A Microgrid Cluster Management and Internet-of-Things Framework

Dr. Veerpratap Meena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT). He holds key leadership positions within the IEEE Delhi Section and Rajasthan Subsection, including Chair of the IEEE Delhi Section Rajasthan Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Chapter and the IEEE Systems Council Joint Section Chapter. Dr. Meena’s research interests include microgrids, renewable energy integration, power electronics, optimization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, smart grids, net-zero energy systems, electric vehicles, control systems, peer-to-peer energy trading, and healthcare applications. He is currently working as an External Collaborator with the USD AI Research, University of South Dakota, USA, contributing to advanced interdisciplinary research initiatives in artificial intelligence and smart energy systems. J. Ramprabhakar is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Amrita School of Engineering, India. In addition, he is currently working on two government-funded projects sanctioned by Vision Group of Science and Technology, India, and DRDO-ARDB Delhi, India. R. Anand is an Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) at the Amrita School of Engineering ofAmrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India. His research interests include Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Renewable Energy Systems, Soft Computing, Machine Learning and Blockchain. He has published four Indian patents copyrighted three algorithms. With 17 years of teaching and research experience, he has published research in 2 books, 5 National Conferences, 25 International Conferences, and 20 International Journals.Prof. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban is a full professor of electrical power engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics, at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2012. Subsequently, he held positions at VIT University (India), National Institute of Technology (India), Qatar University, Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland), University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Aalborg University (Denmark), and Aarhus University (Denmark). Prof. Padmanaban has authored over 750 scientific papers and has been listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists (from 2019) by Stanford University. He is editor, associate editor, or editorial board member for several important refereed journals, and 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 his contributions to power electronics and renewable energy research. Josep M. Guerrero is a full professor with AAU Energy, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the director of the Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM). He has published more than 800 journal articles in the fields of microgrids and renewable energy systems, which have been cited more than 80,000 times. His research interests focus on different microgrid aspects, including hierarchical and cooperative control, and energy management systems.

• Part I: Microgrid Clusters: Design, Control, and Optimization1. Introduction to microgrids2. Microgrid clusters3. Microgrid controls4. Microgrid protection5. Sensors in microgridsPart II: Microgrid Cluster Management Utilizing the Internet-of-Things6. Internet-of-Things framework for microgrid-cluster management7. Internet-of-Things-based smart power management system8. A microgrid cluster entity implementing Internet-of-Things' big data analytics9. Smart microgrid clusters: control and protection deploying Internet-of-Things technologies, frameworks, and applications10. Communication protocols11. Cybersecurity12. Case studies