Smart Grid Communications

电力公用事业公司面临着一系列不断变化的挑战，以维持和改善服务。全球需求上升、一次能源资源枯竭、碳排放、多样化发电、电动汽车充电和可靠性等环境问题，都是需要电网进行深刻变革的一些问题。智能电网(SG)有望解决这些挑战，并显著提高性能和效率。它使用双向通信为公用事业公司提供对电网组件的远程访问和控制，并允许实时传感和测量。普适通信将使公用事业公司能够将消费者和分布式能源资源纳入决策过程，以有效地平衡供需。无线技术将在这些进步中发挥关键作用，因为它们必须支持整个电网的数据传输和信息交换。尽管SG无线网络具有巨大的潜力，但其成功部署仍面临重大挑战。

Electric utilities are faced with an evolving set of challenges to maintain and improve services. Rising global demands, depletion of primary energy resources, environmental concerns such as carbon emissions, diversified generation, charging of electric vehicles, and reliability are some of the issues that call for profound changes in the electrical grid. Smart grid (SG) has the promise to address these challenges and dramatically improve performance and efficiency. It uses two-way communications to provide utilities with remote access and control of the grid components, and allow real-time sensing and measurement. Pervasive communications will allow utilities to incorporate consumers and distributed energy resources into the decision process to efficiently balance supply and demand. Wireless technologies will play a key role in these advances as they must support data transfer and information exchange throughout the power grid. Despite the tremendous potential with SG wireless networks, there are major challenges to their successful deployment.