Energy Internet of Things

Abstract

Prior to and during the commercialization of the Internet in the early 1990s, most of the focus was on supporting end devices that were used by humans. While there were some early experiments on connecting machines to the Internet as end devices, the real growth in communication between two devices had to wait until device miniaturization, low-power electronics, and wireless link technology were far enough along that connectivity could be incorporated into practically any device that needed it. This trend is called the “Internet of Things” (IoT). IoT is a superset of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, encompassing the interconnection of intelligent devices and management platforms through advanced communication technologies developed for the Internet. IoTs connect to the Internet, often through some intermediate network for access control, to transmit data about their state or the state of the environment in which they are embedded and to receive data controlling the device’s state. IoT brings the Internet, data collection, processing, and analytics to the real world of physical objects. This chapter focuses on the energy IoT with trending communication technologies in IoT networks, devices, and sensors, and also discusses IoT applications in the smart grid environment, sometimes called the “Energy of IOT.”