US 8,626,344 B2
Energy management system and methodGeneral
US 8,626,344 B2
Energy management system and method
Tech Center:
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Examiner:
Mohammad Ali
Art Unit:
2127 AI & Simulation/Modeling
Agent:
Inventors:
Kevin R. Imes; James Hollister
Assignee:
KINGSTON CONSULTING, INC.
Priority:
08/21/09
Filed:
07/20/10
Granted:
01/07/14
Expiration:
03/16/30
Abstract
According to an aspect of the disclosure, an energy management apparatus for a home energy management system and method includes a processor operable to manage energy use at a site. The processor is configured to convert an incoming message received from a wireless energy network into XML enabled output data and format an outgoing message to be output to the wireless energy network using XML enabled input data. A communication interface is configured to enable access to a communication device having access to the wireless energy network, wherein the communication interface is further configured to detect the outgoing message formatted by the processor to be output using the wireless energy network; configure the outgoing message to a message bus format, detect the incoming message received from the wireless energy network, and convert the incoming message from the message bus format to access the incoming network device data.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G05G05D23/1904G05B15/02G05F1/66G05DF24F2110/10F24FH04L2012/285H04W84/10H04LY02B70/30Y02E10/76Y02D30/70Y02P80/10Y02BG06Q50/06G06F1/26G06QH02J3/38H02JY04S20/20Y04S