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Utilizing cash flow contracts and physical collateral for energy-related clearing and credit enhancement platforms

In accordance with the present invention, a financial instrument for the energy market is created. The financial instrument comprises a derivative instrument related to accounts receivable or accounts payable or both. In a preferred embodiment, the derivative instrument normally consists of two sets of linked swaps. In the first set, the seller exchanges two things with a third party: (i) the right for payment of accounts receivable within a month from the buyer is exchanged for the right to payment of such accounts receivable within a week from the third party; and (ii) the obligation to deliver energy to the buyer is exchanged for the obligation to deliver to the third party. The buyer exchanges the mirror image of those with a third party, to wit: (i) the obligation to pay within a month to the seller is exchanged for the obligation to pay within a week to the third party, but the buyer receives financing to offset the cash flow ramifications; and (ii) the obligation to take delivery from the seller is exchanged with the obligation to take delivery from the third party. The swap can further be utilized to net payment obligations under multiple cash and forward commodity transactions between the buyer and the seller. Physical collateral is utilized as margin. In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, the process takes place on a ‘clearing platform’ for such energy transactions.
Owner:NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY CREDIT & CLEARING CORP

Energy advisory and transaction management services for self-serving retail electricity providers

Methods for assisting and enabling a large industrial or business consumer of energy to become a self-serving retail electricity provider in a deregulated energy market. Performed by an energy advisory and transaction management service provider, one method registers the large business energy consumer with the state public utility commission, assists the business to qualify as a scheduling entity with an independent service operator, and establishes the business as a bilateral trading partner of wholesale energy merchants. In another method, the business processing outsourcing service assists the business in energy purchasing and risk management decisions by forecasting zonal load requirements for the business. A price forecasting analysis is compared with supply offers from wholesale energy merchants and bilateral transactions for energy supply are brokered between the business and the wholesale energy merchants. In another method, the business process outsourcing service assists the business to manage electronic transactions with an independent service operator and a transmission and distribution service provider. A daily load forecast for the business is updated and compared with energy purchase commitments to identify imbalances between supply and demand. The outsourcing service submits a daily schedule of forecasted sub-hourly load and purchase and sale commitments to the independent system operator. The outsourcing service receives and processes invoices from market participants and generates financial settlement reports for the business.
Owner:SOUTHERN COMPANY ENERGY SOLUTIONS

Pedestrian inertial positioning system based on indoor magnetic field feature assistance

The invention provides a pedestrian inertial positioning system based on indoor magnetic field feature assistance. The system comprises a magnetic field and inertial data obtaining module, a magnetic field positioning module, a pedestrian dead reckoning module, a positioning fusion module and an output module, wherein the magnetic field and inertial data obtaining module is used for acquiring magnetic field, accelerated speed and angular velocity information; the magnetic field positioning module is used for building a magnetic field feature library and carrying out time-frequency analysis on the magnetic field vector sequence in real time to extract the time-frequency feature, and matching with the magnetic field feature library to carry out magnetic field feature positioning; the pedestrian dead reckoning module is used for updating accelerated speed and angular velocity zero offset according to the condition that the step velocity discontinuity is zero during walking, judging the step number and calculating the step length and the direction of each step; the positioning fusion module is used for fusing a magnetic field feature positioning result and a pedestrian dead reckoning inertial positioning result by means of particle filter; and the output module is used for displaying a positioning result on web pages and terminals. The system provided by the invention has the characteristics of being independent from beacon during positioning, low in cost and consumption of positioning terminals, accurate in positioning result and adaptive to environment change.
Owner:MEDIASOC TECH

Parking management system and method using lighting system

A system and a method for detecting availability of a parking space in a parking facility are provided. A first method has the steps of providing a lighting system having at least one visible-light source for illumination of at least part of the parking space. Providing an available space time-of-flight trace. Providing an availability threshold value. Illuminating the at least part of the parking space using the at least one visible-light source. Emitting a status visible-light signal from the visible-light source in the predetermined direction toward the predetermined target in the parking space. Capturing a status reflection trace at the visible-light source. Determining a time-of-flight difference value by comparing the status reflection trace to the available space time-of-flight trace. Comparing the time-of-flight difference value with the availability threshold value and determining a status of the parking space to be one of available and not available. Another method has the steps of providing a lighting system having at least one visible-light source for illumination of at least part of the parking space. Providing a camera. Providing an available space region value. Providing an availability threshold value. Illuminating the at least part of the parking space using the at least one visible-light source. Emitting visible light from the visible-light source in the predetermined direction to the predetermined target in the parking space. Capturing a reflection of the emitted visible light at the camera and determining a status region value. Determining a region difference value by comparing the status region value to the available space region value. Comparing the region difference value with the availability threshold value and determining a status of the parking space to be one of available and not available.
Owner:LEDDARTECH INC
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