Patent ID: 11960256
Assignee: RATIONAL INTERNATIONAL AG
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  F  H  Y | IPC F  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for operating a plurality of devices which each contain at least one consumer of electricity, wherein the plurality of devices are networked and configured to automatically generate proposals for an altered sequence planning in order to enable peak electricity values that are as low as possible, with the following steps:
before at least one of the plurality of devices switches on the consumer, the at least one of the plurality of devices asks an allocation module whether a process is to be started,
on the basis of parameters of the requested process, parameters of currently running and/or planned processes of at least one other consumer and a predefined maximum power value, the allocation module decides whether the requested process is enabled, modified or at least temporarily disabled,
wherein the currently running and/or planned processes are allocated to one of several categories of priority, wherein, when there are so many pending processes within the same category of priority that the predefined maximum power value would be exceeded with them, a next target completion time is used for prioritization,
wherein the allocation module is configured to access a database in which power data for the currently running and/or planned processes are stored,
wherein the power data comprise typical energy consumption of the at least one consumer over the course of a day.