2017 International Conference on Electrical, Instrumentation and Communication Engineering (ICEICE2017)

Design of Smart Meter for Smart Grid application

through True Time – MATLAB
R. Anand
Department of Electrical
and Electronics
Engineering
Sri Krishna College of
Technology
Coimbatore, India.
kanagachidambaresan@gm
ail.com
G. R. Kanagachidambaresan
Department of Electrical and
Electronics Engineering
Sri Krishna College of
Technology
Coimbatore, India.
anandmeped@gmail.com
M. Balaji
Control Systems Group,
Onboard Software
Section,
ISRO Satellite Centre,
Bangalore – 17
balajim@isac.gov.in
K.S. Chandragupta Mauryan
Department of Electrical and
Electronics Engineering
Sri Krishna College of Technology
Coimbatore, India.
k.s.chandraguptamauryan@skct.edu.in

Abstract—Smart environment and Pervasive Computing has
deeply influenced the present power system. The present smart
grid is capable of determining and handling the load anywhere,
anytime due to the Wireless communication. The Smart Meter
(SM) is enabled with communication module, potential
transformer and current transformer to measure the amount of
power being used. A Zigbee communication enabled SM is
designed for a smart grid and its performance is evaluated in this
paper. The data error rate is also evaluated.
Keywords: Smart Grid, Zigbee protocol, Signal Error Rate (SER),
Receiver Signal Strength
I. INTRODUCTION
The characteristics such as compactness, Wireless
communication, remote data collection and intelligence have
enabled the SM ease inside the power system.[1]
II. PROPOSED WORK
The SM is included with a data collection unit and
meters such as Voltmeter and ammeter for measuring the
power [2]. The measure power can be easily notified to the
user and even it can serve as a input the load flow algorithms
[3]. Figure illustrates the block diagram of the SM.
Prelims
a) Smart Grid
Smart Grid is a simple and optimal solution to the current
power system. The load balancing (i.e.) High generation in
one side and high demand in the other side of the power
system can easily be compensated through the help of smart
grid[4]. The interconnection of smart meter with the help of
artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms helps in
making fast decisions in the power system [5]. The present
power system lacks due to illiteracy in information deep inside
the power system. The Smart grid provides the solution
providing big data to the computational system [6] & [9].
b) Zigbee Protocol
Zigbee provides broadcasting, Unicasting and multicasting of
information deep inside the power system.[7] The Zigbee
protocol favors long range communication with reduced
energy consumption when compared to other pan protocol.
The ZigBee communication also ensures high reliability and
adaptability to any computing devices [8]. ZigBee aims to
ensure safe data delivery with low energy consumption,
though the data rate is low.[10] It specifically serves power
system applications and smart grid applications. Figure 2
illustrates the ZigBee protocol stack.
The smart meter enabled with Zigbee Communication is
evaluated in Matlab Simulink model. The resistor, inductive
and capacitor load is given to a power supply and its voltage,
current and power factors aremonitored using True Time tool

Fig 1 Block diagram representation of SM

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box in Matlab. Figure 3 illustrates the smart meter module Figure 4 illustrates the Zigbee transceiver and receiver unit
through Matlab Simulink. modeled in MATLAB true time tool box.

Fig 2 - ZigBee Protocol Stack

Fig 4 ZigBee Transceiver and receiver module

The voltage and current consumed at present is transmitted to

the nearby two pole substation via Zigbee protocol and the
SER is measure with respect to time. Table 1 illustrates the
simulation prelims [11] & [12].
Table 1: Simulation Prelims
Parameter Value

10 sec
Simulation time

10 ohm
R

10mH
L

10C
C

Figure 5 illustrates the simulation model diagram of the

proposed work. Figure 6 illustrates the Voltage signal and
network Scheduled signal. The model is simulated for a time
10 sec in MATLAB [13].
III. CONCLUSION
The module is tested in Matlab and the SER of sent
and received signal is measured. The SER is 5%, transmit
power is 1W and signal strength is -48dbm under maximum
Fig 3 MATLAB Simulation Model of Smart Meter signal reach of 160 m. The future work of this paper

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Figure 6 Voltage waveforms of the proposed model

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