US 11,669,919 B2
Internet of things (IoT) based gas pricing
Zehua Shao, Chengdu (CN)
Assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Chengdu (CN)
Filed by Chengdu Qinchuan IoT Technology Co., Ltd., Chengdu (CN)
Filed on Mar. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/191,240.
Application 17/191,240 is a continuation of application No. 16/287,923, filed on Feb. 27, 2019, granted, now 10,977,750.
Prior Publication US 2021/0192644 A1, Jun. 24, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 50/06 (2012.01); G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0207 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 50/06 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0223 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gas pricing method based on a compound Internet of Things (IoT), wherein the method is applied to an IoT system; the IoT system comprises a user platform, a service platform, a plurality of management sub-platforms, a sensor network platform and a plurality of object sub-platforms; each of the object sub-platforms comprises a gas meter, wherein each of the user platform, the service platform, the sensor network platform, and the plurality of management sub-platforms includes one or more computer devices, wherein the one or more computer devices are communicatively connected to each other and to the gas meter, and wherein the plurality of object sub-platforms are communicatively connected with the plurality of management sub-platforms via the sensor network platform; and the method comprises:
generating and sending at a preset frequency, by each of the object sub-platforms, gas data of a corresponding gas meter to a corresponding management sub-platform via the sensor network platform;
calculating, by each of the management sub-platforms, a month-on-month reduction rate for a gas usage amount of each gas meter within a preset time interval according to gas data of each gas meter, and sending the calculated month-on-month reduction rate for the gas usage amount of each gas meter to the service platform;
sorting, by the service platform, the month-on-month reduction rate respectively sent by the plurality of management sub-platforms for the gas usage amount of each gas meter, and calculating a gas fee of each gas meter according to the sorted month-on-month reduction rate for the gas usage amount of each gas meter; and
sending, by the service platform, the sorted month-on-month reduction rate for the gas usage amount of each gas meter and the gas fee of each gas meter to the user platform,
wherein the calculating a gas fee of each gas meter according to the sorted month-on-month reduction rate for the gas usage amount of each gas meter further comprises:
calculating the gas fee of each gas meter according to a preset pricing rule; and
reducing, according to a preset reduction rule, a preset portion of gas fees of gas meters of which the ranks of month-on-month reduction rates are located in a preset ranking interval,
wherein each of the management sub-platforms calculates the month-on-month reduction rate for the gas usage amount of each gas meter based on gas data of a gas meter in the current month, and average gas data of the gas meter in previous several months of the current month,
wherein each of the management sub-platforms calculates the month-on-month reduction rate for the gas usage amount of each gas meter in terms of a following formula:

OG Complex Work Unit Math
where, the θ is the month-on-month reduction rate, the x is the gas data of a gas meter in the current month, and the y is the average gas data of the gas meter in previous several months of the current month.