Use case analysis of real-time low voltage network management

Abstract

Real-time low voltage network management is becoming possible thanks to massive smart meter rollouts, integration of them to distribution network management systems and utilization of distributed energy resources in distribution network management. Nowadays low voltage network management is emerging by integrating automatic meter infrastructure to centralized systems like SCADA/DMS. European project INTEGRIS is proposing a distributed approach based on hybrid and meshed communication. The paper is focused on low voltage network management use cases developed within the context of INTEGRIS and their ICT requirements to test the level of performance provided by the ICT architecture developed in the mentioned project.