Communication gateway for facilitating communications with a supervisory control and data aquisition system

摘要

Transfer of data between at least one supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) device and an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) device via a wireless communication network is facilitated. The data is used for monitoring and/or controlling the AMI device. A protocol conversion of the data is performed to facilitate transfer of the data between the SCADA device and the AMI device as data packets via a packet data network gateway and a wireless communications network.

主权项

1. A system, for facilitating transfer of data, comprising:
a supervisory control and data acquisition gateway processor, configured to perform a protocol conversion of data intended for at least one of monitoring and controlling an advanced metering infrastructure device to facilitate transfer of the data between a supervisory control and data acquisition device, associated with an enterprise included within an enterprise domain, and the advanced metering infrastructure device as data packets via a packet data network gateway and a wireless communications network included within a wireless service provider domain that is distinct from the enterprise domain, such that the data is transferred between the supervisory control and data acquisition device and the advanced metering infrastructure device via the wireless service provider domain without traversing the enterprise domain; a provisioning manager being configured to provision a connection between the supervisory control and data acquisition device and the system with configuration parameters comprising at least one of a connection type, a protocol used, a source address, a destination address, and a transmission restriction; a security catalog database configured to store a security profile for the connection, the security profile comprising at least one of a connection type, a supervisory control and data acquisition device characteristic, an allowed protocol, an allowed address, a data transmitted amount, and a data received amount; and a security manager being configured to:
receive, in response to the connection between the supervisory control and data acquisition device and the system being initiated, a request for security information from the provisioning manager;fetch, in response to the request for security information, the security profile associated with the supervisory control and data acquisition device from the security catalog database; andforward the security profile associated with the supervisory control and data acquisition device to the provisioning manager, wherein the provisioning manager is further configured to use the security profile to provision the connection.