Policy based utility networking

摘要

In various embodiments, a policy-based residential networked meter can be an energy switch router device (ESRD) that provides policy-based advanced metering, load control and shaping, energy services delivery and accounting, and secure web services interfaces and internetworking communications. The ESRD can be integrated and inter-related with advanced policy-based sensory, metrology, monitoring, control, recording, classification, prioritization, security, routing, and switching functions. The ESRD may be used to sense, measure, meter, and control electrical service flows to the utility service point at the customer premise, and may be configured and managed with one or more policy-based networking methods.

主权项

1. A system for distributing a utility, the system comprising:
a utility network operations center; a utility network comprising a plurality of distribution devices for distributing one or more utilities to one or more locations; and a plurality of metering devices coupled to the utility network, each metering device comprising:
at least one network interface; anda logic fabric distributable at a plurality of locations comprising at least one of a distribution feeder and a customer premise, and configured to:
receive information from the utility network operations center, wherein the information is based on a set of policies defining a measure of distribution of the utility over a utility grid, and wherein the set of policies is dynamically updatable, the set of policies comprising a configuration policy for energy switch routing operations, and wherein the configuration policy is deployed from a centralized location to a plurality of distributed energy switch routers,configure one or more of the distribution devices to distribute a utility based on, at least in part, the received information, androute communications related to the distribution of the utility via the at least one network interface.