US 9,576,472 B2Granted

Real-time monitoring and dissemination of energy consumption and production data

AssigneeTendril Networks, Inc.

InventorMark Koch

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Abstract

A facility comprising systems, methods, and techniques for collecting data indicative of energy consumption and/or energy production by energy systems and devices and providing the data to interested users and devices in real-time is described. The facility may comprise an energy gateway device coupled to one or more monitored devices, one or more energy data extraction servers, and one or more client computers. The energy gateway devices and energy data extraction servers are coupled to a network and are configured to collect energy consumption and/or energy production data from one or more devices and provide an indication of the collected data in real-time or near real-time. The facility may collect current energy consumption or production rates, predicted energy consumption or production levels over a future period of time, and/or amounts of energy that has been consumed or produced by the device over a previous period of time.

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Dependent claims

A method, performed by a server computer, having a processor, for collecting and providing real-time updates of energy consumption to a user, the method comprising:

receiving, from a client computer, a request to connect to an energy gateway device, the request comprising user credentials;
determining, based on the user credentials, whether the client computer is authorized to connect to the energy gateway device;
forwarding, by the server computer, to the energy gateway device, the request to connect to the energy gateway device;
receiving, from the energy gateway device, an enumeration of monitored energy devices for which the energy gateway device is configured to collect energy data;
receiving, from the client computer, a selection of monitored energy devices;
receiving, from the energy gateway device, an indication of energy data for each of the selected monitored energy devices;
for each of the selected monitored energy devices, generating, with the processor, at least one measure based on the received energy data
wherein at least one measure is generated at least in part by,
retrieving an energy pricing schedule from a utility, and
determining a value of energy produced or consumed by the at least one monitored device based at least in part on the retrieved energy pricing schedule;
and
sending, to the client computer, an indication of the generated at least one measure.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.