The descriptions below represent a continuum. Applications may shift along the continuum under certain conditions. For example, a monitoring application may be low intensity much of the time, until an event occurs, at which point it becomes medium intensity for the duration of the event.
Known Desired Applications:
Disaggregation
Daily Usage Summary (Disaggregation Lite)
Grid Connectivity Model Detection
Transformer Loading
Smart Inverter Interfacing
Electric Vehicle Detection
Electric Vehicle Charging Control for avoiding Panel Upgrades
Electric Vehicle Charging Control for avoiding Transformer Overloading
Fault Identification & Waveform Capture
Enhanced Outage Analysis with Fault Location
Loose Neutral Identification
High Bill Alarm
Incipient Fault Detection
Demand Response Protocol Gateway – communicate with in-home devices to have them modulate usage
Transactive Energy
Low Intensity Applications
High bill alarm
Mainly passive, no significant state
Minimal Fixed cost (e.g. low memory footprint, minimal CPU consumption)
Data Reporting Applications
Medium Intensity
Control Applications
Continuous Analysis of high resolution data (e.g. 1 second data)
Waveform capture based on basic triggers
High Intensity
Continuous Waveform Analysis
Machine Learning