INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND RECORDING DEVICE

• US 20150100466A1
• Filed: 05/08/2013
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hiroshi Deguchi
• Original Assignee: Tokyo Institute of Technology (National University Corporation Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Inventors: Deguchi, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 10,121,120 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2827 Reporting to a device within the home network; wherein the reception of the information reported automatically triggers the execution of a home appliance functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

An energy event recording apparatus is mounted on each of a plurality of equipment installed at a business facility. When a change in the amount of the flow or stock of energy is detected in the apparatus mounted, each of a plurality of the energy event recording apparatuses records journal information, which associates the amount of change to a debit side item and a credit side item, respectively, and notifies an energy management server of the journal information. The energy management server calculates pieces of journal information conveyed from a plurality of recording apparatuses, respectively, based on the debit side item and the credit side item.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

a plurality of recording apparatuses that record information on flows or stocks of a predetermined object, whose amount of flow or stock is likely to vary, in a plurality of equipment installed at a predetermined organization; and

a counting apparatus that calculates pieces of information recorded by the plurality of recording apparatuses,

each of the plurality of recording apparatuses including;

a detector for detecting a change in an amount of the flow or stock of the object;

an item information storage for storing a debit side item and a credit side item by associating the debit side item with the credit side item, wherein the debit side item indicates an attribute serving as a debit side in a double-entry bookkeeping system, and the credit side item indicates an attribute serving as a credit side in the double-entry bookkeeping system and wherein the attribute serving as the debit side and the attribute serving as the credit side are each an attribute, concerning the object, whose value changes with a change in the amount of the flow or stock of the object;

a journalizing processor for recording journal information when the detector detects the change in the amount of the flow or stock of the object, wherein the journal information is such that said amount of change is associated respectively to the debit side item and the credit side item; and

a notification unit for conveying the journal information, recorded by the journalizing processor, to the counting apparatus,

the counting apparatus including;

a counting processor for calculating pieces of journal information conveyed respectively from the plurality of recording apparatuses, based on the debit side item and the credit side item and for recording a calculated result; and

an output unit for outputting information on the calculated result recorded by the counting processor to an exterior.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein an item information storage in the recording apparatus stores the debit side item and the credit side item by associating the debit side item with the credit side item,

the debit side item indicating the attribute serving as the debit side in a multi-dimensional double-entry bookkeeping system including a basis for the object and the credit side item indicating the attribute serving as the credit side in the double-entry bookkeeping system, and

the attribute serving as the debit side and the attribute serving as the credit side being each the attribute, concerning the object, whose value changes with a change in the amount of the flow or stock of the object,

wherein, when the detector detects the change in the amount of the flow or stock of the object, the journalizing processor in the recording apparatus records the journal information, where said amount of change is associated respectively to the debit side item and the credit side item, in a manner such that the journal information is coded as an algebraic object, and

wherein a counting processor in the counting apparatus calculates pieces of the journal information conveyed respectively from the plurality of recording apparatuses, based on the debit side item and the credit side item, in accordance with a specification description of an algebraically intensive process.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the journal information is a calculation formula that indicates a summation of an amount of change in the debit side item and an amount change in the credit side item, and

wherein the counting processor in the counting apparatus sums up amounts of change associated with an item having the identical name, for pieces of the journal information conveyed respectively from the plurality of recording apparatuses.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the counting processor in the counting apparatus records information of a profit-and-loss statement of the object concerning the flows or stocks of the object at the organization in a manner such that a revenue of the object, which is posted to the credit side item in the calculated result, is transferred to an internal reserve, which is posted to the credit side item and such that a consumption of the object, which is posted to the debit side in the calculated result, is transferred to an internal reserve, which is posted to the debit side item.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4, wherein the counting processor in the counting apparatus records information of a balance sheet of the object for a current term concerning the flows of stocks of the object, in accordance with information of the balance sheet of the object for a previous term concerning the flows or stocks of the object at the organization and information of the profit-and-loss statement of the object for the current term concerning the flows or stocks of the object at the organization.

6. A recording apparatus, mounted on a predetermined equipment, comprising:

a detector that detects a change in an amount of flow or stock of the object in the equipment, whose amount of flow or stock is likely to vary;

an item information storage that stores a debit side item and a credit side item by associating the debit side item with the credit side item, wherein the debit side item indicates an attribute serving as a debit side in a double-entry bookkeeping system, and the credit side item indicates an attribute serving as a credit side in the double-entry bookkeeping system and wherein the attribute serving as the debit side and the attribute serving as the credit side are each an attribute, concerning the object, whose value changes with a change in the amount of the flow or stock of the object;

a journalizing processor that records journal information when the detector detects the change in the amount of the flow or stock of the object, wherein the journal information is such that said amount of change is associated respectively to the debit side item and the credit side item; and

a notification unit that conveys the journal information, recorded by the journalizing processor, to an external apparatus.

7. An information processing system comprising:

a plurality of recording apparatuses;

a plurality of distributed computing apparatuses; and

a combined computing apparatus,

each of the plurality of recording apparatuses including;

a detector for detecting a change in an amount of flow or stock of a predetermined object;

an item information storage for storing a debit side item and a credit side item by associating the debit side item with the credit side item, wherein the debit side item indicates an attribute serving as a debit side in a double-entry bookkeeping system, and the credit side item indicates an attribute serving as a credit side in the double-entry bookkeeping system and wherein the attribute serving as the debit side and the attribute serving as the credit side are each an attribute, concerning the object, whose value changes with a change in the amount of the flow or stock of the object; and

a journalizing processor for recording journal information when the detector detects the change in the amount of the flow or stock of the object, wherein the journal information is such that said amount of change is associated respectively to the debit side item and the credit side item,

each of the plurality of distributed computing apparatuses including;

an journal information acquiring unit for acquiring, via a communication network, the journal information recorded by at least one predetermined recording apparatus, which is part of the plurality of recording apparatuses; and

a counting processor for calculating the journal information recorded by the at least one recording apparatus, based on the debit side item and the credit side item and for recording a calculated result,

the combined computing apparatus including;

a calculation result acquiring unit for acquiring, via the communication network, the calculated results recorded by the plurality of distributed computing apparatuses; and

a combining unit for generating a calculation result of entire pieces of journal information recorded by the plurality of recording apparatuses by combining the calculated results recorded by the plurality of distributed computing apparatuses, respectively.