ENERGY MANAGEMENT MODELING LANGUAGE

• US 20130060667A1
• Filed: 09/01/2011
• Published: 03/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hunt Energy IQ LP
• Original Assignee: Hunt Energy IQ LP
• Inventors: Burke, Robert James
• Application Number:
  US13/223,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20130060667A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06313 Resource planning in a project environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply

Abstract

A system, computer-implemented method, and a computer program product are provided for an energy management modeling language. Selections of a location, a time, a first variable identifier, a second variable identifier, a third variable identifier, and text that specifies a transform based on an energy management modeling language primitive are received via a user interface. The first variable identifier, the second variable identifier, and the third variable identifier are reformatted based on the location and the time. The transform is executed based on the reformatted first variable and the reformatted second variable to create a result. The result is output based on the reformatted third variable.

Claims

1. A system for an energy management modeling language, the system including:

a computer;

a memory;

a user interface; and

a computer program stored in the memory and executable by the computer to;

receive, via the user interface, selections of a location, a time, a first variable identifier, a second variable identifier, a third variable identifier, and text that specifies a transform based on an energy management modeling language primitive;

reformat the first variable identifier, the second variable identifier, and the third variable identifier based on the location and the time;

execute the transform based on the reformatted first variable and the reformatted second variable to create a result; and

output the result based on the reformatted third variable.

2. A system as in claim 1, wherein the computer program includes a list of locations defined within an asset structure tree, a list of transforms, and schedules associated with the list of transforms.

3. A system as in claim 1, wherein the computer program is further executable to input a variable associated with the location from a database and input any transform associated with the variable.

4. A system as in claim 1, wherein the computer program is further executable to parse a transform to build an abstract syntax tree.

5. A system as in claim 1, wherein the computer program is further executable to use an abstract syntax tree to build an execution tree and apply the transform to a variable by executing the execution tree.

6. A system as in claim 1, wherein the energy management modeling language primitive includes an organizational asset tree that groups facility assets into at least one set.

7. A system as in claim 1, wherein the energy management modeling language primitive includes an aggregate primitive that accumulates data over a period of time.

8. A system as in claim 1, wherein the energy management modeling language primitive includes a billing primitive that includes at least one of a time of use period, a peak demand, a usage cost, a billable demand, and a demand cost.

9. A system as in claim 1, wherein the energy management modeling language primitive includes a persistence primitive that stores a variable for subsequent use by another transform.

10. A system as in claim 1, wherein the energy management modeling language primitive includes a domain variable that specifies the location, the time, and a variable identifier.

11. A system as in claim 1, wherein the transform is also based on at least one generic primitive that includes at least one of a variable assignment, a mathematical operator, a mathematical operator precedence specifier, logical operator, and a flow control instruction.

12. A system as in claim 1, wherein the energy management modeling language primitive includes an action primitive to prescribe a function based on a transform, wherein the action primitive includes at least one of an alert, a log, and a control command.

13. A system as in claim 1, wherein the result includes at least one of a mathematical calculation and a control command.

17. A computer-implemented method as in claim 13, wherein the second domain is an energy domain which includes data for at least one of real usage, reactive usage, power factor, maximum demand, kilovolt-ampere reactive (kVAr), kilovolt-ampere reactive hours (kVArh), power factor, kilowatts during a base time of use, kilowatts during an intermediate time of use, kilowatts during a sub-peak time of use, kilowatts during a peak time of use, kilowatt hours during a base time of use, kilowatt hours during an intermediate time of use, kilowatt-hours during a sub-peak time of use, and kilowatt hours during a peak time of use.

18. A computer-implemented method as in claim 13, wherein the third domain is a facility domain which includes data that is associated with at least one of a meter, a meter configuration, real-time data, a sampling frequency, heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, humidity, and temperature.

14. A computer-implemented method for an energy management modeling language, the method including the steps of:

receiving, via a user interface by a computer program stored in a memory and executed by a computer, selections of a location, a time frame, and first, second and third variable identifiers associated with, respectively, first, second and third data domains, and text that specifies a transform based on an energy management modeling language primitive;

reformatting, by the computer program, the first, second and third variable identifiers based on the selected time frame;

executing, by the computer program, the transform based on the reformatted first and second variable identifiers to create a result; and

outputting, by the computer program, the result to modify a state of a system measured by the reformatted third variable.

15. A computer-implemented method as in claim 14, wherein executing the transform is also based on at least one of a scheduled run time and a previous run time;

and wherein outputting the result includes persisting the result as a global variable.

16. A computer-implemented method as in claim 14, wherein the first domain is a business domain which includes data associated with at least one of a budget, an energy consumption goal, a sales transaction, an operational expense, an energy cost, a demand cost, and a transaction energy cost.

19. A computer program product for an energy management modeling language, the computer program product including:

a computer readable storage medium storing computer executable program code that, when executed by a processor, causes the computer executable program code to perform a method including the steps of;

receiving, via a user interface, selections of a location, a time, a filter, a first variable identifier based on the location and associated with a first domain of data, a second variable identifier based on the location and associated with a second domain of data, a third variable identifier based on the location and associated with a third domain of data, and text that specifies a transform based on an energy management modeling language primitive, wherein the first domain of data, the second domain of data, and the third domain of data are mutually exclusive domains of data;

reformatting the first variable identifier, the second variable identifier, and the third variable identifier based on the time and the filter;

executing the transform based on the reformatted first variable and the reformatted second variable to create a result; and

outputting the result based on the reformatted third variable.

20. A computer program product as in claim 19, wherein the filter includes at least one of a nighttime filter, a daytime filter, a during business hours filter, an outside business hours filter, a weekday filter, and a weekend filter.