Abstract—Smart Grid is not a single technology or a concept;
rather a vision of a perfect blend of advanced technologies and
applications. The key technologies and applications are grouped
into integrated communications, sensing and measurement,
advanced components, advanced control methods, and
improved interfaces and decision support; each of them playing
an active role in determining the behavior of the grid. The
deployment of more and more of these technologies and
applications has a great potential for driving innovative ways of
producing, consuming, and controlling electricity, yielding
benefits to utilities, consumers and the society. This could be
implementation of ‘smart’ meters, ‘smart’ sensors, advanced
communications and intelligent management & control, which
when interconnected provides new opportunities to improve
efficiency and effectiveness of the system. But the huge
implementation of diverse technologies and applications along
with its associated infrastructure has thrown up challenges in
terms of efficient implementation and management of systems.
This paper therefore brings out the critical need of a framework
to integrate these technologies and applications, and proposes
an architecture that can classify these diverse technologies and
integrate them in a single platform for efficient management of
the systems and its associated performance. It also addresses the
basic requirement of scalability, flexibility, security, consumer
privacy, integration and interoperability.
Index Terms—Advanced technologies, smart meters, sensors,
intelligent electronic devices, management system, FCAPS.
Nampuraja Enose is with the Infosys Labs, Infosys Limited, Bangalore,
India (e-mail: nampuraja_enose@infosys.com).
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Cite:Nampuraja Enose, "Advanced Technologies Implementation Framework for a Smart Grid," Journal of Clean Energy Technologies vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 88-94, 2014.
