Survey on Energy Harvesting in Smart Grid Networks

Abstract

The recent development of internet of things devices and communication technology enhancement has been a driving force to the Smart Grid concept in recent power system de-ployments. The smart grid is capable of delivering power more reliably and efficiently and also respond to system changes and disturbances. Wireless sensor networks have been identified as the most promising technology in smart grid communication ar-chitectures. Though it is considered a promising method powering up the sensor node becoming a challenge due to the recharging changing of batteries. The paper explores the comprehensive characteristics of a smart grid followed by different energy harvesting techniques. The existing energy harvesting techniques are been discussed in two categories considering the sources of power. Then Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) and Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) techniques which can use for energy harvesting concepts also have been explored. The paper then explored the related work which has been conducted for energy harvesting techniques and finally we explored future research direction considering cybersecurity issue with WPT/SWIPT and also incorporating WPT/SWIPT with the smart grid as an EH technique for sensor nodes. Index Terms—Smart Grid, Energy Harvesting, Wireless Com-munication, Wireless Power Transfer (WPT), Simultaneous Wire-less Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT)