Capital asset planning system

US8725625B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · US
• Consolidated Edison Energy Company of New York · US

Inventors

• Roger N. Anderson · New York, US
• Maggie Chow · Hartsdale, US
• Albert Boulanger · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 8, 2012
• Grant date: May 13, 2014
• Expiry date: Oct 8, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A capital asset planning system for selecting assets for improvement within an infrastructure that includes one or more data sources descriptive of the infrastructure, one or more databases, coupled to the one or more data sources, to compile the one or more data sources, one or more processors, each coupled to and having respective communication interfaces to receive data from the one or more databases. The processor includes a predictor to generate a first metric of estimated infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on a current status of the infrastructure, a second metric of estimated infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on a user-selected, proposed changed configuration of the infrastructure, and a net metric of infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on said first metric and said second metric. The system also includes a display, coupled to have the one or more processors, for visually presenting the net metric of infrastructure effectiveness, in which the assets for improvement are selected based, at least in part, on the net metric of infrastructure effectiveness.