Advances on Sensing Technologies for Smart Cities and Power Grids: A Review

This paper aims to highlight the advancement on the emergent technologies, implementations, and applications in smart power grid and city. Advanced sensing systems and smart transducers are used to improve the performances of electric grid and city services. The final aim is to provide readers with a clearer understanding of the current state of the art about this topic by describing some applications and suggesting new features and ideas in the field of sensors and sensing systems dedicated to smart electric grid, power networks, and smart cities.