Keynote - Communications and Diagnostics for Smart Grids and IoT

Keynote at IEEE APAP 2019. 

The keynote discusses challenges andopportunities for telecommunication technology in IoT and smart grids applications. Inreference to the latter, the introduction of renewables and the goal ofincreasing efficiency and reliability is revolutionizing the energy grids.Energy grids must become intelligent and be able to manage energy flows andflexibly adapt to changes in production and demand. The physical infrastructuremust embed sensing, communication and processing capabilities. In the talk,emphasis is given to the requirements posed by massive networks, and to theapproaches for massive connectivity offered by new wireless and power linecommunication technologies, e.g., 4G-5G cellular machine type communications,long range and low power wireless access, as well as narrow band and broadbandPLC for IoT. Advances in power line communicationsare presented, and in particular PLC wireless hybridization, applications ofPLC to enable grid diagnostics by processing high frequency signals, andmachine learning tools for PLC.