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FIG. 7.2 Relationship between OSI reference model, TCP/IP, and IoT layers.

services. In recent years, the integration of IoT and smart grid has attracted more
attention for a novel network type named Internet of Energy (IoE). The integra-
tion of smart grid and IoT application is described as web-enabled use of smart
grid since it is improved with IP-based features of internet. The internet-based
smart grid provides a number of benefits to generation and distribution opera-
tors, consumers, and stakeholders owing to intelligence-based management
opportunities. Another significant contribution of IoT to smart grid is the
monitoring, management, control, and information applications that almost
all of them can be operated any mobile devices and various operating systems.
Thus, consumers inherit increased control on smart grid components. The most
recent IoT and smart environment researches have been focused on IoE net-
works focusing on WSN in [9] by Rana. The most significant contributions
of WSNs to smart grid and IoT integration include cognitive radio-assisted
sensor networks (CRSNs), end-user applications, data analysis and security
and privacy issues.
The potential benefits of CRSNs to WSN applications as dynamic spectrum
access, opportunistic channel usage, adaption to reduce the power consumption,
and flexible communication band use including licensed and unlicensed infra-
structures. It is obvious that smart grid applications produce huge amount of
data and communication traffic where IoT and big data analytics are convenient
to tackle this issue. In Table 7.1, a summary of introduced applications of smart
grid and IoT integration have been expressed. In addition to summarized topics,
several studies have been done for DSM, AMI, and smart monitoring applica-
tions in the context of smart grid and IoT infrastructure. The layer frameworks,
protocol stacks, applications, and services of IoT are presented in the following
sections in detail.