What Is the Smart Grid?
The Smart Grid is a convenient term to describe the modernization of electric, natural gas, and water grid infrastructures. The term encapsulates the convergence of remote monitoring and control technologies with communications technologies, renewables generation, and analytics capabilities so that previously noncommunicative infrastructures like electricity grids can provide time-sensitive status updates and deliver situational awareness.
While initially and mostly focused on electricity, many of the same technologies, particularly in information and communications technologies (ICTs), apply to natural gas and water grids. This book addresses privacy in all three of these consumables, ...
