Internet of Things in Power Systems: A Bibliometric Analysis.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has gained lots of attention in the past decade and has shown huge potential in the integration of power systems to build a smart grid architecture and to achieve a paradigm transformation. This paper first proposed a typical architecture of IoT in power systems. To reveal the research status, literature development, cooperative relationship, hotspots of techniques, and the research trend, a bibliometric analysis from 1196 papers in the WoS database was done. Finally, several research trends were concluded based on the bibliometric analysis. This paper, for the first time, provided a systematic review of the hotspots in the field of IoT in power systems for more than a decade. Additionally, this paper provided a clear understanding of the history and outlook of the development of the IoT in power systems.