Power Storage Information Mediation for Distributed Smart Grid Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
The smart grid initiative faces challenges in efficiently managing power generation and storage facilities that are not uniformly managed, particularly in gathering and providing comprehensible information about power storage states to users.
Innovation Solution
A power storage management system that includes a user terminal, a power storage apparatus, and an information processing apparatus connected via a mobile communication network, allowing for the acquisition and transmission of power storage information, including position and operation state, to provide users with easily understandable data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If power storage information is gathered from multiple distributed facilities, then comprehensive power management capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an information processing apparatus as an intermediary between power storage facilities and user terminals. This mediator collects power storage information from multiple facilities, processes it centrally, and provides it to users in a unified manner, thereby managing complexity while maintaining comprehensive power management capability across distributed facilities.
2Loss of information
If detailed power storage information is provided to users, then user comprehension is improved, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the information processing apparatus receives power storage information from facilities, processes it into comprehensible formats, and provides it to user terminals. This feedback loop enables users to understand power storage states while the system automatically manages the complexity of information aggregation and presentation.
Data Source
AI summary
In one example embodiment, a power storage management system includes a user terminal, a power storage apparatus and an information processing apparatus. In one example embodiment, the information processing apparatus is configured to, using a mobile communication network (e.g., Global System for Mobile Communications or the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), communicate with the power storage apparatus.