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Smart Sensor for Smartgrids and Microgrids: 2nd Edition

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2025) | Viewed by 631

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Interests: smart sensors for smartgrids and microgrids; smart grid communications; control electronics; real time systems; solar and wind energy control
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to smart sensors for microgrids and smartgrids. To meet the requirements of smart energy, new sensors, processing algorithms, and advanced communication, networks are needed. Improvements are also required in the areas of data storage and management, efficient monitoring, effective and flexible energy resource management, better system scalability, and reconfiguration. Therefore, the topics considered for this Special Issue range from smart sensors and embedded systems that already exist in the lower layer of data processing and cloud techniques in the upper layer, in order to achieve a better understanding, adjustment, and performance of all energy management processes. 

There are many topics related to this Special Issue, such as the use of advanced sensors, including energy management systems, extensive data collection and storage for load and generation forecasting, extensive data analysis, smart metering, etc. 

The topics of interests for this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

There are many topics related to this Special Issue, such as the use of advanced sensors, including energy management systems, extensive data collection and storage for load and generation forecasting, extensive data analysis, smart metering, etc.

The topics of interests for this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

  • Advanced sensors and systems in microgrids;
  • Smart metering;
  • Battery monitoring systems;
  • Wireless sensors for microgrids and smartgrids;
  • Industrial internet of things applied to the monitoring of power distribution lines;
  • Communication issues in distributed sensors for applications in power distribution lines;
  • Security in sensor networks;
  • Smart sensors and data processing for energy management systems;
  • Collaborative intelligent devices;
  • Machine learning and decision science models for data analysis;
  • Security and privacy protection;
  • Management of charging stations for electrical vehicles.

Prof. Dr. Fco Javier Rodríguez
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • smart sensors;
  • energy management systems;
  • renewable generation;
  • smart metering;
  • storage monitoring sensors;
  • electrical vehicles

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Research on a Novel AC/DC Hybrid Microgrid Based on Silicon Controlled Converters and Polarity Reversal Switches
by Yang Lei, Fan Yang, Jiaxuan Ren, Zhichun Yang, Xinchen Wang, Qianchen Chen, Xuan Jin and Shaorong Wang
Sensors 2025, 25(6), 1766; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25061766 - 12 Mar 2025
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In order to reduce the economic costs, enhance the efficiency, and improve the structural stability of microgrids, this paper proposes a novel AC/DC hybrid microgrid structure. This structure, based on Silicon Controlled Converters (SCCs) and Polarity Reversal Switches (PRSs), enables bidirectional power flow [...] Read more.
In order to reduce the economic costs, enhance the efficiency, and improve the structural stability of microgrids, this paper proposes a novel AC/DC hybrid microgrid structure. This structure, based on Silicon Controlled Converters (SCCs) and Polarity Reversal Switches (PRSs), enables bidirectional power flow and provides a low-cost and straightforward control solution. This paper elaborates on the overall control strategy of the microgrid under different states of the PRS and introduces the control logic of the Current Reversible Chopper (CRC) circuit. For typical daily scenarios across the four seasons, where wind and photovoltaic (PV) power generation outputs and load demands vary, this study combines sampled data to investigate the coordinated configuration scheme of wind energy, PV energy, and energy storage within the microgrid, and analyzes the state changes in the PRS. Furthermore, this paper conducts simulation analysis of the microgrid under different states of the PRS and during the switching process of the PRS, verifying the feasibility of the proposed new structure. Finally, this paper compares the proposed structure with traditional microgrid structures in terms of economics, system efficiency, and structural stability, and analyzes the impact of this structure on the frequency, inertia, and multi-energy interaction of the system. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensor for Smartgrids and Microgrids: 2nd Edition)
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