| CPC F24F 11/62 (2018.01) [F24F 11/46 (2018.01); F24F 2110/10 (2018.01)] | 14 Claims |
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1. A method for determining a set temperature of each of a plurality of air conditioners installed in a target zone the method comprising:
obtaining an influence ranking for each air conditioner among the plurality of air conditioners;
determining a set temperature for a top-priority air conditioner, which is predetermined among the plurality of the air conditioners, the set temperature being determined to allow an indoor temperature to be within or adjacent to a predetermined comfortable temperature range, wherein the indoor temperature is an average value of temperatures measured from the plurality of temperature sensors; and
in response to a measured temperature of at least one temperature sensor among the plurality of temperature sensors being outside the comfortable temperature range, performing following steps repeatedly until all of measured temperatures are within the comfortable temperature range:
obtaining a difference ranking while operating a first group of air conditioners among the plurality of air conditioners, for which the set temperatures have been determined, at the respective set temperatures;
comparing the difference ranking with the influence rankings of one or more air conditioners in a second group of air conditioners, for which set temperatures have not been determined;
selecting a first air conditioner, among the second group of air conditioners, whose influence ranking is most similar to the difference ranking; and
determining a set temperature for the first air conditioner that allows the indoor temperature to be within or adjacent to the comfortable temperature range.
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