Alvisi Stefano, Casellato Francesco, Franchini Marco, Govoni Marco, Luciani Chiara, Poltronieri Filippo, Riberto Giulio, Stefanelli Cesare, Tortonesi Mauro
Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, Italy.
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.
Sensors (Basel). 2019 Apr 18;19(8):1853. doi: 10.3390/s19081853.
While smart metering applications have initially focused on energy and gas utility markets, water consumption has recently become the subject of increasing attention. Unfortunately, despite the large number of solutions available on the market, the lack of an open and widely accepted communication standard means that vendors typically propose proprietary data collection solutions whose adoption causes non-trivial problems to water utility companies in term of costs, vendor lock-in, and lack of control on the data collection infrastructure. There is the need for open and interoperable smart water metering solutions, capable of collecting data from the wide range of water meters on the market. This paper reports our experience in the development and field testing of a highly interoperable smart water metering solution, which we designed in collaboration with several water utility companies and which we deployed in Gorino Ferrarese, Italy, in collaboration with CADF (Consorzio Acque Delta Ferrarese), the water utility serving the city. At the core of our solution is SWaMM (Smart Water Metering Middleware), an interoperable wireless IoT middleware based on the Edge computing paradigm, which proved extremely effective in interfacing with several types of smart water meters operating with different protocols.
虽然智能计量应用最初主要集中在能源和燃气公用事业市场，但最近用水量也越来越受到关注。不幸的是，尽管市场上有大量可用的解决方案，但缺乏开放且被广泛接受的通信标准意味着供应商通常会提出专有的数据收集解决方案，这些方案的采用在成本、供应商锁定以及对数据收集基础设施缺乏控制方面给自来水公司带来了不小的问题。因此需要开放且可互操作的智能水表解决方案，能够从市场上各种各样的水表收集数据。本文报告了我们在开发和现场测试高度可互操作的智能水表解决方案方面的经验，该解决方案是我们与几家自来水公司合作设计的，并与为该市供水的自来水公司CADF（Consorzio Acque Delta Ferrarese）合作，在意大利的戈里诺·费拉雷塞进行了部署。我们解决方案的核心是SWaMM（智能水表中间件），这是一种基于边缘计算范式的可互操作的无线物联网中间件，在与几种使用不同协议运行的智能水表进行接口方面被证明非常有效。
