What is an IntelliGrid Architecture Environment?
IntelliGrid Architecture defines an Environment as a logical grouping of power system requirements that could be addressed by a similar set of distributed computing technologies. Within a particular environment, the information exchanges used to perform power system operational functions have very similar architectural requirements, including their: • Configuration requirements • Quality of service requirements • Security requirements • Data management requirements An IntelliGrid Architecture environment groups the requirements of the information exchanges, not necessarily the location of the applications or databases (although these may affect the information exchanges and therefore the environment). The requirements used to define IntelliGrid Architecture environments have been derived from the Use Cases described in Volume II. These Use Cases were in turn developed from industry stakeholder contributions. Since the power system functions defined in these Use Cases may require multip
