REAL-TIME MONITORING, CONTROLLING, AND OPTIMIZING ELECTRICAL GENERATION ASSETS BASED ON EMISSION LEVEL MEASUREMENTS

• US 20150032275A1
• Filed: 10/14/2014
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: BHAGERIA, Gopal K., RAMANATHAN, Sri, REBOUL, Jean-Gael F., TREVATHAN, Matthew B.
• Granted Patent: US 9,551,981 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/287
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 13/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/84 Greenhouse gas [GHG] management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/845 Inventory and reporting systems for greenhouse gases [GHG]

Abstract

A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure and includes receiving data defining a detected gas emission level of a power generation facility. The method also includes communicating the data defining the detected gas emission level to at least one subscriber device using one of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based communication and Session Initial Protocol (SIP) based communication.

Claims

1. A system implemented in hardware, comprising:

a processor executing a manager that operates to;

receive a subscription from at least one subscriber device;

receive data from a sensor at a power generation facility, wherein the data defines a detected gas emission level of the power generation facility; and

communicate the data defining the detected gas emission level to the at least one subscriber device using Session Initial Protocol (SIP) based communication to provide a SIP subscribe message which is a request to receive updated about presence information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the receiving the data and the communicating the data are performed in real time.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one subscriber device comprises:

at least one internal device that is internal to the power generation facility; and

at least one external device that is external to the power generation facility.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising comparing a predicted gas emission level to the detected gas emission level to determine whether the detected gas emission level is within a predetermined margin of error of the predicted gas emission level, wherein the predicted gas emission level is a forecast of gas emissions of the power generation facility for a future time period.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising transmitting a control signal to the power generation facility based on the determination that the detected gas emission level exceeds the predetermined margin of error.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the transmitting the control signal changes power output of the power generation facility to cause an actual gas emission level of the power generation facility to match the predicted gas emission level.

7. A computer program product for reporting greenhouse gas emissions, the computer program product comprising a computer readable hardware storage device having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

receive, by the processor, a subscription from at least one subscriber device;

receive, by the processor, data from a sensor at a power generation facility, wherein the data defines a detected emission level of the power generation facility; and

communicate, by the processor, the data defining the detected emission level to the at least one subscriber device using a Session Initial Protocol (SIP) based communication.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein:

the detected emission level comprises a greenhouse gas emission level;

the receiving the data and the communicating the data are performed in real time; and

the receiving the data and the communicating the data are repeated at one of;

a predefined time interval, and based on the detected emission level differing from a previous value by a predetermined amount.

9. A system comprising:

a CPU, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium;

program instructions to receive a subscription from at least one subscriber device;

program instructions to receive data from a sensor at a power generation facility, wherein the data defines a detected gas emission level of the power generation facility;

program instructions to communicate the data defining the detected gas emission level to the at least one subscriber device using one of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based communication and Session Initial Protocol (SIP) based communication;

program instructions to receive a control signal to adjust power output of the power generation facility from the at least one subscriber device based on the at least one subscriber device comparing the data defining the detected gas emission level with data defining a predicted gas emission level; and

program instructions to adjust an amount of power generation of the power generation facility based on the control signal,

wherein the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.

10. A method of deploying a system for reporting greenhouse gas emissions, comprising:

providing a computer infrastructure operable to;

receive a subscription from at least one subscriber device;

receive data from a sensor at a power generation facility, wherein the data defines a detected gas emission level of the power generation facility;

convert the data into an extensible markup language (XML) message; and

communicate the XML message defining the detected gas emission level to the at least one subscriber device using one of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based communication and Session Initial Protocol (SIP) based communication.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the receiving the data and the communicating the data are performed in real time; and

the receiving the data and the communicating the data are repeated at one of;

a predefined time interval, and based on the detected gas emission level differing from a previous value by a predetermined amount.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one subscriber device comprises:

at least one internal device that is part of a network associated with the power generation facility; and

at least one external device that is external to the network associated with the power generation facility.