Cognitive platform and method for energy management for enterprises

• US 9,817,422 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2015
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amber Flux Private Limited
• Original Assignee: Amber Flux Private Limited
• Inventors: Goparaju, Vinulata, Goparaju, Muralidhar
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Alan
• Application Number:
  US14/741,460
• Publication Number:
  US 20150301548A1
• Time in Patent Office: 881 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05F 1/66 Regulating electric power
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/045 Explanation of inference; Explainable artificial intelligence [XAI]; Interpretable artificial intelligence

Abstract

This invention is a platform and method for using cognition for managing enterprise energy needs. Cognitive platform allows for dynamic management of energy consumption, demand and baseline calculations by use of a cognitive platform and cognitive device. Employees as well as internal and external stakeholders can set performance indicators and monitor the parameters against the energy performance indicators. Based on the initial knowledge, the system identifies improvements in order to reach the energy key performance indicators. Depending on the feedback, the system learns and improves the accuracy of the predictions and suits them to a given industry or given enterprise scenario. Enterprise-wide energy and/or environmental management covers policies, planning, key performance indicators, goals, targets, works flows, user management, asset mapping, input-output energy flows, conservation options, performance management, analytics. The system and method allow for monitoring and verification by internal and/or external stakeholders.

Claims

1. A method for managing consumption of one or more resources, the method comprising:

(a) obtaining data related to at least one pre-determined goal, plan, rule, or constraint related to a desirable state of an enterprise and at least one parameter related to current state of equipment from a at least one targeted data source;

(b) analyzing, via at least one processor and at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with processing instructions to perform cognitive decision making, and identifying at least one set of hierarchies of possible actions selected from a group consisting of a local state related to equipment and a global state related to enterprise to reach the said goal, plan, rule or constraint and calculating the effect of one or more actions on said consumption of one or more resources via said one or more processors performing cognitive decision making;

(c) communicating settings to equipment, re-analyzing the current state of equipment and verify whether it approaches the desirable global state of enterprise and rolling-back local desirable states of equipment if said global state of enterprise is not approached;

(d) repeating step (b) and (c) above until there is at least one set of hierarchies of possible actions that can achieve the desirable state of global state of enterprise or until all possible sets of identified hierarchy of desirable local and global states of enterprise are exhausted; and

(e) updating the historical statistics database with one set of parameters related to local hierarchies of possible actions that can achieve the desirable global state of enterprise.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said one or more resources is related to any one of or combination of equipment selected from:

a furnace, air conditioner, heater, motor, fan, blower, pump, compressor, boiler, meter, heat exchanger, computer, computer software, router, antenna, switch, transmission device, wire-line network, or a wireless network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the target data source is any one of or combination of:

a register, data store, record, array, index, hash, map, tree, list, graph, file of any type, database, folder, directory, application software, application programming interface, plug-in, applet, program or a tool.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein calculating the said effect of one or more actions is at least based on any one of energy consumption, maintenance, load, resource demand, resource supply, resource usage or sensed information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the said settings are related to any one or more of resource usage, power off, power on, idle state, sleep state, CPU utilization, memory utilization, spectrum allocation or bandwidth allocation.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the said pre-determined goal, plan, rule, or constraint is related to any one of availability, usage, reservation, cost, price, location, policy, security, current state, past state, future state, raw material, product, bi-product, intermediate-product, residue, waste, or end-of-waste of the resource.

7. At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with processing instructions performed by at least one computer, computer readable storage medium comprising:

(a) a module for obtaining data related to at least one pre-determined goal, plan, rule, or constraint related to desirable state of an enterprise and at least one parameter related to a current state of equipment from a target data source;

(b) a module for analyzing and identifying at least one set of hierarchies of actions selected from a group consisting of a first state related to equipment and a second state related to enterprise based on their potential to satisfy in whole or in part said goal, plan, rule or constraint and for calculating the effect of one or more actions on said consumption of one or more resources via at least one processor;

(c) at least one module for communicating settings to one or more equipment and for re-analyzing the current state of equipment and verifying whether it approaches the desirable global state of enterprise and rolling-back local desirable states of equipment if global state of enterprise is not approached;

(d) a module for repeating step (b) and (c) above until there is at least one set of hierarchies of possible actions that can achieve the desirable state of global state of enterprise or until all possible sets of identified hierarchy of desirable local and global states of enterprise are exhausted; and

(e) a module for updating the historical statistics database with one set of parameters related to local hierarchies of possible actions that can achieve the desirable global state of enterprise.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein said one or more resources is related to any one of a furnace, air conditioner, heater, motor, fan, blower, pump, compressor, boiler, meter, heat exchanger, computer, computer software, router, antenna, switch, transmission device, wire-line network, or a wireless network.

9. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the target data source is any one of a register, data store, record, array, index, hash, map, tree, list, graph, file of any type, database, folder, directory, application software, application programming interface, plug-in, applet, program or a tool.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein calculating the said effect of one or more actions is based on any of one of energy consumption, maintenance, load, resource demand, resource supply, resource usage or sensed information.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the said settings are related to any one or more of resource usage, power off, power on, idle state, sleep state, CPU utilization, memory utilization, spectrum allocation or bandwidth allocation.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the said goal, plan, rule or constraint is related to availability, usage, reservation, cost, price, location, policy, security, current state, past state, future state, raw material, product, bi-product, intermediate-product, residue, waste, or end-of-waste of the resource.

13. A device for managing consumption of one or more resources, the device comprising:

(a) a module for obtaining data related to at least one pre-determined goal, plan, rule, or constraint related to desirable state of an enterprise and at least one parameter related to current state of equipment from a target data source;

(b) a processor for analyzing and identifying at least one set of hierarchies of possible actions selected from a group consisting of a local state related to equipment and a global state related to enterprise to reach the said goal, plan, rule or constraint and calculating the effect of one or more actions on said consumption of one or more resources;

(c) an actuator for communicating settings to one or more equipment and a module for re-analyzing the current state of equipment and verifying whether it approaches the desirable global state of enterprise and rolling-back local desirable states of equipment if global state of enterprise is not approached;

(d) a module for repeating step (b) and (c) above until there is at least one set of hierarchies of possible actions that can achieve the desirable state of global state of enterprise or until all possible sets of identified hierarchy of desirable local and global states of enterprise are exhausted; and

(e) a module for updating the historical statistics database with one set of parameters related to local hierarchies of possible actions that can achieve the desirable global state of enterprise.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein said one or more resources is related to any one of a furnace, air conditioner, heater, motor, fan, blower, pump, compressor, boiler, meter, heat exchanger, computer, computer software, router, antenna, switch, transmission device, wire-line network, or a wireless network.

15. The device of claim 13, wherein the target data source is any one of a register, data store, record, array, index, hash, map, tree, list, graph, file of any type, database, folder, directory, application software, application programming interface, plug-in, applet, program, or a tool.

16. The device of claim 13, wherein calculating the said effect of one or more actions is based on any one of energy consumption, maintenance, load, resource demand, resource supply, resource usage or sensed information.

17. The device of claim 13, wherein the said settings are related to any one or more of resource usage, power off, power on, idle state, sleep state, CPU utilization, memory utilization, spectrum allocation or bandwidth allocation.

18. The device of claim 13, wherein the said goal, plan, rule or constraint is related to availability, usage, reservation, cost, price, location, policy, security, current state, past state, future state, raw material, product, bi-product, intermediate-product, residue, waste, or end-of-waste of the resource.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising logic, when executed by a processor operable to:

(a) receive data related to at least one predetermined goal, plan, rule, or constraint related to desirable state of an enterprise and at least one parameter related to current state of equipment from a data source;

(b) analyze and identify at least one set of hierarchies of possible actions selected from a group consisting of a first state related to equipment and a second state related to enterprise to satisfy in whole or in part the said predetermined goal, plan, rule or constraint and calculate the effect of one or more actions on said consumption of one or more resources via a cognitive decision maker;

(c) communicate settings to one or more equipment based on the determined effect on the consumption of one or more resources and re-analyze the current state of equipment and verify whether it approaches the desirable global state of enterprise and roll-back local desirable states of equipment if global state of enterprise is not approached;

(d) repeat steps (b) and (c) above until there is at least one set of hierarchies of possible actions that can achieve the desirable state of global state of enterprise or until all possible sets of identified hierarchy of desirable local and global states of enterprise are exhausted; and

(e) update the historical statistics database with one set of parameters related to local hierarchies of possible actions that can achieve the desirable global state of enterprise.