scholarly journals A survey on smart grid communication system

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miles H.F. Wen ◽  
Ka-Cheong Leung ◽  
Victor O.K. Li ◽  
Xingze He ◽  
C.-C. Jay Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Power Electronic ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Smart Grid Communication ◽  
Generation Power

Concerns with global warming prompted many governments to mandate increased proportion of electricity generation from renewable sources. This, together with the desire to have more efficient and secure power generation and distribution, has driven research in the next-generation power grid, namely, the smart grid. Through integrating advanced information and communication technologies with power electronic and electric power technologies, smart grid will be highly reliable, efficient, and environmental-friendly. A key component of smart grid is the communication system. This paper explores the design goals and functions of the smart grid communication system, followed by an in-depth investigation on the communication requirements. Discussions on some of the recent developments related to smart grid communication systems are also introduced.

scholarly journals A Business Model Framework to Characterize Digital Multisided Platforms

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Ardolino ◽  
Nicola Saccani ◽  
Federico Adrodegari ◽  
Marco Perona
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
The One

Businesses grounded upon multisided platforms (MSPs) are found in a growing number of industries, thanks to the recent developments in Internet and digital technologies. Digital MSPs enable multiple interactions among users of different sides through information and communication technologies. The understanding of the characteristics and constituents of MSPs is fragmented along different literature streams. Moreover, very few empirical studies have been carried out to date. In order to fill this gap, this paper presents a three-level framework that describes a digital MSP. The proposed framework is based on literature analysis and multiple case study. On the one hand, the framework can be used to describe MSP as it provides an operationalization of the concept through the identification of specific dimensions, variables and items; on the other hand, it can be used as an assessment tool by practitioners, as exemplified by the three empirical applications presented in this paper.

Using Duality Theory to Reframe E-Government Challenges

2016 ◽  
pp. 35-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen S. Hartzel ◽  
Virginia W. Gerde
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Duality Theory ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Conflicting Objectives ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
New Framework ◽  
Government Development

The design of information and communication systems for e-government is burdened with a host of conflicting objectives. For example, systems should be standardized and stable, but at the same time they should also be flexible and responsive to the needs of various stakeholder groups. When systems are designed properly, ICT (information and communication technologies) features can help resolve some of the tensions created by conflicting objectives. This chapter uses duality theory as a basis for a new framework that demonstrates how many of the tensions found at various stages of e-government (development, implementation, and adoption) can be reframed as dualities. When e-government systems are designed for duality, ICT mitigates many of the barriers and obstacles and increases the system's effectiveness and acceptance by the citizenry.

scholarly journals Social Change and the Accommodation of Religious Minorities in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Wibren van der Burg ◽  
Wouter de Been
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Dutch Society ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Information ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Information And Communication

The toleration of religious minorities is changing in the Netherlands. In this paper we analyze three recent developments in Dutch society that are important for understanding the way the Dutch regime of religious tolerance is adjusting to 21st century circumstances. The first one concerns the growing homogenization of Dutch society and the emergence of a secular and liberal majority. The second is the dominance in policy and public debate of a “Protestant” conception of what religion amounts to. The third development is the fragmentation of religion and its simultaneous combination into new networks and groups made possible by new information and communication technologies. These developments pose challenges to constitutional rights and principles. There are no simple solutions to these challenges, but the Dutch tradition of consociationalism, as a liberal tradition in its own right, may provide some valuable perspectives.

scholarly journals Electoral Competition with Strategic Disclosure

Games ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacopo Bizzotto ◽  
Benjamin Solow
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Social Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Strategic Disclosure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Voter Choice ◽  
Voter Groups

Recent developments in information and communication technologies allow candidates for office to engage in sophisticated messaging strategies to influence voter choice. We consider how access to different technologies influence the choice of policy platforms by candidates. We find that when candidates can target messages to specific voter groups, platforms are more likely to be inefficient. In particular, when candidates can run targeted campaigns, they commit to projects that benefit small groups even when the social cost of these projects outweigh their benefits. Our results are robust to negative advertising.

scholarly journals GeoSense: A Multimode Information and Communication System

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sudharsan ◽  
J. Adinarayana ◽  
A. K. Tripathy ◽  
S. Ninomiya ◽  
M. Hirafuji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Network Location ◽  
Open Hardware ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication

Recent technological developments allowed to envision the low-power (solar power) and low-cost (open hardware) sensor devices (Agrisens/FieldServer/Flux Tower/FieldTwitter) with multimode (ZigBee/WiFi/3G/WebGIS) information and communication technologies (ICTs), a model in which is christened as GeoSense. Integrating these multimode and multi-level communication systems with distributed ambient sensory network location-based service (LBS) is a challenging task, which could be a potential technology for monitoring various natural phenomena. This integrated model is introduced to provide and assist the rural stakeholders with real-time decision support system (DSS) with dynamic information and modeling services for precision agriculture through GeoSense cloud service. This GeoSense research has been experimented in semiarid tropics in India under Indo-Japan initiative on multi-disciplinary ICT program.

scholarly journals Demand Response Management Algorithm for Distributed Multi-Utility Environment in Smart Grid

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Smart Grid ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Demand Response ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Grid Environment ◽  
Utility Companies ◽  
Information And Communication

Effective usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has started with a paradigm shift in the energy management and functioning of the conventional power grid. It also aids in the maintenance of the complete information about consumer usage pattern, power storage, supply and regulation. Blending of information and communication technologies with energy management creates a smart grid environment which makes it move to the next horizon. The smart grid environment, uplifts renewable energy sources and brings out novel strategies in the energy market. The new functioning of the energy market attracts more utility companies for decentralized power generation and optimizes the power price for the consumer. The consumer plays an active role in the demand response modelling to maximize the welfare of the utility and to obtain the optimized price for their demand. In this paper, a novel demand response management scheme is proposed for multi-utility environment. The utility companies function in a peer to peer manner to communicate effectively and to select a specific utility from a set of utilities for the power supply. The selection of single utility is based on a non-cooperative game theory algorithm where the demand and generated power should be balanced to maximize the welfare of the utility and the residential consumers. The power price can be updated in an equal interval to allow all the utilities to participate in the Distributed Multi-Utility Demand Response Management (DMDRM) system. The simulated results justify that the distributed noncooperative game theory algorithm certainly maximizes the welfare of the utility companies and residential consumers.

Towards Integrated Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Provision and Financing of Agricultural Groundwater in African Drylands

2017 ◽  
pp. 209-229
Author(s):  
Cush Ngonzo Luwesi ◽  
Amos Yesutanbul Nkpeebo ◽  
Yaw Osei-Owusu ◽  
Paa Kofi Osei-Owusu
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
High Potential ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Groundwater Supply ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Agriculture Intensification ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
The Right

Water Vision 2000 declared: “Water crises are not about too little water... but about managing water badly such that billions of people and the environment suffer badly.” Good leadership and governance are therefore needed to bring about investments through innovation in the water sector. However, the ubiquitous nature of investments in water services makes it less attractive for the private finance sector. Agricultural groundwater development has particularly begun offering incentives for private investors. This study foresees a high potential in the integration of recent developments of information and communication technologies (ICT) with existing hydraulic technologies to sustain cropping and food production in African drylands. A case is given for the blending of the Bhungroo, Grundfos Lifelink and M-Pesa technologies to make an integrated BGM-P technology for agricultural groundwater supply. This will enable water users have access to the service at the “right” time, in the “right” quantities, at the “right” places. This is a pathway to sustainable agriculture intensification.

Information Ethics in the Context of Current Developments

2022 ◽  
pp. 685-707
Author(s):  
Yusuf Esmer ◽  
Ayşe Nihan Arıbaş
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Information And Communication

The emergence of globalization due to information technologies and the changes and/or developments brought about by globalization require organizations to have more knowledge about ethics and therefore to be more interested in this issue. The use of information and communication technologies in organizations in accordance with ethical values is considered important in terms of the integrity, functioning, and efficiency of both employees and organizations. Individuals, managers, organizations, and researchers have important duties in the field of information ethics in order to prevent the making of difficult mistakes that will adversely affect individuals and organizations during the use of information technologies. In this context, information ethics has been examined in this study in the context of recent developments all over the world, especially the developments in the global COVID-19 pandemic process.

scholarly journals Integration of the Infrastructure of Systems Used in Smart Cities for the Planning of Transport and Communication Systems in Cities

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3069
Author(s):  
Cezary Stępniak ◽  
Dorota Jelonek ◽  
Magdalena Wyrwicka ◽  
Iwona Chomiak-Orsa
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Information And Communication

Modern mobility and adaptation of transport and communication systems to the requirements of the inhabitants are both inseparable elements of the developed concept of smart cities. One of the important stages in the implementation of this concept is the planning stage, taking into account the complexity and a large number of determinants that impact the effectiveness of decisions related to the planning of transport, communication and logistic systems. The purpose of the article is to lay out a model of a system based on the integration of selected Internet of Things tools used in smart cities to support urban development planning processes in the scope of the ongoing modification of transport, public communication and logistic systems. The model was developed on the basis of the cooperation between the authors and the boards of selected cities’ observations made during the authors’ travels and on the basis of identification and analysis of IT systems types and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) tools in use within the smart city concept. The need to integrate IoT tools in support of the smart city concept resulted from the synthesis of previous research experience and the existing gap between the capabilities and the scope of applications of the tools in discussion. The results of the analysis allowed to develop a procedure that in an automated way allows to improve the communication, transport and logistics order in the area of interested cities.

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