Deployment of wireless sensor network in dispersed renewable energy sources for increasing efficiency of power distribution networks

Abstract

In this work, a novel performance analysis method for evaluating the robustness of emerging power distribution networks (PDNs), which involve deployable renewable energy sources, is proposed. This is realized with the aid of the outage probability (OP) criterion in the context of cooperative communications, which is widely considered in modern wireless communication systems. The main usefulness of this method is that it allows the involved components to communicate to each-other by means of a robust and flexible wireless sensor network architecture. In this context, any conventional medium voltage (MV) bus of the PDN is represented as a wireless relay node where data signals gathered from each MV bus can be forwarded reliably to a control station for the subsequent processing. The received signals at wireless nodes are decoded and then forwarded to ensure minimal errors and maximal robustness at the receiving site. The considered OP analysis denotes the probability that the power of a received information signal drops below a pre-defined threshold which satisfies the acceptable Quality of Service requirements of a reliable signal reception. To this end, simple closed-form expressions are proposed for the OP of a regenerative cooperative-based PDN in the presence of various multipath fading effects, which degrade information signals during wireless transmission. The offered results are rather simple and provide meaningful insights for the design and deployment of smart grid systems.

Research on the optimised transceiver impedances for low‐voltage broadband PLC system

“…Power line communication (PLC) technology is widely deployed and applied by exploiting the power delivery network to convey data recently. As communication technology has the advantages of wide coverage and low cost, without installing communication equipment, it has been widely recognised as a key technology for communication in the smart grid [1, 2]. The last network node of the smart grid is the domestic consumer, which has higher requirements for transmission rate and communication quality [3].…”