Smart Grid and Information Technology

Dear Colleagues,

Smart grids are inherently multidisciplinary. Information Technology plays a key role in realizing smart grids. As a complex cyber-physical system, a smart grid system gathers data from sensors, performs local computations, exchanges field information through industrial IoT, delivers status information to a center and actuation commands back to field devices via middleware, protects data by security mechanisms, mass-processes big data, predicts the future by machine learning algorithms, provides RESTful services for management and customer benefit, to mention only a few from the endless list of applications of information technology in smart grid. This Special Issue invites articles on efforts in realizing smart grid systems and related cutting-edge energy systems utilizing information technologies. The domains of information technology and its application in smart grids include, but are not restricted to:

• Communications and networking
• Data modeling
• Sensing and sensor fusion
• Big data
• Security and Privacy
• Machine Learning
• Blockchain and energy trading systems
• Distributed energy resources
• Virtual power plants
• Distribution automation system

Dr. Minho Shin
Guest Editor

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