Wireless communication protocols for smart metering applications in power distribution networks

Author

Rafiei, Mojtaba ; Elmi, S. Mostafa ; Zare, Akbar

Author_Institution

West Tehran Province Power Distrib. Co., Karaj, Iran

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In the last two decades, smart metering has attracted more attentions. Distribution utilities are replacing mechanical meters with smart ones and traditional meter reading is being replaced with the new smart metering approaches. Communication technology plays an important role to provide a fast, reliable and secure smart metering system. Variety of communication protocols exist for smart metering. In this paper, different wireless communication protocols are compared and two individual scenarios based on wireless protocols are presented. Scenario 1 is combination of WiFi and Wimax protocols and scenario 2 is combination of Whitefi and Bluetooth protocols.

Keywords

Bluetooth; WiMax; distribution networks; power system measurement; protocols; wireless LAN; Bluetooth protocol; WiFi protocol; Wimax protocol; communication technology; meter reading; power distribution networks; smart metering; whitefi protocol; wireless communication protocols; Bluetooth; Communication system security; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Protocols; WiMAX; communication technology; smart metering; wireless protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Power Distribution Networks (EPDC), 2012 Proceedings of 17th Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1418-3

Type

conf

Filename

6254549