Low-cost integration of hardware components into co-simulation for future power and energy systems

Smart Grids Co-Simulations: Survey & Research Directions

“…Energy resource distribution. Co-simulations have been used for studying the integration of PV panels for household power consumption, optimal strategies for electrical vehicles recharging, the plug-in strategies of electric vehicles to stabilize grid voltage (Nannen et al, 2015;Li et al, 2017;Broderick et al, 2017). A4.…”

“…In our review, we found that 59% of the articles had some form of interaction with hardware devices. We expect that with the explosion of the IoT movement and the large availability of commodity hardware such as Arduinos and Raspberry PIs, such trend will increase, allowing hybrid simulations to take place in this context, as recent research has already shown-Schvarcbacher & Rossi (2017); Schvarcbacher et al (2018), (Nannen et al, 2015).…”

“…While remote access requirements have been limited so far, we expect such needs to increase in the future, leading to similar systems as DeterLab (Mirkovic & Benzel, 2012) for teaching cybersecurity testing and simulation scenarios. Integration of the connection between cloud-based testing and expensive laboratory devices for remote real-time testing can be an alternative over cheaper solutions based on commodity IoT devices for the emulation of real hardware-like showed in Schvarcbacher & Rossi (2017); Aurilio et al (2014), (Nannen et al, 2015). There are many challenges involved in such "scaling-up", but also many opportunities in terms of the complexity of the simulated scenarios, sharing of knowledge between researchers and educational opportunities.…”