Shama Islam

October 1, 2020 | Thursday| 5 – 6 PM

ABSTRACT

The growing energy consumption and diversity in energy demand, along with the high penetration of distributed energy resources in the customer’s premises, have increased the complexity of traditional power system network significantly. To ensure a reliable and efficient operation of this network with growing challenges, the concept of smart power grid has emerged, which can integrate advanced information and communication technologies to coordinate the operation of the power system components in an intelligent manner. Smart grid can be considered as a special case of internet of things (IoT) network, with seamless connectivity among intelligent components for ensuring reliable operation of the power system network. Enabling IoT in smart grid applications can bring new dimensions to the power system operational mechanisms by allowing real-time monitoring and control with better coordination. These applications can include residential demand response, where appliance level consumption data can be collected from IoT enabled monitoring devices and based on the demand response signal from the utility, the IoT enabled home energy management systems can turn off specific appliances to achieve the demand response target. IoT technologies can enable new applications such as peer to peer energy trading through real-time information exchange on the generation and demand data among participants and coordinating the bidding as well as financial settlement process. Moreover, IoT enabled smart grid systems can achieve more resilience and robustness in terms of a more reliable fault detection and protection system. Through real-time communication among the IoT enabled reclosers, better coordination in isolating faults in a power system network will be possible. Despite these advancements, the benefits of IoT enabled smart grid systems cannot be explored completely if the reliability of information and communication technologies are not ensured. Thus, proper considerations should be in place to manage the communication reliability, as well as privacy and security concerns arising from IoT technologies in energy systems.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Shama Naz Islam is a senior lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Deakin University. She is a leading researcher in the area of smart grid communication, IoT and data analytics for smart energy applications, energy management, and wireless communications. In 2015, she completed her PhD from the Australian National University. She has successfully attracted external grants worth of $200,000 from Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) over the last 2 years along with other investigators from Deakin University. She has received Future Women Leader’s Award from Monash University in 2017. She has been awarded Victoria Fellowship 2019 for her contributions to scientific innovations in Victoria. Currently, she is serving as the Chair of IEEE PES VIC chapter.

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