A multi-agent system architecture modeling for smart grid context

Abstract

This paper presents architecture for smart grid elements and concepts modeling. We choose the Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) technology, because it meets this new generation network's requirements and objectives. There is a need of potential redesign and jeopardize of the traditional electrical networks. As several huge blackouts happened this last decade, they are being gradually left in favor of smart grid for more flexibility and network stability. The proposed architecture goes in this context to solve some of these new problematic issues. The adopted modeling strategy is bottom-up approach; we first give a smart appliance model, and then construct the smallest local independent entity model. We afterward use paradigms of agent and object oriented programming which features allow the architecture to be flexible, extensible and scalable. Different models and their scalability are discussed in this paper. The proposed solution will be useful for academic research on smart grid, once it allows its modeling and simulation, performance study and optimization, and therefore can contributes in energy efficiency.