Towards visual smart metering exploiting wM-Bus and DLMS/COSEM

Author

Di Leo, G. ; Liguori, C. ; Paciello, V. ; Pietrosanto, A. ; Sommella, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Univ. of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

12-14 June 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) is one of the key issues in modern energy efficiency technologies, which are expected to bring on great benefits to both customers and utility companies (electricity, gas and water). Several efforts have been recently made in developing suitable communication protocols for metering data management and transmission. In order to match the cost requirements for the water market, an original solution represented by a visual sensor is proposed as an add-on module for the smart meter. The adoption of developed electronic device and ad-hoc protocol at application layer within the last mile of a multiservice Advanced Metering Infrastructure is investigated in terms of energy issues and interoperability. This study also analyses the communication performance that can be expected when using wireless M-Bus technology to send DLMS/COSEM messages and complete an image file transmission from the smart meter to data concentrator unit.

Keywords

field buses; image sensors; open systems; protocols; smart meters; AMR; DLMS-COSEM; add-on module; automatic meter reading; communication ad-hoc protocol; data concentrator; data management; data transmission; electronic device; energy efficiency technology; interoperability; multiservice advanced metering infrastructure; visual sensor; visual smart metering; wM-Bus technology; water market; wireless M-Bus technology; Monitoring; Protocols; Servers; Smart meters; Visualization; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Advanced Metering Infrastructure; DLMS/COSEM; Smart Meter; wireless communication performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158602

Filename

7158602