Building Energy Management Platform for Unified Audit and Simulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing energy management systems lack efficiency in analyzing and optimizing energy consumption across multiple platforms and service providers, making it difficult to achieve energy efficiency and compliance with energy regulations.
Innovation Solution
An integrated energy management system that allows users to analyze and optimize energy consumption on a single platform, incorporating features like building energy audits, energy demand-supply management, heat and mass balance simulations, and data visualization, using a simulation manager and recommendation engine to provide insights and recommendations based on collaborative filtering.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple solution platforms and service providers are used for energy analysis, then comprehensive energy analysis coverage is achieved, but system complexity and inefficiency increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates multiple solution platforms and service providers into a single integrated energy management system. The system combines energy audit, simulation, and optimization capabilities that were previously distributed across multiple platforms, creating a unified interface for comprehensive energy analysis while reducing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The energy management system is designed to perform multiple functions including energy auditing, thermal comfort simulation, indoor air quality analysis, and optimization recommendations within a single platform. This multi-functional approach replaces the need for separate specialized platforms while maintaining comprehensive analysis coverage.
2Measurement precision
If detailed building energy audits and simulations are performed, then energy efficiency optimization is improved, but computational time and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary energy audits and data collection before conducting detailed simulations. By gathering and preprocessing building data, weather information, and energy consumption patterns in advance, the system reduces computational time required for subsequent detailed energy simulations and optimization analysis.
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AI summary
An energy management system and method designed to analyze the energy consumption of a building or cluster of buildings is provided. The system includes a user device and a controller. The controller includes a building energy audit analysis level, an energy demand-supply management level, and a heat and mass balance simulation level. The system integrates energy consumer-type users, energy server-type users, and energy developer-type users on one single platform. The energy management system provides a single platform for the sustainable management of energy data, integrates the users, inputs energy data, analyzes the data, and outputs energy performance and energy efficiency data based on the analyzed data.