METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AND MANAGING VARIOUS OPERATING PARAMETERS OF ENTERPRISE ASSETS

• US 20110087508A1
• Filed: 12/20/2010
• Published: 04/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Verisae (Fortive Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Verisae (Fortive Corp.)
• Inventors: McConnell, Robert S., Hepperla, Paul, Johnson, Daniel T.
• Application Number:
  US12/972,687
• Publication Number:
  US 20110087508A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.11
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/84 Greenhouse gas [GHG] management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/845 Inventory and reporting systems for greenhouse gases [GHG]

Abstract

Various embodiments of methods and systems described herein relate to tracking and/or managing any combination of energy consumption, GHG emissions, carbon credits, and/or costs associated with one or more pieces of equipment, one or more sites, or an entire enterprise.

Claims

1. A network-based energy consumption and emissions management system for an enterprise, the system comprising:

(a) a central processor accessible on a computer network;

(b) an asset database in communication with the central processor, the asset database configured to store

(i) emissions information relating to each of a plurality of assets at least two sites;

(ii) energy consumption information relating to each of the plurality of assets at the at least two sites;

(iii) carbon credit information relating to each of the plurality of assets at the at least two sites;

(c) emissions tracking software associated with the central processor, the emission tracking software configured to calculate and track the emissions information relating to each of the plurality of assets at the at least two sites;

(d) energy consumption tracking software associated with the central processor, the energy consumption tracking software configured to calculate and track the energy consumption information relating to each of the plurality of assets at the at least two sites;

(e) carbon credit tracking software associated with the central processor, the carbon credit tracking software configured to calculate and track the carbon credit information relating to each of the plurality of assets at the at least two sites; and

(f) optimization software associated with the central processor, the optimization software configured to be modifiable to calculate and track optimal targets based on any one or more of the emissions information, the energy consumption information, and the carbon credit information.