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An IoT-enabled smart grid: definitions, characteristics, challenges, and future directions

An IoT-enabled smart grid: definitions, characteristics, challenges, and future directions
An IoT-enabled smart grid: definitions, characteristics, challenges, and future directions
The IoT-enabled Smart Grid (SG) could be viewed as a large Cyber-Physical-System (CPS). The Smart Grid is considered to be part of the vital critical infrastructure for many communities worldwide. Globally, the energy market is considered the biggest market for any country to grow economically and therefore Smart Grids are one of the biggest applications of IoT. The evolution of an Internet of Things-enabled Smart Grid affords better automation, communication, monitoring, and control of electricity consumption. It is now essential to supply and transmit the data required, to achieve better sensing, more accurate control, wider information communication and sharing, and more rational decision-making. However, the rapid growth in connected entities, accompanied by the increased demand for electricity, has resulted in several challenges to be addressed. This research helps better depicts and understand the challenges of Smart Grid implementation. Identifying the challenges is considered a pre-requisite pillar to understanding whether the applied implementation and design approach can be employed to foster the IoT-enabled Smart Grid. To the best of the author’s knowledge, no previous study addresses sufficiently and comprehensively the challenges of the IoT-enabled Smart Grid.
Smart Grid, Smart energy, IoT, Internet of Things, IoT - enabled Smart Grid, Cyber-Physical-System, CPS
1155-1163
MECOnet
Akkad, Abeer
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Wills, Gary
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Rezazadeh, Abdolbaghi
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Jóźwiak, Lech
Stojanović, Radovan
Voros, Nikolaos
Akkad, Abeer
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Wills, Gary
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Rezazadeh, Abdolbaghi
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Jóźwiak, Lech
Stojanović, Radovan
Voros, Nikolaos

Akkad, Abeer, Wills, Gary and Rezazadeh, Abdolbaghi (2022) An IoT-enabled smart grid: definitions, characteristics, challenges, and future directions. Jóźwiak, Lech, Stojanović, Radovan and Voros, Nikolaos (eds.) In Proceedings of the 3rd Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things. vol. III, MECOnet. pp. 1155-1163 . (doi:10.5281/zenodo.6698644).

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Abstract

The IoT-enabled Smart Grid (SG) could be viewed as a large Cyber-Physical-System (CPS). The Smart Grid is considered to be part of the vital critical infrastructure for many communities worldwide. Globally, the energy market is considered the biggest market for any country to grow economically and therefore Smart Grids are one of the biggest applications of IoT. The evolution of an Internet of Things-enabled Smart Grid affords better automation, communication, monitoring, and control of electricity consumption. It is now essential to supply and transmit the data required, to achieve better sensing, more accurate control, wider information communication and sharing, and more rational decision-making. However, the rapid growth in connected entities, accompanied by the increased demand for electricity, has resulted in several challenges to be addressed. This research helps better depicts and understand the challenges of Smart Grid implementation. Identifying the challenges is considered a pre-requisite pillar to understanding whether the applied implementation and design approach can be employed to foster the IoT-enabled Smart Grid. To the best of the author’s knowledge, no previous study addresses sufficiently and comprehensively the challenges of the IoT-enabled Smart Grid.

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Published date: 23 June 2022
Venue - Dates: 3rd Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things, , Budva, Montenegro, 2022-06-07 - 2022-06-11
Keywords: Smart Grid, Smart energy, IoT, Internet of Things, IoT - enabled Smart Grid, Cyber-Physical-System, CPS

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Local EPrints ID: 474342
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/474342
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ORCID for Abeer Akkad: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7710-6378
ORCID for Gary Wills: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5771-4088
ORCID for Abdolbaghi Rezazadeh: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0029-469X

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Date deposited: 20 Feb 2023 17:54
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:58

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Author: Abeer Akkad ORCID iD
Author: Gary Wills ORCID iD
Author: Abdolbaghi Rezazadeh ORCID iD
Editor: Lech Jóźwiak
Editor: Radovan Stojanović
Editor: Nikolaos Voros

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