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Wireless M-Bus communication system
Baštán, Ondřej ; Šťastný, Ladislav (referee) ; Fiedler, Petr (advisor)
The thesis deals with the design of wireless communication system using Wireless M- Bus, which works in the 169 MHz band. This system is designed to collect data from meters that are not equipped with a radio and have pulse outputs. The thesis describes the Wireless M-Bus standard and the current components of the communication system used by ModemTec. It also describes the selection and design of a suitable hardware implementing the receiver and transmitter modules and the firmware design for these modules. The thesis deals with the parameterization of the transmitter module in order to specify the parameters of the transmitted measured quantity.
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Analysis of Smart Grid devices
Kolacia, Tomáš ; Šlezingr, Jan (referee) ; Radil, Lukáš (advisor)
This work deals with smart grids and smart metering in power grids. The first part of the thesis is focused on the comparison between classic topology of electrical grid and smart grid concept including the benefits, which could be achieved. The other parts of smart grid concept are described as well, such as energy storage and electromobility including charging points infrastructure. The second part of the thesis deals with smart metering devices and it describes routing protocols for smart grids. The following chapters summarize practical experience with addressed issues in Europe and in the Czech Republic. The last part is dedicated to evaluation of smart metering implementation in the Czech Republic.
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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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Voltage quality index for distribution systems voltage quality benchmarking
Hausner, Josef ; Topolánek, David (referee) ; Drápela, Jiří (advisor)
This Master’s thesis deals with design of a new method for voltage quality benchmarking using voltage quality index. This index should determinate total voltage quality in the power grid and compare voltage quality in different places. There is design of several algorithms which value measured parameters in this thesis. The best suitable algorithm is selected. Program for this algorithm was compiled in GUI Matlab. The algorithm is verified by using measured parameters in this program. The last part of this thesis is focused on possible usage of created algorithm.
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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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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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Sniffer for power lines communication
Zapletal, Radek ; Šťastný, Ladislav (referee) ; Franek, Lešek (advisor)
This work deals with the design and development of universal software packet analyzer for capturing, analysis and filtering Power-line communication (PLC). The input data are provided by hardware packet analyzer over RS-232 interface. The application will find use in the area of Smart Grids and Smart Metering. This work describes both of these areas including sniffers and suggests several possible solutions with a selection of the best one and description of the development process.
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Evaluation of water losses in the Brno city
Poláchová, Monika ; Viščor, Pavel (referee) ; Tuhovčák, Ladislav (advisor)
The thesis deals with different approaches of water supply operators to the topic of water losses including water loss reporting both in the Czech Republic and abroad. It is focused on the Infrastructure Leakage Index (ILI) and within the proposed Methodology of ILI evaluation according to minimum night flows, the thesis tries to apply such an evaluation of water losses for three hydraulically separate pressure zones of water supply in the city of Brno and two water distribution systems in small villages. At the end, recommendations for individual operators of the water supply systems in the analyzed areas are described, leading to the extension of the possibilities of monitoring and reporting of water losses in the network.
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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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Smart metering
Lahodný, Libor ; Hrabina, Jan (referee) ; Szabó, Zoltán (advisor)
Semester paper describes the design of smart sockets and their management. Sockets are wirelessly controlled by a central unit. The socket has an integrated sensor, designed to measure current consumption of the device. If necessary, it can remotely disconnect the unit plugged in socket from AC network. Work includes analysis of individual system elements, design of electrical schematics and PCB. In the construction is included ethernet module, which is used to display data using a computer.. The device has been constructed and tested.
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