Wireless Middleware Solutions for Smart Water Metering

While smart metering applications have initially focused on energy and gas utility markets, water consumption has recently become the subject of increasing attention. Unfortunately, despite the large number of solutions available on the market, the lack of an open and widely accepted communication s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Jg. 19; H. 8; S. 1853
Hauptverfasser: Alvisi, Stefano, Casellato, Francesco, Franchini, Marco, Govoni, Marco, Luciani, Chiara, Poltronieri, Filippo, Riberto, Giulio, Stefanelli, Cesare, Tortonesi, Mauro
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Switzerland MDPI 18.04.2019
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Schlagworte:
Internet-of-Things
smart metering
water consumption
Internet-of-Things
smart metering
water consumption
ISSN:1424-8220, 1424-8220
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Zusammenfassung:While smart metering applications have initially focused on energy and gas utility markets, water consumption has recently become the subject of increasing attention. Unfortunately, despite the large number of solutions available on the market, the lack of an open and widely accepted communication standard means that vendors typically propose proprietary data collection solutions whose adoption causes non-trivial problems to water utility companies in term of costs, vendor lock-in, and lack of control on the data collection infrastructure. There is the need for open and interoperable smart water metering solutions, capable of collecting data from the wide range of water meters on the market. This paper reports our experience in the development and field testing of a highly interoperable smart water metering solution, which we designed in collaboration with several water utility companies and which we deployed in Gorino Ferrarese, Italy, in collaboration with CADF (Consorzio Acque Delta Ferrarese), the water utility serving the city. At the core of our solution is SWaMM (Smart Water Metering Middleware), an interoperable wireless IoT middleware based on the Edge computing paradigm, which proved extremely effective in interfacing with several types of smart water meters operating with different protocols.
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ISSN:1424-8220
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DOI:10.3390/s19081853