Patent 7830874 was granted and assigned to Itron on November, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and systems of providing positive outage notification are described. In some examples, the system determines there is an outage at a facility and transmits multiple messages notifying a utility of the outage. In some examples, the messages are received at multiple message collectors. In some examples, the system determines restoration procedures based on the messages.