EV Power Demand Monitoring for Abnormality Response Continuity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electric power supply and demand control systems using electric transportation devices lack continuity in service due to potential abnormalities such as failures, cyber attacks, or operational issues in constituent elements like EVs, EVSEs, and buildings.

Innovation Solution

A monitoring device that collects and analyzes information from various entities in the system to detect abnormalities and performs control or notification to mitigate these issues, ensuring service continuity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a power supply and demand control service using EVs is implemented, then peak power cuts are achieved, but service continuity is compromised when abnormalities occur in constituent elements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice continuityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The monitoring device performs preliminary actions by continuously collecting information from all constituent elements (EVs, EVSEs, buildings) and detecting abnormalities before they cause service disruption. The system proactively identifies potential issues through predetermined analysis methods and takes preventive control actions or notifications, ensuring service continuity without waiting for actual failures to occur.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The monitoring device establishes a feedback loop by continuously collecting status information from constituent elements, analyzing this data to detect abnormalities, and responding with control actions or notifications. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables real-time monitoring and response, maintaining service reliability while managing system complexity through automated information processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If comprehensive monitoring of all constituent elements is implemented, then abnormality detection capability is improved, but information processing load increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveabnormality detection accuracyVSAvoidinformation processing volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The monitoring device extracts only the necessary predetermined information from each constituent element that is relevant for detecting abnormalities. Rather than processing all possible data from EVs, EVSEs, and buildings, the system selectively collects specific parameters and uses predetermined analysis methods to identify abnormalities, reducing information processing volume while maintaining detection accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS20250214480A1Monitoring apparatus, monitoring method and program
Publication Date: 2025.07.03 NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE CORP
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AI summary

A monitoring device according to an embodiment includes a collection part configured to collect predetermined information from each entity constituting an electric power supply and demand control service using an electric transportation device; an analysis part configured to detect occurrence of an abnormality in the entity through a predetermined analysis using the information collected using the collection part; and a handling part which performs control or notification to deal with the abnormality when the abnormality occurrence is detected.