A knowledge management platform for supporting Smart Grids based on peer to peer and service oriented architecture technologies

In Smart Grids the design of a common management platform that integrates and coordinates grid protection and business services such as commercial supply-demand matching, is clearly one of the challenges ahead. The work presented in this paper provides a framework of knowledge management mechanisms in order to support a Smart Grid. We present the design and implementation of a platform that supports the knowledge management needs for applications such as power system operations and power system reliability in the Smart Grid environment. Both applications are modeled on the same service oriented platform.