ENERGY-RELATED INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A mechanism for displaying energy information, comprising:
- a processor;
a display connected to the processor; and
one or more detectors, connected to the processor, configured to provide energy data; and
wherein;
the display provides a visualization to support identification of energy data of a site;
a site comprises heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment and/or lighting equipment;
a first element of the visualization is a link to a calendar view for comparison of energy data of sites across days of a week, weeks of a month and/or weeks of a year; and
a second element of the visualization is a link to a detailed daily profile view for analysis of energy data of operation of heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment and/or lighting equipment at a site level.
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Abstract
A system and approach for diagnostic visualizations of, for example, building control systems data. A focus may be on a similarity metric for comparing operations among sites relative to energy consumption. Normalizing factors may be used across sites with varying equipment consumption levels to be compared automatically. There may also be a high level overview of an enterprise of sites. For instance, consumption totals of the sites may be normalized by site size and length of time of a billing period to identify such things as outlier sites. One may use a main view of geographic distribution dynamically linked to subviews showing distribution by size, by aggregated climate, and so on. With these views, one may quickly drill through the enterprise and identify sites of interest for further investigation. A key metric may be intensity which invokes viewing virtually all sites by normalized consumption for a unit amount of time.
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20 Claims
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1. A mechanism for displaying energy information, comprising:
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a processor; a display connected to the processor; and one or more detectors, connected to the processor, configured to provide energy data; and wherein; the display provides a visualization to support identification of energy data of a site; a site comprises heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment and/or lighting equipment; a first element of the visualization is a link to a calendar view for comparison of energy data of sites across days of a week, weeks of a month and/or weeks of a year; and a second element of the visualization is a link to a detailed daily profile view for analysis of energy data of operation of heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment and/or lighting equipment at a site level. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An energy-related information presentation system comprising:
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a processor; and one or more detectors for obtaining data on instances of heating, ventilation and air conditioning and/or lighting equipment at one or more sites of an enterprise; and wherein; the one or more detectors are connected to the processor; the processor receives the data from the one or more detectors on instances of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning and/or lighting equipment at the one or more sites; and the processor provides a dual layer approach to a normalization of the equipment across the one or more sites based on data on instances of the equipment. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for presenting information related to energy of an enterprise, comprising:
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providing a processor; and obtaining data with one or more detectors on instances of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment and/or lighting equipment at one or more sites of an enterprise; and wherein; the one or more detectors are connected to the processor; the processor receives the data from the one or more detectors on instances of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment and/or lighting equipment at the one or more sites; the processor outputs a normalization of the equipment across the one or more sites based on data on instances of the equipment; and the processor provides a dual layer approach to the normalization of the equipment across the one or more sites, using data of instances of the equipment to build the normalization. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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