Management system, management method and equipment

• US 9,774,711 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2013
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Miyake, Takashi, Nakamura, Kazutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Jaroenchonwanit, Bunjob
• Application Number:
  US14/432,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20150350391A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,460 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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. An equipment to which a dynamic address is dynamically assigned within a management system having a control apparatus that performs communication with the equipment via a network using the dynamic address assigned to the equipment, wherein the equipment comprises:

a transmitter; and

at least one processor that,

when the equipment is turned on, controls the transmitter to repeatedly transmit a classification message, indicating a class to which the equipment belongs, over the network, for a predetermined time period, using the dynamic address, assigned to the equipment, as a source address, and,

in response to receiving an identification information request message from the control apparatus within the predetermined time period,

cancels transmission of the classification message, and

transmits an identification information message, identifying the equipment, over the network to the control apparatus.

2. The equipment according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor controls the transmitter to repeatedly transmit the classification message even after elapse of the predetermined time period, when the identification information request message is not received within the predetermined time period.

3. The equipment according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined time period comprises a time period needed by the control apparatus to be powered on.

4. The equipment according to claim 1, further comprising an interface that connects the equipment to the control apparatus in addition to a connection between the equipment and the control apparatus over the network.

5. The equipment according to claim 4, wherein the at least one processor controls the transmitter to transmit information indicating a status of the equipment via the interface.

6. The equipment according to claim 1, wherein the network complies with a communication protocol of an ECHONET Lite (registered trademark) system.

7. A management system comprising:

the equipment according to claim 1, wherein the equipment is a load or a distributed power source arranged in a consumer'"'"'s facility; and

the control apparatus, wherein the control apparatus is arranged in the consumer'"'"'s facility, and controls an operation of the load or the distributed power source.

8. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the control apparatus is powered by power supplied from a grid.

9. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the equipment is a distributed power source, and the control apparatus is powered by power supplied from the distributed power source.

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

when the equipment is turned on, repeatedly transmitting, from the equipment, a classification message, indicating class to which the equipment belongs, over the network, for a predetermined time period, using the dynamic address, assigned to the equipment, as a source address; and

,

in response to receiving an identification information request message from the control apparatus within the predetermined time period, by the equipment,

canceling transmission of the classification message, and

transmitting an identification information message, identifying the equipment, over the network to the control apparatus.