Abstract
Seeking to solve problems in the power electric system (PES) related to exacerbated and uncontrolled energy consumption by final consumers such as residences, condominiums, public buildings and industries, electric power companies (EPC) are increasingly seeking new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to transform traditional electric power distribution networks into smart grids (SG). With this implementation, PES will be able to remotely control electric power consumption as well as monitor data generated by smart meters (SM). However, Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies will enable all this to happen quickly and at low cost, since they are low-cost devices that can be deployed quickly and at scale in these scenarios. With this in mind, this work aimed to study, propose, and implement a hybrid communication infrastructure with LoRaWAN and LoraMesh for the demand-side management as a service (HyDSMaaS) using IoT devices such as long range (LoRa) to provide an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) capable of performing all these applications as a service offered by EPC to end consumers. Additionally, services such as demand-side management (DSMaaS) can be used in this infrastructure. From the preliminary results it was found that the LoRaWAN network achieved a range of up to 2.35 km distance and the LoRaMESH one of 600 m; thus, the latter is more suitable for scenarios where there is little interference and the SMs are at long distances, while the other is used for scenarios with greater agglomeration of nearby SMs. Considering the hybridized scenario between LoraWAN and LoRaMESH, it can be seen that the implementation possibilities increase, since its range was approximately 3 km considering only one hop, and it can reach 1023 devices present in a mesh network. Thus, it was possible to propose the actual implementation of LoRaWAN and LoRaMESH protocols as well as the hybridization of the two protocols for HyDSMaaS. Additionally, the results obtained are exclusively from Radioenge’s LoRa technology, which can be further improved in the case of using more powerful equipment.
Highlights
The following tests were performed for LoRaWAN and LoRaMESH protocols in the proposed scenario
This paper studies, implements and analyzes a Hybrid Communication Infrastructure with LoRaWAN and LoraMesh for the Demand Side Management as a Service (HyDSMaaS)
The performance of a hybrid long range (LoRa) network using LoRaWAN and LoRaMESH protocols to provide a bidirectional advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in the Smart Grid (SG) scenario enabling the provision of electric power concessionaire (EPC) services to end consumers on the demand side
Summary
The electricity distribution network of cities is getting closer and closer to becoming a SG. This due to the advances in terms of standardized, scalable, intelligent, and low-cost communication infrastructures [1,2,3]. With an advanced communication infrastructure to the point of promoting this type of automation throughout the power distribution network, it will be possible to implement various applications to manage and control energy consumption and generation on the end consumer side [4]. Instead of doing all the distribution control and monitoring in the electric power concessionaire (EPC), the management will be done in the final consumer’s residence, in order to reduce centralized processing and, mainly, to solve problems that are of importance for the EPC
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