Electrical resource controller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9589241-B2
Application number	US-201113077913-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2011
Priority date	Mar 31, 2011
Publication date	Mar 7, 2017
Grant date	Mar 7, 2017

Abstract

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, an electrical system is provided. The system comprises a controller including a plurality of machine implemented processing sequences. The electrical system also includes a plurality of sensors configured to receive input related to the environmental conditions of the environment surrounding the plurality of sensors and transmit the input to the controller, at least one power source in electrical communication with the controller. The electrical system further includes at least one storage device in electrical communication with the controller, and at least one device sensor in communication with an end user. The at least one device sensor includes memory, and the memory includes priority information regarding the priority of a device associated with the at least one device sensor. The at least one device sensor is operable to transmit information to the controller.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An automated electrical system control system, comprising:
an automated electrical system controller system including an interface section and a machine readable storage section comprising a machine readable instruction and data storage medium altered to store non-transitory machine readable instructions configured to be read by and operate said automated electrical system controller system comprising a plurality of said instructions to selectively generate a plurality of data structures and a plurality of non-transitory machine readable instructions for operating the automated electrical system controller system to communicate with a plurality of sensors, creating/updating a plurality of said data structures comprising electrical resource management data structures, controlling a plurality of energy production sources, controlling a plurality of energy storage devices operable to respectively store electrical and mechanical energy, and controlling a plurality of energy consumption devices operable to consume respectively said electrical and mechanical energy, wherein said plurality of non-transitory machine readable instructions comprising a first, second, and third plurality of non-transitory machine readable instructions;
wherein the first plurality of non-transitory machine readable instructions are adapted to operate said interface section to perform data interface actions with a plurality of potential disruption event databases comprising databases comprising:
failure status, degradation status, maintenance downtime schedule data, and operating information data from command, control, and energy transportation facilities operating or connected with said plurality of energy production sources and said plurality of energy consumption devices;
weather data from weather sources for areas where said plurality of energy production sources are located and a plurality of energy consumption devices are located including tsunami reporting and other real time event reporting databases; and
national security, civil defense, and intelligence threat databases;

wherein the second plurality of non-transitory machine readable instructions are adapted to perform business analytics processing based on a plurality of business analytics data stored at least in said automated electrical system controller system, wherein said second plurality of non-transitory machine readable instructions comprises instructions configured to generate and execute an analytics engine in said automated electrical system controller system comprising a decision engine section and rule base section executed by said decision engine section comprising a plurality of rules for operating the automated electrical system controller system to execute power planning decisions that operates based on said business analytics data and said rule base section, wherein the plurality of business analytics data comprises network component data, network data, node power requirements, node chain power consumption data, equipment or function priority data, location data, power grid data, supported entity/mission data, predicted power disruption impact data, power disruption cost data, threat to life indicator, threat to property indicator, threat to critical infrastructure indicator, threat to critical subsystem indicator, lost opportunity cost from disruption data, and predicted time of disruption data;
wherein the third plurality of machine readable instructions is adapted to control said automated electrical system controller system to produce a plurality of outputs comprising first, second, and third outputs;
a plurality of some of said sensors comprising environmental sensors are configured to measure and generate measurement outputs related to environmental conditions of one or more environments surrounding the plurality of said environmental sensors and transmit the output to the automated electrical system controller system, wherein said sensors measure said one or more environmental conditions that will or may impact production or consumption of electricity associated with said plurality of energy consumption devices;
at least one said energy production source is in electrical communication with the automated electrical system controller system;
at least one said energy storage device is in electrical communication with the automated electrical system controller system;
at least one said energy consumption device; and
at least one said device sensor in communication with the automated electrical system controller system and an end user interface system, the at least one device sensor including memory, the memory including priority information regarding a priority of one or more said energy consumption devices associated with the at least one device sensor, the at least one device sensor operable to transmit information to the automated electrical system controller system, wherein the automated electrical system controller system selectively energizes or deenergizes the devices associated with the at least one device sensor or vary energy produced by said energy production sources based at least in part on the priority information associated with each of the at least one device sensors and on available energy produced by the at least one said power production source as well as energy consumption of at least one said energy consumption devices receiving energy generated by said at least one energy production source.

2. The automated electrical system control system of claim 1 , further comprising at least one smart power consumption device, the at least one smart device operable to transmit information to the automated electrical system controller system without the use of the at least one device sensor.

3. The automated electrical system control system of claim 1 , wherein the first output comprises a network disruption prediction report comprising a list of network nodes, missions, locations or other elements comprising one or more said energy production sources which are presently at risk or are predicted to be at risk within 72 hours or less based on:
outputs from the first, second, and third machine readable instructions,
the plurality of business analytics data,
the data from the potential disruption event database, and
data provided by the at least one device sensor;
wherein the second output comprises a list and at least one network diagram showing a plurality of proposed network disruption prevention actions determined based on:
outputs from the first, second, and third machine readable instructions,
the plurality of business analytics data,
the data from the potential disruption event database, and
data provided by the at least one device sensor; and
wherein the third output comprises a critical path listing showing critical elements, nodes, or links from the first output with a proposed corrective action, including corrective actions which are automatically implemented by the electrical system.

4. The automated electrical system control system of claim 3 , further comprising at least one portable computer in communication with the automated electrical system controller system to issue commands to the automated electrical system controller system, the at least one portable computer including an input/output portion adapted to display a graphical interface showing the first, second, and third outputs.

5. The automated electrical system control system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one power production source is at least one of a photovoltaic generator, a solar cell power generator, a concentrated solar power generator, a fossil fuel generator, a wind turbine generator, a pyrolysis power generator, a fuel cell power generator, a geothermal power generator, a hydroelectric power generator, a nuclear power plant, a wave

Assignees

• Schneider John Felix
• Brown Christopher Allen
• Us Navy

Inventors

• Schneider John Felix
• Brown Christopher Allen

Classifications

• G06Q50/06

  Energy or water supply · CPC title

• G06Q10/06 Primary

  Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling · CPC title