Design and Operational Strategies for Grid-Connected Smart Home

The progressing pace of the world is phenomenal, and to hold the levels of sustainability, many aspects of smart terminology come into existence such as smart grid, smart lights, smart meters, etc. The level of depreciation of available fossil fuels has made everyone search for alternatives that can be renewable and save the environment. Hence, the overall generation, transmission, and distribution system requires a revamp from the traditional methods. This chapter focuses on the consumer’s end where the domestic load can be converted to smart appliances and work coherently with the smart meters followed by the distribution side. This chapter discusses the above aspects being implemented in software like PSCAD and OMNET⁺⁺, and a custom community with collections of houses are combined to check the various parameters for a smart grid and a smart home.