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Title: | Multi-Faceted Assessment of a Wireless Communications Infrastructure for the Green Neighborhoods of the Smart Grid | Authors: | López, Gregorio Moura, Pedro Moreno, José Camacho, José |
Keywords: | information and communications technologies; machine-to-machine communications; neighborhood area networks; security; simulation; smart grid | Issue Date: | 2014 | Publisher: | MDPI | Project: | The research leading to these results has been partly funded by the European Commission through the Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013, under the project ENERsip (247624), and by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the INNPACTO Programme, under the project PRICE-GEN (IPT-2011-1507-920000). This work at ISR-UC has been framed under the Energy for Sustainability Initiative of the University of Coimbra and supported by the FEDER/PORC FCT Grant CENTRO-07-0224-FEDER-002004 (EMSURE–Energy and Mobility for Sustainable Regions). | Serial title, monograph or event: | Energies | Volume: | 7 | Issue: | 5 | Abstract: | Reducing electricity consumption and integrating renewable power generation sources represent two of the main drivers of the so-called Smart Grid. Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications will play a key role on making such a Smart Grid a reality, since they will enable the required bidirectional real-time bulk information exchange. However, communications for the Smart Grid present specific requirements from both technical and economic perspectives, so it is crucial to evaluate how existing communication architectures and technologies meet them before undertaking the important investments needed to deploy this kind of infrastructure on a large scale. The main goal of this paper is to evaluate, from different perspectives, the core M2M communications infrastructure of a platform designed to reduce electricity consumption and integrate renewable generation at residential level. Such a communications infrastructure is fully based on widely deployed wireless communications technologies such as IEEE 802.11 and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). Notably, the paper assesses the operational costs of using different security solutions in the GPRS segment and the performance of the selected communications technologies based on different metrics (goodput, in the case of IEEE 802.11, and transmission time, in the case of GPRS). | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/109397 | ISSN: | 1996-1073 | DOI: | 10.3390/en7053453 | Rights: | openAccess |
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