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Riccardo Bonetto - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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Applying renewable energy in a smart micro grid (MG) is increasingly receiving attention to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, the mismatch between supply and demand hinders the realization of this process. With the widespread use of plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) and the development of emerging mobile edge cloud (MEC), intelligent energy optimization becomes a way to address the challenge...Show More
Here we show how, based on 5G-enabled technologies, a connected power distribution grid can be split into self sufficient islands integrating self driving electric vehicles (EVs). End users form self sufficient (from the energy demand point of view) clusters called virtual power plants (VPPs), and EVs serve as energy delivery devices between different VPPs. Moreover, we show how phase-to-ground fa...Show More
The ever-growing hunger for high quality, up to date, and efficient datasets to be used in data-driven models and control systems lead to the diffusion of a number of database management systems specifically tailored to support operations on timeseries: Timeseries Databases. We focus on the systematic performance assessment of some of the most popular TSDBs available. To this end, we developed a t...Show More
In an independent self-sustained micro grid (MG) with limited energy resources, plugged-in electric vehicles (EV) must compete for available excess power supply or demand, modeled as a random variable. This paper proposes a distributed machine learning algorithm based on a Markov decision process (MDP) and non-cooperative game theory, that maximizes the EV's profit under uncertainty of future MG s...Show More
Accurate software based simulation of (complex) dynamic and, possibly, stochastic systems is a key component of the design and test of control strategies. Simulation tools developed according to software design best practices provide engineers and researchers with efficient and easy to use representations of the world. Hence, allowing for faster control algorithms design and test. Here we present ...Show More
Smart Cities are calling for a major innovation in many strategic infrastructures that shape the daily life of citizens. Arguably one of the most strategic and resilient to changes is the power transmission and distribution infrastructure. And yet, the power sector, together with the communication network infrastructure, are the major enablers of future smart cities.In this paper, we present three...Show More
In this paper, we are concerned with the automated and runtime analysis of vehicular data from large scale traffic monitoring networks. This problem is tackled through localized and small-size Bayesian networks (BNs), which are utilized to capture the spatio-temporal relationships underpinning traffic data from nearby road links. A dedicated BN is set up, trained, and tested for each road in the m...Show More
In electrical distribution grids, the constantly increasing number of power generation devices based on renewables demands a transition from a centralized to a distributed generation paradigm. In fact, power injection from distributed energy resources (DERs) can be selectively controlled to achieve other objectives beyond supporting loads, such as the minimization of the power losses along the dis...Show More
We consider the problem of power demand forecasting in residential micro-grids. Previous approaches rely on ARMA models and, recently, on neural network architectures that are however solely used to perform one-step ahead predictions. Here, we propose an original forecasting technique based on non-linear, autoregressive (NAR) neural networks. Our architecture allows for parallel and efficient trai...Show More
Distributed generators (DGs), coupled with suitable control and communication infrastructures, are expected to play a key role in improving the efficiency of electricity grids. In this paper, we focus on low-voltage and single-phase microgrids exploring the interplay of distributed power loss reduction and communication. We select representative power-loss reduction algorithms from the state of th...Show More
We consider a smart micro grid where multiple distributed energy sources (DESs) inject current to support loads and reduce power losses over the lines. Distributed current control algorithms rely on a communication infrastructure, to exchange control data among DESs. For stability purposes, a token ring approach is often implemented for the control, where at any given time a single node with commu...Show More
We present and evaluate a lightweight and effective approach for the management of prosumer communities through the synergistic control of the power electronic converters acting therein. These controllable elements are the utility interface (UI), installed at the point of common coupling with the electrical utility, and the energy gateways (EGs), interfacing distributed generation units and energy...Show More
In this paper we discuss security procedures for constrained IoT devices. We start with the description of a general security architecture along with its basic procedures, then discuss how its elements interact with the constrained communication stack and explore pros and cons of popular security approaches at various layers of the ISO/OSI model. We also discuss a practical example for the establi...Show More