RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20130144451A1
• Filed: 10/25/2012
• Published: 06/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: San Diego State University (SDSU) Research Foundation
• Original Assignee: San Diego State University (SDSU) Research Foundation
• Inventors: OZTURK, Yusuf, KUMAR, Sunil, LEE, Gordon Kui Fong
• Application Number:
  US13/660,876
• Publication Number:
  US 20130144451A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/291
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 13/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2642 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house

Abstract

A method and system of managing a residential or commercial energy system is described. The method includes predicting power consumption of a building, scheduling one or more appliances sufficient to optimize a consumer'"'"'s energy usage, collecting usage profiles and demand and re-calculating the predicting of power consumption of a building.

Claims

1. A method of managing a residential or commercial energy system, comprising:

predicting power consumption of a building;

scheduling the powering of one or more appliances, sufficient to optimize a consumer'"'"'s energy usage;

collecting usage profiles and demand; and

re-calculating the predicting of power consumption of a building.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein predicting comprises analyzing one or more of consumer'"'"'s past energy choices, calendar information, temperature, environmental factors and energy supply from renewable energy sources.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising after predicting, calculating the probability of a specific appliance to be powered in a near future time frame.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein predicting comprises estimating the impact of incentives generated by the utility.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein scheduling comprises displaying control options to a consumer for modification of the suggested schedule.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein scheduling comprises avoiding peak demand periods.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein scheduling comprises reducing consumption when the building is vacated.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting comprising reporting to a utility company.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein re-calculating comprises re-calculating at the building, re-calculating at the utility company or both.

10. A residential or commercial energy management system, comprising:

a predictor, for estimating power consumption at a building;

one or more master controllers;

one or more appliance network nodes, forming a self-organizing network; and

an aggregator, accumulating demand in a region for time of use pricing.

11. The residential or commercial energy management system of claim 10, wherein the one or more master controllers includes a graphical user interface (GUI).

12. The residential or commercial energy management system of claim 10, wherein the one or more master controllers schedules the powering of the one or more appliances.

13. The residential or commercial energy management system of claim 10, wherein the one or more master controllers captures the consumer'"'"'s preferences to be used for prediction of future demand.

14. The residential or commercial energy management system of claim 10, wherein the aggregator which collects usage profiles and demand for energy in the future from the one or more master controllers.

15. The residential or commercial energy management system of claim 10, wherein the one or more master controllers are located at the building, at the utility company or both.