Self-organized power and energy control and management systems and methods

A power and energy control and management system comprising:

• a backplane assembly;
• a functional module coupled to the backplane assembly, the functional module including at least one internal data table and a unique module description, the unique module description including information about the internal data table parameters and external data table parameters of the functional module;
• and
• a primary module coupled to the backplane assembly, the primary module including a description parser adapted to receive and interpret the internal data table parameters and the external data table parameters of the functional module upon self-organization of the system, and to create a dynamic data table structure including at least one external data table, the at least one external data table being dynamically created based on the external data table structures of the functional module.

A method of self-organizing a power and energy control and management system, the method comprising:

• inputting into a description generator tool information about a functional module, the information comprising information about internal data table structures and external data table structures;
• creating a module description specific to the functional module by compiling the information input into the description generator tool;
• saving the module description in memory in the functional module;
• and
• self-organizing the system by
• i) sending the module description across a backplane assembly to a primary module, the primary module adapted to receive the module description;
• ii) using a description parser to create dynamic data table structures based on the module description;
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• iii) establishing an I/O connection between the primary module and the functional module.