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Subject: NMS and Communication Profiles
I ran across a new (to me)
acronym today—NMS. NMS (Neighborhood Management Systems) has apparently
gotten some traction in Europe describing a range of software functions in
support of distributed generation and the smart grid. The purpose of a NMS is
the intelligent and energy efficient management of local energy network enabled
by ICT (US IT with communications added) NMS also offers management expanding
over life cycle (life cycle commissioning, energy profiling) and over groups of
buildings supported by dynamic energy monitoring The goals of NMS are to
design & develop an ICT enabled solution for intelligent utilization of
distributed energy generation and local planning: -
Distributed
energy resources -
Facilitate
and optimize DG integration into the grid from a unique large scale supplier to
multiple small scale producers -
“Prosumers”
(Consumers becoming Producers (ouch – prosumer is worst word I’ve
ever seen)) Uses of NMS Stakeholders / Users - Dwellers - Energy
providers - Building
owners - Local
urban planners - Decision
makers Energy network - Electricity - Heat - [Gas
et al] Energy Sources - Solar - Wind - CHP - Geothermal Service -
To evaluate the opportunity for RES in a
neighborhood -
To site and size DG -
To facilitate DG integration by focusing on the
technical constraints: -
Reliability / voltage profile / intermittency /
legal constraints -
To simulate and predict the behavior of a smart
grid integrating intermittent generation, using weather forecast / building
simulators or real time data -
To optimize the energy network for a good
balance between use of small and large producers, CO2 restriction, loss
reduction \ minimization of supply cost So – what smartgrid
standards are necessary to facilitate exchange of NMS information? tc ________________________________________ "It is the theory that
decides what can be observed." - Albert Einstein ________________________________________ Toby Considine Chair, OASIS oBIX Technical
Committee Co-Chair, OASIS Technical
Advisory Board Facilities Technology Office University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
Email: Toby.Considine@
unc.edu Phone: (919)962-9073 http://www.oasis-open.org blog: www.NewDaedalus.com |
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