MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD AND EQUIPMENT

• US 20150350391A1
• Filed: 09/27/2013
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: NAKAMURA, Kazutaka, MIYAKE, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 9,774,711 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00024 by means of mobile telephony
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00034 the elements or equipment being or involving an electric power substation
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/24 of photovoltaic origin
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/64 The condition being economic, e.g. tariff based load management
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/14 by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/381 Dispersed generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/35 with light sensitive cells
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2823 Reporting information sensed by appliance or service execution status of appliance services in a home automation network device-related reporting H04L43/065; 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 H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/02 Topology update or discovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/30 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for improving the carbon footprint of the management of residential or tertiary loads, i.e. smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the buildings sector, including also the last stages of power distribution and the control, monitoring or operating management systems at local level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/56 Power conversion systems, e.g. maximum power point trackers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/70 Smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the energy generation sector
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 70/30 Systems combining energy storage with energy generation of non-fossil origin
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 80/20 using renewable energy
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/123 the energy generation units being or involving renewable energy sources
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/20 : End-user application control systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 : Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/126 : using wireless data transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 : Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

A storage battery device is provided with a transmitter which, in cases when a power supply of the storage battery device is turned on, repeatedly transmits, for a prescribed time period, a classification message including the classification of the storage battery device.

Claims

1. A management system having an equipment to which a dynamic address is dynamically assigned and a control apparatus that performs communication with the equipment via a predetermined network using the dynamic address assigned to the equipment, wherein

the equipment comprises a transmission unit which repeatedly transmits a classification message including a classification of the equipment over a predetermined period when the equipment is powered on.

2. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

the control apparatus transmits an identification information request message for requesting identification information for identifying the equipment to the equipment, in response to reception of the classification message, and

the transmission unit cancels the repeated transmission of the classification message when the equipment receives the identification information request message in the predetermined period.

3. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

the control apparatus transmits an identification information request message for requesting identification information for identifying the equipment to the equipment, in response to reception of the classification message, and

the transmission unit repeatedly transmits the classification message even after elapse of the predetermined period, when the equipment does not receive the identification information request message in the predetermined period.

4. The management method according to claim 1, wherein

the equipment is a load or a distributed power source arranged in a consumer'"'"'s facility,

the control apparatus is arranged in the consumer'"'"'s facility, and

the control apparatus manage an energy state in the consumer'"'"'s facility by controlling an operation of the load or the distributed power source.

5. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

the predetermined period is determined in accordance with a time period since the control apparatus is powered off due to a power failure until the control apparatus is powered on again.

6. The management system according to claim 4, wherein

the control apparatus is powered on again by power supplied from a grid.

7. The management system according to claim 4, wherein

the equipment is a distributed power source, and

the control apparatus is powered on again by power supplied from the distributed power source.

8. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

an interface that connects the equipment and the control apparatus is provided, besides the predetermined network.

9. The management system according to claim 8, wherein

the transmission unit transmits information indicating a status of the equipment via the interface.

10. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

the predetermined network is a network that complies with a communication protocol of an ECHONET Lite (registered trademark) system.

11. A management method used in a management system having an equipment to which a dynamic address is dynamically assigned and a control apparatus that performs communication with the equipment via a predetermined network using the dynamic address assigned to the equipment, comprising:

a step of repeatedly transmitting a classification message including a classification of the equipment over a predetermined period from the equipment to the control apparatus, when the equipment is powered on.

12. An equipment to which a dynamic address is dynamically assigned and which perform communication with a control apparatus via a predetermined network using the dynamic address, comprising:

a transmission unit which repeatedly transmits a classification message including a classification of the equipment over a predetermined period when the equipment is powered on.