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An inductive powering device provides power to a portable device via inductive coupling between primary coils in the surface of the powering device and a secondary coil in the portable device. The portable device includes a passive locator device, such as an RFID device, to allow the primary coils of the inductive powering surface to detect the presence and location of the secondary coil, and only primary coils adjacent the secondary coil are energized for power transfer. A cost-effective driving configuration that arranges the primary coils into a matrix with drive circuits switchably connected to the row and columns is used to energize the primary coils.

The invention discloses a performance prediction and fault alarm method for a photovoltaic power station. The method comprises the following steps of: a, setting the station of the power station; b, setting the operation mode of the power station; c, judging whether required real-time data or historical data exists or not; d, predicting the performance of the power station through an experience model if the state in the step a is that a new photovoltaic power station is required to be designed and the required real-time data or historical data in the step c does not exist, and predicting the performance of the power station through a data drive performance model if the required real-time data or historical data in the step c exists; e, predicting the performance of the power station through the data drive performance model or a polynomial regression model if the photovoltaic power station in the step a is operated and the required real-time data or historical data in the step c exists, and predicting the performance of the power station through the experience model if the required real-time data or historical data in the step c does not exist; f, comparing actual performance with the predicted performance, and performing fault alarm; and g, correcting the models on line by a Kalman filtering method and returning to the step c, and otherwise, directly returning to the step e. By the method, solar energy resources can be utilized to the maximum extent, and power utilization cost can be reduced; and the accuracy of performance prediction and fault diagnosis is improved.

This invention relates to a new type of energy-saving method used in the base stations of GSM mobile communication system, which can realize functions of measurement of service volume, decision of service transfer plans, transfer implement and closing vacant service units to save energy of base stations and increase usability of electric energy.

A controller for an HVAC & R system is provided with the Internet connection to weather forecast information. The weather forecast information is utilized by the controller to take proactive steps in system operation and control. As an example, should the weather forecast information indicate that temperatures will be rising dramatically the next day, the controller may take the proactive step of increasing cooling in the conditioned space during the nighttime. In this manner, when the ambient temperature begins to rise the next day, the cooling load on the HVAC & R system components will be lower. Analogous proactive steps can be taken regarding humidity and fresh air circulation rate within the conditioned space. The present invention not only provides more prompt tailoring of the conditions within an environment to desired conditions, but also does so in a more efficient and less expensive manner

The invention discloses a hermetia illucens breeding system and belongs to the technical field of green cultivation. The hermetia illucens breeding system comprises a culture pond and a ceiling arranged at the upper part of the culture pond; the culture pond is sequentially provided with a water absorption layer, a heating device and a grid layer from bottom to top; the heating device comprises a heating tape and a fixing frame for fixing the heating tape; a compost is put on the upper part of the water absorption layer; the heating device is located in the compost; the grid layer is located on a surface layer of the compost; a lifting device is arranged on the side of the culture pond; the lifting device drives the heating device to lift; and a heat preservation cover is arranged at the top of the culture pond. Hermetia illucens is bred by using the hermetia illucens breeding system, so that the survival rate of hermetia illucens larvae is high and the hermetia illucens is not affected by an external environment; furthermore, the hermetia illucens is easily separated from the compost and insect feces do not need to be cleaned, so that the cost of manpower and material resources is greatly reduced. In addition, the compost in the culture pond is digested and fermented in the hermetia illucens breeding process and can be directly returned to the field as an organic fertilizer, so that the hermetia illucens breeding system is economical and environmentally friendly.

The invention relates to a direct-current micro-grid system and a control method thereof. The direct-current micro-grid system comprises a direct-current power distribution circuit, a bi-directional AC/DC (alternating current/direct current) rectifying/inverting device, a distributed energy generating device, an energy storing device, direct-current loads, alternating-current loads, a urban microclimate interactive system, a clock interactive system, a micro-grid control system and micro-grid protecting devices, an upper scheduling management system is arranged in the micro-grid control system so as to form layered management for micro-grid energy. The direct-current micro-grid control method includes: entering a grid connection mode or an island model according to working state of a large power grid, and determining the working states of the energy storing device and the distributed energy generating device according to information of the urban microclimate interactive system and the clock interactive system. The direct-current micro-grid system can independently supply power to the alternating-current and the direct-current loads and can be connected with a power grid to generate power according to processed result of urban microclimate interactive information, so that requirements on power supply for users are met, cost is reduced, designing, controlling, operation and maintenance of a micro-grid are benefited, and reliability, economy and efficiency of the micro-grid are effectively improved.

Provided is a network system, which includes an advanced metering infrastructure, a communication device, and an energy management system. The advanced metering infrastructure is configured to measure energy supplied from a power supply source. The communication device is configured to communicate energy information related with the energy. The energy management system recognizes the energy information to control driving of an electric product. The energy management system limits a function of at least one part of power consumption units constituting the electric product, based on whether the recognized energy information is an on-peak time period. Thus, the concentration of power consumptions can be removed, so that a power supplier can effectively manage power consumptions and a consumer can save electricity costs and energy.

A method of triggering handoff of a mobile station to a candidate BSS, for VoWLAN communication, uses a roaming controller for monitoring link qualities of the serving and candidate BSS by selective/controlled fast scanning through RSSI screening at each packet reception. Using link qualities, a list of candidate BSSs for handoff is maintained. The controller selects a candidate BSS for handoff and completes pre-authentication of the mobile station with the selected best candidate BSS. When the link quality of the of the selected candidate BSS becomes better than that of the serving BSS, handoff is triggered. Link qualities may be monitored by screening a metric other than RSSI. When no candidate BSS is found, scanning is reduced/temporarily interrupted, to conserve power. When the serving BSS link quality is above a given threshold when the mobile station is in the serving BSS center, the functions of fast scanning and pre-authentication are interrupted.

In an energy storage system, power from at least one of a solar cell, a commercial AC power source, and a storage battery is supplied to load devices. In the daytime, under the condition that an amount of power generated by the solar cell is less than an amount of power consumed by the load device, the discharge from the storage battery to the load device is permitted or prohibited if the charge level of the storage battery is higher or is not higher than the reference charge level. The discharge from the storage battery which makes the charge level of the storage battery lower than the reference level is permitted at night.

The invention discloses an energy-storage type alternating current and direct current mixed micro-grid and a control method thereof. The energy-storage type alternating current and direct current mixed micro-grid comprises an alternating current micro-grid, a direct current micro-grid, a battery energy-storage system and an energy management system EMS, which are connected with an external grid control center. The control method of the energy-storage type alternating current and direct current mixed micro-grid comprises the following steps of initializing the EMS to acquire information data of the alternating current micro-grid, the direct current micro-grid and the battery energy-storage system; acquiring information data of an external public grid in real time; regulating and controlling the alternating current micro-grid, the direct current micro-grid and the battery energy-storage system according to the acquired data. The energy-storage type alternating current and direct current mixed micro-grid and the control method thereof have the advantages that the energy utilization efficiency can be improved, the size of a transformer can be reduced, networking and controlling are more flexible, the cost is reduced, and the power supply reliability of the whole system is improved.

The invention relates to the research field that a demander response participates in large-scale grid-connected wind power consumption, in particular to a large-scale grid-connected wind power consumption based on the demander response. The method comprises the steps of establishing high-energy-consumption enterprises of mining, metal smelting, petroleum processing, heating and the like nearby areas with rich wind power, utilizing adjustable and interruptible high-energy-consumption loads for participating in wind power pitch peaks, locally absorbing wind power resources, and avoiding large-scale and remote wind power transmission. Therefore, power grid losses are reduced, the power utilization cost of high-energy-consumption users is saved, output consumption of a wind power plant is increased, and occurrences of the wind abandoning phenomenon are reduced. The method can objectively and comprehensively reflect the output characteristics of large-scale power wind and the user power utilization load characteristics, the sizes of the adjustable and interruptible high-energy-consumption loads are accurately calculated, then the capacity of the newly-increased wind power consumption scale is determined, and the current large-scale wind power grid-connected consumption problem and the wind abandoning problem are solved.