This paper reviews the field of intelligent (smart) sensor technology and describes some of the trends that have emerged over the last two decades. The functionality of intelligent sensors is discussed, together with an assessment of the various technologies that can be employed to achieve both the hardware and software aspects of the discipline. The current interest in sensor networks poses so...

The future of the grid includes distributed generation and smart grid technologies. Demand Side Management (DSM) systems will also be essential to achieve a high level of reliability and robustness in power systems. To do that, expanding the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Energy Management Systems (EMS) are necessary. The trend direction is towards the creation of energy resource hu...

A campus based smart micro grid model that combined power and heat is presented. In this study, optimal scheduling of distributed generations inside these smart micro grids is determined based on demand forecasting, solar power forecasting and wind power forecasting by artificial neural network (ANN). The proposed model is then evaluated through economical efficiency, environment efficiency and...

RF-powered smart cards are widely used in different application areas today. The complexity and functionality of smart cards is growing continuously. This results in a higher power consumption. The power consumed is heavily depending on the software executed on the system. The power profile, especially the power peaks, of an executed application influence the system stability. If the power cons...

In most highly developed electrical power system, there are several difficulties related from generation to distribution. Usually, power generation is located at remote area from the load center. Long transmission and distribution lines have to be constructed and maintained to meet required reliability, power quality and economic point of views. Reliable, cheap, efficient conductor is required ...

One of the expectations from a smart grid is that it will be more efficient and reliable than a traditional power grid. The electric power distribution system is expected to change drastically. With the involvement of modern high-speed communication and computational applications, the speed with which one can monitor actions on a grid has increased. The incorporation of distributed renewable en...

due to the increasing cost and environmental impacts of fossil fuel consumption, using the renewable energies in data center has become an important and essential priority. although using renewable energies has less environmental harmful effects, but the high investment needed for their installations as well as their fluctuating power production characteristic, restricts their usage such that m...

New perspectives for the electric vehicle (EV) operation in smart grids and smart homes context are presented. Nowadays, plugged-in EVs are equipped with on-board battery chargers just to perform the charging process from the electrical power grid (G2V – grid-to-vehicle mode). Although this is the main goal of such battery chargers, maintaining the main hardware structure and changing the digit...