SYSTEM AND METHOD OF APPROPRIATE SERVICES DETECTION FOR A SMART BUILDING

• US 20130297259A1
• Filed: 06/26/2012
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
• Original Assignee: Ming-Chun Lin, Shiao-Li Tsao, Yung-Chi Chen
• Inventors: TSAO, Shiao-Li, LIN, Ming-Chun, CHEN, Yung-Chi
• Application Number:
  US13/533,630
• Publication Number:
  US 20130297259A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/188
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 2204/12 Determination or prediction of behaviour, e.g. likely power consumption or unusual usage patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 2204/14 Displaying of utility usage with respect to time, e.g. for monitoring evolution of usage or with respect to weather conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 2204/45 Utility meters networked together within a single building
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/004 Remote reading of utility meters to a fixed location
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/30 Smart metering, e.g. specially adapted for remote reading

Abstract

A system and method of appropriate services detection for a smart building are disclosed in the present invention. The invention may select appropriate services for a house or a building. After a user lives in a smart building with the system of the present invention for a period of time, the system uses the service gateway to collect and analyze environment information and appliance information so as to find relationship within appliances, sensors and actuators. Thus the cloud service platform selects appropriate services for the building to avoid downloading or installing an inappropriate service by a user. Further the cloud service platform may suggest a user buying additional equipment for matching the requirement of a service. The system of the present invention may learn a relationship of devices; locate positions of devices; and automatically collect state data of appliances to identify the appliances.

Claims

1. A system of appropriate services detection for a smart building, the system comprising:

a service gateway, receiving a plurality of appliance state data of appliances and a plurality of sensor state data of sensors in the building; and

a cloud service platform, receiving and analyzing the appliance state data and the sensor state data through a network so as to generate a device correlation data;

wherein the system generates services for a user according to the device correlation data.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the appliance state data is generated by at least an actuator or a smart meter.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the smart meter is a smart meter with NILM (Nonintrusive load monitoring) functions.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the appliance state data and the sensor state data are formed into a sequence based on being generated in a preset period by specific order.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the device correlation data comprises a support data and the support data is generated by the cloud service platform through selecting a preset number of same state data in the sequence and analyzing occurrence times of the same state data of the preset number.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the appliance correlation data comprises a confidence data and the cloud service platform subtracts the support data from sum of the occurrence times of the same state data of the preset number to acquire a calculation result and generates the confidence data according to a ratio of the calculation result to the support data.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein, when the support data and the confidence data are higher than a threshold, there is a correlation between the devices that the same state data corresponds.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the appliance state data and the sensor state data comprise a pre-state effective period and a post-state effective period and the pre-state effective period represents a period of time that the state data corresponding to an appliance or a sensor is effective.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein two state data are correlated if the pre-state effective period or the post-state effective period of one appliance state data or sensor state data is overlapped with that of the other appliance state data or sensor state data.

10. A method of appropriate services detection for a smart building, the method comprising:

in a period of time, detecting an interaction relationship of devices in the building to generate correlation values of device combinations; and

selecting at least one device to which a correlation value of one device combination higher than an interactive threshold and providing a corresponding service bundle according to the device combination.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the device combination to which the service bundle corresponds comprises one of two methods including one using loose limitations and the other one using strict limitations.

12. A method of appropriate services detection for a smart building, the method comprising:

searching for operation relationships of a plurality of devices according to a history record of device state of the building to generate a device correlation data wherein the devices comprise at least one sensor, at least one actuator and at least one appliance;

when occurrence times of one combination of device states in a preset period is larger than a threshold, determining that the combination is correlated within the time to generate a correlation data; and

filtering out inappropriate services and providing appropriate services to users in the building, according to the correlation data.