Summary of smart metering and smart grid communication

The smart metering and communication methods used in smart grid are being extensively studied owing to widespread applications of smart grid. Although the monitoring and control processes are widely used in industrial systems, the energy management requirements at both service supplier and consumer side for individuals promoted the evolution of smart grid. In this paper, it is aimed to disclose in a clear and clean way that what smart grid is and what kind of communication methods are used. The developing generation, transmission, distribution and customer appliances are discussed in terms of smart grid integration. The communication technologies are introduced as wire line and wireless classification where the key features are also tabulated.