Title: Implementation of Wireless Automatic Routing Mechanism for the effective formation of Integrated Meter Reading network

Authors: Moon-suk Choi; Seong-ho Ju; Yong-hun Lim; Jong-mock Baek

Addresses: KEPCO Research institute, 103-16, Munji-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-380, Republic of Korea. ' KEPCO Research institute, 103-16, Munji-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-380, Republic of Korea. ' KEPCO Research institute, 103-16, Munji-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-380, Republic of Korea. ' KEPCO Research institute, 103-16, Munji-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-380, Republic of Korea

Abstract: To secure the communication reliability of an Integrated Meter Reading (IMR) network consisting of Broadband over Power Line (BPL) and wireless networks, the communication route may be changed between both networks automatically when the communication environment changes. This paper not only designed the Wireless Automatic Routing Mechanism (WARM) to create the wireless meter reading terminal route and communicate with the BPL terminal next to it but also verified the communication performance of the developed mechanism via a verification test. Such verification test revealed a meter reading success rate that was 11% higher than the existing BPL-based IMR system, which is not adopted WARM.

Keywords: IMR; integrated meter reading; BPL; broadband over powerlines; auto-path routing; automatic routing; communication reliability; wireless networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2012.045550

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012 Vol.9 No.2, pp.84 - 94

Received: 13 Nov 2009
Accepted: 15 Mar 2010
Published online: 23 Feb 2012 *

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