SYSTEM FOR USING ATTRIBUTES TO DEPLOY DEMAND RESPONSE RESOURCES

• US 20110301774A1
• Filed: 06/03/2011
• Published: 12/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Koch, Edward
• Granted Patent: US 8,572,230 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/295
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90332 Natural language query formulation or dialogue systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00022 using wireless data transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00026 involving a local wireless network, e.g. Wi-Fi, ZigBee or Bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00028 involving the use of Internet protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/60 Limiting power consumption in the network or in one section of the network, e.g. load shedding or peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/144 Demand-response operation of the power transmission or distribution network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5064 Customer relationship management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/00 Systems for electrical power generation, transmission, distribution or end-user application management characterised by the use of communication or information technologies, or communication or information technology specific aspects supporting them
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/126 using wireless data transmission

Abstract

A system for using attributes to deploy demand response resources. A service provider may provide energy to customers. The provider may via interactions modify consumption of the energy by the customers. Customers that participate in these interactions may be regarded as demand response resources. Interactions may incorporate demand response signals sent to the resources at their respective facilities. Each resource may have a demand response client which has an association with a customer account in a demand response management system of the provider. The association may be regarded as a binding of the demand response client. The binding may involve inputting an attribute of the demand response client, which can be correlated to the customer account. The attribute may be, for example, a location of the demand response client. Such attribute may be used for the association of the demand response client with a proper customer account.

Claims

1. A demand response system comprising:

a service provider;

a customer facility; and

a communications channel connected to the service provider and the customer facility; and

wherein the service provider identifies the customer facility by an attribute from the customer facility.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the service provider comprises a demand response management system;

the customer facility comprises a demand response resource; and

wherein the attribute is provided from the demand response resource to the demand response management system.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein:

the attribute is associated with information in a customer account; and

a relationship of the attribute with the information creates a binding of the demand response resource with a customer account by the demand response management system.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the binding permits the service provider to send demand response signals to the demand response resource which are specific to the demand response resource.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein:

the attribute comprises a location;

the location is of the demand response resource; and

the location is sent from the demand response resource to the demand response management system.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the demand response management system correlates the location from the demand response resource with information in the customer account to provide an association of the demand response resource with the customer account.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

an installation device situated at the customer facility; and

wherein;

the customer facility comprises a demand response resource;

the attribute comprises a location of the demand response resource; and

the installation device determines the location.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein:

the installation device comprises a customer database; and

a customer account is selected from the customer database to bind the demand response resource at the customer facility.

9. The system of claim 2, wherein:

the demand response resource comprises a demand response client;

an association of the demand response client with a customer account is a binding of the demand response client; and

the binding permits a service provider to send demand response signals specifically for the demand response client.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein:

binding comprises inputting the attribute of the demand response client into the demand response management system to allow demand response signals to be routed to the demand response client; and

the attribute may be correlated to a customer account.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein:

an attribute comprises a location of the demand response client and consequently the demand response resource;

a customer account has an address; and

the location may be correlated with the address.

12. The system of claim 9, further comprising:

an installation device situated at the customer facility; and

wherein the installation device determines a location of the demand response client and consequently the demand response resource.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein:

the installation device comprises a customer database; and

a customer account is selected from the customer database to bind the demand response resource at the customer facility.

14. A demand response resource deployment method comprising:

providing a service provider comprising a demand response management system;

providing a customer facility comprising a demand response resource;

providing power from the service provider to the demand response resource;

interacting the service provider with the demand response resource so as to modify power consumption by the demand response resource;

providing an attribute of a demand response resource to the demand response management system; and

using the demand response management system to correlate the attribute with a customer account and send a demand response signal to a customer as needed.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

binding a demand response client; and

wherein;

the demand response resource comprises the demand response client; and

binding the demand response client permits the service provider to send demand response signals to the demand response resource which are specifically routed to that demand response resource.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

generating a location of the customer facility from a device that determines geographical coordinates of the customer facility; and

inputting the location incorporating the geographical coordinates into the demand response client; and

wherein the location is automatically correlated to a customer at the demand response management system.

17. A demand response system for using an attribute to deploy a demand response resource, comprising:

a service provider; and

a demand response resource; and

wherein;

the service provider comprises a demand response management system;

the demand response resource comprises a demand response client;

the demand response client can communicate an attribute to the demand response management system; and

the demand response management system can correlate the attribute to a customer.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein correlating the attribute by the demand response management system to a customer comprises binding the demand response client.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the binding entails inputting an attribute of a demand response client to permit the demand response signal being sent to be routed to the demand response client.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein:

the attribute comprises a location; and

the location is determined by a global positioning system device located at the demand response client.