ETSI TR 103 240 V1.1.1 (2014-01)

Powerline Telecommunications (PLT); Powerline communication recommendations for smart metering and home automation

DTR/PLT-00031

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 23-Jan-2014
• Technical Committee: PLT - Powerline Telecommunications
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Due Date: 27-Jan-2014
• Completion Date: 24-Jan-2014
• Mandate: M/441

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ETSI TR 103 240 V1.1.1 (2014-01)






Technical Report
Powerline Telecommunications (PLT);
Powerline communication recommendations for
smart metering and home automation

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Reference
DTR/PLT-00031
Keywords
powerline, smart meter
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 4
Foreword . 4
1 Scope . 5
2 References . 5
2.1 Normative references . 5
2.2 Informative references . 5
3 Definitions and abbreviations . 6
3.1 Definitions . 6
3.2 Abbreviations . 7
4 Recommendations for functionalities . 8
4.1 List of functionalities. 8
4.2 List of additional functionalities . 8
4.3 Home automation . 8
4.4 M2M gateway . 9
5 General Recommendations on PLT Communication . 9
5.1 Frequency Bands . 9
5.2 Coexistence with existing technologies . 10
5.3 Power Consumption . 10
5.4 Transmission Robustness . 10
5.5 Security . 10
5.6 Adaptive Communication . 10
6 Recommendations on PHY layer for Smart Meters . 10
7 Recommendations on MAC layer for Smart Meters . 11
8 Recommendations on Transport layer for Smart Meters . 11
9 Recommendations on Application layer for Smart Meters . 11
9.1 Metering Application . 11
10 Home Automation Recommendations . 12
10.1 Scope of requirement . 12
10.2 Overview . 12
10.3 General requirements . 12
10.3.1 Openness and availability . 13
10.3.2 Range . 13
10.3.3 Power consumption. 13
10.3.4 Data rate . 13
10.3.5 Robustness . 13
10.3.6 EMC Regulatory compliance . 14
10.3.7 Coexistence . 14
10.3.8 Security . 14
10.3.9 Latency . 14
History . 15

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Intellectual Property Rights
IPRs essential or potentially essential to the present document may have been declared to ETSI. The information
pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for ETSI members and non-members, and can be found
in ETSI SR 000 314: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in
respect of ETSI standards", which is available from the ETSI Secretariat. Latest updates are available on the ETSI Web
server (http://ipr.etsi.org).
Pursuant to the ETSI IPR Policy, no investigation, including IPR searches, has been carried out by ETSI. No guarantee
can be given as to the existence of other IPRs not referenced in ETSI SR 000 314 (or the updates on the ETSI Web
server) which are, or may be, or may become, essential to the present document.
Foreword
This Technical Report (TR) has been produced by ETSI Technical Committee Powerline Telecommunications (PLT).
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1 Scope
The present document concentrates on recommendations for power line communication for smart meters and home
automation using IP based transports along with DLMS/COSEM data models.
2 References
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific. For specific references, only the cited version applies. For non-specific references, the latest version of the
reference document (including any amendments) applies.
Referenced documents which are not found to be publicly available in the expected location might be found at
http://docbox.etsi.org/Reference.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication, ETSI cannot guarantee
their long term validity.
2.1 Normative references
The following referenced documents are necessary for the application of the present document.
Not applicable.
2.2 Informative references
The following referenced documents are not necessary for the application of the present document but they assist the
user with regard to a particular subject area.
[i.1] CENELEC EN 50065-1: "Signalling on low-voltage electrical installations in the frequency range
3 kHz to 148,5 kHz - Part 1: General requirements, frequency bands and electromagnetic
disturbances".
[i.2] Recommendation ITU-T G.9972: "Coexistence mechanism for wireline home networking
transceivers".
[i.3] IEC 62056-47: "Electricity metering - Data exchange for meter reading, tariff and load control -
Part 47: COSEM transport layers for IPv4 networks".
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[i.4] IEEE 802.15.4 : "IEEE Standard for Information technology-- Local and metropolitan area
networks-- Specific requirements-- Part 15.4: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and
Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)".
[i.5] Recommendation ITU-T G.993.2: "VDSL2 :Very High Speed Digital Subcriber Line
transceivers 2".
[i.6] Recommendation ITU-T G.9903: "Narrowband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
Power Line Communication Transceivers for G3-PLC Networks".
[i.7] Recommendation ITU-T G.9904: "Narrowband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing power
line communication transceivers for PRIME networks".
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[i.8] IEEE 1901.2 - 2013: "IEEE Standard for Low-Frequency (less than 500kHz) Narrowband
Power Line Communications for Smart grid Applications".
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[i.9] IEEE 1901 - 2010: "IEEE Standard for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access
Control and Physical Layer Specifications".
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[i.10] HomePlug Green PHY™ Specification.
NOTE: See http://www.homeplug.org/tech/homeplug_gp.
[i.11] ETSI TS 102 578: "PowerLine Telecommunications (PLT); Coexistence between PLT Modems
and Short Wave Radio broadcasting services".
[i.12] IETF RFC 4919: "IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs):
Overview, Assumptions, Problem Statement, and Goals".
[i.13] IETF RFC 4944: "Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks".
[i.14] ISO/IEC 14908-3: "Information technology -- Control network protocol -- Part 3: Power line
channel specification".
[i.15] Recommendation ITU-T G.9901: "Narrowband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
Power Line Communication Transceivers - Power Spectral Density Specification".
[i.16] Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2005 establishing a
framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-using products and amending
Council Directive 92/42/EEC and Directives 96/57/EC and 2000/55/EC of the European
Parliament and of the Council.
3 Definitions and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the following terms and definitions apply:
Data Link Layer (DLL): (e.g. media access control or MAC) is where the exchange of frames (many bits) is
performed
NOTE: The network layer is the level where paths are determined and logical addressing is applied for packets
(many frames). End-to-end connections are formed at the transport layer and segments (many packets) are
exchanged. The session layer deals with interhost communication. The presentation layer deals with data
representation and encryption. Finally, the application layer is the level at which interaction with a user is
attained. Sometimes technologies will use a different model from the seven layers of the OSI stack. These
models may only reference three or four layers: however the functionality of all seven OSI layers is
typically bundled in to the model regardless. The OSI model is generally accepted as the most detailed
practical representation of communication functionality.
Home Area Networks (HAN): sometimes referred to as a Premise Area Network (PAN) or a Building Area Network
(BAN), is an application specific LAN, which includes devices within a single premise (industrial site, commercial
business or home) communicating over one or more networks.
NOTE: Electric utilities are looking to leverage these networks to provide relief during high demand periods
(demand response) by communicating through some type of home gateway bridging utility and home
networks. Internet service providers are looking to provide revenue generating services using home
automation networks.
Home System (HS): is an interconnection of functional devices as:
• Energy Meter;
• Local Display;
• Demand Response device and
• Local application server.
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Local Area Networks (LAN): this zone identifies a "close" set of devices in communication, as the name implies, in a
local configuration
NOTE: Often each floor of a building may be on its own LAN, or a single server room may be a LAN.
RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
smart energy meter: is a device to measure the energy consumption data and make these data available for Smart
service provider and the local application server, mostly operating in two way communications device in reliable
manner with a set of management functions
NOTE: All communications are generally encrypted and provide real time or near real time measurements to the
local application server.
Smart Grid (SG): smart grid is achieved by overlaying the power systems infrastructure with communications
infrastructure
NOTE: Benefits are derived by delineating the communications infrastructure along functions that are not quite
tied on a one-to-one basis with the power system infrastructure.
The Physical layer (or PHY layer): physical layer is the transmission of data at the bits levels from the signal
processing extracted from electrical lines media
use case: description of a specific configuration/deployment scenario of a system from the user point of view
NOTE: The user consider the system as a blackbox and he perceive from the outside the system from the
interactions and responses.
Wide Area Networks (WAN): this zone is the bridge between FANs and SANs and the utility LAN and back office
NOTE: This includes co
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