226 results about "Energy service" patented technology

A resource management client apparatus (client, 102) comprises an interface to a wide area network (WAN, 106) facilitating connection to a resource management server (server, 104), and at least one communications interface (116, 118) to communicate with a plurality of associated resource monitoring and control devices (devices, 120, 122). A secure key interface (128) to receive an electronic access device (130) that securely stores information including at least a unique identifier, server connection data, and one or more encryption keys for encrypting information transmitted between the client (102) and the server (104). The client (102) establishes a connection to the server (104) via the WAN (106), using the server connection data stored in the electronic access device (130), receives status messages from the devices (120, 122), processes received status messages, and encrypts and transmits corresponding status information of the devices (120, 122) to the server (104) via the WAN (106). It receives and decrypts encrypted resource control information from the server (104) via the WAN (106). Furthermore, it processes received resource control information and transmits corresponding control messages to the devices (120, 122).

The present invention relates to a network communication system and method to enable the real time buying and selling of electricity generated by fuel cell powered vehicles between a fuel cell powered vehicle and a consumer. The method comprises: providing connections to the vehicle for the supply of a fuel and for transfer of electricity; determining the current cost of fuel and price paid for generating electricity; based at least on the cost of fuel and price paid for generating electricity, determining whether to make the fuel cell powered vehicle available for generation of electricity; when fuel is consumed by the vehicle and electricity generated by the vehicle, collecting data on the quantity of fuel consumed and amount of electricity generated, calculating the cost of the fuel and the value of the electricity generated, providing a debit charge for the cost of fuel consumed and a credit charge for the value of electricity generated. A method to enable the real time buying and selling of electricity generated by fuel cell powered vehicles between an energy service provider and a consumer of electricity is also disclosed.

Systems that monitor and control energy distribution manage energy distribution or use for Energy Service Providers and end-users. A system includes a publicly or privately accessible distributed network, a network access device, and a management device. The network access device communicates with the management device through the distributed network to control loads at a remote location. The method of monitoring and controlling energy distribution receives data at an on-line Site, processes an application program that evaluates load and market supply data, and initiates power curtailment requests or power curtailment events.

If the energy service enterprise is responsible for paying costs for applying energy-saving measures to the object facilities, measures the energy consumption after taking the energy-saving measures, calculates the amount of curtailed energy cost by comparing the measured value with the energy consumption before taking the energy-saving measures previously stored in the database, and receives at least a part of the curtailed amount, the customer is not required to plan equipment investment in energy-saving measures and collection thereof. Introduction of the energy-saving measures is thus made easier.

Computer based energy service provider (ESP) information service has been developed for providing operational and management services for distributed local power generation units. The ESP is a subscription service for customers that purchase power from utilities and generate their own power on site from a local power generation unit. The ESP service enables those customers to decide when to purchase power from the utility or generate their own power, and may provide control of the customer's power generation unit. Using the ESP, a customer may select whether to exclusively purchase power from a utility, exclusively generate its own power or allow the ESP service to determine whether power should be purchased or self-generated. The ESP service stores the customer's selections and remotely controls and operates the local power generation unit and a switch which connects the customer site alternatively to a utility power source or the power generation service.

An energy services bridge interposed between one or more energy service providers and an energy distribution network operator manages a plurality of diversified energy consumer service plans so as to be compliant with the physical and technical constraints of the transmission / distribution gird. The energy services bridge further conveys real-time information regarding the state of the transmission / distribution grid to the plurality of energy service providers enabling active management of the service plans and correspondingly active management of the transmission / distribution grid.

In various embodiments, a policy-based residential networked meter can be an energy switch router device (ESRD) that provides policy-based advanced metering, load control and shaping, energy services delivery and accounting, and secure web services interfaces and internetworking communications. The ESRD can be integrated and inter-related with advanced policy-based sensory, metrology, monitoring, control, recording, classification, prioritization, security, routing, and switching functions. The ESRD may be used to sense, measure, meter, and control electrical service flows to the utility service point at the customer premise, and may be configured and managed with one or more policy-based networking methods.

Energy services business methods gather up many small pieces of renewable energy generation, energy efficiency, and controllable energy demand reductions en a grid, and present all that in a unified interface to a power utility. The individual constituents benefit from collective bargaining with, a large utility, and can receive energy discounts, rebates, and bonuses for their participation.

Embodiments of a system, a method, and a computer-program product (e.g., software) for aggregating an energy service from a group of loads with time-varying operating cycles are described. This aggregation may be performed by an aggregator, which provides the energy service to a power-system operator. In particular, for a desired demand response, a demand-response mechanism may modify a demand response of a given load by mapping an initial operating cycle of the load before a demand-response event to a final operating cycle. In addition, the demand-response mechanism may transition the given load to a new operating cycle associated with the demand-response event using a temporal set-point trajectory. This aggregation technique may ensure that a distribution of phases of the group of loads is, on average, uncorrelated with each other, either by preserving or modifying the distribution of phases prior to the demand-response event.

Systems and methods for distributed energy services management are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving an input command via a network interface at a site gateway, the input command including information for controlling one or more physical devices at a site; converting, by use of a data processor, the input command to a virtualized command in a common command format; executing, by use of the data processor, one or more executor modules to cause execution of one or more corresponding virtual devices associated with the virtualized command; and using the executed one or more virtual devices to control the corresponding one or more physical devices at the site.

The invention discloses an intelligent building energy source epcglobal network and an integration method of the intelligent building energy source epcglobal network. The intelligent building energy source epcglobal network comprises a distributed energy source production subsystem, an energy storage subsystem, a building terminal energy source application subsystem, an energy source transmission and distribution subsystem and an intelligent energy source service subsystem, wherein the distributed energy source production subsystem is used for producing needed cold-and-thermal electric energy, and conveys the cold-and-thermal electric energy to the energy storage subsystem through the energy source transmission and distribution subsystem, the energy storage subsystem carries out storage and optimal configuration on the energy sources according to monitoring and feedback of the intelligent energy source service subsystem to the building terminal energy source application subsystem, then the cold-and-thermal electric energy is conveyed to the building terminal energy source application subsystem, and the intelligent energy source service subsystem carries out collection, input, output, regulation and control on energy consumption signals in the whole process, and finally enables the amount of the cold-and-thermal electric energy source produced by the distributed energy source production subsystem to be matched with the requirement of the building terminal energy source application subsystem, and optimized operation of the intelligent building energy source epcglobal network is achieved.

A system and method of determining energy inefficiency of a dwelling comprising obtaining energy data, obtaining weather data, calculating at least one energy metric for the dwelling, and ranking multiple dwellings based on the at least one energy metric. The ranking of the dwelling indicates a source of energy inefficiency of the dwelling and can provide a recommendation to improve the energy efficiency of the dwelling.

An energy service business system includes a database which stores past data about an energy consumption of a facility before taking energy-saving measures, a measurer which measures present data of the energy consumption after taking the energy-saving measures, and a calculator which calculates energy curtailment quantities facility before and after taking the energy-saving measures. The past data in the database are stored in a form correlated with data of a production quantity, and the measurer measures the present data of the energy consumption together with data of the production quantity after taking the energy-saving measures. The calculator retrieves the past data having production quantity data within a set allowable range corresponding to the measured present data having production quantity data, and calculates the energy curtailment quantities by comparing the retrieved past data having production quantity data and the measured present data having the production quantity data.

Embodiments of a system, a method, and a computer-program product (e.g., software) for aggregating an energy service from a group of loads with time-varying operating cycles are described. This aggregation may be performed by an aggregator, which provides the energy service to a power-system operator. In particular, for a desired demand response, a demand-response mechanism may modify a demand response of a given load by mapping an initial operating cycle of the load before a demand-response event to a final operating cycle. In addition, the demand-response mechanism may transition the given load to a new operating cycle associated with the demand-response event using a temporal set-point trajectory. This aggregation technique may ensure that a distribution of phases of the group of loads is, on average, uncorrelated with each other, either by preserving or modifying the distribution of phases prior to the demand-response event.

The invention relates to a method and a system for forwarding network data by a wireless sensor. The method comprises the following steps that: 1, a destination node sends information on own geographical position, and a common node sends information on own geographical position and residual energy; 2, the common node receives the information on the geographical position of the destination node andthe information on the geographical positions and the residual energy of neighbor nodes; 3, the common node selects the neighbor nodes which are closer to the destination node as predecessor neighbornodes according to the information on the geographical positions of the destination node and the neighbor node; 4, the common node estimates the total transmission times to reach the destination nodeby using each one of the predecessor neighbor nodes as the next hop; and 5, the common node compares the total transmission times with the residual energy of the each one of the predecessor neighbornodes, and selects the next hop common node of a route reaching the destination node from the predecessor neighbor nodes. The method and the system can perform load balancing and improve the energy service efficiency while ensuring reliable data transmission.

The invention discloses an energy-saving route setup and power distribution method in a wireless multi-hop relay network in the technical field of network communication. The energy-saving route setup and power distribution method comprises the following steps of: firstly, randomly setting up an initialized route; updating a pheromone in the initialized route during a setup procedure; secondly, setting up a route on the basis through a setup method, and updating a pheromone in the route; obtaining an optimal route according to the pheromone in the route, and updating a specific parameter of the setup method; and repeating the steps for set time to obtain an optimal route which is a final route. According to the energy-saving route setup and power distribution method disclosed by the invention, by comprehensively considering network node residual energy, limited node transmitting power, inter-nodal interference and link transmission rate, the network throughput and the energy service efficiency are comprehensively optimized, so that a route algorithm can more adaptive to the changeful environment of the wireless multi-hop relay network, and meanwhile, the goal that energy is saved for the network is achieved.

The invention provides a control method, device and system of an electric vehicle controller, and a gateway controller. The method comprises the following steps: a gateway controller connected with atleast two control area networks(CAN)on an electric vehicle collects dormancy condition data and wake-up condition data of the at least two CANs, performs the dormancy processing on a first network when the first CAN satisfies a preset dormancy condition, controls each controller in the network to enter a dormancy state, and stops forwarding message information of each controller in the network; and the gateway controller performs the wake-up processing on a second network when the second CAN satisfies the preset wake-up condition, forwards the message information of each controller in the network, and forwards the message information to each controller in the network, thereby controlling all controllers in the CAN to enter the dormancy state when all controllers in the CAN are out of work. The energy consumption of the electric vehicle is reduced, the endurance mileage and the energy service efficiency of the electric vehicle are improved, and the use experience of the electric vehicle is improved.

An electric power exchange network includes a series of computerized exchange nodes that provide communications between suppliers and purchasers or users of electric power. Search engines enable suppliers to obtain information, such as load characteristics, from users in the network to allow the supplier to effectively merge or combine its existing loads with those of certain users, whereby a more efficient trading of electric power among members of the exchange network can be achieved.

A method and apparatus for managing power of a smart appliance is provided. The method includes acquiring, from the smart appliance, by an Energy Management System (EMS) for managing power of the smart appliance at home over a home network, terminal information including function information and power consumption information; monitoring power of the smart appliance and transmitting results of the results to an energy service provider; and controlling, upon receiving a power reduction command from the energy service provider, the power of the smart appliance based on the acquired terminal information.

The invention discloses a fixed-wing aircraft on which retractable multi-rotor assemblies are mounted and which can perpendicularly take off and land. In the scheme of the fixed-wing aircraft, the fixed-wing aircraft comprises fixed-wing assemblies, retractable multi-rotor assemblies, a multi-rotor extending and retracting control mechanism, a multi-rotor hatch which can be opened and closed and a hatch opening and closing control mechanism. The fixed-wing aircraft is characterized in that when the aircraft is in a take-off stage or a landing stage or when the aircraft needs to hover in the air, the retractable multi-rotor assemblies in the lower part of an aircraft body are unfolded to provide a perpendicular take-off and landing capacity; when the aircraft cruises at a high speed, the multi-rotor assemblies are retracted in the aircraft body, the multi-rotor hatch is closed to keep the aerodynamic performance of the fixed-wing aircraft; and besides, when the fixed-wing aircraft is in perpendicular take-off and landing state, hovering state and cruising state at a high speed, the highest energy service efficiency can be obtained, so that the fixed-wing aircraft disclosed by the invention has a large perpendicular take-off and landing weight and a long range at the same time. According to the fixed-wing aircraft disclosed by the invention, a solution of a perpendicular take-off and landing fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle which is low in cost and high in energy efficiency is provided, is wide in application, and is particularly suitable for being applied to trades including point-to-point article transportation, long-distance cruise and the like.

A material medium, such as an optical fiber or electrical cable, is commonly used to carry services, such as telecommunications or energy service. The current invention identifies the following problems which may be encountered when monitoring a material medium. They are: (1) requiring a time and labor intensive investigation to find a fault, (2) needing a significant change in a current material medium infrastructure to support a monitoring effort, or (3) reducing available bandwidth in a material medium due to a monitoring device intruding into the material medium to send data. These problems are solved, in accordance with a feature of the current invention, by monitoring a material medium with at least one diagnostic sensor, and using an electromagnetic (EM) signal, such as radio frequency (RF), signal to wirelessly transmit the sensor data. The diagnostic sensor may measure the operational health of the material medium, or may measure local environmental conditions around the material medium. Using an EM signal, such as RF, to wirelessly transmit sensor data allows for a fast, low labor monitoring approach. Additionally, it avoids a need to either; (1) transfer the data by intruding into the monitored material medium, or (2) set up an independent material medium system to transfer the data.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a comprehensive energy service platform system based on distributed architecture. The system comprises an energy collection layer for colleting various energydata in real time; an intermediate layer is a fog node intermediate based on edge computation and is used for processing various energy data collected by the energy collection layer so as to obtain local fog node cooked data, and providing the cooked data to a distributed cloud center with a decentralized top layer; a top layer cloud center performs aggregation processing according to a clustering rule to obtain aggregated data, and provides support for mass data high-speed and high-concurrence access and micro application service. The scheme disclosed by the embodiment of the invention can realize the following conditions: fog node self-creation system based on edge computation, and in-place application; and meanwhile, the decentralized distributed cloud center performs cluster collection and full-network N+1 synchronous backup, and provides cloud fog system mass data nearby fast response and concurrence access.

The invention relates to an embedded operating system task scheduling method for an energy collecting system. While task instantaneity is guaranteed, tasks are scheduled in a grouping manner by setting the maximum energy threshold value and the minimum energy threshold value of a battery. The embedded operating system task scheduling method for the energy collecting system has the advantage that energy consumption of the tasks and energy restriction of the battery are considered in a task scheduling process, and task execution interruption caused by insufficient energy of the battery can be avoided; and on the basis of the energy consumption of the tasks and the energy restriction of the battery, the grouping scheduling strategy is adopted, and the using frequency of the battery in a shallow charging and shallow discharging mode is reduced when a task load is high, so that the total energy transfer quantity of the battery and the energy service efficiency are improved.

The invention relates to a multi-agent-oriented benefit equalized micro-grid day-ahead economic scheduling method, which comprises the steps of building an operation cost model of various types of equipment by combining the fuel cost, the operation scheduling cost, the life loss cost and the environmental pollution cost of the equipment in the system based on efficiency models of the various typesof energy generation and conversion equipment in a multi-energy micro-grid; building a day-ahead economic scheduling mathematical model considering multi-agent benefit equalization of renewable energy owners, micro-grid energy service providers and electric automobile users; solving the built model by adopting a master-salve game method, solving an optimal strategy by adopting an improved chaoticparticle swarm algorithm for the benefit of each participant, and solving a Nash equilibrium point by adopting an iterative search method for the whole game process. According to the invention, threemain bodies such as the renewable energy owners, the micro-grid energy service providers and the electric automobile users are enabled to make corresponding decisions according to obtained information, the operation scheduling strategy among the main bodies of the comprehensive energy micro-grid can be optimized, the benefit of each main body is improved, and the operation economy of the comprehensive energy micro-grid is improved.

Embodiments of a system, a method, and a computer-program product (e.g., software) for aggregating an energy service from a number of participants for use by a power-system operator is described. This aggregation may be performed by an aggregator, which is between the participants and the power-system operator. In particular, the aggregator may use an embedded economic mechanism to calculate a price that matches supply (or cutback) of power and / or load from the participants with a desired supply of the power-system operator. Because the aggregator typically does not know the participants' exact propensity to respond as a function of price (supply function), the aggregator calculates the purchase price using one or more iterations in which an initial probe price is provided to the participants, and the participants respond with supply-function approximations that are valid in proximity to the current probe price.

The invention relates to a thermal network dynamic simulation method and device, and belongs to the technical field of comprehensive energy service. The method comprises the steps: establishing a hydraulic working condition model and a thermal working condition model of a thermal network; in a pipeline characteristic equation of the hydraulic working condition model, enabling the density, which reflects the influence of the physical parameter, on the hydraulic working condition in the state that the temperature of a heat supply network medium changes, to serve as a variable for processing; inan energy equation of the thermal working condition model, taking the density and the specific heat capacity, which reflects the influence of the two physical property parameters on the thermal working condition in the state that the temperature of a heat supply network medium changes, as variables,. According to the invention, the temperature results calculated by the hydraulic working conditionmodel and the thermal working condition model are closer to the actual temperature, the error is small, and the reliability is high; through the specific heat capacity serving as the variable quantityin the energy equation, the energy storage effect of the stock working medium in the pipe network in the energy conveying process of the heat supply pipe network is fully considered, and the dynamiccharacteristics in the energy conveying process of the heat supply pipe network can be effectively reflected.

The invention provides a comprehensive energy station, which comprises a plurality of comprehensive energy modules, wherein the comprehensive energy modules are connected through comprehensive energypipelines. The comprehensive energy module comprises an energy router, a data center server group, a battery energy storage system, a circulating heat recovery system, a heat storage system and an uninterruptible power supply, wherein the data center and the energy storage system are deeply integrated, heat energy recovery, storage and reutilization of the data center are considered, and comprehensive energy supply and services can be provided for users at the same time. According to the technical scheme provided by the invention, functional complementation and multi-value integration of the battery energy storage system and the data center server group are facilitated; the problems of highly reliable power supply and heat recovery of the data center server are solved while energy servicesare provided, and value improvement and sharing are achieved; and meanwhile, a solid foundation can be provided for three-in-one of an energy flow, a service flow and a data flow of the energy internet.

The invention discloses a user-oriented intelligent information interaction platform for a comprehensive energy system. The platform comprises a comprehensive energy system intelligent information interaction platform based on a micro-service architecture, a big data analysis technology and a container technology. An advanced comprehensive energy application system is arranged on the comprehensiveenergy system intelligent information interaction platform; according to the invention, interconnection and sharing of various kinds of energy information in the park are realized; the requirements of operation management and service of various energy sources in the park are met; an integrated information interaction platform of a comprehensive energy station and a park high-reliability power grid is constructed; a basis is provided for park energy facility operation management and public energy service; finally, the distributed renewable energy sources are vigorously popularized, the energystructure of the demonstration area is optimized, the safety is high when the user uses the system, the energy utilization rate can be increased, the total energy consumption is reduced, demonstrationarea energy transformation and related industry cultivation are achieved, healthy development of a new energy industry chain and business model innovation are promoted, and the application prospect is wide.

An internet-of-things technology based energy efficiency assessment and diagnosis cloud system and method are disclosed. The system comprises a cold-hot source control subsystem (1). The system is characterized in that: the cold-hot source control subsystem (1) is connected with a chilled water conveying control apparatus (2), a refrigeration optimization control apparatus (4) and an environmental parameter acquisition unit (7) respectively; the cold-hot source control subsystem (1) is connected with the downlink connection end of an Ethernet (19); and the uplink connection end of the Ethernet (19) is connected with a cloud server (20). According to the system and the method, dynamic energy efficiency assessment is performed by adopting a fuzzy algorithm for data collected by an energy consumption node in each stage and each control unit, corresponding system energy consumption comparison table and energy consumption optimization suggestion table are generated through an anti-fuzzy algorithm with a centroid method, and original data can be provided for carbon transaction, so that the difficult problem that an existing energy service enterprise cannot obtain objective original energy consumption data is effectively solved; and therefore, the system and the method are particularly suitable for centralized and unified monitoring and convenient management of cold-hot source stations of central air conditioners in public buildings.