Patent Document ID: 20150115710
Application ID: 14406916
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for monitoring and controlling an operating status of electrical loads and operating parameters of a plurality of autonomously powered discrete devices, said discrete devices being disposed as part of an array located at a first geographic region, the system further including a processing device provided in a second geographic region remote from said first region, each discrete device comprising at least one associated electric load, a generator for generating electricity, a battery for storing electricity produced by said generator and providing electric power to said at least one associated load, a device controller for regulating or controlling a flow of electric power from said generator to said battery and from said battery to said at least one associated load, and a data transmission assembly operable to receive input control signals for said device controller and transmit output data representative of the operating parameters of the power generation performance, the battery storage or discharge performance and the at least one associated load, memory for storing said output data of each said discrete device in said array, the processing device being actuable to: receive for a future period of time at least one of predicted near-term weather data for said first geographic region comprising predicted weather forecast data for upto three weeks, and predictive seasonal forecast data for said first geographic region, compile said output data stored in said memory to determine a regional operating profile for said array for at least one of average power generation performance and average battery storage or discharge performance over a selected monitored period of time, compile said output data stored in said memory to determine a device operating profiles for a selected one of said discrete devices for at least one of device power generation performance, and device battery storage or discharge performance over said selected monitored period of time, wherein the selected monitored period of time is associated with the future period of time on the basis of environmental conditions, compare at least one said regional operating profile and at least one of said device operating profiles, and output a control signal to the device controller of the selected discrete device, wherein the control signal is selected to control at least one of flow of electric power to said battery and flow of electric power from said battery to said at least one associated load during said future period of time based on the comparison of the device operating profile and the regional operating profile over the monitored period of time.