POWER USAGE CALCULATION SYSTEM

• US 20120310801A1
• Filed: 05/25/2012
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: KOMANO, Yuichi, Yamanaka, Shinji, Ito, Satoshi, Takahashi, Toshinari
• Application Number:
  US13/481,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20120310801A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply

Abstract

According to an embodiment, in a power usage calculation system, a data management system connected to electric power meters adding up power usage of electric apparatuses and an energy management system are interconnected through a network. Plural pieces of the first partial information are calculated by using the power usage added up by the electric power meters. The plural pieces of the first partial information are stored in storage servers. Each storage server calculates second partial information by using a plurality of pieces of the first partial information of the power usage added up by the electric power meters and transmits the calculated second partial information to the energy management system. The energy management system receives the second partial information respectively transmitted from the storage servers and calculates a total amount of the power usage added up by the electric power meters by using the received second partial information.

Claims

1. A power usage calculation system in which a data management system, which is connected to a plurality of electric power meters adding up power usage of electric apparatuses, and an energy management system are interconnected through a network, the power usage calculation system comprising:

a first calculator that calculates a plurality of pieces of first partial information by using the power usage added up by the electric power meters,

wherein the data management system includes a plurality of storage servers, the each of the storage servers storing each corresponding pieces of the first partial information

wherein each of the storage servers includes;

a second calculator that calculates second partial information by using a plurality of pieces of the first partial information of the power usage added up by the plurality of the electric power meters; and

a transmission unit that transmits the second partial information to the energy management system,

wherein the energy management system includes;

a first reception unit that receives the second partial information transmitted from the plurality of storage servers; and

a third calculator that calculates a total amount of the power usage added up by the plurality of the electric power meters by using a plurality of pieces of the second partial information, and

wherein the first partial information is information that cannot specify privacy information.

2. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the electric power meter adds up power usage in a first unit time,

wherein the first calculator calculates the plurality of pieces of the first partial information by using the power usage in the first unit time, and

wherein the second calculator calculates the second partial information in the first unit time by using a plurality of pieces of the first partial information of the power usage each of which is added up by each of the plurality of the electric power meters.

3. The system according to claim 2,

wherein the power usage calculation system is connected to an application server through the network,

wherein the second calculator calculates third partial information in a second unit time by using the first partial information of the power usage added up within the second unit time, which is the first partial information of the power usage that is added up by at least one of the electric power meters,

wherein the transmission unit transmits the third partial information to the application server, and

wherein the application server includes:

a second reception unit that receives the third partial information respectively transmitted from the plurality of the storage servers, and

a fourth calculator that calculates a total amount of the power usage added up by at least one of the electric power meters by using a plurality of pieces of the third partial information.

4. The system according to claim 3,

wherein the data management system is connected to a partial information calculating server that include the first calculation unit through the network, and

wherein the partial information calculating server further includes a transmission unit that transmits the plurality of pieces of the first partial information to the storage servers in a fragmented manner.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the application server further includes a billing unit that performs a billing process by using the total amount of the power usage.