Communication System Design for an Advanced Metering Infrastructure.

Ricardo Siqueira De Carvalho,Lucas Feksa Ramos,Pankaj Kumar Sen,Luciane Neves Canha,Yaswanth Nag Velaga

doi:10.3390/s18113734

Abstract

This paper primarily deals with the design of an Information and Control Technology (ICT) network for an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) on the IEEE 34 node radial distribution network. The application is comprised of 330 smart meters deployed in the low voltage system and 33 data concentrators in the medium voltage system. A power line carrier (PLC) communication system design is developed and simulated in Network Simulator 3 (NS-3). The simulation result is validated by comparing the communication network performance with the minimum performance requirements for AMI. The network delay of a single data frame is calculated and compared with the simulation delay. The design methodology proposed in this article may be used for other smart grid applications. The secondary goal is to provide AMI network traffic based on the IEC Std. 61968 and a discussion on whether or not AMI could possibly be a source of big data on the future power grid.

Highlights

The modern electric grid integrates the existing power system infrastructure with an Information and Control Technology (ICT) network allowing for improvements of the system in terms of efficiency, reliability, and flexibility [1,2,3].The definition of smart grid is adopted from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that includes the increased use of digital information and controls technology in the power system [4].Since the amount of data and control in the modern power grid is increasing rapidly as it becomes more mature, the interdependency between the cyber and physical systems increases as well
5 Sensors depicts the delay results of all packets, both the smart measurement packets as well as additional control messages from the carrier sense multiple access (CSMA)/CA algorithm used in the medium access control (MAC) sublayer
This paper presents a narrowband power line carrier (PLC) communication design and an analysis for an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)

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Introduction

The modern electric grid integrates the existing power system infrastructure with an ICT network allowing for improvements of the system in terms of efficiency, reliability, and flexibility [1,2,3]. Since the amount of data and control in the modern power grid is increasing rapidly as it becomes more mature, the interdependency between the cyber and physical systems increases as well. The ICT network design for smart power applications becomes a more critical task [5]. Different power utilities across the globe have different power network characteristics as well as different geographical features. It is difficult, if not impossible to have a single generalized design procedure that fits all power systems [7]

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