Patent ID: 8892721

Claim:
An electrical power monitoring system for monitoring an electrical power distribution system, comprising: at least one monitoring device adapted to be coupled to said electrical power distribution system for sensing and storing data representing operating characteristics of said electrical power distribution system, at least one client device coupled to said at least one monitoring device for requesting data from said at least one monitoring device and processing, storing and presenting data received from said at least one monitoring device, a communications network coupled to said monitoring and client devices, and a proxy server coupled to said communications network for receiving client messages from said at least one client device as a virtual device that is a continuously updating, virtual model of the measurement and configuration data state of said at least one monitoring device, the proxy server processing said client messages, determining, for each of the processed client messages, whether to apply said client message to said virtual device and whether to forward said client message to said at least one monitoring device, and depending on predetermined proxy rules, either (a) applying said client message to said virtual device and providing a response back to said at least one client device, or (b) forwarding said client message to said at least one monitoring device and providing a response back to said at least one client device.