The Cloud of Things Empowered Smart Grid Cities

Abstract

The emergence of the Smart Grid era fuels a new generation of innovative applications and services that are built upon fine-grained monitoring and control capabilities pertaining the underlying infrastructure, such as that of future Smart Cities. Collection, processing and analytics on the Internet of Things of massively generated data, as well as potential management functions will emerge; therefore making a reality informed real-time decision making as well as its enforcement in a timely manner over complex infrastructures. The prevalence of the Cloud and its services, can very well complement the Internet of Things when it comes to massive data management, giving rise to the Cloud of Things (CoT). For the next generation applications, the CoT can enable access to generic multi-modal energy services, ontop of which development of more sophisticated solutions can be realized. We depict here such Smart Grid services for the Smart City of the future, as well as experiences from their realization.

Big Data-IoE Relationships and the Future of Smart Cities

“…IoE can promote more effective automation because it considers people and processes. People and processes are crucial to developing the IoE (Karnouskos, 2014). This makes IoE an effective tool for developing better automated smart cities.…”

Energy optimization in a smart community grid system using genetic algorithm

“…Those users who consume energy as well as produce their own renewable energy is called prosumers. [13][14][15] The prosumers either store the surplus energy 16 for future use or share with other buyers. The prosumers-based smart community grid provides the opportunity to manage the power at low cost and tends to economic and environmental benefits.…”

“…Those users who consume energy as well as produce their own renewable energy is called prosumers 13–15 . The prosumers either store the surplus energy 16 for future use or share with other buyers.…”

Integrated Management Strategy with Feasible Smartness over Heterogeneous IoT Environments

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