Systems, methods and apparatus for encouraging energy conscious behavior based on aggregated third party energy consumption

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9507362-B2
Application number	US-201514752453-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2015
Priority date	Sep 30, 2008
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

Accessing an energy management policy for a plurality of devices is described, wherein the devices are coupled with a first structure. The energy usage of the devices is monitored. An energy usage rule and energy usage is then compared. The energy management policy and energy usage is also compared. Based on the comparing, an instruction is generated to modify an energy usage profile of said device to correlate with the energy usage rule associated with the devices and the energy management policy, thereby enabling efficient energy management.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of encouraging resource-conscious behavior, comprising:
determining, using an resource management system, resource usage information for each of a plurality of homes, the resource usage information for each home indicating an amount of resource consumption associated with the home;
comparing the amount of resource consumption associated with a first home in the plurality of homes to the amount of resource consumption associated with at least a sec…

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Weaver Jason C
• Kayton Bradley A

Classifications

• H02J2105/42

  Electricity · mapped topic

• F24F11/56

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• H04W4/12

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/12

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06Q30/0257

  Physics · mapped topic