Electrical energy usage monitoring system
Disclosed is a system and method having one or more networked modular sensors Nodes and a data processing/display for use to monitor and control electrical appliance loads at a premises. The modular sensor Nodes and the processing/display system detect, process, and manage real-time and historic electrical energy usage data for the premises, allowing the management of energy usage by a user of the system through manual and automated usage controls. The sensor Nodes are integrated into the standard form-factors (i.e., the standard physical configuration) of components typical of household and commercial electrical interfaces, such as circuit breakers, wall outlets, light switches, plug ends, power strips. The Nodes are configured in the standard form-factor of typical electrical interfaces to allow them to be substituted for the existing electrical interfaces and used with appliances or other load devices already existing or to be added at the premises.
1. A method of an electrical energy management system for monitoring, storing and processing electrical energy usage data and for controlling electrical energy usage at a site, the energy management system method comprising:
providing a programmable management console having an electrical system management software operating capacity and management system software installed on the console, the management console interfacing with a user interface component device;
establishing a data communication connection between the management console and an electrical energy sensor Node of the management system;
receiving communicated data, including Node data, via the communication connection by a Transport module of the software;
authenticating and compressing the communicated data by an Authentication/Security module and then by a Data Collection/Compression module;
acting on the communicated data by sending it to a Real-Time Event Engine for caching and for real-time display and user action, and to a Data Storage module for further processing and/or storage; and
processing the communicated data to extract Node data from the communicated data for further processing, storage and/or display to enable a user to monitor and control electrical energy usage at the site.