ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE SITE SURVEY SYSTEM

• US 20150145689A1
• Filed: 12/09/2013
• Published: 05/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Original Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Inventors: HSIEH, Chih-Chiang, LI, Ping-Heng, LEE, Tung-Yuan
• Application Number:
  US14/101,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20150145689A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/870.02
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/004 Remote reading of utility meters to a fixed location
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/06 Testing, supervising or monitoring using simulated traffic
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/30 Smart metering, e.g. specially adapted for remote reading
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/18 Network protocols supporting networked applications, e.g. including control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

An advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) site survey system is provided. The AMI site survey system includes a gateway simulation equipment and a smart meter simulation equipment. The gateway simulation equipment communicates with a server via a WAN communication protocol, and communicates with the smart meter simulation equipment via a LAN communication protocol. The smart meter simulation equipment sends a piece of power simulation information, and transmits the power simulation information to the gateway simulation equipment based on the LAN communication protocol. The gateway simulation equipment transmits the power simulation information to the server based on the WAN communication protocol so that the server records a network transmission status of the transmission of the power simulation information via the WAN communication protocol and the LAN communication protocol.

Claims

1. An advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) site survey system, comprising:

a gateway simulation equipment, including;

a gateway processing module;

a wide area network (WAN) transmission module, communicating with a server via a WAN communication protocol; and

a first gateway local area network (LAN) transmission module;

a smart meter simulation equipment, including;

an information simulation processing module, being configured to send a piece of power simulation information;

a first smart meter LAN transmission module, communicating with the first gateway LAN transmission module via a first LAN communication protocol;

wherein the information simulation processing module is further configured to control the first smart meter LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information to the first gateway LAN transmission module based on the first LAN communication protocol;

wherein the gateway processing module is configured to control the WAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information to the server based on the WAN communication protocol so that the server records a network transmission status of the transmission of the power simulation information via the first LAN communication protocol and the WAN communication protocol.

2. The AMI site survey system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gateway simulation equipment further comprises a second gateway LAN transmission module;

the smart meter simulation equipment further comprises a second smart meter LAN transmission module;

the second smart meter LAN transmission module communicates with the second gateway LAN transmission module via a second LAN communication protocol;

the information simulation processing module is further configured to control the second smart meter LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information to the second gateway LAN transmission module based on the second LAN communication protocol; and

the gateway processing module is further configured to control the second gateway LAN transmission module to receive the power simulation information from the second smart meter LAN transmission module based on the second LAN communication protocol so that the server records a network transmission status of the transmission of the power simulation information via the second LAN communication protocol and the WAN communication protocol.

3. The AMI site survey system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the gateway simulation equipment further comprises a gateway relay module;

the smart meter simulation equipment further comprises a meter relay module;

the gateway processing module further adjusts the gateway relay module according to a transmission schedule to control the second gateway LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information; and

the information simulation processing module also adjusts the meter relay module according to the transmission schedule to control the second smart meter LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information.

4. The AMI site survey system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the gateway processing module and the information simulation processing module further receive a control command from the server;

the information simulation processing module is further configured to control the second smart meter LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information to the second gateway LAN transmission module based on the second LAN communication protocol in response to the control command; and

the gateway processing module is further configured to control the second gateway LAN transmission module to receive the power simulation information from the second smart meter LAN transmission module based on the second LAN communication protocol in response to the control command.

5. The AMI site survey system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gateway processing module further controls the first gateway LAN transmission module and the WAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information according to a transmission schedule;

and the information simulation processing module also controls the first smart meter LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information according to the smart meter transmission schedule.

6. The AMI site survey system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gateway processing module is further configured to adjust the format of the power simulation information and control the WAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information to the server based on the WAN communication protocol.

7. The AMI site survey system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the WAN communication protocol is one of the broadband power line communication protocol, narrowband power line communication protocol, the 3rd generation network communication protocol, the WiMAX network communication protocol, and the LTE communication protocol.

8. The AMI site survey system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first LAN communication protocol is one of the broadband power line communication protocol, the narrowband power line communication protocol, and the ZigBee communication protocol.

9. A gateway simulation equipment for an AMI site survey system, the AMI site survey system further comprising a smart meter simulation equipment for sending a piece of power simulation information, the gateway simulation equipment comprising:

a gateway processing module;

a WAN transmission module, communicating with a server via a WAN communication protocol; and

a first gateway LAN transmission module, communicating with the smart meter simulation equipment via a first LAN communication protocol, and receiving the power simulation information from the smart meter simulation equipment based on the first LAN communication protocol;

wherein the gateway processing module is configured to control the WAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information to the server based on the WAN communication protocol so that the server records a network transmission status of the transmission of the power simulation information via the first LAN communication protocol and the WAN communication protocol.

10. The gateway simulation equipment as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a second gateway LAN transmission module for communicating with the smart meter simulation equipment via a second LAN communication protocol, the gateway processing module being further configured to control the second gateway LAN transmission module to receive the power simulation information from the smart meter simulation equipment based on the second LAN communication protocol so that the server records a network transmission status of the transmission of the power simulation information via the second LAN communication protocol and the WAN communication protocol.

11. The gateway simulation equipment as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

a gateway relay module;

wherein the gateway processing module further adjusts the gateway relay module according to a transmission schedule so as to control the second gateway LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information.

12. The gateway simulation equipment as claimed in claim 10, wherein the gateway processing module further receives a control command from the server and controls the second gateway LAN transmission module to receive the power simulation information from the second smart meter LAN transmission module based on the second LAN communication protocol in response to the control command.

13. The gateway simulation equipment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the gateway processing module further controls the first gateway LAN transmission module and the WAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information according to a transmission schedule.

14. The gateway simulation equipment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the gateway processing module is further configured to adjust the format of the power simulation information and control the WAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information to the server based on the WAN communication protocol.

15. The gateway simulation equipment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the WAN communication protocol is one of the broadband power line communication protocol, the narrowband power line communication protocol, the 3rd generation network communication protocol, the WiMAX network communication protocol, and the LTE communication protocol.

16. The gateway simulation equipment as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first LAN communication protocol is one of the broadband power line communication protocol, the narrowband power line communication protocol, and the ZigBee communication protocol.

17. A smart meter simulation equipment for an AMI site survey system, the AMI site survey system further comprising a gateway simulation equipment communicating with a server via a WAN communication protocol, the smart meter simulation equipment comprising:

a first smart meter LAN transmission module, communicating with the gateway simulation equipment via a first LAN communication protocol;

an information simulation processing module, being configured to send a piece of power simulation information, and control the first smart meter LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information to the gateway simulation equipment based on the first LAN communication protocol so that the gateway simulation equipment transmits the power simulation information to the server based on the WAN communication protocol and the server records a network transmission status of the transmission of the power simulation information via the first LAN communication protocol and the WAN communication protocol.

18. The smart meter simulation equipment as claimed in claim 17, further comprising a second smart meter LAN transmission module, the second smart meter LAN transmission module communicating with the gateway simulation equipment via a second LAN communication protocol, and the information simulation processing module being further configured to control the second smart meter LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information to the second gateway LAN transmission module based on the second LAN communication protocol so that the server records a network transmission status of the transmission of the power simulation information via the second LAN communication protocol and the WAN communication protocol.

19. The smart meter simulation equipment as claimed in claim 18, further comprising:

a meter relay module;

wherein the information simulation processing module further adjusts the meter relay module according to a transmission schedule so as to control the second smart meter LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information.

20. The smart meter simulation equipment as claimed in claim 18, wherein the information simulation processing module further receives a control command from the server, and the information simulation processing module is further configured to control the second smart meter LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information to the second gateway LAN transmission module based on the second LAN communication protocol in response to the control command.

21. The smart meter simulation equipment as claimed in claim 17, wherein the information simulation processing module further controls the first smart meter LAN transmission module to transmit the power simulation information according to a transmission schedule.

22. The smart meter simulation equipment as claimed in claim 17, wherein the first LAN communication protocol is one of the broadband power line communication protocol, the narrowband power line communication protocol, and the ZigBee communication protocol.