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US 11,599,956 B2Granted
Energy efficiency data collection service
AssigneeItron, Inc.
InventorMichael Ting
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Abstract
An energy efficiency data collection system architecture may be configured to enable efficient and accurate collection of energy efficiency data associated with users and/or sites associated with users and generation of profiles associated with the users based on the energy efficiency data. An energy efficiency data collection service may receive location information, image data, and user-input data from an application operating on a mobile device associated with a user. The energy efficiency data collection service may generate profiles based on the information received from the application and may provide incentives to the users in response to participating in an energy efficiency data collection survey.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- receiving location information from a mobile device;
- receiving image data from the mobile device;
- determining at least one identifying information of at least one equipment depicted in the image data;
- receiving user input data that includes at least one of square footage of a building located at a site of a user associated with the mobile device, a dwelling type, number of floors, number of rooms, types of rooms, number of occupants, age of occupants, number of windows, type of roof, types of distributed generation sources, or types of distributed storage;
- creating a profile for the site of the user associated with the mobile device based on at least one of the location information, the user input data, or the identifying information;
- storing the profile;
- and
- based at least in part on the profile, at least one of:
- controlling an equipment located at the site of the user;
- connecting or disconnecting a resource connection to the site of the user;
- forecasting a future consumption of the equipment;
- forecasting a future consumption of the site of the user;
- forecasting a future consumption of an area including the site of the user;
- evaluating the site of the user for inclusion in a demand response program;
- identifying customers for participating in energy efficiency programs;
- generating resource saving recommendation for operation of the equipment;
- or
- generating a resource saving recommendation for the site.
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A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to perform acts comprising:
- determining location information associated with a mobile device;
- receiving image data from the mobile device;
- determining at least one identifying information of at least one equipment depicted in the image data;
- receiving user input data that includes at least one of square footage of a building located at a site of a user associated with the mobile device, a dwelling type, number of floors, number of rooms, types of rooms, number of occupants, age of occupants, number of windows, type of roof, types of distributed generation sources, or types of distributed storage;
- creating a profile for a site of a user associated with the mobile device based on at least one of the location information, the user input data, or the identifying information;
- and
- storing the profile and based at least in part on the profile, performing at least one of:
- controlling an equipment located at the site of the user;
- connecting or disconnecting a resource connection to the site of the user;
- forecasting a future consumption of the equipment;
- forecasting a future consumption of the site of the user;
- forecasting a future consumption of an area including the site of the user;
- evaluating the site of the user for inclusion in a demand response program;
- or
- identifying customers for participating in energy efficiency programs.
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A device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the device to perform acts comprising:
- receiving location information from a mobile device;
- receiving image data from the mobile device;
- determining at least one identifying information of at least one equipment depicted in the image data;
- receiving user input data that includes at least one of square footage of a building located at a site of a user associated with the mobile device, a dwelling type, number of floors, number of rooms, types of rooms, number of occupants, age of occupants, number of windows, type of roof, types of distributed generation sources, or types of distributed storage;
- creating a profile for the site of the user associated with the mobile device based on at least one of the location information, the user input data, or the identifying information;
- storing the profile;
- and
- based at least in part on the profile, at least one of:
- controlling an equipment located at the site of the user;
- connecting or disconnecting a resource connection to the site of the user;
- forecasting a future consumption of the equipment;
- forecasting a future consumption of the site of the user;
- forecasting a future consumption of an area including the site of the user;
- evaluating the site of the user for inclusion in a demand response program;
- identifying customers for participating in energy efficiency programs;
- generating resource saving recommendation for operation of the equipment;
- or
- generating a resource saving recommendation for the site.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.