POWER MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD, AS WELL AS POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH POWER MANAGEMENT DEVICE, HOUSE PROVIDED WITH POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PROGRAM FOR POWER MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20120290144A1
• Filed: 01/25/2011
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yuasa, Natsuki, Nojima, Mitsunori
• Application Number:
  US13/575,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20120290144A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/295
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00001 characterised by the display of information or by user interaction, e.g. supervisory control and data acquisition systems [SCADA] or graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00004 characterised by the power network being locally controlled
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00034 the elements or equipment being or involving an electric power substation
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/12 The local stationary network supplying a household or a building
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/14 The load or loads being home appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/14 by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/30 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for improving the carbon footprint of the management of residential or tertiary loads, i.e. smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the buildings sector, including also the last stages of power distribution and the control, monitoring or operating management systems at local level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/242 Home appliances

Abstract

In an electric power management advising device, advice generated by the advice generating section and related to electric power saving is outputted by the advice outputting section. On the basis the advice thus generated, the collective control executing section carries out controls of the respective plurality of devices collectively. Accordingly, a user is provided with the advice related to electric power saving, and the plurality of devices are collectively controlled on the basis of the advice. That is, when the user wants to adopt the advice provided to the user, the user does not have to handle an operation himself. This keeps the user free from inconvenience. Therefore, it becomes possible to achieve an electric power saving effect reliably and provide a more comfortable and enriched life to the user.

Claims

1. An electric power management device connected with a plurality of devices, comprising:

advice generating means for generating advice related to electric power saving;

advice outputting means for outputting the advice; and

control executing means for collectively carrying out controls of the respective plurality of devices in accordance with the advice.

2. An electric power management device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising state obtaining means for obtaining a state of at least one of the plurality of devices,

the advice generating means generating the advice in accordance with the state obtained by the state obtaining means.

3. The electric power management device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the electric power management device is further connected with another device that is different from any of the plurality of devices;

the electric power management device further comprises state obtaining means for obtaining a state of the another device; and

the advice generating means generates the advice in accordance with the state obtained by the state obtaining means.

4. The electric power management device as set forth in claim 2, wherein:

the advice generating means generates the advice in accordance with a transition of the state obtained by the state obtaining means.

5. An electric power management device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising measured value obtaining means for obtaining, from at least one of the plurality of devices, a measured value which has been measured by means of a sensor included in the at least one of the plurality of devices,

the advice generating means generating the advice in accordance with the measured value obtained by the state obtaining means.

6. The electric power management device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the electric power management device is further connected with another device that is different from any of the plurality of devices;

the electric power management device further comprises measured value obtaining means for obtaining a measured value which has been measured by means of a sensor included in the another device; and

the advice generating means generates the advice in accordance with the measured value obtained by the measured value obtaining means.

7. The electric power management device as set forth in claim 5, wherein:

the advice generating means generates the advice in accordance with a transition of the measured value obtained by the measured value obtaining means.

8. An electric power management device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

electric power consumption measuring means for measuring electric power consumptions in the respective plurality of devices; and

comparing means for making a comparison between (i) each of the electric power consumptions which have been measured by the electric power consumption measuring means and (ii) an electric power consumption in the past,

the advice generating means generating the advice in accordance with a result of the comparison by the comparing means.

9. The electric power management device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the electric power management device is further connected with a photovoltaic power generation device;

the electric power management device further comprises generated electric power measuring means for measuring an amount of electric power generated in the photovoltaic power generation device; and

the advice generating means generates the advice in accordance with the amount of electric power generated which has been measured by the generated electric power measuring means.

10. The electric power management device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the advice outputting means transmits the advice to a portable device carried by a user.

12. An electric power management system comprising an electric power management device recited in claim 1 and the plurality of devices.

13. A house comprising an electric power management system recited in claim 12.

14. A program for (i) causing an electric power management device recited in claim 1 to operate and (ii) causing a computer to function as each means of the electric power management device.

15. A computer-readable recording medium in which a program recited in claim 14 is recorded.

11. An electric power management method carried out by an electric power management device connected with a plurality of devices, comprising:

generating advice related to electric power saving;

outputting the advice; and

carrying out controls of the respective plurality of devices collectively in accordance with the advice.