Resource Management System with User Characteristic Estimation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing resource management systems do not consider individual user characteristics or community utility when distributing resources, leading to inefficient demand response and potential burden on financially strapped individuals during energy shortages.
Innovation Solution
A resource management system that includes a processor and storage device to acquire and estimate user-specific utility and suppression characteristics, calculating target resource consumption values and generating cooperation requests to reduce consumption, thereby considering individual and community utility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If resource distribution is based on uniform allocation plans, then implementation is simple, but it fails to consider individual user characteristics and community utility
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by estimating user-specific characteristics (utility characteristic and suppression characteristic) and using these to determine individualized target values for resource consumption. Instead of uniform allocation, the system tailors resource distribution to local conditions of each user based on their estimated characteristics, thereby improving adaptability while managing complexity through automated estimation processes.
2Reliability
If demand response is implemented without considering individual characteristics, then community utility can be optimized, but financially strapped individuals may be unfairly burdened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by continuously estimating user characteristics based on actual resource consumption patterns and using these estimates to adjust target values and allocation plans. This feedback mechanism ensures that demand response measures are adapted to individual circumstances, protecting financially strained users while maintaining community-wide effectiveness through iterative optimization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters by dynamically adjusting target consumption values based on estimated user characteristics. By modifying allocation parameters according to individual utility and suppression characteristics, the system achieves both fairness (protecting vulnerable users) and effectiveness (optimizing community utility) simultaneously.
3Adaptability or versatility
If resource consumption reduction targets are set without user characteristic estimation, then implementation is straightforward, but utility characteristics and suppression characteristics are not considered
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by performing user characteristic estimation in advance before finalizing resource allocation plans. The system estimates utility and suppression characteristics based on historical consumption data and presents these estimates to users for confirmation or correction. This preliminary estimation enables more adaptive and personalized resource distribution while minimizing time delays through efficient processing of characteristic data.
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AI summary
A resource management system, which manages a resource consumed by a user, includes: a processor that executes a program; and a storage device that stores the program. The processor executes: a resource consumption amount acquisition process of acquiring a resource consumption amount of the user; a user characteristic estimation process of estimating characteristics of the user based on the resource consumption amount; a target calculation process of calculating a target value related to the resource consumption amount for which the user needs to cooperate based on the characteristics of the user estimated by the user characteristic estimation process; a cooperation request generation process of generating cooperation request data related to reduction of the resource consumption amount for the user based on the target value calculated by the target calculation process; and an output process of outputting the cooperation request data generated by the cooperation request generation process.