Management Protocols for Sensors in Smart Grid Networks

Autor: Hui-Hsiung Chung, Quincy Wu
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation ISBN: 9783642363641
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36365-8_5
Popis: As the energy consumption issue is getting critical, in many countries Smart Grid has become widely adopted in daily life. However, one major obstacle of the development of Smart Grid is that, the products from different vendors cannot communicate with each other easily, due to the absence of a general managing mechanism. In searching for appropriate managing protocols of wireless sensor networks, a candidate is the Simple Network Management Protocol, which is a popular protocol in managing IP devices. In additional to that, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is also a potential candidate. SIP has been widely used in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). However, it was also adopted as a protocol to control network appliances. In this chapter, a management system will be demonstrated to utilize SNMP and SIP as a common mechanism to support Smart Grid management. Both protocols were implemented on a real embedded platform, and the performance is further evaluated and compared. The experimental results showed that the SIP protocol stack occupies more memory space, but its response time is shorter. In choosing which management protocol to adopt, device manufacturers can make the technical choices according to whether they need to save the memory space or the response time.
Databáze: OpenAIRE