Optimizing consumption of resources

US8086354B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Vitaliy Bondar · San Jose, US
• Ching-Hua Chen-Ritzo · Mahopac, US
• Rick A. Hamilton, II · Charlottesville, US
• Clifford A. Pickover · Yorktown Heights, US
• Ralph P. Williams · Bartlesville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 31, 2009
• Grant date: Dec 27, 2011
• Expiry date: May 26, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/2639
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems and apparatus for optimizing consumption of one or more resources are presented. For example, a method may be implemented on a processor device and includes obtaining user preferences for the consumption of resources that include water and electricity, predicting the consumption of, and a first metric for the consumption of, the resources for each of a plurality of first time periods, determining a projected second metric for the consumption of the resources during a second time period according to the predicted consumption and the predicted first metric, and optimizing the consumption of the resources according to the projected second metric and the user preferences. The second time period includes the plurality of first time periods. The first metric is associated with the user preferences and at least one of the plurality of first time periods. The second metric indicates full or partial projected attainment of the preferences during the second time period.