Smart Grid Sample Clauses

Smart Grid. ‌ Smart grids use IoT technology applications for enhancing and improving the energy consumption in buildings and houses [93]. IoT application scenarios in smart grids are essential in helping suppliers of power to manage and control resources for providing power proportionally according to the increase in the population. For instance, IoT is applied in smart grids to interconnect numerous network devices of the providers of energy. Hence, these devices gather, analyses, regulate, manage, and monitor the consumption of energy—which, in turn, provides crucial information for energy which helps in improving the efficiency of service delivery and quality of services, as well as reducing potential failures. Additionally, due to the availability of millions of devices and consumers in smart grids, security and reliability are crucial. According to [93], smart grids are capable of eliminating electricity blackouts by improving reliability and quality. However, some challenges in intelligent grids are of great limitation such as the increase in vulnerabilities caused by remote monitoring, automation, and the interconnection of supervised entities. Cyber-attacks are also on the rise, targeting smart power grids by mainly tampering with their transient stability on voltage [94]. Hence, IoT application designers not only need to develop devices which are reliable but also safe and secure operating with the latest security protocols. Due to the several functions assigned in devices of the smart grid including data collection, analysis, regulation, management, and monitoring of energy consumption rates, the application requires an extensive computing power to provide efficient results. Moreover, due to the heterogeneous nature of the smart grid involving multiple energy sources and users, the smart grids require efficient computing devices such as the mobile agent that was proposed by ▇▇▇▇ et al. in [95] as the most suitable for supporting the power system under the cloud computing platform. Moreover, [96] stated that future smart grids should be shaped with bio-inspired and cooperative computing that operates under the basis of the self-organizing sensor networks. Finally, the smart devices and applications within the smart grid including smart meters they should have efficient functionalities to realize digital management and make intelligent decisions which are communicated to the entire smart grid system in helping resource allocation and asset optimization [97].
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Smart Grid. ‌ This application may not be deeply explored although the IoT technology is a crucial improvement in the sector for a between delivery of such as power control and delivery among electrical utilities. Some functionalities can be implemented using the technology to help in fault and incident recovery, and it is also applied in automated load shedding. This makes work easier for the electrical engineers and technicians in troubleshooting major electricity problems through informed decisions. It is difficult to find a solution over a vast electricity infrastructure, but with this improvement put into place, the sector will advance and by effectively addressing challenges such as delays and critical faults. It also improves the security of the power grids which are major targets for some hackers. The smart grids are equipped with critical infrastructure including the smart appliances, smart meters, actuator-cars, sensors and private/public infrastructure of communication which must be protected to ensure the main vision of IoT in this application is realized [50].
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