Methods and Systems for a Smart Energy City
Thomas Strasser, Pierluigi Siano, Yi Ding · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics · 2018
Cities and urban regions are becoming smarter thanks to the recent developments of digital technologies, smart control, data analytics, and optimization concepts. A smart city is equipped with different electronic elements employed by several applications. The utilization of the aforementioned technologies and approaches can furnish intelligent management of energy distribution and consumption in heterogeneous circumstances. Intelligent nodes have some abilities, such as sensing and networking, which raise the possibility of optimal scheduling of energy suppliers. Digitalization can result in the generation of some services that have an interaction with the environment. Hence, it could introduce some opportunities for contextualization and geoawareness. Furthermore, collective intelligence will improve the processes of decision making and empower the citizens. One of the main features of a smart city is due to its ability of favoring customers' responsiveness and efficiency decisions.