Design and implementation of smart meter concentration protocol for AMI

Abstract

The information of existing smart meter is transmitted by the fixed concentration and scheduling protocol on the request of the server. The connection configuration and the data transfer process are performed by DLMS/COSEM standard protocol. This protocol is applied to only point to point connections between the meter and the metering server. Therefore some constraints of transmission efficiency occur in large-scale networks. In this paper, we suggests an open protocol - Smart Meter Concentration Protocol(SMCP) which provide efficient transmission between concentrator and metering server. The AMI system was implemented with the proposed SMCP and has field tested in Jeju Island. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.