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Atomic self-healing architecture in an electric power network

  • US 9,236,770 B2
  • Filed: 07/16/2003
  • Issued: 01/12/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In an electric power network, an advanced communications system employing an atomic communications system architecture, comprising:

  • a plurality of node elements deployable on said electric power network and each having a respective global port and an inward port, the electric power network having a plurality of hierarchy levels, including a hierarchy of high voltage, medium voltage, and low voltage, and wherein at least one node element is deployed at each hierarchy level;

    each node element having a global data store that is populated with information supplied via said global port and is accessible via said inward port;

    each node element having a local data store that is populated with information supplied via said inward port and is accessible via said global port;

    each node element being configured to selectably support at least one of three planes of interaction using the information maintained within said global and inward data stores;

    a power analysis plane of interaction,a data plane of interaction, anda control plane of interaction,wherein each node element allows a plurality of load devices to exchange data, through the node element, using respective different protocols of the load devices; and

    wherein each node element includes a proxy having a universal format interface that makes available a local control interface of a first local load device available and that allows remote control of the first local load device, through the universal format interface, using a universal format different from a local control protocol of the first load device.

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