Forgetting to turn off power detection apparatus, forgetting to turn off power detection program, forgetting to turn off power detection method and detection system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9230217-B2
Application number	US-201214127588-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 30, 2012
Priority date	Aug 31, 2011
Publication date	Jan 5, 2016
Grant date	Jan 5, 2016

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a forgetting to turn off power detection apparatus includes an outgoing determination unit that creates a power usage pattern based on electric energy that is calculated from past electric energy data in a consumer equipment, and determines whether or not a consumer has gone outside based on the power usage pattern. The forgetting to turn off power detection apparatus of the embodiments includes a forgetting to turn off power detection unit that receives current electric energy data in the consumer equipment, and detects forgetting to turn off power of an electric equipment of the consumer equipment based on the received electric energy data when the outgoing determination unit determines that the consumer has gone outside.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A forgetting to turn off power detection apparatus comprising:
an outgoing determination unit that creates a power usage pattern based on electric energy that is calculated from past electric energy data in a consumer equipment, and determines whether or not a consumer has gone outside based on the power usage pattern; and
a forgetting to turn off power detection unit that receives current electric energy data in the consumer equipment, and detects forgetting to turn off power of an electric equipment of the consumer equipment based on the received electric energy data when the outgoing determination unit determines that the consumer has gone outside.

2. The forgetting to turn off power detection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the outgoing determination unit calculates an average value of electric energy at a predetermined interval based on the past electric energy data, and determines whether or not the consumer has gone outside based on a power usage pattern created from a same kind type of electric energy after classifying the electric energy at a predetermined interval as the same kink type of electric energy or a non-same kink type of electric energy based on a difference between the average value and the electric energy at a predetermined interval.

3. The forgetting to turn off power detection apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the power usage pattern includes a first static state and a second static state in time sequence, where a variation of electric energy per unit time falls within a predetermined range, and
the outgoing determination unit sets an electric energy threshold for forgetting to turn off power detection based on the first static state and the second static state.

4. The forgetting to turn off power detection apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the outgoing determination unit calculates a start time of the second static state as a start condition for start detection by the forgetting to turn off power detection unit, and determines the start time as a time when the consumer has gone outside.

5. The forgetting to turn off power detection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the outgoing determination unit determines whether or not the consumer has gone outside based one selected from the power usage pattern, a variation amount that is acquired from past gas volume data of the consumer equipment, and a variation amount that is acquired from a past water volume data of the consumer equipment.

6. The forgetting to turn off power detection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the forgetting to turn off power detection unit detects forgetting to turn off power of the electric equipment of the consumer equipment when data, in electric energy calculated from the current electric energy data, at a time later than a determined time when the consumer has gone outside, is larger than a threshold value that is set based on a power usage pattern created from electric energy calculated from the past electric energy data.

7. A forgetting to turn off power detection program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium causing a computer to execute the steps comprising:
a going outside determination step that create a power usage pattern based on electric energy calculated from past electric energy data in a consumer equipment, and determines whether or not a consumer has gone outside based on the power usage pattern; and
a forgetting to turn off power detection step that receives current electric energy data in the consumer equipment, and detects forgetting to turn off power of an electric equipment of the consumer equipment based on the received electric energy data when the going outside determination step determines that the consumer has gone outside.

8. A forgetting to turn off power detection method comprising:
creating a power usage pattern based on electric energy calculated from past electric energy data in a consumer equipment, and determining whether or not a consumer has gone outside based on the power usage pattern; and
receiving current electric energy data in the consumer equipment, and detecting forgetting to turn off power of an electric equipment of the consumer equipment based on the received electric energy data when it is determined that the consumer has gone outside.

9. A detection system comprising:
a determination unit that creates a usage pattern calculated from at least one piece of data in past plural resource usage amounts in consumer equipment, and determines whether or not the consumer equipment is in a peopleless state based on the usage pattern;
a detection unit that receives at least one piece of data in current plural resource usage amounts in the consumer equipment, detects a usage state of a resource corresponding to received usage amount data in plural resources of the consumer equipment at a timing when it is determined that the consumer equipment is in the peopleless state by the determination unit, based on at least one piece of data in the received plural resource usage amounts when it is determined that the consumer equipment is in the peopleless state by the determination unit; and
a control unit that performs predetermined control for a resource of which the detection unit detects a usage state, in the plural resources based on a detected state of the detection unit.

10. The detection system according to claim 9 , wherein
the determination unit acquires at least one piece of information of entering and leaving management information from the consumer equipment and position information of the consumer, and determines whether or not the consumer equipment is in the peopleless state based on the at least one piece of information acquired by the determination unit and the usage pattern.

Assignees

• Miyazaki Tomotaka
• Kimura Kazuo
• Saitou Isamu
• Murata Naohiko
• Yoshii Daigo
• Toshiba Kk
• Toshiba Solutions Corp

Inventors

• Miyazaki Tomotaka
• Kimura Kazuo
• Saitou Isamu
• Murata Naohiko
• Yoshii Daigo

Classifications

• G08B21/24 Primary

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• G06N5/047 Primary

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