Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Tomohide Furuya

Shinji Yamamoto

Takayuki Sasaki

Mitsuru Maeda

Junichi Suzuki

Masaki Koyama

Kenji Kuniyoshi

Tomoaki Mizuta

Hideki Takenaga

The slave is used in an energy management system for collecting meter-reading data from an energy meter for measuring an amount of electric energy supplied from a power source to a predetermined place through a distribution line. The slave includes: a first interface unit configured to communicate with an upper device; a second interface unit configured to communicate with an electric appliance installed in the predetermined place; and a third interface unit configured to perform first wireless communication using an electric wave with a communication terminal. One of the first interface unit and the second interface unit is a wired communication unit configured to perform power line communication using the distribution line, and the other of the first interface unit and the second interface unit is a wireless communication unit configured to perform second wireless communication using an electric wave.

Slave suitable for energy management systems and energy management system

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Osaka, Japan

Tomohide Furuya