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Chapter 5

Emerging wireless

communication technologies
for smart grid applications

Chapter outline
5.1 Introduction 173 5.3.4 ZigBee 186
5.2 Short-range communication 5.3.5 WirelessHART 187
technologies 175 5.3.6 ISA100.11a 188
5.2.1 IEEE 802.15.1 and 5.3.7 6LoWPAN 188
bluetooth 175 5.3.8 6TiSCH 190
5.2.2 Near-field 5.4 IEEE 802.11 based
communication 177 technologies for WLANs 190
5.3 Communication technologies 5.4.1 Network architectures
for low-rate WPANs 178 of IEEE 802.11
5.3.1 IEEE 802.15.4 standard 178 standards 195
5.3.2 IEEE 802.15.4g (smart 5.4.2 Application perspective
utility network, SUN) 185 of WLAN systems 196
5.3.3 IEEE 802.15.4k—(low 5.5 Cellular communication
energy critical technologies 197
infrastructure 5.6 IEEE 802.16/WiMAX 202
monitoring, LECIM) 185 References 205

5.1 Introduction

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted considerable attention over
the last decade because of their cost advantages on the practical implementa-
tions. A general WSN scheme is composed of wireless nodes that may be a com-
bination of individual devices. The wireless nodes may be linked to each other
to transfer data packets in which every node can be connected to one or more
sensors for monitoring environmental variables and various physical quantities.
The quantities to be perceived by sensors may be temperature, infrared, sound,
movement, magnetism, vibration, pressure and light. In general, the WSN
nodes contact with each other by exploiting wireless communications. The

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