Measurements and analysis of fixed WiMAX with LAN in microgrid

Author

Siow, Lip Kian ; Ling, Angie Lim Hui ; So, Ping Lam ; Gooi, Hoay Beng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2011

fDate

19-22 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

162

Lastpage

165

Abstract

Sensing and communication in a microgrid plays an important role in data exchange as it ensures reliable functionality in the microgrid system. Deployment of wireless technologies with Local Area Network (LAN) is feasible in a microgrid with its sole advantages offered by respective wireless technology and LAN. In this paper, a combination of fixed Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) and LAN is proposed for monitoring and control of power meter data in a microgrid. Fixed WiMAX serves as the major communication network for information exchange between buildings in a microgrid that is situated in an academic campus. The LAN serves as the secondary communication network within a building with power meters attached to the Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and loads. Field measurements are taken in the WiMAX cloud which operates at 5.8 GHz to analyze its network performance in a microgrid.

Keywords

WiMax; distributed power generation; local area networks; power engineering computing; power system measurement; LAN; WiMAX; distributed energy resource; frequency 5.8 GHz; local area network; microgrid system; power meter data; power system communication; secondary communication network; worldwide interoperability for microwave access; Analytical models; Buildings; Local area networks; Mathematical model; Predictive models; Signal to noise ratio; WiMAX; Fixed WiMAX; Microgrid; Power System Communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-118-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEEGCC.2011.5752486

Filename

5752486