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Kevin F. R. Suitor
Use of WiMAX To Enable
Intelligent Grid Networks
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Redline’s Vision, Mission and Strategy
Vision
 Drive Smart Grid Revolution through Broadband Wireless
Access Technologies – WiMAX & Proprietary
Mission
 Become the BWA vendor of choice for Smart Grid
Strategy
 Build partnerships to provide end-to-end solution
 Develop application specific technology solutions
leveraging COTS for ‘best-in-class’ BWA solutions for Smart
Grid
 Deliver ‘best-in-class’ end-to-end solutions with our
integration partners
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“The nicest thing about standards
is that there are so many of them
to choose from.”
Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
US computer engineer & industrialist
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The Power Grid (The Simplistic View)
Transmission
Sub-Station
Generation
Distribution
(Step Down)
Sub-Station
High Voltage
Lines
Medium & Low
Voltage Lines
Residential
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A Reference Architecture for Smart Grids
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Last Mile Options for Smart Grid
Carrier
Central
Office
Commercial Wireless
Broadband Connection
Commercial
Services
Wi-Fi Mesh
Meter
Collection
Point
WiMAX
PTP
Backhaul
Meter
Collection
Point
Smart Meters and Aggregation
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Utility
Control
Center
Control & Management
Network Options for Smart Grid Last Mile
Wireless Option
Application
Pro
Con
Customer
RF Mesh:
Bit rate up
to 1
Smart meters, distribution
Customer
Need
WiMAX
Weighting
Mbps, variable range, variable automation
Performance
frequency
Wi-Fi
Proprietary
Able
to be customized
for
Mesh
RF Mesh
specific deployments, selforganizing, self-healing
Cellular:
Bit rate Choice
at 20-800
Supplier
kbps, 1-2 mile typical range,
Reliability
frequency
700 MHz to 2.1
GHz
Smart meters (AMI), mobile
work force management
Able to leverage existing
Recurring cost per megabyte,
networks, low upfront capital lack of direct utility control
investment, short time-toover network
market, low module cost
Broadband Over Power Lines
Compatibility
(BPL): Bit
rate at 256 kbps to
10 Mbps,
variable range,
Features
frequency at 1.6 to 80 MHz
electricSystem
carrier Options
Substations, smart meters,
monitoring/ control at
customer premise,
distribution automation
Robust capabilities, integrated High capital costs, expensive
communications throughout chips and equipment, not
grid and home area network widely adopted
environments, low recurring
costs
Reusability
Proprietary,
lackCommercial
economies of
BPL
Services
scale, equipment can be
expensive
WiMAX:
Bit rate up to 3 Mbps Smart meters, mobile work
Usability
per MHz, range of 1-2 miles, force management,
Security
frequency
1.8 GHz, 2.3-3.5
distribution automation
GHz
High bandwidth capabilities,
low latency
Metro Wi-Fi: Bit rate 1-5
Smart meters, mobile work
Total
Weighted
Score
Mbps, typical range up to ½
force management,
mile, frequency between 2.4 distribution automation
GHz and 5.8 GHz
Low-cost equipment, mesh
Not widely deployed, not yet
topology is well-suited for
proven for smart grid
smart grid needs, low latency deployments
Price
Source: Pike Research analyst Clint Wheelock
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Not widely deployed, not yet
proven for smart grid
deployments, high equipment
cost
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Using WiMAX to
Connect the Smart Grid
Transmission and distribution infrastructure
Remote workforce
Surveillance, monitoring and remote control devices
Laptops, handheld devices, vehicles
Mobile
Generation
assets
and
and
Residential
Business
Emergencies
customers
customers
remote
distribution
workforce
Installation,
maintenance vehicles
Solar power
generation
Wind
turbines
SU
SU
Mobile workforce
individual devices
SU
Distribution
substation
Transmission
substation
SU
SU
Zigbee, Wi-Fi
SU
In-home network
AMI
Aggregator
(PLC)
PLC
SU
Microwave
wireless
backhaul,
fiber
Operations
Center
SU
Wireless link (e.g. 900MHz)
AMI aggregator
Residential Customers
AMR/AMI, home displays, solar panels, home appliances
Cell on wheels
(COW)
SU
SU
Business site
SU
Business site
SU
Business site
Business Customers
Meters, remote sensors, cameras
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Mobile devices for
emergency workers
Disaster recovery
vehicles
Emergencies
Laptops, handheld devices, emergency vehicles,
ad-hoc links to business customers
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Broadband
AMR/AMI,
Fleet
AMR (Automatic
Supervisory
telematics
industrial
Control
and
metering
Automatic
connectivity
Meter
And
Data
) / AMI
Acquisition
Vehicle
to
Location
affected
(Automatic
(SCADA)
area
(AVL),
Meter
during
with

Remote
surveillance
Location-Based
disaster
Infrastructure)
recovery
or

and
Distributed
monitoring
Control
Services
in
response
(LBS)
to faults.
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Real-time
Systems
(DCS)
time-ofsupported
Cell
On Wheels
by Global

Remote
load
shifting
day
pricing
using
Positioning
(COW)
connects
System
staff,

Fault
and
outage
Demand-Side
(GPS)
vehicles,
and,
in

Real-time
time-ofdetection
and
Management
(DSM)
some
cases,
selected
day
pricing
using
management

Broadband
customers
DSM

Home displays
connectivity
to in
Remotemodules,
surveillance
vehicle
Coordination
of

Fault
andand
outage
In-home
and
monitoring
energy
laptops,
emergency
response,
detection
andremote
conservation
handheld
data
sharing,
devices
to

management
Asset
tracking
support and monitor
consultation
with offthe
site
remote
staff,
and

Remote
control
Smart
appliances
workforce.
communication
and
Applications
coordination
include
with

Energy
Management
Fault and
outage
mobile
safety
agencies
dispatching,
Systems
(EMSs)
detection
and with
reporting,
remote
grid
optimization
management
video
or
VoIP
applications (selfconsultations,

Solar panels
healing,
self- data
sharing
within
management the
restoration)
utility’s Virtual
Optional
Private
add-ons:
Network
(VPN), and

Home security
Geographic
Information System

Broadband
services
(GIS)
applications
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What Has Redline Changed In COTS To
Meet The Utility Market Needs?
1.
A Smart Grid network is fundamentally different than a Service Provider access network in that the bulk
of traffic flows primarily from the edge of the network to the core of the network.
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2.
Power Engineers have a requirement for sub-cycle latency in the two-way communications network.
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3.
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RedMAX 4C can be used effectively for backhauling rural smart meter and sub-station connections, enabling a more
cost-effective deployment.
Redline’s products have the ability to support a longer range of up to 25 km versus the 9 – 10 km supported by the
WiMAX Forum profile enabled by modifications to the 802.16e-2005 MAC in the BTS & CPE.
Smart Grid networks use IEC based protocols that are not necessarily IP based, layer 2 Ethernet transport
is required.
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5.
Typical multipoint wireless broadband systems whether RF/WiFi mesh or cellular based have one way latency in the 35 –
150 millisecond range.
Redline’s engineers have modified the core signal processing within the base station and CPE terminals to reduce the
one-way latency to under 20 milliseconds as required by the utility.
Long range connections are required for both smart meter collection and Teleprotection.
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4.
Service provider networks are built with a “downlink bias” where the majority of traffic flows from the core to the edge.
In a Smart Grid, the traffic is ‘uplink biased’ with a large number of distributed Smart Meters, IEDs, Video Cameras etc
delivering information from the sensors and machines at the edge of the network up to data centers in the core of the
network.
Redline’s design engineers have modified the core signal processing in both the base station and CPE to allow the
uplink / downlink ratio bias desired by each utility’s network design architect.
Capability of forwarding the traffic at layer 2 rather than sending information to a centralized ASN-GW may also
contribute to the reduction in end-to-end latency.
RedMAX 4C Remote Radio Head (RRH) implements Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD).
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Advanced RF capability allows higher output power with reduced power consumption with the added benefit of reducing
both adjacent and alternate channel interference enabling better spectrum utilization and tighter frequency reuse.
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What Are The Unique Attributes Of
A Redline Solution?
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Redline provides highly differentiated product families for the utility market:
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RedMAX and RedCONNEX/RedACCESS AN-80i with RMS Element Management.
Each product set is optimized for a particular band class and the application set and
use cases that characterize this band class.
• 1.8 GHz
• 2.5 GHz
• 3.3 – 3.8 GHz
• 3.65 GHz
• 4.9 GHz
• 5.4 GHz
• 5.8 GHz
• OFDM / OFDMA
• MIMO
• Both IP & Ethernet
Architecture
• Wide Channel Bandwidth
• Spectrum Options
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RedMAX EX-200 is Redline’s 802.16e-2005 based product selected by Hydro
One for use in its Smart Zone living lab.
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Redline’s product set has been optimized for use by utility customers based upon the
market requirements for both transmission and distribution applications.
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Sample Utility Market Customers using
Redline’s Broadband Wireless Platforms
Yunnan Provincial
Power Group
Corporation
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The Ideal Broadband Wireless Platform For Utilities
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Redline has core technology DNA and proven
platform implementations of this DNA – AN-80i,
RedMAX, RedMAX 4C
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Engineering team capable of development versus
integration
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Proven expertise in Broadband Wireless with utility
reference customers in both emerging and developed
markets
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