34 results about "Residential energy" patented technology

The present invention is directed to a method of residential emissions trading and a residential emissions trading commodity. In particular, an embodiment of the present invention is a method for identifying, quantifying, and aggregating reductions in residential emissions into a tradable commodity. The step of quantifying the emissions reduction may further comprise the steps of measuring an energy savings resulting from the energy savings opportunity and calculating the emissions reduction resulting from the energy savings. The method may further comprise the steps of verifying the quantification of the emissions reduction and monitoring the residential energy savings opportunities and the quantification of the emissions reduction.

An inexpensive energy monitoring device and method for measuring energy usage and power costs in real time. The invention can include an external type digital battery powered camera that can be mounted away from and adjacent to the outdoor utility meter on a rotatable arm, which can send data signals to remote locations indoors using wireless such as an RF signal to a detector / display inside the residence. The indoor unit can be programmed to display desirable energy status information to a home owner on power usage and power costs on a daily bases, monthly bases, and yearly bases so that the home owner can budget energy usage and energy costs as needed. A shield can also be used with device and method for shielding power meters from adverse weather conditions.

A HVAC controls system for zone controls that is comprised of one or more Wall Sensor Units (WSU) and zero or more Damper / Register Units (DRUs). The invention is a low networked cost solution for residential and light commercial that is easy to install in new and existing building. The WSUs detect, log and use occupancy data to predict where in a building HVAC conditioning is needed and to save energy where it is not needed. The DRU use shape memory alloy wires to control the opening and closing of a damper plate with very little power allowing batter operation.

The invention discloses a residential energy consumption prediction method based on a residential user activity mode. The method comprises two steps of identification and classification of activity behaviors and energy consumption modes and building energy consumption prediction based on living activity modes.The identification and classification of the activity behavior and the energy consumptionmode extract the social and economic characteristics of the common characteristics of the living activity data set and the residential energy consumption data set, and the social and economic characteristics of the living activity data set and the residential energy consumption data set are respectively clustered to obtain the corresponding relationship between the corresponding cluster and the corresponding crowd; the activity mode and the building energy consumption mode are analyzed in the corresponding cluster, and the mapping between the interaction mode and the building energy consumption mode is mined; activity behavior modes and energy consumption mode categories to which the residents belong are identified through classification; and building energy consumption prediction is performed based on the living activity mode, firstly a residence type is simulated, then the activity mode and the residence type are fused, meteorological data characteristics are fused, and building energy consumption prediction is performed based on an engineering calculation method.

The invention discloses a cell energy-saving method, a NodeB and long term evolution (LTE) system. The method comprises the following steps that: a NodeB that a first cell belongs to sends a request message to a NodeB that a second cell belongs to, wherein the request message is used to indicate the second cell to carry out energy-saving operation and carries a cell identifier of the second cell and an energy-saving / compensation execution time parameter; and after the NodeB that the first cell belongs to sends the request message to the NodeB that the second cell belongs to, energy-saving operation corresponding to the first cell is carried out according to the energy-saving / compensation execution time parameter. Specifically, the first cell is a compensation cell and the second cell is an energy-saving cell; or the first cell is an energy-saving cell and the second cell is a compensation cell . According to the invention, accuracy of energy conservation of the cell is improved; and the network performance and user experience are enhanced.

The invention discloses an island intelligent power utilization system. A terminal system is divided into a family-level energy management unit and an intelligent residential energy management terminal, a transmission system is divided into dispersedly-distributed terminal system equipment and information interaction providing link foundation of an application system, and the application system isused for achieving concentrated management and exhibition of the intelligent residential energy management terminal and the family-level energy management unit in the whole island. The island intelligent power utilization system and an interaction method of a microgrid control center comprises the steps of collecting load information sent from each intelligent residential energy management terminal by the intelligent power utilization application system, making network load forecast by the microgrid control center according to a current load condition and load characteristic, generating loadquantity needed to be cut during load cutting control, and issuing to the intelligent power utilization system. The island intelligent power utilization system and the interaction method have the advantages the intelligent power utilization system is used as an interaction control means and is fused to an integral control strategy of an island microgrid, and the island microgrid is enabled to moreeconomically, stably and reliably run by active interaction of a microgrid side.

The present invention relates to diagnostics using auxiliary metering devices. Systems and methods for diagnosing a device, such as an appliance (702), using a secondary meter device (704) that measures electrical characteristics related to usage of the appliance within a HEM network (700) and provides such data to a residential energy controller (706) or the like. The auxiliary instrumentation device may include one or more sensors (724), such as current transformers, Rogowski coils, shunt resistors, or Hall effect sensors, etc., for collecting data related to active power consumption, reactive power consumption, line frequency, line voltage, etc. , power factor, lead / lag voltage-current comparison, and apparent power.

The invention discloses a single-phase residential energy meter missort checking method. The method adopts a zero line shunt method for checking, a wire or a cable is used for being sequentially in short circuit connection with a zero line row or a client load-side zero line, the wire carries out shunt on current of the zero lines, the current of the zero line at each part in the same loop after short circuit is reduced to be half the original, an air switch and an energy meter in actual connection relationship with the client are found out in the method, the air switch and the energy meter are compared with an air switch and an energy meter marked to belong to the client and compared with a marketing business application system archive, and missort exists in the case of inconsistency. Whether missor exists in the energy meter and the specific missort situations can be quickly checked only by using one wire and a common tong-type ammeter in the condition of not cutting power and not increasing load. The method is simple and practicable, few in devices, little in investment, and obvious in effects.

A method for measuring rural residential energy consumption by using electric heating equipment as an auxiliary heat source is disclosed. The method relates to the method for measuring the rural residential energy consumption. In the prior art, measurement of rural residential unit heating heat consumption can not be achieved. By using the method of the invention, the above problem can be solved. In the method of the invention, a building is considered as a whole; a heated kang, a hot wall and a matched stove in the rural residential houses are taken as baseload heat sources; the electric heating equipment is taken as the auxiliary heat source; under the condition of maintaining a same room temperature in each room of the rural residential houses, building energy consumption measurement can be performed. By using the method of the invention, measuring problems can be solved. The measuring problems comprise that: heat inertia of the rural residential houses is small; there are many kinds of fuels; room temperature fluctuation is large; there are many rooms but there are limited rooms to be used; rural residential house wires allow a small working current and the like. The novel method for measuring the rural residential energy consumption is provided. The method can be used for measuring the residential energy consumption of northern areas in our country.

The invention relates to the technical field of thermal energy storage, and discloses a device for collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust. The device for collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust comprises an outer barrel and an inner barrel arranged in the outer barrel. The outer barrel and the inner barrel are arranged coaxially. An end cover is arranged at the right end of the outer barrel. The right end of the inner barrel penetrates through the end cover and extends to form a gas inlet pipe. A gas outlet pipe is arranged in the center of the left end of the outer barrel. The space between the outer barrel and the inner barrel is filled with a plurality of thermal storage balls. The device for collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust has the beneficial effects of being capable of collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust for use as residential energy resources, and high in efficiency of heat absorption and heat release.

The invention relates to the technical field of thermal energy storage, and discloses a thermal storage device based on automobile engine exhaust. The thermal storage device based on automobile engine exhaust comprises an outer barrel and an inner barrel arranged in the outer barrel. The outer barrel and the inner barrel are arranged coaxially. An end cover is arranged at the right end of the outer barrel. The right end of the inner barrel penetrates through the end cover and extends to form a gas inlet pipe. A gas outlet pipe is arranged in the center of the left end of the outer barrel. The space between the outer barrel and the inner barrel is filled with a plurality of thermal storage balls. Connectors are arranged at the outer end of the gas inlet pipe and the outer end of the gas outlet pipe. The gas inlet pipe and the gas outlet pipe are each provided with a connecting ring, the two connecting rings are connected through a wire rope, and a thermal insulation handle is arranged in the middle of the wire rope. The thermal storage device based on automobile engine exhaust has the beneficial effects of being capable of collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust for use as residential energy resources, and high in efficiency of heat absorption and heat release.

The invention discloses a cloud computing-based smart home energy management and control system and method. The system includes: an on-site controller for on-site control of various energy-consuming devices of a smart home according to user-set parameters; energy consumption parameter collection The controller is used to collect the parameters related to the energy consumption of each energy-consuming equipment; the cloud computing management and control platform is used to adjust the on-site controller based on the collected parameters related to the energy consumption of each energy-consuming equipment and the parameters set by the user. On-site control mode of each energy-consuming device; power line networking module for mutual communication. The method corresponds to the system. The invention uses the cloud computing management and control platform to manage and control the energy consumption of household energy consumption equipment with prominent scattered characteristics, which can realize the optimal configuration of energy and achieve the purpose of saving energy; and uses the power line networking module for communication, and does not need to be in the household. It is simple and convenient to set up a complex network for data transmission, as long as there are wires.