MUMBAI, India, April 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202421075239 A) filed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Maharashtra, on Oct. 4, 2024, for 'method and system for energy cost optimization framework for a logistic enterprise.'
Inventor(s) include Kumar, Anshu; Misra, Prasant Kumar; Menon, Vishnu Padmakumar; and Sarangan, Venkatesh.
The application for the patent was published on April 10, under issue no. 15/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The embodiments of the present disclosure herein address unresolved problems of cyclic dependency between cost of power procurement and routing of one or more electric vehicles (EVs) of a logistic enterprise. Embodiments herein provide a method and system for an optimization framework to overcome a cyclic dependency between cost of power procurement and routing of electric vehicles (EVs) of a logistic enterprise. The optimization framework comprises two independent routines, coupled through an exchange of parameter values. First routine optimizes routing cost of the EVs to satisfy delivery constraints by assuming that the average EV charging cost is known. This is given as input to a second routine that optimizes electricity procurement cost from different energy sources by assuming that the EVs routes are fixed. The output from the second routine is then given back as input to first routine, and the procedure iterates till a stopping criteria is reached."
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