Fault isolation and service restoration in an electric grid
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsGopal K. Bhageria, Don T. Mak, Kevin M. Monagle, Sri Ramanathan, Jean-Gael F. Reboul, Matthew A. Terry, Matthew B. Trevathan
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Abstract
Fault isolation and service restoration in an electrical grid are provided. An approach for receiving a notification message including a state of an electrical component on an electrical grid, and determining, by a computing system, a command message including at least one action to take in response to the state of the electrical component, is described. The approach further includes sending the command message to at least one of the electrical component and other electrical components on the electrical grid.
Claims14
A method, comprising:
- receiving a notification message comprising a state of an electrical component on an electrical grid;
- determining, by a computing system, a command message comprising at least one action to take in response to the state of the electrical component;
- and
- sending the command message to at least one of the electrical component and other electrical components on the electrical grid,
- wherein the sending comprises restoring power to at least one customer by sending the command message to at least one switch that instructs the at least one switch to one of open and close.
A computer program product comprising a computer usable storage device having readable program code embodied in the storage device, the computer program product comprises at least one component operable to:
- receive a notification message comprising a state of an electrical component on an electrical grid;
- determine a command message comprising at least one action to take in response to the state of the electrical component;
- and
- send the command message to at least one of the electrical component and other electrical components on the electrical grid,
- wherein the sending the command message comprises restoring power to at least one customer by sending the command message to at least one switch that instructs the at least one switch to one of open and close.
A computer system for decentralized and centralized fault isolation and service restoration in an electrical grid, the system comprising:
- a CPU, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage media;
- first program instructions to receive a notification message comprising a state of an electrical component on the electrical grid;
- second program instructions to determine a command message comprising at least one action to take in response to the state of the electrical component;
- and
- third program instructions to send the command message to at least one of the electrical component and other electrical components on the electrical grid to reconfigure the electrical grid to bypass the fault isolation,
- wherein the sending the command message comprises restoring power to at least one customer by sending the command message to at least one switch that instructs the at least one switch to one of open and close,
- wherein the electrical component and the other electrical components are reconfigured based on the command message by performing the at least one action to take in response to the state of the electrical component, and
- wherein the first, second, and third program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.