SMART GRID COMMUNICATION NETWORK

by
ARYAN JAIN
Roll No- GAU-C-14/017
B.tech. 7th Semester
Dept. of ECE, CIT Kokrajhar
CONTENTS

 INTRODUCTION
 SMART GRID COMMMUNICATION NETWORK
 SMART COMMUNICATION SUBSYSTEM
 APPLCATIONS
 SG COMMUNICATION CHELLANGES
 FUTURE WORK AND ONGOING RESEARCH
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION
 A smart grid is an electricity network based on digital technology that is
used to supply electricity to consumers via two-way digital
communication. [1]

 Smart Grid is an electric system that uses information of the energy

system from the generation to the end points of consumption.

 Once a medium transformer failure event occur in the distribution grid,

the SG may automatically change the power flow and recover the
power delivery service.
A BRIEF COMPARISON BETWEEN THE EXISTING GRID AND THE SMART GRID

Existing Grid Smart Grid

Electromechanical Digital

One-way Communication Two-way communication

Centralized generation Distributed generation

Few sensors Sensors throughout

Manual monitoring Self-monitoring

Manual restoration Self-healing

Limited control Pervasive control

Few customer choices Many customer choices

SMART GRID COMMUNICATION NETWORK

 The electric power grid has employed a communications network to

support its operations.
 This communications network uses a variety of communication
technologies.
 ranging from wired, such as copper cables, optical fiber, power line
carrier, to wireless networks Mentioned.
 SG is expected to be a multi-tier network supported by a hybrid
mesh Of different communications technologies.
SG MULTI-TIER COMMUNICATION NETWORK
[2]
 SMART COMMUNICATION SUBSYSTEM [3]
 Wireless communication :
 Wireless mesh network.
 Cellular communication system.
 Cognitive radio.
 Wireless communication based on 802.15.4.
 Microwave or free-space optical communication.
 Wired communication:
 Fiber-optic communication.
 Power-line communication.
Smart grid domains, intra/inter-domain interactions via communication
networks, and smart grid applications in generation, transmission distribution
and customer domains.
SG applications on the Communications network [4]
Network Requirements
Applications
Bandwidth Latency

AMI 10-100 kbps/Node 2-15 sec

Demand Response 14-100 kbps per node/device 500 ms-several minutes

Wide Area Situation Awareness 600-1500 kbps 20-200 ms

Distributed Energy Resources 9.6-56 kbps 20 ms-15 sec

and Storage
Electric Transportation 9.6-56 kbps, 100 kbps is a good 2 sec-5 min
target
Distribution Grid Management 9.6-100 kbps 100 ms-2 sec
 Smart Grid communications Challenges

 Integration And Interoperability

 Often with little regard for how they will operate or have an impact in a larger
system-of-systems context (integration problem).
 The larger the system, the larger the variable space that needs to be tested.
 Scale and Complexity
 The closer integration of systems in the power, communications, and IT industries
across different domains will create a larger and ever more complex system of inter-
dependent systems.
 Security and Privacy
 Future Work and Ongoing Research [5]
 Mapping Smart Grid Requirement onto Communication Services and
Architectures
 What requirements should come first.
 There is huge variability in requirements between the different areas of the Smart Grid,
and for different applications.

 Ongoing Research
 Architecture and solutions for reliable communications over heterogeneous networks for
smart grid functionality.
 Most of internet based applications are designed to be flexible towards the
communication network service fluctuations; the energy supply regulatory
requirements do not allow, at the moment, such flexibility.
 CONCLUSION
 The communications network in Smart Grid is a variety of
communication technologies, ranging from wired, such as copper cables,
optical fiber, power line carrier, to wireless networks.
 REFERENCES
 [1] Smart Grid – The New and Improved Power Grid:
A Survey. Xi Fang, Student Member, IEEE, Satyajayant Misra, Member, IEEE, Guoliang Xue, Fellow,
IEEE, and Dejun Yang, Student Member, IEEE.
 [2] Communication network requirements for major smart grid applications in HAN, NAN and WAN,
Murat Kuzlu , Manisa Pipattanasomporn, Saifur Rahman. Virginia Tech, Advanced Research Institute,
Arlington, VA 22203, USA.
 [3] Souryal, C. Gentile, D. Griffith, D. Cypher, and N. Golmie. A methodology to evaluate wireless
technologies for the smart grid. IEEE SmartGridComm’10, pages 356–361, 2010.
 [4] A Survey of Routing Protocols for Smart Grid Communications Nico Saputro, Kemal Akkaya ,
Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901 USA, Suleyman
Uludag, Department of Computer Science, Eng. & Phy., University of Michigan Flint, Flint, MI 48502
USA.
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Satyajayant Misra, Member, IEEE, Guoliang Xue, Fellow, IEEE, and Dejun Yang, Student Member, IEEE.
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