REAL TIME MICROGRID POWER ANALYTICS PORTAL FOR MISSION CRITICAL POWER SYSTEMS
First Claim
1. A system for real-time modeling of electrical system performance of a microgrid electrical system, comprising:
- a plurality of sensors interfaced with components of the electrical system;
an analytics server, comprising,a virtual system modeling engine configured to generate predicted data output for the electrical system utilizing a virtual system model of the electrical system,a microgrid portal comprising;
a device driver database configured to store a plurality of device drivers associated with sensors interfaced with components of an electrical system;
a portal configuration engine configured toreceive a copy of the virtual model of the electrical system;
parse the virtual model of the electrical system to identify sensor devices interfaced with components of the electrical system; and
identify device drivers in the device driver database that can be used to interface the each sensor device with the analytic server; and
send the identified device drivers to the analytic server, wherein the analytics server is configured to receive the device drivers from the portal configuration engine, install the device drivers, and establish a bidirectional communication link with the plurality of sensors interfaced with components of the electrical system using the device drivers;
a portal access engine configured to receive real-time data, analytics data, and predicted data from the analytics server and display the data to an operator on a display of the client terminal.
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Abstract
Systems and method for providing a microgrid power analytics portal for mission critical power systems are provided. The techniques disclosed herein provides for real-time modeling, evaluation, and commodity market pricing and optimization for an electrical network that includes microgrids using data collected from virtually any digital data source. The portal is platform independent and can be configured to collect and aggregate real-time data from sensors interfaced with components of the electrical network regardless of proprietary architectures or vendor-specific limitations imposed by the sensors or data collection software.
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17 Claims
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1. A system for real-time modeling of electrical system performance of a microgrid electrical system, comprising:
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a plurality of sensors interfaced with components of the electrical system; an analytics server, comprising, a virtual system modeling engine configured to generate predicted data output for the electrical system utilizing a virtual system model of the electrical system, a microgrid portal comprising; a device driver database configured to store a plurality of device drivers associated with sensors interfaced with components of an electrical system; a portal configuration engine configured to receive a copy of the virtual model of the electrical system; parse the virtual model of the electrical system to identify sensor devices interfaced with components of the electrical system; and identify device drivers in the device driver database that can be used to interface the each sensor device with the analytic server; and send the identified device drivers to the analytic server, wherein the analytics server is configured to receive the device drivers from the portal configuration engine, install the device drivers, and establish a bidirectional communication link with the plurality of sensors interfaced with components of the electrical system using the device drivers; a portal access engine configured to receive real-time data, analytics data, and predicted data from the analytics server and display the data to an operator on a display of the client terminal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A computer implemented method for real-time modeling of the performance of a microgrid electrical system, wherein one or more processors are programmed to perform steps, comprising:
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receiving a virtual model of a microgrid electrical network; parsing the virtual model of the electrical system to identify a plurality of sensor devices interfaced with components of the microgrid electrical network; identify device drivers in the device driver database that can be used to interface the each sensor device with the analytic server; and sending the identified device drivers to an analytics server; receiving and installing the device drivers on the analytics server, establishing a bidirectional communication link with the plurality of sensors interfaced with components of the electrical system using the device drivers; and acquiring real-time data from the plurality of sensors using the device drivers. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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