KR101641247B1 - Facility management system and method for controlling power the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a facility management system and a power control method for performing power control for at least one load facility and at least one heat source facility included in a facility management system. To this end, the facility management system according to the present invention comprises: a power amount sensing unit for detecting power consumption of at least one load facility and at least one heat source equipment; And a controller for controlling the operation of the at least one load facility and the at least one heat source facility based on the stored operation control information when the sum of the power consumption amounts is greater than a predetermined threshold value, And a control unit for controlling the operation of the above-mentioned heat source equipment.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a facility management system and a power control method,

The present invention relates to a facility management system and a power control method.

Generally, a facility management system is a system that monitors the state of equipment installed on the site and controls the facility by a control command.

An object of the present invention is to provide a facility management system and a power control method for performing power control for a heat source facility as well as a load facility in peak power control of a facility management system.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a facility management system and a power control method for performing power control of a facility on the basis of each unique characteristic of one or more heat source facilities in peak power control of the facility management system.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a facility management system including: a power amount sensing unit for sensing power consumption of at least one load facility and at least one heat source equipment; And a controller for controlling the operation of the at least one load facility and the at least one heat source facility based on the stored operation control information when the sum of the power consumption amounts is greater than a predetermined threshold value, And a control unit for controlling the operation of the above-mentioned heat source equipment.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a power control method for a facility management system, including: detecting power consumption of at least one load facility and at least one heat source equipment; Summing the power consumption of the at least one load facility and the at least one heat source equipment; And controlling operation of the at least one load facility and the at least one heat source equipment based on the pre-stored operation control information when the summed power consumption is greater than a predetermined threshold value.

As one example related to the present invention, the at least one load facility may include at least one of a fan coil unit, a damper, a valve, an air conditioner, a pump, an air conditioner, and a ventilation system.

As an example related to the present invention, the operation control information may include on / off information for each facility included in the one or more load facilities.

As one example related to the present invention, the at least one heat source facility may include at least one of a boiler, a cooling tower, an ice storage system, a geothermal system, a cold / hot water generator, a high efficiency air heat source heat pump heater, and a chiller.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the operation control information includes on / off information for at least one of the cooling tower, the ice storage heat system, the geothermal system, and the cold / hot water generator included in the one or more heat source equipment .

In one embodiment of the present invention, the operation control information includes at least one of the predetermined first temperature information of the boiler, the predetermined second temperature information of the high-efficiency air heat source heat pump heater, and the predetermined RPM information of the chiller . ≪ / RTI >

The facility management system and the power control method according to the embodiment of the present invention increase the operating efficiency of the power control of the facility management system by performing power control for the heat source equipment as well as the load equipment at peak power control of the facility management system Thereby improving user convenience.

In addition, the facility management system and the power control method according to the embodiment of the present invention perform the power control of the facility based on the unique characteristics of each of the one or more heat source facilities at the peak power control of the facility management system, The operating efficiency of the power control of the system can be increased.

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a facility management system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a view illustrating operation control information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a power control method of a facility management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein like or corresponding elements are denoted by the same reference numerals, and a duplicate description thereof will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a facility management system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, the facility management system 10 includes a power amount sensing unit 110, a communication unit 120, a control unit 130, and a storage unit 140.

The power amount sensing unit 110 senses the amount of power consumed by each of the one or more load facilities and / or one or more heat source facilities at a predetermined time interval or in real time. At this time, the at least one load facility or the at least one heat source facility may be included in the facility management system 10. [

The communication unit 120 is connected to the at least one load facility and / or the at least one heat source facility through a wired / wireless communication network, and receives various information transmitted from the at least one load facility and / (Including control signals, information on the amount of power consumed by the corresponding facility detected by each facility and transmitted to the facility management system 10). At this time, the wired communication technology may include Ethernet, serial communication, and the like. The wireless communication network may use a wireless Internet module or a local communication module. Herein, the wireless Internet technologies include a wireless LAN (WLAN), a Wi-Fi, a wireless broadband (Wibro), a World Interoperability for Microwave Access (Wimax) Packet Access, IEEE 802.16, Long Term Evolution (LTE), and Wireless Mobile Broadband Service (WMBS). The local area communication technology may include Bluetooth, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Infrared Data Association (IrDA), Ultra Wideband (UWB), ZigBee, and the like.

The control unit 130 controls the overall operation of the facility management system 10.

In addition, the control unit 130 sums the power consumption of one or more load facilities and / or one or more heat source facilities sensed by the power amount sensing unit 110.

The controller 130 may control the power consumption of at least one load facility and / or at least one heat source facility received from the communication unit 120 and at least one load facility And / or the power consumption of at least one heat source equipment.

The control unit 130 compares the sum of the power consumption amounts with a preset reference power amount and if the summed power consumption amount is greater than the predetermined reference power amount as a result of the comparison, And controls the operation of the one or more load facilities and one or more heat source equipment based on operation control information (or operation control pattern) for one or more load facilities and / or one or more heat source facilities.

In addition, the control unit 130 sets operation control information for the at least one load facility and / or the at least one heat source facility by user input, and controls operation of the at least one load facility and / And stores the control information in the storage unit 140.

That is, the control unit 130 may include a fan coil unit (FCU), a damper, a valve, an air handling unit (AHU), a pump (or a driving / stopping sequence) for sequential control, priority control, or hybrid control for the plurality of grouped groups by classifying the plurality of groups into a plurality of groups, Setting. In addition, the controller 130 may include a boiler, a cooling tower, an ice thermal storage system, a geothermal system, a cold / hot water heater, a high efficiency air heat pump, AWHP, chiller, and the like into the plurality of groups, and generates information for sequential control, priority control, or hybrid control (e.g., power on / off setting, temperature setting , RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) setting, etc.).

2, the control unit 130 may include at least one of the fan unit FCU, the damper, the valve, the air conditioner AHU, the pump, the air conditioner, System and the like are classified into a first group (including a fan coil unit, a damper, a valve, an air conditioner and the like) and a second group (including a pump, an air conditioner and a ventilation system) The power on / off sequence for sequential control is set for the loaded load equipment.

As shown in FIG. 2, the control unit 130 may include at least one of the boiler, the cooling tower, the ice storage heating system, the geothermal system, the cold / hot water generator, the high efficiency air heat source heat pump heater (AWHP) Chiller and the like are classified into the first group (including a boiler, a cooling tower and an ice storage system) and the second group (including a geothermal system, a cold / hot water generator, a high efficiency air heat source heat pump heater (AWHP) The operation control information is set based on the unique characteristics of each heat source equipment for sequential control of the heat source equipment included in the first and second groups. That is, in the case of the cooling tower, the ice storage heat system, the geothermal system, and the cold / hot water heater, the power on / off sequence is set. In the case of the boiler and the high efficiency air heat source heat pump heater (AWHP), the operation control information for controlling the operation state at the predetermined temperature set at the current temperature of each heat source equipment is set. In the case of the chiller, the operation control information for controlling the operation state is set to a specific RPM preset in the current RPM.

The storage unit 140 stores data and programs necessary for the facility management system 10 to operate.

Also, the storage unit 140 stores various user interface (UI) and / or graphical user interface (GUI).

In addition, the storage unit 140 stores various kinds of information transmitted from the at least one load facility and / or at least one heat source facility received through the communication unit 120.

The storage unit 140 may be a flash memory type, a hard disk type, a multimedia card micro type, a card type memory (for example, SD or XD memory, etc.), ROM (Read Only Memory), EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), PROM (Programmable Read-Only Memory), Random Access Memory (RAM) ), A magnetic memory, a magnetic disk, and an optical disk.

Also, the storage unit 140 stores operation control information (or operation control pattern) for one or more load facilities and / or one or more heat source facilities set by the controller 130.

The facility management system 10 may further include an input unit (not shown) receiving input of a button operation by the user or inputting a command or a control signal by an operation such as touching / scrolling the displayed screen.

The input unit may be a variety of devices such as a keypad, a touch screen, a jog shuttle, and a microphone.

The facility management system 10 may further include a display unit (not shown) for displaying information included in the signal processed by the control unit 130. Here, the display unit may be configured to receive input from a user using a touch screen method.

The display unit displays the operation status of at least one of the components included in the facility management system 10 under the control of the control unit 130. [

Also, the display unit displays the amount of power consumption of each load facility and / or the heat source equipment sensed by the power amount sensing unit 110 under the control of the controller 130.

Further, the display unit displays the operation state of each of the one or more load facilities and / or one or more heat source facilities under the control of the control unit (130).

Further, when the sequential control, the priority control or the combined control for the at least one load facility and / or the at least one heat source facility is under the control of the control unit 130, the display unit may display the at least one load facility and / Displays the operating status of one or more heat source equipment.

Also, the display unit may be configured to store the control information stored in the storage unit 140 when the sequential control, the priority control, or the combined control for the at least one load facility and / or the at least one heat source facility is being performed under the control of the controller 130. [ And displays operation control information for one or more load facilities and / or one or more heat source facilities.

In addition, the display unit may display various contents such as various menu screens by using the user interface and / or graphical user interface included in the storage unit 140 under the control of the controller 130. [ Here, the content displayed on the display unit includes various text or image data (including various information data), a menu screen including data such as an icon, a list menu, and a combo box.

The display unit may be a liquid crystal display (LCD), a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), a flexible display Display, a field emission display (FED), and a three-dimensional display (3D display).

In this manner, at the peak power control of the facility management system, power control is performed on at least one load facility and at least one heat source facility included in the facility management system to increase the operating efficiency of the system power control, Can be improved.

Hereinafter, a power control method of the facility management system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 to FIG.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a power control method of a facility management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the amount-of-power sensing unit 110 detects the amount of power consumed by each of the one or more load facilities and one or more heat source equipment.

At this time, the communication unit 120 may communicate with the at least one load facility and at least one heat source facility, and may receive the power consumption of the corresponding facility transmitted from at least one of the at least one load facility and the at least one heat source facility (S110).

Then, the control unit 130 adds the power consumption amounts of the respective load facilities and heat source equipments sensed (S120).

If it is determined that the total amount of power consumed is less than or equal to the predetermined reference amount of power, the control unit 130 compares the total amount of power consumed and the predetermined reference amount of power (S130) The operation state of the load equipment and the heat source equipment is maintained (S140).

If the total amount of power consumed is greater than the predetermined reference power amount, the control unit 130 controls the operation of the at least one load facility and the heat source equipment Or the operation control pattern) of the at least one load equipment and the heat source equipment.

That is, when the total amount of power consumed is greater than the preset reference power amount, the controller 130 may determine that the at least one load facility belonging to the first group and the at least one load facility belonging to the first group Controls the operation of the heat source equipment and one or more load facilities and heat source equipment belonging to the second group.

For example, when the total amount of power consumption is larger than the preset reference power amount, the control unit 130 controls the load capacity of the load unit (fan coil unit, damper, valve, air conditioner And the operation of the load equipment (pump, air conditioner, ventilation system, etc.) belonging to the second group is maintained (maintained in the power-on state), and the temperature of the boiler belonging to the first group The cooling tower and the ice storage heat system are turned off, the operation of the geothermal system belonging to the second group and the cold / hot water heater are maintained, and the high efficiency (high temperature) The air heat source maintains the temperature of the heat pump heater (AWHP) at the current temperature (e.g., the third temperature) and keeps the RPM of the chiller at the current RPM (e.g., the first RPM).

When the predetermined operation switching time has elapsed, the controller 130 turns off the power of the load facility (fan coil unit, damper, valve, air conditioner, etc.) belonging to the first group among the load facilities in the off state Off state of the boiler in the first group of the heat source equipments is switched from the second temperature to the second group by turning off the power of the load equipment (pump, air conditioner, ventilation system, etc.) belonging to the second group, And the power of the cooling tower and the ice storage heat system are switched from the off state to the on state and the power of the geothermal system belonging to the second group and the cold / hot water heater are turned off, and the high efficiency air heat source heat pump The temperature of the heater (AWHP) is operated at the third temperature to a predetermined fourth temperature, and the RPM of the chiller is operated at the predetermined second RPM at the first RPM.

That is, if the total amount of power consumption is larger than the preset reference power amount, the control unit 130 controls the at least one load device and the heat source device based on the at least one load device and the heat source device, The operation of the facility can be sequentially controlled (S150).

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

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Claims (12)

1. A facility management system for managing a plurality of facilities,
A power amount sensing unit for sensing power consumption of at least one load facility and at least one heat source equipment included in the plurality of facilities; And
And a control unit for controlling the at least one load facility and at least one of the at least one load facility and the at least one heat source facility based on the stored operation control information when the summed power consumption is greater than a predetermined threshold value, And a control unit for controlling operation of the heat source equipment,
Wherein the at least one load facility and the at least one heat source facility,
The plurality of facilities are classified according to the characteristics of the facilities,
Wherein the at least one load facility comprises:
It is a facility to perform air conditioning for installed sites,
Wherein the at least one heat source equipment comprises:
A facility for providing a heat source to the at least one load facility,
Wherein the control unit executes control for each of the at least one load facility and at least one heat source facility that are classified according to characteristics of the facility. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one load facility comprises:
A fan coil unit, a damper, a valve, an air conditioner, a pump, an air conditioner, and a ventilation system. 3. The method according to claim 2,
And on / off information for each facility included in the one or more load facilities. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one heat source equipment comprises:
A boiler, a cooling tower, an ice storage system, a geothermal system, a cold / hot water generator, a high efficiency air heat source heat pump heater, and a chiller. 5. The method according to claim 4,
Wherein the on / off information for at least one of the cooling tower, the ice storage heat system, the geothermal system, and the cold / hot water generator included in the one or more heat source facilities is included. 5. The method according to claim 4,
A first temperature information of the boiler; a second temperature information of the high-efficiency air heat source heat pump heater; and a predetermined RPM information of the chiller. A power control method of a facility management system for managing a plurality of facilities,
Detecting power consumption for at least one load facility and at least one heat source equipment included in the plurality of facilities;
Summing the power consumption of the at least one load facility and the at least one heat source equipment; And
Controlling the operation of said at least one load facility and at least one heat source equipment based on pre-stored operation control information when said summed power consumption is greater than a predetermined threshold value,
Wherein the at least one load facility and the at least one heat source facility,
The plurality of facilities are classified according to the characteristics of the facilities,
Wherein the at least one load facility comprises:
It is a facility to perform air conditioning for installed sites,
Wherein the at least one heat source equipment comprises:
A facility for providing a heat source to the at least one load facility,
Wherein at least one of the at least one load facility and the at least one heat source facility are controlled in accordance with characteristics of the facility. 8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the at least one load facility comprises:
A fan coil unit, a damper, a valve, an air conditioner, a pump, an air conditioner, and a ventilation system. 9. The method according to claim 8,
And on / off information for each facility included in the at least one load facility. 8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the at least one heat source equipment comprises:
A method for controlling power of a facility management system, comprising: a boiler, a cooling tower, an ice storage system, a geothermal system, a cold / hot water generator, a high efficiency air heat source heat pump heater, and a chiller. 11. The method according to claim 10,
Off information on at least one of the cooling tower, the ice storage heat system, the geothermal system, and the cold / hot water generator included in the at least one heat source facility. 11. The method according to claim 10,
A first temperature information of the boiler, a predetermined second temperature information of the high-efficiency air heat source heat pump heater, and a predetermined RPM information of the chiller. .

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