Design of PLC NMS Protocol for AMI

AMI(Advanced Meter Infrastructure) in electricity collecting real time consumption data of smart meter through communication network is important in supporting to power demand and load of whole electricity system. AMI PLC is a major communication technology at NAN(Neighborhood Area Network) with weak signal radio. In this paper, a PLC NMS protocol was designed and implemented. The PLC NMS protocol supports auto-registration, path construction, remote configuration, and collecting status & statistics at remote slave modems for efficiently operating and constructing NAN.