Abstract

Smart grid is a combination of power, communication and information infrastructures which support the evolution of conventional electrical power systems toward active, flexible and automatic troubleshooter energy networks. This study presents a novel architectural model based on holonic multi-agent system to establish powerful connection model for software entities in IT infrastructure of smart grid. The Information Technology (IT) infrastructure is one of the most important structural perspectives in smart power grid. Along with developments in power systems infrastructure, there are some challenges in smart grid from IT perspective such as data exchange problem which is dealing with high volume of information. So, it is necessary to define an effective IT architecture to solve data exchange problem in smart grid. This study presents a holonic approach which prevents from extra communications and unnecessary information exchange. The proposed model derives a benefit from holonic architecture features such as flexibility, high tolerability and scalability. In addition, it provides a secure communication model using localization of data in the smart grid domains and considering a communication interface for each domain. Finally, by applying the proposed model on the smart grid, the contribution of new software entities could be easily obtained.

Keywords:

Holonic multi-agent system, information exchange model, IT infrastructure, smart grid,

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