Energy management system and control method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsGye Young LEE, Sung Hoon KIM, Du San BAEK
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Abstract
An energy management system and a control method thereof reduces traffic load between the energy management system and display devices by transmitting changes in states of a plurality of home appliances to the display devices in a bundle form, upon occurrence of an event to control an energy level according to variation in electricity price.
Claims14
An energy management system comprising:
- a communication unit to communicate with a plurality of display devices;
- a storage unit to store state change information of a plurality of home appliances;
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- a controller to change energy levels of the plurality of home appliances, receive state change information according to changes in the energy levels of the plurality of home appliances, store the received state change information in the storage unit, and transmit the state change information of the plurality of home appliances stored in the storage unit to the plurality of display devices through the communication unit in a bundle form.
A method to control an energy management system which displays state change information of a plurality of home appliances on a plurality of display devices, the method comprising:
- changing energy levels of the plurality of home appliances;
- receiving and storing the state change information of the plurality of home appliances according to changes in the energy levels of the plurality of home appliances;
- and
- transmitting the stored state change information of the plurality of home appliances to the plurality of display devices in a bundle form.
A method to display state change information of a plurality of home appliances on a plurality of display devices, the method comprising:
- generating an event;
- changing the state of each of the plurality of home appliances based on the event;
- sequentially receiving state change information from each of the plurality of home appliances;
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- transmitting a data packet to each of the plurality of display devices, respectively,
- wherein each of the data packets comprises state change information for the plurality of home appliances.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.