Agent based communication architecture for smart grid

Abstract

Integration of renewable energy sources, mission critical power demands and diversion of energy sources are challenges that the electrical grid operators face today. These challenges are mainly generated by new operational situations for the power grid that was not visualized when it was developed decades ago, to beat these challenges, it's widely accepted that intelligent management of the electrical grid, also called the smart Grid, are going to be a part of the solution. However, since current electricity storage technologies aren't economical viable enough to store the desired quantity of energy, so the electricity should be used more intelligently. The present realization of the smart grid integrates information and Communication Technology (ICT) into the power grid and facilitates intelligent automation of power systems. Design of the smart grid architecture intends to find new ways of connecting appliances, while the software design tests the flexibility, compatibility and auto-configuration capabilities of innovative software ideas. In this paper architecture for the smart Grid is arranged. It will be shown that the architecture's standard and agent primarily based design will offer a good advantage for the combination of appliances into a smart grid and the creation of agents controlling them. The introduction of the publish/subscribe paradigm in conjunction with auto configuration of agents demonstrated a good answer for service data exchange within a smart grid. With a useful validation and also the use of unit testing it had been shown that the agents work reliably.