Patent ID: 6988025
Filing Date: 2006-01-17
Classification: G05B,G06Q,H02J,Y02P,Y04S

Abstract:
1. An energy management device for managing the flow of energy in an energy distribution system, said energy management device for use in an energy management architecture for managing said energy distribution system, said energy management architecture comprising a network, said energy management device comprising: a network interface operative to couple said energy management device with said network; an energy distribution system interface operative to couple said energy management device with said energy distribution system, said energy management device further operative to measure at least one energy management quantity via said energy distribution system interface; a processor coupled with said network interface and said energy distribution system interface and operative to process said at least one energy management quantity to manage the flow of energy; and wherein said network interface is further operative to incrementally receive one of a power management command and power management data encoded as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document from said network, said XML document being received as a plurality of segments, wherein said network interface is capable of processing at least one received of said plurality of segments and extracting said one of said power management command and power management data therefrom prior to receiving all of said plurality of segments.