Intelligent migration from smart metering to smart grid

With the growing demand for more energy from the subscribers, and given the issues associated with ecological systems, it is inevitable and indispensable to move toward an efficient, economical, green, clean and self-correcting power system. Implementing this system is a challenge for the managers to tackle. It is a long time that smart metering system have been used by utility companies and implemented in quite a few numbers of them. Necessity for developing from smart metering to smart gird and utilizing it for consumption management, black-out management, demand response, distributed energy resources, Grid optimization, Load management, technical loss, theft detection, quality of service, utilizing the maximum capacity of power line, balancing the distribution network, freeing the distribution network and a great number of other advantages are inevitable. In this paper we have studied how to move toward smartening up the grid.