SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING CREATION AND EXECUTION OF LOCALIZED APPLICATIONS IN UTILITY NETWORKS THROUGH DEVICE-SPECIFIC PROGRAMMING

摘要

In one embodiment, a system is disclosed for development of computer-executable applications in a network having a central utility with one or more utility-level applications and a plurality of intelligent devices operatively connected to the central utility. Each of the intelligent devices has at least one computer-executable application for causing a computer to perform functions that include core functions for supporting active communication by the intelligent devices upstream to one or more of the utility-level applications at the central utility and/or supporting local communication by the intelligent devices with another one or more of the intelligent devices that are operatively connected via the network. At least one of the utility-level applications is executable at the central utility to communicate data downstream with at least one computer-executable application on the one or more intelligent devices via the network, and also to receive communication data. An application development framework resides at one or more of the intelligent devices, for enabling the development of computer-executable applications to perform distributed computing functions and localized functions other than the core functions associated with the intelligent devices.