Intelligent monitoring of power networks - system architecture and communication network infrastructure

The paper presents the system architecture and communication network infrastructure of the Intelligent Monitoring of POwer NETworks (IMPONET) project. The main objectives of the project were development of a communication platform for handling network devices with bidirectional communication and real-time management of the energy data together with new services to control the quality of electric signals. The IMPONET platform was validated through acquisition and processing of the energy-data experimental scenarios. The obtained results show that the proposed platform is capable of real-time data exchange and raw-energy data processing from multiple data concentrator devices and smart metering devices.