Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120161548 | WALL OUTLET DEVICE, POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HAVING SAMEAND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF - A power management system includes a signal repeater and a wall outlet device having the electrical appliance plugged therein. The signal repeater is configured to receive a power control signal from a remote controller and generate a power management signal in correspondence with the power control signal, wherein the power control signal includes a power-on signal or a power-off signal used to turn-on or turn-off an electrical appliance, respectively. The wall outlet device is configured to selectively perform the supply of electric power to the electrical appliance or the interruption of electric power being supplied to the electrical appliance in response to the power management signal from the signal repeater. | 06-28-2012 |
20120165988 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING BUILDING MANAGEMENT DATA - An apparatus collecting building management data, the apparatus includes a plurality of central control & monitoring systems (CCMSs) for receiving building management data collected from various facilities and sensors installed in the building; an object filter for filtering the building management data to produce filtered building management data; and a common communication layer (CCL) message generator for converting the filtered building management data into common building management data. The converted common building management data is used for constructing common management environment of individual buildings. | 06-28-2012 |
20120165989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING BUILDING FACILITIES AND DEFECTS THEREOF - A system for maintaining building facilities includes: a building status management engine for monitoring status and environment of a building, and outputting data accumulated through the monitoring or a control instruction generated based on the data accumulated through the monitoring; a building facilities association database for storing information on association between the building facilities; a facility control instruction input unit for receiving a facility control instruction as an input; and a building facility controller for controlling a building facility installed in the building, and, determining effect thereof on building facilities using the building facilities association database. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166007 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT OF BUILDINGS - An EMM (Energy Monitoring and Management) control system performs energy management of buildings, each building having an EMM client disposed therein. The EMM control system includes an EMM server configured to receive operation information of energy-consuming equipments in the building and information related to energy and environment of the building from the EMM client to perform a function of analyzing/taking statistics/reporting for the operation information, and energy and environment information, an EOM (Energy Optimization and Maintenance) server configured to derive an optimum energy operation program through energy evaluation index and simulation from the information provided from the EMM client and providing the optimum energy operation program to the EMM client. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166497 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING DATABASE AND PROCESSING USER INTERFACE FOR MONITORING BUILDING INFORMATION IN REMOTE BUILDING CONTROL SYSTEM - An apparatus for establishing a database and processing a user interface for monitoring building information in a remote building control system includes: a database establishing apparatus for receiving building information collected from at least one building and analyzing the received information and storing the building information in respective databases by position, equipment and time. The apparatus further includes a user interface processing apparatus for collecting object information from the respective databases in response to an inputted monitoring request to generate display information based on the collected object information to output the generated display information. | 06-28-2012 |
20120179296 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MANAGEMENT PLAN OF BUILDING - An apparatus for generating a management plan of a building includes a basic reference input part for receiving at least one of an indoor-outdoor environment information, a building status information, a requirement for building-management, a sensor information, and a metering information. Further, the apparatus for generating the management plan of the building includes a building-management information part for accumulatively storing past building-management data; and a rule set part which is constructed by accumulating building-management plans extracted from accumulated past building-management information. Furthermore, the apparatus for generating the management plan of the building includes a building-energy characteristic information part for storing energy-consumption characteristics shown through building-management; and an inference engine part for generating a building-management plan based on at least one of the building-management information, the rule set, and the building-energy characteristic information, in accordance with information from the basic reference input part. | 07-12-2012 |
20130124154 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC AND OPTIMAL ARRANGEMENT OF BUILDING ENERGY CONTROL SENSORS - An apparatus optimally and automatically arranges a plurality of energy control sensors in a building. The apparatus includes an input module to receive building information, floor information of the building, structural information of rooms and corridors for each floor of the building, and receive information on one or more the energy control sensors to be installed in the building. The apparatus includes a sensor simulation module configured to calculate arrangement coordinates and installation expense for each of the selected energy control sensors to be installed in the building, and an output module configured to output the arrangement coordinates and the installation expense, which have been calculated sensor simulator for each selected energy control sensor. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124180 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ARRANGING BUILDING ENERGY CONTROL SENSORS BASED ON INSTALLATION EXPENSE - An apparatus automatically arranges a plurality of building energy control sensors based on installation expense. The apparatus includes an input module configured to receive building information, floor information of the building, structural information of rooms and a corridor for each floor of the building, and information on installation expense for one or more energy control sensors to be installed in the building. A sensor arrangement simulation module determines arrangement coordinates of each sensor on the basis of the installation expense information for each sensors to be installed in the building, and an out module outputs the determined arrangement coordinates of each control sensor. | 05-16-2013 |
20130158728 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SAVING ENERGY IN BUILDINGBASED ON ONTOLOGY - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for saving energy in a building. The apparatus for saving energy in a building includes an interface unit, a building information definition unit, an ontology representation unit, and an energy management unit. The interface unit receives the external and internal contexts and characteristics of the building from a building information provision module within the building. The building information definition unit defines the external and internal contexts and characteristics of the building as building information using a specific representation format. The ontology representation unit represents the building information in a form of an ontology model. The energy management unit selects an energy management service based on an ontology model corresponding to the current context and characteristics of the building received via the interface unit, and saves energy in the building based on the selected energy management service. | 06-20-2013 |
20130204836 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING DATA WAREHOUSE TO MANAGE MASS BUILDING ENERGY INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for constructing a data warehouse for managing mass building energy information are provided. The apparatus for constructing a data warehouse in order to manage mass building energy information includes a primitive database generator for constructing primitive databases in each building based on energy control point information, a time series data warehouse generator for generating time series data warehouses based on the constructed primitive databases, a space time series data warehouse generator for reconstructing the generated time series data warehouses based on an object construction information table including space information about objects for control points of the plurality of buildings to be controlled to generate space time series data warehouses, and a view database generator for generating view databases by a search condition in accordance with the search condition for energy usage information based on the generated space time series data warehouses. | 08-08-2013 |
20130238136 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY AND AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING BUILDING ENERGY FACILITIES - A system and method for remotely and automatically controlling building energy facilities is disclosed. An apparatus for remotely and automatically controlling building energy facilities may include a building facility interface to match control and alarm signals of a manual control panel installed in a building to manage energy used in a building facility and to control a switch of the manual control panel, a facility status information generator to convert the matched control and alarm signals to generate status information on the building facility, and a facility status controller to control the switch of the manual control panel based on the generated status information to remotely control an operation status of the building facility. | 09-12-2013 |
20140088930 | APPARATUS FOR ARRANGEMENT SIMULATION OF BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT FACILITIES - In accordance with the embodiment, for various measuring instruments such as temperature sensor, humidity sensor, temperature-humidity sensor, illuminance sensor, occupancy sensor, CO | 03-27-2014 |
20140107851 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING ENERGY CONSUMPTION PERFORMANCE OF BUILDING - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for evaluating energy consumption performance of a building according to an operation scheme of a existing building by predicting a reference energy consumption amount based on a building operation condition required for an operation process of the existing building and by comparing the predicted reference energy consumption amount with an actual energy consumption amount. | 04-17-2014 |
20140188571 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING ENERGY SAVING BASED ON SIMULATION - An apparatus for evaluating an energy saving based on a simulation, includes: a building condition collection unit configured to collect information about a building condition; and a building energy optimization unit configured to derive an energy saving measure capable of saving the energy of the building using the building condition information. Further, the apparatus includes a simulation preprocessing unit configured to preprocess various energy-related data for executing the energy saving measure to data for a simulation; a building energy simulator configured to perform a building energy simulation using the preprocessed data; and an evaluation result display unit configured to display the amount of energy that is saved in accordance with the energy saving measure. | 07-03-2014 |
20140214215 | BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL-BASED BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed herein is a building energy management apparatus and method. The building energy management apparatus includes a Building Information Model (BIM) analysis unit for receiving and parsing BIM data and then analyzing BIM objects. A building energy object extraction unit extracts building energy objects related to building energy from the BIM objects. A building energy object database (DB) stores a building energy object data into a DB by arranging the building energy objects. A building energy management unit manages energy of a building based on the building energy object data. Accordingly, the present invention provides technology for extracting and managing objects of a building related to the energy of the building based on a BIM, thus efficiently managing building energy. | 07-31-2014 |
20140303796 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BUILDING ENERGY - An apparatus for providing a building energy consumption diagnosis and a real-time commissioning processing, includes a database section configured to store building related information; a real-time commissioning section configured to diagnose energy efficiency and obstruction of the mechanical facilities using the building related information. Further, the apparatus includes a building energy consumption information analysis section configured to determine an energy consumption references and diagnose energy consumption of the buildings to be commissioned using the building related information, the real-time operation information and the measured information on the basis of the determined energy consumption reference. | 10-09-2014 |
20140358468 | APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ARRANGING SENSORS AND METERS BASED ON BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING - A apparatus includes a function of automatically arranging various sensors, such as temperature, humidity, illumination, presence, and CO | 12-04-2014 |
20150025700 | APPARATUS AND METHOD REMOTELY MONITORING BUILDING STATE - An apparatus for monitoring a building state, the apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive state data of a building from a plurality of sensors that are used to measure a building state; a state database configured to store the state data; a reference database configured to store a reference to determine whether the state data are abnormal; a security determining unit configured to extract abnormal data determined to be in an abnormal scope among the state data; and an abnormal database configured to store the abnormal data. | 01-22-2015 |