System and method for energy performance management

• US 20120166616A1
• Filed: 12/23/2010
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Infor (US) Incorporated (Infor Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: ENXSUITE Corporation (Infor Incorporated)
• Inventors: Meehan, Michael, Painter, Leith, Labrosse, Daniel, Fida, Tahseen Ur Rehman
• Application Number:
  US12/928,968
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166616A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/845 Inventory and reporting systems for greenhouse gases [GHG]

Abstract

A system for resource performance management, comprising a network-connected data collection service adapted to receive data from a plurality of resources, a network-connected data aggregation and reporting service adapted to aggregate resource-related data on at least temporal, organizational, geographic, and resource-specific dimensions, a network-connected initiative modeling service adapted to facilitate modeling by a user of a plurality of resource-related initiatives, and a network-connected initiative monitoring service adapted to receive data from one of the data collection service and the data aggregation and reporting service, and further adapted to measure performance of a plurality of resource-based initiatives, wherein a plurality of resource-based initiatives are assembled within the initiative modeling service into a plurality of initiative portfolios, and the plurality of initiative portfolios are modeled under a variety of forecast scenarios to determine an optimal initiative portfolio from among the plurality of portfolios, is disclosed.

Claims

1. A system for resource performance management, comprising:

a network-connected data collection service adapted to receive data from a plurality of resources;

a network-connected data aggregation and reporting service adapted to aggregate resource-related data on at least temporal, organizational, geographic, and resource-specific dimensions;

a network-connected initiative modeling service adapted to facilitate modeling by a user of a plurality of resource-related initiatives; and

a network-connected initiative monitoring service adapted to receive data from one of the data collection service and the data aggregation and reporting service, and further adapted to measure performance of a plurality of resource-based initiatives;

wherein a plurality of resource-based initiatives are assembled within the initiative modeling service into a plurality of initiative portfolios, and the plurality of initiative portfolios are modeled under a variety of forecast scenarios to determine an optimal initiative portfolio from among the plurality of portfolios.

2. A method of managing resource performance, comprising the steps of:

(a) collecting data pertaining to resource usage from a plurality of resources;

(b) analyzing the data including at least an analysis of environmental impact of the resource usage represented by the data;

(c) formulating at least one goal relating to improvement of resource usage or its effects;

(d) modeling a plurality of resource-based initiatives;

(e) assembling a plurality of initiative portfolios from the plurality of resource-based initiatives;

(f) modeling future performance of each of the plurality of initiative portfolios;

(g) selecting from the plurality of initiative portfolios an optimal portfolio, based at least in part on the results of the modeling future performance;

(h) implementing the resource-based initiatives associated with the selected initiative portfolio; and

(i) monitoring the performance of the plurality of implemented initiatives at least in part to measure the improvements in resource usage or environmental impact actually achieved by the initiatives implemented.