Communication of historical and real-time information about devices in a building

摘要

Electrical usage of devices in a building may be monitored to provide information about the operation of the devices to a user. The information communicated to a user may include historical information that is retrieved from a server and real-time information that is received from a power monitoring device. The historical information may be transmitted to the user device over a first network connection where the historical information is retrieved using an identifier received from the user device. The real-time information may be received from a power monitoring device and transmitted to the user device over a second network connection.

主权项

1. A method for providing information about a plurality of devices in a building, the method comprising:
accepting from a user device a first network connection; receiving an identifier from the user device via the first network connection; retrieving first information from a data store using the identifier, wherein the first information comprises historical information about a first device and a second device; transmitting the first information to the user device via the first network connection; accepting from the user device a second network connection; receiving second information from a power monitoring device, wherein the second information comprises real-time information about power consumption of a third device at a first time and about power consumption of a fourth device at the first time; and transmitting the second information to the user device via the second network connection.