This paper presents a new approach for realizing a smart, fault tolerant, controllable and asset efficient power grid through the use of massively-dispersed mass-manufactured communicationsenabled sensor, power-converter and actuator networks. One example is ‘Smart Wires’, implemented using many modules of a Distributed Static Series Compensator (DSSC) device that can be clamped on to existing ...

The most promising scheme for high-speed low power communication over long on-chip interconnects is Current-mode signaling (CMS) with dynamic overdriving scheme. A variation tolerant dynamic overdriving CMS scheme is proposed. The proposed CMS scheme employs a smart bias circuit in transmitter side. The smart bias is energy efficient and it reduces the delay. Current-mode signaling (CMS) scheme...

Extensive usage of information and communication technology (ICT) characterizes the next generation power grid. ICT supports diverse smart grid applications from the level of energy management, all the way down to control and protection approaches. The evaluation of a smart grid application requires multidisciplinary tools that capture its versatile nature. In this paper, we present a short tut...

Differential Power Analysis, first introduced by Kocher et al. in [14], is a powerful technique allowing to recover secret smart card information by monitoring power signals. In [14] a specific DPA attack against smart-cards running the DES algorithm was described. As few as 1000 encryptions were sufficient to recover the secret key. In this paper we generalize DPA attack to elliptic curve (EC)...

Facing the recent growing concern about the environment and electric power crisis triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake, efficient use of energy has become an important issue. A smart grid that is a next-generation electric power network is expected to be one of the solutions and to form an enormous market. Aiming to enter this new smart grid market, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. es...

A smart grid is one of the most important applications in smart cities. In a smart grid, a smart meter acts as a sensor node in a sensor network, and a central device collects power usage from every smart meter. This paper focuses on a centralized data collection problem of how to collect every power usage from every meter without collisions in an environment in which the time synchronization a...

In this paper, a Smart Grid has been designed by MATLAB/SIMULINK approach for synchronization of Thermal and Wind power plant and for analysis of Active power and grid frequency. Analysis of Active power and frequency gives the exact idea to know the range of maximum permissible loads that can be connected to their relevant bus bars. The Smart Grid, regarded as the next generation power grid, u...

Dynamic and adaptable integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) into novel power system assets, such as microgrids, is one of the key prerequisites for accelerated Smart Grid deployment. By using standardized network interfaces and semantic descriptions for remotely controllable DERs, it is possible to develop intelligent microgrid applications capable of dealing with dynamic loads and...