Patent ID: 8543250
Filing Date: 2013-09-24
Classification: G01D,H04L,Y02B,Y02D,Y04S

Abstract:
1. An electric appliance comprising: a communication device connected with a smart grid net and configured to receive electric power information including a billed power-rate for each time period and a highly billed power rate time period in which the billed power-rate is a predetermined reference rate or more; a sensing device configured to sense an operation mode and an operation state according to the operation mode; and a control device configured to implement power-saving operation based on the received electric power information and the operation state sensed by the sensing device, wherein, when the highly billed power rate time period does not start during operation of a power consuming part required to implement the operation mode, the control device is configured to complete the operation, and wherein, when the highly billed power rate time period starts during the operation of the power consuming part required to implement the operation mode, the control device is further configured to: