Electricity Smart Meters Interfacing the Households

Benzi, Francesco; Anglani, Norma; Bassi, Ezio; Frosini, Lucia

doi:10.1109/tie.2011.2107713

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“…AMI does not only mean the physical deployment of smart meters, but it also is a complicated communication network and IT infrastructure, including many systems, such as a meter data management system, that handles the huge amount of data and manages the raw data to create meaningful information and messages for customers, assisting them in using energy intelligently. Hence, consumer awareness, interactive services for regulation of energy demand, avoidance of electricity-related frauds, and more timely and precise billing services are the advantages of AMI systems [4]. Fig.…”

Section: Advanced Metering Infrastructure (Ami)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey on Smart Grid Potential Applications and Communication Requirements

Güngör

Sahin

Koçak

et al. 2013

IEEE Trans. Ind. Inf.

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Abstract-Information and communication technologies (ICT)represent a fundamental element in the growth and performance of smart grids. A sophisticated, reliable and fast communication infrastructure is, in fact, necessary for the connection among the huge amount of distributed elements, such as generators, substa-tions, energy storage systems and users, enabling a real time ex-change of data and information necessary for the management of the system and for ensuring improvements in terms of efficiency, reliability, flexibility and investment return for all those involved in a smart grid: producers, operators and customers. This paper overviews the issues related to the smart grid architecture from the perspective of potential applications and the communications requirements needed for ensuring performance, flexible operation, reliability and economics.Index Terms-Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), demand Response, smart Grid Communications.

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Section: Advanced Metering Infrastructure (Ami)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey on Smart Grid Potential Applications and Communication Requirements

Güngör

Sahin

Koçak

et al. 2013

IEEE Trans. Ind. Inf.

984

467

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“…The Z-BGW performs meter reading collection 500 times and so the average ALLs have been recorded for each testing networks (1)(2)(3)(4)(5). Later, these experimental results were compared with the average ALL 500 simulation results for 3-4 in order to study the impact of the number of interfaces (k) on the BN performance of MIZBAN.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Generic Design of a High-Traffic Advanced Metering Infrastructure Using ZigBee

Tung

Tsang

Chui

et al. 2014

IEEE Trans. Ind. Inf.

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Abstract-A multi-interface ZigBee building area network (MIZBAN) for a high-traffic advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) for high-rise buildings was developed. This supports meter management functions such as Demand Response for smart grid applications. To cater for the high-traffic communication in these building area networks (BANs), a multi-interface management framework was defined and designed to coordinate the operation between multiple interfaces based on a newly defined tree-based mesh (T-Mesh) ZigBee topology, which supports both mesh and tree routing in a single network. To evaluate MIZBAN, an experiment was set up in a five-floor building. Based on the measured data, simulations were performed to extend the analysis to a 23-floor building. These revealed that MIZBAN yields an improvement in application-layer latency of the backbone and the floor network by 75% and 67%, respectively. This paper provides the design engineer with seven recommendations for a generic MIZBAN design, which will fulfill the requirement for demand response by the U.S. government, i.e. a latency of less than 0.25 s.Index Terms-Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), building area network (BAN), multi-interface, smart grid, ZigBee.

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“…From the customer point of view, a fundamental requirement is the protection of the information exchanged between the utility company and the smart power meters installed at the customers' premises. Far from old electromechanical measuring systems, the new generation of power meters is fully electronic [19][20][21][22][23][24], and they provide advanced power measurement and management capabilities thanks to power Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) provided by semiconductor suppliers like STMicroelectronics [25]. The new generation of smart meters integrates a two-way communication system.…”

Section: Security and Privacy Problems In Smartmentioning

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Network Architecture, Security Issues, and Hardware Implementation of a Home Area Network for Smart Grid

Saponara

Bacchillone

2012

Journal of Computer Networks and Communications

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This paper discusses aims, architecture, and security issues of Smart Grid, taking care of the lesson learned at University of Pisa in research projects on smart energy and grid. A key element of Smart Grid is the energy home area network (HAN), for which an implementation is proposed, dealing with its security aspects and showing some solutions for realizing a wireless network based on ZigBee. Possible hardware-software architectures and implementations using COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) components are presented for key building blocks of the energy HAN such as smart power meters and plugs and a home smart information box providing energy management policy and supporting user's energy awareness.

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Electricity Smart Meters Interfacing the Households

Cited by 224 publications

References 13 publications

A Survey on Smart Grid Potential Applications and Communication Requirements

A Survey on Smart Grid Potential Applications and Communication Requirements

The Generic Design of a High-Traffic Advanced Metering Infrastructure Using ZigBee

Network Architecture, Security Issues, and Hardware Implementation of a Home Area Network for Smart Grid

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