Information processing system and recording device

• US 10,121,120 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2013
• Issued: 11/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hiroshi Deguchi
• Original Assignee: Japan Science And Technology Agency, Tokyo Institute of Technology (National University Corporation Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Inventors: Deguchi, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ade, Garcia
• Application Number:
  US14/400,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20150100466A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,008 Days
• Field of Search: 705 28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2827 Reporting to a device within the home network; wherein the reception of the information reported automatically triggers the execution of a home appliance functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

An energy event recording apparatus is mounted on each of a plurality of equipment installed at a business facility. When a change in the amount of the flow or stock of energy is detected in the apparatus mounted, each of a plurality of the energy event recording apparatuses records journal information, which associates the amount of change to a debit side item and a credit side item, respectively, and notifies an energy management server of the journal information. The energy management server calculates pieces of journal information conveyed from a plurality of recording apparatuses, respectively, based on the debit side item and the credit side item.

Claims

1. An energy management server for use with a device to be monitored comprising an energy meter, the device to be monitored being configured to output energy event described in a form of exchange algebra occurring in the device to be monitored the energy event being a change in a flow or a stock of energy of the device to be monitored as measured by the energy meter, the energy management server comprising:

a communication interface configured to receive energy event described in a form of exchange algebra output by the device to be monitored;

storage configured to store, as a plurality of algebraic data objects, the energy events described in a form of exchange algebra in an energy bookkeeping description including the first term items of exchange algebra describing energy events and a second term items of exchange algebra describing energy events;

a counting processor configured to, after a predetermined period of time, generate energy accounting data conforming to the energy bookkeeping description by aggregating the energy event described in a form of exchange algebra stored in the storage, based on the first term of exchange algebra describing energy event and the second term of exchange algebra describing energy event;

a display for displaying the energy accounting data generated by the counting processor;

wherein

the counting processor is configured to perform a transfer process on a result of aggregation by using exchange algebra, and generates the energy accounting data.

2. The energy management server according to claim 1, wherein the counting processor generates an energy balance sheet for a current term, in accordance with the energy balance sheet for a previous term related to a flow or stock of energy in said one or a plurality of devices to be monitored and with an energy profit-and-loss statement for the current term, the energy balance sheet for a previous term being the energy accounting data recorded in the previous term, and an energy profit-and-loss statement for the current term being generated by the energy accounting data for the current term.

4. The energy management server according to claim 1, wherein the counting processor aggregates based on a basis in units of energy, converts a result of aggregation into a unit of money amount by referencing a predetermined conversion rule, and generates the energy accounting data base on a result of conversion.

3. An energy management method for managing energy balance of a device to be monitored, the device to be monitored being configured to output energy event described in a form of exchange algebra relating to an energy event occurring in the device to be monitored the energy event being a change in a flow or a stock of energy of the device to be monitored as measured by the energy meter, the method comprising:

receiving energy event described in a form of exchange algebra output by the device to be monitored via a communication interface;

storing, as a plurality of algebraic data objects, the energy event described in a form of exchange algebra in an energy bookkeeping description including first term items of exchange algebra describing energy events and a second term items of exchange algebra describing energy events;

recording, with a counting processor after a predetermined period of time, energy accounting data conforming to the energy bookkeeping description by aggregating the energy event described in a form of exchange algebra, based on the first term of exchange algebra describing energy event item and the second term of exchange algebra describing energy event item; and

displaying the recorded energy accounting data to a display;

wherein the counting processor aggregates a plurality of pieces of energy event described in a form of exchange algebra in units of each energy, performs a transfer process on a result of aggregation by using exchange algebra, and generates the energy accounting data based on a result of the transfer process.