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- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
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- H02J13/00—Circuit arrangements for providing remote indication of network conditions, e.g. an instantaneous record of the open or closed condition of each circuitbreaker in the network; Circuit arrangements for providing remote control of switching means in a power distribution network, e.g. switching in and out of current consumers by using a pulse code signal carried by the network
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- H02J3/00—Circuit arrangements for ac mains or ac distribution networks
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- H02J2310/00—The network for supplying or distributing electric power characterised by its spatial reach or by the load
- H02J2310/10—The network having a local or delimited stationary reach
- H02J2310/12—The local stationary network supplying a household or a building
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- H02J2310/00—The network for supplying or distributing electric power characterised by its spatial reach or by the load
- H02J2310/50—The network for supplying or distributing electric power characterised by its spatial reach or by the load for selectively controlling the operation of the loads
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- H02J2310/00—The network for supplying or distributing electric power characterised by its spatial reach or by the load
- H02J2310/50—The network for supplying or distributing electric power characterised by its spatial reach or by the load for selectively controlling the operation of the loads
- H02J2310/56—The network for supplying or distributing electric power characterised by its spatial reach or by the load for selectively controlling the operation of the loads characterised by the condition upon which the selective controlling is based
- H02J2310/58—The condition being electrical
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- H02J2310/00—The network for supplying or distributing electric power characterised by its spatial reach or by the load
- H02J2310/50—The network for supplying or distributing electric power characterised by its spatial reach or by the load for selectively controlling the operation of the loads
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Abstract
The present invention relates generally to systems for the automation of monitoring and controlling electrical appliances to reduce/contol energy consumption and increase energy efficiency for households, industries, offices, institutions and off-grid solutions. 1044093
Description
ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
0001. The present invention relates generally to systems for the automation of monitoring and controlling electrical appliances to reduce/contol energy consumption and increase energy efficiency for households, industries, offices, institutions and off-grid solutions.
0002 A smart meter is an energy meter that is connected with the cloud directly trough an IOT: protocols e.g. Sigfox, 4g or Narrowband-IOT. This system has a sub-system to provide usage, instant or monthly, to the utility facility for billing and Supply planning purposes. These meters are designed for standalone in an urban area. 0003 A gateway
A gateway system is the data collector and the link towards the cloud. The data from this point can be distributed again.
Ef 0004 side control equipment * A side controlled equipment is external control product which can be controlled with Modbus / RS- 485, Ethernet or Wlan. An example of this product is a motor driver which can be set trough RS- 485. 0005 Synchronized switching(load balancing)
Synclivonized switching is used to synchronize all temperature operated equipment e.g. an oven, deep fryer, etc. These machines normally tum on to the given temperature and then switches off when the desired temperature is reached, when the temperature internally drops to a certain threshold, The synchronized switching turns off all the machines at different times knowing what power consumption the specific device uses. The synchronized switching gives a time slot for the machines to operate in, thus creating a balanced load with synchronizing the machines. 0006 Mesh network
A mesh network {or simply meshnet) is a local network topology in which the infrastructure nodes (i.e, bridges, switches, and other infrastructure devices) connect directly, dynamically and non-hierarchically to as many other nodes as possible and cooperate with one : 35 another to efficiently route data from/to clients. This lack of dependency on one node allows for : every node to participate in the relay of information. Mesh networks dynamically self-organize and self-configure, which can reduce installation overhead. The ability to self-configure enables dynamic distribution of workloads, particularly in the event a few nodes should fail. This in turn contributes to fault-tolerance and reduced maintenance costs. 0007 An energy management system can be a Smart meter, a power measuring module, a gateway, a Smart home system, {off)grid distribution panels, or a campus wide energy management system through network control and monitoring. 0008. A Smart IOT system is usually a mobile network control system with cloud control and 2.4 GHZ WiFi communications. All intelligence is controlled in the cloud and from far away. These systems mainly address home automation and there is usually no proactive energy saving control scenes in side the network for fast switching of controlling sensors.
These system often heavily rely on WiFi and mobile networks and do not work in temporary events and off-grid situations. 1
0009. However, each of the above energy management devices has its weakness. For example regular smart meters only report on static installations. In dynamic installations its working is not guaranteed due to the fact the wireless infrastructure is not available or not adequate for the data transfer. Side controlled equipment thus must be directly controlled inside the system to optimize energy control and consumption.
0010. The present invention provides a system, which measures the voltage, current, power factor 60 and power consumption of each appliance plugged in the system, And is able to sample the values over time and send an average value over an 868 MHZ frequency band to a cloud application. The appliance contains a large buffer capacitance, in case of grid failure the system continues to measure. Inside the system there is side control equipment that is being controlled from the collected data conserving energy and controlling the grid with synchronized switching making the 65 system stable and independent from cloud and surounding infrastructure.
In one embodiment, the Software application can be configured to monitor individual nodes in a ¢ network and give alerts of power failure in the following cases: missing neutral, zero voltage per * phase, over-current alert precaution, Load balancing alert and optimization in energy designs. The 70 hardware can be configured to average the measurements in a buffer over a AT and send iin a to a gateway to transfer the data to the cloud. The power circuit of the hardware contains a power buffer that enables the system to send data even when the grid power is gone, The system is able to control synchronize the energy consumption from inside the network, whilst being able to be controlled from afar. 75
In another embodiment, when a plurality of the system are implemented in multiple premises, the gateway and peripheral appliances can even be located in any physical locations around the world.
For example, two different power systems are positioned in the field, one of the systems has a temperature meter as side equipment and the other has an energy meter node in its network and a 80 Synchronized switching module as side equipment. The first gateway read the data from the temperature sensor and detects the value is lower than the threshold. Its sends a signal to the other gateway that the heater must be activated, The gateway is set up with Synchronized switching load balancing. Its creates a time slot for the system to be activated in and waits for the measured load to go down. The system starts to sync the heater on the time slot, balancing the load. ‚85 * 0011 Features are designed to provide minimal effort and less intervention required by the users to maintain effective and efficient energy saving. =~ 0012 Smart meter 90 The Smart meter has the following properties: Continuous sampling of Power, Voltage, Current, power factor, and Harmonics. It has a power buffer for power outage and has programmable alerts to control side control equipment. In figure 2 is shown the flow of the smartmeter. 0013 Gateway 95 The Gateway of this invention has peripherals to control side control equipment directly, and has connection to the cloud for data/ control transfer. 0014 The Cloud
The Cloud in this invention has the properties to preset the threshold or set a dynamic threshold for 100 all the side control equipment and the energy meters to directly control all the data. 2
0015 The Mesh is a data communication level for the all the nodes in the field so the data always arrives to the designated location and providing a strong and reliable system. 105 0016 Side control equipment in this invention can be read as a normal system from the gateway and be controlled in it it. 0017 Synchronized switching{load balancing) in this invention is the control system for non intellectual machines, so the power load can be balanced. 110 (018 In one embodiment the network is configured by setting smart meters in the field and using the mesh to send the data to a gateway. This gateway can control added side equipment and control load on the network directly and can read for example an external mid certified meter. All the data then is send to the cloud. If there is a grid power loss the system still sends the data to the gateway 115 notifying power failure. This is then send to the cloud. The system is able to apply synchronized switching to optimize the power usage. > Brief description of invention 120 Fig.1 shows a connectivity overview of the gateway management system.
Fig.2 shows the flowchart of the data collecting of the smart meter
Fig.3 shows the flowchart of the data collecting of the gateways
Fig.4 shows a connectivity overview of multiple locations.
Fig.5 shows the energy management system example. 125
130 0019, The present invention, the Energy Management System is a network system for household, offices, institutions, locations, comprising a gateway together with a plurality of Power measurement Devices and side equipment.
Definitions and Abbreviations ‚ 135 0020 AC alternating current power delivered from the electricity utilities to the users. 0021 Gateway is a proprietary hardware device, that converts one network to an other. It includes multi communication protocols, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB mod-bus etc. There is a microprocessor with proprietary Software that connects all modules together and relay signals/ controls among each 140 other. 0022 Node, a power measurement module which measures the voltage, current, power factor and power consumption of each appliance plugged in the system. The module is able to sample the values over time and send an average value over an 868 MHZ frequency band to the gateway. The 145 appliance contains a large boffer capacitance, in case of grid failure the system continues to measure. 0023 RF a frequency or band of frequencies that can be used for radio communications and broadcasting. 150 3
0024 Smart phone may be thought of as handheld computers integrated within a mobile telephone; a Smart phone usually allows the user to install and ran more advanced applications. 0025 SSID service set identifier (SSID) is a name that identifies a particular 802.11 wireless LAN 155 {also known as Wi-Fi). 0026 Tablet PC is a notebook or slate-shaped mobile computer, refers to computer-like devices operated primarily by a touch screen, 160 0027 USB is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and communications protocols used in a bus for connection, communication and power Supply between computers and electronic devices. 0028 Wi-Fi is a mechanism for wireless connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi- 165 Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, Smart phone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. í 0029 Bluetooth is a standard in wireless remote control using low power radio waves, 170 0030 Mod-bus is a data communications protocol using RS485 or Ethernet as wiring type. 0031 In one embodiment, the power measurement device has a similar construction as an ordinary
Power measurement module. It has an AC connection to acquire electrical power, and it can be used in parallel. Each of the power measurement devices is associated with an electronic circuitry to 175 measure the electrical power and has an electronic buffer for power failure. Power measurement data will be stored in memory, for a period of time until the memory is full.
In addition, there is a wireless conununication module in the power measurement device for the control and data signal exchange with a Mesh Network. In one embodiment, an 868 MHZ wireless 180 communication module is used. Other wireless protocols generally known in the art, such as LORA can also be used. 0032 In one embodiment, the operational state diagram of the Gateway is shown in FIG. 3. : 185 However, a power measurement device can operate, measure, and store data alone, without the ’ gateway. In one embodiment those appliances are connected and controlled by the gateway. 0033. In one embodiment, the gateway has a mini PC with WIFI Bluetooth and has a dongle(s) comprising, mod-bus, RS-485/ industrial Ethernet. The gateway receives power measurements from 190 the nodes and can control the dongle or WiFi / Bluetooth connected equipment. These control settings are set internally in the gateway trough WIFI Bluetooth and can be set dynamically from the cloud control. The gateway can display the alarms locally, and reset the dynamic to static alarms from the local control, 195 0034 Side equipment
The side equipment on the system can be read and be set from the gateway control the side equipment is optional and might be controlled from an other gateway on an other grid. 4
0035 After WiFi authentication, the gateway can be linked up to the cloud and can be controlled 200 from any computer, smartphone or tablet PC’s. When the gateway, or node is powered they automatic connect to the network and start sharing the data over the network. 0036 The nodes have internally power buffers protecting the system for brown out failures or/ and longer lasting power failure. This keeping the system online and send alarms to the gateway. 205 0037 In one embodiment, the software application provides a user interface to display the power measurement and on/off status for each appliance in the system. Each appliance can be switched on or off through the software application remotely or dynamically in the gateway, The instantaneous power and the power consumption history in the past can also be retrieved to display through the 210 Software application. Analysis can also be made to provide graphical power usage per minute, per hour, per day, per week, per month, or per year to review the usage pattern of an individnal appliance. In another embodiment, power usage per location can be made. Power usage per category, such as lighting and kitchen equipment, can also be consolidated, With the electricity usage information collected from most of the appliances, a Summary report of usage pattern, 215 temporal distribution, break-down by areas and categories can be generated for review. ; Corresponding target saving plans can be optimized to any individual area, category or appliance. : Electricity consumption can thus be reduced accordingly. 0038 As each of the appliance has its unique identification name, a plurality of appliances can be 220 grouped as master, for which their power will be monitored. Another plurality of appliances can be grouped as peripheral, for which their power will be switched on or off automatically depending on the power measured from the master group. This is to provide minimal effort and less intervention required by the users to maintain effective and efficient energy saving. 225 0939, In one embodiment, the present invention provides an Energy Management system capable of determining one or a plurality of primary or master electrical appliances being in standby state, and then automatically Switches off a plurality of user defined peripheral appliances across different
Slave Devices located in different locations. 230 0040 When a plurality of the system are implemented in multiple premises, the multiple gateways can be separated widely at any physical locations around the world, provided they ave all connected
J to the Internet. For example, a generator can be turned on or off when the other gateway detects the ò power demand is getting higher. FIG, 4 illustrates another example of the connectivity of the system 235 installed in 3 different locations, 0041. In one embodiment, there is an energy nianagement system comprising {1} a first power measurement device comprising(1) one or more power measurement (2) one of more gateways(2) 240 one or more side equipment(3) (ii) one or more computing devices, wherein said a Software for analyzing energy consumption measurement and providing control instructions for controlling the energy consumption. The gateway then controls all the side equipment on the based measurements.
In figure 5 the system use is shown on a festival. 245 0042. In another embodiment, the communication device of the second power measurement device communicates wireless with said computing device using Wi-Fi. In another embodiment, the communication device of the second power measurement device is capable of operating under 868 mesh in both peer to peer and mesh modes.
250 0043. In one embodiment, the computing device of the above energy management system can be a
Srnart phone, a tablet computer, a desktop computer or a notebook computer. In one embodiment, the computing device can store the energy consumption measurement data from each node in the system. 255 0044, The present invention also provides a method for energy management, comprising the steps: (i) placing the first and second power measurement devices from one or more of the above energy management systems at desired locations; (ii) plugging a plurality of electrical appliances into the
AC Sockets in the energy management systems; (iil) connecting the first power measurement device, the second power measurement device and the computing device wireless; and (iv) 260 designating the electrical appliances as master electrical appliances or peripheral electrical appliances, wherein the peripheral electrical appliances are controlled according to energy consumption or in the dedicated time slot. In one embodiment, the first power measurement device and second power measurement device are or are not placed at a same location. In another embodiment, the master electrical appliances and peripheral electrical appliances are or are not 265 plugged into the grid of the same fist power measurement device, In yet another embodiment, the i master electrical appliances and peripheral electrical appliances are or are not plugged inte the > same energy management system. 0045. In one embodiment of the above method, the peripheral electrical appliances are turned off 270 when the energy consumption of a master electrical appliance is lower than its operational need. In another embodiment, the peripheral electrical appliances are automatically turned on when the energy consumption of a master electrical appliance is at its operational need. 275 0046. Although a detailed description of one preferred embodiment of the present disclosure has been expressed using specific terms and devices, but those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that the specific examples are for illustrative purposes only and should not limit the scope of the invention which is defined by the claims which follow thereafter. 6
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