Systems and methods for determining energy information using an organizational model of an industrial automation system

• US 9,911,163 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Allen-Bradley Co., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Allen-Bradley Co., Inc.)
• Inventors: Kaufman, Philip J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shechtman, Sean
• Assistant Examiner(s): Foley, Shon
• Application Number:
  US13/843,191
• Publication Number:
  US 20140277792A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,817 Days
• Field of Search: 700291
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 80/10 Efficient use of energy, e.g. using compressed air or pressurized fluid as energy carrier
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/82 Energy audits or management systems therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/221 General power management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving

Abstract

A system may include a processor that may receive energy data associated with one or more assets in an automation system, receive organizational model data associated with the automation system, and generate one or more energy reports based on a relationship between the energy data and the organizational model data.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processor configured to;

receive energy data associated with one or more assets in an automation system;

receive organizational model data associated with the automation system, wherein the organizational model data comprises an asset energy profile for at least one of the assets;

generate a list of missing assets that do not have an asset energy profile in the organizational model data; and

generate one or more energy reports based on a relationship between a first subset of the energy data, a second subset of the energy data, a third subset of the energy data, and the organizational model data, wherein the first subset of the energy data corresponds to physical energy data received directly from the at least one of the assets, wherein the second subset of the energy data corresponds to virtual energy data corresponding to at least one missing asset of the list of missing assets, and wherein the third subset of the energy data corresponds to an aggregation of at least a portion of the physical energy data and a portion of the virtual energy data aggregated with respect to the organizational model data control the assets based on the received energy data and the received organizational model.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the energy data is received from the assets.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the assets comprise one or more power meters, one or more drives, one or more motors, one or more capacitor banks, one or more air compressors, one or more refrigerator units, one or more turbines, one or more generators, one or more energy storage devices, one or more photovoltaic cells, one or more robots, one or more reactors, or any combinations thereof.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the organizational model data comprises one or more work areas, one or more work cells, one or more work units, or any combination thereof.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the organizational model data comprises one or more cells, one or more lines, one or more sites, one or more enterprises, or any combination thereof.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the organizational model data comprises infrastructure, one or more manufacturing support systems, one or more sub-assembly/batch systems, one or more core manufacturing systems, or any combination thereof.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the organizational model data comprises one or more energy profiles that correspond to the assets, wherein the energy profiles define energy consumption characteristics of the assets or energy production characteristics of the assets.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the physical energy data comprises metered energy data, derived energy data, fixed energy data, or any combination thereof.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the energy reports comprise one or more associations between the assets and one or more groups within the organizational model data.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the organizational model data comprises associations between the one or more assets and one or more logical groupings that correspond to one or more functionalities of the automation system.

11. A system, comprising:

a processor configured to;

receive energy data associated with one or more assets in an automation system;

receive organizational model data associated with the automation system, wherein the organizational model data comprises an asset energy profile for at least one of the assets, wherein the asset energy profile comprises energy consumption properties of the at least one of the assets with respect to different operating conditions for the at least one of the assets;

retrieve one or more missing asset energy profiles that are not in the organizational model data;

categorize the energy data, wherein a first portion of the energy data is categorized as physical energy data directly received from the assets, a second portion of the energy data is categorized as virtual energy data corresponding to at least one retrieved missing asset energy profile, and wherein a third portion of the energy data is categorized as logical energy data corresponding to an aggregation of at least a portion of the physical energy data and a portion of the virtual energy data aggregated with respect to the organizational model data; and

generate one or more energy reports based on a relationship between the physical energy data, the virtual energy data, and the logical energy data control the assets based on the received energy data and the received organizational model.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to retrieve the missing asset energy profiles by downloading the missing asset energy profiles from a database.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to retrieve the missing asset energy profiles by querying corresponding assets for the missing asset energy profiles, wherein the missing asset energy profiles are embedded within the corresponding assets.