Peter S Ryan

US Patent:

20110071952, Mar 24, 2011

Filed:

Sep 18, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/562793

Inventors:

Michael P. Gaffney - Norfolk VA, US
Peter J. Ryan - Chesapeake VA, US
Matthew W. McKeon - Norfolk VA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 50/00
G06Q 10/00

US Classification:

705317

Abstract:

A system and method for quantifying and optimizing resource consumption and waste generation of a plurality of resource consumer devices that consume one or more consumable resources to produce useful work. The system and method comprise an input module that receives input data related to each of the plurality of resource consumer devices and each of the one or more consumable resources, a resource consumer module that determines an amount of the one or more consumable resource consumed by each of the plurality of resource consumer devices under a particular load and an amount of waste produced by each of the plurality of resource consumer devices under the particular load based at least in part on the input data, a waste stream module that normalizes and sums the amount of waste produced by each of the plurality of resource consumer devices per amount of useful work produced, and an output module that determines costs associated with operating the plurality of resource consumer devices based at least in part on the amount of the one or more consumable resource consumed by each of the plurality of resource consumer devices and the normalized and summed amount of waste produced by each of the plurality of resource consumer devices.