Hierarchical Energy Flow Visualization for Power Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current power systems face challenges in efficiently managing energy generation, distribution, and consumption due to a lack of real-time price information and bidirectional communication between consumers and suppliers, making it difficult to address issues like global warming, raw material price fluctuations, and energy overconsumption.
Innovation Solution
An energy management device that displays energy movement information in a hierarchical structure from highest to lowest level, using energy nodes with varying thickness to represent energy amounts, allowing users to intuitively grasp energy flow and identify problem areas within the system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a vertical centralized network is used to manage power systems, then power supply control is simplified, but energy management efficiency deteriorates due to lack of bidirectional communication
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional centralized control model by enabling bidirectional communication between consumers and suppliers. Consumers can now actively manage their energy consumption and generate power, transforming from passive recipients to active participants in the energy ecosystem, thereby improving energy management efficiency while maintaining control simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements real-time feedback mechanisms through smart meters and communication systems that provide consumers with instantaneous information about their energy consumption, costs, and pricing signals. This feedback loop enables consumers to adjust their behavior and optimize energy management, resolving the contradiction between control simplicity and management efficiency.
2Measurement precision
If real-time energy data is displayed in detailed form, then energy analysis accuracy is improved, but user comprehension difficulty increases due to information overload
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments energy data into hierarchical levels (e.g., total consumption, appliance-level consumption, time-based consumption patterns). This segmentation allows users to access detailed accurate data when needed while presenting summarized overview data by default, thereby maintaining both measurement precision and ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds temporal and categorical dimensions to energy data presentation. Instead of displaying all detailed data at once, it organizes data across multiple dimensions (time periods, appliance types, cost categories), allowing users to navigate and comprehend information systematically without being overwhelmed by raw data volume.
3Stability of the object's composition
If traditional power exchange pricing is used, then market stability is maintained, but consumer incentive responsiveness deteriorates due to fixed pricing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamic pricing mechanisms that adjust electricity prices in real-time based on supply conditions, demand patterns, and time of day. This dynamic pricing maintains market stability through regulated adjustments while significantly improving consumer incentive responsiveness, allowing prices to adapt to changing conditions and encourage optimal energy consumption behavior.
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AI summary
An energy management device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a communication unit for receiving energy information of a system to which the energy management device belongs; a display unit for displaying any one energy information icon on the basis of the received energy information; and a control unit for displaying at least one energy information icon corresponding to a lower level of the energy information icon upon receiving a command to select an expansion icon corresponding to the energy information icon, and connecting the energy information icon having the selected expansion icon and the energy information icon corresponding to the lower level to energy nodes having different thickness according to the amount of energy.