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The Human Side of Energy Micromarkets

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The Human Beings must have a say, or any model for transactive energy is doomed to failure. No model based on satisfying The Computers or The Grid will acheive prominence in the market. If optional, people will opt out. If mandatory, people will work around. The market is not a model for decision making, it is a pattern for interactions. In the abstract, semiotics does not determine meaning, only how meaning is conveyed. The interaction patterns do not determine the value of energy used at a particular place and time, they only determine how it is negotiated and conveyed.

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Bidding for Schedules—VPOLL and VAVAILABILITY

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Last week I watched live multi-vendor demonstrations using the new specifications vPoll and vAvailability. These extend calendar interactions to support live negotiations about schedule and performance. These negotiations can be machine-to-machine (M2M) or augmented by human input. These were not applications, these were live interactions between mainstream calendar servers. The testing used simple user interfaces, just enough to operate the tests. These simple information exchanges extend existing systems for schedule negotiations into automated polling and bidding.

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The Right Time at the Right Place

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Smart Energy uses schedule negotiation and schedule coordination to operate systems and equipment at the right time to take maximum advantage of variable energy supplies. As the internet of things grows up, it will move from gathering data from sensors to coordinating things to enhance our lives. The future of business breaks down into smaller entities with stronger missions that coordinate activities over time to support customers as if by a single business, only better. We all took steps closer to these seemingly simple coordination results, at a meeting at AOL headquarters.

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Service Oriented Scheduling (Part 3): Examples

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In parts one and two, I described a model whereby long running processes, including physical processes, can be advertised and invoked within service architectures. A system can advertise when it is willing to offer a service, set prices for different schedules, indicate limitations in its ability to respond, and otherwise describe what it is bringing to market. A system seeking a service can efficiently compare performance characteristics and prices for acquiring / invoking these services. Client and server can negotiate when and how a service is provided. These information exchanges are at the heart of smart grid communications. In this post...

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