Energy consumption management

• US 8,515,878 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2009
• Issued: 08/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Frans Gustav Theodor Radloff, Louis Johannes Grobler
• Original Assignee: Frans Gustav Theodor Radloff, Louis Johannes Grobler
• Inventors: Radloff, Frans Gustav Theodor, Grobler, Louis Johannes
• Primary Examiner(s): BORISSOV, IGOR N
• Application Number:
  US12/918,501
• Publication Number:
  US 20110289019A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,642 Days
• Field of Search: 705/412, 705/400, 705/348, 705/1.1, 705 711- 739, 705 141- 1414, 705 1419- 1425, 705/14.39, 705/14.73, 705/22, 705 261- 36 R, 705/37, 705 39- 41, 700286-298
• US Class Current: 705/412
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 2204/14 Displaying of utility usage with respect to time, e.g. for monitoring evolution of usage or with respect to weather conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/002 Remote reading of utility meters
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/12 The local stationary network supplying a household or a building
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/14 by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• 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 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/30 Smart metering, e.g. specially adapted for remote reading

Abstract

An energy consumption display arrangement, which includes a database in which is stored incident energy consumption data of a number of energy consumption sites stored over a period of time, a graphical user interface operable to retrieve selected consumption data of at least one energy consumption site from the database and to present said selected consumption data to a user, the graphical user interface having a user definable dashboard for displaying any one or more of incident power consumption-, accumulated daily power consumption- and accumulated monthly power consumption of the at least one energy consumption site.

Claims

1. An energy consumption display arrangement, comprising:

a database in which is stored incident energy consumption data of a number of energy consumption sites stored over a period of time; and

a processor, configured to generate;

a graphical user interface operable to retrieve selected consumption data of at least one energy consumption site from the database and to present said selected consumption data to a user, the graphical user interface having a user definable dashboard in the form of a composite dial for displaying simultaneously the incident power consumption, accumulated daily power consumption and accumulated monthly power consumption of the at least one energy consumption site, and wherein the composite dial provides pop-up display zones on each of the display scales, the pop-up display zones operable to display detailed historic power consumption graphs for each of the respective display scales, the historic power consumption graphs selected from an energy demand profile for a day, accumulated power consumption for a day, an energy demand profile for a present month and accumulated power consumption for a month; and

display buttons operable to display for at least one energy consumption site any one or more of consumption graphs, consumption savings graphs, billing information, consumption savings rankings, detailed reports, consumption overview graphs, a map display of consumption, an environmental impact of consumption, a consumption data export menu, a power conservation program calculation pare, a consumption composition tree, and a database statistics/administration page, in which a map display of the consumption button displays consumption icons arranged on a map, the consumption icons further displaying colors representative of predefined consumption zones in real time.

2. An energy consumption display arrangement as claimed in claim 1, in which the detailed reports button is operable to display for a selected consumption site any one of a number of reports selected from an environmental impact report, a monthly savings graph, a profile graph a savings graph and a total consumption graph.