IoT Remote Control
The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on December 12 that its research engineers have been sent to Norway to assist in the project Nuri Telecom won in the country late last year by combining its remote meter product with the ETRI’s Nano Qplus micro operating system and advanced wireless communications technology. The project won by Nuri Telecom is worth 80 billion won (US$72 million) and 740,000 remote meters.
In the project, the Nano Qplus is to be built into the communication modules of power meters at houses in the country so that power metering can be carried out based on automatic and remote power consumption data transmission.
The smart meters accommodating the Nano Qplus and installed in the houses are to form wireless communication networks to be connected to servers through gateway modules housing the Nano Qplus. The smart meters measure power consumption every 15 minutes and the data is collected by the servers via the networks. A trial service covering 1,500 houses is scheduled in Bergen.
The Nano Qplus and the time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH) adopted for the project are characterized by high reliability, light weight, and low power consumption. They comply with international standards and are suitable for large-area sites, too. The ETRI is going to keep developing the technology so that it can be used with industrial IoT services in the fields including factory monitoring and automated process control.