Evaluation of Data Collection Capability in a Large-Scale Smart Metering System Based on Receiver-Driven Multihop Communication

Abstract

We consider a large-scale smart metering system based on intermittent receiver driven transmission and potential-based routing, both of which have been developed for wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of such a system by simulations and show that it is possible to collect 99% of data within 10 minutes in a system of 1600 nodes.