scholarly journals Multi-Agent Real-Time Advanced Metering Infrastructure Based on Fog Computing

Energies ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Ivan Popović ◽  
Aleksandar Rakić ◽  
Ivan D. Petruševski

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.

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 155014771769417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Yan ◽  
Yan Chang ◽  
Shibin Zhang

Smart grid is a modernized electrical grid. It is used to collect information about behaviors of suppliers and consumers and improve the efficiency, reliability, and economics of electricity. Recently, advanced metering infrastructure is proposed as a critical part of the smart grid. The security of advanced metering infrastructure is special importance for smart grid. In order to achieve data confidentiality, privacy, and authentication in advanced metering infrastructure, a lightweight authentication and key agreement scheme is proposed in this article. The scheme provides mutual authentication, key agreement, key refreshment, and multicast mechanism which can prevent various attacks. Furthermore, we analyze the security and performance of the scheme. The analysis shows that the proposed scheme is suitable for smart grid.


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (S2) ◽  
pp. 3453-3462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Gao ◽  
Jia-jia Zhang ◽  
Xu-liang Guang

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanket Desai ◽  
Rabei Alhadad ◽  
Naveen Chilamkurti ◽  
Abdun Mahmood

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