METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REMOTE POWER MANAGEMENT

• US 20110153108A1
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: LEE, Sook-Jin, CHOI, Song-In, AHN, Jee-Hwan, YOON, Byung-Sik
• Application Number:
  US12/971,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20110153108A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/295
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00002 characterised by monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00022 using wireless data transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/30 State monitoring, e.g. fault, temperature monitoring, insulator monitoring, corona discharge
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving

Abstract

Provided is a method for remote power management capable of remotely controlling power consumption. The method for remote power management includes: allowing a power management device to generate power information on the basis of power consumption information collected from at least one electronic apparatus and transmit the generated power information to a user terminal through a wireless communication network; and to control an operation of the at least one electronic apparatus in accordance with a control command transmitted in response to the power information from the user terminal through the wireless communication network.

Claims

1. A method for remote power management, comprising:

generating power information on the basis of power consumption information collected from at least one electronic apparatus;

transmitting the power information to a user terminal through a wireless communication network; and

controlling an operation of the at least one electronic apparatus in accordance with a control command transmitted in response to the power information from the user terminal through the wireless communication network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting the power information to the user terminal through the wireless communication network includes:

measuring power consumption for each electronic apparatus on the basis of the collected power consumption information; and

calculating charging information for each electronic apparatus on the basis of the power consumption,

wherein the power information includes the power consumption and the charging information for each electronic apparatus.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the power information further includes ID information of each electronic apparatus.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the calculating the charging information for each electronic apparatus transmits the measured power consumption through a power network to a power management center, and receives the charging information for each electronic apparatus transmitted in response to the power consumption from the power management center.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the controlling the operation of the at least one electronic apparatus includes:

receiving the control command, including priority information of the at least one electronic apparatus and a predetermined charging fee, transmitted from the user terminal;

comparing a total charging fee for the power consumption of the at least one electronic apparatus with the predetermined charging fee; and

sequentially stopping the operation of the at least one electronic apparatus in accordance with the priority information on the basis of the comparison result.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the sequential stopping the operation of the at least one electronic apparatus stops the operation of the at least one electronic apparatus sequentially from the electronic apparatus corresponding to the lowest prioirty information when the total charging fee is larger than the predetermined charging fee.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the controlling the operation of the at least one electronic apparatus includes:

receiving the control command including operation request information of a predetermined electronic apparatus transmitted from the user terminal;

estimating power consumption of the predetermined electronic apparatus in accordance with the operation request information and, calculating total power consumption including the estimated power consumption;

comparing assigned power amount with the total power consumption; and

starting the operation of the predetermined electronic apparatus on the basis of the comparison result.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the starting the operation of the predetermined electronic apparatus starts the operation of the predetermined electronic apparatus when the total power consumption is smaller than the assigned power amount.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the starting the operation of the predetermined electronic apparatus includes:

requesting additional power to the power management center through the power network when the total power consumption is larger than or equal to the assigned power amount; and

starting the operation of the predetermined electronic apparatus after the additional power is supplied.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication network is one of a 2G mobile communication network, 3G mobile communication network, Wibro wireless Internet network, WiFi wireless internet network, WiMax wireless internet network, Zigbee communication network, Bluetooth communication network and Femto Cell communication network.

11. A method for remote power management, comprising:

receiving power information on at least one electronic apparatus transmitted from a power management device through a wireless communication network;

generating a control command for controlling an operation of the at least one electronic apparatus in response to the received power information; and

outputting the generated control command to the power management device through the wireless communication network.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the control command includes priority information and a predetermined charging fee in order to control the stopping of the operation of the at least one electronic apparatus.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the control command includes operation request information in order to control the starting of an operation of a predetermined electronic apparatus.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the wireless communication network is one of a 2G mobile communication network, 3G mobile communication network, Wibro wireless Internet network, WiFi wireless internet network, WiMax wireless internet network ZigBee communication network, Bluetooth communication network, Femto Cell communication network.

15. A device for power management, comprising:

a measurement unit collecting power consumption information from at least one electronic apparatus, and generating power information on the basis of the collected information;

a communication unit transmitting the power information to a user terminal through a wireless communication network and receiving a control command transmitted from the user terminal in response to the power information; and

a control unit controlling an operation of the at least one electronic apparatus in accordance with the received control command.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the measurement unit measures power consumption for each electronic apparatus on the basis of the collected power consumption information and the communication unit receives charging information for each electronic apparatus transmitted from the power management center in response to the power consumption by transmitting the measured power consumption to a power management center through a power network.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the power network is a smart grid power network.

18. The device of claim 15, wherein the user terminal is a mobile terminal apparatus.

19. The device of claim 15, wherein the wireless communication network is one of a 2G mobile communication network, 3G mobile communication network, Wibro wireless Internet network, WiFi wireless internet network, WiMax wireless internet network, Zigbee communication network, Bluetooth communication network and Femto Cell communication network.