Figure 2.8 - EkaNet Smart Network Architecture for AMI The EkaNet has been deployed in some world wide areas such as Guayaquil - Ecuador, St. Petersburg Russia. In Guayaquil Ecuador, the utility has installed 3,614 wireless – – meter nodes, 314 repeaters, and 47 gateways. Meter data collection interval period is fifteen minutes. The Advantages Wireless mesh network provides a low cost, easy deployment and management, scalable, flexible The Disadvantages The number of relay hops will increases with the increasing number of the smart meters. As a result, the network performance will go down fast, especially in the service place where the smart meter density is high, i.e. hundreds of smart meters in the area 100 meters by 100 meters. In the high resident density area, the mesh topology will not be a good choice for the network performance goal. Instead, the point-to-multipoint topology such as Wi-Fi infrastructure mode would provide a better network performance. Mesh Networks: A 2.3.4 Research Paper “Wireless Survey” [AWW05] The authors conducted a survey about the current research and development of WMN technologies (2005). The author presented many open research issues needed to be solved
Figure 2.8 - EkaNet Smart Network Architecture for AMI The EkaNet has been deployed in some world wide areas such as Guayaquil - Ecuador, St. Petersburg – Russia. In Guayaquil – Ecuador, the utility has installed 3,614 wireless meter nodes, 314 repeaters, and 47 gateways. Meter data collection interval period is fifteen minutes. The Advantages Wireless mesh network provides a low cost, easy deployment and management, scalable, flexible The Disadvantages The number of relay hops will increases with the increasing number of the smart meters. As a result, the network performance will go down fast, especially in the service place where the smart meter density is high, i.e. hundreds of smart meters in the area 100 meters by 100 meters. In the high resident density area, the mesh topology will not be a good choice for the network performance goal. Instead, the point-to-multipoint topology such as Wi-Fi infrastructure mode would provide a better network performance. 2.3.4 Research Paper “Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey” [AWW05] The authors conducted a survey about the current research and development of WMN technologies (2005). The author presented many open research issues needed to be solved
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