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New IEEE Standards for Wireless Data Networking designed to help Utilities Modernize Communications Infrastructure for Smart Grids
PISCATAWAY, N.J. --(Business Wire)--
IEEE (News - Alert), the world's largest professional organization advancing technology
for humanity, today announced updates to four wireless communications
technologies in the IEEE 802® family of standards, as well as
a new IEEE 802 standards-development project. The new standards support
the global utility industry's needs for smart grid data communications
infrastructure and build on the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA)
portfolio of more than 100 active IEEE standards or standards in
development pertaining to the smart grid.
"Utilities can use the IEEE 802 family of broadband wireless
communications standards to modernize their communications and
networking infrastructure for advanced metering and other smart grid
applications," said James Gilb, chair of the IEEE 802.24™ Technical
Advisory Group (TAG). "These new updates to the IEEE 802 standards will
enable utilities around the world to build the carrier-grade,
high-capacity networks they will need to connect the millions of grid
components and end-use devices that will operate on smart grids."
The new IEEE 802 standards include the following:
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IEEE 802.15.4g™-2012 - IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan
Area Networks - Part 15.4: Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks
(LR-WPANs) Amendment 3: Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for
Low-Data-Rate, Wireless, Smart Metering Utility Networks - is a global
standard that provides carrier-grade wireless communications
connectivity for very large-scale smart metering applications and
advanced metering infrastructure used in smart grids. It supports
geographically diverse networks with minimal infrastructure that can
potentially connect millions of end points. The new standard, an
amendment to IEEE 802.15.4™, offers the communications range,
robustness and coexistence characteristics required for these types of
applications and deployments that fit the general objectives of IEEE
802.15 but were not covered by the existing standard. IEEE
802.15.4g-2012 is available for purchase at the IEEE
Standards Store.
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IEEE 802.16™-2012 - IEEE Standard for Air Interface for
Broadband Wireless Access Systems. The standard supports worldwide
deployment of innovative, cost-effective, interoperable and
multi-vendor broadband wireless access (BWA) products, with Ethernet
as well as IP interfaces, that utilities can use for
machine-to-machine smart grid applications. The standard specifies the
air interface, including the medium access control and physical layers
(MAC and PHY), of combined fixed and mobile point-to-multipoint BWA
systems. The standard updates the WirelessMAN-OFDMA air interface
designated by the ITU as IMT-2000. Furthr enhancement relevant to
smart grid applications are provided in IEEE 802.16p™-2012, an
amendment providing "Enhancements to Support Machine-to-Machine
Applications." IEEE 802.16-2012 is available for purchase at the IEEE
Standards Store, and IEEE 802.16p-2012 is available for purchase
at the IEEE
Standards Store.
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IEEE 802.16.1™-2012 - IEEE Standard for WirelessMAN-Advanced
Air Interface for Broadband Wireless Access Systems. The standard
provides an enhanced air interface and improved capacity for
metropolitan-area networks that utilities can use for smart grid
machine-to-machine communications, as well as mobile voice-based
applications, with support for Ethernet as well as IP interfaces. IEEE
802.16.1-2012 is a new standalone version of the technology first
specified in IEEE 802.16m™-2011 and designated by the ITU as
IMT-Advanced. Further enhancement relevant to smart grid applications
are provided in IEEE 802.16.1b™-2012, an amendment providing
"Enhancements to Support Machine-to-Machine Applications." The new
standard is available for purchase at the IEEE
Standards Store.
In addition, the IEEE-SA has approved development of a new standard that
is intended to enable the handover of groups of wireless data
connections between different types of networks in a heterogeneous
network. Utilities will be able to use the standard to allow large
groups of devices to handover from one network to another to ensure
continuous connectivity and service reliability if a part of the network
loses connectivity. IEEE P802.21d™ - Standard for Local and Metropolitan
Area Networks-Part 21: Media Independent Handover Services Amendment:
Multicast Group Management - is intended to amend IEEE 802.21™-2008 by
adding support for simultaneous handovers of multiple users. Information
about IEEE P802.21d is available at http://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/802.21d.html.
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