Patent ID: 7945401

Claim:
A method of monitoring power distribution, on an electric power grid, using intelligent Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), wherein the intelligent RTUs perform autonomous analytics of sensor data taken from electrical distribution lines of the electric power grid, the method comprising: acquiring sensor data from an electrical distribution line, included in the electrical distribution lines, using an intelligent RTU that is included in the RTUs; locally performing analytics on the sensor data by the intelligent RTU to create a processed data signal, wherein the analytics include determining a power factor of power on the electrical distribution line; and transmitting the processed data signal to a control center server to allow a monitoring of power distribution on the electric power grid, wherein the intelligent RTU includes event extraction logic for identifying an event that is indicated by the sensor data and an event correlation engine for correlating the event with events identified by other of the RTUs to recognize problems in the electric power grid that effect multiple of the RTUs.