Internet of things inspired photovoltaic emulator design for smart grid applications

The future smart grid is considered to be solution for common problems associated with current electricity grid. Smart grid will incorporate renewable energy sources, intelligent sensors and controls, automated switches, robust communication technology, etc. Implementation of such smart grid requires the collective efforts from researchers from many fields of engineering and creation of reliable test platforms. This paper presents the PV emulator as a test platform for research of problems associated with the design of controller for PV sources, the design of energy management system, generation capacity prediction, wireless network integration and protocol issues, security and cloud based data management and analysis for smart grid applications.