After graduation at ESIEE (Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electrotechnique et Electronique) engineering school, France, Cédric Lavenu joined EDF’s research and development division to contribute to EDF group’s activities in the smart grid domain such as Enedis’s Linky smart metering project. Cédric has developed an expertise in the field of powerline communication and IoT standards and has also been actively participating in various standard development organizations. He is currently active in the G3-Alliance, ITU-T SG15, IEC SC77A and CENELEC TC219.