The Department of Energy has decreed that Smart Grids must facilitate: Self-healing from power disturbance events ; Enabling active participation by consumers in demand response; Operating resiliently against physical and cyber attack; Providing power quality for 21st century needs; Accommodating all generation and storage options; Enabling new products, services, and markets; and, Optimizing assets and operating efficiently.
It is eventually anticipated that “Smart Grids” will migrate towards and become a part of the recently found expression, ‘The Internet of Things,’ which envisages that all devices and objects all over the world will eventually be connected together by an Internet Network. This system even includes books, cans and, well, anything and everything, and allows, for example, a person setting out for home from work to remotely activate water heating to have a warm, low carbon footprint bath on arrival and can even request a home aid robot to prepare a snack of sorts. The Internet of Things sees every individual being surrounded by at least 1,000 to 5,000 ‘connected’ objects, and the Internet itself should be able to encode and track 50 to 100,000 billion objects simultaneously.
Another catch word that somewhat applies to this scenario is ‘Hyperconnectivity,’ which according to Nortel (News – Alert), is achieved when the number of connectivity resources such as devices, nodes, and applications actually connected to the network outnumbers the consumers who use the network. The devices are as varied as PC’s, PDA’s, cell phones, iPods, cameras, sensors, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, cars, appliances, medical equipment, industrial machinery, and even irrigation equipment on farmlands.
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