Cyber Physical Systems for Smarter Energy Grids: Experiences at IBM Research—India

摘要: Power grid operators around the world are facing a number of critical challenges such as energy and peak power shortages, outages uncertainty introduced by intermittent renewable sources. To address these challenges, research community has identified few high-level objectives: alleviation loads,  minimization losses, improving efficiency buildings loads, reducing about produced Implementing strategies would require “smarter energy” system that is instrumented, with sensors controls embedded into fabric its operations; it interconnected, enabling two-way flow information—including pricing—and across network; intelligent, using analytics automation to achieve aforementioned objectives. In this paper, we present sampling cyber physical systems have designed enable smarter supply chain. These depend on varying levels instrumentation (sensing/actuation) network connectivity. There remains large opportunity deepen contributions taking innovations full market impact, which overcoming commercial regulatory well. A feature our work was consider be informed real client  constraints in work, built prototypes experiments for similar circumstances. We hope experiences will spark more experimental innovation activity critically important being well grounded indeed, success smart grids worldwide.