Patent ID: 11967931
Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A method for testing compatibility between energy requirements of a plurality of electrically stand-alone home-automation devices and a predefined site for installing a photovoltaic module, the electrically stand-alone home-automation device comprising the photovoltaic module, a device that closes, occults, protects or screens from the sun, and an element for storing electrical energy that is configured to supply the device that closes, occults, protects or screens from the sun with power, the element for storing electrical energy being connected to the photovoltaic module and intended to be charged by electrical energy generated by the photovoltaic module,
the method being performed on a mobile computational device and comprising:
selecting a first electrically stand-alone home-automation device from a list comprising a plurality of home-automation devices, and storing, in a first memory of the mobile computational device, first data identifying technical characteristics of the selected first electrically stand-alone home-automation device,
selecting a second electrically stand-alone home-automation device from the list comprising the plurality of home-automation devices, and storing, in the first memory of the mobile computational device, second data identifying technical characteristics of the selected second electrically stand-alone home-automation device,
obtaining and storing, in a second memory of the mobile computational device, position data relating to the predefined site,
estimating and storing, in a third memory of the mobile computational device, data of a sun chart at the predefined site,
computing an estimation of a variation in an amplitude of solar radiation received at the predefined site over a year while taking into account the position of the predefined site and a shadow mask,
computing a first energy balance on the basis of the variation in the amplitude of the solar radiation received at the predefined site and of the energy requirements of the selected first electrically stand-alone home-automation device,
computing a second energy balance on the basis of the variation in the amplitude of the solar radiation received at the predefined site and of the energy requirements of the selected second electrically stand-alone home-automation device,
estimating a first confidence index representative of a compatibility between the energy requirements of the selected first electrically stand-alone home-automation device and the energy delivered by the photovoltaic module, and
estimating a second confidence index representative of a compatibility between the energy requirements of the selected second electrically stand-alone home-automation device and the energy delivered by the photovoltaic module,

wherein the estimating of each of the respective first and second confidence indices comprises computing a number of successive operating cycles that may be carried out by the respective selected electrically stand-alone home-automation device when a value of a charge of the element for storing electrical energy is equal to a yearly threshold value, and
wherein the respective device that closes, occults, protects or screens from the sun comprises an actuator and a movable element that closes, occults, protects or screens from the sun, wherein the movable element is movable between a completely open position and a completely closed position, and an operating cycle is a movement that brings the movable element from the completely closed position to the completely open position or from the completely open position to the completely closed position.