Distributed Semantic Architecture for Smart Grids

Autor: Mariano Ortega, Aitor Peña, Cruz E. Borges, Angelina Espinoza, Yoseba K. Penya, Juan Carlos Nieves
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Energies, Vol 5, Iss 11, Pp 4824-4843 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en5114824
Popis: The smart grid revolution demands a huge effort in redesigning and enhancing current power networks, as well as integrating emerging scenarios such as distributed generation, renewable energies or the electric vehicle. This novel situation will cause a huge flood of data that can only be handled, processed and exploited in real-time with the help of cutting-edge ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). We present here a new architecture that, contrary to the previous centralised and static model, distributes the intelligence all over the grid by means of individual intelligent nodes controlling a number of electric assets. The nodes own a profile of the standard smart grid ontology stored in the knowledge base with the inferred information about their environment in RDF triples. Since the system does not have a central registry or a service directory, the connectivity emerges from the view of the world semantically encoded by each individual intelligent node (i.e., profile + inferred information). We have described a use-case both with and without real-time requirements to illustrate and validate this novel approach.
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