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DNI Green Energy Platform for Smart Grid Applications

Introduction

DNI Green Energy Platform is a communication platform designed for Smart Grid related applications. GEP comprises three major components:

- Head End (HE) / Communication Server
- Data Concentrator Unit (DCU) / Data Collector (DC)
- Communication Module (CM)

to provide an infrastructure network between server and devices / sensors. Compare to Internet of Things (IoT) system architecture, these three components can be mapped to application gateway, sensor gateway and sensor network subsystem, respectively.

The software architecture of DNI GEP

Features

- Communication Feasibility
Various communication selections to support different communication requirements.

- Multiple Applications Integration support
Easily to integrate Smart Metering, Distributed Energy Management, Electric Vehicle, Lighting Control and Environmental Monitoring applications in one platform.

Applications

- Smart Metering / Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
- Distribution Automation (DA)
- Distributed Energy Resource (DER)
- Home/Building Area Networks (HAN/BAN)

DNI Green Energy Platform

What DNI can provide…

- Industrial Grade Embedded System Development
- Communication Platform HW/FW/SW Design & Development
- Standard/Proprietary Protocols Implementation
- Wireless/Wired Communication Technologies
- Tooling SW for Network Site Survey/Deployment

DNI with over 20 years networking product developing experiences, we can provide a complete GEP-based networking turn key to support customers to build up their Smart Grid vertical solutions in a short time.

DNI Smart Metering / AMI Solutions

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)

AMI is an important infrastructure in smart grid applications. A feasible AMI networking platform consists of many data concentrator units (DCU) and smart meters with communication capability. They are connected by different two-way communication technologies such that the meter reading can be performed. The implementation of AMI provides a connected network to reach customer's smart meter from Meter Data Management System (MDMS) and user interface. Besides, the AMI networking platform in the field can also be adopted to collect the status in power grid to provide the immediately response to event and alarm.

DNI AMI solutions

DNI provides DCU and CMs for both residential and C&I customers AMI solutions.
For residential customers, AMI DCU supports below communication technologies for metering:
WAN port (uplink to HE/MDMS): 3G/GPRS, Ethernet, MV BPL
LAN port (downlink to meter): High power ZigBee, G3-PLC and LV BPL

For C&I customers, a communication router used to support the directly link between meters and HE:
WAN port (uplink to HE/MDMS): 3G/GPRS, Ethernet
LAN port (downlink to meter): RS232/RS485

DCU Functionality

The proposed typical AMI functionality includes:
- Transparent Protocol between DCU and meter for various communication technologies.
- Transparent Connection Service on top of Transparent Protocol to handle LAN communication.
- Metering Operation Service with DB to perform meter data reading and storage.
- WAN Communication Protocols to handle the communication between DCU and HE.
- Event Detection to deal with the event and alarm from DCU as well as meters.
- SNMP agent to fetch network information from communication modules on meter side.
- Time Synchronization module to update time automatically.
- Site Survey / Transparent Protocol / DCU Configuration Tools support.

DNI AMI Concentrator SW architecture

DNI AMI application supporting tooling

What DNI can provide…

DNI's AMI solution can support customers in following HW design as well as SW development via either turn-key or ODM way:
- AMI Data Concentrator Unit (SGDC A series)
- Communication Module: High Power ZigBee (SGCM W series)
- Communication Module: G3-PLC (SGDC P series)
- Communication Module: MV BPL / LV BPL (SGDC P series)
- Repeaters: ZigBee Repeater / G3-PLC Repeater / BPL Repeater
- Software / Protocols development

DNI Street Lighting Control Solution

Street Lighting

The Street Lighting Control Solution integrates communication platform into dimmable LED lighting equipments to form a controllable lighting system. The ZigBee or power line communication (PLC) modules will be adopted to attached in a lighting equipment, which can automatically form a mesh network to communication with Data Collector (DC) and to Control Center. A DC is a gateway device which equips both WAN and FAN communication capabilities to support bi-directional communication between lighting equipments and Control Center.

DNI ZigBee Street Lighting Solution

DNI provides Data Collector and CMs for street lighting application.
DNI DC supports below communication technologies for street lighting control:
WAN port (uplink to Control Center): 3G/GPRS and Ethernet
LAN port (downlink to light): High power ZigBee and G3-PLC

Features

DNI provides a web-based Street Lighting Control System to establish a smart lighting control demonstration, including following features:
- A web-based user interface.
- Remotely street lighting control via 3G + ZigBee.
- Remote node connect/disconnect detection.
- Map view/List view display.
- On demand/Scheduling dimming control.
- Network configuration.

DNI Street Lighting Control System

What DNI can provide…

DNI's Street Lighting Control System provides following HW and SW design and development support to customers by either turn-key or ODM way:
- AMI Data Concentrator Unit (SGDC A series)
- Communication Module: High Power ZigBee (SGCM W series)
- Communication Module: G3-PLC (SGDC P series)
- Communication Module: MV BPL / LV BPL (SGDC P series)
- Repeaters: ZigBee Repeater / G3-PLC Repeater / BPL Repeater
- Software / Protocols development

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