Using vector-metrics for the comparison of communication technologies in smart grids

As diverse smart grid applications are as different are their specific requirements on the used information exchange. In most of the researched cases a specific communication technology is proposed to connect one single type of application with the smart grid. From the view of exploiting already existing similarities between applications it might be interesting to locate synergies between different applications, which are located at the same place to share the same communication channels. In this work a method is presented that should help to measure how different given sets of requirements on the communication technology are. In that way different applications can be made comparable, as far as their requirements on communication technologies are concerned, and a numeric value indicating the similarity can be calculated.