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OwnerPeter J. Brickfield, Dirk Mahling +2inventors
InventorsPeter J. Brickfield, Dirk Mahling, Mark Noyes, David Weaver
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Automatic energy management is provided, in even the most complex multi-building system. The necessity of a human operator for managing energy in a complex, multi-building system is reduced and even eliminated. Computer-based monitoring and computer-based recognition of adverse energy events (such as the approach of a new energy peak) is highly advantageous in energy management. Immediate automatic querying of energy users within a system of buildings for energy curtailment possibilities is provided. Such immediate, automatic querying may be answered by the energy users through artificial intelligence and/or neural network technology provided to or programmed into the energy users, and the queried energy users may respond in real-time. Those real-time computerized responses with energy curtailment possibilities may be received automatically by a data processing facility, and processed in real-time. Advantageously, the responses from queried energy users with energy curtailment possibilities may be automatically processed into a round-robin curtailment rotation which may be implemented by a computer-based control system. Thus, impact on occupants is minimized, and energy use and energy cost may be beneficially reduced in an intelligent, real-time manner. The invention also provides for early-recognition of impending adverse energy events, optimal response to a particular energy situation, real-time analysis of energy-related data, etc.
An energy management system comprising:
A method for minimizing and/or eliminating need for human operator attention in energy management of a building system, comprising:
A computer-based energy management system, comprising:
A computer-based round-robin rotation system for energy users, wherein the energy users are under computer-based control and are present in a building system, the round-robin rotation system comprising
A computer based method of avoiding a new energy peak, comprising:
An energy curtailment system comprising
A compilation of energy-relevant data, comprising:
A data analysis method, comprising leveraging a stream of energy-related data for at least one individual energy user within a plurality of energy users, wherein the leveraging includes a comparison against historic data for the device.
A method of determining whether to repair or replace an individual energy user, comprising:
An energy management system for automatically achieving energy curtailment in a multi-building system, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.