US 12,305,869 B2
Apparatus management device and software generation method
Hiroaki Sakaguchi, Tokyo (JP); and Tetsushi Masuno, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/627,999
Filed by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 27, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/038270
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 18, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/059504, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0268473 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01); F24F 1/00 (2019.01); F24F 11/00 (2018.01); F24F 11/49 (2018.01); F24F 11/56 (2018.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01)
CPC F24F 11/49 (2018.01) [F24F 11/56 (2018.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus management device to remotely manage at least one apparatus, the apparatus management device comprising:
a storage device to store an apparatus base model for defining the apparatus in the apparatus management device from apparatus data including information regarding each item managed for the apparatus; and
an SW generation unit to generate software for managing the apparatus by the apparatus management device by associating the apparatus data with the apparatus base model on the basis of the apparatus data, wherein
the apparatus base model includes:
a first model to define a data type of control data managed by the apparatus management device; and
a second model to define a communication scheme of the control data with an outside, and
the SW generation unit includes:
an apparatus data acquisition unit to acquire the apparatus data from outside the apparatus management device;
a first generation unit to generate software for defining a name and a data type of control data of the apparatus for each item of the apparatus data by associating the apparatus data with the first model on the basis of the apparatus data which has been acquired; and
a second generation unit to generate software for performing communication of the control data with the apparatus by associating the apparatus data with the second model on the basis of the apparatus data which has been acquired.