Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
EUROCON - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7486-8
DOI :
10.1109/EUROCON.2011.5929332
