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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2015
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takehiro Ishiguro, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In the present invention, an information amount of information to be collected is reduced gradually based on a collection speed, a transmission speed, and information amount reduction levels each being gradual setting of processing details of reducing an information amount for each piece of the information to be collected. Hence, when collecting energy information and working information from apparatuses installed in, for example, factories, houses, buildings, and so on, if the apparatuses switch between working and stopping frequently and a situation where the information cannot be collected duly occurs, missing of information to be collected, particularly high-priority information, can be minimized in comparison with cases where the amount of information to be collected is adjusted in accordance with the priority or by a thinning-out process.