A Survey on Smart Grid and its Applications

Environmental issues have become an important challenge for human development, the application of renewable energy will greatly alleviate this problem. The introduction of renewable energy into the existing power grid will has many impacts such as energy distribution, communications and security issues, it is bound to intelligently upgrade the existing power grid. By querying relevant literature, this study summarizes and reviews the current research on smart grids from the above perspectives. At the same time, from the perspective of two emerging technologies, Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence, the application of smart grid to two emerging technologies is summarized. Finally, the possible development directions of smart grid are discussed and summarized.