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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.2009.5.4.221

Fault-tolerant ZigBee-based Automatic Meter Reading Infrastructure

Hwang, Kwang-Il (Dept. of Computer Control, Incheon City College)

Publication Information

Journal of Information Processing Systems / v.5, no.4, 2009 , pp. 221-228 More about this Journal

Abstract

Due to low cost, low-power, and scalability, ZigBee is considered an efficient wireless AMR infrastructure. However, these characteristics of ZigBee can make the devices more vulnerable to unexpected error environments. In this paper, a fault-tolerant wireless AMR network (FWAMR) is proposed, which is designed to improve the robustness of the conventional ZigBee-based AMR systems by coping well with dynamic error environments. The experimental results demonstrate that the FWAMR is considerably fault-tolerant compared with the conventional ZigBee-based AMR network.

Keywords

AMR; AMI; Fault Tolerance; ZigBee;

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