Smart Grid Testing Management Platform (SGTMP)

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Authors

SCHVARCBACHER Martin HRABOVSKÁ Katarína ROSSI Bruno PITNER Tomáš

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Applied Sciences-Basel
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app8112278
Keywords smart grid testing platform; smart meter; ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 software testing standard; hardware in the loop; co-simulation frameworks
Description The Smart Grid (SG) is nowadays an essential part of modern society, providing two-way energy flow and smart services between providers and customers. The main drawback is the SG complexity, with an SG composed of multiple layers, with devices and components that have to communicate, integrate, and cooperate as a unified system. Such complexity brings challenges for ensuring proper reliability, resilience, availability, integration, and security of the overall infrastructure. In this paper, we introduce a new smart grid testing management platform (herein called SGTMP) for executing real-time hardware-in-the-loop SG tests and experiments that can simplify the testing process in the context of interconnected SG devices. We discuss the context of usage, the system architecture, the interactive web-based interface, the provided API, and the integration with co-simulations frameworks to provide virtualized environments for testing. Furthermore, we present one main scenario about the stress-testing of SG devices that can showcase the applicability of the platform.
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