Advanced Metering Infrastructure Standards

Quiz

In smart grid technology, the establishment of regulation is very important to enable seamless exchange of information and use of the exchanged information. This is done by defining some standards and protocols for the smart grid system. The exchange of information and its use is defined by several standard development organizations like IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), ANSI (American National Standards Institute), etc.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is an ICT based architecture, therefore several standards are defined for this. These standards for AMI are important because different manufacturers develop different devices to use in the infrastructure. It is desired that there should not be any compatibility issues during communication between these different devices.

Here, we will learn about some important standards developed for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI).

AMI Standards in Smart Grid

The following table lists all the important standards applicable to the advanced metering infrastructure −

Organization of Standard	Description	Standard	Standards Applicable in Smart Grid AMI
IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission)	IEC is the leading global standard body that publishes standards for electrical, electronics, and related technologies in the electric power industry.
		IEC 61850	Substation automation, distributed generation, SCADA communication, distribution automation, etc.
		IEC 61968	Distribution management and AMI back-office interfaces.
		IEC TC 13 & 57	Metering and communication for metering in AMI.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)	This body develops standards in all areas of electrical, electronics, and related technologies. It develops standards in the areas of communication and interoperability.
		IEEE 802.3	Ethernet
		IEEE 802.11	Wi-Fi
		IEEE 802.15.1	Bluetooth
		IEEE 802.15.4	Zigbee
		IEEE 802.16	WiMAX
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)	ANSI has developed relevant standards for interoperability of AMI systems.
		ANSI C12.19	Metering tables internal to the meter.
		ANSI C12.22	Communications for metering tables.
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)	IETF publishes internet standards, dissemination of Request For Comment (RFC) documents for finalization of standards.
		RFC 791	Internet protocol (IP)
		RFC 793	Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
		RFC 1945	Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
		RFC 2571	Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
		RFC 3820	Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for security
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)	This standard body produces publications that provide guidelines toward secured interoperability.	NERC CIP 002-009	Bulk power standards with regards to critical cyber asset identification, security management controls, personnel and training, electronic security perimeters, physical security of critical cyber assets, systems security management, incident reporting and response, planning and recovery plans for critical cyber assets.
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)	This body standardizes interoperable technologies like specifications, guidelines, software, and tools for the world wide web.
		HTML	Web page design
		XML	Structure documents and other object models
		SOAP	Web services for application-to-application communication for transmitting data.

Conclusion

Smart grids advanced metering infrastructure is a system of components and a combination of different technologies which require interfaces between them to communicate properly. Therefore, there must be some standards and protocols to design and build products that meet the compatibility requirements.

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