Patent Document ID: 8321194
Application ID: 12895586
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for real-time modeling of electrical system performance of a microgrid electrical system, comprising: a plurality of sensors interfaced with components of the electrical system; an analytics server, comprising a virtual system modeling engine configured to generate predicted data output for the electrical system utilizing a virtual system model of the electrical system; and a microgrid portal comprising a device driver database configured to store a plurality of device drivers associated with sensors interfaced with components of an electrical system, a portal configuration engine configured to receive a copy of the virtual model of the electrical system, parse the virtual model of the electrical system to identify sensor devices interfaced with components of the electrical system, identify device drivers in the device driver database that can be used to interface each sensor device with the analytics server, and send the identified device drivers to the analytics server, wherein the analytics server is configured to receive the device drivers from the portal configuration engine, install the device drivers, and establish a bidirectional communication link with the plurality of sensors interfaced with components of the electrical system using the device drivers, and a portal access engine configured to receive real-time data, analytics data, and predicted data from the analytics server and display the data to an operator on a display of the client terminal.