Yes, social business is hard: It requires a deep rethinking of communicationprotocols internally and externally, and very often a re-alignment of functional teams.
However, when such switches are inter-connected the underlying communicationprotocols can disturb local traffic and more importantly fall-short of scaling this performance to devices connected multiple hops away.
How costs and benefits are apportioned is important, but equally important are the necessary protocols for communication and coordination between micro-grid and grid.
For example, General Electric has developed the a home energy management platform that uses a ZigBee network protocols to establish communication channels between household appliances.
This includes relevant pacts and protocols, such as the December 2006 Protocol on Management of Information and Communication in the Great Lakes region and its proposal to establish an independent Regional Council of Information and Communication (RICC).