NETWORK-BASED POWER SUPPLY EFFICIENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF

• US 20130079941A1
• Filed: 09/21/2012
• Published: 03/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lightstar Information Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Lightstar Information Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LIN, Ming-Yi
• Granted Patent: US 9,182,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/291
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/175 by remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/22 with communication between the lamps and a central unit

Abstract

The present invention relates to a network-based power supply efficiency management system and a method thereof, and more particularly, to a method for managing a power supply efficiency by comparing a predefined scenario on a server side with a real environment condition, and then issuing a usage control command to a managed unit via a network connection.

Claims

1. A network-based power supply efficiency management system, comprising:

a server side comprising a management interface module, a server side database, a usage control module, a scenario management module, a decision support module, and a server side transmitting/receiving interface;

at least one managed side;

a system administrator for managing the server side and the managed side;

wherein the server side and the managed side is connected to each other via a network;

the management interface module providing a management interface for the system administrator to manage the server side or issuing a command to the managed side;

the server side database providing a storage space for storing data of the server side and storing and computing data collected by the managed side or other external data source;

the server side transmitting/receiving interface for transmitting and receiving the data of the managed side;

the usage control module coupling with the managed side via the server side transmitting/receiving interface for issuing a usage control instruction to the managed side;

the scenario management module for the system administrator to issue the usage control instruction to the managed side according to an environment condition and a usage control command; and

the decision support module providing decision information for the system administrator to define a scenario management parameter.

2. The network-based power supply efficiency management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the managed side comprising an environment monitoring module, a power supply efficiency monitoring module, a power supply control module, a managed side transmitting/receiving interface;

the environment monitoring module monitoring a condition of the environment and actively or passively reporting the condition to the server side via a wired or a wireless network;

the power supply efficiency monitoring module obtaining power state information of the managed side and actively or passively reporting the power state information to the server side;

the power supply control module supplying power or cutting off power to a load according to the usage control instruction of the server side; and

the managed side transmitting/receiving interface receiving the data from the server side and transmitting the data reported by the managed side.

3. The network-based power supply efficiency management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the network can be a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN).

4. The network-based power supply efficiency management system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the power state information of the managed side provided by the power supply efficiency monitoring module comprises a voltage, current or a power usage efficiency data.

5. The network-based power supply efficiency management system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the environment monitoring module can be a reed switch, a temperature detector, a moisture detector, a brightness detector, or an object detector.

6. A network-based power supply efficiency management method according to claim 1, comprising the following steps:

(A) the system administrator using the scenario management module of the server side to predefine one or more scenarios, one or more conditions and one or more usage control commands and to store one or more scenarios, one or more conditions and one or more usage control commands in the server side database, or the system administrator using an analysis data provided by the decision support module to set a proper condition;

(B) the management interface module regularly or randomly coupling to the at least one managed side via the server side transmitting/receiving interface and the managed side transmitting/receiving interface, according to one or more than one defined time(s), to obtain power supply control data from the environment monitoring module, the power supply efficiency monitoring module and the power supply control module to store the power supply control data in the server side database;

(C) detecting and receiving a real environment condition regularly or randomly and transmitting the real environment condition to the server side, comparing the real environment condition with a predefined condition to see if they match, if so, then goes to step (D), if not, then go to step (E);

(D) using the power supply control module of the server side to transmit the usage control command predefined by the scenario management module and stored in the server side database to one or more than one managed sides via the network, then using the power supply control module of the managed side to perform power supply control and then going to step (E);

(E) end.