G01R21/1333

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING SAME BUILDING SOLAR PANEL PRODUCED VOLTAGE SPIKES ON A NEIGHBOR'S ELECTRIC UTILITY SERVICE
20210257825 · 2021-08-19 ·

A system is disclosed which eliminates problems caused by surges of electric energy which is generated on a utility customer's property and which is fed back onto a utility-owned service line by maintaining a minimum utility provided percentage (MUPP) of power being provided onto a customer-owned dead-end service line. Where the electric energy generated by a utility customer is incrementally excluded from the customer-owned dead-end service line through a plurality of contactors which are controlled by a 120 volt command line.

ENERGY METERING WITH TEMPERATURE MONITORING
20210173645 · 2021-06-10 · ·

A system for energy metering with temperature monitoring.

METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY MATING A GATEWAY DEVICE WITH AN ENERGY MEASUREMENT DEVICE

A method of automatically mating a gateway device with an energy measurement device in a usage area via a user computing device including steps of providing a gateway device for an energy measurement device in the usage area, connecting the gateway device to a local network for the usage area, installing a user application on the user computing device, searching for the gateway device with the user application for a predetermined time period, detecting the gateway device within the predetermined time period by establishing communication between the gateway device and the user computing device, and passing information between the gateway device and the user application on the user computing device to allow the gateway device to connect to the energy meter.

Method for detecting profiles of charging currents
10988045 · 2021-04-27 · ·

A method for detecting charging current curves for electric vehicles at charging stations. In the method, a charging current curve is captured at a charging station, and the charging current curve is stored together with a vehicle identification of the charging vehicle. For each respective vehicle identification, a charging current curve at a plurality of charging stations is stored, and for the respective vehicle identification, a present charging current curve can be compared with the stored charging current curves at the plurality of charging stations. In the event of a deviation of the present charging current curve from the stored charging current curves at the plurality of charging stations which is greater than a threshold, a signal is output.

Apparatus and method for non-intrusive load monitoring aided hybrid high and low frequency approaches

An apparatus and method are used for disaggregating and classifying energy consumption data from the overall energy consumption data of a building. Both high frequency sampling data classified by a convolutional neural network running on a cloud server and low frequency sampling data analyzed by a convolutional neural net running locally on an electric smart meter are used in the method. A control circuit switches between high and low frequency sampling modes based on the activity level of the building. Individual devices can also be controlled through a mobile application connected to the control circuit.

Method and apparatus for preventing same building solar panel produced voltage spikes on a neighbor's electric utility service
10998709 · 2021-05-04 ·

A system is disclosed which eliminates problems caused by surges of electric energy which is generated on a utility customer's property and which is fed back onto a utility-owned service line by maintaining a minimum utility provided percentage (MUPP) of power being provided onto a customer-owned dead-end service line. Where the electric energy generated by a utility customer is incrementally excluded from the customer-owned dead-end service line through a plurality of contactors which are controlled by a 120 volt command line.

ENERGY METERING WITH TEMPERATURE MONITORING
20210042113 · 2021-02-11 · ·

A system for energy metering with temperature monitoring.

Managing the determination of a transfer function of a measurement sensor

The present disclosure relates to generating a measurement sensor profiling summary in relation to a measurement sensor of an electrical measurement system, the measurement sensor being suitable for measuring an electrical property. The profiling summary is generated by obtaining a plurality of profiling results each comprising an estimate of a transfer function of a measurement sensor of the electrical measurement system and a corresponding certainty value indicative of the accuracy of the estimate of the transfer function, wherein the plurality of profiling results are based on estimates of the transfer function of the measurement sensor and corresponding certainty values that were determined by a monitor module of the electrical measurement system during a profiling period of time; and generating a profiling summary based on at least one of the plurality of profiling results.

Method and apparatus to assess and control energy efficiency of pump installed in facility of building systems
11860661 · 2024-01-02 · ·

Systems and methods dynamically assess energy efficiency by obtaining a minimum energy consumption of a system, receiving in a substantially continuous way a measurement of actual energy consumption of the system, and comparing the minimum energy consumption to the measurement of actual energy consumption to calculate a substantially continuous energy performance assessment. The system further provides at least one of a theoretical minimum energy consumption based at least in part on theoretical performance limits of system components, an achievable minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for high energy efficient equivalents of the system components, and the designed minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for the system components.

SELF-DRIVING BUILDING ENERGY ENGINE
20200393863 · 2020-12-17 ·

Systems and methods dynamically assess energy efficiency by obtaining a minimum energy consumption of a system, receiving in a substantially continuous way a measurement of actual energy consumption of the system, and comparing the minimum energy consumption to the measurement of actual energy consumption to calculate a substantially continuous energy performance assessment. The system further provides at least one of a theoretical minimum energy consumption based at least in part on theoretical performance limits of system components, an achievable minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for high energy efficient equivalents of the system components, and the designed minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for the system components.