US 12,254,520 B2
Power management system and power management method
Kazuhide Toda, Kyoto (JP); Yasuhiro Nakamura, Kyoto (JP); Yusuke Kishina, Kyoto (JP); Noriyasu Kawakita, Kyoto (JP); Takashi Inoue, Kyoto (JP); Tomoya Shimomura, Kyoto (JP); Kenji Ikeuchi, Kyoto (JP); and Hiroshi Yoshida, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to KYOCERA CORPORATION, Kyoto (JP)
Appl. No. 17/758,021
Filed by KYOCERA CORPORATION, Kyoto (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 25, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/048783
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/132579, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-238766 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0029613 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 50/06 (2024.01); H02J 3/00 (2006.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 50/06 (2013.01) [H02J 3/0075 (2020.01); H02J 3/381 (2013.01); H02J 2300/24 (2020.01); H02J 2300/30 (2020.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A power management system, comprising:
a management apparatus configured to assign one of pieces of divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, the pieces of the divided computation processing corresponding to different processing loads, wherein
the management apparatus comprises
a communication module configured to receive a message comprising an information element indicating a type of a power source configured to identify electrical power allowed as electrical power to be used by the distributed computing device; and
a processor configured to perform assignment processing to assign the one of the pieces of the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on the type of the power source, the type of the power source including at least one of surplus power of the facility, output power of a distributed power supply placed in the facility, or system power to be supplied from a power system connected to the facility,
the processor is configured to change a method of assigning the one of the pieces of the divided computation processing based on whether the power source is the surplus power, the output power or the system power, and
the communication module is configured to transmit an assignment instruction including an assignment result of the assignment processing to control the distributed computing device to perform the one of the pieces of the divided computation processing by using the electrical power provided by the power source.