Smart grid, smart transportation, and smart city: Where we are? Keynote address

Smart systems such as smart grid, smart transportation, and smart city are typical applications supported by Internet-of-Things. Particularly, the smart grid is the integration of renewable energy resources, information and communication technologies into the electricity grid to achieve a reliable, cost efficient, sustainable, and environment-friendly power grid. To deal with uncertainties raised by components such as renewable energy resources in the smart grid systems, our research team at Towson University has developed a modeling and simulation framework to assess techniques, enabling the effectiveness of smart grid operations. With the development of smart sensors, smart vehicles, and vehicular communication technologies, the smart transportation system is considered to be the future of transportation critical infrastructure: improving traffic efficiency and safety. To this end, our research team has been working on the investigation and evaluation techniques that seek to mitigate traffic congestion and improve traffic efficiency. Furthermore, while smart city concept holds great promise of boosting living standards through effective management and utilization of scarce resources, unavailability of real-world datasets and ideal test environments to evaluate algorithms and models has slowed research progress. A group of our research team has been working on the reviews of major research endeavors and projects ongoing in the field. Our research group has been trying to integrate information communication technology with physical infrastructures for a more effective resource management geared towards improving city living standard.