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

Abstract

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.

Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation and Dynamic Billing in Smart Grid Metering Networks

“…In a home area network even a building area network, the SM sends every fixed period (encrypted) information related to the realtime measured electricity consumption to the CG [19]. The SM is assumed to be a resource constrained device.…”

Review of state-of-the-art wireless technologies and applications in smart cities

“…There are already potential solutions for large scale AMI. In [20][21][22], high-traffic communication in BANs with high rises is proposed. A multiinterface management framework was defined and designed to coordinate the operation between multiple interfaces based on a tree-based mesh (T-Mesh) ZigBee topology, which supports both mesh and tree routing in a single network [20].…”

“…In [20][21][22], high-traffic communication in BANs with high rises is proposed. A multiinterface management framework was defined and designed to coordinate the operation between multiple interfaces based on a tree-based mesh (T-Mesh) ZigBee topology, which supports both mesh and tree routing in a single network [20]. Based on [20], interference mitigation and optimization on the network was further developed afterwards for high rises [22].…”

“…A multiinterface management framework was defined and designed to coordinate the operation between multiple interfaces based on a tree-based mesh (T-Mesh) ZigBee topology, which supports both mesh and tree routing in a single network [20]. Based on [20], interference mitigation and optimization on the network was further developed afterwards for high rises [22]. Channel swapping algorithm was designed for ZigBee based AMI and optimal solutions by considering BER delay and transmission rate was obtained.…”

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