I want to get back to buildings soon. Smart grids are engaging, but I think our goals for the future will be met by buildings.
For months, all my writing has been about smart grids. More particularly, for November, it has all been about smart grid standards.
As I write this, the essential market interfaces of the grid are in review. A common communication of schedule and interval, suitable for sharing schedules between grid and enterprise and building and finance...
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Coming to Terms with EMIX
Another of the essential inter-domain standards for smart energy is being released for formal public review this week. Schedule, price & product descriptions, market interactions, and usage reporting are the standards to enable arms-length interactions between participants in smart energy. When these are stable, products that need them can come out of the labs, accelerated by common communication standards across the country. The miracle of software, silicon, and scale can begin to work its magic to balance energy supply and demand, in a world where. . .
Doing things at the right time
in Schedules, Smart Grid, Standards, Synergies, oBIX
I have been writing too much elsewhere to write as much as I’d like here recently. WS-Calendar, EMIX, and EnergyInterop all have drafts out for comments this week. Standards specifications require a lot of coordination to get into publication.
Last Sunday, the WS-Calendar Technical Committee released a draft for comments. This is a small component among standards, but one that can help integrate building systems into the businesses that...
Standards for energy engagement and autonomous response (3b of 3)
The fourth of three planned posts on revisiting the smart grid priority action plans ran over long. The first post discussed semantic issues. The next addressed the conflict between the business models for Managed and Collaborative Energy. In this one, I discuss the architecturally significant interfaces of the smart grid, updating my earlier musing on SGIX.
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