Survey and performance comparison of AMR over PLC standards

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 604-613

  Zaballos, Agustín ^a   Vallejo, Alex ^a   Majoral, Marta ^a   Selga, Josep M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic meter reading (AMR); Device Language Message Specification Companion Specification for Energy Metering (DLMS COSEM); IEC 60870; Metering; OPNET modeler; Power line communications (PLC)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METER READING (AMR); DEVICE LANGUAGE MESSAGE SPECIFICATION/COMPANION SPECIFICATION FOR ENERGY METERING (DLMS/COSEM); IEC 60870; METERING; OPNET MODELER; POWER-LINE COMMUNICATIONS (PLC);

APPLICATIONS; AUTOMATION; COMMUNICATION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; LINGUISTICS; METRIC SYSTEM; PUBLIC UTILITIES; SPECIFICATIONS; STANDARDS; WATER METERS;

ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 67349155558     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2008.2002845     Document Type: Article

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