NASPInet Specification - An Important Step toward Its Implementation

Network and power-grid co-simulation framework for Smart Grid wide-area monitoring networks

“…The conceptual wide-area monitoring system architecture based on the NASPInet architecture (Hu et al, 2010) is shown in Fig. 7.…”

“…These units report the quality of power in terms of voltage magnitudes, angles and frequency at the rate of 30-120 samples per second. The North American Synchrophasor Initiative Network (NASPInet) has provided a basic framework and specifications for wide-area monitoring systems (Hu et al, 2010;Bakken et al, 2010). Various Smart Grid applications use these data for automated decisions.…”

Reliable data transfer mechanisms for Smart Grid wide area monitoring networks

“…The Smart grid applications running at the control centers require strict quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees in terms of low latency and high reliability [4]. As per the NASPInet framework [3], data loss of crucial control data is not acceptable and 100% data reliability is an important design goal. Hence there is a need to design an efficient communication architecture which guarantees the required QoS needs.…”

“…This data is then fed to various processing, monitoring, control, archival and market brokerage applications using a communication network. The North American Synchro-Phasor Network (NASPInet) initiative has provided a reference communication network to interconnect the PMUs, data aggregation nodes called phasor data concentrators (PDC) and gateway nodes called Phasor Gateways (PG) [3]. The PGs are interconnected using a communication infrastructure called the "Data Bus" (DB).…”

Contribution to the design, implementation and standardization of semantic middleware architectures for the Smart Grid

“…Nevertheless, real-time communications are mentioned as the most usual ones that take place in the proposal scenario. Furthermore, the approach taken by the North American SynchroPhasor Initiative (NASPI) regarding secure synchronized data measurement infrastructure (NASPInet, [80]), where a Publisher/Subscribe component has been implemented, is mentioned in the proposal as a known solution.…”