A dynamically reconfigurable architecture for smart grids

Author

Villa, David ; Martín, Cleto ; Villanueva, Félix Jesús ; Moya, Francisco ; López, Juan Carlos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol. & Syst., Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Volume

57

Issue

2

fYear

2011

fDate

5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

411

Lastpage

419

Abstract

This paper introduces a proposal for a smart grid management platform built on the distributed programming paradigm. Besides it is based on an information model and event architecture. The information model defines a set of clear interfaces to manage every "grid node". We built an actual implementation of a low-cost embeddable control/meter device that may even be attached to individual appliances. These devices behave as conventional autonomous remote distributed objects and provide full support for the information model and also for integration with the communication middleware. The resulting event architecture provides great flexibility to manage information flows from services and applications.

Keywords

grid computing; middleware; reconfigurable architectures; autonomous remote distributed objects; communication middleware; distributed programming; dynamically reconfigurable architecture; embeddable control; event architecture; information model; meter device; smart grid management platform; Hardware; Home appliances; Middleware; Observers; Proposals; Protocols; Smart grids; information model; middleware; smart grids;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2011.5955174

Filename

5955174