System and method for monitoring and analyzing energy characteristics

A system for monitoring a plurality of energy characteristics of an energy consuming system comprising:

• at least one sensor means for sensing pressure in said energy consuming system to provide an output representative thereof;
• at least one sensor means for sensing temperature in said energy consuming system to provide an output representative thereof;
• at least one sensor means for sensing an electrical characteristic of said energy consuming system to provide an output representative thereof;
• means for accumulating data representing the outputs of each of said sensor means associated with a particular time;
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• means for correlating for a particular time said pressure, temperature and electrical characteristic data accumulated for each of said sensors to provide an integrated analysis of said accumulated data.

A system for monitoring a plurality of energy characteristics of an energy consuming system comprising:

• at least one sensor means for sensing a flow rate in said energy consuming system to provide an output representative thereof;
• at least one sensor means for sensing temperature in said energy consuming system to provide an output representative thereof;
• at least one sensor means for sensing an electrical characteristic of said energy consuming system to provide an output representative thereof;
• means for accumulating data representing the outputs of each of said sensor means associated with a particular time;
• and
• means for correlating for a particular time said flow rate, temperature and electrical characteristic data accumulated for each of said sensors to provide an integrated analysis of said accumulated data.

A system for monitoring a plurality of energy characteristics of an energy consuming system comprising:

• at least one sensor means for sensing pressure in said energy consuming system to provide an output representative thereof;
• at least one sensor means for sensing a temperature in said energy consuming system to provide an output representative thereof;
• at least one sensor means for sensing a flow rate of said energy consuming system to provide an output representative thereof;
• means for accumulating data representing the outputs of each of said sensor means associated with a particular time;
• and
• means for correlating for a particular time said pressure, temperature and flow rate data accumulated for each of said sensors to provide an integrated analysis of said accumulated data.

A system for monitoring an energy characteristic of an energy consuming system comprising:

• means for sensing an energy characteristic of said energy consuming system to provide an output representative of said sensed energy characteristic;
• means for accumulating data from said sensor means over a week, said data representing the magnitude of the output of said sensor means on a particular day of the week at a particular time of day;
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• means responsive to said data accumulation means for determining the most representative day of the week in terms of said sensed energy characteristic.

A system for monitoring an energy characteristic of an energy consuming system comprising:

• means for sensing an energy characteristic of said energy consuming system to provide an output representative of said sensed energy characteristic;
• means for accumulating data from said sensing means over a period of time, said data representing the magnitude of the output of said sensing means at a particular time of day;
• means for grouping said data according to magnitude;
• means for grouping said magnitude grouped data into a plurality of time intervals during which said sensor outputs of said particular magnitudes occurred;
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• means for providing a graphical representation of said data representing the percentage of total time that said sensor output had a particular magnitude during a particular time interval.

A method for monitoring a plurality of energy characteristics of an energy consuming system comprising the steps of:

• sensing a plurality of diverse energy characteristics of said energy consuming system to provide outputs representative thereof;
• periodically sampling each of said sensor outputs to provide data representing the magnitude of said sensor outputs at a particular time;
• accumulating said sampled data for each of said sensor means;
• transmitting said accumulated data for each of said sensor means to a remote location;
• receiving said transmitted data at said remote location;
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• analyzing said received data at said remote location, said analyzing including statistically correlating the data representing a plurality of said sensed, diverse energy characteristics.