Tung, Hoi YanTsang, Kim FungChui, Kwok TaiTung, Hoi ChingChi, Hao RanHancke, Gerhard P.Man, Kim Fung2015-11-112015-11-112014-02Tung, HY, Tsang, KF, Chui, KT, Tung, HC, Chi, HR, Hancke, GP & Man, KF 2014, 'The generic design of a high-traffic advanced metering infrastructure using ZigBee', IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 836-844.1551-3203 (print)1941-0050 (online)10.1109/TII.2013.2280084http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50419A multi-interface ZigBee building area network (MIZBAN) for a high-traffic advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) for high-rise buildings was developed. This supports meter management functions such as Demand Response for smart grid applications. To cater for the high-traffic communication in these building area networks (BANs), a multi-interface management framework was defined and designed to coordinate the operation between multiple interfaces based on a newly defined tree-based mesh (T-Mesh) ZigBee topology, which supports both mesh and tree routing in a single network. To evaluate MIZBAN, an experiment was set up in a five-floor building. Based on the measured data, simulations were performed to extend the analysis to a 23-floor building. These revealed that MIZBAN yields an improvement in application-layer latency of the backbone and the floor network by 75% and 67%, respectively. This paper provides the design engineer with seven recommendations for a generic MIZBAN design, which will fulfill the requirement for demand response by the U.S. government, i.e. a latency of less than 0.25 s.en© 2013 IEEE. Personal use is permitted, but republication/redistribution requires IEEE permission.Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)Building area network (BAN)Multi-interfaceSmart gridZigBeeMulti-interface ZigBee building area network (MIZBAN)Postprint Article