Smart grids deployments within EU projects: The role of smart meters

CHREN, Stanislav, Bruno ROSSI and Tomáš PITNER. Smart grids deployments within EU projects: The role of smart meters. Online. In Milan Koukol. 2016 Smart Cities Symposium Prague (SCSP). Neuveden: IEEE, 2016, p. nestránkováno, 5 pp. ISBN 978-1-5090-1116-2. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SCSP.2016.7501033.

Basic information

• Original name: Smart grids deployments within EU projects: The role of smart meters
• Authors: CHREN, Stanislav (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Bruno ROSSI (380 Italy, belonging to the institution) and Tomáš PITNER (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Neuveden, 2016 Smart Cities Symposium Prague (SCSP), p. nestránkováno, 5 pp. 2016.
• Publisher: IEEE

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: electronic version available online
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14330/16:00090402
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• ISBN: 978-1-5090-1116-2
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SCSP.2016.7501033
• UT WoS: 000390205300023
• Keywords in English: Smart Grids; Smart Meters Deployments; Architectural Styles; European Projects
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

There is a large number of European Union (EU) projects that deal with Smart Grids research and deployment. Overall, they provide a substantial amount of knowledge that can be mined to gain useful insights for future projects and on-going roll-outs of Smart Grid related utilities. In the current paper, we focus on Smart Meters and we evaluate different communication-related architectural styles within an Advanced Metering infrastructure (AMI). In particular, we derive from the Joint Research Centre (JRC) Smart Grids projects review three different layouts for Smart Meters two-way communication: i) mobile Peer-to-Peer (P2P), ii) data concentrator- supported, and iii) gateway-supported. After the discussion about the architectural styles, we look at how common such choices are within EU projects deployments. Overall, we found predominance of both gateway / data concentrator architectures over P2P mobile communication layouts. The main outcome of the paper is a mapping of the three architectural styles to the deployments within the selected EU projects. Based on the map, we debate about the implications of such deployments within the current and future Smart Grids context.

Links

• MUNI/A/0997/2016, interní kód MU: Name: Aplikovaný výzkum na FI: vyhledávacích systémy, bezpečnost, vizualizace dat a virtuální realita.

Investor: Masaryk University, Applied research at FI: search systems, security, data visualization and virtual reality, Category A