Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Edge Computing for Wide Area Monitoring

The massive digital information generated in conjunction with the ever-increasing phasor measurement data in the power grid has led to a tremendous constraint on the analysis and timely processing of real-time data. Under these conditions, leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a crucial role in assisting more efficient data processing and analysis. In this paper an AI-assisted power grid event classification method is proposed, which aims at improving the overall power grid system performance. Furthermore, an edge cloud sharing scheme is introduced for a large-scale power grid system. To balance the load and reduce the maximum processing time, a multiple edge cloud node-based scheme is developed. The simulation results verify that the proposed AI-assisted event classification method, together with the edge cloud sharing scheme, can significantly improve the overall performance of the system.