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| 20110140906 | USE OF ONE LED TO REPRESENT VARIOUS UTILITY RATES AND SYSTEM STATUS BY VARYING FREQUENCY AND/OR DUTY CYCLE OF LED - A demand supply management system for an appliance receives information related to cost of energy use and communicates data to the associated appliance in response thereto. A single chip, light emitting diode (LED) device is preferably associated with a module or portion of the home appliance. The LED device conveys information relating to at least two of cost of energy use, signal strength, and module status. The LED device is preferably a single chip, single color solid-state LED device that is selectively actuated between “illuminated” and “non-illuminated” states, steady on, slow flash, fast flash, varying duration, intermittent “illuminated” and “non-illuminated”, etc. to convey information to the user. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110202189 | LOW COST AND FLEXIBLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PROVIDING USER CONTROL ARRANGEMENT IN A PLURALITY OF MODES - An energy data management control system is configured to allow a user to control operation of the data management among a plurality of modes. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202190 | LOW COST AND FLEXIBLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM DEFINED IN A SINGLE UNITARY HOUSING - A device configured in a unitary housing which includes a computing device with memory that stores energy information. A power supply and prongs attach to the power supply in the same unitary housing, wherein the prongs are configured to plug into a wall outlet. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202194 | SUB-METERING HARDWARE FOR MEASURING ENERGY DATA OF AN ENERGY CONSUMING DEVICE - A sub-meter device for use in a home energy management (HEM) network. The sub-meter device measure power characteristics related to usage of an appliance (or other device) within a HEM network and provides such data to a home energy controller or the like. The sub-meter device can include one or more sensors, such as a current transformer, Rogowski coil, shunt resistor, or hall effect sensor, for collecting data relating to at least one of real power consumption, reactive power consumption, line frequency, line voltage, power factor, leading/lagging voltage-current comparison, and apparent power, etc. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202196 | LOW COST AND FLEXIBLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGES AMONG A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A system and method of operating an energy data management and control system has a first communication network to transmit and receive data to and from a user interface, a second communication network to transmit and receive data to and from a Utility company, and a third communication network to access data from and provide data to accessories within a home. The system reformats the data from any of the first, second and third communication networks for communication with another of the first, second and third communication networks, wherein at least one of the communication networks operate on a protocol different from another one of the communications networks. The data defines various operations of the system. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202198 | LOW COST AND FLEXIBLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH A SCHEDULING CAPABILITY - A method and system for controlling the operation of accessories in a home energy management system which manages a plurality of communication networks. The schedules are generated by using a central controller and interacting with a user interface found on a device separate from the central controller. The plurality of schedules are stored in the storage of the central controller, and a current schedule is selected from the stored schedules. The selected schedule is loaded onto an accessory through one of the communication channels for controlling the associate accessory. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202293 | DIAGNOSTICS USING SUB-METERING DEVICE - A system and method for performing diagnostics on a device, such as an appliance, using a sub-meter device that measures power characteristics related to usage of the appliance within a HEM network and provides such data to a home energy controller or the like. The sub-meter device can include one or more sensors, such as a current transformer, Rogowski coil, shunt resistor, or hall effect sensor, for collecting data relating to at least one of real power consumption, reactive power consumption, line frequency, line voltage, power factor, leading/lagging voltage-current comparison, and apparent power, etc. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202783 | LOW COST AND FLEXIBLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CONFIGURED IN A UNITARY HOUSING HAVING A DISPLAYLESS CONFIGURATION - A device configured in a unitary displayless housing, including a computing device that stores, manipulates and communicates energy data, and the displayless external surface of the unitary housing, including status indicator lights to show the status of the device. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202910 | LOW COST AND FLEXIBLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A premises data management system includes a first communication network configured to transmit and receive data to and from a user interface. Another communication network is configured to access data from and provides data to accessories within the premises management system. A gateway of the system includes a first interface channel and another interface channel. The gateway receives the data from the first communication network, via the first interface channel. The gateway reformats the data from the first communication network for communication to the other communication network via the other interface channel. The gateway also requests data from the accessories via the other interface channel and replies to the user interface via the first interface channel. | 08-18-2011 |
