Intelligent electronic device having an XML-based graphical interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8933815-B2
Application number	US-58937806-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2006
Priority date	Oct 28, 2005
Publication date	Jan 13, 2015
Grant date	Jan 13, 2015

Abstract

An intelligent electronic device (IED) having an interface for displaying data sensed and generated by the intelligent electronic device and other IEDs on a network is provided. The intelligent electronic device includes at least one sensor coupled to the electric circuit configured for measuring at least one power parameter of the electrical circuit and generating at least one analog signal indicative of the at least one power parameter; at least one digital to analog converter coupled to the at least one sensor configured for receiving the at least one analog signal and converting the at least one analog signal to at least one digital signal; a processor configured for receiving the at least one digital signal and generating energy data; a communication device configured for accessing at least one second intelligent electronic device; and an interface configured for displaying data generated by the at least one second intelligent electronic device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An intelligent electronic device for monitoring power of an electrical circuit comprising:
at least one sensor coupled to the electrical circuit configured for measuring at least one parameter of the electrical circuit and generating at least one analog signal indicative of the at least one parameter;
at least one analog to digital converter coupled to the at least one sensor configured for receiving the at least one analog signal and converting the at least one analog signal to at least one digital signal;
a processor configured for receiving the at least one digital signal, generating data, and tagging the generated data with XML tags to produce first XML-tagged generated data;
a memory device for storing the first XML-tagged generated data and at least one first screen layout XML file, the at least one first screen layout XML file including display variables for configuring how an interface displays the first XML-tagged generated data;
a communication device configured for retrieving at least one second screen layout XML file from at least one second intelligent electronic device and for accessing second XML-tagged data of the at least one second intelligent electronic device, the at least one second screen layout XML file including display variables for configuring how the interface displays the second XML-tagged data; and
a display disposed on a face of the intelligent electronic device, the display configured for displaying the interface with the first XML-tagged generated data from the memory device in accordance with the at least one first screen layout XML file, and the display further configured for displaying the interface with the second XML-tagged data generated by the at least one second intelligent electronic device in accordance with the at least one second screen layout XML file, wherein the at least one second screen layout XML file is a client interface to replicate an interface displayed by the at least one second intelligent electronic device.

2. The intelligent electronic device as in claim 1 , wherein the memory device is further configures to include at least one of configuration files and XML files.

3. The intelligent electronic device as in claim 1 , wherein the first XML-tagged generated data and second XML-tagged data are revenue data.

4. The intelligent electronic device as in claim 1 , wherein the communication device is configured to download a plurality of screen layout files configured for displaying data generated by the at least one second intelligent electronic device.

5. The intelligent electronic device as in claim 1 , wherein the communication device comprises means for enabling communications between at least one intelligent electronic device and at least one computing device.

6. The intelligent electronic device as in claim 1 , further comprising:
a network of intelligent electronic devices; and
a network communication device configured for accessing the network of intelligent electronic devices through the interface configured for displaying data generated by the at least one second intelligent electronic device.

7. The intelligent electronic device as in claim 6 , wherein the network of intelligent electronic devices stores sensed and generated data and connects to any other of the network of the intelligent electronic devices having the same format of sensed and generated data.

8. The intelligent electronic device as in claim 1 , wherein the intelligent electronic device is one of a digital electrical power and energy meter, a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), a Remote Terminal Unit (RTU), a protective relay, or a fault recorder.

9. The intelligent electronic device as in claim 1 , wherein the intelligent electronic device is one of a socket-type meter, a switchboard mounted meter or a circuit breaker mounted meter.

10. The intelligent electronic device as in claim 1 , wherein the intelligent electronic device is a panel mounted meter.

11. A method for monitoring power usage by an intelligent electronic device comprising:
sensing power signals and generating power data from the sensed power signals by a processor of at least one first intelligent electronic device;
tagging the sensed power signals and the generated power data with XML, tags to produce first XML-tagged data;
storing the fist XML-tagged data in a memory device of the at least one first intelligent electronic device;
selecting an interface for displaying the first XML-tagged data;
retrieving the interface for displaying the first XML-tagged data from the memory device of the at least one first intelligent electronic device;
applying and displaying the retrieved interface on a display disposed on a face of the at least one first intelligent electronic device, wherein displaying the retrieved interface further comprises displaying the first XML-tagged data from the memory device of the at least one first intelligent electronic device in accordance with at least one first screen layout XML file associated with the at least one first intelligent electronic device, the at least one first screen layout XML file including display variables for configuring how the interface displays the first XML-tagged data;
selecting at least one second intelligent electronic device;
retrieving at least one second screen layout XML file from the at least one second intelligent electronic device, the at least one second screen layout XML file including display variables for configuring how the interface displays the second XML-tagged data;
receiving second XML-tagged data from the at least one second intelligent electronic device; and
applying and displaying the received second XML-tagged data on the display disposed on the face of the at least one first intelligent electronic device in accordance with the at least one second screen layout XML file associates with the at least one second intelligent electronic device, wherein the at least one second screen layout XML file is a client interface to replicate an interface displayed by the at least one second electronic device.

12. The method of monitoring power usage as in claim 11 , wherein the first XML-tagged data and second XML-tagged data are revenue data.

13. A system for monitoring power usage from an electrical circuit from a plurality of intelligent electronic devices, comprising:
a plurality of intelligent electronic devices, each intelligent electronic device comprising:
at least one sensor coupled to the electrical circuit configured for sensing at least one parameter of the electrical circuit and generating at least one analog signal indicative of the at least one parameter;
at least one analog to digital converter coupled to the at least one sensor configured for receiving the at least one analog signal and converting the at least one analog signal to at least one digital signal;
a processor configured for receiving the at least one digital signal, generating data, and tagging the generated data with XML tags;
a memory device for storing the XML-tagged generated data and at least one screen layout XML file, the at least one screen layout XML file including display variables for configuring how an interface displays the XML-tagged generated data;
a communication device configured for retrieving at least one screen layout XML file from another intelligent electronic device and for accessing XML-tagged generated data of the other intelligent electronic device, the at least one screen layout XML file associated with the other intelligent electronic device including display variables for configuring how the interface displays the XML-tagged generated data of the other intelli

Assignees

• Kagan Erran
• Spanier Joseph
• Wang Wei
• Siqueira Da Silva Dulciane
• Electro Ind Gauge Tech

Inventors

• Kagan Erran
• Spanier Joseph
• Wang Wei
• Siqueira Da Silva Dulciane

Classifications

• Y02B90/248

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y04S20/32

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y04S20/52

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02B90/241

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G01D4/002 Primary

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