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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1007715 · 23 Nov 2011
A power demand/supply management server (10) obtains information defining restraint contents to a comfort and an electricity bill from a consumer power operating device (2). An individual-consumer control optimizing unit of the power demand/supply manageme...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1008675 · 12 Oct 2011
A demand response (DR) method or a demand response (DR) system determines priority of each household appliance in response to a quality status of each household appliance, and variably controls a DR level of each household appliance according to the priori...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1011344 · 6 Jul 2011
Systems and methods for monitoring power in power distribution systems are provided. In one aspect, a system for monitoring power includes a power monitoring device that measures a value of at least one characteristic of power provided to a branch of a pow...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1013672 · 20 Apr 2011
An electrical equipment management system includes: a total electrical energy information acquiring unit disposed in a building having a plurality of sections, the unit to acquire total electrical energy information indicative of total electrical energy co...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1067369 · 17 May 2006
In a method of thermal management, a temperature is sensed and compared with a first preset temperature. The lowest priority load is disabled in response to the temperature being equal to the first preset temperature.
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1077574 · 25 May 2005
In the case where a user changes a set state of apparatuses, an apparatus operation control portion repressively controls the apparatuses, in spite of an instruction of a control signal according to that change, so that an increasing amount of power consum...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1085304 · 28 Jul 2004
A process for managing and curtailing power demand of appliances and components thereof, in which each appliance has an user interface for setting working parameters of the appliance, comprises the steps of assessing for each appliance and/or component an ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1088077 · 14 Apr 2004
The integrated energy management system associates an optimizer (2) with an automatic power regulator (3) and supervisor (4) to ensure consumption stays within the level agreed with the energy supplier, reducing energy consumption of items of plant if need...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1089804 · 4 Feb 2004
The device has an electrical source, a distribution network(s) to electrical loads with allocated address code and a control unit connected to each load via a data bus and data distribution lines. The control unit continuously compares actual current consu...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1106890 · 30 Jan 2002
A device (1) makes available information regarding the operating status of each load-consumption device (2.1-2.6). A control device (4) is linked to the device for making information available, in order to receive information, and depends on the overall st...