An apparatus, methods and systems for monitoring network-sensitive data collection related to an industrial production process are disclosed. The system may include a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels and to a network infrastructure, a data storage circuit structured to store a plurality of collector routes wherein the data collector receives collected data utilizing a selected collector route, a data analysis circuit structured to determine a data collection quality parameter and a state value of the industrial production process, a pattern recognition circuit structured to determine an identified pattern in response to at least a portion of the collected data and at least one of the state value or the data collection quality parameter, and an analysis response circuit structured to adjust one of the collector routes or the industrial production process in response to the identified pattern.

Systems and methods for data collection in an industrial environment can include a data collector to route analog signals from a plurality of analog sensor inputs to a plurality of output channels of in accordance with a first routing scheme and a controller configured to adjust the routing scheme to a second routing scheme. The first routing scheme may include providing at least two of the plurality of analog sensor inputs at one of the plurality of output channels and the second routing scheme may include providing at least one of the at least two of the plurality of analog sensor inputs to a different one of the plurality of output channels.

Methods for providing provable access to a distributed ledger with a tokenized instruction set are disclosed. A method may include accessing a distributed ledger including an instruction set, tokenizing the instruction set, interpreting an instruction set access request, and in response to the instruction set access request, providing a provable access to the instruction set.

A self-organizing data marketplace includes a plurality of data collectors and a corresponding plurality of industrial environments, wherein each of the plurality of data collectors is structured to collect detection values from at least one sensor of the corresponding industrial environment, a data storage structured to store a data pool comprising at least a portion of the detection values, a data marketplace structured to self-organize the data pool, and a transaction system structured to interpret a user data request, and to selectively provide a portion of the self-organized data pool to the user in response to the user data request.

A system includes an expert graphical user interface configured to: present a list of reliability measures of an industrial machine, facilitate a selection by a user of a reliability measure from the list of reliability measures, present a representation of a smart band data collection template associated with the reliability measure selected by the user, and a data routing and collection system configured to, in response to a user indication of acceptance of the smart band data collection template, collect data from a plurality of sensors in an industrial environment in response to a data value from one of the plurality of sensors being detected outside of an acceptable range of data values.

Systems and methods for machine forward energy and energy credit purchase are disclosed. An example transaction-enabling system may include a machine having an energy requirement for a task and a controller. The controller may include a resource requirement circuit to determine an amount of an energy resource for the machine to service the energy requirement, a forward resource market circuit to access a forward resource market, and a resource distribution circuit to execute a transaction of on the forward resource market in response to the determined amount of the energy resource.

Systems and methods for advanced energy settlements in electric power grid are proposed. At least one energy customer, at least one retail electric provider and at least one distributed generator connect to an advanced energy settlement platform communicatively. The advanced energy settlement platform is operable to summate a customer balance from all the settlement blocks during a billing period and collect payments from the at least one energy customer automatically; aggregate and settle distributed energy charges with distributed generators and fixed energy charges with the energy retailer or retail energy provider for the at least one energy customer during the billing period. The advanced energy settlement platform also provides interactive graphical user interface for different participants in the advanced energy settlement and for advanced energy settlements application development kit (ADK) for access to functionality within the advanced energy settlement platform.

Systems and methods for data collection in an industrial environment are disclosed. A system can include a plurality of analog sensors, wherein each of the plurality of analog sensors is operationally coupled to a respective data collection point of a machine component, and generates a respective stream of detection values. A data acquisition and analysis circuit can receive the respective stream of detection values and analyze the respective stream of detection values using an expert system analysis circuit, wherein the expert system analysis circuit determines an occurrence of an anomalous condition based on an analysis of the respective stream of detection values, wherein the expert system analysis circuit utilizes a neural network including one of a probabilistic, a time delay, and a convolutional neural network.

Controlling provision of a set of utilities by a financial institution. The method includes receiving, by a processor of a financial institution computing system associated with a financial institution, utility usage information from a set of utility meters associated with a plurality of customers of the utility company. The method includes determining a utility account balance for a customer of the plurality of customers based at least in part by an aggregate amount of utility usage used by the plurality of customers for a billing cycle by aggregating the received utility usage information for the billing cycle. The method includes determining that the utility account balance exceeds a threshold permitted past due amount. The method includes sending a stop signal to a utility meter associated with the customer, the stop signal instructing the utility meter to cut off provision of the utility to a property serviced by the utility meter.

Systems and methods for forward market purchase of machine resources are disclosed. An example transaction-enabling system may include a fleet of machines, each one of the fleet of machines having a resource requirement comprising at least one of a plurality of machine-related resources and a controller. The controller may include an intelligent agent circuit to aggregate data for the plurality of machine-related resources from at least one data source comprising an external data source or an internal data source; an expert system circuit to configure a purchase of at least one of the plurality of machine-related resources; and a machine resource acquisition circuit to automatically solicit the configured purchase of the at least one of the plurality of machine-related resources in a forward market for at least one resource of the plurality of machine-related resources.