Method and apparatus for geotagging components of an energy production and consumption system
AssigneeEnphase Energy, Inc.
InventorRaghuveer R. Belur
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for geotagging components of an energy production and consumption system. A user device captures an identifier of at least one component of an energy production and consumption system, determines location data related to the identifier, where the identifier and location data form geotagging data, and transmits the geotagging data to a network. Upon receiving the geotagging data from the network, a server processes the identifier to determine component information and generates a map comprising an icon for each component positioned within the map at a location derived from the geotagging data.
Claims18
Apparatus for geotagging components of an energy production and consumption system comprising:
- a user device comprising a sensor configured to capture an identifier of at least one component of an energy production and consumption system comprising at least one of a plurality of distributed generators, storage devices, or a service panel coupled to the at least one component and through which the distributed generator is coupled to the storage devices and a location generator configured to determine location data representing a location of the identifier where the identifier and location data form geotagging data, wherein the user device is configured to transmit the geotagging data to a network;
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- a server in operable communication with the user device and configured to receive the geotagging data from the network, process the identifier to determine component information, and generate a map comprising an icon for each component positioned within the map at a location derived from the geotagging data.
A method for geotagging an energy production and consumption system comprising:
- capturing, using a sensor of a user device, an identifier of at least one component of an energy production and consumption system comprising at least one of a plurality of distributed generators, storage devices, or a service panel coupled to the at least one component and through which the distributed generator is coupled to the storage devices;
- determining, using a location generator of the user device, location data related to the identifier where the identifier and location data form geotagging data and transmitting the geotagging data to a network;
- receiving at a server in operable communication with the user device the geotagging data from the network;
- processing the identifier to determine component information;
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- generating a map comprising an icon for each component positioned within the map at a location derived from the geotagging data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.