Wireless Middleware Solutions for Smart Water Metering
While smart metering applications have initially focused on energy and gas utility markets, water consumption has recently become the subject of increasing attention. Unfortunately, despite the large number of solutions available on the market, the lack of an open and widely accepted communication s...
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| author | Stefano Alvisi Francesco Casellato Marco Franchini Marco Govoni Chiara Luciani Filippo Poltronieri Giulio Riberto Cesare Stefanelli Mauro Tortonesi |
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| description | While smart metering applications have initially focused on energy and gas utility markets, water consumption has recently become the subject of increasing attention. Unfortunately, despite the large number of solutions available on the market, the lack of an open and widely accepted communication standard means that vendors typically propose proprietary data collection solutions whose adoption causes non-trivial problems to water utility companies in term of costs, vendor lock-in, and lack of control on the data collection infrastructure. There is the need for open and interoperable smart water metering solutions, capable of collecting data from the wide range of water meters on the market. This paper reports our experience in the development and field testing of a highly interoperable smart water metering solution, which we designed in collaboration with several water utility companies and which we deployed in Gorino Ferrarese, Italy, in collaboration with CADF (Consorzio Acque Delta Ferrarese), the water utility serving the city. At the core of our solution is SWaMM (Smart Water Metering Middleware), an interoperable wireless IoT middleware based on the Edge computing paradigm, which proved extremely effective in interfacing with several types of smart water meters operating with different protocols. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c9770f03e30f4a629bc66c3dca23512a2022-12-22T04:04:02ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202019-04-01198185310.3390/s19081853s19081853Wireless Middleware Solutions for Smart Water MeteringStefano Alvisi0Francesco Casellato1Marco Franchini2Marco Govoni3Chiara Luciani4Filippo Poltronieri5Giulio Riberto6Cesare Stefanelli7Mauro Tortonesi8Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, ItalyDepartment of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, ItalyDepartment of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, ItalyDepartment of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, ItalyDepartment of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, ItalyDepartment of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, ItalyDepartment of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, ItalyDepartment of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, ItalyDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, ItalyWhile smart metering applications have initially focused on energy and gas utility markets, water consumption has recently become the subject of increasing attention. Unfortunately, despite the large number of solutions available on the market, the lack of an open and widely accepted communication standard means that vendors typically propose proprietary data collection solutions whose adoption causes non-trivial problems to water utility companies in term of costs, vendor lock-in, and lack of control on the data collection infrastructure. There is the need for open and interoperable smart water metering solutions, capable of collecting data from the wide range of water meters on the market. This paper reports our experience in the development and field testing of a highly interoperable smart water metering solution, which we designed in collaboration with several water utility companies and which we deployed in Gorino Ferrarese, Italy, in collaboration with CADF (Consorzio Acque Delta Ferrarese), the water utility serving the city. At the core of our solution is SWaMM (Smart Water Metering Middleware), an interoperable wireless IoT middleware based on the Edge computing paradigm, which proved extremely effective in interfacing with several types of smart water meters operating with different protocols.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/8/1853Internet-of-Thingssmart meteringwater consumption |
| spellingShingle | Stefano Alvisi Francesco Casellato Marco Franchini Marco Govoni Chiara Luciani Filippo Poltronieri Giulio Riberto Cesare Stefanelli Mauro Tortonesi Wireless Middleware Solutions for Smart Water Metering Sensors Internet-of-Things smart metering water consumption |
| title | Wireless Middleware Solutions for Smart Water Metering |
| title_full | Wireless Middleware Solutions for Smart Water Metering |
| title_fullStr | Wireless Middleware Solutions for Smart Water Metering |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wireless Middleware Solutions for Smart Water Metering |
| title_short | Wireless Middleware Solutions for Smart Water Metering |
| title_sort | wireless middleware solutions for smart water metering |
| topic | Internet-of-Things smart metering water consumption |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/8/1853 |
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