non-transitory storage medium storing thereon a program designed to cause one or more processors to perform the setting method of  claim 1 . 
     
     
         16 . A setting system comprising:
 a space analyzer configured to make a space analysis based on a driving condition for air conditioning equipment provided for an indoor space and information about an installation location of the air conditioning equipment;   an environmental calculator configured to calculate, based on a result of the space analysis made by the space analyzer, an average temperature and an average air speed in a specific space within the indoor space;   a determiner configured to determine, based on the result of the space analysis made by the space analyzer, whether the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment needs to be changed; and   a changer configured to change, when the determiner has decided that the driving condition needs to be changed, the driving condition for the air conditioning equipment in accordance with a predetermined relationship between a target temperature and a target air speed which have been set in advance to turn the specific space into a desired PMV space and the average temperature and the average air speed that have been calculated by the environmental calculator.