Patent ID: 7216043
Filing Date: 2007-05-08
Classification: G01D,G01R,H02H,H02J,H04L,Y02B,Y02E,Y04S

Abstract:
1. An electrical power management architecture for managing an electrical power distribution system comprising: a secure network; a first power management device coupled with said secure network; an unsecure network; a second power management device coupled with said unsecure network; a firewall coupled between said secure network and said unsecure network and operative to facilitate communications between said secure network and said unsecure network, said firewall further operative to prevent unsolicited communications from said unsecure network to said secure network; said second power management device operative to send at least one unsolicited message to said first power management device, said at least one unsolicited message comprising at least one of a power management command and power management data; and wherein said first power management device is operative to generate a first unsolicited communication to said second power management device and said second power management device is further operative to generate a first solicited communication to said first power management device in response to said first unsolicited communication, said first solicited communication comprising said at least one unsolicited message.