Edge Computing in Utility IoT: Two Architecture Patterns That Actually Work (opens in new tab)

When centralized control architectures were designed, power flowed from large generation plants down to passive consumers, utilities managed hundreds of large assets, data volumes were modest, and connectivity was reliable at substations. Few of these assumptions hold today. Power flows in both directions as rooftop solar and battery storage inject back into the distribution network. Utilities now coordinate millions of small, variable, distributed assets instead of hundreds of large ones. Da...