General Electric Company

Henry Kobraei

Michael F Finch

Jeff Donald Drake

Timothy Dale Worthington

David C Bingham

Natarajan Venkatakrishnan

Robert Marten Bultman

Kevin Farrelly Nolan

Cathy Diane Emery

William Anthony Watts

John Keith Besore

Lucas Bryant Spicer

Elliott Dean Koehler

A device configured in a unitary housing which includes a computing device with memory that stores energy information. A power supply and prongs attach to the power supply in the same unitary housing, wherein the prongs are configured to plug into a wall outlet.

Low cost and flexible energy management system defined in a single unitary housing

An energy management system comprises one or more appliances, a remote device, and a communication device. In one embodiment, the communication device forms a physical connection with the remote device and thereafter a physical connection with an associated appliances. The first physical connection binds the communication to the remote device, thereby forming a secure connection over which inputs and outputs can be exchanged between the remote and the associated appliance when the communication device is connected to the appliance.

Device and method for energy management in a household

An energy data management control system is configured to allow a user to control operation of the data management among a plurality of modes.

Low cost and flexible energy management system providing user control arrangement in a plurality of modes

A device configured in a unitary displayless housing, including a computing device that stores, manipulates and communicates energy data, and the displayless external surface of the unitary housing, including status indicator lights to show the status of the device.

Low cost and flexible energy management system configured in a unitary housing having a displayless configuration

A premises data management system includes a first communication network configured to transmit and receive data to and from a user interface. Another communication network is configured to access data from and provides data to accessories within the premises management system. A gateway of the system includes a first interface channel and another interface channel. The gateway receives the data from the first communication network, via the first interface channel. The gateway reformats the data from the first communication network for communication to the other communication network via the other interface channel. The gateway also requests data from the accessories via the other interface channel and replies to the user interface via the first interface channel.

Low cost and flexible energy management system

A system and methods are provided for monitoring the power consumption of a particular energy consuming device of a plurality of energy consuming device devices and particular components thereof in real time. An energy management system can enable components of a device within a home network to power to different operational modes in order to determine different power consumption levels. The system can sort out anomalies and extract them from a power consumption profile created.

Submetering power consumption of appliances

A system and method of operating an energy data management and control system has a first communication network to transmit and receive data to and from a user interface, a second communication network to transmit and receive data to and from a Utility company, and a third communication network to access data from and provide data to accessories within a home. The system reformats the data from any of the first, second and third communication networks for communication with another of the first, second and third communication networks, wherein at least one of the communication networks operate on a protocol different from another one of the communications networks. The data defines various operations of the system.

Low cost and flexible energy management system and method for transmitting messages among a plurality of communication networks

A demand supply management system for an appliance receives information related to cost of energy use and communicates data to the associated appliance in response thereto. A single chip, light emitting diode (LED) device is preferably associated with a module or portion of the home appliance. The LED device conveys information relating to at least two of cost of energy use, signal strength, and module status. The LED device is preferably a single chip, single color solid-state LED device that is selectively actuated between 'illuminated' and 'non-illuminated' states, steady on, slow flash, fast flash, varying duration, intermittent &#x201c;illuminated&#x201d; and &#x201c;non-illuminated&#x201d;, etc. to convey information to the user.

Use of one LED to represent various utility rates and system status by varying frequency and/or duty cycle of LED

A method and system for controlling the operation of accessories in a home energy management system which manages a plurality of communication networks. The schedules are generated by using a central controller and interacting with a user interface found on a device separate from the central controller. The plurality of schedules are stored in the storage of the central controller, and a current schedule is selected from the stored schedules. The selected schedule is loaded onto an accessory through one of the communication channels for controlling the associate accessory.

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

Henry Kobraei