Remote Energy Management via Persistent Smart Grid Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smart grid systems lack efficient remote energy management capabilities, particularly in managing power consumption and demand response across distributed networks, leading to suboptimal energy usage and increased costs.
Innovation Solution
A remote energy management system utilizing a persistent smart grid context, which employs a tunneling protocol to communicate with smart grid devices, generates energy management profiles, and implements control policies to reduce power consumption, curtail demand, and utilize unforced capacity, thereby optimizing energy usage and reducing costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If smart grid devices are deployed to manage power consumption, then energy efficiency is improved, but device complexity and network management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gateway server as an intermediary between remote energy management systems and smart grid devices. This gateway server handles protocol translation, device registration, and communication coordination, thereby reducing the complexity burden on individual devices while maintaining improved energy efficiency across the network.
Solution Approach 2:
The gateway server performs multiple functions including device registration, protocol translation, context management, and coordination of energy management operations. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional component, the system manages device complexity while preserving the energy efficiency benefits of smart grid devices.
2Productivity
If remote energy management is implemented without persistent context, then system simplicity is maintained, but energy management effectiveness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing and maintaining persistent network context information about smart grid devices before energy management operations are executed. This pre-established context includes device capabilities, current states, and operational parameters, enabling more effective energy management decisions without requiring repeated information gathering.
Solution Approach 2:
The gateway server maintains continuous network context information about smart grid devices throughout operation. This persistent context allows the system to continuously make informed energy management decisions without losing valuable information about device states and capabilities, thereby sustaining high energy management effectiveness over time.
3Adaptability or versatility
If tunneling protocol is used for remote communication, then communication flexibility is improved, but protocol complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway server acts as an intermediary that handles the complex tunneling protocol implementation details. Remote systems communicate through the gateway using standardized protocols, while the gateway manages the tunneling protocol complexity in the background. This approach provides communication flexibility to remote systems without requiring them to implement complex tunneling protocols directly.
Data Source
AI summary
A device may include a memory to store control policies set for a network of smart grid devices connected to a power grid, the control policies including an energy consumption threshold associated with the network of smart grid devices; and a processor configured to obtain network content including energy consumption data associated with the network of smart grid devices, compare the energy consumption data to the energy consumption threshold associated with the network of smart grid devices, generate a first instruction with respect to energy consumption associated with network of smart grid devices, and generate a second instruction with respect to replenishment of unforced capacity associated with the network of smart grid devices.