{"id":367,"date":"2010-10-01T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T09:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2012-01-07T02:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T02:08:21","slug":"streaming-the-smart-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2010\/10\/01\/streaming-the-smart-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming the smart grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While mixing up a number of metaphots here, I&#8217;m thinking that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Real_Time_Streaming_Protocol\">RTSP<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multicast\">multicast<\/a> would be very good mechanisms to support smart grid\/smart meter infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Lossy is &#8220;ok&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; p2p\/IPv6\/multicast can support the back-channel from a load-balancing, network monitoring and bi-directional messaging standpoint (mashing up with MQTT) for broadcast controls, for localised network optimisation and for back-haul diagnostics.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be interested to how technologies can re-apply to scalable, low-cost infrastructure (a single server should be able to support many thousands of nodes).<\/p>\n<p>Comments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While mixing up a number of metaphots here, I&#8217;m thinking that RTSP and multicast would be very good mechanisms to support smart grid\/smart meter infrastructure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-5V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}