IoT for Smart Grids

IoT for Smart Grids - Design Challenges and Paradigms.- Part I: Fundamental Topics and Technologies for IoT Systems Targeting Smart-Grid Domain.- Mastering the challenges of changing energy systems: The Smart-Grid Concept.- Edge Computing for Smart Grid: An Overview on Architectures and Solutions.- Smart-Grid Modelling and Simulation.- Communication Protocols for the IoT-based Smart Grid.- Smart Grid Hardware Security.- Edge Computing and Efficient Resource Management forintegration of video devices in Smart Grid deployments.- Solar Energy Forecasting in the Era of IoT Enabled Smart Grids.- Data Analytic for Improving Operations and Maintenance in Smart-Grid Environment.- On Accelerating Data Analytics: An Introduction to the Approximate Computing Technique.- Part II: Case Studies about Computerized Monitor and Control of Energy Systems.- Towards plug&play smart thermostats for building's heating/cooling control. 

Prof. Kostas Siozios received his Diploma, Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in 2001, 2003 and 2009, respectively. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests include CAD algorithms, cyberphysical systems, low-power reconfigurable architectures and parallel architectures. He has published more than 110 papers in international journals and conferences, and has contributed to 5 books published by Kluwer and Springer. In recent years he has been a principal investigator in numerous research projects funded by the European Commission (EC), European Space Agency (ESA), as well as the Greek Government and Industry. Dimitrios Anagnostos was born in Greece in 1988. He received B.E. and M.E. degrees from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2012. He iscurrently pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at NTUA in cooperation with Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL). His main areas of research interest are photovoltaic modeling for energy yield assessment and forecasting, and advanced methods of design space exploration. Mr. Anagnostos is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. Prof. Dimitrios Soudris received his Diploma and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. He was a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace for 13 years and is currently working as an Associate Professor at the School of ECE at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. His research interests include embedded systems design, reconfigurable architectures, network-on-chip architectures and low-power VLSI design. He has published more than 350 papers in international journals and conferences, and is the author or editor of