Abstract: Provided is a control device for controlling a storage battery. The control device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit communicates with the storage battery in a wired or wireless manner. The control unit controls the communication unit to send a control signal, to the storage battery, that causes the storage battery to operate in a first mode or a second mode. The first mode is a mode in which the width of changes over time in power bought or sold by a power control system connected to the storage battery is controlled to stay within a prescribed range. The second mode is mode in which the width of changes over time in power charged to or discharged from the storage battery is controlled to stay within a prescribed range.

Abstract: A power supply control method includes a step A of determining, by a power management server managing at least one facility connected to a power grid, an adjustment plan for adjusting demand and supply balance of the power grid by using at least one storage battery apparatus provided in the facility. The method includes a step B of transmitting, from the power management server to a control apparatus managed by the power management server, a control message for controlling the storage battery apparatus, based on the adjustment plan. The method includes a step C of transmitting, from the control apparatus to the power management server, reserved capacity information specifying a reserved capacity reserved as a capacity to be used for adjustment of demand and supply balance of the power grid in a storage capacity of the storage battery apparatus.

Abstract: A power management system comprises a plurality of HEMSs 10 and a CEMS 40. The CEMS 40 transmits, to a power company 60, configuration information of the plurality of consumers 70 managed by the CEMS 40. The power curtailment signal (DR; Demand Response) transmitted from the power company 60 to the CEMS 40 is determined in accordance with the configuration information. The upper power management apparatus transmits, to each HEMS 10, reduction information including an amount of power that should be reduced in each consumer 70 in response to a power curtailment signal transmitted from the power company 60 after transmitting the configuration information.

Abstract: A power supply control method includes a step A of determining, by a power management server managing at least one facility connected to a power grid, an adjustment plan for adjusting demand and supply balance of the power grid by using at least one storage battery apparatus provided in the facility. The method includes a step B of transmitting, from the power management server to a control apparatus managed by the power management server, a control message for controlling the storage battery apparatus, based on the adjustment plan. The method includes a step C of transmitting, from the control apparatus to the power management server, reserved capacity information specifying a reserved capacity reserved as a capacity to be used for adjustment of demand and supply balance of the power grid in a storage capacity of the storage battery apparatus.

Abstract: A power management system comprises a plurality of HEMSs 10 and a CEMS 40. The CEMS 40 transmits, to a power company 60, configuration information of the plurality of consumers 70 managed by the CEMS 40. The power curtailment signal (DR; Demand Response) transmitted from the power company 60 to the CEMS 40 is determined in accordance with the configuration information. The upper power management apparatus transmits, to each HEMS 10, reduction information including an amount of power that should be reduced in each consumer 70 in response to a power curtailment signal transmitted from the power company 60 after transmitting the configuration information.

Abstract: A power management system comprises a plurality of HEMSs 10 and a CEMS 40. The CEMS 40 transmits, to a power company 60, configuration information of the plurality of consumers 70 managed by the CEMS 40. The power curtailment signal (DR; Demand Response) transmitted from the power company 60 to the CEMS 40 is determined in accordance with the configuration information. The upper power management apparatus transmits, to each HEMS 10, reduction information including an amount of power that should be reduced in each consumer 70 in response to a power curtailment signal transmitted from the power company 60 after transmitting the configuration information.

Abstract: A power management system comprises a plurality of HEMSs 10 and CEMSs 40. The CEMS 40 receives, from each HEMS 10, power information including the amount of power consumed by a load connected to each HEMS 10. The CEMS 40 transmits, to each HEMS 10, reduction information including the amount of power that should be reduced in each consumer, in response to a curtailment signal and the power information.

Abstract: A power management system comprises a plurality of HEMSs 10 and a CEMS 40. The CEMS 40 receives from each HEMS 10, power information including an amount of power consumed by a load connected to each HEMS 10. The CEMS 40 transmits, to each HEMS 10, reduction information including an amount of power that should be reduced in each consumer 70 in response to a power curtailment signal and the power information.

Abstract: A power management system comprises a plurality of HEMSs 10 and a CEMS 40. The CEMS 40 transmits, to each HEMS 10, a notification request for requesting a notification of an amount of power that can be reduced from power currently consumed by a load connected to each HEMS 10, in response to a power curtailment signal. Each HEMS 10 transmits, to the CEMS 40, reducible power information including the amount of power that can be reduced from the power currently consumed, in response to the notification request. The CEMS 40 transmits, to each HEMS 10, power reduction information including an amount of power that should be reduced in each consumer 70, in response to the power curtailment signal and the reducible power information.

Abstract: A HEMS constituting a ZigBee network with at least one of equipment, comprises a processing unit processing an application to control the equipment, and a ZigBee control unit managing route information by each of the equipment according to a ZigBee protocol. The processing unit selects one of either a first mode or a second mode in accordance with the number of the equipment included in the ZigBee network, In the first mode, notification of the equipment to be controlled is sent from the processing unit to the ZigBee control unit, and the ZigBee control unit controls communication route to the equipment to be controlled. In the second mode, the processing unit decides the communication route to the equipment to be controlled, and notification of the communication route is sent from the processing unit to the ZigBee control unit.

Abstract: An energy management system 1 is provided with an SOFC unit 100 and a gas meter 200. The gas meter 200 includes: a control unit 230 that stops gas supply when continuous use of gas lasts a specific period; and a transmission unit 220 that transmits a stop instruction signal to the SOFC unit 100 before a timing at which continuous use of gas lasts the specific period, the stop instruction signal designating a time limit that is before the timing and instructing to stop the SOFC unit 100.

Abstract: Disclosed is a radio base station (eNB1) provided with a storage unit (130) for storing base station information for selecting the destination of a message, a network communication unit (140) for transmitting the message to another radio base station selected according to the base station information, and a control unit (120) for controlling the storage unit (130) to set as base station information the priority level of the radio base station to which the message was sent according to the state of response to the transmitted message.

Abstract: A radio base station (eNB1) receives load information indicating the load level of different radio base station (eNB2) and adjusts a base station parameter, which is used for defining coverage, in accordance with a result of comparison between the load level of the radio base station (eNB1) and that of the different radio base station (eNB2). The radio base station (eNB1) corrects at least one of the load level of the radio base station (eNB1) and that of the different radio base station (eNB2), which are compared with each other, in accordance with a number of radio terminals connected to the radio base station (eNB1).

Abstract: A radio base station (eNB1), which is used in a radio communication system that can autonomously adjust, based on load information transmitted/received between radio base stations, the radio base station parameters used for defining coverage, comprises: a network communication unit (140) that can receive, from another radio base station, first load information indicating the load level of the other radio base station and that can transmit, to the other radio base station, a request for transmission of second load information the information amount of which is greater than that of the first load information; and a control unit (120) that, when the load level of the other radio base station indicated by the received first load information satisfies a given condition, controls such that the request for transmission of the second load information is transmitted to the other radio base station.

Abstract: Upon receipt of an RLF Indication message indicating a failure in a handover where a radio base station eNB10-1 is the handover source from the other radio base station eNB, the radio base station eNB10-1 can recognize that its coverage is not adjusted appropriately by referring to the RLF Indication message. Moreover, the radio base station eNB10-1 can adjust coverage appropriately by expanding the radiation area of the antenna 101 whose radiation area is directed toward the other radio base station eNB being the handover target, among the antennas 101 included in the radio base station eNB10-1.

Abstract: Disclosed is a large cell base station (100) that, in cases in which the interference from small cell base stations (300) experienced by a radio terminal (200) connected to said large cell base station (100) is at or above a prescribed value, estimates a non-interference PF evaluation value for assessing whether or not the allocation of resource blocks to the radio terminal (200) is suitable when said interference is assumed to not be present. Additionally, the large cell base station (100) transmits band-use restriction information, which indicates use restrictions for the frequency bands corresponding to the resource blocks, to the small cell base stations (300) in cases in which the non-interference PF evaluation value is at or above a prescribed value.

Abstract: A threshold calculation apparatus (200) corrects each of ideal E-SINR thresholds in an MCS threshold table in accordance with a reduction in accuracy of the E-SINR due to the use of a first transformation table and a second transformation table, and generates a corrected MCS threshold table. In the case where a wireless base station obtains an E-SINR from a plurality of SINRs using the first transformation table and the second transformation table, the wireless base station determines an MCS corresponding to the E-SINR also based on the corrected MCS threshold table.

Abstract: A HEMS constituting a ZigBee network with at least one of equipment, comprises a processing unit processing an application to control the equipment, and a ZigBee control unit managing route information by each of the equipment according to a ZigBee protocol. The processing unit selects one of either a first mode or a second mode in accordance with the number of the equipment included in the ZigBee network. In the first mode, notification of the equipment to be controlled is sent from the processing unit to the ZigBee control unit, and the ZigBee control unit controls communication route to the equipment to be controlled. In the second mode, the processing unit decides the communication route to the equipment to be controlled, and notification of the communication route is sent from the processing unit to the ZigBee control unit.

Abstract: An HEMS 200 includes information indicating a process that equipment performs in a higher layer in lower layer processing information that is to be transmitted to the equipment. The HEMS 200 determines a timeout period in which the equipment should complete the process performed in the higher layer, in accordance with the information included in the lower layer processing information.

Abstract: When the provided large cell base station (100) is to allocate a resource block to a radio terminal (200) connected to said large cell base station (100), band-use restriction information that indicates use restrictions on the frequency band corresponding to the aforementioned resource block is transmitted to a small cell base station (300). The large cell base station (100) then allocates the resource block to the radio terminal (200) after an amount of time corresponding to the signal transmission delay from the large cell base station (100) to the small cell base station (300) has passed since the aforementioned transmission.