CLOTHES DRYING STATE PREDICTION PROGRAM AND WASHING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique which enables a user to easily obtain the time at which laundry is to be dried. SOLUTION: In the clothes drying state prediction program, information is taken out from an RFID tag 30 attached to clothes and is stored in a laundry database 3. A weather forecast for each time zone is acquired through a network 10. On the basis of the attributes of the clothes stored in the laundry database 3 and the acquired weather forecast for each time zone, the drying state of the washed clothes is predicted. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT