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A Design of an AMI System Based on an Extended Home Network for the Smart Grid  

Hwang, Yu-Jin (Department of Computer Engineering, Changwon National University)
Lee, Kwang-Hui (Department of Computer Engineering, Changwon National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.49, no.7, 2012 , pp. 56-64 More about this Journal
Abstract
A smart grid is the next generation power grid which combines the existing power grid with information technology, so an energy efficient power grid can be provided. In this paper, in order to build an efficient smart grid an AMI system, which gears with the existing home network and provides an user friendly management function, is proposed. The proposed AMI system, which is based on an extended home network, consists of various functional units; smart meters, communication modules, home gateway, security modules, meter data management modules (MDMM), electric power application modules and so on. The proposed home network system, which can reduce electric power consumption and transmit data more effectively, is designed by using IEEE 802.15.4. The extended home gateway can exchange energy consumption information with the outside management system via web services. The proposed AMI system is designed to enable two-way communication between the home gateway and MDMM via the Internet. The AES(Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm, which is a symmetric block cipher algorithm, is used to ensure secure information exchange. Even though the results in this study could be limited to our experimental environment, the result of the simulation test shows that the proposed system reduces electric power consumption by 4~42% on average compared to the case of using no control.
Keywords
Smart Grid; AMI(Advanced Metering Infrastructure); Home Gateway; Security; Home Network;
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