Iot and Analytics in Renewable Energy Systems (Volume 1): Sustainable Smart Grids & Renewable Energy Systems

Smart grid technologies include sensing and measurement technologies, advanced components aided with communications and control methods along with improved interfaces and decision support systems. Smart grid techniques support the extensive inclusion of clean renewable generation in power systems. Smart grid use also promotes energy saving in power systems. Cyber security objectives for the smart grid are availability, integrity and confidentiality.

Five salient features of this book are as follows:

• AI and IoT in improving resilience of smart energy infrastructure
• IoT, smart grids and renewable energy: an economic approach
• AI and ML towards sustainable solar energy
• Electrical vehicles and smart grid
• Intelligent condition monitoring for solar and wind energy systems

智慧電網技術包括感測和測量技術，輔以通訊和控制方法的先進元件，以及改進的界面和決策支援系統。智慧電網技術支持在電力系統中廣泛使用清潔可再生能源。智慧電網的使用也促進了電力系統的節能。智慧電網的網絡安全目標是可用性、完整性和保密性。

本書的五個重要特點如下：
- AI和物聯網在提高智慧能源基礎設施的韌性方面的應用
- 物聯網、智慧電網和可再生能源：一種經濟方法
- AI和機器學習在可持續太陽能方面的應用
- 電動車和智慧電網
- 太陽能和風能系統的智能狀態監測

O.V. Gnana Swathika (Member '11-Senior Member ʼ20, IEEE) earned a BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Madras University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, in 2000; an MS in Electrical Engineering at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, in 2004; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering at VIT University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, in 2017. She completed her postdoc at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2019. Her current research interests include microgrid protection, power system optimization, embedded systems, and photovoltaic systems.

K. Karthikeyan is an electrical and electronics engineering graduate with a master's in personnel management from the University of Madras. With two decades of rich experience in electrical design, he has immensely contributed toward the building services sector comprising airports, Information Technology Office Space (ITOS), tall statues, railway stations/depots, hospitals, educational institutional buildings, residential buildings, hotels, steel plants, and automobile plants in India and abroad (Sri Lanka, Dubai, and the UK). Currently, he is Chief Engineering Manager - Electrical Designs for Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Construction, an Indian multinational Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contracting company. Also, he has worked at Voltas, ABB, and Apex Knowledge Technology Private Limited. His primary role involved the preparation and review of complete electrical system designs up to 110 kV. Detailed engineering stage covering by various electrical design calculations, design basis reports, suitable for construction drawings, and Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP) design coordination. He is the point of contact for both client and internal project team, lead and manage a team of design and divisional personnel, day-to-day interaction with clients, peer review, managing project deadlines, Project time estimation, assisting in staff appraisals, training, and recruiting.

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban (Member'12-Senior Member'15, IEEE) received a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy 2012. He was an Associate Professor at VIT University from 2012 to 2013. In 2013, he joined the National Institute of Technology, India, as a Faculty Member. In 2014, he was invited as a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, funded by the Qatar National Research Foundation (Government of Qatar). He continued his research activities with the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland, in 2014.

Further, he served as an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, from 2016 to 2018. From March 2018 to February 2021, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark. He continued his activities from March 2021 as an Associate Professor with the CTIF Global Capsule (CGC) Laboratory, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark. Presently, he is a Full Professor in Electrical Power Engineering with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway.

S. Padmanaban has authored over 750+ scientific papers and received the Best Paper cum Most Excellence Research Paper Award from IET-SEISCON'13, IET-CEAT'16, IEEE-EECSI'19, IEEE-CENCON'19, and five best paper awards from ETAEERE'16 sponsored Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer book. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K. He received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who's Who - USA 2017 for contributing to power electronics and renewable energy research. He is listed among the world's top 2 scientists (from 2019) by Stanford University USA. He is an Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board for refereed journals, in particular the IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications, IEEE ACCESS, IET Power Electronics, IET Electronics Letters, and Wiley-International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Subject Editorial Board Member--Energy Sources--Energies Journal, MDPI, and the Subject Editor for the IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and FACETS Journal (Canada).

O.V. Gnana Swathika（IEEE 11年會員-高級會員20年）於2000年在印度泰米爾納德邦金奈的馬德拉斯大學獲得電氣與電子工程學士學位；於2004年在美國密歇根州底特律的韋恩州立大學獲得電氣工程碩士學位；並於2017年在印度泰米爾納德邦的VIT大學獲得電氣工程博士學位。她於2019年在斯里蘭卡莫拉圖瓦大學完成博士後研究。她目前的研究興趣包括微電網保護、電力系統優化、嵌入式系統和光伏系統。

K. Karthikeyan是電氣與電子工程學士學位畢業生，並在馬德拉斯大學獲得人事管理碩士學位。他在電氣設計方面擁有二十年豐富的經驗，對建築服務部門做出了巨大貢獻，包括機場、資訊技術辦公空間（ITOS）、高塔雕像、鐵路車站/車庫、醫院、教育機構建築、住宅建築、酒店、鋼鐵廠和汽車廠，不僅在印度，還在國外（斯里蘭卡、杜拜和英國）有所貢獻。目前，他是印度跨國工程採購建設（EPC）承包公司Larsen＆Toubro（L＆T）建築的首席工程經理-電氣設計。此外，他曾在Voltas、ABB和Apex Knowledge Technology Private Limited工作。他的主要職責包括準備和審查高達110 kV的完整電氣系統設計，詳細工程階段涵蓋各種電氣設計計算、設計基礎報告、適合施工圖和機械電氣水暖（MEP）設計協調。他是客戶和內部項目團隊的聯繫人，領導和管理一個設計和部門人員團隊，與客戶進行日常互動，同行審查，管理項目截止日期，項目時間估算，協助員工評估，培訓和招聘。

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban（IEEE 12年會員-高級會員15年）於2012年在意大利博洛尼亞的博洛尼亞大學獲得電氣工程博士學位。他於2012年至2013年擔任VIT大學的副教授。2013年，他加入印度國家技術學院擔任教職成員。2014年，他應卡塔爾國家研究基金會（卡塔爾政府）的邀請，作為訪問研究員加入卡塔爾多哈的卡塔爾大學電氣工程系。他在2014年繼續與都柏林理工學院進行研究活動。

此外，他於2016年至2018年擔任南非約翰內斯堡大學電氣與電子工程系的副教授。從2018年3月至2021年2月，他擔任丹麥埃斯比爾格奧爾堡大學能源技術系的助理教授。從2021年3月起，他在丹麥奧胡斯大學商業發展和技術部門的CTIF全球膠囊（CGC）實驗室擔任副教授。目前，他是挪威東南部大學電氣工程、信息技術和控制工程系的全職教授。

S. Padmanaban已發表了750多篇科學論文，並獲得了IET-SEISCON'13、IET-CEAT'16、IEEE-EECSI'19、IEEE-CENCON'19的最佳論文兼最優秀研究論文獎，以及ETAEERE'16贊助的Springer書籍中的五個最佳論文獎。他是印度工程師學會、印度電子與電信工程師學會和英國工程技術學會的會士。他於2017年獲得了美國Marquis Who's Who終身成就獎，以表彰他對功率電子和可再生能源的貢獻。