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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2018
Applicants:

Total Solar International, Courbevoie, FR;

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (US);

Inventors:

Maziar Vanouni, Raleigh, NC (US);

Ning Lu, Raleigh, NC (US);

Wente Zeng, Cary, NC (US);

Assignees:

TOTAL SOLAR INTERNATIONAL, Courbevoie, FR;

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, Raleigh, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 3/14 (2006.01); G05B 13/02 (2006.01); H02J 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 3/14 (2013.01); G05B 13/021 (2013.01); H02J 13/0006 (2013.01); H02J 2003/143 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, a system, and computer readable medium for managing thermostatically controlled loads (TLCs). The method includes acquiring data from a plurality of TCLs including at least thermal parameters associated with each TCL of the plurality of TCLs and a regulation signal data and prioritizing the plurality of TCLs. The prioritization is based on a contribution of each TCL to an overall service. The method further includes generating an optimization curve based on the prioritization, determining an optimization attribute associated with each TCL of the plurality of TCLs, and outputting the optimization attribute associated with each TCL for a regulation period to each TCL. The optimization curve has at least reward criteria as an optimization parameter.


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