Design of a BACnet-ZigBee gateway for Smart Grid in buildings

Author

Gi Myung Kim ; Se Hwan Kim ; Seung Ho Hong ; Jin Lee

Author_Institution

Department of Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

1-8 Jan. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Smart Grid (SG) is a modernized and a future-oriented electric grid that deals with the whole energy chain from generation to consumer. Among SG applications, demand response (DR) is an important control mechanism to manage the electricity consumption of the customer in response to the supply condition. In buildings, DR is managed through communication networks installed in the buildings. These communication protocols must include DR-supporting applications. BACnet (Building automation and control network) [3] is an international standard communication protocol for building automation and control systems (BACS). BACnet uses ZigBee as a wireless communication protocol for BACS. Both BACnet and ZigBee have their own DR applications. In this study, we developed a BACnet-ZigBee gateway that maps the DR application of BACnet to that of ZigBee. The function of the BACnet-ZigBee gateway was verified through experiment.

Keywords

Automation; Buildings; Heating; Logic gates; Standards; Wireless communication; Zigbee; BACnet; Building Automation; Gateway; Smart Grid; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Conference Anthology, IEEE

Conference_Location

China

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTHOLOGY.2013.6784939

Filename

6784939