# US 10,320,700 B2 · Apparatus for managing optimized asset of distributed resources and operation method of the same

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- Number: US 10,320,700 B2
- Document ID: US10320700B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/400,495
- Filed: 2017-01-06
- Published: 2017-07-13
- Granted: 2019-06-11
- Earliest claimed: 2016-01-07
- Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Applicants: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Inventors: Yoon-Sik Yoo; Il Woo Lee
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10320700B2

## CPC

- H02J 3/001: Arrangements for handling faults or abnormalities, e.g. emergencies or contingencies
- G06Q 10/06: Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
- G06Q 50/06: Energy or water supply
- H02J 3/00: Circuit arrangements for AC mains or AC distribution networks
- H02J 3/14: by switching loads on to, or off from, the networks, e.g. progressively balanced loading
- H02J 3/381: {Dispersed generators}
- H02J 13/1337: {involving the use of Internet protocols}
- H02J 13/14: the power network being locally controlled, e.g. home energy management systems [HEMS]
- H04L 47/70: Admission control; Resource allocation
- H04L 47/822: {Collecting or measuring resource availability data}
- H04L 67/10: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46)
- H04L 67/125: involving control of end-device applications over a network
- H04L 67/75: Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
- H02J 2101/20: Dispersed power generation using renewable energy sources
- H02J 2103/30: Simulating, planning, modelling, reliability check or computer assisted design [CAD] of electric power networks
- H02J 2105/12: supplying households or buildings
- Y02B 70/3225: Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
- Y02E 40/70: Smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the energy generation sector
- Y02E 60/00: Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
- Y04S 10/123: the energy generation units being or involving renewable energy sources
- Y04S 20/222: Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
- Y04S 40/18: Network protocols supporting networked applications, e.g. including control of end-device applications over a network
- Y04S 40/20: Information technology specific aspects, e.g. CAD, simulation, modelling, system security
- H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- Y02B: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS
- Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y04S: SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS

## Abstract

Disclosed is an optimized asset management apparatus and an operation method thereof, the method including transmitting a request for state information of distributed resources to resource aggregators, receiving the state information of the distributed resources from the resource aggregators, analyzing the state information of the distributed resources, and registering at least one distributed resource among the distributed resources as an optimized asset based on a result of the analyzing.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of operating an optimized asset management apparatus, the method comprising:
transmitting, by the optimized asset management apparatus, a request for state information of distributed resources to resource aggregators;
receiving, by the optimized asset management apparatus, the state information of the distributed resources from the resource aggregators;
analyzing, by the optimized asset management apparatus, the state information of the distributed resources; and
registering, by the optimized asset management apparatus, at least one distributed resource among the distributed resources as an optimized asset based on a result of the analyzing,
wherein the at least one distributed resource is optimized for an immediate response among the distributed resources and satisfies the following equation:
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wherein f(x) denotes an object function used for obtaining the optimized resource, x1 denotes a location variable and g1(x) denotes a distance from a distributed resource located closest to a supply-and-demand region, x2 denotes a response variable, g2(x) denotes a maximum availability of the distributed resource, and ha(x) denotes an availability.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein a resource state of the distributed resources corresponds to at least one of an environment setting, modeling information, network information, attribute information, or logic node information of the distributed resources.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing includes: analyzing, by the optimized asset management apparatus, the state information of the distributed resources and verifying a location, a degree of response, and an availability of each of the distributed resources.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The method of claim 3, wherein the registering includes:
calculating, by the optimized asset management apparatus, a distributed resource that is optimized based on the location, the degree of response, and the availability among the distributed resources; and
registering, by the optimized asset management apparatus, the calculated distributed resource as the optimized asset.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The method of claim 4, wherein the calculating program code includes:
calculating, by the optimized asset management apparatus, a distance from a supply-and-demand region with respect to the distributed resources; and
verifying, by the optimized asset management apparatus, whether the availability is greater than zero with respect to the distributed resources.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising:
transmitting, by the optimized asset management apparatus, the request for the state information of the distributed resources to the resource aggregators; and
receiving, by the optimized asset management apparatus, when the distributed resources include a distributed resource of which state information is changed, the changed state information of the distributed resource.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the resource aggregators inquire about a resource state of each of the distributed resources and receive the resource state.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising:
sending, by the optimized asset management apparatus, a responding request to the optimized asset; and
receiving, by the optimized asset management apparatus, a response to the responding request from the optimized asset.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising: managing, by the optimized asset management apparatus, history information including whether an immediate response is available and a location of the optimized asset.

### Claim 10

An apparatus for managing an optimized asset, the apparatus comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable storage media storing computer executable program code; and
one or more processors that process the computer executable program code comprising:
communicator program code that communicates history a request for state information of distributed resources to resource aggregators and receives the state information of the distributed resources from the resource aggregators;
analyzer program code that analyzes history the state information of the distributed resources; and
registerer program code that registers history at least one distributed resource among the distributed resources as an optimized asset based on a result of the analyzing,
wherein the at least one distributed resource is optimized for an immediate response among the distributed resources and satisfies the following equation:
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1
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wherein f(x) denotes an object function used for obtaining the optimized resource, x1 denotes a location variable and g1(x) denotes a distance from a distributed resource located closest to a supply-and-demand region, x2 denotes a response variable, g2(x) denotes a maximum availability of the distributed resource, and ha(x) denotes an availability.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the analyzer program code analyzes the state information of the distributed resources and verifies a location, a degree of response, and an availability of each of the distributed resources.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the computer executable program code further comprises program code that calculates a distance from a supply-and-demand region with respect to the distributed resources, and that verifies whether the availability is greater than zero with respect to the distributed resources.

### Claim 13 (depends on 11)

The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the registerer program code calculates a distributed resource that is optimized based on the location, the degree of response, and the availability among the distributed resources, and registers the calculated distributed resource as the optimized asset.

### Claim 14 (depends on 10)

The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the resource aggregators comprise program code that inquires about a resource state of each of the distributed resources and that receives the resource state.