Data collecting apparatus and data collecting method

• US 8,983,671 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2012
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Yonezawa, Minoru
• Primary Examiner(s): JARRETT, RYAN A
• Application Number:
  US13/535,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20130079940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 992 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 700/291
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not involving significant data processing
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/003 Load forecast, e.g. methods or systems for forecasting future load demand
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/50 Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications

Abstract

There is provided a data collecting apparatus in which a collector collects, from demanders, demand record data and demand forecast data of the energy; a data history manager; a reliability level calculator calculates, for each demander, a reliability level of the demand forecast data; a supply plan data receiver receives an acquisition request of demand forecast data of a future predetermined time range with respect to each demander from an energy management system; and a data acquisition plan maker makes a collection plan such that the demand forecast data of the future predetermined time range and the demand record data are collected earlier from a demander with a higher reliability level, wherein the data collector collects according to the collection plan, and the data history manager provides the collected demand forecast data to the energy management system before a start time of the future predetermined time range.

Claims

1. A data collecting apparatus comprising:

a computer configured to execute instructions to collect data; and

a memory storing instructions which when executed by the computer results in collecting the data by performing the following operations;

collecting, from a plurality of demanders, demand record data of energy and demand forecast data of the energy;

storing the collected demand record data and the demand forecast data;

calculating, for each demander, a reliability level of the demand forecast data on a basis of the demand record data, the reliability level representing the accuracy of the demand forecast data for the demand record data;

receiving an acquisition request of demand forecast of a future predetermined time range with respect to each demander, from an energy management system that makes an energy supply plan; and

generating a collection plan according to the acquisition request such that the demand forecast data of the future predetermined time range is collected less often from a demander with a higher reliability level, wherein

the demand forecast data of the future predetermined time range is collected, from each demander according to the collection plan, and

the demand forecast data of the future predetermined time range collected is provided to the energy management system before a start time of the future predetermined time range.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the acquisition request indicates that the demand forecast data of each future time range is received at a constant time interval,

generating a collection plan includes setting a larger number of cycles for collecting the demand forecast data, to the demander with the higher reliability level wherein a length of one cycle is identical to a length of the constant time interval, and generating the plan so as to collect demand forecast data of a corresponding future time range at an interval of the larger number of cycles, and

with respect to a future time range not collected due to the plan, demand forecast data collected most recently to the energy management system is provided.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a warning receiver configured to receive, from the demander, a warning that an error between the demand forecast data and the demand record data is equal to or more than a predetermined value, wherein

generating a collection plan includes modifying the collection plan so as to shorten a cycle numbers of collecting the demand forecast data from the demander from which the warning is received.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the computer further performs the following operations:

collecting a restrainable amount of demand and a demand restraint record from the demander,

calculating, for each demander, a reliability level of the restrainable amount of demand on a basis of the demand restraint record,

generating a plan such that the restrainable amount of demand of the future predetermined time range are collected earlier from the demander with a higher reliability level,

collecting the restrainable amount of demand of the future predetermined time range, from the demander according to the plan, and

providing the collected restrainable amount of demand to the energy management system that controls supply-demand of the demander.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the computer further performs the following operation:

calculating the demand forecast data on a basis of the demand record data collected, wherein

the demand forecast data is not collected but the demand record data with respect to at least one of the demanders is collected.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the computer further performs the following operations:

receiving information indicating data collection time from the energy management system, and

transmitting, to the energy management system, the demand forecast data of the future predetermined time range, on or before the data collection time.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the computer further performs the following operation:

using demand scheduled data instead of the demand forecast data, the demand scheduled data indicating a scheduled amount of use for a demand of each demander.

8. A data collecting method comprising:

collecting, from a plurality of demanders, demand record data of energy and demand forecast data of the energy;

storing the demand record data and the demand forecast data in a data history manager;

calculating, for each demander, a reliability level of the demand forecast data on a basis of the demand record data, the reliability level representing the accuracy of the demand forecast data for the demand record data;

receiving an acquisition request of demand forecast of a future predetermined time range with respect to each demander, from an energy management system that makes an energy supply plan; and

making a collection plan according to the acquisition request such that the demand forecast data of the future predetermined time range is collected less often from a demander with a higher reliability level, wherein

the demand forecast data of the future predetermined time range is collected from each demander according to the collection plan, and

the demand forecast data of the future predetermined time range collected from each demander is provided to the energy management system before a start time of the future predetermined time range.

9. A data collecting apparatus comprising:

a computer configured to execute instructions to collect data; and

a memory storing instructions which when executed by the computer results in collecting the data by performing the following operations;

a collecting, from a plurality of demanders, demand record data of energy and demand forecast data of the energy;

calculating, for each demander, a reliability level of the demand forecast data on a basis of the demand record data, the reliability level representing accuracy of the demand forecast data for the demand record data; and

generating a collection plan such that the demand forecast data of a future predetermined time range is collected less often from a demander with a higher reliability level, wherein

the demand forecast data of the future predetermined time range is collected, from each demander according to the collection plan.

10. A data collecting method comprising:

collecting, from a plurality of demanders, demand record data of energy and demand forecast data of the energy;

calculating, for each demander, a reliability level of the demand forecast data on a basis of the demand record data, the reliability level representing accuracy of the demand forecast data for the demand record data;

making a collection plan such that the demand forecast data of a future predetermined time range is collected less often from a demander with a higher reliability level, wherein

collecting the demand forecast data of the future predetermined time range from each demander according to the collection plan.