Architecture and traffic modelling of a utility metering wireless sensor network

Author

Matos, João ; Martins, Lúcia ; Cruz, Luís

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

fYear

2011

fDate

27-29 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper we present a remote utility metering system based on ZigBee used to collect data from residential electricity, gas and water meters. In order to reduce the use of network resources and to evaluate the sensor network performance, a simulation study was carried out with two types of data related to electronic and non electronic metering devices. The study was conducted using a simulator which was developed using the OMNeT++ platform. The results show that for some application scenarios ZigBee is a valid technological solution to the remote utility metering problem.

Keywords

Zigbee; telecommunication traffic; telemetry; wireless sensor networks; OMNeT++ platform; ZigBee; architecture modelling; electronic metering device; gas meter; residential electricity; traffic modelling; utility metering wireless sensor network; water meter; Computer architecture; Computers; Data models; Delay; Routing; Routing protocols; Zigbee; Sensor Networks; Simulation; Utility metering; Zigbee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EUROCON - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7486-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUROCON.2011.5929332

Filename

5929332