Smart meters for monitoring individual and multiple energy consuming devices
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAmadou Ba, Joern Ploennigs
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Abstract
A first instruction is sent to an integrated smart meter to initialize the integrated smart meter. A second instruction is sent to the integrated smart meter to establish a connection with an energy consuming device. The established connection between the integrated smart meter and the energy consuming device is determined to be acceptable. A third instruction is sent to the integrated smart meter to monitor the energy consuming device. Energy consumption data of the energy consuming device is received from the integrated smart meter.
Claims20
A method, the method comprising:
- sending, by one or more computer processors, a first instruction to an integrated smart meter to initialize the integrated smart meter;
- sending, by one or more computer processors, a second instruction to the integrated smart meter to establish a connection with an energy consuming device;
- determining, by one or more computer processors, that the established connection between the integrated smart meter and the energy consuming device is acceptable;
- responsive to determining that the established connection is acceptable, sending, by one or more computer processors, a third instruction to the integrated smart meter to monitor the energy consuming device;
- and
- receiving, by one or more computer processors, from the integrated smart meter, energy consumption data of the energy consuming device.
A computer program product, the computer program product comprising:
- one or more computer readable storage media;
- and
- program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to send a first instruction to an integrated smart meter to initialize the integrated smart meter;
- program instructions to send a second instruction to the integrated smart meter to establish a connection with an energy consuming device;
- program instructions to determine that the established connection between the integrated smart meter and the energy consuming device is acceptable;
- responsive to determining that the established connection is acceptable, program instructions to send a third instruction to the integrated smart meter to monitor the energy consuming device;
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- program instructions to receive from the integrated smart meter, energy consumption data of the energy consuming device.
A computer system, the computer system comprising:
- one or more computer processors;
- one or more computer readable storage media;
- and
- program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to send a first instruction to an integrated smart meter to initialize the integrated smart meter;
- program instructions to send a second instruction to the integrated smart meter to establish a connection with an energy consuming device;
- program instructions to determine that the established connection between the integrated smart meter and the energy consuming device is acceptable;
- responsive to determining that the established connection is acceptable, program instructions to send a third instruction to the integrated smart meter to monitor the energy consuming device;
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- program instructions to receive from the integrated smart meter, energy consumption data of the energy consuming device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.