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The aggressive introduction of new smart devices for households is considered today as one of the most challenging issues in the Internet of Things (IoT) world. According to the wide variety of radio technologies used for communication between smart devices, there is a growing need to answer the question of which communication standard can be used to drive communication in smart homes and intelligent buildings as part of the emerging 5G ecosystem. To this end, we provide in this paper a performance analysis of Wireless M-BUS communication protocol which has recently increased its popularity especially in smart-metering domain in Western Europe. First, the developed WM-BUS module in Network Simulator 3 (NS-3) is described. Further, we investigate in detail the obtained simulation results which are compared with the real data from Kamstrup smart metering devices. Especially, the attention is focused on the packet delivery ratio and interference between smart devices. In particular, we demonstrate that our constructed module provides adequate correlation between the results obtained from the simulation and those from real-world measurements.
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The aggregation point for smart devices based on different communication technologies is often called Machine Type Communication Gateway (MTCG). The smart devices are then described as Machine Type Communication Devices (MTCDs).
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Description of proposed module structure is given in our previous work [26].
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For the purpose of our work, the threshold was set to \(-100\)Â dBm.
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The tool for downloading the real data from meters was developed in parallel with this research work; the geographical positions of meters, repeaters and concentrators, as well as signal levels and packet delivery (data hit) rates for each pair (concentrator-meter) were obtained and processed.
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Research described in this paper was financed by the National Sustainability Program under grant LO1401. For the research, infrastructure of the SIX Center was used.
We would like to thank to Kamstrup [13] for access to measured data and insight into the protocol and its real-life usage.
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Masek, P. et al. (2016). Wireless M-BUS: An Attractive M2M Technology for 5G-Grade Home Automation. In: Mandler, B., et al. Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. IoT360 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 169. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_13
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