Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090157814 | Method and apparatus for providing social networking service based on peer-to-peer network - A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) based social networking service method for providing a social networking service, includes transmitting a request to a peer group and performing a group-based social networking service; transmitting news or a question to peers in the peer group, and then receiving a response to the question; and storing the received information in a storage medium, and uploading specific information among the stored to a rendezvous peer. The method further includes delivering the uploaded specific information to another rendezvous peer in a network. A P2P based social networking service system includes a P2P middleware unit for providing services of communicating between and grouping the peers; a P2P service application program interface layer for providing a network element function; and a P2P application service layer for calling the network element function, if required, to thereby provide a user with a P2P based network service. | 06-18-2009 |
20090157829 | Peer-to-peer service system and method using e-mail service - A peer-to-peer service method and system are provided. The peer-to-peer service method include advertising E-mail address information and service and sharing resource information through a peer-to-peer network at peers, determining whether a peer requesting a service and a peer providing the service are in online state or in offline state on the peer-to-peer network, and providing a peer-to-peer service through an E-mail server when the peer requesting the service or the peer providing the service is in offline state. The peer-to-peer service system and method using an E-mail service are capable of providing a variety of P2P services (e.g., a message exchange, a file exchange, a remote control, etc.) to peers, which are in online state or temporarily in offline state, by using the E-mail in the P2P network environment which manages the connection information of the peers joined to the corresponding service or the indexes of the sharing resources. | 06-18-2009 |
20100138494 | CONTENT REDISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BASED ON PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK AS WELL AS CONTENT MANAGEMENT TERMINAL AND ITS CONTENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A content redistribution system based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network includes: a content management terminal that, being a peer of the P2P network, decides for redistribution of contents based on characteristic information included in the contents received via a heterogeneous network; and peer terminals to which are distributed the contents decided for redistribution according to data transmission regulations in a community group on the P2P network. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138552 | EDGE PEER DEVICE, PAN GATEWAY DEVICE, SUPER PEER DEVICE, AND P2P NETWORK-BASED INTERCONNECTION METHOD - An edge peer device, includes a first peer device connection management unit for allowing the edge peer device to participate in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, and establishing a pipe connection to other edge peer device or the PAN gateway device to transmit or receive contents; a first peer device authentication unit for performing authentication of the edge peer device and PAN gateway device; and a first advertisement management unit for generating and storing advertisements and indexing the generated advertisements to transmit the indexed advertisements to the super peer device. Further, the edge peer device includes a first PAN device management unit for requesting and receiving a list of PAN devices from the PAN gateway device to manage the PAN device list; a first PAN service management unit for managing and providing services included in the PAN device list; and a first P2P communication unit for performing P2P communication with the super peer device and other peer devices. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138650 | SECURE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, GATEWAY APPARATUS AND ITS OPERATING METHOD - A secure communication system includes: an external peer terminal for generating a security group and participating in the security group by connecting to a peer-to-peer (P2P) network; and a legacy terminal connected to a local area network. The system further includes a gateway apparatus, connected to both of the P2P network and the local area network, for enabling the legacy terminal to participate in the security group. | 06-03-2010 |
20120161548 | WALL OUTLET DEVICE, POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HAVING SAMEAND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF - A power management system includes a signal repeater and a wall outlet device having the electrical appliance plugged therein. The signal repeater is configured to receive a power control signal from a remote controller and generate a power management signal in correspondence with the power control signal, wherein the power control signal includes a power-on signal or a power-off signal used to turn-on or turn-off an electrical appliance, respectively. The wall outlet device is configured to selectively perform the supply of electric power to the electrical appliance or the interruption of electric power being supplied to the electrical appliance in response to the power management signal from the signal repeater. | 06-28-2012 |
20120165988 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING BUILDING MANAGEMENT DATA - An apparatus collecting building management data, the apparatus includes a plurality of central control & monitoring systems (CCMSs) for receiving building management data collected from various facilities and sensors installed in the building; an object filter for filtering the building management data to produce filtered building management data; and a common communication layer (CCL) message generator for converting the filtered building management data into common building management data. The converted common building management data is used for constructing common management environment of individual buildings. | 06-28-2012 |
20120165989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING BUILDING FACILITIES AND DEFECTS THEREOF - A system for maintaining building facilities includes: a building status management engine for monitoring status and environment of a building, and outputting data accumulated through the monitoring or a control instruction generated based on the data accumulated through the monitoring; a building facilities association database for storing information on association between the building facilities; a facility control instruction input unit for receiving a facility control instruction as an input; and a building facility controller for controlling a building facility installed in the building, and, determining effect thereof on building facilities using the building facilities association database. | 06-28-2012 |
20120165998 | APPARATUS FOR VERIFYING AND MANAGING CONSUMPTION ELECTRIC POWER DATA IN A GREEN HOME ELECTRIC POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for verifying and managing consumption electric power data in a green home electric power management system includes: an electric management object structure configured according to an outlet of home, an electric power sensor node of a hole of the outlet, a device and a device; and a consumption electric power data management apparatus for storing a consumption electric power data transmitted from an electric power measuring module embedded outlet and a time information table in the electric management object structure and managing consumption electric power information. The apparatus further includes a verifying apparatus for generating a simulation consumption electric power data. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166001 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN SMART GRID ENVIRONMENT, ELECTRICAL POWER PRODUCING APPARATUS IN SMART GRID ENVIRONMENT - An energy management system in a smart grid environment includes: an electrical power producing apparatus for collecting and analyzing real time price information and electrical power production environment information inputted through a communication network interface to thereby determine a control of an electrical power production; a micro grid, connected to the electrical power producing apparatus, for supplying an electrical power in a local micro grid environment; an electrical power grid, connected to the micro grid, for supplying a main power; and an energy routing service apparatus for transmitting an electrical power and processing an energy information packet for a control of an electrical power flow. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166004 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN HOME NETWORK INTERWORKING WITH SMART GRID - An energy management system in a home network interworking with a smart grid includes: a power management apparatus for managing power consumption of a power consumption apparatus; a power storage apparatus for storing or supplying power to the power consumption apparatus; a power production apparatus for transmitting status information of its power production to the power management apparatus; a mobile power storage/supply apparatus for transmitting its power status to the power management apparatus; a smart meter for transmitting a real-time price and demand response information to the power management apparatus; and a wireless terminal for inputting a schedule of a home power consumer. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166007 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT OF BUILDINGS - An EMM (Energy Monitoring and Management) control system performs energy management of buildings, each building having an EMM client disposed therein. The EMM control system includes an EMM server configured to receive operation information of energy-consuming equipments in the building and information related to energy and environment of the building from the EMM client to perform a function of analyzing/taking statistics/reporting for the operation information, and energy and environment information, an EOM (Energy Optimization and Maintenance) server configured to derive an optimum energy operation program through energy evaluation index and simulation from the information provided from the EMM client and providing the optimum energy operation program to the EMM client. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166497 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING DATABASE AND PROCESSING USER INTERFACE FOR MONITORING BUILDING INFORMATION IN REMOTE BUILDING CONTROL SYSTEM - An apparatus for establishing a database and processing a user interface for monitoring building information in a remote building control system includes: a database establishing apparatus for receiving building information collected from at least one building and analyzing the received information and storing the building information in respective databases by position, equipment and time. The apparatus further includes a user interface processing apparatus for collecting object information from the respective databases in response to an inputted monitoring request to generate display information based on the collected object information to output the generated display information. | 06-28-2012 |
20120179296 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MANAGEMENT PLAN OF BUILDING - An apparatus for generating a management plan of a building includes a basic reference input part for receiving at least one of an indoor-outdoor environment information, a building status information, a requirement for building-management, a sensor information, and a metering information. Further, the apparatus for generating the management plan of the building includes a building-management information part for accumulatively storing past building-management data; and a rule set part which is constructed by accumulating building-management plans extracted from accumulated past building-management information. Furthermore, the apparatus for generating the management plan of the building includes a building-energy characteristic information part for storing energy-consumption characteristics shown through building-management; and an inference engine part for generating a building-management plan based on at least one of the building-management information, the rule set, and the building-energy characteristic information, in accordance with information from the basic reference input part. | 07-12-2012 |
20130124154 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC AND OPTIMAL ARRANGEMENT OF BUILDING ENERGY CONTROL SENSORS - An apparatus optimally and automatically arranges a plurality of energy control sensors in a building. The apparatus includes an input module to receive building information, floor information of the building, structural information of rooms and corridors for each floor of the building, and receive information on one or more the energy control sensors to be installed in the building. The apparatus includes a sensor simulation module configured to calculate arrangement coordinates and installation expense for each of the selected energy control sensors to be installed in the building, and an output module configured to output the arrangement coordinates and the installation expense, which have been calculated sensor simulator for each selected energy control sensor. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124180 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ARRANGING BUILDING ENERGY CONTROL SENSORS BASED ON INSTALLATION EXPENSE - An apparatus automatically arranges a plurality of building energy control sensors based on installation expense. The apparatus includes an input module configured to receive building information, floor information of the building, structural information of rooms and a corridor for each floor of the building, and information on installation expense for one or more energy control sensors to be installed in the building. A sensor arrangement simulation module determines arrangement coordinates of each sensor on the basis of the installation expense information for each sensors to be installed in the building, and an out module outputs the determined arrangement coordinates of each control sensor. | 05-16-2013 |
20130154808 | ELECTRICAL OUTLET FOR AUTOMATICALLY SENSING ELECTRICAL DEVICE, SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ENERGY USING THE ELECTRICAL OUTLET, AND METHOD THEREOF - An electrical outlet for automatically sensing an electrical device, a system for managing electric energy using the electrical outlet, and a method thereof are disclosed. The electrical outlet may include a plug connecting unit to which a plug of an electrical device including a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is connected, an RFID reader for receiving information about the electrical device from the RFID tag, an electric energy measuring unit for measuring an amount of electric energy consumed by the electrical device, a controller for managing the received information about the electrical device and information about the measured amount of electric energy, and a communication unit for transmitting the information about the electrical device and the information about the amount of electric energy used to an electric energy management system. | 06-20-2013 |
20130158728 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SAVING ENERGY IN BUILDINGBASED ON ONTOLOGY - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for saving energy in a building. The apparatus for saving energy in a building includes an interface unit, a building information definition unit, an ontology representation unit, and an energy management unit. The interface unit receives the external and internal contexts and characteristics of the building from a building information provision module within the building. The building information definition unit defines the external and internal contexts and characteristics of the building as building information using a specific representation format. The ontology representation unit represents the building information in a form of an ontology model. The energy management unit selects an energy management service based on an ontology model corresponding to the current context and characteristics of the building received via the interface unit, and saves energy in the building based on the selected energy management service. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166428 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING TIME SYNCHRONIZATION BASED AUTOMATED POWER TRADING FOR REAL TIME PRICING SYSTEM - Provided is an apparatus and method for performing time synchronization based automated power trading for a real time pricing system. The power trading apparatus may include a time synchronizing unit to synchronize at least one of a power market server, a smart meter, and a time information to provide the power market server with time, a power purchasing and selling price monitoring unit to receive power purchasing and selling price information from the power market server to monitor power purchasing and selling prices that change in real time and to compare the power purchasing and selling prices to predetermined reference prices for power trading, and an inverter and power storage apparatus controller to controlling power conversion of an inverter, and charging and discharging of a power storage apparatus to purchase and sell power at the reference prices. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166479 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING ENERGY REVENUES OF ELECTRIC POWER DEVICES BASED ON REAL TIME PRICING - A method and apparatus for calculating energy revenues of electric power devices based on real time pricing is provided. The energy revenue calculating apparatus may synchronize time between the energy revenue calculating apparatus and at least one of a real time energy pricing information providing server and a time information providing server, based on time information received from at least one of the real time energy pricing information providing server and the time information providing server, synchronize an energy sale price stored in the energy revenue calculating apparatus with an energy sale price, based on energy sale price information received from the real time energy pricing information providing server, and calculate energy revenues for a predetermined time period, based on the received energy sale price information and information about an amount of energy that flows into and out of the plurality of electric power devices. | 06-27-2013 |
20130204454 | OPTIMAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND ENERGY EQUIPMENT CONTROL INTERLOCKING SYSTEM FOR RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX - An optimal energy management and energy equipment control interlocking system for a residential complex is provided. The energy management system for managing energy used by a residential complex may include home servers provided in households in the residential complex to collect energy usage information from a plurality of home devices provided in each of the households, to manage the collected energy usage information, and to control energy used by the plurality of home devices, and a complex server for receiving the energy usage information from the home servers to perform integrated management on the received energy usage information, for controlling a corresponding home server based on the received energy usage information, demand response (DR) information, and profile information for saving energy to perform energy saving control in each household, and for controlling energy used by common equipment provided in the residential complex. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204836 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING DATA WAREHOUSE TO MANAGE MASS BUILDING ENERGY INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for constructing a data warehouse for managing mass building energy information are provided. The apparatus for constructing a data warehouse in order to manage mass building energy information includes a primitive database generator for constructing primitive databases in each building based on energy control point information, a time series data warehouse generator for generating time series data warehouses based on the constructed primitive databases, a space time series data warehouse generator for reconstructing the generated time series data warehouses based on an object construction information table including space information about objects for control points of the plurality of buildings to be controlled to generate space time series data warehouses, and a view database generator for generating view databases by a search condition in accordance with the search condition for energy usage information based on the generated space time series data warehouses. | 08-08-2013 |
20130207466 | HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERWORKING WITH NEW RENEWABLE ENERGY - A home energy management apparatus and method for interworking with a new renewable energy are provided. | 08-15-2013 |
20130218356 | ENERGY CONTROL METHOD FOR ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An energy control method for an energy management system provides an operation plan for the energy management system for monitoring and controlling an energy charging and discharging state according to an energy storage type, since energy self-sufficiency at home is enabled through association between an energy storage system (ESS) such as an electric vehicle charging station and home as a renewable energy power supply in the form of a distributed energy resource (DER) is constructed at home. The energy control method adds functions of a home energy management system (HEMS) managing and controlling a renewable energy power supply, the ESS, and the electric vehicle charging station that may be constructed at home afterwards, thereby providing consumers with a control order of various facilities not considered before. Therefore, information on settlements caused by energy supply and demand procedures and energy trading details and management evaluation functions may be provided. | 08-22-2013 |
20130238136 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY AND AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING BUILDING ENERGY FACILITIES - A system and method for remotely and automatically controlling building energy facilities is disclosed. An apparatus for remotely and automatically controlling building energy facilities may include a building facility interface to match control and alarm signals of a manual control panel installed in a building to manage energy used in a building facility and to control a switch of the manual control panel, a facility status information generator to convert the matched control and alarm signals to generate status information on the building facility, and a facility status controller to control the switch of the manual control panel based on the generated status information to remotely control an operation status of the building facility. | 09-12-2013 |
20130304275 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - An energy management system may include an electric power system to collect electricity information, an energy service interface to collect at least one piece of energy information of an electricity consumer, at least one virtual power plant (VPP) management group to provide the at least one piece of energy information, and a VPP operating system connected with the electric power system and the energy service interface to collect and manage the electricity information and the at least one piece of energy information. | 11-14-2013 |
20140088930 | APPARATUS FOR ARRANGEMENT SIMULATION OF BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT FACILITIES - In accordance with the embodiment, for various measuring instruments such as temperature sensor, humidity sensor, temperature-humidity sensor, illuminance sensor, occupancy sensor, CO | 03-27-2014 |
20140107851 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING ENERGY CONSUMPTION PERFORMANCE OF BUILDING - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for evaluating energy consumption performance of a building according to an operation scheme of a existing building by predicting a reference energy consumption amount based on a building operation condition required for an operation process of the existing building and by comparing the predicted reference energy consumption amount with an actual energy consumption amount. | 04-17-2014 |
20140115336 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PROVISIONING HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT SERVICES - A method for provisioning home energy management services includes supplying a service user with a list of home energy management services; and transmitting a request to subscribe to a service to a home energy management service provider server on a communication network. Further, the method includes performing an authentication with the home energy management service provider server and receiving a secret key for encryption and decryption of a message that is transmitted and received for the service; searching for home energy devices on a home network and transmitting a list of searched home energy devices to the home energy management service provider server; and sending the message received from the home energy management service provider server to the same home energy devices. | 04-24-2014 |
20140135993 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ENERGY IN HOME - An apparatus for managing energy in a home, the apparatus includes a device interface unit configured to communicate with at least one of a home appliance and a home automation device that are placed in a home; and an information collection unit that stores identifiers and status information of the home appliance and home automation device received through the device interface unit. Further, the apparatus includes an operation controlling unit configured to control the operation of the home appliance and home automation device in line with the status information. | 05-15-2014 |
20140139023 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SELF-POWER CONSUMPTION - An apparatus for controlling a self-power consumption includes an information receiving unit configured to receive a power supply and demand situation and power price information through a wire/wireless communication network. The apparatus includes a self-power consumption control unit configured to compare the power supply and demand situation with a predetermined power situation and produce a control signal to control a plurality of appliances when it is determined that the power supply and demand situation is put in a state of emergency, or the power price exceeds a predetermined threshold. The apparatus includes a standby power status control unit configured to select one or more appliances of the appliances in response to the control signal and switch the selected appliances into a standby power state. | 05-22-2014 |
20140188571 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING ENERGY SAVING BASED ON SIMULATION - An apparatus for evaluating an energy saving based on a simulation, includes: a building condition collection unit configured to collect information about a building condition; and a building energy optimization unit configured to derive an energy saving measure capable of saving the energy of the building using the building condition information. Further, the apparatus includes a simulation preprocessing unit configured to preprocess various energy-related data for executing the energy saving measure to data for a simulation; a building energy simulator configured to perform a building energy simulation using the preprocessed data; and an evaluation result display unit configured to display the amount of energy that is saved in accordance with the energy saving measure. | 07-03-2014 |
20140214215 | BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL-BASED BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed herein is a building energy management apparatus and method. The building energy management apparatus includes a Building Information Model (BIM) analysis unit for receiving and parsing BIM data and then analyzing BIM objects. A building energy object extraction unit extracts building energy objects related to building energy from the BIM objects. A building energy object database (DB) stores a building energy object data into a DB by arranging the building energy objects. A building energy management unit manages energy of a building based on the building energy object data. Accordingly, the present invention provides technology for extracting and managing objects of a building related to the energy of the building based on a BIM, thus efficiently managing building energy. | 07-31-2014 |
20140257728 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING AND CORRECTING METERING DATA IN NON-METERED SECTION - A method for predicting and correcting metering data in a non-metered section includes collecting energy-related metering data. The method includes generating, when a non-metered section occurs while collecting the metering data, predicted metering data for the non-metered section; and generating corrected metering data for the predicted metering data by analyzing history of the predicted metering data and collected metering data. | 09-11-2014 |
20140288866 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SENSOR DATA - Provided is a method and apparatus for managing sensor data by determining an appropriate sensor data collection cycle for each service in view of a weighting such as an amount of energy saved by data collection cycles, a data storage space and data processing time, and a probability of an error happening, and collecting and manage sensor data based on the sensor data collection cycle. The apparatus for managing the sensor data includes a profile management unit to manage a sensor profile defining each senor, a sensor system and a characteristic of a service, a service management unit to manage a preinstalled service and to collect and recommend a service based on the sensor profile from the sensor system, and a data collection cycle determination unit to determine a necessary sensor data collection cycle for the service. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a sensor data management unit to collect sensor data based on the sensor data collection cycle and to manage the sensor data, and an interface to connect the sensor system and an external device. | 09-25-2014 |
20140300488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING METER DATA FOR ENHANCEMENT OF ELECTRICITY DATA MANAGEMENT OF PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE - An apparatus and a method of correcting meter data for enhancement of electricity data management in a remote automatic measuring environment of a photovoltaic module are disclosed. According to an exemplary embodiment, a meter reads energy usage of a consumer and transmits meter data on the energy usage to an automatic meter reading (AMR) server. A meter data management system monitors an error in the transmitted meter data and a non-reading interval and re-requests collection of an error in meter data and a non-reading interval to the AMR server. When an error and a non-reading interval are found even after meter data is collected on the re-requesting, the error in the meter data and the non-reading interval are corrected using an estimated approximate value based on a history of previous meter data accumulated in a database of the AMR server. | 10-09-2014 |
20140303796 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BUILDING ENERGY - An apparatus for providing a building energy consumption diagnosis and a real-time commissioning processing, includes a database section configured to store building related information; a real-time commissioning section configured to diagnose energy efficiency and obstruction of the mechanical facilities using the building related information. Further, the apparatus includes a building energy consumption information analysis section configured to determine an energy consumption references and diagnose energy consumption of the buildings to be commissioned using the building related information, the real-time operation information and the measured information on the basis of the determined energy consumption reference. | 10-09-2014 |
20140358468 | APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ARRANGING SENSORS AND METERS BASED ON BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING - A apparatus includes a function of automatically arranging various sensors, such as temperature, humidity, illumination, presence, and CO | 12-04-2014 |
20150025700 | APPARATUS AND METHOD REMOTELY MONITORING BUILDING STATE - An apparatus for monitoring a building state, the apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive state data of a building from a plurality of sensors that are used to measure a building state; a state database configured to store the state data; a reference database configured to store a reference to determine whether the state data are abnormal; a security determining unit configured to extract abnormal data determined to be in an abnormal scope among the state data; and an abnormal database configured to store the abnormal data. | 01-22-2015 |