SCALABLE AND WEB-BASED DR PLATFORM FOR COMMUNICATION OF A DR SIGNAL USING A NETWORK SERVER

• US 20150134280A1
• Filed: 09/14/2012
• Published: 05/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AutoGrid Systems, Inc. (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: AutoGrid Systems, Inc. (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Narayan, Amit, Singh, Rajeev Kumar, Bahl, Abishek, Bhat, Vijay Srikrishna
• Application Number:
  US14/345,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20150134280A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/62
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 21/00 Arrangements for measuring electric power or power factor G01R7/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/64 The condition being economic, e.g. tariff based load management
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/003 Load forecast, e.g. methods or systems for forecasting future load demand
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/14 by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

A scalable and web-based demand response platform for optimization and management of Demand response resources are provided. The optimization and management are achieved by using a server, a program design module, a customer portal module, a forecasting optimization module, an event management module, an application programming interface, an analytics module for performing analysis for performing analysis of the data feeds. The said platform is offered to the users on software-as-a-service model.

Claims

1. A software-as-a-service platform for optimization and management of Demand response resources comprising:

a server having a storage media, processor and a computer readable media, communicatively coupled to utility operator'"'"'s system and customer end-point;

a first module in the server for design of a Demand response event, the said first module allows the user to add, view and edit a demand response event;

an application programming interface communicatively coupled to the server that allows bidirectional communication of data-feeds from the utility operator'"'"'s system and the customer end-point, for measurement settlement and verifications;

a second module for analysis of the data feeds provided by the application programming interface, the said second module calculates baseline quantities of electricity usage, load sheds and payments associated with the demand response event designed in the first module.

2. The platform of claim 1 wherein the server uses OpenADR standards for signaling.

3. The platform of claim 1 wherein the server is hosted in the network through a web interface and is distributed across a multiple geographical location.

4. The platform of claim 1 wherein the demand response event includes event duration, notification window, black-out time, valid times, number of times a customer can be asked to participate in the event.

5. The platform of claim 1 wherein the second module uses a baseline computation method for calculating baseline and load-sheds.

6. The platform of claim 1 wherein the data-feeds from the utility operator'"'"'s includes EMS, DMS, GIS, CIS, MDM and Billing systems.

7. A network server implemented system for facilitating communication of a Demand response signal comprising:

a demand response server hosted in the cloud network;

a network of utility operators in the network distributing the electricity to a group of customers, the said utility operators are using utility backend data system for electricity distribution;

a first application programming interface that enables the demand response server to communicate with the network of utility operators;

a second application programming interface that enables the demand response server to communicate with the customers,

wherein the said communication is done through simultaneous multi-channel communication protocols.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the demand response server hosted in the cloud network is distributed across multiple geographical locations and is accessible through internet.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein the demand response server uses openADR standards for signaling.

10. The system of claim 7 wherein the utility operators and independent system operators are connected to the customers through the demand response server using web API.

11. The system of claim 7 wherein the signal communication between customers and the demand response server is bidirectional.

12. The system of claim 7 wherein the demand response servers transfers the Demand response signals to the customers directly or through load aggregators.

13. The system of claim 7 wherein the communication between demand response server communicates with customer API through proxies that convert communication between a standards compliant server to devices specific APIs.

14. The system of claim 7 wherein the system is compatible with simultaneous operation of multichannel communications and protocols.

15. The system of claim 7 wherein the multichannel communication includes e-mail, text, RDS, broadband, internet, and cellular link.

16. The system of claim 7 wherein the communication protocols include OpenADR, smart energy profile 1.x/2.x, and Energy InterOp.