Keynote Speaker - Alfredo Vaccaro

KEYNOTE

Alfredo Vaccaro

University of Sannio, Italy

In this talk we will discuss the potential role of self-organizing smart sensor networks for dynamic thermal rating assessment of overhead lines. The main idea is to decentralize the entire set of thermal rating processing and synchronization functions on a network of interactive smart sensors. The resulting computing architecture is expected to exhibit several advantages over traditional paradigms as far as built-in synchronization features, "in field" processing capabilities, less hardware complexities, less communication network requirements, easy to extend and reconfigure are concerned. Detailed experimental results obtained on real overhead lines of the Italian power system are presented and discussed to prove the effectiveness of the self-organizing sensor networks in the task of reliably estimating the real thermal ratings of the monitored lines.

Alfredo Vaccaro (IEEE Fellow) received the M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in electronic engineering from the University of Salerno, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. From 1999 to 2002, he was an Assistant Researcher with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Salerno. From March 2002 to October 2015, he was an Assistant Professor of electric power systems with the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, where he is currently a Full Professor of electrical power systems. His research interests include soft computing and interval-based methods applied to power system analysis, and self-organizing paradigms for smart grid computing. He is the Editor in Chief of the -Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy- Ed. Springer Nature, Chair of the Power System Operation, Planning and Economics Committee—Technologies and Innovations (T&I) SC, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids.