Proactive Situation Management in the Future Internet: The Case of the Smart Power Grid

Abstract

The Future Internet vision is tightly linked to the transition from a passive system in which users initiate activities to a proactive environment in which software agents find, organize and display information and services on behalf of users. Such applications must be highly proactive and support real-time contextualizations and dynamic situation sensing, processing and reaction. In this paper we discuss situation management as a framework especially useful in domains in which there is the need to automatically and continuously identify and act on complex, often incomplete and unpredictable, dynamic situations. We focus on applying situation management methods in demand response, an element of the emerging smart power grid. We outline an intelligent situation management approach and present an event-based software architecture for supporting demand response aspects of the smart grid.

An Approach to Overcome the Complexity of Network Management Situations by Mashments

“…In the disaster response [4], a situation-aware architecture and a set of protocols support the timely delivery of high volumes of accurate data that the disaster responders need to make correct decisions. In the smart grid power networks [5], an architecture, based on semantics, linked open data, and complex event processing, enables to respond intelligently to the active power demand of end-users. In the security crisis management [6], a mobile agents platform allows providing timely information to the on-site personnel, the tactical crisis command, and the offsite strategic command centre.…”

“…SM has been used in domains such as disaster response [4], smart power grid networks [5], security crisis management [6], and public health [7]. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no SM-based approach to address the complexity of sudden, dynamic, heterogeneous, and time specific Situations that network administrators face in their daily work.…”

A Digital-Enabled Framework for Intelligent Collaboration in Small Teams

“…A situation can be defined as "a snapshot of a complete world state at a particular time" [10]. It is "the missing link" to organize and fuse diverse data resources for computational intelligence in software development [11].…”

A mashup ecosystem for network management situations

“…In the aviation domain, a scalable and distributed situational system has been introduced for the management of air security incidents such as terrorist attacks that need, to be overcomed, the coordination and sharing of information from different organizations [17]. An architecture, based on SM, the Service Oriented Architecture, and developer centric, has been outlined for supporting demand response aspects of the smart grid domain [18]. Althoug SM has been used in several domains, there is not a SM-based approach to deal with NMSits.…”