Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090147696 | APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ENERGY-AWARE HOME GATEWAY BASED ON NETWORK - An energy-aware home gateway based on a network protocol includes a network matching module for performing a physical network interface function on a home and an external network; a processor module for performing an operation and a control function of a system in a active state in which service traffic exists; a memory module used as a system memory of the processor module; and a service function module controlled by the processor module and performing a service function depending on a use state. The home gateway further includes a network protocol agent module for processing control traffic in an idle state in which no service traffic exists; and a power supply module for supplying power to the overall system in the normal active state and for supplying power to the network matching module, the memory module, and the network protocol agent module in the idle state. | 06-11-2009 |
20100135645 | SMMD MEDIA PRODUCING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A SMMD media producing apparatus includes: a pre-processor for extracting first media data and produces MXF media data with adjusted resolution using media data of an MXF format; and a neo-data producer for extracting second media data from the MXF media data with the adjusted resolution and produces neo-data to be added to the extracted second media data. The apparatus further includes a media publisher for producing SMMD media data using the neo-data produced by the neo-data producer and the first media data. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138881 | SMMD HOME SERVER AND METHOD FOR REALISTIC MEDIA REPRODUCTION - A single-media multi-devices (SMMD) home server includes a plurality of media decoding units decoding multi-channel AV media data divided from a realistic media content and reproducing the decoded multi-channel AV media data; a home server processor unit dividing the realistic media content into the multi-channel AV media data and effects data, feeding the divided multi-channel AV media data to the media decoding units, and generating effects control data corresponding to the divided effects data; and a gateway/Ethernet switch receiving the realistic media content through a network and forwarding the received realistic media content to the home server processor unit, and receiving the divided multi-channel AV media data from the home server processor unit and feeding the received multi-channel AV media data to the media decoding units through a switching function. | 06-03-2010 |
20110149818 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRIC POWER OF ELECTRIC POWER CONTROLLER, LRWPAN-ETHERNET BRIDGE AND SENSOR NODE - The network configuration technology for controlling an electric power sensor node is disclosed. The method for controlling electric power includes transmitting an an Ethernet packet type command message to at least one electric power sensor node through an LRWPAN-Ethernet bridge in accordance with profile information related to an electric power control, the profile information being set by a user; receiving LR-WPAN packet type response messages transmitted from the at least one electric power sensor node in response to the Ethernet package type command message as Ethernet packet type response messages through the LRWPAN-Ethernet bridge; and providing a control result of an electric power equipment corresponding to the at least one electric power sensor node to the user based on the Ethernet packet type response messages. | 06-23-2011 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20140307811 | SERIALLY CONNECTED POWER LINE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND POWER LINE COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - Power line communication apparatuses, which are serially connected with power line. The power line communication apparatus may include a bypass unit to be serially connected to power line, and pass a communication signal that flows along the power line; a coupling circuit to be connected to two ends of the bypass unit, and couple the communication signal to the power line; an analog front end (AFE) unit to transform an input/output analog signal so that the input/output analog signal is transferred to the power line, and transfer the input/output analog signal to the coupling circuit unit; and a controller to transfer the communication signal, which is to be transferred through the power line to the AFE unit. | 10-16-2014 |
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 |