Making a smart city for the smart grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks

Trading agents for the smart electricity grid

The vision of the Smart Grid includes the creation of intelligent electricity supply networks to allow efficient use of energy resources, reduce carbon emissions and are robust to failures. One of the key assumptions underlying this vision is that it will be possible to manage the trading of electricity between homes and micro-grids while coping with the inherent real-time dynamism in electrici...

Scheduling for Electricity Cost in Smart Grid

We study an offline scheduling problem arising in demand response management in smart grid. Consumers send in power requests with a flexible set of timeslots during which their requests can be served. For example, a consumer may request the dishwasher to operate for one hour during the periods 8am to 11am or 2pm to 4pm. The grid controller, upon receiving power requests, schedules each request ...

Smart Home Area Networks Protocols within the Smart Grid Context

—The Internet of things (IoT) applications are becoming one of the emerging smart grid enabling technologies. Smart home appliances are one the beneficiary of such applications. Machine-to-Machine and Man-to-Machine are the basic IoT communication platforms that enable home appliances to communicate with each other to be more efficiently operated. In a recent search for the IoT communication p...

Internet of Everything – Powering the Smart Campus & the Smart City Geelong’s Transformation to a Smart City

Making the Smart Energy Grid Even Smarter

Our nation’s infrastructure for generating, transmitting, and distributing electricity — “The Grid” — is a relic based in many respects on century-old technology. It consists of expensive, centralized generation via large plants, and a massive, centrally-controlled transmission and distribution system. It strives to deliver high-quality power to all subscribers simultaneously — no matter what t...