Centralized Power Management System for Enterprise Energy Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional power management techniques for computer systems in enterprises lack consistency and centralized monitoring, leading to inefficiencies in energy management and data analytics across multiple clients.

Innovation Solution

A power management system comprising a client management module, data collector module, and repository module, which configures and manages power settings across multiple clients, collects and stores data on energy usage, and provides analysis and reporting tools for energy-saving insights.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional solo power management is used on individual computers, then each user can customize power settings according to personal preference, but consistency and standardized control across multiple clients cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepower policy customizationVSAvoidpower management consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides power management into two segments: a centralized server that distributes standardized power policies and client machines that execute these policies. This segmentation allows both standardized control at the organizational level and localized execution at the device level, resolving the contradiction between consistency and adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A centralized power management server acts as an intermediary between the organization's power management requirements and individual client machines. The server distributes standardized power policies to multiple clients, ensuring consistency across the network while allowing each client to receive and execute the same standardized settings.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of manufacture

If traditional decentralized power management is used, then implementation is simple on individual machines, but centralized monitoring, measurement and tracking of energy consumption cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesystem implementation simplicityVSAvoidenergy consumption data

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where client machines report power consumption data and policy execution status back to the centralized server. This feedback loop enables the server to monitor, measure, and track energy consumption across the network, providing visibility into power usage patterns while maintaining the simplicity of local power management execution.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The centralized power management server performs multiple functions: distributing power policies to clients, collecting power consumption data from clients, monitoring energy usage patterns, and generating reports. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems into a single platform, maintaining implementation simplicity while enabling comprehensive data collection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Device complexity

If no centralized data collection mechanism is implemented, then system complexity is reduced, but statistics, reporting, recognizing and data analytics on energy consumption become difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata collection infrastructureVSAvoidenergy data analytics capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges data collection, storage, analysis, and reporting functions into a single centralized power management server. By combining these functions that would otherwise be distributed across multiple separate systems, the solution reduces overall infrastructure complexity while maintaining robust energy data analytics capabilities through integrated processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11275417B2Apparatus, method and system for managing power of user accounts

Publication Date: 2022.03.15 EMC IP HLDG CO LLC

AI summary

The present disclosure provides a power management apparatus, method and system. The apparatus comprises: a client management module for configuring power management client module(s) on one or more clients, the power management client module being for power management of the client; a data collector module for collecting, via the power management client module(s), data related to the power management of one or more user accounts on one or more clients; and a repository module for storing the collected data.