Producers, Consumers, and Actuators

We had a very similar conversation in Energy Interoperation (how does a house interact with the grid? What
 if the House is an energy producer at this moment? How does a Battery interact with the Gird? With a House)

I have stolen some language from Energy Interoperation section 3.1

http://docs.oasis-open.org/energyinterop/ei/v1.0/os/energyinterop-v1.0-os.html

Energy Interoperation Version 1.0 - OASIS

docs.oasis-open.org

Energy Interoperation describes an information and communication model to coordinate energy supply, transmission, distribution, and use, including power and ancillary services, between any two parties, such as energy suppliers and customers, markets and service
 providers, in any of the domains indicated in Figure 2.1 below. Energy Interoperation makes no assumptions about which entities will ...

The all OpenC2 communications are between entities. In any communication, an entity acts as either a Producer
 or a Consumer. An entity may be a Consumer in one interaction and a Producer in another.

Most OpenC2 Communications are between a Producer and an Consumer acting as an Actuator. An Actuator Profile is a defined
 set of capabilities and responses. A Consumer MAY present multiple Actuator Profiles to a Producer.

A Consumer MAY provide no direct services itself, but instead relay, aggregate, dis-aggregate or coordinate
 commands and responses, acting as a Producer to downstream Consumers.

Within a specific pair of entities, each may act sometimes as the Producer, and sometimes as the Producer.

 

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3â1: Entities interacting stolen from Energy Interoperation