Patent ID: 11951865
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for managing energy for a building, comprising:
connecting a power line of the building to a battery of a vehicle via a charger;
predicting a power outage and a corresponding duration using data from a cloud server;
monitoring power consumption of one or more devices of the building;
calculating an amount of energy needed for the building for the corresponding duration based on the power consumption;
comparing the amount with a total available energy reserve determined using available energy of both the battery and an energy storage separate from the vehicle;
responsive to occurrence of the power outage, supplying electric energy to the building from the battery and from the energy storage; and
instructing the vehicle to recharge the battery at a location other than the building and then return to the building at a predefined time before stored energy of the energy storage falls below a predefined value.