Challenges and opportunities of the integration of IoT and smart grid in Iran transmission power system

IoT refers to the internetworking of physical devices including passive sensors and actuators that collect, analyze and exchange data via the Internet. Recently, AMI has attracted attention and praise from both industry and commerce for the vast improvements it has brought about in the accuracy of online meter reading and control. The modern Smart Meter can monitors electricity consumption, supply characteristics and its environment (against tampering) and sends the stored data back to the utility company for load monitoring, trend analysis, network loss management and billing purposes. The AMI system with aforementioned capabilities is generally regarded as Smart Grid 1.0. Recent developments and initiatives across the international landscape have been focused around leveraging IoT technologies to create Smart Grid 2.0. Smart Grid 2.0 is based on a qualified peer-to-peer architecture, which eliminates the disadvantages of SG 1.0. In this paper, a detailed comparison and analysis between SG 1.0 and 2.0 is done and the challenges and opportunities associated with the integration of IoT and SG 1.0 is described. Also, as a case study, different problems and challenges of IoT implementation in Iran transmission power system is presented and a conceptual structure, named as Power IoT (PIoT) is illustrated.