Design, Simulation, and Verification of Highly Portable and Flexible Communication Stacks for Automatic Meter Reading (AMR)

摘要

Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) is a major enabler for the upcoming smart grid. Potentially, it will bernone of the first really large-scale M2M-communication solutions for sensor applications.rnTo date, the definition of the standardized communication stacks for Local Metrological Network (LMN)rnin AMR is still ongoing. This holds true both for ZigBee Smart Energy Profile and for Wireless M-Busrnaccording to EN 13757. During this process, there is the necessity for flexible, albeit optimized solutions,rnwhich support the different existing and upcoming versions of the communication protocols. Inrnthe case of Wireless M-Bus, the major contender for European and possibly Asian installations, this isrnvalid not only for the different operation modes (C-, N-, P-, Q-, R-, S-, and T-modes), which work inrndifferent frequencies (i.e. 868 MHz, 433 MHz, and 169 MHz) but also for the application layer, wherernadditional bodies, like EN137575, Open Metering System (OMS) Group, or national bodies follow theirrnapproaches.rnThis contribution describes requirements, design techniques and experiences from the development ofrnhighly efficient Wireless M-Bus protocol stacks with support of good flexibility and portability betweenrnmicrocontroller platforms and RF-transceivers. The presented approach is not limited to the use ofrnmodern software engineering design processes, as such, but also includes essential additional featuresrnlike testing or simulation, as well as tools for commissioning and monitoring.