A power management architecture for an electrical power distribution
system, or portion thereof, is disclosed. The architecture includes
intelligent electronic devices ("IED's") with the capability to monitor
and control attached slave devices, and provide capability to communicate
between multiple devices in a variety of communication protocols. A master
IED in the master/slave architecture performs power management functions
on the data received from the slave IED's. Further, the IED's with master
functionality provide web server capabilities, allowing a user to view
processed data over an open Internet protocol, such as HTTP ("Hyper Text
Transfer Protocol").
