POWER MONITORING UNIT, AND POWER MONITORING NETWORK SYSTEM

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power monitoring unit and a power monitoring network system capable of properly saving power in an image forming unit. PSOLUTION: A unit in use (present unit) is monitored, and each operation mode time is stored (S11). Based on the monitoring result, consumption power is calculated (S12). From a DB, substitution units of substantially the same order as the present unit are extracted (S13), and when each shift time to an energy saving mode in the extracted units is equal to the present unit (S14; Y), the power consumption in case that the extracted unit executes an operation pattern of the present unit for a certain period of time is calculated (S15). When each shift time to an energy saving mode in the extracted units is not equal to the present unit (S14; N), the power consumption is calculated after the power value is corrected (S23). The power consumption of the present unit is collated with the power consumption of the extracted units, and a unit having the least power consumption is selected (S17), and then, the power consumption and the CO2 emission amount of the selected unit and the present unit, the specification of the selected unit, etc. are displayed (S18-20). PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT