Potential metering communication services using the public Internet

Author

Newbury, J. ; Miller, W.

Author_Institution

Power Commun. Res., Open Univ., Manchester

Volume

14

Issue

4

fYear

1999

fDate

10/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1202

Lastpage

1207

Abstract

The Internet was born approximately 20 years ago out of a project to integrate a US Defence Department Network called ARPAnet. This integration involved radio satellite voice and data networks. The Internet has completely revolutionised public communication networks. The concept of using the Internet for a metering communications service is proposed. The use of the Internet for a range of customer services in the residential and industrial area is also detailed. The Internet provides the potential for integrating many thousand of homes into a wide area metering communications network (WAMCN) architecture. The potential characteristics of this type of communication architecture are established for efficient transport of data services

Keywords

Internet; asynchronous transfer mode; automatic meter reading; wide area networks; asynchronous transfer mode; communication architecture; data services transport; industrial area; metering communication services; public Internet; public communication networks; residential area; security; wide area metering communications network; Access protocols; Communication system control; Displays; Independent component analysis; Power & Energy Society; Power systems; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/61.796207

Filename

796207