Smart Meters

[RavilParticipant]

Dear Optiwave team and forum members,

Does anybody know if any of last versions of OptiSystem have Smart Power Meters (energy meters used customers for energy consumption managing) in their library? Or did anyone try to model them?

Will be thankful for any advices / ideas

[RavilParticipant]

Are there any examples of merging PON and Wi-Fi access, for example? Do we have such a possibility in OptiSystem?

[Damian MarekParticipant]

We do not have a direct example of this. Do you have a reference or paper that demonstrates a working system? I might be able to convert it into a working project file.

[Dr. MohammadMahdi AriannejadParticipant]

is there any power meter in bpm as well? sorry to ask ere because I was wondering do we have any measuring tools in bpm as well. thanks.

[Damian MarekParticipant]

There are multiple different tools you can use in OptiBPM to measure the signal. In the Simulation->Additional Output Data window you can tell OptiBPM to calculate different quantities and plot them. For instance Relative Power vs Distance.

Regards

[Heitor GalvaoParticipant]

I am interested

[RavilParticipant]

Hi Damian, these Smart Meters are working based on IEEE 1701 Standard “Optical Port Communication Protocol to Complement the Utility Industry End Device Data Tables”.

[Damian MarekParticipant]

The closest component we have is the obvious Optical Power Meter. I tried to get that paper but I guess my IEEE account does not give me access. Is there a difference between the Optical Power Meter we have and the Smart Meters?

[RavilParticipant]

The main difference at physical and channel level is that Smart Meters are used for continuous monitoring of power/energy consumption. Hence, they act like user of channel bandwidth capacity.

[RavilParticipant]

Not sure if can send you the original documents due to copyrights regulations… Let me know if I can.

[RavilParticipant]

Is it possible to substitute electrical Smart Meters with some devices existing in OptiSystem?

[Damian MarekParticipant]

I think this application is out of the scope of OptiSystem. Number one reason being the smart meters measure power usage over long periods of time ~hours, while the simulations in OptiSystem can last for ms at most.

[RavilParticipant]

Couple papers describing SM-technology are attached

Attachments:

1. SM-in-SG-an-overview-2013.pdf

[RavilParticipant]

2nd is here

Attachments:

1. Universal-Smart-Energy-Communication-Platform-2014.pdf

[RavilParticipant]

Thanks for your guidance, Damian!
Here is my following question: Is there any chance to “compress the process”, i.e., run this hourly procedure during seconds in the software? At least for shortest amount of time and then repeat simulation. Just curious…