Energy management capsule

An energy management module or capsule comprising

• connecting means for connection to a mains power supply,
• means for physical connection to one or more external electrical devices,
• wired or wireless data transmission and receiving means for communicating data with the Internet and electrical output controllers for controlling mains or low voltage electrical output to the one or more external electrical devices using data received from the Internet using the data transmission and receiving means,
• wherein the module or capsule is configured to communicate digitally via mains wiring or low voltage wiring, with one or more other external energy management modules or capsules, which containing one or more sensors, have one or more configuration of sensors, or other input devices, or other electrical outputs, or other digital communications components;
• further comprising web services processing means, arranged to collect sensor data from a module or capsule network, and other collected time series data,
• that in use identifies changes of patterns of sensor data and forecast future demand for electrical power;
• further comprising low voltage internal energy storage means to enable data transmission to the Internet after loss of mains power, and informs a Web service that power has been lost and in a network of modules or capsules, at least one of them has continuous connection to the Internet when the mains power supply is not available;
• means to combine the sensor data and the other collected time series data to analyse and predict forecast future demand for electrical power;
• wherein the web services processing means are used to analyse multiple data sources to predict future electrical demand and control mains or low voltages electrical outputs from the modules or capsules;
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• whereby data collected can be used by other software application developers with the consent of the data owners;
• wherein the module or capsule is configured to transmit sensor data to web services and receives data to control the electrical output of one or more module or capsule;
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• wherein the module or capsule is built into mains powered electrical equipment or enclosures.