Design and development of ZigBee radio embedded applications in smart grid

The usage of information technologies have been growing in the new energy transmission and distribution infrastructure that is named as Smart Grid. Attention of Smart Grid has been gradually increasing with the idea of more efficient energy usage and controllable energy consumption. This new growing infrastructure is separated from previous electrical grid by multi directional communications among consumers that consume and produce electrical energy; service providers; transmission and distribution companies; and power producers. The main goal of the establishing new electrical infrastructure is to associate the electricity transmission and distribution networks with communication technologies in order to optimize production, transport and distribution of electrical energy on the grid. In this thesis, communications subsystem units for Building Energy Management System are designed and fabricated. A wireless communication circuit with ZigBee Radio Module, Wireless Sensor Networks Mote and Smart Plug devices are developed for Smart Grid Communications applications. The main objective of these all these discrete units designing is developing Smart Home-enable devices and understanding its importance in the Smart Grid environment. Smart building applications require multidisciplinary studies including RF communications, power electronics, and embedded systems, etc. With the aim of designing the communication and measurement units for this environment, ZigBee Integrated Radio Module, Multi-Protocol Wireless Sensor Networks Sensor Boards (MultiP Mote) and Smart Plug device are designed and used in a Smart Home environment that is located at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul.