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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2008
Steffen Reymann, Redhill, GB;
Paul Richard Simons, Redhill, GB;
David George Clark, Redhill, GB;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A system for measuring energy consumption including a plurality of devices of which at least a subset includes a communication unit for supplying operating status information indicating an actual operating status with respect to an actual energy consumption of the associated one of the plurality of devices. A meter measures a total energy consumption of the plurality of devices. A controller calculates an individual energy consumption of a particular one of the plurality of devices from a change of the total energy consumption occurring at a change of the operating status of the particular one of the plurality of devices.