Community Power Interchange Control via Centralized Node Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing power storage systems in communities fail to optimize energy use when power is autonomously interchanged between customers, leading to inefficient energy distribution and utilization.
Innovation Solution
A control apparatus and method that acquires and analyzes power consumption data from multiple nodes to generate and provide control data for optimizing power storage and interchange, ensuring efficient energy distribution across the community.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If power is autonomously interchanged between customers using individual storage batteries, then each customer's power storage is optimized, but the overall energy use efficiency of the community deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a central control apparatus as an intermediary that collects power consumption information from multiple nodes and generates optimal control data for power interchange. This mediator coordinates the autonomous operations of individual storage batteries to achieve community-wide optimization, resolving the contradiction between individual autonomy and overall efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where power consumption information is continuously collected from nodes, processed by the control apparatus, and used to generate updated control data. This closed-loop feedback enables the system to adapt and optimize power interchange strategies based on actual consumption patterns, improving overall energy efficiency while maintaining autonomous operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If individual storage batteries are optimized autonomously, then each node operates independently, but community-wide power optimization fails
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the autonomous operation capability of individual nodes with centralized coordination. Each node maintains its autonomous decision-making ability while simultaneously receiving control data from the central apparatus that integrates information from all nodes, achieving both individual adaptability and community-wide optimization.
Solution Approach 2:
The control apparatus serves multiple functions: it collects information from all nodes, processes community-wide power optimization strategies, and distributes control data back to individual nodes. This multi-functional approach enables simultaneous maintenance of node autonomy and achievement of community optimization.
3Device complexity
If decentralized autonomous control is used, then system complexity is reduced, but energy distribution efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The control system is segmented into a central control apparatus that handles complex optimization calculations and individual node controllers that execute specific control actions. This segmentation allows the complex optimization logic to be centralized while keeping individual node operations simple, maintaining low device complexity at the node level while achieving high energy distribution efficiency through centralized intelligence.
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AI summary
[Object] To provide a control apparatus capable of optimum power interchange in the whole of a community including a plurality of customers. [Solution] There is provided a control apparatus including: an acquisition section configured to acquire information regarding consumption of power from a plurality of nodes that store and consume power; and a control section configured to use the information regarding consumption of power to generate data regarding target power storage in each of the nodes, the data being provided to the node.