Load shedding in advanced metering infrastructure
AssigneeItron, Inc.
InventorsTimothy James Driscoll, Donald Lloyd Reeves, III, Benjamin Damm, Juan Alemany, David Wu Ganger, Julia Ahopelto
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system for disconnecting loads from the electrical grid are disclosed. An application programming interface (API) frontend of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) load shedding system may receive a load shedding activation command; in response to receiving the load shedding activation command, the API frontend may deploy a load shedding token to one or more electricity meters of the AMI load shedding system, and cause the one or more electricity meters to disconnect corresponding loads from the one or more electricity meters.
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A method performed at least in part by an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) load shedding system, the method comprising:
- receiving, by an application programming interface (API) frontend of the AMI load shedding system, a load shedding activation command;
- in response to receiving the load shedding activation command, deploying, by the API frontend, a load shedding token to one or more electricity meters of the AMI load shedding system;
- and
- causing the one or more electricity meters to disconnect corresponding loads based at least in part on the load shedding token.
An advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) load shedding system comprising:
- one or more processors,
- an application programming interface (API) frontend coupled to the one or more processors, and
- memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing thereon computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by the API frontend, a load shedding activation command;
- in response to receiving the load shedding activation command, deploying, by the API frontend, a load shedding token to a plurality of electricity meters;
- and
- causing the plurality of electricity meters to disconnect corresponding loads based at least in part on load shedding token.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing thereon computer executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) load shedding system, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- setting, by an authorization token service of the AMI load shedding system, a policy for a load shedding event associated with a load shedding activation command;
- creating, by an application programming interface (API) frontend of the AMI load shedding system, the load shedding event;
- sending, by the API frontend, a request for tokens to the authorization token service, the tokens including the load shedding token and a load restoration token;
- receiving, by the API frontend, the load shedding token and the load restoration token from the authorization token service;
- loading, by the API frontend, the load shedding token and the load restoration token into the load shedding event;
- receiving, by the API frontend, a load shedding activation command;
- in response to receiving the load shedding activation command, deploying, by the API frontend, the load shedding token to a target group of electricity meters of the AMI load shedding system in accordance with the policy;
- and
- causing the group of electricity meters to disconnect corresponding loads based at least in part on the load shedding token.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.