A Smart Power Meter to Monitor Energy Flow in Smart Grids: The Role of Advanced Sensing and IoT in the Electric Grid of the Future

Morello, Rosario; Capua, C. De; Fulco, Gaetano; Mukhopadhyay, Subhas Chandra

doi:10.1109/jsen.2017.2760014

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“…In the backward communication direction, the home gateway acts as a central node and receives dynamic electricity pricing information from the NAN, which is then provided to smart meters or IoT smart devices for triggering the required action for home appliances. Mosrello et al [94] present the role of IoT and advance sensing in smart power meter for monitoring the energy flow in SG.…”

Section: Integration Of the Iot Into A Sgmentioning

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Internet of Things-Aided Smart Grid: Technologies, Architectures, Applications, Prototypes, and Future Research Directions

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Traditional power grids are being transformed into Smart Grids (SGs) to address the issues in existing power system due to uni-directional information flow, energy wastage, growing energy demand, reliability and security. SGs offer bi-directional energy flow between service providers and consumers, involving power generation, transmission, distribution and utilization systems. SGs employ various devices for the monitoring, analysis and control of the grid, deployed at power plants, distribution centers and in consumers' premises in a very large number. Hence, an SG requires connectivity, automation and the tracking of such devices. This is achieved with the help of Internet of Things (IoT). IoT helps SG systems to support various network functions throughout the generation, transmission, distribution and consumption of energy by incorporating IoT devices (such as sensors, actuators and smart meters), as well as by providing the connectivity, automation and tracking for such devices. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey on IoTaided SG systems, which includes the existing architectures, applications and prototypes of IoT-aided SG systems. This survey also highlights the open issues, challenges and future research directions for IoT-aided SG systems. energy in accordance with the needs of the consumers within the constraints of power systems. Nearly, all the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy is owned by the utility companies who provide electrical energy to consumers and bill them accordingly to recover their costs and earn profit.The traditional power grid worked very well from its inception in 1870 until 1970 [1]. Even though the consumers' demand for energy grew exponentially, it was still rather predictable. However, there has been a dramatic change in the nature of electrical energy consumption since 1970, as the load of electronic devices has become the fastest growing element of the total electricity demand and new sources of high electricity consumption have been developed, such as Electric Vehicles (EVs). The power grids endure a significant wastage of energy due to a number of factors, such as consumers' inefficient appliances and lack of smart technology, inefficient routing and dispensation of electrical energy, unreliable communication and monitoring, and most importantly, lack of a mechanism to store the generated electrical energy [2]- [4]. Furthermore, power grids face some other challenges as well, including growing energy demand, reliability, security, emerging renewable energy sources and aging infrastructure problems to name a few.In order to solve these challenges, the Smart Grid (SG) paradigm has appeared as a promising solution with a variety of information and communication technologies. Such technologies can improve the effectiveness, efficiency, reliability, security, sustainability, stability and scalability of the traditional power grid [5]. SG differs from traditional power grids in many aspects. For instance, SG offers a bi-directional communicat...

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Section: Integration Of the Iot Into A Sgmentioning

confidence: 99%

Internet of Things-Aided Smart Grid: Technologies, Architectures, Applications, Prototypes, and Future Research Directions

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“…Power meter has the components such as voltage transducer, a current transducer, an A/D converter and a processor. IOT provides the user for sharing of data and information in the whole grid which includes multi hop communication so that the sensors communicate through several successive nodes and improves the grid management by including features like flexible to change conditions, prediction of energy consumption to monitor and control private security [44]. ISO/IEC/IEEE 21451 standard allows smart grid for improving its efficiency and makes easier interoperability between several sensing systems.…”

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Internet of things and its applications

Sai¹,

Kumar²

2018

IJET

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IOT is creating impeccable things by improving the performance of system in the field of communications in many technical applications in expedite manner and taken the system performance to next level. implementing IOT in today's world out do's the response time of the system to the normal system response in R&D applications. this paper depicts the challenges and the problems in various domains and gave the solution by imbibing IOT Technology by standardizing the system processes to meet the industrial as well as domestic needs.

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“…Smart grids can monitor the state of a grid in real time and use the information to operate the grid in a secure, reliable, and stable way, with lower costs and improved energy efficiency [1][2][3]. In this context, sensors and actuators (network breakers) are crucial players in smart grid management [4][5][6]. Employing sensors for real-time monitoring allows one to deal with the power management of distributed energy resources, such as distributed generators (DGs) [7] and electric vehicles [8], as well as to improve the smart grid's reliability [9].…”

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Smart Sensors for Smart Grid Reliability

Alonso

Amarís

Alcala

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Sensors for monitoring electrical parameters over an entire electricity network infrastructure play a fundamental role in protecting smart grids and improving the network’s energy efficiency. When a short circuit takes place in a smart grid it has to be sensed as soon as possible to reduce its fault duration along the network and to reduce damage to the electricity infrastructure as well as personal injuries. Existing protection devices, which are used to sense the fault, range from classic analog electro-mechanics relays to modern intelligent electronic devices (IEDs). However, both types of devices have fixed adjustment settings (offline stage) and do not provide any coordination among them under real-time operation. In this paper, a new smart sensor is developed that offers the capability to update its adjustment settings during real-time operation, in coordination with the rest of the smart sensors spread over the network. The proposed sensor and the coordinated protection scheme were tested in a standard smart grid (IEEE 34-bus test system) under different short circuit scenarios and renewable energy penetration. Results suggest that the short-circuit fault sensed by the smart sensor is improved up to 80% and up to 64% compared with analog electromechanics relays and IEDs, respectively.

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A Smart Power Meter to Monitor Energy Flow in Smart Grids: The Role of Advanced Sensing and IoT in the Electric Grid of the Future

Cited by 191 publications

References 15 publications

Internet of Things-Aided Smart Grid: Technologies, Architectures, Applications, Prototypes, and Future Research Directions

Internet of Things-Aided Smart Grid: Technologies, Architectures, Applications, Prototypes, and Future Research Directions

Internet of things and its applications

Smart Sensors for Smart Grid Reliability

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