This special issue of the CONASESE journal collects contributions on ICT architectures and key ICT issues to implement control and automation through a large number of smart objects pervasively deployed in the physical world and wirelessly connected and equipped with some control logic running at the core of the application.
Therefore, the power grid becomes "smart" when it is able to react and adapt to any event occurring in any point of the grid (generation, transmission, distribution, consumption) by adopting proper strategies and countermeasures. To make this a reality, a bi-directional...