Managing energy consumption of a building in an interconnected wide area management system

Abstract

An increase in communication traffic at the time of transmission of commands of controlling power consumption of individual buildings can be suppressed so as to be low. A wide area management system includes a wide area management device that includes a database that stores a command table and a transmission unit that transmits a control command to each uppermost-level building management device and building management devices, each of which includes a database that stores a management table and a building-associated correspondence table, a transfer unit where, in a case where a reception unit receives the control command, specifies lower-level building management devices by referring to the management table and transfers the received control command to each of the specified building management devices, an event program extraction unit that extracts an event program corresponding to the control command from a building-associated correspondence table, and an event program execution unit that executes the extracted event program to control power consumption of the buildings.