Omron Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Rohm Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho

Hiroshi Imai

Hiromasa Takatsuka

Kazuki Kasai

Fumiji Aita

Keiki Matsuura

Hiroyuki Tokusaki

Takayuki Eda

Tomohiro Okumura

Masao Yamamoto

Tetsuji Yamato

Yasuhiro Kawabata

Hiroshi Sameshima

Taiji Yoshikawa

Masayo Ikuta

Goro Kawakami

Mao Ogimoto

Atsuhiro Okamura

Yasukazu Ohno

Masayuki Endo

Noboru Nomura

Tanichi Ando

Masafumi Kubota

Kousaku Yano

Shuichi Misumi

Tomoyasu Murakami

Kohei Tomita

Ryota Akai

Naoto Matsuo

Michinari Yamanaka

Koji Takizawa

Yusuke Yamaji

Hiroshi Tanabe

Tomohiro Ozaki

Daijiro Ito

Chen Chen

Kensaku Tsuchida

Hironobu Kawauchi

Yuji Kosumi

Teruki Hasegawa

Tadashi Murakami

Tetsuya Mimura

Yasunori Aoki

Masashi Asai

Daigiro Ito

Staoshi Ueda

Hiroshi Tomochika

Masaru Shoji

Mitsunori Baba

Masaru Nagano

Masayoshi Akiyama

Takayuki Hamasaki

Daisuke Kitawaki

Komei Sudo

Hitoshi Kubota

A metadata generation apparatus capable of generating metadata, as well as a metadata generation method and program are provided. The sensing device is configured to generate an output value based on a physical amount that is input. The metadata generation apparatus includes a probability density function generation unit and a metadata generation unit. The probability density function generation unit is configured to generate a probability density function of an output value when a specific physical amount is input to the sensing device. The metadata generation unit is configured to generate metadata based on the probability density function.

Metadata generation apparatus, metadata generation method, and program

This power sale timing optimum control system is provided with a communication unit, a demand prediction unit, a supply prediction unit, and a timing determination unit. The communication unit acquires the amount of power stored in each of multiple power storage devices. The demand prediction unit predicts a total amount of demand on power in a utility customer group. On the basis of the acquired amount of stored power, the supply prediction unit predicts the total amount of suppliable power that can be supplied in the utility customer group. The timing determination unit determines a power sale timing on the basis of the predicted total amount of demand and the predicted total amount of suppliable power.

System, method, and computer-readable recording medium of power sale timing optimum control

A coordinator () includes an accepting unit (), a required resource information calculation unit (), an insufficient resource information calculation unit (), a combination determination unit (), and a communication unit (). The required resource information calculation unit () calculates information regarding resources required to satisfy a request accepted by the accepting unit (). The insufficient resource information calculation unit () compares the required resources calculated by the required resource information calculation unit () with resources included in each of a plurality of sensor nodes (), and calculates information regarding an insufficient resource that each sensor node lacks. The combination determination unit () determines a combination of resources required to satisfy the request, based on the information regarding the insufficient resource calculated by the insufficient resource information calculation unit ().

Management apparatus, management system, management method, and management program

A matching apparatus includes: a sensor-side metadata acquisition unit that acquires sensor-side metadata; an application-side metadata acquisition unit that acquires application-side metadata; a matching unit that performs matching between the sensor-side metadata and the application-side metadata in which a first related term that is related to a term in the acquired sensor-side metadata and a second related term that is related to a term in the acquired application-side metadata are in common with each other, and extracts a sensor candidate; and a dataflow control command instruction unit that transmits a dataflow control command that includes information that specifies the sensor extracted by the matching unit and an application.

Matching device, matching method, and program

A power supply and demand prediction system that predicts the power supply and demand of a group including multiple utility customers is provided and includes a communication unit, a demand prediction unit, a power generation prediction unit, and a stored power prediction unit. The communication unit acquires the amount of power stored in each of multiple power storage devices belonging to the group. The demand prediction unit predicts the amount of demand for power for each utility customer. The power generation prediction unit predicts the amount of power generated by each of multiple solar panels belonging to the group. The stored power prediction unit predicts the amount of power stored in each battery on the basis of the amount of stored power acquired for each power storage device, the amount of demand predicted for each utility customer, and the amount of generated power predicted for each solar panel.

Power supply and demand prediction system, power supply and demand prediction method and recording medium storing power supply and demand prediction program

Power coordination control systems (-) are provided with superimposed signal generation units (-), transmission units (-), receiving units (-) and connection relation estimation units (-). At the location of a utility consumer A (), the superimposed signal generation unit () generates a superimposed signal by superimposing a prescribed signal on a voltage supplied from a system (). The transmission unit () transmits the superimposed signal generated in the superimposed signal generation unit () from the utility consumer A () to utility consumers B () and C (). The receiving unit () receives the superimposed signal at the location of the utility consumer B (). The connection relation estimation units (-) estimate the connection relation between the utility consumer A () and the utility consumer B () on the basis of the receiving status of the superimposed signal and/or the received information received by the receiving units (-).

Power coordination control system, power coordination control method, and non-transitory storage medium

Provided are a power storage control apparatus and a power storage control method with which a second power storage apparatus connected to a first storage apparatus via a power distribution network can be used based on an availability status of the first power storage apparatus under a configuration that a plurality of power storage apparatuses are deployed in the power distribution network. The power storage control apparatus includes a status determination part, a signal generation part and a communication part. The status control part determines the availability status of the first power storage apparatus deployed in the power distribution network. The signal generation part generates a control signal for using the second power storage apparatus connected to the first storage apparatus in the power distribution network instead of the first power storage apparatus based on a determination result from the status determination part. The communication part transmits the control signal generated by the signal generation part to the second power storage apparatus.

Power storage control apparatus and power storage control method

A management device includes a potential usable power calculator that computes a measurement value or an estimated value for a potential usable power which is the amount of power available when the power consumption of an electrical appliance and a potential feed-in amount that can be sold are excluded from the power output from the solar power device; a planned usage determination unit that identifies a planned usage time that a user plans to use a designated appliance; an effective time determination unit that identifies a continuous effective time when a physical quantity representing a state that changes due to the designated appliance using the potential usable power is within a range that is effective for a user; and a scheduler that creates an operation schedule indicating at least an operation start time for the designated appliance on the basis of the planned usage time and the continuous effective time.

Management device, management system, control method for management device, and control program

A management device includes a surplus power calculator configured to compute a measurement value or an estimated value for a surplus power which is power output from the power generator excluding the power consumption of the electrical appliance; and a scheduler configured to create an operation schedule for a designated appliance scheduled to operate during a period different from a surplus power period when the surplus power is available so that the designated appliance uses the surplus power during the surplus power period to operate; the scheduler also configured to shift the operation period of the designated appliance when a potential usable power is greater than an increment in the power consumption resulting due to shifting the operation period of the designated appliance, where the potential usable power is the surplus power with a potential feed-in power excluded therefrom.

A power storage management system, a power storage apparatus, a power storage management method are provided. The power storage management system includes a receiver part, a sender identifying part, a memory part and a deterioration degree estimating part. The sender identifying part identifies an external apparatus that transmitted a control signal received by the receiver part. The memory part stores apparatus information related to the external apparatus identified by the sender identifying part and power storage status information related to the status change of the power storage apparatus caused by charging or discharging performed according to the control signal transmitted from the external apparatus. The deterioration degree estimating part estimates the deterioration degree of the power storage apparatus to which a charge/discharge control is performed according to the control signal transmitted from the sender apparatus based on the apparatus information and the power storage status information.

Power storage management system, power storage apparatus and power storage management method

There is provided a non-contact voltage measurement device which can precisely measure a measurement target voltage by suppressing a flow of a leakage current via a parasitic capacitance produced between an electric field shield and an electric circuit. A drive voltage applying unit applies a voltage generated from an output voltage of a low impedance unit of the electric circuit and equal to an input voltage of a high impedance unit, to a first electric field shield coated on the high impedance unit.

Non-contact voltage measurement device

Provided is a non-contact voltage measuring device capable of measuring, with given accuracy, measurement target voltages applied to various conducting wires having respective different shapes. An inner electrode which is deformable depending on a shape of a wire 'w' is electrically connected, via a connecting section, to an outer electrode fixed to an electric field shield.

A measuring apparatus has a physical amount transformer that transforms a physical amount into a current, a measuring circuit that measures an output current of the physical amount transformer, a power supply circuit that inputs an output of the measuring circuit, a circuit switching unit that switches between a first state and a second state, the first state constituting a circuit inputting the output of the measuring circuit into the power supply circuit, the second state constituting a circuit directly inputting the output of the measuring circuit into the physical amount transformer, and a switching controller driven by the power supply circuit to control the circuit switching unit.

Measuring apparatus and measuring method

A measurement device has a sensor that generates current by electromagnetic coupling to a power line, a measurement circuit that measures one of voltage and power, the voltage and the power being obtained by the current generated in the sensor according to voltage at the power line, a conductive member electrically connected to a signal ground line of the measurement circuit, and an insulating member that brings the conductive member close to an external conductor and insulates the conductive member from the external conductor.

Measurement device and mounting unit

A sensor device includes a first sensor unit, a control IC configured to switch a power supply route, a power supply, a DC converter, and a regulator configured to regulate the voltage. A power supply route A and a power supply route B is provided as a power supply route from the power supply to the sensor unit and the control IC. In the power supply route A, the sensor unit is not electrically conducted to the power supply, and the control IC is directly connected to the power supply. In the power supply route B, the power supply, the DC converter, and the regulator are connected in series, output of the regulator is supplied to the sensor unit, and output of the DC converter is supplied to the control IC. The control IC switches between the power supply route A and the power supply route B according to an operating state of the sensor unit.

Sensor device and monitoring system

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