Distributed Event-Driven Simulation Environment for PRIME Based Metering Networks Planning

Abstract

The smart grid technology, that intends to provide intelligence to the energy distribution infrastructure, is one of the more promising technological advances in the near future. One of the main components of this smart grid is an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), which replaces the analog meters with computerized systems that report usage over digital communication interfaces. Among the different technologies that can be employed to deploy a smart metering infrastructure, PRIME standard has recently attracted a lot of interest. However, PRIME networks planning and standard code development is still a very hard task as it is very expensive to emulate a real network in a laboratory. In this paper it is presented a precise and powerful tool for simulating real PRIME networks in a very accurate manner. This tool permits high accuracy real code testing and real networks planning.