Performance evaluation of unmanned aerial vehicles in automatic power meter readings
José R.T. Neto, Azzedine Boukerche, Roberto S. Yokoyama, Daniel L. Guidoni, Rodolfo I. Meneguette, Jo Ueyama, Leandro A. Villas
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Agradecimentos: The authors would like to thank the supporting organizations for funding this work: The agencies CNPq, CAPES, FAPEMIG, FAEPEX and the grants #2015/07538-1, #2015/18547-1 and #2015/11536-4, Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Abstract: Typically, the electric power companies employ a group of power meter readers to collect data on the customers energy consumption. This task is usually carried out manually, which can lead to high cost and errors, causing financial losses. Some approaches have tried to minimize these...
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Abstract: Typically, the electric power companies employ a group of power meter readers to collect data on the customers energy consumption. This task is usually carried out manually, which can lead to high cost and errors, causing financial losses. Some approaches have tried to minimize these problems, using strategies such as discovering the minimal route or relying on vehicles to perform the readings. However, errors in the manual readings can occur and vehicles suffer from congestion and high fuel and maintenance costs. In this work, we go further and propose an architecture to the Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) system using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The main challenge of the solution is to design a robust and lightweight protocol that is capable of dealing with wireless communication collisions. Therefore, the main contribution of this work is the design of a new protocol to ensure wireless communication from UAV to the power meters. We validated and evaluated the architecture in an urban scenario, with results showing a decrease of time and distance when compared to other approaches. We also evaluated the system proposed with Linear Flight Plan, the Ant Colony Optimization and Guided Local Search metaheuristic. Our mechanism attains an improvement of 98% in reducing the message collisions and reducing the energy consumption of the power meters
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO - CNPQ
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DE PESSOAL DE NÍVEL SUPERIOR - CAPES
FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE MINAS GERAIS - FAPEMIG
FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO - FAPESP
2015/07538-1; 2015/18547-1; 2015/11536-4
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Performance evaluation of unmanned aerial vehicles in automatic power meter readings
José R.T. Neto, Azzedine Boukerche, Roberto S. Yokoyama, Daniel L. Guidoni, Rodolfo I. Meneguette, Jo Ueyama, Leandro A. Villas
Performance evaluation of unmanned aerial vehicles in automatic power meter readings
José R.T. Neto, Azzedine Boukerche, Roberto S. Yokoyama, Daniel L. Guidoni, Rodolfo I. Meneguette, Jo Ueyama, Leandro A. Villas
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Ad hoc networks Vol. 60 (May, 2017), p. 11-25 |