System to Identify Gas Usage by Appliance
AssigneeItron, Inc.
InventorMark K. Cornwall
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Abstract
A system, including a utility meter, smart meter and/or a central office of a utility company may provide output to assist consumers to identify gas use by individual appliances. The system may measure gas flow rates, categorize the rates to assist in association with a gas consuming appliance, and provide output to identify use by one or more appliances. The output may include information on consumption and/or cost associated with one or more appliances, such as a furnace, hot water tank and/or stove. The output may be graphical, tabular or otherwise presented in any desired user interface or invoice, etc.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions:
- measuring gas flow rates;
- categorizing the measured gas flow rates;
- associating the categorized gas flow rates with gas consuming loads;
- and
- outputting a result of the associating.
A system comprising:
- a consumption measuring meter configured to measure gas flow;
- one or more processors in communication with the consumption measuring meter, the one or more processors configured to:
- measure gas flow rates of the gas flow;
- categorize the measured gas flow rates;
- associate the categorized gas flow rates with gas consuming loads;
- and
- output accumulated gas flow rate data associated with the gas consuming loads.
One or more computer-readable storage media having instructions, that when executed by one or more processors, perform acts comprising:
- measuring gas flow rates;
- associating the measured gas flow rates with gas consuming appliances;
- and
- outputting usage data of each of the gas consuming appliances.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.