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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2019
Smart plug and method for determining operating information of a household appliance by a smart plug
Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag, Stockholm, SE;
Luca Della Schiava, Porcia, IT;
Enrico Marson, Porcia, IT;
Gilberto Pin, Porcia, IT;
Paolo Posa, Porcia, IT;
Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag, Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A smart plug designed to electrically connect a household appliance to power lines. The smart plug has an electronic controller configured to measure current and voltage of the electric power supplied to household appliance via a smart plug, determine electric quantities indicative at least of prefixed current harmonics and/or prefixed voltage harmonics, based on said measured current and voltage, determine load information which are indicative of electric loads of the household appliance being activated during an operating cycle performed by household appliance, based on determined electric quantities; determine the operating cycle performed by the household appliance based on the load information, communicate determined operating cycle to a network system.