Opportunities and challenges of wireless communication technologies for smart grid applications

Author

Parikh, Palak P. ; Kanabar, Mitalkumar G. ; Sidhu, Tarlochan S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

25-29 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Two-way seamless communication is the key aspect of realizing the vision of smart grid. There are several standardized wired and wireless communication technologies available for various smart grid applications. With the recent growth in wireless communication, it can offer standardized technologies for wide area, metropolitan area, local area, and personal area networks. Moreover, wireless technologies not only offer significant benefits over wired, such as including low installation cost, rapid deployment, mobility, etc., but also more suitable for remote end applications. Several activities are going on to explore specific applications of these technologies in smart grid environment. This paper presents various smart grid applications achieved through standardized wireless communication technologies, e.g. IEEE 802.11 based wireless LAN, IEEE 802.16 based WiMAX, 3G/4G cellular, ZigBee based on IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.20 based MobileFi, etc. Moreover, challenges related to each wireless communication technologies have been discussed in brief.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; 4G mobile communication; WiMax; personal area networks; power engineering computing; smart power grids; wireless LAN; 3G communication; 4G communication; IEEE 802.11 based wireless LAN; IEEE 802.15; IEEE 802.16 based WiMAX; IEEE 802.20 based mobileFi; ZigBee; local area networks; metropolitan area networks; personal area networks; smart grid application; two-way seamless communication; wide area networks; wireless communication; Automatic Metering Infrastructure (AMI); Distributed Energy Resources (DERs); Distribution Automation Systems (DAS); Substation Automation Systems (SAS); smart grid; wireless communication technologies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6549-1

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2010.5589988

Filename

5589988