Optimal communication architecture for smart distribution power grid

Abstract

A method for implementing a micro grid within a Smart Distribution Power Grid (SDPG) has steps for connecting a smart meter enabled to sense voltage, to sense current and current direction and to communicate wirelessly to individual ones of consumer sites within an area of the micro grid, determining a set of Smart Distribution Nodes of a number, placement and data packet transfer technology to transfer data from the smart meters to a Micro Grid Controlling Station (MCS), the set determined in a manner to provide cost optimization, where cost is determined form at least original node costs, data packet hops, operating costs and maintenance costs, and implementing the set of SDNs along a power grid topology (PGT) of the micro grid, such that data is transmitted from each smart meter to a proximate SDN and through other SDNs to the MCS.

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