SEMINAR ABSTRACT

Shravana Suresh
S7 ECE
Roll no:49
 A Gateway to smart cities through smart grids
Smart Grid is an electricity supply network that uses digital communications technology to
detect and react to local changes in usage. Smart Grids delivers electricity from producers to
consumers using two way digital technology. This has become an essential to build a
systematic electric power system and provide easy integration and reliable service to the
consumers. The other advantages are intelligence, efficiency, quality focused and resilience.
As its name suggests it combines electrical network and smart digital communication
technology. “Smart city” is a city that harnesses digital technology and intelligent design to
create a sustainable city. This takes place by collecting data from places like street lights,
building sensors and from citizens in their interactions with city services. Thus development
and implementation of a smart grid for power supply is one of the pressing issues in modern
energy economy, given high national priority and massive investments, although the entire
subject is still in its infancy stage. Here our overall goal is to concurrently satisfy all societal
demands regarding the quality of life, social welfare, socioeconomic opportunities, and to
eliminate the negative impact on the environment and climate. This can be achieved by the
implementation of smart grids in smart cities and make the place greener. The smart city
design should be carefully considered through a detailed analysis of the impacts and the
implementation of cost benefit analysis (CBA), not only in terms of managing the grid itself
but also in a wider perspective that includes environmental, security, and social aspects.
This paper discusses the main impact that smart grid deployment has, in different respects,
on smart cities and then presents a methodology for an extended cost benefit analysis. On
concluding we can say that smart grid is a journey and not a destination. The driving factor in
this scenario is actually a question, “can we afford not to have sustainable development”?