| Title | IoT Architecture for Smart Grids |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Shahinzadeh, Hossein, Moradi, Jalal, Gharehpetian, Gevork B., Nafisi, Hamed, Abedi, Mehrdad |
| Conference Name | 2019 International Conference on Protection and Automation of Power System (IPAPS) |
| Keywords | active distribution networks, Communications technology, compositionality, congestion management, distributed power generation, distribution level, Embedded systems, energy storage, energy storage facilities, human factors, industrial sector, information and communications technology, Internet, Internet of energy (IoE), Internet of Things, Internet of Things (IoT), IoT architecture, IoT-based technologies, Microgrids, modern communicational platforms, power engineering computing, pubcrawl, Real-time Systems, renewable energy, renewable energy resources, Resiliency, Sensors, Smart buildings, smart cities, Smart grid 2.0, Smart Grid Sensors, Smart grids, smart power grids, thermal generation, wind energy, Wind farms, wind turbines |
| Abstract | The tremendous advances in information and communications technology (ICT), as well as the embedded systems, have been led to the emergence of the novel concept of the internet of things (IoT). Enjoying IoT-based technologies, many objects and components can be connected to each other through the internet or other modern communicational platforms. Embedded systems which are computing machines for special purposes like those utilized in high-tech devices, smart buildings, aircraft, and vehicles including advanced controllers, sensors, and meters with the ability of information exchange using IT infrastructures. The phrase "internet", in this context, does not exclusively refer to the World Wide Web rather than any type of server-based or peer-to-peer networks. In this study, the application of IoT in smart grids is addressed. Hence, at first, an introduction to the necessity of deployment of IoT in smart grids is presented. Afterwards, the applications of IoT in three levels of generation, transmission, and distribution is proposed. The generation level is composed of applications of IoT in renewable energy resources, wind and solar in particular, thermal generation, and energy storage facilities. The deployment of IoT in transmission level deals with congestion management in power system and guarantees the security of the system. In the distribution level, the implications of IoT in active distribution networks, smart cities, microgrids, smart buildings, and industrial sector are evaluated. |
| DOI | 10.1109/IPAPS.2019.8641944 |
| Citation Key | shahinzadeh_iot_2019 |
IoT Architecture for Smart Grids