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WO2010113201A2 - Serveur de consommation d'energie - Google Patents

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WO2010113201A2
WO2010113201A2 PCT/IT2010/000141 IT2010000141W WO2010113201A2 WO 2010113201 A2 WO2010113201 A2 WO 2010113201A2 IT 2010000141 W IT2010000141 W IT 2010000141W WO 2010113201 A2 WO2010113201 A2 WO 2010113201A2
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L63/00—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security
    • H04L63/04—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security for providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks
    • H04L63/0428—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security for providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01D—MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G01D4/00—Tariff metering apparatus
    • G01D4/002—Remote reading of utility meters
    • G01D4/004—Remote reading of utility meters to a fixed location
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L63/00—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security
    • H04L63/08—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security for authentication of entities
    • H04L63/083—Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security for authentication of entities using passwords
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W4/00—Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
    • H04W4/12—Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
    • H04W4/14—Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

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  • a further important aspect for a correct electrical energy consumption analysis is the need of the user to be readily and immediately informed, i.e. in real time, about possible calibration deviations of his measurement devices. Such calibration directly and significantly affects the consumption amount and hence the final bill to be paid to the electrical power supplier company.
  • the present invention intends to describe an innovative Energy Consumption Server (from here abbreviated with E.C.S.) used to constantly monitor the energy consumptions of any electrical network.
  • E.C.S. Energy Consumption Server
  • such Server has as main object to remedying the abovementioned technical problems correlated to the current energy consumption analysis by using, for the electrical parameter reading, its own amperometric and voltmetric transformers, so that the user is in the condition to indicate and signals possible malfunctioning of measurement apparatuses of the electrical power supplier company, i.e. of the electrical energy meter devices and/or amperometric and voltmetric transformers.
  • the innovative Server object of the present patent application, bases its own functioning on an industrial PC adapted to confer further flexibility to the energy consumption analysis, by allowing the setting, according to user discretion, of the execution of any program installed in the E.C.S. in response to specific events including, as non-limiting example, the exceeding of monitored threshold values, upload/backup actions, email-SMS/MSN notifications etc. etc.
  • MSN platform which as non-limiting example could be: a) display of the processing being executed, b) status of the connections, c) last backup, d) uptime of the system e) amount of data transmitted each day, month, year etc. etc.
  • the E.C.S. is infact provided with 4 USB ports, DVI-I/VGA output, memory card reader, Gigabit Lan Ethernet - all usable via the well-known operating system Windows XP (preferably in its embedded version).
  • GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA modem connected via USB to the PC (connection indicated by the letter c)
  • USB connection between the PC and the UPS e) Serial connection between the PC and the analyzers of the electrical network parameters.
  • FIGURE 1 is a top frontal view of the Energy Consumption Server according to the present invention in which the following are observed: the arrangement of the PC (1), the network analyzers (2), the UPS (3) and the modem (4).
  • FIGURE 2 is a top right view.
  • FIGURE 3 is a top left view.
  • FIGURE 4 is a bottom right view.
  • FIGURE 5 is a left side view.
  • FIGURE 6 is a right rear view.
  • FIGURE 7 is a left rear view.
  • FIGURE 8 is a top central view. Network functioning
  • the following illustration schematically represents the functioning of the network Energy Consumption Server. It also shows the main communications based on TCP/IP by and towards the Server and the related services.
  • the Backup Server will allow operating on the data of every E.C.S. , even where the same is not reachable by the cellular network or not connected to Internet or non-operative due to technical malfunctioning.
  • the network functioning principle is the following: since each E.C.S. is internally equipped with GPRS/UMTS/HSPA modem, which has GSM interface for receiving SMS, it is provided with its own SIM card inserted in the modem itself. So, on the logic level, every E.C.S. corresponds with a mobile telephone number. As soon as the E.C.S. receives an SMS, a program, named SMSGateway, will be started and controls the content of the received
  • SMS and consequently undertake a specific action. More precisely, for every SMS received, the SMSGateway will check if a command for the E.C.S. is contained in it; if there is no such command, it will forward the SMS to an email address established by the user, while if is present a command the SMSGateway will execute it. In the prototype made, it was deemed opportune to set the following possible actions in the SMSGateway:
  • password indicates an authentication password requested by the Server in order to be able to undertake any action requested via SMS.
  • the user requests to the E.C.S. to undertake the backup procedure, using the protocol SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) with the "somehost.com” server related to the month of February of the year 2009, and using "123456" as authentication password.
  • SFTP SSH File Transfer Protocol
  • the E.C.S. will invoke the SMSGateway program, which will check if the SMS sender is among those enabled to request the execution of commands.
  • the control carried out on the number of the sender and password follows the classic paradigm of authentications based on the UserID and Password pair, thus achieving an interactive access via SMS. It should be noted that for the authentication of every command that arrives via SMS, the control based on sender, password and commands related to sender, is an innovative method to grant access since it implements an advanced Access Control List used to allow different and unlimited kind of access to the E.C.S.
  • the E.C.S. will carry out the Internet connection, via remote access function, by using the internal GPRS/UMTS/HSPA modem (or, if an Ethernet or wireless connection is available, using an already present router).
  • the E.C.S. will notify, via SMTP, the received command as well as the telephone number from which the SMS was sent, and will then undertake the corresponding action, which will belongs to two general categories: a) Remain connected to the Internet while awaiting user connection (using an SSH tunnel) to one of the network services running in the E.C.S. b) Connect to a server present on the Internet in order to allow the user to use some service: Backup Server, SMTP (for notifications on the E.C.S. operability), MSN messaging.
  • SMTP for notifications on the E.C.S. operability
  • the actions that can be executed by the Energy Consumption Server in response to the suitable commands requested via SMS can be set according to user discretion. In fact it will be sufficient, by using the A.P.I, exported by the SMSGateway, to write software application in order to intercept the reception of any command contained in the SMS.
  • the E.C.S. becomes a TCP/IP server whose network services (according to user discretion) will be installed and started.
  • network services according to user discretion
  • VNC default port 5900
  • the SSH tunneling is a specific application of the SSH, which is an application protocol created in order to be connected to remote terminals from the command line.
  • the SSH is substantially a network protocol for the transfer of encrypted data which ensures: confidentiality, integrity and authentication. It should be noted that these are all well-known security properties that the cellular network does not have, reason for which the cellular network is highly and intrinsically insecure.
  • the SSH tunneling consists of a tunnel on the application level which is used for redirecting all the traffic from and towards the E.C.S. by forwarding it, in an encrypted way, from the user host to the SSH server.
  • the SSH server will forward the traffic to the specific network service that is running in the E.C.S. and that the user wishes to use.
  • the user that needs to use one of the services running in the E.C.S. will first have to carry out the SSH login and then use the opened SSH tunnel.
  • the authentication to the SSH server is a challenge/response type: it requires that the SSH Server has the public key of the Client.
  • the Server sends encrypted data to the Client (challenge step) who will be the only one capable of deciphering it, by using his own private key, and will respond in a suitable way (response step).
  • the same identical authentication will be automatically executed by the E.C.S. at the start of every backup with the SFTP server (FTP over SSH).
  • the Energy Consumption Server is constituted by an industrial PC, which uses suitable software that is in continuous communication with the analyzers of the electrical network parameters, whose relative measurements are saved every X minutes (where X is the time period selected by the user).
  • the industrial PC inside the E.C.S. is also in continuous communication with the internal UPS using suitable management software.
  • the UPS is equipped with environmental sensors for measuring the functioning parameters. More precisely, it has the possibility to measure and consequently signal the following events: high and/or low temperature threshold, high and/or low humidity threshold, lack and/or restoration of electrical power from the network, discharged and/or overcharged battery, imminent shutdown signal, failed and/or good UPS batteries.
  • the UPS protects the devices which it power-supplies from voltage overloads and/or current overloads, as well as from sudden blackouts, conferring an autonomy of about 60 minutes.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un appareil ('Serveur'), capable d'acquérir et d'enregistrer tous les paramètres nécessaires pour mener une analyse correcte des consommations d'énergie d'un quelconque réseau électrique en les rendant interactivement disponibles 'à la demande' à l'aide d'une passerelle appropriée SMS/TCP-IP sur GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA, Ethernet ou sans fil, toute communication avec le serveur étant fondée sur les propriétés de sécurité recherchées et bien connues, soit: confidentialité, authentification, intégrité de messages, disponibilité du service et non-répudiabilité.
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