Network-based power supply efficiency management system and a method thereof

• US 9,182,749 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2012
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lightstar Information Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Lightstar Information Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lin, Ming-Yi
• Primary Examiner(s): Dunn, Darrin
• Application Number:
  US13/624,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20130079941A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,145 Days
• Field of Search: 700/286, 700/291, 700/295, 700/297
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: H05B 47/175 by remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/22 with communication between the lamps and a central unit

Abstract

The present invention relates to a network-based power supply efficiency management system and a method thereof, and more particularly, to a method for managing a power supply efficiency by comparing a predefined scenario on a server side with a real environment condition, and then issuing a usage control command to a managed unit via a network connection.

Claims

1. A network-based power supply efficiency management system, comprising:

a server side comprising a management interface module, a server side database, a usage control module, a scenario management module, a decision support module, a power supply control module, and a server side transmitting/receiving interface, the server side transmitting/receiving interface connected to a network;

the decision support module providing decision information to define a scenario management parameter;

the power supply module providing a usage control command predefined by the scenario management module to at least one managed side via the network;

the least one managed side is connected to the server side via the network for monitoring a condition of the environment and reporting the condition to the server side;

wherein the management interface module provides a management interface to manage the server side or issuing a command to the managed side;

the server side database providing a storage space for storing data of the server side and storing and computing data received from the managed side via the server side transmitting/receiving interface;

the usage control module defining a usage control instruction in accordance with the usage control command and coupling with the managed side via the server side transmitting/receiving interface for issuing the usage control instruction to the managed side via the server side transmitting/receiving interface;

the scenario management module defining the usage control command according to the environment condition; and

the managed side performing power supply control according to the usage control instruction via the power supply control module.

2. The network-based power supply efficiency management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the managed side comprising an environment monitoring module, a power supply efficiency monitoring module, a power supply control module, a managed side transmitting/receiving interface;

the environment monitoring module monitoring a condition of the environment and actively or passively reporting the condition to the server side via the managed side transmitting/receiving interface and the network;

the power supply efficiency monitoring module obtaining power state information of the managed side and actively or passively reporting the power state information to the server side via the managed side transmitting/receiving interface and the network;

the power supply control module supplying power or cutting off power to a load according to the usage control instruction of the server side received via the managed side transmitting/receiving interface and the network.

3. The network-based power supply efficiency management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the network is a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN).

4. The network-based power supply efficiency management system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the power state information of the managed side provided by a power supply efficiency monitoring module is a voltage, current or a power usage efficiency data.

5. The network-based power supply efficiency management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the environment monitoring module is a reed switch, a temperature detector, a moisture detector, a brightness detector, or an object detector.

6. A network-based power supply efficiency management method for system including at least one managed side connected through a network to a server side having a management interface module, a server side database, a usage control module, a scenario management module, a decision support module, and a server side transmitting/receiving interface, the method comprising the following steps:

(A) using the scenario management module of the server side to predefine one or more scenarios, one or more conditions and one or more usage control commands and to store one or more scenarios, one or more conditions and one or more usage control commands in the server side database, or using an analysis data provided by the decision support module to set an environment condition;

(B) using the management interface module to regularly or randomly couple to the at least one managed side via the server side transmitting/receiving interface and a managed side transmitting/receiving interface, according to one or more than one defined time(s), to obtain power supply control data from an environment monitoring module, the power supply efficiency monitoring module and the power supply control module to store the power supply control data in the server side database;

(C) detecting and receiving a real environment condition regularly or randomly and transmitting the real environment condition to the server side, comparing the real environment condition with the environment condition to see if they match, if so, then goes to step (D), if not, then go to step (E);

(D) using the power supply control module of the server side to transmit the usage control command predefined by the scenario management module and stored in the server side database to the managed sides via the network, then using the power supply control module of the managed side to perform power supply control and then going to step (E);

(E) end.