Patent ID: 8577661

Claim:
A method for filtering and interpreting real-time sensory data from an electrical system, the method comprising, by at least one hardware processor: receiving real-time data from a plurality of sensors interfaced with components of an electrical system; generating predicted data using a virtual system model of the electrical system, the virtual system model comprising virtual components corresponding to the components of the electrical system; determining a difference between the real-time data and the predicted data; if the difference does not exceed a tolerance threshold value, not updating the virtual components of the virtual system model; if the difference exceeds the tolerance threshold value but does not exceed an alarm threshold value which is greater than the tolerance threshold value, updating the virtual components of the virtual system model in real time based on the real-time data; and, if the difference exceed the alarm threshold value, not updating the virtual components of the virtual system model, and communicating an alarm condition.