A Review of IoT-Based Techniques for Smart Power Systems Architectures

Abstract

It is now very important to adopt and continue to improve on the technologies that support the ideas of smart management of energy and integration of renewable energy into the traditional power distribution systems. Smart energy management is one of the major ways to solve the numerous challenges associated with energy and power, especially in Nigeria and other African Countries. Introduction of smart embedded devices will avail power distribution systems the ability to be monitored and controlled for necessary protection, and also assist in making informed decisions on efficient management of energy resources, cost and future expansion. The implementation of IoT system requires various sensors and microcontrollers that will route captured data to a cloud-based platform. A limitation of this approach is the latency involved in the transfer and management of large amount of data from sensors to cloud. Another limitation is the high bandwidth requirement. The third limitation of an IoT enabled system is the issue of security and privacy of data. This study provides a breakdown of some recent IoT-based techniques with the view to highlight the prominent associated issues and offer relevant suggestions towards further improvement on the existing techniques.