Scope
The Internet of Things is the concept of millions of interconnected intelligent devices that communicate with others. Generally speaking, the smart grid is an application of the Internet of Things. It is composed of embedded machines, which sense and control the behavior of the energy world. The global smart grid market has continued to grow steadily, driven by countries to promote the upgrading of power grid infrastructure. It is expected to grow from $73.11 billion in 2017 to $119.74 billion in 2025. The compound annual growth rate is about 6.4% from 2017 to 2025. The IoT-driven smart grid has become a hot area of research. Therefore, it is the perfect time to invest in a research initiative, e.g., through our event, in the IoT-dominated smart grid area. The theme invites ideas on how to achieve more efficient use of resources based on the IoT-based machine-to-machine, interactions of millions of smart meters and sensors in the smart grid-specific communication networks such as home area networks, building area networks, and neighborhood area networks.

The smart grid also encompasses IoT technologies, which monitor transmission lines, manage substations, integrate renewable energy generation (e.g., solar or wind), and utilize hybrid vehicle batteries. Through these technologies, the authorities can smartly identify outage problems, and intelligently schedule power generation and delivery to the customers. Furthermore, the smart grid should teach us a valuable lesson that security must be designed in from the start of any IoT deployment. Since there is an alarming lack of standards to address the protection of the secret keys and/or the life-cycle security of the embedded smart grid devices, intruders could use conventional attack techniques to breach the security just as in any other IoT deployment.

Topics
In order to address and solve many of the tough challenges in the IoT-driven smart grid, prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original and unpublished research contributions to this event on the following technical areas of (but not limited to) smart grid communications and IoT.

Communication networks for smart grids and smart metering
Sensor, actuator, and machine-to-machine (M2M) networks for smart grid
Ultra-reliability and low-latency in 5G
Machine learning for smart device networking
Control techniques for smart grid energy systems
Demand side management, demand response, and dynamic pricing for smart grid
Renewable energy technology and smart grid technologies
Emerging applications, services, and management models of smart grid
Reliability, availability, resiliency, and robustness of the smart grid
Empowering intelligence at the grid edge
New trends and technologies for smart grid
Smart grid cyber security
Publication
All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, IO-Port, MatchSciNet, Inspec and Zentralblatt MATH

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

Additional publication opportunities:

EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series
(titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

General Chair
Der-Jiunn Deng

General Co-Chair
Jyh-Cheng Chen
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Technical Program Committee Chair
Chun-Cheng Lin
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair
Chien-Liang Chen
Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan

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This event is organized by EAI (www.eai.eu).

EAI – European Alliance for Innovation is a non-profit organization and a professional community established in cooperation with the European Commission to empower global research and innovation, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities.