APPROACH FOR MANAGING DISTRIBUTION OF AUTOMATED DEMAND RESPONSE EVENTS IN A MULTI-SITE ENTERPRISE

• US 20120197457A1
• Filed: 01/28/2011
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Walter, Gerald, Basha, Sadiq
• Granted Patent: US 9,153,001 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/297
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply

Abstract

An approach for managing distribution of automated demand response events in a multi-site enterprise. Event distribution may be controlled by an auto demand response gateway. At an enterprise level, the gateway may be implemented as a supervisor service and configured to connect with an auto demand response system. At a site level, event distribution may be managed in several ways. One is that the auto demand response service may be configured to utilize a gateway connection. The auto demand response service'"'"'s client settings may be modified to select the site'"'"'s energy management and command system supervisor as a host station. Another way of managing event distribution may incorporate adding auto demand response gateway functionality to the auto demand response service. When the gateway functionality is enabled, the auto demand response service may route events to other energy management and command system site controllers within a facility.

Claims

1. A system for managing a distribution of an automated demand response event in a multi-site enterprise, comprising:

an energy management and control system site of one or more energy management and control system sites, registering with an energy management and control system supervisor;

an energy entity initiating a demand response event; and

an automated demand response system receiving the event and making the event available for retrieval; and

wherein the energy management and control system supervisor retrieving the event.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the energy management and control system supervisor comprises an automated demand response gateway.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the automated demand response gateway comprises:

one or more processing engines connected to the automated demand response system; and

an automated demand response gateway registration module for registering by the one or more energy management and control system sites.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein:

the automated demand response gateway checks a protocol configuration of the demand response system;

the automated demand response gateway invokes an appropriate processing engine for a protocol configuration of the demand response system, from the one or more processing engines.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the automated demand response gateway retrieves the event which is received by the appropriate processing engine.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the automated demand response gateway further comprises a gateway routing mechanism.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the event received by the processing engine is transferred to the gateway routing mechanism.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein:

the gateway routing mechanism routes the event to one or more sites registered by the automated demand response gateway registration module; and

messages related to the event are transmitted by the one or more sites receiving the routed event, go to the gateway routing mechanism to be forwarded to the automated demand response system.

9. An automated demand response architecture comprising:

an energy entity having an information system;

an automated demand response system connected to the information system;

a participant management system connected to the automated demand response system; and

two or more participant sites connected to the participant management system.

10. The architecture of claim 9, wherein the participant management system comprises a supervisor having one or more automated demand response service modules having one or more gateways.

11. The architecture of claim 10, wherein the participant management system further comprises:

an alarm management module connected to the automated demand response service module;

a history management module connected to the automated demand response service module;

a batch services module connected to the alarm management module; and

/or

an enterprise data model connected to the alarm management module, the history management module and the batch services module.

12. The architecture of claim 11, wherein the participant management system further comprises a web server connected to the automated demand response service module, the alarm management module, the history management module, the batch services module, and/or the enterprise data model.

13. The architecture of claim 12, wherein a connection between the automated demand response service module and the alarm management module comprises alarm information.

14. The architecture of claim 12, wherein a connection between the automated demand response service module and the web server comprises automated demand response data.

15. The architecture of claim 10, wherein the energy management and control system comprises:

the automated demand response service module;

device control and demand response strategies module connected to the automated demand response service module;

an alarm management module connected to the automated demand response service module and the device control and demand response strategies module;

a history management module connected to the automated demand response service module and the device control and demand response strategies module; and

a site data model connected to the alarm management module and to the history management module.

16. The architecture of claim 15, wherein the energy management and control system further comprises a web server connected to the automated demand response service module, the device control and demand response strategies module, the alarm management module and/or the history management module.

17. A structure for managing a distribution of automated demand response events in a multi-site enterprise, comprising:

an energy entity;

an automated demand response system connected to the energy entity;

an energy management and control system supervisor connected to the automated demand response system; and

one or more energy management and control systems of two or more sites connected to the energy management and control system supervisor.

18. The structure of claim 17, wherein the energy management and control system supervisor comprises an automated demand response gateway connected to the automated demand response system and to the one or more energy management and control systems.

19. The structure of claim 18, wherein the automated demand response gateway comprises one or more processing engines.

20. The structure of claim 19, wherein the automated demand response gateway further comprises:

a packet routing logic module connected to the one or more processing engines and to the one or more energy management and control systems; and

an automated demand response gateway registration module connected to the one or more energy management and control systems.

21. The structure of claim 20, wherein each of the one or more processing engines comprises a communication receiver/transmitter connected to the automated demand response system and to the packet routing logic module.