Monday, January 29, 2018

Oh, patents! SMAPPEE

Copyright © Françoise Herrmann


Most people manage their cash flow, SMAPPEE is a system that manages the energy flow at your residence. Using a proprietary algorithm and dedicated hardware, the various SMAPPEE monitoring systems measure/monitor in real time all the energy consumed and produced at your residence, assuming that, for example, you are using solar panels.  

The measurement/monitoring technology combines patented load disaggregation and submetering of the main power line. The patented load disaggregation technology is called NILM – Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring. NILM technology enables to record the total energy signal of a building and then to detect and extract each of the appliances’ separate signals. This is because each appliance uses energy in a different way, which leaves a unique signature that can be detected by the patented technology. So, for example, a 1500 watt microwave and a 1500 watt coffeemaker, working at the same time, will both use energy differently, and in such a way that SMAPPEE can detect them both as Appliance 1 and Appliance 2. The user then designates Appliance 1 and 2, as Microwave and Coffeemaker, after turning them on and off to coach the system into detecting them separately, in a robust manner.

Amazingly, SMAPPEE applies to all the electronic and electrical appliances of your residence, including such items as the water heater, HVAC, an electric car, fridge, dishwasher, clothes washer, dryer, cooktop, computer, printer, chargers, lamps, even hair dryers, which normally might all work at one time or another, variously turning on and off. Only very low consumption appliances, such as LED lights or, twin appliances, such as two lamps, might go undifferentiated and/or undetected, without user coaching  

The energy consumption information that is thus monitored/measured and extracted, each time an appliance is turned on or off, is sent as data packets to a remote server which you can then access with your mobile device and My SMAPEE app, in view of obtaining real-time feedback, and/ or to query the data for information on exactly how much energy each of your appliances use, or cost, per week, per day, per season etc.

The most recent, CES 2018 Innovation Award-winning SMAPPEE Plus version of this residential energy management system, even allows users to control and re-assign the flow of energy at their residence. For example, you could assign more solar energy to your cooktop if you are recharging your electric vehicle, at the same time. The latest SMAPPEE Plus version also enables users to use SolarCoin cryptocurrency. The long-term goal of the SMAPPEE company is to create off the grid, decentralized, energy hubs that can buy, sell and produce renewable energy. 

The SMAPPEE load disaggregation technology is disclosed in the WIPO patent application WO2015154824A1. The abstract of the patent application is included below, together with a mobile app screenshot, showing the extracted energy monitored data, during a day, for a washing machine. 

The present invention is directed to an energy management system comprising a in situ processing unit (I) comprising: a measuring unit (2,3,5) capable of measuring a set of power related parameters over a main electricity cable; a fIrst processing unit (6) capable of processing said power related parameters by applying a signature detection algorithm, for detecting an event relating to turning ON or OFF of an electronic and/or electric appliance and for characterizing said event; means for transferring to a server a data packet comprising an output of said signature detection algorithm; characterized in that, the processing unit triggers the transfer of a data packet only in case such an event is detected. The present invention is further directed to a method for monitoring the use of electronic and/or electric appliances comprising the following steps: measuring/monitoring power related parameters over a main electricity cable, said measuring/monitoring being performed by a measuring unit (2,3,5) part of an energy management systern according to the present invention, processing said power related parameters on said fIrst processing unit (6), by applying a signature detection algorithm for detecting whether an event relating to turning ON or OFF an electronic and/or electric appliance occurred and for characterizing said event, initiating a data transfer to a server (4), transferring to a server (4) a data packet comprising an output of said signature detection algorithm, characterized in that said method further comprises triggering the transfer of a data packet only in case such an event is detected.

PS --This is green management technology, hailing from Belgium!

Reference
SMAPPEE website
www.smapee.com

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