A survey on smart grid technologies and

applications
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Highlights
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Smart Grid definitions, features, advantages, characteristics, challenges and
future are explained.

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Various Smart Grid technologies.

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Smart Grid metering and communication technologies.

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Applications of Smart Grid technologies.

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Future research scopes of Smart Grid.

Abstract
The Smart Grid is an advanced digital two-way power flow power system capable of
self-healing, adaptive, resilient and sustainable with foresight for prediction under
different uncertainties. In this paper, a survey on various Smart Grid enabling
technologies, Smart Grid metering and communication, cloud computing in Smart
Grid and Smart Grid applications are explored in detail. Opportunities and future of
Smart Grid is also described in this paper. For Smart grid enabling technologies Smart
meters, smart sensors, vehicle to grid, plug in hybrid electric vehicle technology,
sensor and actuator networks are explored. Advanced metering infrastructure,
intelligent electronic devices, phasor measurement units, wide area measurement
systems, local area network, home access network, neighborhood area network, wide
area networks and cloud computing are explored for Smart Grid metering and
communication. Home and building automation, smart substation, feeder automation
is explored for smart grid applications. Associations of initial studies for the next step
in smart grid applications will provide an economic benefit for the authorities in the
long term, and will help to establish standards to be compatible with every application
so that all smart grid applications can be coordinated under the control of the same
authorities. Therefore, this study is expected to be an important guiding source for
researchers and engineers studying the smart grid. It also helps transmission and
distribution system operators to follow the right path as they are transforming their
classical grids to smart grids.

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