Sensors and Energy Management Applications for the Smart Grid—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

With the rise of the IoT and the progress of information technology, the traditional electrical power grid is also transforming into a smart grid. Recently, innovative sensing products, services, and technologies such as intelligent monitoring, control, and communication have been adopted by smart grids to maintain and improve services. The behaviors and actions of all users are connected together by smart grids based on sensors. However, different types of users have different ways of participating in grid scheduling and control, which leads to the need for smart grids to flexibly adjust their own regulation and control strategies according to the dynamic response of demand-side resources. In addition, power trading can also be used to supplement and optimize the smart grid load dispatching operation, and to distribute, control, and monitor power more effectively. In this scenario, new approaches in sensor deployments and new algorithms to analyze the information obtained from them are becoming an essential tool to support the trading, scheduling, and control.

In this sense, in order to face the aforementioned challenges, we are proposing this Special Issue titled “Sensors and Energy Management Applications for the Smart Grid—2nd Edition”. The main goal of this Special Issue is to give academics, researchers, and industry professionals an opportunity to highlight their current work and define future research directions.

Topics that can be addressed include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Power demand-side management and sensors;
• Electric vehicles as a sensor in a smart grid;
• Power demand response and sensors;
• Energy storage control technology;
• Virtual power plant operation optimization;
• Demand-side load forecasting and assessment;
• Regulated load telemetry control technology;
• Terminal energy optimization control;
• Energy internet and power planning;
• Integrated energy system planning;
• Energy storage allocation methods;
• Source-load prediction based on neural networks and AI;
• Sensors in renewable energy systems;
• System control and power quality analysis;
• Design of key equipment/subsystems in a smart grid.

Prof. Dr. Xun Dou
Guest Editor

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• IoT
• smart grid
• sensing technologies
• power planning
• renewable energy systems

• Sensors and Energy Management Applications for Smart Grid in Sensors (5 articles)