Special Session #7

The last scientific report on climate change of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), based on about 6,000 reference documents by researchers over the world, said that the global warming should be limited to 1.5 °C, instead of 2,0°C originally proposed by Paris agreements of 2015. To this aim, the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be reduced of 45% by the end of 2030 and brought close to zero by the end of 2050. To achieve these ambitious goals, States are progressively increasing carbon taxes, with the objective to make too expensive the use of energy sources based on fossil fuels. The reduction of the CO2 emission is achieved increasing the percentage of renewable energy and by means an efficient management of power flows. Thus, we are faced with an epochal transformation of the use of electrical energy that involve cities, mobility, industries, etc., and many challenges must be addressed.

As an example, these challenges involve: (1) the deployment of charging points for electrical vehicles (EV); (2) the use of suitable accumulators to manage both the unpredictability and intermittency of renewable energy sources and the rapid changes in power demand, which could have negative impact on the production planning.

To overcome the considered issues, the existing infrastructure has to be enriched with a new digital layer, involving instruments and actuators operating and communicating according to IoT paradigm, thus allowing to suitably combine the obtained measures with the processing capability of cloud-based control and monitoring systems.

Authors are invited to contribute with papers involving (but not limited to):

• IoT for Smart Grid: design challenge and paradigms;
• Power quality for Industry 4.0;
• IoT oriented of electrical quantities;
• Electrical Vehicles and their integration in IoT environment and Industry 4.0;
• Wide Area Measurement and Smart Protection;
• Energy Management in Smart grids;
• IoT for Smart metering;
• IoT Communication for Smart grids;
• Renewable Energy and Energy efficiency;
• New generation of accumulators for Industry 4.0;
• Augmented Reality for electrical systems.

Annalisa Liccardo received the M.S. degree cum laude in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. She was a Tenure Track Researcher from 2013 to 2016 and, since 2016, she is Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Naples Federico II. She has authored over 80 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. Her current research interests involve the measurements for monitoring and protection of electrical power systems, IoT sensors for electrical measurements, and distributed measurement networks.

Francesco Bonavolontà, received the M.S. degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. He is Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Information Technologies at University of Naples Federico II. His research activity is mainly focused on measurements for IoT and Industry 4.0, Digital Signal Processing, DAS CS-based, WAN protocols, THz measurement systems, communication systems and networks test and measurement, Augmented Reality Interface for electrical system and Industry.