The use of Internet technologies to enable flexible alarm processing

This paper discusses the concept of power system flexible alarm processing for provision of pertinent information to multiple and diverse information consumers. Flexibility is achieved by enabling the application of multiple alarm processing techniques and dynamic interpretation based on context, user and system requirements. The role Internet technologies could play in facilitating flexible alarm processing, including implementing the knowledge required to support alarm interpretation techniques, is also discussed. An example case study scenario is used to illustrate the potential operation of a flexible alarm processing system.