Multi-layer agent-based architecture for smart grid monitoring

Today smart grids are an essential tool for efficient management and monitoring of electric power. Computer technologies are used to optimize the production and distribution of electrical energy in order to balance supply and demand between producers and consumers and ensure better services. In this paper we propose an ontology-based distributed architecture for supervision and control of Smart Grids. The information comes from the equipment installed in the secondary substations of distribution networks of medium and low voltage. It is exchanged through a real-time middleware and processed through a multi-agent system.