Abstract: A flexible load management (FLM) system and technique adaptively monitors and manages power consumption of a premises. The FLM system includes a virtual critical load panel (vCLP) that utilizes circuit breakers in combination with companion modules (i.e., intelligent controllers) to vary a prioritization arrangement of loads in the premises by time of day, season or even dynamically. The vCLP is a prioritized enumeration (i.e., prioritization) of the loads within the premises, wherein the loads are considered sufficiently important such that they are protected by a local power source. The vCLP is dynamically configurable by a user in real time according to an instantaneous demand for the prioritized loads that is used to determine a number of branch circuits associated with the loads that is able to be powered-on at any time.

Abstract: A flexible load management (FLM) system and technique adaptively monitors and manages power consumption of a premises. The FLM system includes a virtual critical load panel (vCLP) that utilizes circuit breakers in combination with companion modules (i.e., intelligent controllers) to vary a prioritization arrangement of loads in the premises by time of day, season or even dynamically. The vCLP is a prioritized enumeration (i.e., prioritization) of the loads within the premises, wherein the loads are considered sufficiently important such that they are protected by a local power source. The vCLP is dynamically configurable by a user in real time according to an instantaneous demand for the prioritized loads that is used to determine a number of branch circuits associated with the loads that is able to be powered-on at any time.

Abstract: A flexible load management (FLM) system and technique adaptively monitors and manages power consumption of a premises. The FLM system includes a virtual critical load panel (vCLP) that utilizes circuit breakers in combination with companion modules (i.e., intelligent controllers) to vary a prioritization arrangement of loads in the premises by time of day, season or even dynamically. The vCLP is a prioritized enumeration (i.e., prioritization) of the loads within the premises, wherein the loads are considered sufficiently important such that they are protected by a local power source. The vCLP is dynamically configurable by a user in real time according to an instantaneous demand for the prioritized loads that is used to determine a number of branch circuits associated with the loads that is able to be powered-on at any time.

Abstract: An energy management system interoperates with an automation system to provide integrated control over essentially all power-consuming, power-generating, and power storage devices in a home or other environment. The energy management system provides configurable energy management scenes in which one or more values, each representing a desired operating condition, are associated with some or all of the loads of a home, business or other environment. Different energy management scenes may be configured for different environmental conditions including season, day of week, time of day, grid status, battery condition, and generator condition among others.

Abstract: A mechanism for correcting errors in a stream of digital data that are encoded at a transmitter site, transmitted over a communication channel to a receiver site and decoded at the receiver site to recover the digital data pre-encodes the data using a parity-encoder. The location of the errors is determined through a comparison operation on which the receiver is able to generate a `template` of the pattern of errors in the received digital data stream. This error pattern template is then used in an iterative pattern predictive error correction process to identify the location of burst errors contained in the recovered data and to controllably modify the output of the receiver's host decoder so as to remove the located errors from the originally decoded data.