Internet of Things: Convergence of Big Data
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Market Forces
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Economics: Fuel, HR, CapitalReliability: Consumer Demands & ChoiceRegulation: NERC & FERC Pressures
• Load Management• Demand Side Management (DSM)• Control of Distributed Generation (DG)• SCADA Systems• SMART Meters• Automated Distribution Management Devices • Customer Information & Billing Systems (CIS)• Advanced Metering Systems (AMI)• Automated Outage Management Systems
(OMS)• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Enter: Smart Grid
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Transmission & Distribution networks have gone from a few million monitoring & control points nationwide to BILLIONS
Exponential Growth of Monitoring & Control
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Inside consumer premises and on Utility networkOne‐way & two‐way communication
Cannot operate on a patchwork of independent, utility owned telecommunications network with proprietary data & communications protocols
Communications
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“We will need a robust, reliable, interoperable, broadband, nationwide digital telecommunications network that can handle literally tens of billions points of monitoring and control in real time.”
~Steven Collier
Capability to manage billions of intelligent electronic devices both on the Grid and Consumers’ premises in real time
ResidentialCommercial
Industrial
Grid State
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Ubiquitous
Self‐Healing
Capacity
Criteria
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Smart, self‐healing power grid that involves monitoring and managing 10’s of billions of intelligent electronic devices distributed from generation into the consumers’ homes and businesses.
Enter the “Enernet”
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Enernet – The melding of the Internet and the Electric Power Grid.
Internet doesn’t go down!
Reliability
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Internet, both wired and wireless, is already nearly ubiquitous and has proven to be able to handle millions of times more data than anyone originally expected and is relatively self healing.
Data Centers are a great example of the synthesis of electric power grid and the InternetThis model can be rolled out on a larger scale ‐ system wide
Present Day Working Model
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ControlSecurityInvestment
Challenges
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Develop TechnologyRoadmap
Therefore
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Solid Reliable backbone of communications
Fiber
Wireless
Hybrid System
Communications Network
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Integrating Communications Network into Energy Delivery System
Future Proofing
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