System And Methods for Managing Emergency Power Supply System Operational Information

An emergency power management system (EPMS) for managing one or more pre-existing emergency power supply systems (EPSS's) at a site, comprising:

• a plurality of items of data acquisition equipment for collecting EPSS operational information from one or more items of EPSS equipment at the site, wherein the one or more items of EPSS equipment are manufactured by one or more manufacturers;
• one or more interface modules operatively connected to the plurality of items of data acquisition equipment for receiving the collected EPSS operational information from the plurality of items of data acquisition equipment, wherein the one or more interface modules also normalize the EPSS operational information for subsequent processing;
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• a management computer system operatively connected to the one or more interface modules for receiving the normalized EPSS operational information from the one or more interface modules and storing the normalized EPSS operational information in one or more databases, wherein the management computer system includes automatically configurable management software for processing the normalized EPSS operational information into an interactive display and presenting the interactive display to a user via a user interface;
• whereby the user utilizes the interactive display of the normalized EPSS operational information to manage the one or more items of EPSS equipment at the site.

A method for managing operational information relating to one or more items of emergency power supply system (EPSS) equipment, wherein the one or more items of EPSS equipment are operatively connected to one or more interface modules, the one or more interface modules being operative to process and transmit operational information between the one or more items of EPSS equipment and a management computer system, comprising the steps of:

• receiving operational information relating to a particular item of EPSS equipment at a particular interface module, the operational information comprising a format defined by the particular item of EPSS equipment;
• retrieving from a database a configuration flag relating to the particular item of EPSS equipment, wherein the configuration flag comprises instructions for modifying operational information for the particular item of EPSS equipment to conform to a predetermined standardized format;
• generating standardized operational information by modifying the received operational information to conform to the predetermined standardized format according to the instructions in the configuration flag;
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• transmitting the standardized operational information to a management computer system for subsequent processing.

A method for managing operational information relating to one or more items of emergency power supply system (EPSS) equipment, wherein the one or more items of EPSS equipment are operatively connected to one or more interface modules, the one or more interface modules being operative to process and transmit operational information between the one or more items of EPSS equipment and a management computer system, comprising the steps of:

• receiving one or more configuration flags relating to one or more items of EPSS equipment at the one or more interface modules, wherein each configuration flag relates to a corresponding item of EPSS equipment and comprises instructions for modifying operational information relating to the corresponding item of EPSS equipment to conform the operational information to a predetermined standardized format;
• storing the one or more configuration flags in a database, the database operatively connected to the management computer system;
• receiving operational information relating to a specific item of EPSS equipment at particular interface module, the operational information comprising a format defined by the specific item of EPSS equipment;
• retrieving from the database a specific configuration flag relating to the specific item of EPSS equipment;
• generating standardized operational information by modifying the received operational information to conform to the predetermined standardized format according to the instructions in the specific configuration flag;
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• transmitting the standardized operational information to the management computer system for subsequent processing.