Concettina Buccella

TL;DR: The main objective of this paper is to provide a contemporary look at the current state of the art in smart grid communications as well as to discuss the still-open research issues in this field.

TL;DR: This paper overviews the issues related to the smart grid architecture from the perspective of potential applications and the communications requirements needed for ensuring performance, flexible operation, reliability and economics.

TL;DR: An overview of the state of the art and recent developments enabling higher intelligence in future smart grids is provided and the integration of renewable sources and storage systems into the power grids is analyzed.

TL;DR: This paper presents a review on digital devices [microcontrollers, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), hardware and software design techniques as well as implementation issues useful for designing modern high-performance power converters.

TL;DR: The smart grid is envisioned as providing a communications network for the energy industry, similar to that which the Internet now provides for business and personal communications as mentioned in this paper, which offers new business opportunities for different kind of industries, such as smart-meter vendors, electric utilities, and telecom operators from all around the world.