| Title |
A Development on Consumer Portal System based on Advanced Metering Infrastructure |
| Authors |
진성일(Jin, Sung-Il) ; 정남준(Jung, Nam-Jun) ; 유인협(Yu, In-Hyeob) ; 김선익(Kim, Sun-Ic) ; 고종민(Ko, Gong-Min) |
| Keywords |
Consumer Portal ; Advanced Metering Infrastructure ; ZigBee ; Two-Way Communication ; Energy Service Provider |
| Abstract |
As the electric power industry has been revolutionarily transformed such that the distributed energy resources have been interconnected with power systems and a variety of energy service providers have been appeared, the need of Consumer Energy Portal as a core of two-way communication and service infrastructure between power suppliers and consumers has been gradually increased. Consumer Energy Portal can be thought of as a combination of hardware and software enabling two-way communication between energy service providers and equipment within the consumers' premises or a physical and logical link between consumers' in-building networks and wide-area access networks. In other words, Consumer Energy Portal can make the way the power industry has been traditionally operated the web-based way, enabling two-way interactions between energy service providers and consumers and mutual networking between end users' equipment. Thus, Consumer Energy Portal can be a kind of Service portal that provides new value-added services and efficient power operations that in the past. In this paper, for ESPs' integrated resources management, demand side management and value-added service provision, we have established the two-way access network that can gather real-time metering data using ZigBee technology and control physically networked equipment. |