SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSNG DATA RELATING TO ENERGY USAGE

• US 20150233983A1
• Filed: 04/29/2015
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: C3AI Incorporated
• Original Assignee: C3, Inc. (Charles & Colvard (HK) Ltd.)
• Inventors: Siebel, Thomas M., Abbo, Edward Y., Behzadi, Houman, Coker, John, Kurinskas, Scott, Rothwein, Thomas, Tchankotadze, David
• Granted Patent: US 10,884,039 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 21/00 Arrangements for measuring electric power or power factor G01R7/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 21/133 by using digital technique
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2365 Ensuring data consistency and integrity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24542 Plan optimisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24568 Data stream processing; Continuous queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/288 Entity relationship models
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/82 Energy audits or management systems therefor

Abstract

Processing of data relating to energy usage. First data relating to energy usage is loaded for analysis by an energy management platform. Second data relating to energy usage is stream processed by the energy management platform. Third data relating to energy usage is batch parallel processed by the energy management platform. Additional computing resources, owned by a third party separate from an entity that owns the computer system that supports the energy management platform, are provisioned based on increasing computing demand. Existing computing resources owned by the third party are released based on decreasing computing demand.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

loading, by a computer system, data associated with at least one of a sensor and a meter;

converting, by the computer system, the loaded data based on a data model;

normalizing, by the computer system, the converted data;

maintaining, by the computer system, the normalized data; and

performing, by the computer system, analytics on the maintained data.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein the at least one of a sensor and a meter is in remote communication with the computer system.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein the computer system is a platform controlled by a single entity.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 3 wherein the at least one of a sensor and a meter is associated with an enterprise that uses the platform.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4 wherein the at least one of a sensor and a meter is associated with one of a plurality of facilities of the enterprise that are distributed over a plurality of geographic locations.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

loading, by the computer system, second data associated with at least one of a second sensor and a second meter;

converting, by the computer system, the loaded second data based on the data model;

normalizing, by the computer system, the converted second data;

maintaining, by the computer system, the normalized second data; and

performing, by the computer system, analytics on the maintained second data.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein the data associated with the at least one of a sensor and a meter relates to energy data.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

applying machine learning techniques on the maintained data.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

stream processing the maintained data.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

batch processing the maintained data.

11. A computer system comprising an applications server comprising:

at least one module configured to load data associated with at least one of a sensor and a meter, to convert the loaded data based on a data model, to normalize the converted data, to maintain the normalized data, and to perform analytics on the maintained data;

means for stream processing the maintained data; and

means for batch processing the maintained data.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the at least one of a sensor and a meter is in remote communication with the computer system.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein the computer system is a platform controlled by a single entity.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the at least one of a sensor and a meter is associated with an enterprise that uses the platform.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the at least one of a sensor and a meter is associated with one of a plurality of facilities of the enterprise that are distributed over a plurality of geographic locations.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform acts comprising:

loading data associated with at least one of a sensor and a meter;

converting the loaded data based on a data model;

normalizing the converted data;

maintaining the normalized data; and

performing analytics on the maintained data.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein the at least one of a sensor and a meter is in remote communication with the computer system.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein the computer system is a platform controlled by a single entity.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 wherein the at least one of a sensor and a meter is associated with an enterprise that uses the platform.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19 wherein the at least one of a sensor and a meter is associated with one of a plurality of facilities of the enterprise that are distributed over a plurality of geographic locations.