ENERGY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD USING PROPERTY OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20120303987A1
• Filed: 05/26/2012
• Published: 11/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Jun, Jong Arm, Doh, Yoon Mee, Lee, Kye Seon
• Application Number:
  US13/481,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20120303987A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/320
• 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

An energy control apparatus and method using a usage property of an electronic device. The energy control method may include: setting a total power consumption to be less than a predetermined threshold; verifying a usage property for each electronic device when a collected total power consumption exceeds the threshold; calculating a scheduled end time based on the average usage time of each remaining electronic device excluding, from among operating devices, an electronic device of which power-off is unavailable; verifying a remaining electronic device excluding an electronic device of which scheduled end time is less than the threshold; controlling a temporarily stoppable electronic device to be temporarily stopped; controlling a power adjustable electronic device to decrease a power consumption when the total power consumption exceeds the threshold; and starting the temporarily stopped electronic device at a point in time when the total power consumption decreases to be less than the threshold.

Claims

1. An energy control apparatus using a usage property of an electronic device, the apparatus comprising:

a decision module to determine whether to control power of the electronic device by calculating a remaining operation time excluding an actual operation time from the average usage time; and

a control module to control at least one of power-off, adjustment of power consumption, and a restart in a power available time zone after a temporary stop with respect to the electronic device, based on the determination result.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an analysis module to analyze the average usage time based on the usage property of the electronic device.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an analysis module to classify the electronic device for each control group based on the usage property of the electronic device,

wherein the control module controls the electronic device by further considering the classified control group.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

a storage module to store, as the usage property, at least one of a usage time of the electronic device, a power consumption amount, a power-off availability, a power adjustment availability, and whether a temporary stop function is installed.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control module receives a user control by displaying, on a control interface, at least one of an operability, a start time, a scheduled end time, and a usage property with respect to the electronic device.

6. An energy control method using a usage property of an electronic device, the method comprising:

calculating a scheduled end time based on the average usage time of each first electronic device excluding, from among operating electronic device, an electronic device of which power-off is unavailable;

selecting a second electronic device from among first electronic device based on the scheduled end time; and

controlling at least one of power-off, adjustment of power consumption, and a restart in a power available time zone after a temporary stop with respect to the second electronic device based on a usage property of the second electronic device.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the selecting comprises selecting, from among the first electronic devices, the second electronic device of which the scheduled end time is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein when the restart in the power available time zone after the temporary stop is controlled, the controlling comprises:

controlling a temporarily stoppable second electronic device to be temporarily stopped;

controlling a power adjustable second electronic device to decrease a power consumption amount when a total power consumption amount after the temporary stop exceeds a predetermined threshold value; and

starting the temporarily stopped electronic device at a point in time when the total power consumption amount after decreasing the power consumption amount decreases to be less than the threshold value.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the calculating comprises calculating the scheduled end time at a point in time when a total power amount collected from first electronic devices exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

setting the average usage time based on usage properties of first electronic devices.