抄録
In recent years global environmental problems become aggravated, and various energy-saving function and method have been introduced in vending machine. However, it is reported that useless energy is consumed because the amount of power consumption changes greatly by the installation environment in actual operation. Then, it aimed to achieve efficient conservation of energy by managing operational information on the vending machine, we did the monitoring investigation to the vending machine in the university premises. When the conservation of energy setting matched to the use state was given, the amount of power consumption of about 17.8% was reduced to 8 vending machines selling cans and PET bottles, and about 17.3% was reduced to 3 machines selling cartons. We also developed a tool which is called Best Available Allocation Supporting tool. By using this tool, we plan to propose people who operate vending machines to save vending machines energy consumption without dropping off sales.
