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US 2012/0068854 A1Published application
System and method for programming and monitoring energy use and cost
OwnerEric M. Shiflet, Dennis Kyle +2inventors
InventorsEric M. Shiflet, Dennis Kyle, Scott S. Ballantyne, Gowrishankar Bharadwaj
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Abstract
The present invention can provide a method, apparatus, and system for providing energy usage information to a user. One embodiment displays, on a display interface of a display device, a virtual analog clock and receives energy usage data for a metered environment. A graphical representation of a first level of the energy usage data is displayed on the face of the virtual analog clock, with the graphical representation including at least one display element.
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A method, comprising:
- displaying, on a display interface of a display device, a virtual analog clock;
- receiving energy usage data for a metered environment;
- displaying, on the face of the virtual analog clock, a graphical representation of a first level of the energy usage data, the graphical representation including at least one display element.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a processor;
- a network interface to receive energy usage data for a metered environment;
- and
- a display interface to display a virtual analog clock and a graphical representation of a first level of the energy usage data for the metered environment, the graphical representation of the first level of the energy usage data displayed on the face of the virtual analog clock and wherein the graphical representation includes at least one display element.
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A system, comprising:
- a display device to display a virtual analog clock and a graphical representation of a first level of energy usage data of a metered environment, wherein the display device includes at least one input port to accept the energy usage data for the metered environment, the graphical representation of the first level of the energy usage data being displayed on the face of the virtual analog clock and including at least one display element;
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- at least one metering device associated with a disaggregated circuit element, wherein the at least one input port receives energy usage data for the disaggregated circuit element from the at least one metering device, and wherein the first level of the energy usage data includes the energy usage data of the disaggregated circuit element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.