Open AccessCollecting smart meter data via public transportation buses
Author(s) -
Bilgin Bilal Erman,
Baktir Selcuk,
Gungor Vehbi Cagri
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
iet intelligent transport systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.579
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1751-9578
pISSN - 1751-956X
DOI - 10.1049/iet-its.2015.0058
Subject(s) - computer science , intelligent transportation system , smart meter , smart grid , vehicular ad hoc network , computer network , merge (version control) , data aggregator , wireless sensor network , routing protocol , wireless ad hoc network , scheme (mathematics) , wireless , distributed computing , routing (electronic design automation) , engineering , telecommunications , mathematical analysis , mathematics , civil engineering , electrical engineering , information retrieval
With advances in technology, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have found new applications and their popularity has increased dramatically. In several applications, WSNs have the potential to replace wired data communication systems, e.g. in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) they are the natural option for data communication. WSNs are also proposed for data communication in the emerging smart grid. In this study, the authors merge these two application domains, i.e. VANET and smart grids, and propose a novel solution for effective smart grid data communication. The authors’ proposed scheme achieves the task of collecting data from smart meters by utilising VANETs. Using network simulator‐2 and with different routing protocols, the authors have performed simulations and shown the efficacy of their scheme in terms of average end‐to‐end delay and delivery ratio.