Network-enabled electrical power equipment with integrated content management system

• US 20070239870A1
• Filed: 04/10/2006
• Published: 10/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Square D Company (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: Square D Company (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Pyle, Michael, Kennedy, Robert, Dolan, Randi
• Granted Patent: US 7,421,352 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 2204/45 Utility meters networked together within a single building
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/002 Remote reading of utility meters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/30 Smart metering, e.g. specially adapted for remote reading

Abstract

Network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment includes one or more networked intelligent devices coupled to a power distribution system and measuring and storing at least one sensed condition in the power distribution system; a server in the power equipment for storing a document that can be accessed by browsers and that contains data relating to the sensed condition; a content management system in the power equipment for maintaining a document that can be accessed by browsers and that contains a log of information relating to the power equipment; and a user interface for accessing the document containing the log of information and editing the information contained in the log. The log of information relating to the power equipment may be a web log or a wiki. The content management system can be included in a web server in the power equipment, the user interface can include a web browser, and the network can include a LAN, a private WAN and/or a public WAN such as the Internet.

Claims

1. Network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment, comprising

at least one networked intelligent device coupled to a power distribution system and measuring and storing at least one sensed condition in said power distribution system,

a server for storing a document that can be accessed by browsers and that contains data relating to said sensed condition,

a content management system in said server for maintaining a document that can be accessed by browsers and that contains a log of information relating to the power distribution device, and

a user interface for accessing said document containing said log of information and editing the information contained in said log.

2. The network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment of claim 1 in which said server is a web server, and said document is a web page.

3. The network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment of claim 2 wherein said content management system is a web log or a wiki.

4. The network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment of claim 1 in which said networked power distribution equipment is at least one type selected from the group consisting of switchgear, switchboards, panelboards, control panels and motor control centers.

5. The network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment of claim 1 wherein said information relating to the power equipment comprises a maintenance record for said equipment.

6. The network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment of claim 1 which includes a user interface coupled to said content management system for enabling a user to read and edit said information log.

7. The network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment of claim 1 wherein said network includes the Internet and said content management system is a web content management system.

8. A method of logging information relating to a network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment with at least one networked intelligent device coupled to a power distribution system, comprising

measuring and storing at least one sensed condition in said power distribution system,

storing a document that can be accessed by browsers and that contains data relating to the sensed condition,

maintaining a content management document that can be accessed by browsers and that contains a log of information relating to said power equipment, and

accessing said document containing said log of information and editing the information contained in said log.

9. The method of claim 8 in which said document is a web page.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein said web page is a web log or a wiki.

11. The method of claim 8 in which said network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment is at least one type selected from the group consisting of switchgear, switchboards, panelboards, control panels and motor control centers.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein said information relating to the network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment comprises a maintenance record for said equipment.

13. The method of claim 8 wherein said network includes the Internet and said content management document is a web page.