MX2013015360A - System for controlling and measuring the electric consumption in electric and electronic appliances and electric installations in a remote and local manner with monitoring of sensors and connected devices. - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention is a system for controlling and measuring the electric consumption in electric and electronic appliances and electric installations in a remote and local manner with monitoring of digital sensors and devices connected thereto, where any type of electric and electronic device and electric installation can be connected thereto for measuring the electric consumption, with the purpose of saving energy and applying corrective or preventive measures with regard to the consumption. The information may be displayed in different technologies for using the remote system, without losing sight that the system may be locally controlled upon adding physical buttons acting as electric switches. The system has microcontrollers in the measuring step; these are advantageous in that they do not miss any measurement that may be unnoticed. The present invention turns the obtained consumption information into cost equivalences (applying rates), as well as to other units based on equivalence a nd conversion tables of public domain or defined by the users.

Description

SYSTEM OF CONTROL AND MEASUREMENT OF CONSUMPTION FOR ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES VIA REMOTE AND LOCAL WITH MONITORING OF SENSORS AND DEVICES CONNECTED FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention has application within the electrical industry, electronics and home automation and is related to the control and saving of electrical energy, based on the monitoring of the electrical consumption of the different equipment, appliances or electrical networks connected thereto; so that, with the information obtained, graphs and statistics are created to be able to implement actions that lead to the reduction of said electricity consumption.

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION The present invention refers to a system of local and remote monitoring of electricity consumption, which obtains information on electricity consumption and converts it into equivalences in costs (applying tariffs) as well as to other units based on tables of equivalences and known conversions from the public domain. or to be defined by the users; it energizes or restricts the power supply of the different electrical, electronic and electrical installations with which it has communication in order to save energy or take preventive or corrective actions regarding consumption.

BACKGROUND Traditional systems for measuring electrical energy have been characterized as consisting of electromechanical systems, which have limited functions.

The technological advance has allowed the emergence of devices that measure the consumption of electrical appliances, electronics and electrical installations, which have a direct benefit for the distributor of the same but these do not present useful information for the user, since they do not convert the electrical consumption or electronic to other units of measurement such as may not be limited to monetary or pollution factors or hours of use and expected life.

Other devices do not have the possibility of storing information and criteria to energize or restrict the power supply of electrical and electronic devices or devices; to receive commands locally or remotely; to alert users when a measurement is reached or an unexpected event occurs; to interact through multiple protocols and communications technologies; to interact with cellular equipment and mobile computing that store, process and graph data.

In addition, by themselves, the systems of control and measurement of consumption in electrical and electronic devices and devices as well as electrical installations do not include digital sensors that allow obtaining information of the situation of the place where they are connected and based on said information they take a decision about electrical consumption, such as turning off an air conditioner and turning on a fan, etc.

The proposed system has control of electrical and electronic equipment and appliances and electrical installations remotely, using different technologies at the same time, this is important since there are devices in the market that use remote control, but they limit to use a single technology and with it, they do not adapt to all the needs of the users. Therefore, the proposed system adapts to this need and implements it encompassing the most modern technologies.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES Figure 1. Block diagram of the operation of the complete system DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a control and consumption measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations characterized by a hardware unit, at least one embedded program, at least one application program and different levels of security, which interact with the user.

Said hardware unit contains, among others, mechanical, electrical, electronic and electromechanical elements, which may be more than limited to cables, components, cabinets, peripherals of all kinds and any other physical element involved.

Each embedded program makes up one stage of the system, the system works with a single independent stage or with different stages, which in a more non-limiting manner are a transmission and reception stage (1), a control stage (2), a stage of wired communication protocols (3), a charging stage (4), a census stage (5), a communication stage with a data processing equipment (6), a wireless communication stage (7) and a power stage (8).

The application program includes a communication interface with the user, to review information in real time or manage the information generated by the system. Security levels are generated from the access allowed to each user, defined by criteria, commands or configuration of parameters. Each user can have a different access code with different levels of control and administration, with which he can configure criteria or send commands so that based on them he can be energized or restrict the power supply of electrical, electronic or electrical equipment in order to make more efficient the electrical consumption, send alerts, store information, execute programmed actions, actions that must be performed when certain events occur or when one or more users give instructions that you must execute; Users can massively store the data obtained, remotely and locally, and can also display information on a screen, a communication device, which can be a smartphone, a tablet and other portable and desktop computers.

The hardware unit allows local communication via buttons, built-in touch screen or the local network.

The stages of the embedded program allow it to have a modular design, being that the functions desired by the user are complemented.

The application program is used for remote communication via wireless methods, telephony, telematics as well as different protocols and communication standards.

Additionally, the system can be connected to various sensors whose measurements can be used to make manual, local or automatic decisions.

Based on certain criteria or user commands, the system interacts with users by sending and receiving messages, commands and alerts, interacts with different digital sensors to take actions, interacts with connected devices that activate actions that are useful to the users.

It also helps reduce power consumption by detecting failures, forecasting scenarios, detecting unexpected events that allow the user to find out as quickly as he or she wants situations that require attention or take preventive measures.

The embedded program of the transmission and reception stage (1) is constituted by a telephony control module. Its function is to receive messages that are sent to the control stage (2) for processing, and in turn, from this stage, the response messages are sent to the users.

The embedded program of the control stage (2) is constituted by a microcontroller that receives the signals of the other stages and processes them to execute the programmed actions in the hardware and in turn return a response to the user, within its functions are: • Review of messages from the transmission and reception stage (1).

· Revision of the states of the electrical contacts or electrical terminations that are in the power stage (8).

• Change in the states of the power stage (8), to energize or de-energize electrical contacts or electrical installations.

• Review of any request or change of the web page hosted in the wired communication protocol stage (3).

• It receives the data of the charging stage (4) and distributes that information in the other stages so that they are displayed to the user.

• Performs consultation and receives the measured data of the sensors that are distributed in the census stage (5) so that this information is distributed in the other stages so that the user can consult it.

• Receives requests from the stage of wireless communication protocols and internet to later respond to them and be displayed to the user.

The embedded program of the wire communication protocol stage (3) is constituted by a web server http that connects wired to the local network, this server contains one or more web pages to control the contacts of the hardware as well as to perform the readings of the energy tariff of the devices connected to the circuit, these data are sent to the web server from the charging stage (4) to the control stage (2) and this is sent to the web server.

The charging stage (4) consists of current sensors and one or more microcontrollers that perform the rate conversion calculations and equivalencies to other units, for example units related to contamination and functional wear, also allows to save the information generated as well as the display of data on a screen and he sent the information to the serial and control stage for processing and sending this same information to the other stages of the system, this stage also has a configurable real-time clock that keeps the date and time so that the readings of the rate can be processed along with this information to generate historical of the precise readings, forecasts and projections in the future.

The census stage (5) is comprised of a microcontroller and at least one sensor that can be more than limited to a humidity sensor, a temperature sensor and a presence sensor; This stage monitors the variables of the sensors both in the connected devices and in the environment, takes samples of the variables each time the control stage requests it and carries the count of the presence of people. It also takes the monitoring of some change in the state of the physical buttons of the system, when any change is detected in these, the micro controller of this stage is responsible for sending this information to the microcontroller of the control stage (2) so that execute the corresponding action.

The output stage to a fixed or wireless data processing equipment (6) is constituted by a serial conversion module that receives the signals of the charging stage (4) processes them by means of the algorithm and sends them by means of a protocol to make it compatible with current communication standards, this stage includes a computer program capable of running on any operating system, which massively processes and graphs the information obtained.

This computer program is capable of taking the data that the hardware delivers through the serial port to show them and then save them for future processing; likewise, through this protocol other communication channels can be opened and thus generate cascade growths of systems equal or similar to the proposed one and increase the functionalities to form a monitoring and control network, likewise the storage capacities of memory can be extended to the record of the information generated.

The program has a plotter to present the user in a visual way, the consumptions in a day or a range of days, as well as different types of graphs for its representation.

The wireless communication protocol stage (7) is constituted by a module that allows, wirelessly, the control of the system through remote means, being able to be, but not limited to telephony, communication protocols and wireless standards, such so that from the remote means, data and commands are sent or received that allow managing the devices and / or electrical and / or electronic devices and the electrical system or systems connected to the system; You can also display in real time the electricity consumption and other variables from the charging stage (4).

The power stage (8) is formed by at least one relay manipulated by the control stage (2), which allows the passage of different voltages and currents allowing to connect any device or electrical and electronic device, as well as any electrical installation.

The user can connect and control locally and remotely, with direct commands or through established parameters, different external devices such as: alarms, spotlights, video surveillance cameras, electromechanical plates, fire systems, among others.

PREFERRED MODE OF THE INVENTION In the present invention, electrical or electronic devices and devices, as well as installations are connected and managed by various means: physically, by wire, by wireless means and automatically through defined parameters.

The system works through a local route by means of buttons, touch screen incorporated to the equipment or through a local network.

The system works through a remote route through wireless means, telephony, protocols and communication standards as well as various telemetry methods. The system has the ability to store parameters and data internally or externally.

The system works in a modular way, that is, the stages work independently or together to meet the needs of the user, for example: it is configured only for home automation applications, only for the control of electrical or electronic consumption, only to predict preventive maintenance and corrective, etc.

The system is capable of energizing or not electrical or electronic devices as well as an electrical supply installation.

Account with a system of administration of users or not, that allows to create criteria or limitations for accesses, consultations, notifications, among other actions.

Its applications are for home, commerce, industry so that it is possible to connect from a refrigerator to office equipment, large industrial equipment of large consumption and a complete electrical installation.

It is able to migrate to a multilanguage, convert to ultimoneda to rate and convert to different tables of applicable units.

In the system only the administrator is the one who has the power to register users, users can control the electrical or electronic devices and electrical installations connected to the system, they can request the status of the same (if they are turned on or off), as well as review the measurements made by digital sensors. The administrator is the only one who can access the other options of the system, register or cancel the users, request a list of the users stored in the memory, request the power consumption from the charging stage (4), rename the ports (electrical contacts and electrical installations) for ease of handling, unsubscribe to yourself, as well as the actions mentioned in the users.

Claims (31)

CLAIMS Having described my invention sufficiently and clearly, I consider as a novelty and therefore claim as my exclusive property, what is contained in the following clauses:

1. Control and measurement system of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices characterized by a hardware unit, at least one embedded program, at least one application program and different levels of security , that interact with the user.

2. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 1, characterized also because said hardware unit contains, among others, mechanical, electrical, electronic elements and electromechanical, which may be more than limited to cables, components, cabinets, peripherals of all kinds and any other physical element involved.

3. Control and consumption measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 1, also characterized in that each embedded program forms a stage of the system.

4. Control and consumption measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 1, also characterized in that said The application program comprises a communication interface with the user that displays information in real time and manages the information generated by the system.

5. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 1, characterized also because said levels of security are generated from the access allowed to each user, they are defined by criteria, commands or parameter settings.

6. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claims 1 and 3, also characterized in that the system works with a single independent stage or with different stages, which, in a non-limiting manner, are a transmission and reception stage, a control stage, a wired communication protocol stage, a charging stage, a census stage, a communication stage with a data processing equipment , a wireless communication stage, a wired communication stage and a power stage.

7. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claims 1 and 5, further characterized because each user may have different access key with different levels of control and administration to configure criteria or send commands to energize or restrict the power supply of electrical, electronic or electrical installations, send alerts, store information, execute programmed actions, mass store the obtained data, display information on a screen, a communication device, which can be a smartphone, on a tablet and on other portable and desktop computers.

8. Control and consumption measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claims 1 and 2, further characterized because the hardware unit allows local communication via buttons , built-in touch screen or local network.

9. Consumption control and measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claims 1 and 6, also characterized in that the embedded program stages allow it to have a modular design, being that the functions desired by the user are complemented.

10. Control and consumption measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claims 1 and 4, further characterized because the application program is used for remote communication through of wireless methods, telephony, telematics as well as the different protocols and communication standards.

11. Control and consumption measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 1, characterized in that the system is They can connect various sensors whose measurements can be used to make manual, local or automatic decisions.

12. Control system and consumption measurement for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claims 7 and 8, further characterized because based on certain criteria or user commands the system interacts with users by sending and receiving messages, commands and alerts, interacts with different digital sensors to take action and interacts with connected devices that activate actions that are useful to users.

13. Control and consumption measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 6, further characterized in that said embedded program of the transmission and reception stage is constituted by a module of telephone control. Its function is to receive messages that are sent to the control stage for processing, and in turn, from this stage, the response messages are sent to the users.

14. Consumption control and measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 6, further characterized in that said embedded program of the control stage is constituted by a microcontroller that receives the signals of the other stages and process them to execute the programmed actions in the hardware and in turn returns a response to the user, so that it reviews the messages coming from the transmission and reception stage, it reviews the states of the electrical contacts or electrical terminations that are in the power stage, change the states of the power stage, to energize or de-energize the electrical contacts or electrical installations, check requests or change the web page hosted in the protocol stage of wired communication, receives the data from the charging stage and distributes that information in the other stages so that they are displayed to the user, makes queries and receives the measured data from the sensors that are distributed in the sensors and buttons stage so that The information is distributed in the other stages so that the user can consult it, receives requests from the wireless communication protocols and internet stage to subsequently respond to them and be displayed to the user.

15. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 6, further characterized in that said embedded program of the wire communication protocol stage is constituted by a micro web server http that connects wired and / or wirelessly, to the local network, this server contains a small web page to control the contacts of the hardware as well as to make the readings of the energy tariff of the devices connected to the circuit, and whose data collected are sent to the web server from the charging stage until the control stage and this is responsible for sending it to the web server.

16. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic devices and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and devices connected, according to claim 6, further characterized in that said embedded program of the charging stage is formed by current sensors and one or more microcontrollers that perform the conversion calculations of the tariff and equivalencies to other units, allows to save the information generated as well as the display of data on a screen and send information to the serial and control stage for processing and sending this same information to the other stages of the system, has a configurable real-time clock that keeps the date and time so that the readings of the tariff can be processed together with this information to generate historical of the precise readings, forecasts and future projections.

17. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 6, further characterized in that said embedded program of the sensor stage is formed by a microcontroller and the less a sensor that can be more not limited to a humidity sensor, a temperature sensor and a presence sensor, it monitors the variables of the sensors both in the connected devices and in the environment, it samples the variables every time the control stage requests it, takes the count of the presence of people, takes the monitoring of any change in the state of the physical buttons of the system and when any change is detected in them, the microcontroller of this stage is responsible for sending that information to the microcontroller of the control stage to execute the corresponding action.

18. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 6, further characterized in that said program embedded from the output stage to a data processing equipment fixed or wireless is constituted by a serial conversion module that receives the signals of the charging stage processes them through the algorithm and sends them through a protocol to make it compatible with the current communication standards.

19. Control and consumption measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 6 and 18, further characterized in that said output stage includes a computer program capable of running on any operating system and massively process and graph the information obtained, such as not being limited to consumption in a day or a range of days, taking the data that the hardware delivers through the serial port to display and then save for future processing; likewise, through this protocol other communication channels can be opened and thus generate cascade growths of the same or similar systems and increase the functionalities and form a monitoring and control network, likewise the storage capacities of memory for the registration can be extended of the information generated.

20. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic devices and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and devices connected, according to claim 6, further characterized in that said program embedded in the wireless communication protocol stage is constituted by a module that allows, wirelessly, control of the system through remote means, being able to be, but not limited to telephony, communication protocols and wireless standards, to send or receive data and commands that manage the devices and / or electrical and / or electronic devices and the electrical system (s) connected to the system; You can also display in real time the electricity consumption and other variables from the charging stage.

21. Control and consumption measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 6, further characterized in that said program embedded in the power stage is formed by at least one relay Controlled by the control stage, which allows the passage of different voltages and currents to connect any electrical or electronic device or device as well as any electrical installation.

22. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 7, further characterized because the user can connect and control locally and remotely, with direct commands or through established parameters different external devices such as: alarms, spotlights, video surveillance cameras, electromechanical plates, fire systems, among others.

23. Consumption control and measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 1, also characterized in that the electrical or electronic devices and devices, as well as the installations are connected and managed by various means: physically, by wire, by wireless means and automatically through defined parameters.

24. Control and consumption measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 1, characterized in that the system works through a local way by means of buttons, touch screen incorporated into the team or through a local network.

25. Consumption control and measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 1, further characterized in that the system works through a remote path by means of wireless, telephony, protocols and communication standards as well as various telemetry methods.

26. Consumption control and measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 1, also characterized in that the system has the ability to store parameters and data internally or externally.

27. Control system and consumption measurement for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 9, further characterized in that said characteristic of being a modular system allows to satisfy the needs of the user, in the illustrative but not limitative areas such as applications of domotics, control of electrical consumption, prediction of preventive and corrective maintenance, etc.

28. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 1, also characterized in that the system is able to energize or not electrical or electronic devices as well as several electrical supply installations.

29. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claim 1, characterized also because its applications are for home, commerce, industry so that It is possible to connect from a refrigerator to office equipment, large industrial equipment of large consumption and a complete electrical installation.

30. Consumption control and measurement system for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claims 1 and 16, characterized in that it is capable of migrating to a multilanguage, converting to multi-currency to charge and convert to the different tables of applicable units.

31. System of control and measurement of consumption for electrical, electronic and electrical installations via remote and local with monitoring of sensors and connected devices, according to claims 5 and 7, characterized in that in the system only the administrator is authorized to register users, users can control the electrical or electronic devices and electrical installations connected to the system, they can request the status of the same (if they are turned on or off), as well as review the measurements they make the digital sensors. The administrator is the only one who can access the other options of the system, register or cancel the users, request a list of the users stored in the memory, request the power consumption from the charging stage, rename the ports ( electrical contacts and electrical installations) for ease of handling, unsubscribe to yourself, as well as the actions mentioned in the users.