Wireless Communications and Virtual Operator for Residential Electric Metering

Abstract:

The Communication Network and Business over Smart Metering is an important stage of the Advanced Measurement Infrastructure-AMI. It can provide additional services to consumers such as cuts and re-connections for an agile and reliable electricity supply, as well as prepayment services, among others. In that respect, this paper refers to the importance of the customers in the proposed Smart Grid, that seek efficiency and reliability of the grid in general, and including supply for renewable energy and their metering process. Initial projects have implemented Smart Metering using RFID, but it is possible to use the current telecommunications infrastructure to decrease the impact of electrical consumption and to avoid multiplying electronic devices, using other protocols of communication such as CDMA or GPRS-LTE. Furthermore, the Mobile Virtual Network Operator-MVNO introduces the possibility of several applications for Smart Metering as a junction element between the distribution enterprise and electricity consumers. MVNO permits to offer a type of business, a market strategy and collaboration with transactive energy.

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2014

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