Reliability Estimation of a Smart Metering Architecture using a Monte Carlo Simulation

: The trend of connectivity dominates the technological progress. The number of networked devices is constantly increasing and the use of smart meters has become more societally relevant. For that reason, reliability is an important attribute of related architectures. To calculate reliability, it is required to do a specific analysis for the entire system. This paper describes a structured approach for calculating the reliability of smart meter architectures considering the limited data availability. For this, we combine Reliability Block Diagrams with a Monte Carlo simulation. The result is a realistic approximation of the system reliability, that can be used to evaluate optimization methods.

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