Energy conservation analysis system

• US 9,710,862 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2010
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Misayo, Maeda, Ryuichi, Sogou, Tomoya, Murakami, Yoshifumi, Kazuno, Hiroki, Takayama, Hisashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Fennema, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel, Jigneshkumar
• Application Number:
  US13/518,085
• Publication Number:
  US 20120277924A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,401 Days
• Field of Search: 700291
• 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: Y02P 90/82 Energy audits or management systems therefor

Abstract

A terminal device sets a beneficial use time slot for regarding the electrical consumption in the beneficial use time slot as the beneficial, a waste use time slot for regarding the electrical consumption in the waste use time slot as the waste, and an efficiency improvement time slot for regarding the electrical consumption in the efficiency improvement time slot as the electrical consumption to be reduced. On the basis of the data of an amount of the electrical consumption of the device to be monitored, calculating an amount of the electrical consumption in each the time slot and displaying an amount of the electrical consumption in each time slot are preformed.

Claims

1. An energy conservation analysis system for monitoring a device to be monitored, said device to be monitored configured to operate according to a control schedule information, said energy conservation analysis system comprising:

a resource usage information acquisition circuit configured to acquire an usage amount of a resource in association with a usage time, the usage amount of the resource indicating an amount of the resource used by the device to be monitored which is operated according to the control schedule information;

a time slot setting circuit configured to set at least a first time slot, a second time slot, and a third time slot in a day,

said control schedule information having a start planning time for starting an operation of the device to be operated and finish planning time for finishing the operation of the device to be operated,

the first time slot being a period included in a period from after the start planning time to before the finish planning time,

the second time slot being a period included in a period from after the finish planning time to before the start planning time,

the third time slot being a period other than the first time slot and the second time slot;

a resource usage condition judgment circuit configured to calculate an amount of the usage of the resource in each one of the first time slot, the second time slot, and the third time slot which are set by said time slot setting circuit on the basis of the resource usage information acquired by said resource usage information acquisition circuit,

a display configured to display the first time slot as a time slot in which a use of the resource by the device to be monitored is beneficial, the second time slot as a time slot in which a use of the resource by the device to be monitored is wasting, the third time slot as a time slot in which a use of the resource by the device to be monitored is to be saved, and an amount of the usage of the resource in each one of the first time slot, the second time slot, and the third time slot as calculated by the resource usage condition judgment circuit.

2. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 1, wherein

when the third time slot is set between the first time slot and the second time slot and also when the device to be monitored is operated according to the control schedule information which is set to include a control content of finishing the operation of the device to be operated at a time of at least one of a start time and a finish time of the third time slot, the control schedule creating circuit is configured to

shift the time for finishing the operation of the device to be monitored in the third time slot from at least one of the start time and the finish time to create the control schedule information which has the second time slot which includes an extension period,

shift the time for finishing the operation of the device to be monitored in the third time slot to further extend the second time slot in a case where the device to be monitored has not finished its operation by a user'"'"'s operation within the extension period of the second time slot under a condition where the device to be monitored is operated according to the control schedule information which is created,

shift the time for finishing the operation of the device to be monitored in the third time slot to shorten the second time slot in a condition where the device to be monitored is finished its operation by the user'"'"'s operation within the extension period of the second time period under a condition where the device to be monitored is operated according to the control schedule information which is created.

3. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 1, wherein

when a control content of finishing the operation of the device to be monitored at a finish time of the third time slot is included in the control schedule information, the control schedule creating circuit is configured to create the control schedule information of operating the device to be monitored to gradually decrease an amount of the usage of the resource within the third time slot.

4. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the time slot setting circuit is configured to obtain the control schedule information of the device to be monitored,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period from after the start planning time to before the finish planning time as the first time slot,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period included in a period from after the finish planning time to before the start planning time as the second time slot,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period other than the first time slot and the second time slot as the third time slot.

5. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period from the start planning time to the finish planning time as the first time slot,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period from a first time before a certain period of the start planning time to the start planning time as a first sub-time slot which is a part of the third time slot,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period from the finish planning time to a second time after a certain period from the finish planning time as a second sub-time slot which is a remaining part of the third time slot,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period other than the first time slot and the third time slot as the second time slot.

6. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 5, wherein

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period from the start planning time to the finish planning time next to the start planning time as the first time slot.

7. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 5, wherein

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period from a first time before a certain period of the start planning time to the start planning time next to the first time as the first sub-time slot.

8. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 5, wherein

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period from the finish planning time to a second time which is next to the finish planning time and which is after a certain period of the finish planning time as the second sub-time slot.

9. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the time slot setting circuit is configured to determine a standard start time on the basis of a previous start time, the previous start time indicating a time when the device to be monitored is started in past times,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to determine a standard finish time on the basis of a previous finish time, the previous finish time indicating a time when the device to be monitored is finished in past times,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period from the standard start time to the start planning time as a first sub-time slot which is a part of the third time slot,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period from the finish planning time to the standard finish time as a second sub-time slot which is a remaining part of the third time slot,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to set a period other than the first time slot and the third time slot as the second time slot.

10. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 9, wherein

the time slot setting circuit is configured to recognize the previous start time on the basis of the resource usage information,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to recognize the previous finish time on the basis of the resource usage information.

11. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 10, wherein

the time slot setting circuit is configured to recognize the previous start time when an amount of consumption of the resource exceeds a threshold value,

the time slot setting circuit is configured to recognize the previous finish time when an amount of the consumption of the resource falls below the threshold value.

12. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 9, wherein

said time slot setting circuit is configured to determine the standard start time on the basis of a plurality of the previous start times,

said time slot setting circuit is configured to determine the standard finish time on the basis of a plurality of the previous finish times.

13. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 12, wherein

said standard start time is set to a time between an earliest time among the previous start times and a latest time among the previous start times.

14. The energy conservation analysis system as set forth in claim 12, wherein

the standard finish time is set to a time between an earliest time among the previous finish times and a latest time among the previous finish times.