1. A method comprising:
receiving demand response (DR) request from a DR initiator;
transmitting the DR request to an aggregator;
for each customer, receiving customer location information and a customer DR value from the aggregator;
aggregating DR at a distribution transformer in a distribution system;
determining if there are any violations in the distribution system;
determining an aggregated DR value for each electric node affected by the DR request; and
transmitting each determined DR value to the DR initiator.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the electric node is a substation.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the electric node is a feeder.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
determining a topological model of the distribution system.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein determining a topological model of the distribution system comprises:
receiving topological input data on the distribution system;
verifying the input data; and
determining a plurality of nodes on the distribution system and a plurality of branches on the distribution system, and determining connections between the plurality of nodes and the plurality of branches.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
determining a status of at least one switch on the distribution system.
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
determining at least one violation on the distribution system based on the aggregated DR value associated with a respective electric node affected by the DR request.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one violation is related to cold load pickup.
9. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one violation is related to asymmetric DR balancing between phases.
10. A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
receive demand response (DR) request from a DR initiator;
transmit the DR request to an aggregator;
for each customer, receive customer location information and a customer DR value from the aggregator;
aggregate DR at a distribution transformer in a distribution system;
determine if there are any violations in the distribution system;
determine an aggregated DR value for each electric node affected by the DR request; and
transmit each determined DR value to the DR initiator.
11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the electric node is a substation.
12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the electric node is a feeder.
13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, further comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
determine a topological model of the distribution system.
14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the instructions that cause the processor to determine a topological model of the distribution system further comprise instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
receive topological input data on the distribution system;
verify the input data; and
determine a plurality of nodes on the distribution system and a plurality of branches on the distribution system, and determining connections between the plurality of nodes and the plurality of branches.
15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, further comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
determine a status of at least one switch on the distribution system.
16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, further comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
determine at least one violation on the distribution system based on the aggregated DR value associated with a respective electric node affected by the DR request.
17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the at least one violation is related to cold load pickup.
18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the at least one violation is related to asymmetric DR balancing between phases.
19. A system comprising:
means for receiving demand response (DR) request from a DR initiator;
means for transmitting the DR request to an aggregator;
for each customer, means for receiving customer location information and a customer DR value from the aggregator;
means for aggregating DR at a distribution transformer in a distribution system;
means for determining if there are any violations in the distribution system;
means for determining an aggregated DR value for each electric node affected by the DR request; and
means for transmitting each determined DR value to the DR initiator.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An image forming system comprising a mobile terminal, a plurality of image forming apparatuses that is image-captured by a photographing part provided in said mobile terminal, and a server, wherein
in a server storage part provided in said server, address information about said plurality of image forming apparatuses being stored,
when said plurality of image forming apparatuses is image-captured by the photographing part provided in said mobile terminal, an inquiry request for address information about an image-captured image forming apparatus of said plurality being transmitted from said mobile terminal to said server, wherein said inquiry request for address information includes:
a) model information about said image forming apparatus, wherein the model information has been acquired by an image recognition processing part provided in said mobile terminal on the basis of an appearance image of said image forming apparatus in image data which has been image captured by said photographing part,
b) a screen layout representing disposition locations of respective image forming apparatuses of said plurality of image forming apparatuses on a display screen on the basis of detected locations of said plurality of image forming apparatus, wherein the detected location have been detected by said image recognition processing part from said image data, and
c) an image-capturing direction for said photographing part, wherein the direction has been detected by an azimuth detection part provided in said mobile terminal,
said address information stored in the server storage part of said server being associated with:
a) room layout information that corresponds disposition locations of said plurality of image forming apparatuses to azimuths in each actual room, and
b) the model information about the image forming apparatuses, which is in the room layout information, and being stored,
to respond to said inquiry request for address information, said server storage part being referenced and the image-captured image forming apparatus being identified, and, from said server, address information about said identified image forming apparatus being transmitted to said mobile terminal, wherein the image-captured image forming apparatus:
a) is among image forming apparatuses in a room layout that have model information matching to said model information in said inquiry request for address information,
b) when said image forming apparatuses are viewed from inside of a room, is located in an azimuth matching to said direction of image-capturing, and
c) is located within an image-capturing range of the photographing part, wherein the disposition location of said image forming apparatus in the room layout corresponds to the disposition location of said image forming apparatus in said screen layout, and address information about said identified image forming apparatus being transmitted to said mobile terminal,
on the basis of said address information, which is transmitted from said server and is about said identified image forming apparatus, a request for transmitting job information being transmitted from said mobile terminal to said identified image forming apparatus, and to respond to said request for transmitting job information, job information about printing jobs accumulated in said identified image forming apparatus being transmitted from said identified image forming apparatus to said mobile terminal, and
the job information transmitted from said identified image forming apparatus being synthesized with image data image-captured by said photographing part and being displayed in a display part of said mobile terminal,
wherein, on the basis of disposition relationship among the plurality of image forming apparatuses in the screen layout, said server identifies said image forming apparatus for which the inquiry request was transmitted by identifying an image forming apparatus for which its disposition location in the room layout corresponds to the disposition location, in the screen layout, of the image forming apparatus for which the inquiry request was transmitted.
2. The image forming system according to claim 1, wherein said inquiry request for address information includes an identification number of said image forming apparatus on the basis of a mark provided on said image forming apparatus in the image data which has been prepared by said photographing part,
in the server storage part provided in said server, the address information about said plurality of image forming apparatuses and identification numbers thereof being associated with one another and being stored,
to respond to said inquiry request for address information, said server storage part being referenced and being identified an image forming apparatus corresponding to said identification number, and address information about said identified image forming apparatus being transmitted to said mobile terminal.
3. The image forming system according to claim 1, wherein said address information stored in the server storage part of said server being associated room layout information, which shows disposition locations and azimuths of said plurality of image forming apparatus are corresponded to an electric field intensity of a radio wave transmitted by each image forming apparatus in each actual room, with an apparatus information about the image forming apparatuses in the layout information, and being stored,
said inquiry request for address information including a reception electric field intensity for the image forming apparatus at an image-capturing point, and a direction of image-capturing by said photographing part that has been detected by the azimuth detection part provided in said mobile terminal, and
to response to said inquiry request for address information, by said server, being referenced said server storage part and being identified an image forming apparatus which, in a location in said room layout that corresponds to said reception electric field intensity at said image-capturing point, when an azimuth corresponding to said image-capturing direction is viewed, is located in a direction of the azimuth, and address information about said identified image forming apparatus being transmitted to said mobile terminal.
4. The image forming system according to claim 1, wherein said job information, which has been transmitted from said image forming apparatus, is displayed in association with a location where the corresponding image forming apparatus is displayed in said display part of said mobile terminal.
5. The image forming system according to claim 1, wherein said job information includes existencenon-existence of printing job, a number of printing jobs, an expected execution termination time for all the printing jobs, and the details of each printing job.
6. The image forming system according to claim 1, wherein said server, when said image forming apparatus has not been identified, notifies said mobile terminal with an error message.
7. The image forming system according to claim 6, wherein said server, when said image forming apparatus has not been identified, notifies the mobile terminal with at least one message selected from:
a message for prompting of changing photographing object in order to identify image-captured image forming apparatus,
a message for prompting of photographing some other image forming apparatus having a different model information together with said image forming apparatus having not been identified, and
a message for prompting of collectively photographing all image forming apparatuses having the same model information.