MODULAR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR POWER, WATER AND GAS COLLECTION, MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL

• US 20130331998A1
• Filed: 02/17/2012
• Published: 12/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Joao Machado Magalhaes De Alme, Paulo Ricardo Pereira Ferreira
• Original Assignee: Joao Machado Magalhaes De Alme, Paulo Ricardo Pereira Ferreira
• Inventors: Pereira Ferreira, Paulo Ricardo, Machado Magalhaes De Alme, Joao
• Application Number:
  US14/000,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20130331998A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/286
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 2204/45 Utility meters networked together within a single building
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/002 Remote reading of utility meters
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 13/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2825 Reporting to a device located outside the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with telemetering systems H04M11/002
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/40 using a wireless architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/60 for transmitting utility meters data, i.e. transmission of data from the reader of the utility meter
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/86 Performing a diagnostic of the sensing device
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom
• 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

Modular management system for power, water and gas collection, measurement and control includes a MUNC equipment having electrical and electronic circuits, with resident control program, electronic meters and a first module, the first module includes control, processing and power supply circuits, at least one battery to ensure uninterrupted operation, a microprocessor, memory for resident program and through the communication modem and a second module including control and processing circuits, communication modem and ports, with the equipment being able to perform data collection and processing from power, water, gas or liquid fuel meters.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. Modular management system for power, water and gas collection, measurement and control comprising a single platform capable of transporting all data gathering measurement information collected from energy meters, water, gas, electronic ballasts (bulbs), LED lamp drivers, and other equipment that have an communication protocol known in order to create a communication network complete and fully comprehensive and, including a MUNC equipment composed of electrical and electronic circuits, with resident control program, electronic meters and a first module, the first module includes control, processing, power supply circuits, at least one battery to ensure uninterrupted operation, a microprocessor, memory for resident program and through the communication modem and a second module including control and processing circuits, communication modem and ports, with the equipment being able to perform data collection and processing from power, water, gas or liquid fuel meters.

12. A system according to claim 11, including ballasts or power supplies and AC/DC converters for LED bulbs instead of electronic meters.

13. A system according to claim 11, including a communication modem suitable for protocols communication with electronic power meters and communication modem able to communicate by pulses.

14. A system according to a claim 11, including a concentrator, and the concentrator including antennas to optimize the Modem reception, a data processing unit with RAM and ROM memories and a resident program to process the information required, and a modem and an antenna to send shut-off and reconnection commands.

15. A system according to claim 11, including a concentrator, and the concentrator including antennas to optimize the Modem reception, a data processing unit with RAM and ROM memories and a resident program to process the information required, and a modem and an antenna to send shut-off and reconnection commands.

16. A system according to claim 11, including a MCLC (20), and the MCLC including a processing unit, a modem and an antenna.

17. A system according to claim 11, allowing the visualization of charts related to curves of consumption of each customer and the main quantities informed by the remote meters, in addition to present comparative data of consumption curves between customers and for a same customer, considering different periods of time through the application system.

18. A system according to claim 11, allowing the creation of leak groups, in which various levels of the main water and gas meters are registered, and whose measurement should be equal to the sum of the measurement of subsequent level meters, with tolerance to small percentage changes, which are configurable in order to preserve the normal losses related to the distribution system that connects them through the application system.

19. A system according to claim 11, allowing the creation of Energy Balancing Groups, which are registered in the various levels of primary power meters, and whose measurement should be equal to the sum of the subsequent level meters, with tolerance to small percentage changes, which are configurable in order to preserve the normal losses related to the distribution system that connects them through the application system.

21. An enclosure according to claim 18, including an optical system that facilitates reading the instruments remotely.

20. An enclosure housing the MUNC equipment, at least one temperature sensor and at least one opening sensor, in which the temperature sensors and the opening sensor are controlled by the MUNC equipment.