The system, method and device for enabling remote-control of consumer electronic devices is disclosed. The system may comprise a docking station. The docking station may comprise an infrared receiving module and Micro-controller unit (MCU). The pre-processor of the infrared receiving module or the processor of the MCU may demodulate the one or more input control signals received from an input control device or a first communication device respectively. The pre-processor or the processor may modulate the one or more input control signals demodulated to obtain one or more modulated control signals. Further, the processor may retrieve one or more infrared codes from a preconfigured database based upon the one or more modulated control signals. The processor may transmit the one or more infrared codes to one or more consumer electronics device in order to remotely control the one or more consumer electronic devices.

The present disclosure relates to a scalable electric provisioning system comprising a housing, a high voltage direct current (DC) backplane, a communication bus, at least one provisioning module and a control unit. The housing defines a plurality of slots. The high voltage direct current (DC) backplane is located within the housing and is electrically accessible through each one of the plurality of slots. The communication bus is accessible to each one of the plurality of slots. The at least one provisioning module is inserted into one of the slots. The at least one provisioning module comprises two sub-units selected from any of the following: a DC/DC converter, a DC/DC bidirectional converter, an electric inverter, and a bidirectional electric inverter. The control unit controls operation of the at least one provisioning unit.

An apparatus and a method are for varying an impedance of a phase line of a segment of a first electrical power line, the phase line including n conductors electrically insulated from each other and short-circuited together at two ends of the segment. The apparatus includes at least one controllable switching device for connection with at least one of the conductors. The apparatus also includes a controller for performing control of the at least one controllable switching device, the controller having at least one optical port for receiving first optical signals on which the control is based, and for sending second optical signals to adjacent switching apparatuses, the second optical signals including status information of the one switching apparatus, upon which control of adjacent switching apparatuses is based.

A wireless optical power network for power distribution to a plurality of devices includes a power source to generate electrical power; the one or more master power stations configured to receive the electrical power and to generate a plurality of power laser light beams based at least in part on the electrical power; one or more optical distribution devices, the one or more optical distribution devices to receive the plurality of laser light beams; one or more sink power substations optically coupled to the one or more optical distribution devices, the one or sink power substations configured to receive the plurality of laser beams via the one or more optical distribution devices, to convert the plurality of laser beams to substation electrical power and to transfer the substation electrical power; and a plurality of end user devices to receive the substation electrical power for charging.

Disclosed herein are a photovoltaic module and a photovoltaic system including the photovoltaic module. The photovoltaic module includes a solar cell module having a plurality of solar cells, an inverter to convert DC power from the solar cell module to AC power, a cable to output the AC power from the inverter, and an infrared (IR) communication unit to transmit, at least one of voltage information of the solar cell module, current information of the solar cell module, voltage information of the inverter, and current information of the inverter, to an adjacent first photovoltaic module, an external gateway, or an external IR communication device. Thereby, communication with an external terminal can be easily performed.

A power monitoring system to monitor electrical power supply to electrical equipments. The monitor includes an energy saving device to reduce unnecessary power consumption. A control means for enabling control of power consumption of electrical devices in response to the data output of the monitored power consumption.

An inverter and a photovoltaic power generation system are provided. In the inverter according to the present disclosure, an energy storage interface is arranged, redundant direct current electric energy of electric energy outputted by a cell panel can be outputted via the energy storage interface in a case that photovoltaic power generation is limited, and the stored direct current electric energy can be received via the energy storage interface in a case that the photovoltaic power generation is at a low power. Therefore, the electric energy outputted by the cell panel is not wasted, and the photovoltaic power generation system can generate power at a maximum power without lowering the profits of photovoltaic power generation.

A load control system may include control devices capable of being associated with each other at one or more locations for performing load control. Control devices may include control-source devices and/or control-target devices. A location beacon may be discovered and a unique identifier in the location beacon may be associated with a unique identifier of one or more control devices. Upon subsequent discovery of the location beacon, the associated load control devices may be controlled. The beacons may be communicated via radio frequency signals, visible light communication, and/or audio signals. The visible light communication may be used to communicate other types of information to devices in the load control system. The visible light communication may be used to identify link addresses for communicating with load control devices, load control instructions, load control configuration instructions, network communication information, and/or the like. The information in the beacons may be used to commission and/or control the load control system.

A wireless control device includes a power source, one or more sensors, one or more switches, a wireless transceiver circuit, an antenna connected to the wireless transceiver circuit, and a processor communicably coupled to the power source, the one or more sensors, the one or more switches, and the wireless transceiver circuit. The processor receives a data from the one or more sensors or the one or more switches, determines a pre-defined action associated with the data that identifies one or more external devices and one or more tasks, and transmits one or more control signals via the wireless transceiver circuit and the antenna that instruct the identified external device(s) to perform the identified task(s).

Redundant low-power distribution in a redundant power distribution network (PDN) is disclosed. Multiple low-power conductors are employed to convey power from a power source to a remote subunit. The multiple conductors are isolated from one another to help prevent overcurrent conditions in a fault condition. In some cases, the multiple conductors may be provided for redundancy purposes. A power aggregator may be present at the remote subunit. However, the remote subunit may not contain the end power consumer. In such cases, there may be an additional link from the power aggregator to the end power consumer. A power limiter may be positioned between the power aggregator and the end power consumer. In this fashion, the link between the power aggregator and the end power consumer may still comply with low-power constraints.