Simple TE Use Cases fueled the development of EML-CTS

I have written here before about NIST-CTS, an open source implementation of a transactive energy market, designed to support TE (Transactive Energy) market modelling within the NIST Cyberphysical Systems modelling tool. While most TE research has been dependent upon double auction-based markets, NIST CTS, the initial release of the EML-CTS system, was developed to model transactive energy using a financial-style order book.
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Energy Mashup Labs unveils its CTS System for Transactive Energy

For the last two semesters, The Energy Mashup Lab (The Lab) Lab has worked with graduating students in the master’s program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop fully open source software for transactive energy (TE) applications. This students work with The Lab through the Capstone Project (https://centers.njit.edu/uri/programs/capstone.php) The architecture is fully modular, designed to enable widely different technologies to interoperate in a highly scalable Actor-to-Actor system of systems.
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Defining OpenC2 Cybersecurity for OT: Microgrids

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OpenC2 is an open cybersecurity command language for the Internet of Things, also known as Operational Technology (OT). Traditional cybersecurity concerns are focused on the traditional networks of file servers, database servers, web servers, and desktop computers. Cybersecurity commands from firewall directives to interdiction of malware in documents have as their goal the protection of those administrative and data services. The communications requirements and systems architectures of OT are quite different than those of administrative systems, and the services provided by OT are far more diverse. The security directives for each type of OT system are just now being defined. The services provided by OT may be critical to the performance of other systems. A cyber-threat to a power distribution system may create risks to every mission supported by that system. OpenC2 on OT systems may be able to provide critical situation awareness on threats to other missions.
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