Smart Grid Empowered By 5G Technology

Recently, the smart grid being an electrical grid entailing diversity of process and energy measures counting smart meters, smart appliances, renewable energy resources, and energy-efficient resources has become promising research with increased fidelity of power-flow control, energy reliability and energy security by the use of digital communications and technology controls. To advance the current traditional power grids into a smart grid, it necessitates a substantial dependence on intelligent communication infrastructures. More still, it requires an improved framework for persistent distributed communication, computing and sensing technology advancement in the smart grid. This paper surveys state-of-the-art efforts in the existing research centers in smart grid networks, waging away for us to identify the research challenges, proposed solutions within the continued studies showing the high-tech fifth-generation (5G) characteristics that empower smart grid as well as the imaginable vulnerabilities in smart grid.