The Smart Grid is a new electricity network, which highly integrates the advanced sensing and measurement technologies, information and communication technologies (ICTs), analytical and decision-making technologies, automatic control technologies with energy and power technologies and infrastructure of electricity grids.
The followings are the features which smart grid should support and also IMT-2020 has to satisfy to provide Smart Grid services on the network.
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Observability: It enables the status of electricity grid to be observed accurately and timely by using advanced sensing and measuring technologies
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Controllability: It enables the effective control of the power system by observing the status of the electricity grid
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Timely analysis and decision-making: It enables the improvement of intelligent decision-making process
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Self-adapting and self-healing capability: It prevents power disturbance and breakdown via self-diagnosis and fault location
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Integration of renewable energy integration: It enables integrating the renewable energy such as solar and wind as well as the electricity from micro-grid to support efficient and stable energy delivery services for electric vehicle, smart home and others
E-Health
E-Health (electronic health) can be defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communications technologies in support of health and health-related fields including health-care services, health surveillance, health literature, health education, health knowledge, and health research. E-Health systems continue to hold great promise for improving global access to health-care services and health informatics, particularly in the developing world. The advancements of E-Health in remotely administered medicine will also increasingly enable virtual multimedia delivery of medical consultation, remote imaging services, specialized medical diagnostics, remote medical procedures, etc. Standardized electronic medical records promise to facilitate the digital exchange of patient data among a patient’s primary care physician and other health providers.
The followings are the features which E-Health should support and also IMT-2020 has to satisfy to provide E-Health services on the network.
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Various access and massive communication: The increasing use of diagnostic tools such as 3D and 4D ultrasounds, CAT scans and MRIs, and the miniaturization of this equipment to a portable/hand-held form factor will lead to even higher demands being placed on wireless networks. In addition, Bio-connectivity, which is the continuous and automatic medical telemetry (e.g., temperature, blood pressure, heart-rate, blood glucose) collection via wearable sensors, is another strong emerging trend that will add to the wireless communications requirements.
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Robust infrastructure: Electronic health records is still a central focus of standards organizations, national e-health policies, and strategies within health systems. This is also an area that continues to raise concerns about data security and privacy. As the use of massive distributed computing resources to assist development of disease diagnostic and prevention progresses are heard for standards that provide for robust infrastructure, deployment models and interfaces.
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Real time multimedia interactions: The use of telecommunications networks and information technology for healthcare services such as remote clinical care, diagnostics, and electronic patient monitoring. Developments in this area include advancements in remote clinical care technologies that enable doctors to provide medical assessments and treatments from a remote location away from the patient via real time multimedia interactions with a patient such as a video feed transmitted over a telecommunications network.
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Ultra-reliable and low latency communications: The network provider needs support for providing access to E-Health applications as fast as possible upon service request.
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Quality of service: The network provider needs support for obtaining the customer's E-Health service-related information in order to allocate or configure for the E-Health customer the appropriate network resources, such as IP address, network bandwidth, QoS policy, and so on.
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Policy-based communication: The network layer is required to provide policy-based communication for E-Health applications and E-Health devices. Policy is a set of rules whose variables include, but are not limited to, time, bandwidth, data throughput, network type, traffic priority, and so on. By means of policy-based communication, E-Health applications and E-Health devices can obtain the desired QoS.
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Network-based locating: The network layer is recommended to provide the location related information from the network layer (e.g., IP address, access point location, and so on) for locating the position of E-Health devices. Event triggered location information notification is recommended to be supported.
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Network resource provision: The network layer is required to provide the network resource provision capability for E-Health applications and E-Health devices. Depending on the specific deployment of E-Health applications and E-Health devices, E-Health applications and E-Health devices may automatically use these provided network resources and configure themselves to connect to the network directly. In this way, E-Health customers can use the E-Health services directly, without the need to configure the E-Health devices
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Secure communications: The information carried by the E-Health services may be delivered across different administrative domains (e.g., countries, operators). The E-Health system supports secure communications between different domains. The information exchanged between different domains must be protected from random errors, as well as snooping or hacking attacks.
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Confidentiality: Whenever information is exchanged, stored or processed, the confidentiality of the data must be enforced and safeguarded by the E-Health system. All exchanges of data between e-health partners, for example E-Health device provider, E-Health application provider, network provider and platform provider, must be performed in a way that prohibits any unwanted disclosure of data, e.g., to third parties.
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Integrity: The integrity of the transmitted information must be guaranteed; transmitted data from the sender should be received without any alteration. It must be identified that the transmitted data have not been damaged, reduced or altered. Any loss of integrity of the transmitted data must be recognizable by the recipient.
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Data storage security: It is recommended to support data storage security strategies including, but not limited to, data backup, anti-hacker data protection, uninterruptible power of data storage, data integrity validation and data recovery. In addition, data access control is required to be supported for privacy
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