Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Demand regulating system, demand regulating apparatus, and consumption device management apparatus
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Application No.: US14281971Application Date: 2014-05-20
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Publication No.: US09651972B2Publication Date: 2017-05-16
- Inventor: Hirotaka Takahashi , Yasushi Tomita , Ikuma Sugamata , Maki Hayashi , Kahoru Kakimoto
- Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: JP2013-108348 20130522
- Main IPC: H02J3/14
- IPC: H02J3/14 ; G05F1/66

Abstract:
The priority of a demand regulating control for a device is changed in accordance with a simple operation by a consumer. A demand regulating system has an operation unit that selects from among a plurality of consumption devices, on the basis of priority information and a regulating quantity, a plurality of control-target devices, which are targeted for demand regulating control reducing consumption of the resource. A control unit executes the demand regulating control on the basis of a control instruction; and an input unit receives a first operation by the consumer, and transmits first request information requesting a change in the priorities of the plurality of control-target devices, to the operation unit in accordance with the first operation. The operation unit, upon receiving the first request information, specifies the plurality of control-target devices, and changes the priorities of the plurality of control-target devices in the priority information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140350741A1 DEMAND REGULATING SYSTEM, DEMAND REGULATING APPARATUS, AND CONSUMPTION DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2014-11-27
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