An Open Standard Protocol for Networking of Energy Meters

Author

Chavan, Santosh S. ; Jayaprakash, S. ; Kumar, V. Jagadeesh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Madras, Chennai

Volume

23

Issue

4

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1749

Lastpage

1753

Abstract

An open standard protocol for networking of energy meters under the simple network-management protocol (SNMP) environment is proposed. Since the SNMP is quite popular for network enabling of uninterruptible power supplies, the necessary support hardware and software already exist. Hence, migrating energy meter connectivity to the transfer control protocol/Internet protocol-based SNMP would be an easy task. A sample network is created under the LabVIEW virtual instrumentation environment and studied to validate the proposed open standard protocol for networking of energy meters.

Keywords

Internet; automatic meter reading; power engineering computing; power system measurement; transport protocols; uninterruptible power supplies; Internet protocol-based SNMP; Lab VIEW virtual instrumentation; energy meter connectivity; energy meters networking; network-management protocol; open standard protocol; transfer control protocol; uninterruptible power supplies; Automatic meter reading; management information base (MIB); network-management system (NMS); networking of energy meters; simple network-management protocol (SNMP);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPWRD.2008.917900

Filename

4558420