Resumo:
The Brazilian electrical system has particular characteristics that demand very specific operational requirements and Smart Grids applications. One example is the fact
of the system is mostly interconnected, with a large territorial extension and with most
of the electric generation being of hydraulic origin, what is a situation that allows the
inclusion of water resource monitoring as an Smart Grids application. In addition,
other applications are present, such as remote metering, energy management, automation, demand response, vehicular electrification, distributed generation and control of protection systems. One factor that makes these applications viable is the use
of communication technologies, which must meet specific requirements for each kind
of application. Therefore, a wide range of technologies need to be analyzed carefully
and technically for each case, such as WiMAX, NB-IoT, LoRa, Sigfox, Bluetooth,
Zigbee, GOES, Wi-Fi, Ingenu, 6LoWPAN, DASH7 and cellular technologies. In this
scenario, the telecommunications system in Brazil is constantly being updated and
is being prepared to receive the 5G cellular network, which has been analyzed in all
the aforementioned applications and is shown to be viable in most of them. In addi tion, 5G has been widely studied, being one of the most cited wireless communication
technologies in scientific publications related to Smart Grids. This scenario shows a
great interest of the scientific community of 5G in Smart Grids context.
