Communication with distributed devices handling electric energy via the internet

US9130410B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SMA Solar Technology AG · DE

Inventors

• Raimund Thiel · Bad Zwesten, DE
• Veit Dominik Kunz · Kassel, DE
• Dirk Schlote · Kassel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 28, 2012
• Grant date: Sep 8, 2015
• Expiry date: Jun 28, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y04S40/18
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method of communication of distributed devices handling electric energy with communication partners via the Internet includes programming rules in a server. The rules determine between which device and which communication partner a communication connection is to be mediated based on generic properties of the devices, generic properties of the communication partners and an initializing time-variable datum. The communication connection is a point to point, point to multi point or multi point to multi point connection via the internet. Data are transmitted from each device and each communication partner to the server via the Internet. These data include both a communication address and attributes indicative of the generic properties of the device or the communication partner, respectively. The communication connection is mediated between the device and the communication partner determined by the rules in response to a value of the initializing time-variable datum also defined by the rules.