SBIR Phase II: Development and Commercialization of a Real-Time Visualization Tool for the Energy Industry

该小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目旨在开发一种新的软件工具，用于查看能源行业的实时电力数据。该项目的目的是允许使用一个先进的可视化环境，将实时电力系统数据作为输入。现有产品将与离线潮流情况解耦，并将可视化链接泛化，使任何实时数据库都可以链接到可视化对象。最终的结果将是一种软件产品，它将允许任何用户通过安全访问从任何连接到互联网的Windows PC查看实时电力系统数据。该产品的市场将是世界上所有的电力公用事业公司、独立的系统运营商和地区输电组织，因为它们都必须在其控制中心安装能源管理系统(EMS)。EMS系统能够显示从安装在整个电网中的仪表获得的实时电力系统数据，并实时发送到控制中心。然而，这些数据基本上被困在控制中心，其他位置的公司员工无法实时查看系统上正在发生的事情。通常，实时系统信息的报告需要给EMS操作员打电话。这套系统实施后，应可为电力公司带来节省，而这些节省又会转嫁到用户身上。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to develop a new software tool for viewing real-time electrical data for the energy industry. The purpose of this project is to allow an advanced visualization environment to be used with real-time power system data as input. Existing product will be decoupled from off-line power flow cases and generalize the visualization links so that any real-time database can be linked to the visualization objects. The end result will be a software product that will allow any user with secure access to view real-time power system data from any Windows PC with a TCP/IP connection to the Internet.The market for this product will be all electrical utilities, independent system operators, and regional transmission organizations in the world since they all must have an energy management system (EMS) installed in their control center. EMS systems have the ability to display real-time power system data obtained from meters installed throughout the electrical grid and sent in real-time to the control center. However this data has been essentially trapped in the control center with no way for company employees in other locations to visualize in real time what is happening on the system. Typically a report on real-time system information necessitates a telephone call to an EMS operator. When implemented this system should generate savings for the power companies which in turn will be passed on to the consumer.