Method and system for optimized monitoring and identification of advanced metering infrastructure device communication failures

A system for optimized monitoring and identification of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) device communication failures in an AMI network for detecting communication failures, the system comprising:

• an AMI graph generating unit in communication with a processor and configured to generate a graphical representation of the AMI devices, the graphical representation comprising nodes corresponding to the AMI devices and links representing the connectivity between the AMI devices, wherein the graphical representation is generated based on data associated with the AMI devices retrieved via the AMI network in real-time;
• an AMI device monitoring unit in communication with the processor and configured to modify, via the AMI graph generating unit, the graphical representation based on computed one or more properties and one or more predefined rules associated with the nodes;
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• an AMI device communication failure identification unit in communication with the processor and configured to compute priority and criticality of the nodes using the modified graphical representation, wherein the nodes are categorized and processed based on AMI device hierarchy priority and criticality for detecting AMI device communication failures.

A computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable program code stored thereon, the computer-readable program code having program instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
• generate a graphical representation of the AMI devices, the graphical representation comprising nodes corresponding to the AMI devices and links representing the connectivity between the AMI devices, wherein the graphical representation is generated based on data associated with the AMI devices retrieved via the AMI network in real-time;
• compute one or more properties of the AMI devices using the graphical representation, wherein the one or more properties are computed based on values associated with the nodes corresponding to the AMI devices in the graphical representation;
• modify the graphical representation based on the computed one or more properties and one or more predefined rules, wherein the nodes corresponding to the AMI devices are updated based on the computed one or more properties and the one or more links are modified based on the one or more predefined rules;
• select one or more nodes in the modified graphical representation and process the selected one or more nodes in an order based on AMI device hierarchy, priority and criticality;
• modify the graphical representation based on the processing of the selected nodes;
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• identify AMI devices with communication failures from at least one of the generated and modified graphical representation of the AMI devices.