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Deploying third party services at smart grids end users using broadband links

Abstract

Smart grids end users, such as houses and factories, already have a broadband link for common web access. We start with the hypothesis that these links can be used to exchange data between the meter/controller, at the user, and a service, at the web, using application protocols (e.g., SPDY and HTTPS). This hypothesis is verified studying the connectivity capabilities/constraints that a third party service may experience in broadband links. A quantitative evaluation was performed, in an emulated IPv6 network, to delimit the throughput, latency and reliability available to smart grids services. The results showed that SPDY and HTTPS can meet typical QoS requirements using a proper architecture (e.g., centralized or distributed), and can drive the development of new web-based energy services. Here, we discuss practical connectivity aspects to deploy such services.

Category

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Client

  • Research Council of Norway (RCN) / 212215
  • Research Council of Norway (RCN) / 221345

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Federal University of ABC
  • SINTEF Digital / Mathematics and Cybernetics

Year

2013

Publisher

IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)

Book

2013 4th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe, Lyngby, 6-9 Oct. 2013

Issue

2013

ISBN

978-1-4799-2984-9

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