SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING IMPLEMENTATION OF BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION REDUCTION USING DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES

    公开(公告)号:US20240362376A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-31

    申请号:US18766113

    申请日:2024-07-08

    发明人: Thomas E. Hoff

    摘要: Improved energy conservation, including realization of a ZNET (Zero Net Energy including Transportation) paradigm, can be encouraged by providing energy consumers with a holistic view of their overall energy consumption. Current energy consumption in terms of space heating, water heating, other electricity, and personal transportation can be modeled by normalizing the respective energy consumption into the same units of energy. Options for reducing energy that can include traditional energy efficiencies, such as cutting down on and avoiding wasteful energy use and switching to energy efficient fixtures, and improving the thermal efficiency and performance of a building, can be modeled. Additional options can also include non-traditional energy efficiencies, such as replacing a gasoline-powered vehicle with an electric vehicle, fuel switching from a water heater fueled by natural gas to a heat pump water heater, and fuel switching from space heating fueled by natural gas to a heat pump space heater.

    Apparatus and a method for the generation of a collaboration score

    公开(公告)号:US12086530B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-10

    申请号:US18399304

    申请日:2023-12-28

    摘要: An apparatus for the generation of a collaboration score is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive a plurality of entity profiles from a plurality of entities, wherein each of the plurality of entity profiles includes entity data. The memory instructs the processor to identify a plurality of opportunity data as a function of the plurality of entity profiles. The memory instructs the processor to generate collaboration data as a function of the plurality of opportunity data. The memory instructs the processor to determine a collaboration score as a function of the collaboration data. The memory instructs the processor to draft a collaboration report as a function of the collaboration score and the collaboration data. The memory instructs the processor to display the collaboration report using a display device.

    Control device, vehicle, system, and method

    公开(公告)号:US12060225B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-13

    申请号:US17263692

    申请日:2019-09-26

    发明人: Toshiaki Tazume

    摘要: A control device (500) includes a selector (550) that selects one of a first vehicle and a second vehicle as a remaining vehicle that stores a first article and a second article and that remains at a receiving location where the first article and the second article are to be received, and selects another of the first vehicle and the second vehicle as a departing vehicle that departs from the receiving location, when the second vehicle storing the second article arrives at the receiving location while the first vehicle storing the first article stays at the receiving location. Additionally, the control device (500) includes a storage controller (560) that identifies the first article or the second article stored in the selected departing vehicle as a transfer article to be transferred from the departing vehicle to the remaining vehicle, and causes the identified transfer article to be stored in the remaining vehicle. Furthermore, the control device (500) includes a movement controller (540) that causes the departing vehicle to depart from the receiving location when the transfer article is stored in the remaining vehicle.