CLOUD COMPUTING

APPLICATIONS TO
SMART GRIDS

Dr. G. Murugananth. M.E., Ph.D.,

MIE., MIEEE, MISTE, MSAE.,
Professor & Head,
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Ahalia School of Engineering and Technology,
Palakkad - 678557
 WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?

 Next generation computation model.

 Model for facilitating useful, on demand network

access to a shared pool of configurable computing
resources that can be quickly provisioned and
released with minimum management effort or
utility interface.

 Computing resources include – servers, storage,

applications, networks and services.
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 CLOUD PROVIDERS
 Data center owners
 Posses huge storage devices

 Computational facilities

 Trade these capacities on-demand to the cloud users

 Cloud users can be service, software or content providers

from the users over the net.
 Major Players: Amazon, Google, Microsoft
 Working on constructing large data center across the world.
 Data centers consists of thousands of computer servers, substation power
transformers and cooling devices.
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 ADVANTAGES AND CHARACTERISTICS
• On demand Self-Service – No need of human interaction - a
consumer can have the provision to utilize computing
capabilities.

• Broad Network Access – Capabilities to be used by large

client platforms and accessing through standard mechanisms.

• Resource Pooling – Serve multiple costumer from a pool of

computing resources
– Employs a multiple tenant model
– Consumer has no control over the specific region of the
provided resources.
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 ADVANTAGES CONTD…..

• Rapid Elasticity – Helps expandable nature of memory

and storage devices
– According to demand can be increased or reduced.

• Measured Service Presents metering infrastructure and

cost optimization mechanisms to consumers
– Enable the consumers to pay only for their consumed resources.

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 TYPES OF SERVICES OFFERED

 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

 Platform as a Service (PaaS)

 Software as a Service (SaaS)

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 INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS)
 Model which has virtual machines and storage devices.
 Performs load balancing.

 Supports virtualization of resources on which a guest can run

their own OS.
 Flexible and doesn’t require any upfront hardware costs.

 Upgraded constantly.

 Provide world class security and disaster management.

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 PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS)
o Carries out Development and delivery of programming models
to IaaS.

o Users access the programming models through cloud and

execute their programs.

o Responsible for execution runtime of user given task.

o Universal, Consistent and Stable Platform with low startup cost.

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 SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS)
 Supports all applications in the cloud environment.
 Accessible through web-browsers.

 Provides the modeling of deployment where users can

run their applications without installing it on their
own computers.
 Delivers Service.

 Low startup cost and maintenance cost.

 Restricted to consumers i.e. only existing set of

services can be available to consumers.

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 CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE
• Front end & Back end
• Each end is connected through a network i.e. internet.
• Front end
– Client part
– Consists of interface and applications that requires access to cloud
computing platform
• Backend
– Cloud itself
– Consists of all the resources required to provide cloud computing services
– Comprises of huge data storage, virtual machine, security mechanism,
services, deployment models, servers etc.
– Responsibility of back end to provide built-in security mechanism, traffic
control and protocols.
– Server employs protocols called as middle which help the connected
devices to communicate with each other.
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 PUBLIC CLOUD NETWORK
• Computing Services
accessible on Public
Internet is Public Cloud
Network.
• Includes
– Service applications – Gmail
or salesforce.com
– Software Development
Platforms – Microsoft Azzure
– Infrastructure as a Service –
Think Speak

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SERVICES OFFERED BY PUBLIC CLOUD

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 BENEFITS OF PUBLIC CLOUD SERVICES
o Shares same resources with large no. of consumers.
o Converts capital cost to operating costs and improves
cash flow.
o Highly Scalable.
o Applications and data are upgraded and backed up
automatically.
o Employs large no. of resources from different locations
– Parallel Processing during fault instances.
o Can be easily integrated with private cloud.
o Services are delivered through internet – ensures
location independence.
o Cost is pay per use model and resources are accessible
when consumer needs them.
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 DRAWBACKS OF PUBLIC CLOUD

 Notchoice for small business

 Runs on Multi-tenant basis
 Data of our own company will be processed along with data of
other companies at the same instant.
 Rises to reliability problems – doesn’t ensures high level of
security.
 Dedicated OS or hardware not obtainable.
 Less customizable.

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PRIVATE CLOUDS

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 PRIVATE CLOUD
 Built for single business
 Good for companies to step into Cloud Computing Business.

 They permit organizations to develop environments, host

applications and infrastructure in a cloud
 Address the concerns regarding control and data security.

 2 types
 On-Premises private cloud
 Externally hosted virtual private cloud

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SERVICES OF PRIVATE CLOUD

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 BENEFITS OF PRIVATE CLOUD

 High security and privacy

 More control on resources and hardware

 Improved reliability

 Resources offer more services than public cloud.

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 DRAWBACKS OF PRIVATE CLOUD
 Can be accessed locally and not globally
 Cost of hardware and its set up is more

 Scaled only within the capacity of internal storage

 Needs more skill and expertise to maintain deployment

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HYBRID CLOUDS

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 HYBRID CLOUDS
 Combination of on-premise and virtual private cloud.
 Combines the versatility and flexibility of the public and
private clouds with high level of security.
 Infrastructure allows only recognized traffic streams. (High
level of security)
 Permits – email hostings, online data backup, disaster
recovery and business continuity.

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SERVICES OFFERED BY HYBRID CLOUD

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 BENEFITS OF HYBRID CLOUD
 Offers features of both private and public cloud
particularly in terms of scalability.
 Secured and scalable resources

 Cost effective

 High degree of security.

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 DRAWBACKS OF HYBRID CLOUD
 Complex due to both private and public combination.

 Necessary to ensure security policies.

 Dependent on external IT infrastructure – necessary to ensure

redundancy across data centres.

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 COMMUNITY CLOUD

o Used by a particular community of consumers from

organizations that have shared concerns.

o Concerns include - mission, security requirements, policy and

compliance considerations.

o Owned, managed and operated by one or more of the

organizations in the community, a third party or some
combination of them.

o May exist ON or OFF premises.

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SMART GRID CLOUD ARCHITECTURE

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DATA AND ENERGY FLOW

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 SMART GRID CLOUD ARCHITECTURE

 Excellent Method due to flexible an scalable characteristics.

 Can handle large volume of data.

 For data storage and communication – real time computing

capabilities are needed.
 Once the expended entities are in place, Cloud computing
unloads smart grid by presenting remote data storage,
automatic updates, reduced maintenance of IT systems,
thereby saving energy, money and manpower.

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 SMART GRID CLOUD ARCHITECTURE
 Data and energy flow will be in a wide multi-port network
system.
 Smart gird cloud architecture is distributed and dynamic.
 The components are different and requires different ways to
control them, so cannot employ a combined common control
strategy.
 Ex: DGs and Loads may cut out or Turn in at any time, this
leads to transient problems and so cannot be combined.
 Microgrid constitutes of layer topology – every subsystem
creates layered information.
 Hence, multi-agent technology is introduced in smart grids.
 These multi-agents can be controlled by different ways but
can utilize an unified control procedure.
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APPLICATIONS OF SMART GRID CLOUD
o Holds the details of consumers.
o Follow of electricity usage, indication and temperature –
real time
o Reading the usage at regular intervals
o Recommendation of best tariffs for consumers
o Analyzing the consumption of individual consumers
o Creating alerts through all means – SMS, e-mail
o Calculation and application of penaltiess
o Issuing invoices automatically
o Disconnecting the bad-payers and notifying them
o Presenting of financial statements
o Identifying abnormal consumption and power theft 38
 VIDEOS

 Cloud Computing
 Smart Grid
 Smart Grid through Cloud Computing

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