Multi-Agent Real-Time Advanced Metering Infrastructure Based on Fog Computing
This effort to make the power grid more intelligent is tightly coupled with the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) as an integral part of the future vision of smart grid. The goal of AMI is to provide necessary information for the consumers and utilities to accurately monitor and m...
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| author | Ivan Popović Aleksandar Rakić Ivan D. Petruševski |
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| description | This effort to make the power grid more intelligent is tightly coupled with the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) as an integral part of the future vision of smart grid. The goal of AMI is to provide necessary information for the consumers and utilities to accurately monitor and manage energy consumption and pricing in real time. Immediate benefits are enhanced transparency and efficiency of energy usage and the improvement of customer services. Although the road map toward successful AMI deployment is clearly defined, many challenges and issues are to be solved regarding the design of AMI. In this paper, a multi-agent AMI based on the fog-computing approach is presented. Architecture follows structural decomposition of AMI functionalities encapsulated in a form of local and area-specific service components that reside at the different tiers of hierarchically organized AMI deployment. Fog computing concepts provide the framework to effectively solve the problems of creating refined and scalable solutions capable of meeting the requirements of the AMI as a part of future smart grid. On the other hand, agent-based design enables concurrent execution of AMI operations across the distributed system architecture, in the same time improving performance of its execution and preserving the scalability of the AMI solution. The real-time performance of the proposed AMI solution, related to the periodic and on-demand acquisition of metering data from the connected electricity meters, was successfully verified during one year of pilot project operation. The detailed analysis of the performance of AMI operation regarding data collection, communication and data availability across the deployed pilot AMI, covering several transformer station areas with diverse grid topologies, is also presented. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f45badf5fc854e39babd0a8e8b757f872023-11-23T11:29:40ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732022-01-0115137310.3390/en15010373Multi-Agent Real-Time Advanced Metering Infrastructure Based on Fog ComputingIvan Popović0Aleksandar Rakić1Ivan D. Petruševski2Department of Electronics and Digital Systems, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 73, 11120 Belgrade, SerbiaDepartment of Signals and Systems, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 73, 11120 Belgrade, SerbiaDepartment of Signals and Systems, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 73, 11120 Belgrade, SerbiaThis effort to make the power grid more intelligent is tightly coupled with the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) as an integral part of the future vision of smart grid. The goal of AMI is to provide necessary information for the consumers and utilities to accurately monitor and manage energy consumption and pricing in real time. Immediate benefits are enhanced transparency and efficiency of energy usage and the improvement of customer services. Although the road map toward successful AMI deployment is clearly defined, many challenges and issues are to be solved regarding the design of AMI. In this paper, a multi-agent AMI based on the fog-computing approach is presented. Architecture follows structural decomposition of AMI functionalities encapsulated in a form of local and area-specific service components that reside at the different tiers of hierarchically organized AMI deployment. Fog computing concepts provide the framework to effectively solve the problems of creating refined and scalable solutions capable of meeting the requirements of the AMI as a part of future smart grid. On the other hand, agent-based design enables concurrent execution of AMI operations across the distributed system architecture, in the same time improving performance of its execution and preserving the scalability of the AMI solution. The real-time performance of the proposed AMI solution, related to the periodic and on-demand acquisition of metering data from the connected electricity meters, was successfully verified during one year of pilot project operation. The detailed analysis of the performance of AMI operation regarding data collection, communication and data availability across the deployed pilot AMI, covering several transformer station areas with diverse grid topologies, is also presented.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/1/373advanced metering infrastructurefog-computingreal timesmart gridservice agents |
| spellingShingle | Ivan Popović Aleksandar Rakić Ivan D. Petruševski Multi-Agent Real-Time Advanced Metering Infrastructure Based on Fog Computing Energies advanced metering infrastructure fog-computing real time smart grid service agents |
| title | Multi-Agent Real-Time Advanced Metering Infrastructure Based on Fog Computing |
| title_full | Multi-Agent Real-Time Advanced Metering Infrastructure Based on Fog Computing |
| title_fullStr | Multi-Agent Real-Time Advanced Metering Infrastructure Based on Fog Computing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multi-Agent Real-Time Advanced Metering Infrastructure Based on Fog Computing |
| title_short | Multi-Agent Real-Time Advanced Metering Infrastructure Based on Fog Computing |
| title_sort | multi agent real time advanced metering infrastructure based on fog computing |
| topic | advanced metering infrastructure fog-computing real time smart grid service agents |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/1/373 |
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