Electricity Smart Meters Based on Wireless Networks in Saudi Arabia

Fahad H. Alshammari^1,

¹College of Computing and IT, Shaqra University, KSA

Cite this paper:
Fahad H. Alshammari. Electricity Smart Meters Based on Wireless Networks in Saudi Arabia. American Journal of Software Engineering. 2017; 5(1):27-35. doi: 10.12691/ajse-5-1-4

Abstract

Electricity Smart Meter provides a great service for managing an electricity bills system. One of the main issues in Saudi's electricity company is extensive distance and difficult terrains. This study aims to reduce the wasted time in reading of electricity consumption as manually, and to manage the service provided by using wireless networks topology. The proposed smart meter system contains a description and explanation for its design, type of wireless connectivity, and a service provider center. This study has been shown that smart meter can be implemented with the least possible hardware required consisting of a Sim-card, which is capable of sending signals to an access point, and routing the information to the centralized system.

Keywords:
smart meter wireless networks topology Sim-card 4G/LTE

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figures

References:

[1]	Alkhabbaz, Abdullah, Nathan Flores, Michael Hanacek, Affouete Kouakou, Hannah Six, and Tanner Smith. 2015. 'Smart Systems and the Future of Smart Products'. Available at https://www.slideshare.net/MichaelHanacek/smart-systems-and-the-future-of-smart-products-group-4finalpaper-1.
[2]	Amos, E.J. 1972. “Mobile communication system.” In.: Google Patents.
[3]	Benzi, Francesco, Norma Anglani, Ezio Bassi, and Lucia Frosini. 2011. 'Electricity smart meters interfacing the households', IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 58: 4487-94.
[4]	Blair, K.B. 1990. “Cellular telephone unit with prioritized frequency acquisition.” In.: Google Patents.
[5]	Carneiro, Gustavo, José Ruela, and Manuel Ricardo. 2004. 'Cross-layer design in 4 G wireless terminals', IEEE wireless Communications, 11: 7-13.
[6]	Chung, D., G.H. Mudunuri, F. Younas, L.S. Lim, R. Tang, S. Carlin, and S. Madapura. 2005. “Method and apparatus with data partitioning and parallel processing for transporting data for data warehousing applications.” In.: Google Patents.
[7]	Desai, A.A., and J. Singh. 2011. “Method and system for energy management.” In.: Google Patents.
[8]	Ewing, C.W., J.P. Maskaly, B. Auclair, and D. McGlumphy. 2012. “Monitoring power-related parameters in a power distribution unit.” In.: Google Patents.
[9]	Fitzpatrick, Jason. 2016. 'Measuring Energy Statistics'. http://www.howtogeek.com/107854/the-how-to-geek-guide-to-measuring-your-energy-use/.
[10]	Forbes, J.W. 2015. “System, method, and data packets for messaging for electric power grid elements over a secure internet protocol network.” In.: Google Patents.
[11]	Gitlin, R.D. 1995. “Code division multiple access system providing variable data rate access to a user.” In.: Google Patents.
[12]	GTIS. 2014. 'Share of EU-28's Smart Electricity Meter, 2012'. Available at https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/id-037smart_meters_final.pdf
[13]	Hamrick, H. 1974. “Mobile telephone cellular switching system.” In.: Google Patents.
[14]	Jin, Nanlin, Peter Flach, Tom Wilcox, Royston Sellman, Joshua Thumim, and Arno Knobbe. 2014. 'Subgroup discovery in smart electricity meter data', IEEE transactions on Industrial informatics, 10: 1327-36.
[15]	Kim, Sungwook, Eun Young Kwon, Myungsun Kim, Jung Hee Cheon, Seong-ho Ju, Yong-hoon Lim, and Moon-seok Choi. 2011. 'A secure smart-metering protocol over power-line communication', IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 26: 2370-79.
[16]	Ladue, C.K. 1997. “Wireless application specific messaging and switching method.” In.: Google Patents.
[17]	Laumen, J., A. Schmidt, and M. Trauberg. 2009. “Method for transmitting data via communication networks.” In.: Google Patents.
[18]	Lesbirel, M., and M. Ghosh. 2015. “Wireless utility meter reading system and method.” In.: Google Patents.
[19]	Luna, M., H. Ylinen, and S. Salorinne. 2014. “Mobile application traffic optimization.” In.: Google Patents.
[20]	Malik, Jitendra Singh, Rahul Kumar Verma, and Gaytri Gupta. 2015. “Development of smart meter.” In Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization (ICRITO) (Trends and Future Directions), 2015 4th International Conference on, 1-3. IEEE.
[21]	Rastogi, Shikha, Manisha Sharma, and Pratibha Varshney. 2016. 'Internet of Things based Smart Electricity Meters', International Journal of Computer Applications, 133: 13-16.
[22]	Samadi. 2012. 'U.S. Smart Meter Market Share'.Available at https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/id-037smart_meters_final.pdf .
[23]	Sodin, Vlad. 2016. 'Smart Metering'. Availabe at: http://www.smsmetering.co.uk/smart-meters-overview/.
[24]	Underwood, C. 2006. “Cellular phone cordless home base unit.” In.: Google Patents.
[25]	USITC. 2014. 'Share of U.S. Imports of Electricity Meter'. Avaialble at https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/id-037smart_meters_final.pdf.
[26]	Vadda, Praveen, and Sreerama Murthy Seelam. 2013. 'Smart Metering for Smart Electricity Consumption'. Available at https://www.divaportal.org/smash/get/diva2:829754/FULLTEXT01.pdf.
[27]	Wang, Karl L. 2016. “SMART METER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE.” In.: US Patent 20,160,011,005.
[28]	Yang, M., and T. Chin. 2016. “Circuit switched fallback.” In.: Google Patents.