Energy IoT Architecture: From Theory to Practice

Utilizing a commonsense approach to transforming the Electricity Industry, this book demonstrates how to meet clean energy goals and simplify coordination with Distributed Energy Resources.   Stuart McCafferty presents a new way to architect solutions using a modern, event-driven, standards-based distributed architecture to streamline communications with utility, customer, and third party owned clean energy assets. The architectural and technological problems of the 20th Century centralized model are discussed, and readers are provided with a pragmatic alternative architecture. The book has examples of how to seamlessly integrate large numbers of Distributed Energy Resources with centralized systems that take advantage of intelligent edge devices through coordination instead of direct command and control. Energy IoT Reference Architecture is aligned to solve today’s biggest Electricity Industry problems, as demonstrated in this book. Through this must-have resource, readers will find detailed explanations of common energy IoT reference architecture and understand the integration of utility, customer, and third-party distributed grid assets.