US 2002/0165750 A1 · Facility modelization for facility benchmarking

Abstract

Users desire to normalize raw data from meter load profile acquisition systems against some attributes (i.e., properties) of a facility, such as the number of employees. The facility area, and the number of products produced would be additional potential attributes for consideration. Normalization involves dividing a load profile channel such as kilowatt hours by a determined facility attribute to obtain a new data set, for example, such as “kWh/Employee.” The present modelization allows a user to define a set of attributes and manage their value over time to refine the facility model. Keeping track of the attributes over time provides increased accuracy in the resulting data. The model is managed by a user interface which can be refined over time as the facility evolves. Data comprising sets of attributes over time may persist within the system for later retrieval.

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Dependent claims

A method for modeling the performance of a facility, in relation to resource utilization of such facility, comprising the steps of:

assigning a predefined template to a facility to be modeled, said predefined template including default facility attribute data;
obtaining resource utilization data for such facility;
and
normalizing such resource utilization data based on said predefined template.

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A method for creating dynamic facility models, in relation to resource utilization of such facilities, comparing resource utilization efficiency of such facilities, and generating reports in a user defined format, comprising the steps of:

creating an attributes catalog wherein said attributes catalog comprises selected of user-defined attributes and system-defined attributes;
using a template editor to assign attributes to a template selected of user-defined or system-defined templates;
using a facility editor to assign selected of said templates to a facility to be modeled;
obtaining resource utilization data for such facility;
normalizing such resource utilization data based on said predefined template;
comparing selected of said resource utilization data so as to benchmark each facility based on said comparing;
and
generating one of historical and real-time reports, the data contained in such reports selected from facility modeling data, facility resource utilization data, and facility benchmarking data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facility modelization for facility benchmarking

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Facility modelization for facility benchmarking

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