Measure of smartness

Abstract

The traditional power- and energy system is going to be smart. Smart means a set of well defined devices and techniques but nowadays smart is used as a synonym of the expression ‘modern’ and ‘up-to-date’. Believing that the smart philosophy supports the better energy supply we should measure it. Due to the fact that today every gauge and technique is called smart, we should make distinction between different smart objectives, levels and techniques. This paper aims at introducing a quantifying technique that helps orientate in this field. We can use it if we are going to apply new smart technologies or we are going to invest into the less smart part of the network. In the following parts we summarize the elements of the smart characteristics, we measure them and we form a smartness measuring factor capable of comparing two networks or two parts of the network. Finally we show a novel visualization method, the “radar screen” of the smartness.