The Smart Grid as an Application Development Platform - Hardcover

Koutitas, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1630811092 ISBN 13: 9781630811099

Publisher: Artech House Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

This authoritative new resource explores the power grid from its classical role as a utility or service provider towards its new role as an application development platform. This book gives insight into the vision, problems and solutions, and risks of the smart grid model. The evolution of the power grid as it develops into an application-centric environment is explained in this book. This resource guides readers to better understand the primary motivation of the smart grid, and to explore how new technologies are creating a cleaner and more sustainable ecosystem for new business models to blossom.

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About the Author

George Koutitas is the CEO and co-founder of Gridmates and assistant professor at Texas State University. He received his B.Sc. in physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, his M.Sc. degree in mobile and satellite communications from the University of Surrey, UK and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering under EPSRC scholarship from the Center of Communications Systems Research, UK.Stan McClellan is the Director of the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University where he is a professor of electrical engineering. Stan received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1630811092
• ISBN 13: 9781630811099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220