OSGP advances G3-PLC and M2M LTE-CAT-M implementations
The OSGP Alliance has formed new working groups on G3-PLC and M2M LTE-CAT-M within its standards committee.
The G3-PLC work group is aiming to establish collaborations in worldwide markets to develop, test and promote the OSGP G3-PLC implementation, while the M2M LTE-CAT-M working group is focussed on expanding the communication options available via OSGP
In 2015, OSGP Alliance members started collaboration with the G3-PLC Alliance to develop a G3-PLC based implementation of OSGP. One of the members, Networked Energy Services (NES), with OSGP compliant smart meters, received certification for G3-PLC communication in 2016 for their single phase meters and in 2017 for their poly phase meters.
The OSGP G3-PLC implementation is compliant with the G3-PLC specification enabling interoperability of devices from different smart meter and smart grid infrastructure suppliers. This allows utilities to achieve outstanding KPIs as well as ensure a high level of security (with 128-bit AES encryption and other features).
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This has not been realised before on the G3-PLC physical layer platform using the regulated utility CENELEC frequency band.
Starting 6 May 2022, the Standards Committee within the OSGP Alliance established a G3-PLC working group for existing OSGP Alliance members and G3-PLC technology based providers of smart meters, data concentrators or gateways.
Other objectives include enabling support for the energy transformation, which requires more power quality data and control of the low voltage grid with appropriate level of safety and security.
At the same time, another working group within the OSGP Standards Committee was initiated for M2M or P2P devices, based on LTE-CAT-M and NB-IOT.
The Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) suite is based on the 7-Layer OSI model which allows implementation of various communication technologies under the same application layer.
The two new working groups enable the opportunity to mix and match various older, current and future technologies to be integrated within OSGP based smart metering and smart grid systems, according to a statement.
