M2M communications in the smart grid: Applications, standards, enabling technologies, and research challenges

Abstract

We present some of the ongoing standardisation work in M2M communications followed by the application of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications to smart grid. We analyse and discuss the enabling technologies in M2M and present an overview of the communications challenges and research opportunities with a focus on wireless sensor networks and their applications in a smart grid environment. © 2011 Siok Kheng Tan et al.