A Review of the Topologies Used in Smart Water Meter Networks: A Wireless Sensor Network Application
Joint Authors
Malekian, Reza
Ye, Ning
Marais, Jaco
Wang, Ru-chuan
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-10-23
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This paper presents several proposed and existing smart utility meter systems as well as their communication networks to identify the challenges of creating scalable smart water meter networks.
Network simulations are performed on 3 network topologies (star, tree, and mesh) to determine their suitability for smart water meter networks.
The simulations found that once a number of nodes threshold is exceeded the network’s delay increases dramatically regardless of implemented topology.
This threshold is at a relatively low number of nodes (50) and the use of network topologies such as tree or mesh helps alleviate this problem and results in lower network delays.
Further simulations found that the successful transmission of application layer packets in a 70-end node tree network can be improved by 212% when end nodes only transmit data to their nearest router node.
The relationship between packet success rate and different packet sizes was also investigated and reducing the packet size with a factor of 16 resulted in either 156% or 300% increases in the amount of successfully received packets depending on the network setup.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Marais, Jaco& Malekian, Reza& Ye, Ning& Wang, Ru-chuan. 2016. A Review of the Topologies Used in Smart Water Meter Networks: A Wireless Sensor Network Application. Journal of Sensors،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1110727
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Marais, Jaco…[et al.]. A Review of the Topologies Used in Smart Water Meter Networks: A Wireless Sensor Network Application. Journal of Sensors No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1110727
American Medical Association (AMA)
Marais, Jaco& Malekian, Reza& Ye, Ning& Wang, Ru-chuan. A Review of the Topologies Used in Smart Water Meter Networks: A Wireless Sensor Network Application. Journal of Sensors. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1110727
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1110727