Three-Dimensional Energy Graph for Smart Grid Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current power systems lack efficient energy management and bidirectional communication between suppliers and consumers, making it difficult to address global warming, raw material price fluctuations, and energy overconsumption, while also failing to provide stable power supply.
Innovation Solution
An energy management apparatus that displays energy operation states in three-dimensional graphs, allowing users to intuitively analyze and control energy usage by mapping axes to time, energy devices, and analysis objects, and enabling easy switching between graph types and orientations through drag-and-drop commands.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a vertical centralized network is used to manage power systems, then the supplier can control energy distribution, but efficient management of energy generation, distribution, and use becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the traditional vertical centralized network into a multidimensional network by adding horizontal communication layers between consumers and suppliers. This enables bidirectional information flow and energy trading across multiple dimensions (time, space, energy types), resolving the management inefficiency while maintaining operational simplicity through standardized interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the centralized power system into distributed energy units (suppliers, consumers, storage devices) that can independently operate and communicate. This segmentation allows efficient local energy management while maintaining overall system coordination, solving the contradiction between control capability and management efficiency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a radial structure is used to distribute energy from center to periphery, then energy can be distributed from supplier to multiple places, but the system remains centered on supplier rather than consumer
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional supplier-centered radial structure by enabling consumer-centered energy management. Consumers can now initiate energy trading, select energy sources, and control their demand actively. This inversion maintains the radial distribution structure while fundamentally changing the control paradigm to be consumer-driven.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic adaptability to the rigid radial structure by allowing real-time reconfiguration of energy flow paths based on consumer preferences, market conditions, and system state. This enables the system to dynamically switch between different operational modes while maintaining structural simplicity.
3Productivity
If a fixed price system is used for electricity, then pricing is simple, but incentives for consumers through price change cannot be used
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic price adjustments based on time-of-use, seasonal variations, and market conditions. This periodic pricing mechanism provides consumers with clear temporal incentives to shift energy consumption patterns, improving overall energy efficiency while maintaining a relatively simple pricing structure through standardized time-based tiers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the price parameter dynamically based on multiple factors including time, energy type, market supply-demand conditions, and consumer preferences. This parameter-based pricing approach enables flexible consumer incentives while maintaining system simplicity through automated parameter adjustment algorithms.
4Loss of information
If real-time price information is not checked, then the power exchange system is simple, but consumers cannot make informed energy decisions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes real-time feedback loops between the power exchange system and consumers, providing continuous price information, consumption data, and trading outcomes. This feedback mechanism enables consumers to make informed decisions while maintaining information system simplicity through standardized data exchange protocols and automated information dissemination.
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AI summary
An energy management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is designed to provide a method for visually displaying an energy operation status in various manners so as to facilitate energy analysis, and may comprise: a measurement unit for acquiring power state information of at least one energy apparatus constituting a system to which the energy management apparatus belongs; a control unit for analyzing an energy operation status on the basis of the acquired power state information; and a display unit for displaying the analyzed energy operation status in the form of a three-dimensional energy graph, wherein each of the X-, Y-, and Z-axes of the three-dimensional energy graph is mapped to one of time, an energy apparatus, and an object of energy analysis.