INTELLIGENT ELECTRICITY METER SYSTEM WITH LIGHT WALLET

• US 20190325430A1
• Filed: 11/03/2018
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2018
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hepu Technology Development (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hepu Technology Development (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CUI, HUA, YANG, YUSEN, XU, BO, TAN, ZHI, CHEN, HUI
• Application Number:
  US16/179,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20190325430A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/002 Remote reading of utility meters
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 11/56 Special tariff meters
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/127 Shopping or accessing services according to a time-limitation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/223 based on the use of peer-to-peer networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/363 with the personal data of a user
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/367 involving electronic purses or money safes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 15/003 for electricity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0618 Block ciphers, i.e. encrypting groups of characters of a plain text message using fixed encryption transformation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3236 using cryptographic hash functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3247 involving digital signatures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/50 using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/34 Smart metering supporting the carbon neutral operation of end-user applications in buildings
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/30 Smart metering, e.g. specially adapted for remote reading
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/12 Billing, invoicing, buying or selling transactions or other related activities, e.g. cost or usage evaluation

Abstract

The present invention discloses an intelligent electricity meter system with a light wallet, including a CPU, a metering module, a blockchain light wallet module and a communication module. By using a blockchain light wallet module, the present invention solves the problems that the electricity meter in the prior art cannot implement the peer-to-peer electricity transaction, and electric quantity collection, transaction and recording of the distributed wind photovoltaic and storage battery, and the demand for the energy Internet big data cannot be met. The distributed electricity generation and storage as well as the bi-directional metering of electric energy production and electricity consumption of an electricity user are implemented, such that the electricity quantity of a scattered intelligent microgrid may be metered, transacted and recorded. The distributed electricity generation side and utilization side make the microgrid more feasible economically by taking the intelligent electricity meter as an evidence of transaction charge.

Claims

1. An intelligent electricity system with a light wallet, comprising a CPU (101), a metering module (102), a blockchain light wallet module (103) and a communication module (104), wherein the metering module (102) is connected with the CPU (101);

the blockchain light wallet module (103) is connected with the CPU (101), the communication module (104) is wirelessly or wiredly connected with the CPU (101), the metering module (102), and the blockchain light wallet module (103) respectively, wherein;

the CPU (101) is used for processing and operating data in the intelligent electricity meter (100), and controlling data exchange;

the metering module (102) is configured to unidirectionally or bi-directionally meter electric quantity;

the blockchain light wallet module (103) performs data interaction with the CPU (101) and an external committer, for implementing the peer-to-peer electricity transaction between nodes of a blockchain network (200) within a region;

the communication module (104) is used for implementing the data transmission between the metering module (102) and the blockchain light wallet module (103), and the data transmission in the blockchain network (200).

2. The intelligent electricity system with a light wallet according to claim 1, wherein the blockchain light wallet module (103) is provided with a data layer for storing any one or a combination of the following data:

electric quantity transaction data, which is peer-to-peer transaction data in the blockchain related to the electricity meter node;

electricity purchasing and selling identifier, for differentiating binary fields with predetermined meanings of an electricity purchaser and an electricity seller;

time stamp, for recording the time when the peer-to-peer electricity transaction occurs in the blockchain network;

electricity transaction digital currency wallet data, for receiving or paying electricity transaction bill by using a light wallet address and digital currency;

the data layer is further used for sealing a time stamp on electricity purchasing and selling transaction data generated at the electricity meter node, so as to form a data block and record the same in the blockchain in the temper-proofing manner.

3. The intelligent electricity system with a light wallet according to claim 2, wherein the electricity purchasing and selling identifier includes a binary field with a predetermined meaning;

the binary field represents the current node by a first set value as the electricity seller, and represents the current node by the second set value as the electricity purchaser.

4. The intelligent electricity system with a light wallet according to claim 1, wherein the blockchain light wallet module (103) comprises an encryption management unit, for encrypting data in a hardware or software encryption manner, and for managing the encrypted information of the user.

5. The intelligent electricity system with a light wallet according to claim 1, wherein, the blockchain light wallet module (103) is provided with a module with a function of digital currency storage or pre-stored expense, and the user may pay the electricity bill in advance by the digital currency, and store in the blockchain light wallet module (103).

6. The intelligent electricity system with a light wallet according to claim 1, wherein the blockchain light wallet module (103) downloads block header information, thereby obtaining all transaction block information corresponding to a wallet key by making a data request to nodes of an entire grid in a peer-to-peer manner.

7. The intelligent electricity system with a light wallet according to claim 1, wherein the light blockchain light wallet module (103) is further used for giving a unique ID to each intelligent electricity meter (100), so as to form a node with a unique ID in the blockchain.

8. The intelligent electricity system with a light wallet according to claim 1, wherein the blockchain network corresponding to the blockchain light wallet module (103) may be a public blockchain, a consortium blockchain or a private blockchain;

all or partial nodes of the private blockchain or the consortium blockchain have complicated reading, writing and accounting permissions.

9. The intelligent electricity system with a light wallet according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication interface, connected with the CPU (101), the metering module (102) and the blockchain light wallet module (103), for data transmission.

10. The intelligent electricity system with a light wallet according to claim 9, wherein the communication interface is one or a combination of RS485 communication, RFID, Bluetooth, WIFI, 3G network, 4G network, 5G network or power line carrier.

12. An electricity meter having the intelligent electricity meter system with a light wallet according to claim 1, comprising the intelligent electricity meter (100) integrated with the blockchain light wallet module (103), and the intelligent electricity meter (100) integrated with the blockchain light wallet module (103) is further provided with the CPU (101), the metering module (102) and the communication module (104).

11. An intelligent electricity meter system, comprising a conventional intelligent electricity meter (300) and a blockchain router (400), wherein the conventional intelligent electricity meter (300) is provided with the CPU (101), the metering module (102) and the communication module (104), and the blockchain router (400) is provided therein with the blockchain light wallet module (103) and the communication module (104).