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thousands of horizontally organized grids, requires updating regulatory frameworks to
interoperability; the individual technologies and machines need to communicate with each
other, and they need to do so instantaneously. Geoff Brown, CEO of Machine-to-Machine
Intelligence Corporation, argues that, just as machine-to-machine communication and a
functional IoT are essential for successful grid modernization, smart grid is essential to
a functional IoT (Brown
2014
). He suggests implementation of new messaging protocols
like the MQ Telemetry Transport as a means of assuring interoperability among the many
individual technologies, and points to NIST's recently released report on how to improve
the security of critical infrastructure as a positive sign that policy is catching up with
Who controls the community energy system, microgrid, and nanogrid and who benefits
from these different systems remains context-specific. How these small-scale grid
technologies will evolve over time and if they allow for the creation of prosumers or
embed the wishes of the locavolt movement remains to be seen. The technical evolution of
small-scale energy systems will be supported or thwarted by the different regulatory and
policy contexts within which they are developed.
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