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Monitoring and Management of Power Consumption in Apartment Using ZigBee

Authors:
Kwang-Soo Kim
Hyunhak Kim
Tae-Wook Heo
Jong-Arm Jun

Keywords: smart grid; WSNs; apartment; power monitoring

Abstract:
This paper describes a field demonstration system that monitors the power consumption in an apartment. To evaluate the effectiveness of the system, 20 houses selected from Mudeung Park Apartment have participated in this project. The system includes 20 smart meters, 20 in-home displays, 2 data collection units, 20 energy service interface servers, and one meter data management server. A wireless sensor network based on ZigBee is used to exchange metering data between smart meters and data collection units as well as between an in-home display device and an energy service interface server in a home; the meter data management server exchanges data with data collection units and energy service interface servers through an IP network. The meter data management server has operated to collect periodically the power consumption from all meters and to send the amount of power usage and charge as well as additional data such as weather and price policy to each in-home display device. This testbed provides valuable insights about the operation of the system in an apartment that has a lot of obstacles which interfere in the wireless communication.

Pages: 165 to 169

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: August 19, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-207-3

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 19, 2012 to August 24, 2012