This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies, SmartGift 2024a, which was a virtual event, held during March 23–24, 2024.

The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions.

.- Wireless Communication and Distribution Network.
.- Machine Learning for Ambient Backscatter Channel Estimation and Signal Detection: Opportunities and Challenges.
.- Phased array networking TT&C relay terminal with interference suppression technology.
.- On IT and OT Cybersecurity Datasets for Machine Learning-based Intrusion Detection in Industrial Control Systems.
.- Rate Distortion Analysis of Wavefield Coding in Wireless Geophone Networks.
.- Artificial Intelligence Technologies.
.- ECIC: A content and context integrated data acquisition method for Artificial Internet of Things.
.- A two-stage inference method based on graph neural network for wind farm SCADA data.
.- A Comprehensive Evaluation Method for KG-Augmented Large Language Models.
.- Security in Wireless Communication.
.- Collaborative-based Batch Verification Scheme for Event-driven Messages in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks.
.- Enhancing Mobile Communication System Security via Neural Cryptography Applications.
.- System Design for Smart Grid and IoT.
.- EcoIntegrity: AI-Augmented Blockchain Framework for Carbon Footprint Tracking and Incentives in IoT.
.- Development Pitfalls: A Case Study in Developing a Smart Grid Co-Simulation Platform Based on HELICS.