Future of Power Systems
SMART GRIDS & IoT Internet Of Things (IoT) has ventured into almost every field of engineering and now it is at the peak of revolutionizing electrical networks. A recent survey has concluded that there are currently 30.73 billion devices ranging from home appliances to vehicles that are augmented with Sensors, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags/devices, etc which can connect to the Internet and IoT is a network where such devices can interchange data and commands to identify, locate and control objects in the physical world. Fig 1: IoT (Image Credits: Zdnet ) One such concept I’d like to share in this article is an IoT based application known as Smart Grid. A Smart grid is the next-generation electrical network allowing devices to communicate between the suppliers and the consumers bidirectionally, thereby empowering all the players to manage the demand power, protect the distribution network, save ...