System, device and method for providing power outage and restoration notification

摘要

A system, computer program product and method to provide information related to a power distribution system based on information provided by a plurality of network elements electrically connected to a plurality of power lines of the power distribution system at a plurality of locations is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a notification from a group of network elements that have detected a voltage signature indicating an imminent power outage, determining location information of the power outage, outputting the location information of the power outage, receiving a live notification from a first network element of the group of network elements indicating a first power restoration at a location of the first network element, determining location information of the first power restoration, and outputting the location information of the first power restoration.

主权项

1. A method of using a computer system to provide information related to a power distribution system based on information provided by a plurality of network elements, comprising:
receiving one or more outage notifications from one or more network elements connected to the power distribution system; determining location information of the power outage based on the one or more outage notifications; outputting data of the location information of the power outage; receiving a first restoration notification from a first network element of the one or more network elements providing the one or more outage notifications; wherein the restoration notification indicates a first power restoration at a location of the first network element; determining location information of the first power restoration based, at least in part, on the live notification; and outputting data of the location information of the first power restoration.