A first aspect of the invention provides a method of fault monitoring in a utility supply network, the method comprising: receiving user queries, each user query about a performance of the network at a respective location; defining a region based on the locations specified in the received user queries; determining an estimate of a user population in the region; and according the region, based on the estimate, a priority for one or more of fault investigation and remediation.

A processor retrieves alarm data associated with an operation support system. A processor filters the alarm data. A processor groups the filtered alarm data. A processor extracts cross-domain node and port information for the grouped alarm data. A processor generates a cross-domain topology of the operation support system based on the extracted cross-domain node and port information.

A mobile communication devices operates to: generate first control data to control an auxiliary device coupled to one of a plurality of home automation devices, wherein the plurality of home automation devices includes a thermostat, wherein the plurality of auxiliary devices includes a heat and cooling system, and wherein the thermostat is configured to control the heating and cooling system; and generate a task to control one or more of the plurality of home automation devices based on a log of operations of the one or more of the plurality of home automation devices that is generated over time.

This application discloses an alarm processing method and apparatus, a device, and a readable storage medium. An example method includes generating an alarm attribute graph based on alarm records in a target network and topology data of the target network. The alarm attribute graph includes identifiers of a plurality of devices, a communication connection relationship between the plurality of devices, type information of the plurality of devices, and alarm attribute information of the plurality of devices. The alarm attribute information of each device includes a name of an alarm occurring in the device and a time point at which each alarm occurs in the device.

A method that includes joining, by a first node, a network connecting a set of nodes, where each node has an agent and is associated with a sensor, and where the sensor generates sensor data, and where each agent sends and receives broadcast messages, and generating, by the sensor, sensor data associated with a second node. The method also includes analyzing, by the agent, the sensor data, where the analyzing causes a detection of a first fault condition of the second node, and where the first fault condition is an indication of a problem with the second node, generating, by the agent, a broadcast message, where the broadcast message includes the first fault condition, and sending, by the first node, the broadcast message to at least one member of the set of nodes via the network.

A system for monitoring quantized signals in a bidirectional data stream and alerting a networked device of metric divergence by georegion includes a computing system that automatically, for each of multiple user entities, receives input signals and stores corresponding records, associated with the user entity, each representing a quantized input event. The computing system increments a resource of the user entity by a respective input quantity. Georegion-specific attributes associated with a respective georegion are discriminated, and the input records are associated with georegion. The computing system measures user-specific georegion-specific metrics for each georegion and determines whether the metrics diverge from a georegion-specific index. An alert is sent across a network for display on a user device upon determining a user-specific georegion-specific metric diverges from a georegion-specific index.

A mobile communication devices operates to: generate first control data to control an auxiliary device coupled to one of a plurality of home automation devices; establish a group of the plurality of home automation devices; generate second control data corresponding to the group to control the plurality of auxiliary devices associated with the group of the plurality of home automation devices; establish tasks, via user interaction with the graphical user interface, the tasks each having an associated action to be performed by one or more of the plurality of home automation devices; display a menu of the tasks; receive selection of a selected task; and generate third control data in response to selection of the selected task, transmits the third control data to the one or more of the plurality of home automation devices associated with the selected task to perform the associated action corresponding to the selected task.

Example methods are provided for network management entity to perform group-based network event notification in a network environment that includes the network management entity and a notification consumer. The method may comprise: in response to detection of a first network event associated with a group, withholding notification of the first network event to the notification consumer; and in response to detection of a second network event associated with the group, withholding notification of the second network event to the notification consumer. The method may further comprise generating a group notification associated with the group, wherein the group notification is an aggregate notification to report the detection of at least the first network event and second network event; and sending the group notification to the notification consumer.

A first aspect of the invention provides a method of fault monitoring in a utility supply network, the method comprising: receiving user queries, each user query about a performance of the network at a respective location; defining a region based on the locations specified in the received user queries; determining an estimate of a user population in the region; and according the region, based on the estimate, a priority for one or more of fault investigation and remediation.

A first aspect of the invention provides a method of fault monitoring in a utility supply network, the method comprising: receiving user queries, each user query about a performance of the network at a respective location; defining a region based on the locations specified in the received user queries; determining an estimate of a user population in the region; and according the region, based on the estimate, a priority for one or more of fault investigation and remediation.