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US 10,114,051 · App. 15/300,496 · Granted Oct 30, 2018

Monitoring device, monitoring system, monitoring method, and non-transitory storage medium

Inventors: Eisuke Saneyoshi (Tokyo, JP); Ryo Hashimoto (Tokyo, JP); Kosuke Homma (Tokyo, JP); Koji Kudo (Tokyo, JP); Takahiro Toizumi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NEC Corporation
G01R21/133G01R21/06
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,114,051
App. No.
15/300,496
Filed
Sep 29, 2016
Granted
Oct 30, 2018
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2867
USPC
324/113
Abstract

A monitoring device ( 10 ) includes: a unit-specific waveform data acquisition unit ( 12 ) that acquires unit-specific monitoring waveform data which is waveform data of at least one among total current consumption, a total input voltage, and total power consumption in a unit in which monitoring target electrical devices are installed; a first inference unit ( 13 ) that infers operation states of at least some of the monitoring target electrical devices based on a 1st feature amount group including at least one kind of feature amount extracted from the unit-specific monitoring waveform data, and a training feature amount which is a feature amount of each of the monitoring target electrical devices in a predetermined operation state; and a second inference unit ( 14 ) that infers the operation states of some of the monitoring target electrical devices based on a 2nd feature amount group including at least one kind of feature amount extracted from the unit-specific monitoring waveform data, and different from the 1st feature amount group and the training feature amount.

Claims (51)

1. A monitoring device comprising:

a measuring instrument that acquires unit-specific monitoring waveform data, including waveform data of at least one of a total current consumption, a total input voltage, and a total power consumption in a unit in which monitoring target electrical devices are installed;

a memory storing instructions; and

a processor executing the stored instructions to:

infer operation states of at least some of the monitoring target electrical devices based on

a 1 st feature amount group including at least one kind of feature amount extracted from the unit-specific monitoring waveform data, and

a training feature amount which is a feature amount of each of the monitoring target electrical devices in a predetermined operation state; and

infer the operation states of some of the monitoring target electrical devices based on

a 2 nd feature amount group including at least one kind of feature amount extracted from the unit-specific monitoring waveform data, and different from the 1 st feature amount group, and

the training feature amount.

2. The monitoring device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a storage unit that stores at least one of

device-specific training waveform data, including waveform data of at least one of a current consumption, an input voltage, and a power consumption, and

the training feature amount at the time of the predetermined operation state extracted from the device-specific training waveform data in association with each of the monitoring target electrical devices,

wherein the processor is further configured to execute the stored instructions to infer the operating states based on the training feature amount extracted from the device-specific training waveform data.

3. The monitoring device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to execute the stored instructions to infer

whether the operation states of at least some of the monitoring target electrical devices are either a power-on state or a power-off state, and

the power consumption of each of at least some of the monitoring target electrical devices excluding the monitoring target electrical device of which the operation state is inferred to be the power-off state by the first inference unit.

4. The monitoring device according to claim 3 , wherein the processor is further configured to execute the stored instructions to infer whether the operation states of at least some of the monitoring target electrical devices are either the power-on state or the power-off state based on at least one of

the training feature amount indicating that the monitoring target electrical device is in the power-on state, and

the training feature amount indicating that the operation state of the monitoring target electrical device is changed between the power-on state and the power-off state.

5. The monitoring device according to claim 3 , wherein the processor is further configured to execute the stored instructions to infer the power consumption of the monitoring target electrical device based on the training feature amount indicating that the power consumption of the monitoring target electrical device is a predetermined value.

6. The monitoring device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to execute the stored instructions to infer

the power consumption of each of some of the monitoring target electrical devices, and

the power consumption of each of at least some of the monitoring target electrical devices excluding the monitoring target electrical devices of which the power consumption is inferred by the first inference unit.

7. The monitoring device according to claim 6 , wherein the processor is further configured to execute the stored instructions to infer the power consumption of the monitoring target electrical device based on the training feature amount indicating that the power consumption of the monitoring target electrical device is a predetermined value.

8. The monitoring device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a display that displays inference results from the processor.

9. A monitoring system comprising:

the monitoring device according to claim 1 ; and

a repeating device, including:

a receiver that receives unit-specific monitoring waveform data measured by the measuring instrument installed in a unit in which monitoring target electrical devices are installed; and

a transmitter that transmits the unit-specific monitoring waveform data to the monitoring device.

10. The monitoring device according to claim 1 , further including a printer that outputs inference results from the processor.

11. The monitoring device according to claim 1 , further including a mailer that outputs inference results from the processor.

12. A monitoring method comprising:

acquiring, using a measuring instrument, unit-specific monitoring waveform data, including waveform data of at least one of a total current consumption, a total input voltage, and a total power consumption in a unit in which monitoring target electrical devices are installed;

inferring, using a processor, operation states of at least some of the monitoring target electrical devices based on

a 1 st feature amount group including at least one kind of feature amount extracted from the unit-specific monitoring waveform data, and

a training feature amount which is a feature amount of each of the monitoring target electrical devices in a predetermined operation state; and

inferring, using the processor, the operation states of some of the monitoring target electrical devices based on

a 2 nd feature amount group including at least one kind of feature amount extracted from the unit-specific monitoring waveform data, and different from the 1 st feature amount group, and

the training feature amount.

13. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program, wherein the program includes instructions, when executed by a computing device, cause the device to:

acquire unit-specific monitoring waveform data, including waveform data of at least one of a total current consumption, a total input voltage, and a total power consumption in the unit in which monitoring target electrical devices are installed;

infer operation states of at least some of the monitoring target electrical devices based on

a 1 st feature amount group including at least one kind of feature amount extracted from the unit-specific monitoring waveform data, and

a training feature amount which is a feature amount of each of the monitoring target electrical devices in a predetermined operation state; and

infer the operation states of some of the monitoring target electrical devices based on

a 2 nd feature amount group including at least one kind of feature amount extracted from the unit-specific monitoring waveform data, and different from the 1 st feature amount group, and

the training feature amount.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 29, 2016
From: SANEYOSHI, EISUKE; HASHIMOTO, RYO; HOMMA, KOSUKE; KUDO, KOJI; TOIZUMI, TAKAHIRO
To: NEC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039895/0225 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-071121 · Mar 31, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
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