公开(公告)号：US11817822B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-14

申请号：US18120486

申请日：2023-03-13

Applicant: Alarm.com Incorporated

Inventor： Caspar John Anderegg

IPC: H02S50/00 ,  F24S50/20 ,  G01R31/00 ,  G01S3/786

CPC classification number: H02S50/00 ,  F24S50/20 ,  G01R31/00 ,  G01S3/7861 ,  F24S2201/00

Abstract: A monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property is disclosed. The monitoring system includes a sensor that is configured to generate sensor data that reflects an attribute of the property; a solar panel that is configured to generate and output power; and a monitor control unit. The monitor control unit is configured to: monitor the power outputted by the solar panel; determine that the power outputted by the solar panel has deviated from an expected power range; based on determining that the power outputted by the solar panel has deviated from the expected power range, access the sensor data; based on the power outputted by the solar panel and the sensor data, determine a likely cause of the deviation from the expected power range; and determine an action to perform to remediate the likely cause of the deviation from the expected power range.

公开(公告)号：US20190199283A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-27

申请号：US16191635

申请日：2018-11-15

Applicant: Korea Aerospace Research Institute

Inventor： Shi Hwan OH ,  Hong Youl MOON

IPC: H02S50/10 ,  F24S40/90 ,  G01L5/24 ,  G01M13/02

CPC classification number: H02S50/10 ,  B64G1/222 ,  F24S40/90 ,  F24S2201/00 ,  G01L5/24 ,  G01M13/027

Abstract: Provided is a deployment test apparatus including a fixing frame configured to fix a first portion of a target object in which the first portion is hingedly coupled to a second portion, a rotation axis module including a rotary shaft and disposed on one side of the fixing frame, a rotary arm radially extending from the rotary shaft in an upper portion of the fixing frame, and a support module connected to the rotary arm to clamp the second portion of the target object to be floated, wherein when deploying the target object, the deployment test apparatus is configured to reduce an external force applied to the target object.

公开(公告)号：US10079317B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-18

申请号：US14053273

申请日：2013-10-14

Applicant: Constantine Gonatas

Inventor： Constantine Gonatas

IPC: H01L31/02 ,  H02S10/00 ,  H02J3/38 ,  H02S40/38 ,  H02J3/32

CPC classification number: H01L31/02021 ,  F24S2201/00 ,  H02J3/32 ,  H02J3/383 ,  H02S10/00 ,  H02S40/38 ,  Y02E10/563 ,  Y02E10/566 ,  Y02E70/30

Abstract: A renewable energy generator imposes costs on a power grid from rapid fluctuations in output. A device is disclosed that collects data on renewable power production, meteorological and other information, forecasts short timescale renewable power production then mitigates costs incurred by power fluctuations by modulating the power output, while maximizing power production revenue. Mitigation may be effected by an AC/DC inverter, an energy storage system, demand response or a FACTS device. The magnitude and costs for modulating response required from energy storage, FACTS or other power modulation equipment is thereby reduced.

公开(公告)号：US20180254368A9

公开(公告)日：2018-09-06

申请号：US13847437

申请日：2013-03-19

Applicant: Solar Chief, LLC

Inventor： Randall William Prengler ,  Mark Myles Chazanow ,  Michael R. Uhrick

IPC: H01L31/058

CPC classification number: H02S10/00 ,  F24S90/00 ,  F24S2201/00 ,  G06Q50/06 ,  H01L31/05 ,  Y02B10/70 ,  Y02E10/50

Abstract: A method for managing distributed renewable energy systems comprising receiving first meter data for a plurality of first meters, each of the plurality of first meters associated with a renewable energy power generation component at an institution and measuring an amount of power generated by each associated renewable energy power generation component over a first period of time. Receiving second meter data for a plurality of second meters, each of the plurality of second meters associated with an institution having a renewable energy power generation component and measuring an amount of power consumed by each associated institution over a period of second time. Determining a difference between the amount of power measured by each of the first meters and the amount of power measured by a corresponding one of each of the second meters at each institution.

公开(公告)号：US20180242429A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-23

申请号：US15960448

申请日：2018-04-23

Applicant: SUNTRACKER TECHNOLOGIES LTD.

Inventor： IAN ASHDOWN ,  WALLACE JAY SCOTT

IPC: H05B37/02 ,  G05B13/04 ,  F24F11/30 ,  F24F11/47 ,  F24F130/20

CPC classification number: H05B37/0227 ,  F24F11/30 ,  F24F11/47 ,  F24F2120/10 ,  F24F2130/20 ,  F24S2201/00 ,  G05B13/048 ,  H05B37/0218 ,  H05B37/0281 ,  Y02B20/42 ,  Y02B20/46

Abstract: A predictive system and method thereof for indoor horticulture are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a set of input values identifying a geographic position of a physical structure enclosing an interior environment and a target distribution for environmental parameters for a selected plant occupant. The method further includes obtaining a virtual representation of the physical structure, and iteratively over time, updating the virtual representation based on actual plant growth or a predicted plant growth model for the selected plant occupant. The method further includes running a computational model to obtain a predicted distribution of the environmental parameters for the virtual representation, and determining a target distribution of artificially modulated environmental parameters. Based on the target distribution of the artificially modulated environmental parameters, the method includes setting output parameters for control devices to collectively control the actual distribution of the set of environmental parameters.

公开(公告)号：US20180240048A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-23

申请号：US15963073

申请日：2018-04-25

Applicant: China Electric Power Research Institute Company Limited ,  State Grid Corporation of China ,  CLP Puri Zhangbei Wind Power Research & Testing Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Weisheng Wang ,  Chun Liu ,  Chi Li ,  Yuehui Huang ,  Yuefeng Wang ,  Cun Dong ,  Nan Zhang ,  Xiaofei Li ,  Yunfeng Gao ,  Xiaoyan Xu ,  Yanping Xu ,  Xiaofeng Pan

IPC: G06Q10/04 ,  G06Q50/06

CPC classification number: G06Q50/06 ,  F24S2201/00 ,  G06Q10/04

Abstract: A method and device for modeling a long-time-scale photovoltaic output time sequence are provided. The method includes that: historical data of a photovoltaic power station is acquired, and a photovoltaic output with a time length of one year and a time resolution of 15 mins is selected (101); weather types of days corresponding to the photovoltaic output are acquired from a weather station (102), and probabilities of transfer between each type of weather are calculated respectively (103); and a simulated time sequence of the photovoltaic output within a preset time scale is generated (104), and its validity is verified (105). By the method, annual and monthly photovoltaic output simulated time sequences consistent with a random fluctuation rule of a photovoltaic time sequence may be acquired according to different requirements to provide a favorable condition and a data support for analogue simulation of time sequence production including massive new energy.

公开(公告)号：US09991844B2

公开(公告)日：2018-06-05

申请号：US15030964

申请日：2014-11-14

Applicant: PowerOwners, LLC.

Inventor： Daniel P. Leary ,  Roy S. Greenwood

IPC: H02S50/00 ,  F24J2/38 ,  G01J1/44 ,  G01K13/00 ,  G01J1/42

CPC classification number: H02S50/00 ,  F24S50/20 ,  F24S2201/00 ,  G01J1/44 ,  G01J2001/4276 ,  G01J2001/4285 ,  G01K13/00 ,  Y02E10/47

Abstract: A device comprises a platform constructed and arranged to be mounted to one or more solar array modules and one or more solar irradiance sensors on the platform configured to receive incident solar energy, the solar irradiance sensors oriented on the platform so that the received incident solar energy is comparable to that received by the solar array modules, the one or more solar irradiance sensors providing solar irradiance signals in response to the incident solar energy. A processor is on the platform, the processor configured to receive the solar irradiance signals and, in response, generating a performance reference metric based on the solar irradiance signals, the performance reference metric related to the expected performance of the one or more solar array modules to which the platform is mounted. A transmitter is on the platform, the transmitter configured to periodically transmit the performance reference metric to a receiver.

公开(公告)号：US20180136366A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-17

申请号：US15577441

申请日：2016-05-27

Applicant: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System

Inventor： ROLANDO E. VEGA-AVILA ,  WALTER B. RICHARDSON, Jr. ,  HARIHARAN KRISHNASWAMI ,  MICHAEL CERVANTES

IPC: G01W1/10 ,  G06N7/00 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G06T7/11

CPC classification number: G01W1/10 ,  F24S2020/16 ,  F24S2201/00 ,  G01W1/00 ,  G01W1/12 ,  G06N7/005 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G06T2207/30192 ,  H02S40/00 ,  H02S99/00 ,  Y02E10/50

Abstract: Concepts of distributed solar energy prediction imaging are described. In one embodiment, a solar forecast system includes a computing environment, a network, and an imaging device. Among other elements, the imaging device can include a wide-angle optical component, an imaging assembly, and a computing device. The computing device of the imaging device can capture an array of images using the imaging assembly, combine the array of images into a combined-resolution image, transform the combined-resolution image into a transformed image based on a calibration transformation matrix associated with the wide-angle optical component, identify and track cloud features in the transformed image, and generate a solar forecast using ray tracing based on the cloud features. The imaging device can also transmit the solar forecast to the computing environment via the network, and the computing environment can fuse solar forecast data from several imaging device into a distributed geographic area forecast.

公开(公告)号：US20170345208A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-30

申请号：US15666938

申请日：2017-08-02

Applicant: Suntracker Technologies Ltd.

Inventor： Ian Ashdown ,  Wallace Jay Scott

IPC: G06T15/50 ,  G06T15/00 ,  G06F17/50 ,  G06T15/55 ,  G06T15/80 ,  G06T15/04 ,  H05B37/02

CPC classification number: G06T15/506 ,  F24F11/30 ,  F24F11/47 ,  F24F2120/10 ,  F24F2130/20 ,  F24S2201/00 ,  G05B19/042 ,  G06F17/11 ,  G06F17/5004 ,  G06F17/5009 ,  G06F17/5018 ,  G06F17/504 ,  G06T15/005 ,  G06T15/04 ,  G06T15/55 ,  G06T15/80 ,  G06T2215/16 ,  H05B37/0218 ,  H05B37/0227 ,  H05B37/0281 ,  Y02B20/42 ,  Y02B20/46

Abstract: Sustainable building lighting and energy modelling and control, and the associated computer graphics, including real-time dynamic lighting simulation, are concerned with: an optimized method for radiance modelling, including its application to predictive daylight harvesting; and the real-time simulation of physically-based electric lighting and daylighting for architectural, horticultural, and theatrical lighting systems visualization. In order to display and analyze in real time a photometrically accurate representation of an environment, thousands of lighting channels may have their intensity settings continually varied such that a user may interactively view the three-dimensional environment without the need for ongoing global illumination calculations. This can be accomplished utilizing texture maps as a multiplicity of canonical radiosity solutions, each representing a lighting channel for dynamic lighting simulation, and storing the solutions in the texture memory of a graphics processing unit.

公开(公告)号：US20170255172A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-07

申请号：US15295787

申请日：2016-10-17

Applicant: Drift Marketplace, Inc.

Inventor： Herbert Alan Tilley ,  Gregory William Robinson ,  Edwin Eugene McKenzie

IPC: G05B15/02 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H02S20/10 ,  F24J2/38 ,  H02S20/32 ,  G05F1/67 ,  F24J2/54

CPC classification number: G05B15/02 ,  F24S30/452 ,  F24S50/20 ,  F24S2030/145 ,  F24S2201/00 ,  G05F1/67 ,  H02S20/10 ,  H02S20/32 ,  Y02E10/47 ,  Y02E10/58 ,  Y10T29/49355

Abstract: Systems and methods that provide trackers and tracking assemblies having node managers, such as smart node managers are described herein. Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an autonomous energy distribution network including a plurality of solar tracker devices configured to receive solar energy and transform the solar energy into electrical energy, where each of the solar tracker devices is directly connected to a node in a power distribution grid. The network also includes a node manager configured to receive status information from the solar trackers, where the status information includes information regarding the state of the node to which each of the solar tracker device are directly connected.