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| 8180583 | Methods and systems to determine a context of a device Methods and systems for determining that a device is currently within a given context are described. A device may include multiple sensors coupled to the device. A sensor utility value combining a rate of power consumption for a sensor and an accuracy score indicati... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175825 | Methods and systems for auto-calibrated power metering in portable information handling systems Accurate power usage for a portable information handling system is provided using input power measurement circuitry. A calibration step is performed when the portable information handling system is powered down and charging. The calibration step includes obtaining a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8155900 | Method and system for calculating energy metrics of a building and one or more zones within the building A method and system can provide building energy performance metrics that can help identify specific zones within a building which may have energy efficiency problems. The method and system can collect data from: indoor temperature sensors and humidity sensors presen... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8126665 | Device, and associated method, for monitoring a meter An antenna is adapted for receiving via a CDMA/1xRTT digital wireless cellular radio communications network incoming data from a client remote control station, and for transmitting via a wireless cellular communications network outgoing data to the client remote con... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8103465 | System and method for monitoring and managing energy performance Generation of renewable energy for, exportation of the renewable energy from, importation of utility generated energy to, and consumption of energy at, a facility are monitored in substantially real time to provide for substantially real time management and reportin... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8090549 | Apparatus and methods for multi-channel metering A device for measuring electricity usage is disclosed. The device is capable of remote disconnection via power line communication and detecting electricity theft, tampering, and reverse voltage. In another aspect, the device is capable of multi-channel metering of e... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090550 | Efficiency monitor for inductive power transmission An efficiency monitor for monitoring the efficiency of power transmission by an inductive power outlet. The efficiency monitor includes an input power monitor, for measuring the input power delivered to the primary coil, and an output power monitor, for measuring th... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8065099 | Power distribution monitoring system and method A power distribution monitoring system includes a number of power line mounted monitors. Each monitor can acquire data regarding the delivery of electrical power in the power line, wirelessly transmit and receive messages, and electromagnetically acquire and store o... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065098 | Progressive humidity filter for load data forecasting A method, via a processor, of forecasting energy usage including selecting a plurality of reference days with at least one feature matching a corresponding feature of a day to be forecasted and filtering the plurality of reference days with a humidity filter to iden... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055461 | Distributing metering responses for load balancing an AMR network Disclosed are methodology and corresponding apparatus subject matters for providing improved efficiency in the collection of data from a large number of metrology devices associated with an Automated Meter reading (AMR) network. AMR network operation produces random... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8032317 | System and methods for metering and analyzing energy consumption of events within a portable device System and methods to determine the energy consumption per event type from usage data of portable devices are described. A disclosed example method includes receiving data associated with events on a portable device, analyzing the received data to determine an energ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7962299 | Electricity metering A power consumption monitoring apparatus, comprising at least one electrical measurement device (210) for generating a signal indicative of the electrical power passing through an electrical power line (300) at the location of the measurement device, a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953565 | System and method for providing universal additional functionality for power meters A system and method for providing an additional option function to existing functionality of a meter device configured for measuring parameters of energy is provided. The meter device is coupled with an option device for exchanging data between the meter and the opt... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7912660 | System and method for locating and analyzing arcing phenomena System and method for detecting partial discharge arcing phenomena in a power network distribution system which employs a mobile receiving assemblage including a wideband antenna, a computer controllable wideband radio receiver deriving an amplitude detected output ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904262 | Cascading metrology apparatus and methodology Apparatus and methodology are provided for measuring energy, particularly in a useful way for a multiphase system. Individual, like single-phase metrology blocks are provided to monitor energy in selected phases of a multiphase system. Individual data from a relativ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7844409 | Filtering of meter reading data Packet formats and associated metering infrastructure for filtering meter reading data that is being transmitted by utility meters are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method suitable for being implemented in a metering environment is provided that filters meter read... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7706990 | Systems and methods for measuring utilized generation of at-premise renewable power systems A computer processor implemented method of measuring utilized generation of at least one at-premise power system to a consumer, the method comprising the steps of; providing at least one at-premise renewable power system, at least one meter in communication with at ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7693670 | Cognitive electric power meter An electric power meter includes an embedded decomposition module that is configured to decompose a power meter signal into constituent loads to segregate and identify energy consumption associated with each individual energy consumption device within a plurality of... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7617057 | Expert system for controlling plant growth in a contained environment In a system for optimizing crop growth, vegetation is cultivated in a contained environment, such as a greenhouse, an underground cavern or other enclosed space. Imaging equipment is positioned within or about the contained environment, to acquire spatially distribu... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7596459 | Apparatus and methods for multi-channel electric metering In one aspect, the invention comprises a device for measuring electricity usage, comprising: means for remote disconnection via power line communication; means for detection of electricity theft; means for tamper detection; and means for reverse voltage detection. I... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7577535 | System and method for locating and analyzing arcing phenomena System and method for detecting partial discharge arcing phenomena in a power network distribution system which employs a mobile receiving assemblage including a wideband antenna, a computer controllable wideband radio receiver deriving an amplitude detected output ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7561977 | Total home energy management system A system that facilitates and implements energy savings decisions by a home owner. The system will provide a mechanism to reduce the peak level of energy demand. A controller in logical communication with energy consuming appliances responds to request for energy fr... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7546214 | System for power sub-metering An electrical sub-metering system for making available information associated with power consumption of at least one circuit of a plurality of circuits is disclosed. The system includes an electrical panel board configured to distribute power to the plurality of cir... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7477998 | System and method for providing universal additional functionality for power meters A system and method for providing an additional option function to existing functionality of a meter device configured for measuring parameters of energy is provided. The meter device is coupled with an option device for exchanging data between the meter and the opt... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7463986 | Electrical power metering system A wireless electrical power metering system is provided. A processor having a multichannel power line transceiver, a wireless transceiver, and a power meter attached thereto measures power consumption information at a location. The processor converts the power consu... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7444208 | Electrical system wiring diagram generating system, and power supply device and program used for the same Each of connection data 11, . . . , or 15, of the downstream side of a socket 1, . . . , or 5 or a panel board 6, 7, or 8 in a power supply direction, is generated in a tap 16, a UPS 25 and 35, or a term... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7432824 | Endpoint event processing system An endpoint processor includes a processor block, a timer block, a memory block, and analog-to-digital converter. The timer block is arranged to provide a time based signal to the processor block. The memory block cooperates with the processor block. The analog-to-d... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7421352 | Network-enabled electrical power equipment with integrated content management system Network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment includes one or more networked intelligent devices coupled to a power distribution system and measuring and storing at least one sensed condition in the power distribution system; a server in the power equipmen... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421348 | Predictive emissions monitoring method A method for predicting emissions from an emissions source. Test values of process variables relating to operation of the emissions source are gathered, along with corresponding time-correlated test values of the emissions variable to be predicted. Using the test va... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415725 | Multi-function intelligent electronic device with secure access An intelligent electronic device with multiple functionalities that may include multiple secure accesses includes a sensor coupled with a processor. The sensor may sense electrical parameters in an electrical circuit and generate signals indicative of the electrical... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412338 | Radio frequency device within an energy sensor system An energy measurement system including a radio frequency (“RF”) device powered by a solar panel. The RF device comprising a wireless communication port operative to transmit and receive communication over a wireless network of additional RF devices. The energy m... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412304 | Power system for area containing a set of power consumers There is provided a power system for an area containing a set of power consumers which can be applied to a collective housing consisting of a single or more buildings and can prevent power supply stop of a supply line having a higher priority. The system includes: m... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406364 | Method and system to calculate a demand for energy A method to calculate energy demand in an energy generation, transmission and distribution network including one or more power plants based on different energy source types including renewable energy, a communications system and one or more local consumption meterin... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7402993 | Electrical profile monitoring system for detection of atypical consumption Methods of detecting atypical patterns of usage of electricity, determined by monitoring consumption at the primary line, permit detection of grow-ops and unusual line losses due to defective service lines. A meter having a high resolution is connected to the primar... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400986 | Usage monitoring apparatus An apparatus is disclosed for monitoring usage of multiple electrical devices. The apparatus comprises multiple non-invasive current sensors for sensing current in respective conductors associated with the electrical devices. Such conductors may for example be the e... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7379997 | System and method of controlling delivery and/or usage of a commodity A system and method manage delivery of energy from a distribution network to one or more sites. Each site has at least one device couple to the distribution network. The at least one device controllably consumes energy. The system includes a node and a control syste... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373221 | Energy consumption monitoring A system for analysing energy usage on a network, such as an electricity network (4) which includes a number of energy sources (1, 2, 3) and a number of energy consumers (6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12) the system including a plurality of meters (5,9 | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369950 | System and method for power quality analytics A power quality analysis system includes a combination of at least one of a power quality parameter value, power quality event properties, non-power quality properties, and time properties. The parameter value and other properties is used to create power quality inf... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364078 | Bar code reading method and apparatus for a battery tester charger An apparatus for entering information into a battery test/charger that includes a bar code reader, a controller that is used to receive information from the bar code reader wherein the controller controls a battery tester/charger. In addition, a method for entering ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366773 | Alternative communications paths for data sent over power line carrier Extensions to the concept of using a power line carrier to convey a data record from the secondary side of a first transformer to a receiver in a power distribution substation include receiving the data record over a secondary data path in the event that the primary... | 04/29/2008 |
