Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a main assembly; a first unit openable relative to the main assembly; a second unit which is provided inner than the first unit and which is openable relative to the main assembly; two engaging portions, provided on the second unit, for placing the second unit in a closed state in engagement with the main assembly; and an urging portion, provided in the first unit, for urging the second unit. The second unit is urged by the urging portion of the first unit so that a state of the second unit is capable of being changed from an open state to the closed state. The urging portion urges a region in a neighborhood of a central portion of the second unit with respect to a direction of arrangement of the two engaging portions.

Abstract: A process cartridge includes: a first unit including a photosensitive drum; a second unit, including a process member, movable to a spaced position and to a close position; and a spacer member for holding the second unit at the spaced position. The spacer member includes a contact portion for holding the second unit at the spaced position and includes a portion-to-be-phase-determined for preventing rotation of the spacer member by being engaged with a phase-determining portion provided in the second unit. The spacer member is rotated, by receiving a force from the drum at the contact portion when the drum is rotated, against a force with which the phase-determining portion determines a rotational position of the spacer member, and eliminates a contact state of the contact portion with the drum to permit movement of the second unit from the spaced position to the close position.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for cooling and de-curling output image receiving media substrates prior to stacking them in output trays of office-sized image forming devices. Customer requirements are met by providing a cooling capacity with a simple module that is particularly adaptable to a standard office-sized image forming device without increasing a vertical footprint of the device. The substrate de-curling and cooling capacity is able to be retrofit on typical office-sized image forming devices as, for example, an upgraded output catch tray to provide an all stocks at rated speed capacity in the image forming device. A substrate and de-curling unit cools sheets of image receiving media substrate via conduction by pressing the sheets individually and in order to a pair of rotating cooling drums with a pair of cooperating belts supported by appropriate idler rollers in a paper path having a horizontal “S” shape.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus of a tandem type including an intermediate conveying apparatus which conveys a sheet conveyed from a first image forming apparatus to a second image forming apparatus using a sheet conveying member, there are provided with a detecting portion configured to detect a state of the sheet conveying member, and an adjusting portion configured to adjust the state of the sheet conveying member so that the amount of heat radiation from the sheet in the sheet conveying member becomes constant, according to a detection result of the detecting portion.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes an attracting mechanism and a changing mechanism. The attracting mechanism includes a lifting section and a maintaining section. The lifting section attracts a portion of a sheet material that is fed and lifts the portion of the sheet material. The maintaining section attracts an edge of the sheet material that is lifted by the lifting section and maintains an orientation of the edge of the sheet material. The changing mechanism changes at least one of an attraction force that is generated at the lifting section and an attraction force that is generated at the maintaining section.

Abstract: The present application for a patent of utility model, an image projection equipment, in points of sale, simulating holography, aims to provide a new way to interact with consumers in points of sales, making the holographic simulation of an image related to the product to be marketed, have interactivity with the consumer, the moment he gets in that space where the product is exposed, as for example, supermarket gondola, branches of all types, shop Windows and any other form and place of marketing.

Abstract: The invention relates to polycarbonate-based or copolycarbonate-based security documents and/or documents of value which contain at least one hologram integrated in the card body, and to a method for producing such security documents and/or documents of value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a security document and/or document of value with a hologram in a visually changeable window as a novel security element, and also to a method for producing the same.

Abstract: A mobile device is provided which is capable of displaying a hologram. The mobile device includes a main body including a screen; a light guide member disposed above the screen; an entrance optical member disposed on a surface of the light guide member; and an image hologram disposed on a surface of the light guide member and laterally spaced apart from the entrance optical member. When an area of the screen corresponding to the entrance optical member emits a light, a holographic image stored in the image hologram is displayed above the light guide member.

Abstract: A timepiece barrel for pivotal assembly between a plate and a bar and including at least one spring housed between a pivoting drum and a cover and hooked between, at the outer end thereof, the drum and at the inner end thereof, an arbor which pivots integrally with a ratchet about a pivot axis. The barrel includes a one-piece sub-assembly coaxial to the arbor and including the arbor and a boss including a collar for limiting axial shake of the drum, the collar carrying pivotal drive mechanisms for driving pivoting of the ratchet which is axially free in a direction of the pivot axis.

Abstract: An escapement mechanism for a timepiece, includes an escapement wheel (1), an escapement anchor (2) including a body (2a), and a fork (5), the body (2a) including pallets (3, 3?, 4, 4?) that engage with the escapement wheel (1), the body (2a) having a shape that makes it possible to delimit an internal space (11) for arranging the escapement wheel (1), the pallets (3, 3?, 4, 4?) including two rest pallets (3, 3?) and two impulse pallets (4, 4?), protruding in the internal space (11). The mechanism includes a pin (7) of a roller (6) that is secured to a regulating device, characterized in that the roller (6) and the fork (5) are arranged with respect to one another such as to impart an alternating translation movement with respect to the escapement wheel (1) to the anchor (2) when the pin (7) engages with the fork (5).

Abstract: A pallet lever mechanism for an escapement mechanism including a structure carrying a balance and an escape wheel, the pallet lever including pallet stones cooperating with the escape wheel, and a flexible, multistable element, and the pallet lever cooperates with the balance with horns of a first portion of the pallet lever connected by one such flexible element to the structure or to a second portion of the pallet lever carrying the pallet stones connected by one such flexible element to the fixed structure or to the first portion. One flexible element includes a prestressed beam buckled in an S or Z shape, the pallet lever mechanism including a pivot forcing the beam to have a node at the middle thereof.

Abstract: A device for stopping a balance of a regulating organ mounted in a tourbillon of a timepiece. The device can be controlled by a setting device of the timepiece. The device includes at least two stop levers which are each secured pivotably to a respective lever pivot axis in such a manner that they can be brought from a rest position, in which the balance and the tourbillon are freely rotatable into a stop position, in which at least one of the stop levers acts via its free end on the balance such that the balance is stopped. The device additionally includes for each of these stop levers pre-loading structure, in such a manner that the force exerted onto the balance by each of the stop levers can act separately. The present invention also relates to a corresponding movement module equipped with such a device, respectively to a corresponding timepiece.

Abstract: Device for displaying a date indication in an aperture of a watch dial including: a units indicator which carries on a periphery the ten individual numbers from “0” to “9” in a regularly spaced manner, each of the ten individual numbers being separated from the following individual number by an empty space or a display aperture arranged at the periphery of the units indicator; a tens indicator which carries on a periphery a series of thirty-one regularly spaced numbers, namely nine times in a row the number “0”, then ten times in a row the number “1”, then ten times in a row the number “2”, and finally two times in a row the number “3”; wherein the units indicator is arranged above the tens indicator, wherein the tens indicator advances one step per day and drives the units indicator forward by one step every day, except the day that the date indication display changes from “31” to “01”.

Abstract: Movement for chronograph watch comprising: a barrel (1); a main gear train (RH) for driving one or more current time indicators (43); a regulator member comprising a generator (8) driven by the main gear train (RH), the generator powering an electronic regulation circuit (80) to control the speed of rotation of the main gear train as a function of a quartz oscillator (81); a chronograph gear train (Rc) that can be brought into mesh with the main gear train (RH) to drive a timer indicator (152). The chronograph gear train can be brought into mesh with a wheel (8) that performs more than one revolution per minute.

Abstract: A circuit for detecting and correcting timing errors. A timing circuit includes an interpolator. The interpolator includes a fine counter, a coarse counter, and stop correction logic. The coarse counter is incremented by a rollover output of the fine counter to generate a coarse count value. The stop correction logic is coupled to the fine counter and the coarse counter. The stop correction logic divides each cycle of the rollover output into first, second, and third time intervals, and selects a coarse counter output value to represent a time interval measured by the coarse counter based on a one of the first, second, and third intervals in which a time measurement stop signal is detected.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a case formed of a metal case barrel and a metal bezel, and the case accommodates an antenna body made of a resin mixed with a dielectric material and having an annular shape. A dielectric auxiliary member made of a dielectric having a dielectric constant greater than that of the antenna body and having an annular shape is disposed between the antenna body and the bezel.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus comprises a position detector for detecting the position of a rotor of a motor, a speed detection unit for calculating a speed detection value based on a position detection value detected by the position detector, a speed command generation unit for generating a speed command which commands a rotation speed of the rotor of the motor, a correction amount calculation unit for calculating a correction amount based on the position detection value detected by the position detector, a correction processing unit for correcting the speed detection value by using the correction amount, and a torque command generation unit for generating a torque command which commands a rotational torque of the motor based on the speed command and the speed detection value corrected by the correction processing unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for use in adjusting a controllable system based on a user-communication input, such as non-detailed or indiscriminate input. The apparatus includes a processor and a computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations for determining an objective system command, corresponding to the user input, for use in adjusting the controllable system.

Abstract: A computer may display on a graphical user interface (GUI) a component library including a set of components relating to a compressed air system. The GUI may have a modeling interface for configuring a virtual model using the set of components. The computer may simulate the virtual model to determine one or more optimizations to the compressed air system. The computer may also determine the cost of implementing the compressor system optimization.

Abstract: A variable speed device that drives an electric motor includes a first acquiring unit that acquires a first parameter concerning an operation state of the electric motor, a second acquiring unit that acquires a second parameter concerning the operation state of the electric motor, the second parameter being related to the first parameter, a third acquiring unit that acquires a third parameter concerning a setting state of the electric motor, and a display control unit that simultaneously displays, on one display screen, a first display item corresponding to the acquired first parameter, a second display item corresponding to the acquired second parameter, and a third display item corresponding to the acquired third parameter. The display control unit graphically displays the first display item and the second display item in association with each other.

Abstract: An operator system for a machine, in particular for a beverage processing machine, having a mobile operator device for the machine, a signal emitter for reporting alarm and/or warning signals, and a carrying device for the operator device, wherein the operator device has a coupling element for attaching to the machine and/or to the carrying device and a transmitter for transmitting alarm and/or warning signals, wherein the signal emitter has an attachment element for attaching to an article of clothing and/or to a body part of a user and a receiver for the alarm and/or warning signals, and wherein the carrying device has a mounting element for attaching to an article of clothing and/or to a body part of the user and a receptacle for the operator device .

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes to a receiver, a display controller, an acquisition module, a storage module, and a setting module. The receiver receives a selection of a control target device and an input of control information to be set for the control target device. The display controller controls display of a first screen for inputting the control information on a display. The acquisition module detects an activated external device and acquires a unique identifier after the receiver receives the input of the control information completely. The storage module stores the unique identifier for each registered device for which the control information is already set. The setting module sets the received control information for the external device when a first device of the registered device is selected as the control target device and the identifier of the external device coincides with the identifier of the first device.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for progressive profiling in a home automation system is described. Data related to a premises and an occupant of the premises may be analyzed and one or more observations may be made based on the analysis of the data. Upon detecting one or more conditions associated with the one or more observations made, an offer to perform one or more actions may be communicated to the occupant.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a conversion device converts a first automaton into a second automaton, which both are weighted finite state automatons. The first automaton has a boundary of a path assigned with an input symbol, an appearance position of the boundary, and identifiers for identifying paths. The second automaton has path(s) except unnecessary path(s). The device includes a specifying unit and a search unit. The specifying unit is configured to specify, as a start position, a state of the head of a retrieved path in which a combined weight, which is obtained by adding an accumulated weight from an initial state to the state of the head of the retrieved path in the first automaton and a weight of the best path from the state of the head of the retrieved path to a final state, is best. The search unit is configured to search for a path in which a weight from the start position to a final state in the first automaton is best until reaching next boundary.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for controlling a plurality of appliances, which may be part of a smart home or environment. The method and system according to embodiments of the invention enable using a single easily programmable controller to control a plurality of appliances, each appliance using its own pre-existing control application, with no changes of infrastructure required. Additionally, a single controller, according to embodiments of the invention may enable remote control of appliances over a wide area.

Abstract: In a system construction support tool, an allocating unit allocates one piece of template information selected from among a plurality of template information to each of a plurality of apparatuses to perform, concerning each of the apparatuses, tying by tag names among monitoring screen setting data, PLC project setting data, and tag server setting data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for measuring a tool received in a workpiece processing machine, the method having the following steps: providing a contact or noncontact tool sensing device for detecting positional data on the tool and for outputting signals representative of the positional data; providing an evaluation device for receiving and processing the signals and for outputting a tool geometry determined from the processed signals; detecting a sequence of a first number of positional data on the tool and outputting signals representative of said positional data to the evaluation device; processing the signals representative of the first number of positional data in order to obtain a first approximation of the tool geometry; comparing the first number of positional data to said first approximation of the tool geometry and excluding a subset of the first number of positional data depending on a predetermined criterion, in order to obtain a second number of positional data; processing the second number

Abstract: Methods for systems and methods for integrating and linking of NC-machine operations and programming modifications to the CAM system and the CAM model, and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes maintaining a computer-aided-manufacturing (CAM) model in a CAM environment and a numerically-controlled (NC) program for an NC machine that corresponds to the CAM model. The method includes receiving a modification to the NC program in an NC system interface and automatically identifying a geometry of the CAM model that corresponds to the modification and linking the identified geometry to the modification. The method includes automatically modifying the CAM model according to the modification to the NC program to produce an updated CAM model and automatically generating an updated NC program according to the updated CAM model. The method includes displaying, in the NC system interface, a preview corresponding to the updated NC program.

Abstract: An automatic programming device includes: a machining-area-shape generation unit that generates machining-area shape data that is a machining area shape machined on the basis of machining-area data; and a chamfering tool-path generation unit that, when the machining area shape is a chamfering target part, generates chamfering tool-path data for chamfering according to chamfering data including the machining-area shape data, data on tool-to-be-used, and data on machining condition. When performing chamfering on a boundary of the shaped raw material and the machining area shape defined on a curved surface that is a shaped raw material, the chamfering tool-path generation unit generates a machining path, as the chamfering tool-path data, for realizing chamfering by using 2-axis machining of a rotating axis parallel to a central axis of the shaped raw material and with a linear axis parallel to a bottom surface of the machining area shape.

Abstract: A big data network or system for a process control system or plant includes a data storage device configured to receive process control data from control system devices and store the process control data. The big data network or system identifies various parameters or attributes from the process control data, and creates and uses rowkeys to store the parameters according to various combinations, such as combinations using timestamps. The big data network or system may also store certain aggregate data analyses associated with time periods specified by the timestamps. Accordingly, the big data network or system efficiently stores real-time data having measurements within a database schema, and users or administrators can leverage the aggregate data to analyze certain data associated with certain time periods.

Abstract: A production system acquires a program list on the basis of Kanban information and switches programs of production facilities and a program switching method used in the production system are disclosed. The production system includes: program list acquisition means for acquiring a product name from a Kanban information management table and acquiring a program list corresponding to a combination of the acquired product name and a production line name from a product information management table; and program switching means for searching for a corresponding program from a program storage unit on the basis of the program list acquired by the program list acquisition means, transmitting the searched program to each production facility of a plurality of production lines, and switching the program.

Abstract: A decision support tool to assist decision-making in the operation of a facility. The decision support tool allows a user to perform planning and scheduling of the events within a facility so that established economic goals do not collide with feasibility of a schedule. This is achieved by flexible time modeling, which introduces a “look-ahead” planning and scheduling technique. This technique analyzes several time periods of the schedule in light of upcoming dominant events, in order for each segment of the schedule to remain as consistent with the planning objectives as possible.

Abstract: A decision support tool to assist decision-making in the operation of a facility. The decision support tool allows a user to perform operational programming of the facility so that the analysis of specific operational events is flexible and “on-demand.” This is achieved by allowing the user to set scope and timeframe of the analysis according to business needs. As a result, the organization can make better-informed judgments whether to add operational activities and how to adjust the ones already formulated in the program. The decision support tool can also allow for the application of strategies to communicate intent behind the programming instructions and to improve the quality of business decisions.

Abstract: A monitoring device includes: a physical quantity acquisition section for acquiring physical quantities indicative of a state of a device; an abnormality determination section for determining, in accordance with whether or not the acquired physical quantities fall within a predetermined range, whether or not there is an abnormality; an abnormal waveform data generation section for, in a case where the abnormality determination section determines that there is an abnormality, generating abnormal waveform data indicative of a change over time in the physical quantities acquired during an abnormal waveform period containing at least a period from a point in time at which the abnormality determination section determines that there is an abnormality to a point in time at which a predetermined accumulation time elapsed; and a reporting section for causing a display section to display an abnormal waveform indicated by the abnormal waveform data.

Abstract: The invention provides a measuring system comprising a remotely controllable flying vehicle system with a GPS device and a measuring device installed thereon, a position measuring device installed at an arbitrary position and able to measure distance and angle and to track, a ground base station for controlling a flight of a flying vehicle, a remote controller able to give and take data to and from the ground base station and able to perform wireless communication to and from the flying vehicle system, and a control unit provided on the flying vehicle system or the ground base station, wherein the flying vehicle system has a retro-reflector as an object to be measured and the position measuring device is constructed so as to track the retro-reflector and perform distance measurement and angle measurement, wherein the flying vehicle system obtains GPS coordinates by the GPS device at least at two points during flight, the position measuring device measures positions of the two points of the flying vehicle syst

Abstract: A method for processing object detection-related information may include receiving information indicative of an encounter between a robotic vehicle and an object responsive to communication received from a sensor of the robotic vehicle while the robotic vehicle transits a parcel, determining a location of the robotic vehicle at a time corresponding to occurrence of the encounter, determining whether the location corresponds to a location associated with a known object associated with the parcel, and classifying the object as an unknown object based on the location not corresponding to the location associated with the known object.

Abstract: A method and a system for controlling automatic quantitative fluid supply are disclosed, and the method and the system automatically control the quantitative fluid supply by timing a period of time t required for introducing gas (20) into a sealing tank (4) in such a way that the pressure in the sealing tank (4) reaches a default value and calculating a period of time T, required for continuously introducing the gas (20) into the sealing tank (4) to extrude a fixed volume (V) of the fluid, from the time t, in the process of automatic quantitative fluid supply, so as to automatically control the switching-on and -off of a gas passage (1), overcome the impact of the reduction of the liquid level on the quantitative supply accuracy and guarantee the accuracy requirement of repeated quantitative supply.

Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a controller, a driver, and a basic/input output system. The controller may be associated with an air mover and configured to generate an interrupt responsive to an event associated with the air mover. The driver may be embodied in an operating system configured for execution on the processor, the driver configured to, during a runtime execution of the operating system in which the event occurred, receive at least one of the interrupt from the controller or an indication of the interrupt from a basic input/output system. The basic input/output system may comprise a program of instructions executable by the processor and configured to cause the processor to, responsive to the event, receive air mover data from the air mover, and communicate the air mover data to the driver.

Abstract: A systems and methods for delivering fluid to a site using a mobile fluid delivery machine are disclosed. The method includes determining a location of the mobile fluid delivery machine on the site, and determining a fluid delivery rate based on the location of the mobile fluid delivery machine using information related to the site. The method further includes delivering the fluid to a surface of the site at the location of the mobile fluid delivery machine, at the determined fluid delivery rate.

Abstract: A thermostatic valve for mixer taps comprising a body provided with a chamber for mixing water, is described. Inflowing side openings for separately inflowing hot water and cold water to the mixing chamber are provided at different heights of the body. Automated means for regulating the flow rates of hot water and cold water operate to intercept the inflowing side openings. The automated means comprise in their turn a thermostatic bulb operating in the mixing chamber and a movable piston to feedback close completely or partially, and selectively, the inflowing side openings in response to the expansions the thermostatic head is subjected to. The valve body comprises a first quick—coupling portion shaped so as to mechanically and fluidically couple with a pressure regulator adapted to regulate the flows of hot water and cold water.

Abstract: A water heater includes a storage tank, a sensor configured to measure a temperature of water in the storage tank, a burner configured to heat the water in the storage tank, and a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor and the burner. The controller is configured to initiate a call for heat when the measured temperature reaches a trigger temperature, wherein the trigger temperature is a differential amount less than a set-point temperature, calculate a reduced activation time when the call for heat results in a predetermined number of calls for heat occurring within a predetermined time period, and control the burner based on the reduced activation time.

Abstract: Internal voltage generation circuits are provided. The internal voltage generation circuit includes a drive controller and an initialization unit. The drive controller detects a level of an internal voltage signal in response to a reference voltage signal to generate a drive signal and drives the internal voltage signal in response to the drive signal. The initialization unit initializes the drive signal in synchronization with an internal command signal and terminates an initialization of the drive signal during a predetermined period.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention generally provide an device that regulates a negative output voltage from a power supply using a positive representation of the negative output voltage. To convert the negative voltage to a positive voltage, the device changes the negative voltage into a current using, for example, a current generator that outputs a current corresponding to the negative voltage received from the power supply. This current is then transferred from the negative voltage domain to the positive voltage domain and is fed through a voltage generator that outputs a positive voltage corresponding to the current. By doing so, the negative voltage output is transformed into a corresponding positive voltage. This positive voltage may then be compared to a positive reference voltage to determine an error signal for adjusting the power supply.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a circuit includes a first transistor having a control terminal, a first terminal, and a second terminal where the first transistor is a first device type. The control terminal of the first transistor receives an input signal. The circuit also includes a second transistor having a control terminal, a first terminal, and a second terminal where the second transistor is a second device type. The control terminal of the second transistor is coupled to the second terminal of the first transistor. A voltage shift circuit has an input coupled to the first terminal of the first transistor and an output coupled to the first terminal of the second transistor and a voltage between the input of the voltage shift circuit and an output of the voltage shift circuit increases as a current from the output of the voltage shift circuit increases.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of output transistors each controlling the magnitude of an output voltage relative to the magnitude of a load current according to a control value indicated by an impedance control signal applied to a control terminal, a voltage monitor circuit outputting an output voltage monitor value indicating a voltage value of the output voltage, and a control circuit controlling the magnitude of the control value according to the magnitude of an error value between a reference voltage indicating a target value of the output voltage and the output voltage monitor value, and controls based on the control value whether any of such transistors be brought to a conducting state. The control circuit increases a change step of the control value relative to the error value during a predetermined period according to prenotification signals for notifying a change of the load current in advance.

Abstract: Systems, semiconductor structures, electronic circuits and methods for enhanced transient response in Low Dropout (LDO) voltage regulators are disclosed. For example, a semiconductor structure for enhanced transient response in an LDO voltage regulator is disclosed, which includes a first current mirror circuit coupled to an input connection and an output connection of the LDO voltage regulator, a second current mirror circuit coupled to the input connection of the LDO voltage regulator. A first input of a first amplifier circuit is coupled to the second current mirror circuit, a second input of the first amplifier circuit is coupled to the output connection of the LDO voltage regulator, and a third input of the first amplifier circuit is coupled to a reference voltage.

Abstract: Various embodiments of methods and systems for just-in-time learning-based predictive thermal management (“JLPTM”) techniques implemented in a portable computing device (“PCD”) are disclosed. Embodiments of JLPTM systems and methods recognize that multiple thermal aggressors affect temperature readings of individual temperature sensors and that thermal events measured by those sensors may be predicted based on historical thermal behavior of the PCD. By monitoring various factors that contribute to thermal energy generation and/or dissipation in the PCD, JLPTM systems and methods may predict thermal events from historical thermal behavior data, identify optimum performance level settings combinations that will reduce thermal energy generation, and set a time in the future to apply an optimum performance level settings combination just-in-time to prevent the thermal event from occurring.

Abstract: A time point range setting unit (110) sets an operation startable time point when an operation is startable, and an operation end target time point which is a latest time point among time points when the operation is to be ended, with respect to each of plural power-consuming bodies (20). A necessary operation time setting unit (120) sets a necessary operation time with respect to each of the plural power-consuming bodies (20). A shape information obtaining unit (130) obtains shape information from a schedule management apparatus (40). The shape information represents an assumed shape of a transition line indicating transition in the amount of power supplied in a target period.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for decentralized energy resource based active virtual power energy management. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a system for decentralized energy resource based active virtual power energy management comprising: a meter data management device receiving a customer load profile from a customer; a resource aggregator obtaining energy generation resource state information and position information of a decentralized energy resource from at least one decentralized energy resource; and a virtual energy generation resource management device generating a decentralized energy resource load profile using the energy generation resource state information and providing energy required to the customer based on the customer load profile, the decentralized energy resource load profile and the position information.