Branch current monitor with client level access

• US 10,371,730 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2016
• Issued: 08/06/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Veris Industries LLC (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: Veris Industries LLC (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Bitsch, Michael, Moon, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Salomon, Phenuel S
• Application Number:
  US15/185,706
• Publication Number:
  US 20170185237A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,145 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 1/025 concerning dedicated user interfaces, e.g. GUI, or dedicated keyboards G01R31/31912 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 21/133 by using digital technique

Abstract

A branch current monitor that includes client level access.

Claims

1. A metering system comprising:

(a) a branch current meter that includes a plurality of addresses therein which receives sensed signals representative of electrical characteristics from a set of current transformers and provides electrical sensor data representative of said electrical characteristics of said set of current transformers to a computing device;

(b) said computing device graphically displaying on a graphical user interface a first graphical representation of a first series of first current transformers of said branch current meter, where the total number of said first series of current transformers is consistent with the total number of said set of current transformers;

(c) said computing device displaying together with said first graphical representation of said first series of said first current transformers a configurable assignment of each of said first current transformers to a first plurality of groups where each group of said first plurality of groups is associated with a different load, where at least a first group of said first plurality of groups includes a first plurality of said first current transformers each assigned with a first same said configurable assignment, where at least a second group of said first plurality of groups includes a second plurality of said first current transformers each assigned with a second same said configurable assignment, where at least a third group of said first plurality of groups includes a third plurality of said first current transformers each assigned with a third same said configurable assignment, where said first group, said second group, and said third group are different from one another;

(d) said computing device assigning a first client to said first same configurable assignment, a second client to said second same configurable assignment, and a third client to said third same configurable assignment, wherein said first client, said second client, and said third client are different from one another;

(e) said computing device assigning a first selection for said first client indicating whether to provide an output for said first client, assigning a second selection for said second client indicating whether to provide an output for said second client, and assigning a third selection for said third client indicating whether to provide an output for said third client;

(f) said computing device assigning a first single address to said first client, a second single address to said second client, and a third single address to said third client, where said first address, said second address, and said third address are different from another;

(g) said branch current meter programming said first single address of said branch current meter for said first client with data representative of a combination of said first group of said first plurality of groups, said second single address of said branch current meter for said second client with data representative of a combination of said second group of said first plurality of groups, said third single address of said branch current meter for said third client with data representative of a combination of said third group of said first plurality of groups;

(h) said computing device selectively providing data from said first single address of said branch current meter as an output depending upon said first selection, selectively providing data from said second single address of said branch current meter as an output depending upon said second selection, and selectively providing data from said third single address of said branch current meter as an output depending upon said third selection, where said first selection, said second selection, and said third selection selectively indicates to either provide such data and not provide such data.

2. The metering system of claim 1 further comprising:

(a) displaying on said graphical user interface a second graphical representation of a second series of second current transformers;

(b) displaying together with said second graphical representation of said second series of said second current transformers a configurable assignment of each of said second current transformers to a second plurality of groups where each of said second plurality of groups is associated with a different load.

3. The metering system of claim 1 wherein each of said first plurality of groups is representative of a single phase circuit, a two phase circuit, and a three phase circuit.

4. The metering system of claim 1 wherein a corresponding textual identification indicating a client is associated with each of said first plurality of groups.

5. The metering system of claim 4 wherein said corresponding textual identification includes at least two different clients.

6. The metering system of claim 5 wherein said corresponding textual identification indicates whether an output of electrical usage associated with the respective client should be provided as an output.

7. The metering system of claim 6 where when said respective client is not indicated a previously addressable address is no longer externally assessable.