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Application for Testing Smart Meters
Kohout, David
This paper presents our developed application for smart metering, which we are using to test the interoperability of different smart meters, compatibility with transmission technologies, to measure data volumes, test data security, and also ensure data security through the whole life-cycle of smart meters. The paper concludes with future development and planned features of our application, which is already being used for testing smart metering technologies at the Smart Grid Lab at BUT.
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Impact Of Cyber Security On Data Volume In Smart Metering
Kohout, David
Smart metering is a new way of monitoring power grid and it can make billing of electricityconsumption much easier. These systems can be marked as elements of critical infrastructure,so it needs to be protected. For cost-effective communication with smart meters, we need to findcompromise between frequency of reading, data volume and cyber security.
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Implementation of IoT communication technologies in NS-3 simulation tool
Rehberger, Marek ; Mašek, Pavel (referee) ; Juráň, Radovan (advisor)
The bachelor thesis deals in its theoretical part with LPWA communication technologies in the licensed frequency spectrum, specific technologies LTE Cat-M1 and NB-IoT. The theoretical part summarizes the terms concerning to LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network), licensed and unlicensed technologies, SmartGrids, NB-IoT and LTE Cat-M1. The use of LPWA technologies in the field of SmartGrids is described and the idea of Smart Metering in buildings is used in the work. Subsequently, in the practical part for the LTE Cat-M1 technology, the implementation of communication scenarios for data transmission within SmartGrids is performed using the tools Network Simulator 3 (NS-3) and the LENA module. The results of the simulations are clearly processed in the form of graphs and tables.
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PLC for Smart Metering
Houser, Milan ; Rusz, Martin (referee) ; Mlýnek, Petr (advisor)
This bachelor’s thesis deals with the technology communicating over the electrical power grid, PowerLine Communication (PLC). It solves the principles, possibilities of use, ad-vantages and disadvantages of this technology. The basic issues of communication of PLC networks, Smart Grid and Smart Metering on narrowband PLCs with multiple carriers on the PRIME and G3 standard are discussed. At the end of the work there are measurements on Atmel and Devolo devices. A laboratory task was also created here, which deals with the measurement of narrowband transmission.
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Smart Metering demonstration demo
Gregor, Filip ; Musil, Petr (referee) ; Mlýnek, Petr (advisor)
The thesis deals with PLC technology and issues with Smart Metering. In the theoretical part, a principle of technology's functionality and its advantages and disadvantages were described. In the experimental part methodology of data concentrator and electric meters was designed. In addition, extensive testing set according to capturing of DLMS communication, link quality influencing, reading registers of meters were realized. In the second experimental part limits of communications between broadband BPL modems were detected by the power line communication hardware channel emulator. Measurement of throughput, latency, frame loss passed off according to RCF 2544, RFC 6349 recommendation and according to the methodology of TCP Throughput In the last part, two laboratory exercises were created, first one deals with Smart Metering system and communication between the data concentrator and electric meters and the second one deals with communication among broadband BPL modems not only for Smart Metering purposes.
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Mobile Application for Remote Measurement Support Using Sigfox Communication Network
Bulawa, David ; Strnadel, Josef (referee) ; Šimek, Václav (advisor)
The purpose of this project is the implementation of a mobile application for the operation system Android. The application supports remote metering via the Sigfox network and local metering via Bluetooth Low Energy. I implemented it natively in the Kotlin programming language using the Model-View-ViewModel design pattern. Measured values are collected remotely using the Sigfox REST API and locally using the Android Bluetooth library. The collected data are persisted in the local database on the mobile device. Then, the data is interpreted and visualized into graphs that the user can customize. The created solution provides a possibility to acquire, monitor and visualize data from sensors, including their historical values. The application is easy to use, but also allows configuring data interpretation and supports several different incoming message formats.
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The Benefits and Pitfalls of Smart Meter Data Collection
Bazal, Stanislav ; Morávek, Jan (referee) ; Šedrlová, Magdalena (advisor)
In recent years, the demand for electricity has been increasing in households because various appliances and newest technologies have been used on an everyday basis. This raises concerns about the lack of electricity production around the globe. There is also a need for people to track their daily power usage in houses. The aim of this thesis is to explain the term smart metering and its benefits for both people that might use this technology in their households, and for companies. Smart meters allow people to track and control their energy consumption and eventually it might result in cheaper costs of the resources. What is more, the smart meters help consumers to know specific information about the consumption of electricity for appliances. In a global scale, the smart metering technology is used in smart grids which are more environmentally friendly power grids with higher efficiency and greater energy production. This work also focuses on the overall distribution of smart meters both in the Czech Republic and in the world. Nowadays, there are many projects in progress that are trying to switch from traditional power plants to smart grids with the intention to increase energy production and to become eco-friendly. The companies behind these projects have already published some of their researches which bring positive information about the energy production. The majority of these projects should be in progress until 2020 and some until 2025. Therefore, the final conclusion whether the smart metering technology will replace the traditional power grids and will be implemented in households cannot be drawn yet. This thesis also contains a practical part in which I create a user interface in Grafana, which is an open-source software for time series analytics. The user interface is created for a Raspberry Pi touch display which has a sensor connected to it that allows us to measure energy consumption of electricity meters. The measured values are then presented in useful graphs and gauges in Grafana, and also on the display itself.
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Smart Metering system
Gregor, Filip ; Pokorný, Jiří (referee) ; Mlýnek, Petr (advisor)
The thesis deals with a PLC technology. In the theoretical part a principle of PLC functionality and its advantages and disadvantages were described. In the experimental part methodology of point-to-point testing with BPL modems was designed. In addition extensive measurement according to point-to-point methodology for topology with and without repeater in laboratory was realized. Impact of repeater on transmission parameters was tested according to RCF 2544, RFC 6349 recommendation and according to methodology of TCP Throughput with the aid of Net Blazer testers and iPerf tool. The results shows that topology with repeater decreases throughput approximately 50 % and increases Round trip time (RTT) more than twice compared to topology without repeater. In the last part a laboratory task with Smart Metering system and BPL modems was designed.
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Měření datové dostupnosti elektroměrů
BLAHOVEC, Milan
This bachelor thesis is focused on analysis and description of Smart measurement in power engineering. Deals with general demands of Smart Measurement and its use in practice. It also discusses the deployment of the Smart Measurement Pilot Project and describes the components and equipment needed to do so. It also describes measurement and individual phases of deployment and adaptation. It assesses shortcomings and proposes solutions to the shortcomings that have occurred during the project.
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Implementation of smart water measurement technology into small municipal waterworks environment
Klučka, Tomáš ; Zubíček,, Vojtěch (referee) ; Ručka, Jan (advisor)
The diploma thesis describes the actual situation of smart water metering, an overview of water meters suitable for remote data reading and individual components for application of remote data transmission including transmission itself. The thesis also contains the characteristics of available wireless data communication technologies and detailed solutions according to two companies specializing in remote transmission of water meter data. Subsequently, the pilot projects of large water company are presented, including practical findings. The practical part deals with the implementation of smart water metering in three specific municipalities, including a description of the area of interest, water supply system specification and possible limitations, the recommended technology, the requirements for putting in into operation and the pricing of technology and services according to two specialized companies. Finally, the possibilities of other using of smart water meter technology are discussed.
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