Patent Application
20180309322
The present disclosure relates to the communications field, and more further, to an information transmission system, an information transmission method, and an information transmission device in the communications field.
A power system includes a power network and a communications network. The power network is used to transmit electricity, and the communications network is used to transmit information. The communications network in the power system may be classified into a backbone network, a metropolitan area network, and an access network. The access network is mainly used to collect monitoring information of a power distribution network at a city or county level and deliver control messages. For an existing access network technology, an architecture of a mobile communications network (such as a cellular system) is usually used, and a smart meter, a power distribution facility, and the like are directly connected to a cellular network to collect monitoring information and deliver control messages. However, terminals, such as smart meters, of the power system are in relatively fixed positions and are usually in a huge quantity, and the architecture of the existing mobile communications network is not flexible enough to accommodate the access network of the power system, and cannot meet communication requirements of the power system.
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information transmission system, an information transmission method, and an information transmission device. The information transmission system can improve networking flexibility of a communications network in an existing power system such that network construction costs can be reduced, and communication requirements of the power system can be better met.
According to a first aspect, an information transmission system is provided, including a power system control center, a network device, a transmission device, and at least one system terminal. The network device belongs to a wide area network. Some or all system terminals of the at least one system terminal are configured to send at least one first report message to the transmission device, where the at least one first report message is transmitted using a first network transmission protocol. The transmission device is configured to send at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device based on information in the at least one first report message, where the at least one second report message is transmitted using a second network transmission protocol that is different from the first network protocol.
The wide area network may be a cellular network, or may be a cable Internet.
The foregoing report message may be autonomously reported by a terminal, or may be triggered and reported in response to a control message delivered by the power system control center. In this way, the power system control center may know related information of a system terminal based on the second report message. For example, when the system terminal is an electricity meter of a user, the power system control center may know a power consumption status of the user.
An existing cellular system for which mobility of terminal positions is fully considered has a complex mobility management module, but in a power distribution network, positions of a smart meter and a power distribution terminal are relatively fixed. Therefore, the mobility management module is not required in the power distribution network at all. In addition, because one base station can support a limited quantity of user equipments, a large quantity of base stations need to be built if a smart meter, a power distribution facility, and the like are directly connected to the cellular system, resulting in extremely high construction costs, and if only a relatively small quantity of base stations are built, connection requirements of a large quantity of smart meters and power distribution facilities cannot be met.
According to the information transmission system in this embodiment of the present disclosure, first, a plurality of system terminals are connected to the transmission device, the transmission device receives report information sent by the plurality of system terminals and processes the report information, and then the transmission device communicates with the power system control center using the wide area network. This can avoid relatively heavy load of the wide area network due to direct communication between the system terminals and the wide area network, increase a network throughput, and therefore meet requirements of communication between the plurality of system terminals and a power system terminal. In addition, according to the present disclosure, when the information transmission system is constructed using the wide area network, because the system terminals do not need to be directly connected to the network device, a quantity of network devices can be reduced, for example, a quantity of base stations can be reduced, thereby reducing network construction costs.
With reference to the first aspect, in a first possible implementation of the first aspect, in the aspect of sending at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device based on information in the at least one first report message, the transmission device may be configured to process the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, generate the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, and send the at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the first aspect, in a second possible implementation of the first aspect, in the aspect of processing the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message, the transmission device may be configured to screen the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain screened information, and correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, the transmission device may be configured to generate the at least one second report message based on the screened information and the second network transmission protocol, or aggregate the at least one piece of first report information based on the report time of the at least one first report message to obtain aggregated information, and correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, the transmission device is configured to generate the at least one second report message based on the aggregated information and the second network transmission protocol.
Screening or aggregating information in a first report message before transmission can increase a network throughput and reduce load of the wide area network.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the first aspect, in a third possible implementation of the first aspect, the system further includes a first information processing device, where the first information processing device may be configured to receive the at least one first report message sent by some or all system terminals of the at least one system terminal, process the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain a processed message, where the processed message includes the information in the at least one first report message, and send the processed message to the transmission device using the first network transmission protocol, and correspondingly, in the aspect of sending at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device based on information in the at least one first report message, the transmission device may be configured to generate the at least one second report message based on the processed message and the second network transmission protocol, and send the at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the first aspect, in a fourth possible implementation of the first aspect, in the aspect of processing the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain a processed message, the first information processing device may be configured to screen the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain the processed message, or aggregate the information in the at least one first report message based on the report time of the at least one first report message to obtain the processed message.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the first aspect, in a fifth possible implementation of the first aspect, the system further includes a second information processing device, where the second information processing device may be configured to receive the at least one second report message sent by the transmission device, process the at least one second report message based on content or a report time of the at least one second report message to obtain at least one processed message, and send the at least one processed message to the power system control center using the network device, where the at least one processed message is transmitted using the second network transmission protocol.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the first aspect, in a sixth possible implementation of the first aspect, in the aspect of processing the at least one second report message based on content or a report time of the at least one second report message, the second information processing device may be configured to screen information in the at least one second report message based on the content of the at least one second report message to obtain the processed message, or aggregate information in the at least one second report message based on the time of the at least one second report message to obtain the processed message.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementations of the first aspect, in a seventh possible implementation of the first aspect, the power system control center may further send at least one first control message to the transmission device using the network device, where the at least one first control information is transmitted using the second network transmission protocol, the transmission device is configured to send at least one second control message to the at least one system terminal based on information in the at least one first control message, where the at least one second control message is transmitted using the first network transmission protocol that is different from the second network transmission protocol.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementations of the first aspect, in an eighth possible implementation of the first aspect, the first network transmission protocol may be a wireless local area network WI-FI protocol.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementations of the first aspect, in a ninth possible implementation of the first aspect, the first network transmission protocol may be an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) over low power wireless personal area network (6LoWPAN) protocol or a ZIGBEE protocol.
According to a second aspect, an information transmission system is provided, including a power system control center, a network device, a first transmission device, a second transmission device, and at least one system terminal. The network device belongs to a wide area network. The wide area network may be a cellular network, or may be a cable Internet. Some or all system terminals of the at least one system terminal are configured to send at least one first report message to the first transmission device, where the at least one first report message is transmitted using a first network transmission protocol. The first transmission device is configured to send at least one second report message to the second network transmission device based on information in the at least one first report message, where the at least one second report message is transmitted using a second network transmission protocol that is different from the first network protocol. The second transmission device is configured to send at least one third report message to the power system control center using the network device based on information in the at least one second report message, where the at least one third report message is transmitted using a third network transmission protocol that is different from the first network protocol and the second network transmission protocol.
The wide area network may be a cellular network, or may be a cable Internet.
In this way, the power system control center may know related information of a system terminal based on the third report message. For example, when the system terminal is an electricity meter of a user, the power system control center may know a power consumption status of the user.
According to the information transmission system in this embodiment of the present disclosure, the first transmission device receives report information sent by a plurality of system terminals and processes the report information, then the second transmission device processes information sent by the first transmission device, and the second transmission device communicates with the power system control center using the wide area network. This can avoid relatively heavy load of the wide area network due to direct communication between the system terminals and the wide area network, increase a network throughput, and therefore meet requirements of communication between the plurality of system terminals and a power system terminal. In addition, according to the present disclosure, when the information transmission system is constructed using the wide area network, because the system terminals do not need to be directly connected to the network device, a quantity of network devices can be reduced, for example, a quantity of base stations can be reduced, thereby reducing network construction costs.
With reference to the second aspect, in a first possible implementation of the second aspect, in the aspect of sending at least one second report message to the second transmission device based on information in the at least one first report message, the first transmission device may be configured to process the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain first processed information, generate the at least one second report message based on the first processed information and the second network transmission protocol, and send the at least one second report message to the second transmission device.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementations of the second aspect, in a second possible implementation of the second aspect, in the aspect of sending at least one third report message to the power system control center using the network device based on information in the at least one second report message, the second transmission device may be configured to process the at least one second report message based on content or a report time of the at least one second report message to obtain second processed information, generate the at least one third report message based on the second processed information and the third network transmission protocol, and send the at least one third report message to the power system control center using the network device.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the second aspect, in a third possible implementation of the second aspect, in the aspect of processing the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message, the first transmission device may be configured to screen the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain first screened information, and correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one second report message based on the first processed information and the second network transmission protocol, the first transmission device is configured to generate the at least one second report message based on the first screened information and the second network transmission protocol, or aggregate the at least one piece of first report information based on the report time of the at least one first report message to obtain first aggregated information, and correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one second report message based on the first processed information and the second network transmission protocol, the first transmission device may be configured to generate the at least one second report message based on the first aggregated information and the second network transmission protocol.
Screening or aggregating information in a first report message before transmission can increase a network throughput and reduce load of the wide area network.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the second aspect, in a fourth possible implementation of the second aspect, in the aspect of processing the at least one second report message based on content or a report time of the at least one second report message to obtain second processed information, the second transmission device may be configured to screen the information in the at least one second report message based on the content of the at least one second report message to obtain second screened information, and correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one third report message based on the second processed information and the third network transmission protocol, the second transmission device is configured to generate the at least one third report message based on the second screened information and the third network transmission protocol, or aggregate the at least one piece of second report information based on the report time of the at least one second report message to obtain second aggregated information, and correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one third report message based on the second processed information and the third network transmission protocol, the second transmission device is configured to generate the at least one third report message based on the second aggregated information and the third network transmission protocol.
Screening or aggregating information in a first report message before transmission can increase a network throughput and reduce load of the wide area network.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the second aspect, in a fifth possible implementation of the second aspect, the system may further include a first information processing device, where the first information processing device may be configured to receive the at least one first report message sent by some or all system terminals of the at least one system terminal, process the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain a first processed message, where the first processed message includes the information in the at least one first report message, send the first processed message to the first transmission device, and correspondingly, in the aspect of sending at least one second report message to the second network transmission device based on information in the at least one first report message, the first transmission device may be configured to send the at least one second report message to the second network transmission device based on the first processed message.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementations of the second aspect, in a sixth possible implementation of the second aspect, the system may further include a second information processing device, where the second information processing device may be configured to receive the at least one second report message sent by the second network transmission device, process the at least one second report message based on content or a report time of the at least one second report message to obtain a second processed message, where the second processed message includes the information in the at least one second report message, and send the second processed message to the second transmission device, and correspondingly, in the aspect of sending at least one third report message to the power system control center using the network device based on information in the at least one second report message, the second transmission device may be configured to send the at least one third report message to the power system control center using the network device based on the second processed message.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the second aspect, in a seventh possible implementation of the second aspect, in the aspect of processing the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain a first processed message, the first information processing device may be configured to screen the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain the first processed message, or aggregate the information in the at least one first report message based on the report time of the at least one first report message to obtain the first processed message.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the second aspect, in an eighth possible implementation of the second aspect, the system further includes a third information processing device, where the third information processing device may be configured to receive the at least one second report message sent by the first transmission device, process the at least one second report message based on content or a report time of the at least one second report message to obtain a first processed message, and send the first processed message to the second transmission device, and correspondingly, the second transmission device may be configured to generate the at least one third report message based on the first processed message and the third network transmission protocol, and send the third report message to the power system control center using the network device.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the second aspect, in a ninth possible implementation of the second aspect, in the aspect of processing the at least one second report message based on content or a report time of the at least one second report message, the third information processing device may be configured to screen the information in the at least one second report message based on the content of the at least one second report message to obtain the first processed message, or aggregate the information in the at least one second report message based on the time of the at least one second report message to obtain the first processed message.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementations of the second aspect, in a tenth possible implementation of the second aspect, the network device is configured to receive at least one first control message sent by the power system control center, where the first control message is transmitted using the third network transmission protocol, the second transmission device is configured to send a second control message to the first network device based on information in the at least one first control message, where the at least one second control message is transmitted using the second network transmission protocol that is different from the third network transmission protocol, and the first transmission device is configured to send at least one third control message to the at least one system terminal based on information in the at least one second control message, where the third control message is transmitted using the first network transmission protocol that is different from the third network transmission protocol and the second network transmission protocol.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementations of the second aspect, in an eleventh possible implementation of the second aspect, the second network transmission protocol is a wireless local area network WI-FI protocol.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementations of the second aspect, in a twelfth possible implementation of the second aspect, the first network transmission protocol is a 6LoWPAN protocol or a ZIGBEE protocol.
According to a third aspect, an information transmission method is provided, where the method includes receiving, by a transmission device, at least one first report message sent by some or all system terminals of at least one system terminal, where the at least one first report message is transmitted using a first network transmission protocol, and sending, by the transmission device, at least one second report message to a power system control center using a network device based on information in the at least one first report message, where the at least one second report message is transmitted using a second network transmission protocol that is different from the first network protocol, and the network device belongs to a wide area network.
According to the information transmission method in this embodiment of the present disclosure, first, a plurality of system terminals are connected to the transmission device, the transmission device receives report information sent by the plurality of system terminals and processes the report information, and then the transmission device communicates with the power system control center using the wide area network. This can avoid relatively heavy load of the wide area network due to direct communication between the system terminals and the wide area network, increase a network throughput, and therefore meet requirements of communication between the plurality of system terminals and a power system terminal. In addition, according to the present disclosure, when the information transmission system is constructed using the wide area network, because the system terminals do not need to be directly connected to the network device, a quantity of network devices can be reduced, for example, a quantity of base stations can be reduced, thereby reducing network construction costs.
With reference to the third aspect, in a first possible implementation of the third aspect, the sending, by the transmission device, at least one second report message to a power system control center using a network device based on information in the at least one first report message includes processing, by the transmission device, the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, generating, by the transmission device, the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, and sending, by the transmission device, the at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the third aspect, in a second possible implementation of the third aspect, processing, by the transmission device, the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain a processed message includes screening, by the transmission device, the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain screened information, and generating, by the transmission device, the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol includes generating, by the transmission device, the at least one second report message based on the screened information and the second network transmission protocol.
With reference to the foregoing possible implementation of the third aspect, in a third possible implementation of the third aspect, processing, by the transmission device, the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain a processed message includes aggregating, by the transmission device, the at least one piece of first report information based on the report time of the at least one first report message to obtain aggregated information, and generating, by the transmission device, the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol comprises generating, by the transmission device, the at least one second report message based on the aggregated information and the second network transmission protocol.
According to a fourth aspect, an information transmission device is provided, including a receiving module and a sending module.
The receiving module may receive at least one first report message sent by some or all system terminals of at least one system terminal. The at least one first report message is transmitted using a first network transmission protocol.
The sending module may send at least one second report message to a power system control center using a network device based on information in the at least one first report message. The at least one second report message is transmitted using a second network transmission protocol that is different from the first network protocol, and the network device belongs to a wide area network.
The information transmission device in this embodiment of the present disclosure receives report information sent by a plurality of system terminals, processes the report information, and then communicates with the power system control center using the wide area network. This can avoid relatively heavy load of the wide area network due to direct communication between the system terminals and the wide area network, increase a network throughput, and therefore meet requirements of communication between the plurality of system terminals and a power system terminal. In addition, according to the present disclosure, when the information transmission system is constructed using the wide area network, because the system terminals do not need to be directly connected to the network device, a quantity of network devices can be reduced, for example, a quantity of base stations can be reduced, thereby reducing network construction costs.
With reference to the fourth aspect, in a first possible implementation of the fourth aspect, in the aspect of sending at least one second report message to a power system control center using a network device based on information in the at least one first report message, the sending module is configured to process the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, generate the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, and send the at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device.
With reference to the fourth aspect, in a second possible implementation of the fourth aspect, in the aspect of processing the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, the sending module is further configured to screen the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain screened information, and correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, the sending module is further configured to generate the at least one second report message based on the screened information and the second network transmission protocol.
With reference to the fourth aspect, in a third possible implementation of the fourth aspect, in the aspect of processing the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, the sending module is further configured to aggregate the at least one piece of first report information based on the report time of the at least one first report message to obtain aggregated information, and correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, the sending module is further configured to generate the at least one second report message based on the aggregated information and the second network transmission protocol.
According to a fifth aspect, an information transmission device is provided, including a processor, a receiver, and a transmitter. The processor, the transmitter, and the receiver are connected using a system bus.
The processor may invoke the receiver to receive at least one first report message sent by some or all system terminals of at least one system terminal, where the at least one first report message is transmitted using a first network transmission protocol.
The processor may further invoke the transmitter to send at least one second report message to a power system control center using a network device based on information in the at least one first report message, where the at least one second report message is transmitted using a second network transmission protocol that is different from the first network protocol, and the network device belongs to a wide area network.
The information transmission device in this embodiment of the present disclosure receives report information sent by a plurality of system terminals, processes the report information, and then communicates with the power system control center using the wide area network. This can avoid relatively heavy load of the wide area network due to direct communication between the system terminals and the wide area network, increase a network throughput, and therefore meet requirements of communication between the plurality of system terminals and a power system terminal. In addition, according to the present disclosure, when the information transmission system is constructed using the wide area network, because the system terminals do not need to be directly connected to the network device, a quantity of network devices can be reduced, for example, a quantity of base stations can be reduced, thereby reducing network construction costs.
With reference to the fifth aspect, in a first possible implementation of the fifth aspect, the processor may further process the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, generate the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, and invoke the transmitter to send the at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device.
With reference to the fifth aspect, in a second possible implementation of the fifth aspect, in the aspect of processing the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, the processor is further configured to screen the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain screened information, and correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, the transmitter is further configured to generate the at least one second report message based on the screened information and the second network transmission protocol.
With reference to the fifth aspect, in the third possible implementation of the fifth aspect, in the aspect of processing the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, the processor is further configured to screen the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain aggregated information, and correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, the processor is configured to generate the at least one second report message based on the aggregated information and the second network transmission protocol.
According to the information transmission system, the information transmission method, and the information transmission device in the embodiments of the present disclosure, relatively heavy load of the wide area network due to direct communication between the system terminals and the wide area network can be avoided, and a network throughput can be increased, thereby meeting requirements of communication between the plurality of system terminals and a power system terminal. In addition, according to the present disclosure, when the information transmission system is constructed using the wide area network, because the system terminals do not need to be directly connected to the network device, a quantity of network devices can be reduced, for example, a quantity of base stations can be reduced, thereby reducing network construction costs.
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The network device 120 belongs to a wide area network. The wide area network may be a cellular network, or may be a cable Internet.
The cellular network may be a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network, a general packet radio system (GPRS) communications network, a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network, a Long Term Evolution (LTE) communications network, an LTE Advanced (LTE-A) network, a future fifth generation (5G) network, or the like. A specific form of the cellular network is not limited in the present disclosure.
The system terminal 140 may be a monitoring terminal, or may be a metering terminal. The monitoring terminal may be a power distribution component or the like, and the metering terminal may be a smart meter or the like. The system may include one system terminal, or include a plurality of system terminals. For example, five system terminals 140 may be connected to one transmission device 130. A specific quantity of the system terminals 140 connected to one transmission device 130 is related to a loading capability of the transmission device 130, and
Some or all system terminals of at least one system terminal 140 may send at least one first report message to the transmission device 130. The at least one first report message is transmitted using a first network transmission protocol. The transmission device 130 may send at least one second report message to the power system control center 110 using the network device 120 based on information in the at least one first report message. The at least one second report message is transmitted using a second network transmission protocol that is different from the first network protocol.
For example, when the system terminal 140 is a smart meter, the smart meter may report information to the transmission device 130 at regular intervals, for example, at the beginning of each month, where the information may represent a power consumption status of a user. The transmission device may perform corresponding processing, such as protocol conversion, on the information, and send processed information to the network device 120. Then, the network device 120 sends the processed information to the power system control center 110. The power system control center 110 may know the power consumption status of the user using the processed information to achieve an objective of intelligent monitoring.
An existing cellular system for which mobility of terminal positions is fully considered has a complex mobility management module, but in a power distribution network, positions of a smart meter and a power distribution terminal are relatively fixed. Therefore, the mobility management module is not required in the power distribution network at all. In addition, because one base station can support a limited quantity of user equipments, a large quantity of base stations need to be built if a smart meter, a power distribution facility, and the like are directly connected to the cellular system, resulting in extremely high construction costs, and if only a relatively small quantity of base stations are built, connection requirements of a large quantity of smart meters and power distribution facilities cannot be met.
According to the information transmission system in this embodiment of the present disclosure, first, a plurality of system terminals are connected to the transmission device, the transmission device receives report information sent by the plurality of system terminals and processes the report information, and then the transmission device communicates with the power system control center using the wide area network. This can avoid relatively heavy load of the wide area network due to direct communication between the system terminals and the wide area network, increase a network throughput, and therefore meet requirements of communication between the plurality of system terminals and a power system terminal. In addition, according to the present disclosure, when the information transmission system is constructed using the wide area network, because the system terminals do not need to be directly connected to the network device, a quantity of network devices can be reduced, for example, a quantity of base stations can be reduced, thereby reducing network construction costs.
It should be understood that, in this embodiment of the present disclosure, the system may include only one network device 120, or include a plurality of network devices 120, and each network device 120 may be connected to at least one transmission device 130.
Optionally, when sending the at least one second report message to the power system control center 110 using the network device 120 based on the information in the at least one first report message, the transmission device 130 may process the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, then generate the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, and finally, send the at least one second report message to the power system control center 110 using the network device 120.
As an example, the transmission device 130 may screen the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain screened information, then generate the at least one second report message based on the screened information and the second network transmission protocol, and finally, send the at least one second report message to the power system control center 110 using the network device 120.
As another example, the transmission device 130 may further aggregate the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain aggregated information, then generate the at least one second report message based on the aggregated information and the second network transmission protocol, and finally, send the at least one second report message to the power system control center 110 using the network device 120.
Further, the transmission device 130 may screen the at least one first report message, such as metering information and/or monitoring information and upload wanted information, but not upload unwanted information. Certainly, the transmission device 130 may not screen the at least one first report message, and directly upload the at least one first report message to the network device 120. The transmission device 130 may further wait until a plurality of first report messages, such as metering information and/or monitoring information, are received, and then perform aggregation and uploading. The transmission device 130 may set an upload period, and periodically upload messages. A same period or different periods may be set for different types of system terminals. For example, when the system terminals are mainly metering terminals, such as smart meters, and the first report messages are mainly metering information, the metering information may be uploaded in the following manners.
(1) Set a period, perform no determining, and directly perform uploading.
Real-time information, namely a first report message, fed back by a metering terminal, such as a smart meter, may be uploaded every 15 minutes. For example, for a plurality of metering terminals, information of a metering terminal 1 may be uploaded at moments such as T1, T1+15 min, and the like, and information of a metering terminal 2 may be uploaded at moments such as T2, T2+15 min, and the like. Different periods may also be set for different terminals. For example, a period of a terminal 1 is 15 minutes, and a period of a terminal 2 is 40 minutes.
(2) Set a period, perform no determining, and perform aggregation and uploading.
Both the information of the metering terminal 1 and the information of the metering terminal 2 may be uploaded at moments such as T0, T0+15 min, and the like.
(3) Set a period, perform determining, when there is variation, directly perform uploading, and when there is no variation, and do not perform uploading.
Determining may be performed on information of a metering terminal every five minutes, if there is variation, the information is uploaded, otherwise, the information is not uploaded.
(4) Set a period, perform determining, and perform aggregation and uploading.
Determining is performed on metering information that uses a same transmission protocol, and metering information that is varied in this period is aggregated and uploaded.
Monitoring information mainly comes from a monitoring terminal, such as an electricity distribution automation terminal. The transmission device 130 may also upload the monitoring information in the foregoing metering information uploading manners. For simplicity, details are not described herein again.
In addition, for a feedback that is from a power terminal and is about such as an electric wire, determining may be performed first. If the feedback exceeds a threshold 1 and is lower than a threshold 2, the feedback is uploaded, otherwise, the feedback is not uploaded. The threshold herein may be a rated voltage of the electric wire, or a rated current of the electric wire. A specific form of the threshold is not limited in the present disclosure.
It should be noted that, the transmission device 130 needs to perform protocol conversion on screened or aggregated information, that is, the screened information or the aggregated information, in the foregoing description such that the screened information or the aggregated information is transmitted using the second network transmission protocol, to ensure that the network device 120 can correctly receive the screened information or the aggregated information.
Therefore, according to the information transmission system in this embodiment of the present disclosure, screening or aggregating information in a first report message before transmission can increase a network throughput and reduce load of the wide area network or the network device 120.
Optionally, as shown in
To be specific, the first information processing device 150 may first process the first report message based on the content or the report time of the first report message, and then send the processed message to the transmission device 130. The transmission device 130 performs protocol conversion on the processed message, and sends the processed message using the second network transmission protocol.
Further, the first information processing device 150 may screen information in the first report message based on the content of the first report message to obtain the foregoing processed message. The first information processing device 150 may further aggregate the information in the first report message based on the report time of the first report message to obtain the foregoing processed message.
For a specific operation that the first information processing device 150 screens or aggregates the information in the first report message, refer to the foregoing manner in which the transmission device 130 screens or aggregates the information in the first report message. For simplicity, details are not described herein again.
Optionally, as shown in
Further, information in the second report message received by the second information processing device 160 is the same as information in the first report message, and only a different network transmission protocol is used. After receiving the second report message, the second information processing device 160 may screen or aggregate the information in the second report message based on the content or the report time of the second report message to obtain the foregoing processed message, and then send the processed message to the power system control center 110 using the network device 120.
Similarly, for a specific operation that the second information processing device 160 screens or aggregates the information in the second report message, refer to the foregoing manner in which the transmission device 130 screens or aggregates the information in the first report message. For simplicity, details are not described herein again.
Optionally, the power system control center 110 may further send at least one first control message to the transmission device 130 using the network device 120. The at least one first control information is transmitted using the second network transmission protocol. The transmission device 130 may send at least one second control message to the at least one system terminal 140 based on information in the at least one first control message. The at least one second control message is transmitted using the first network transmission protocol that is different from the second network transmission protocol.
For a manner in which the transmission device 130 processes the control information, refer to the foregoing manner of processing report information. For simplicity, details are not described herein again.
As an example, at least one report message is a feedback message in response to the at least one second control message.
Further, for example, when the power system control center 110 needs to know some parameters of an electric wire of a line, the power system control center 110 may send a control message to the transmission device 130 using the network device 120, after receiving the control message, the transmission device 130 generates, based on information in the control message, another control message related to the information, and sends the other control message to the system terminal 140 using the second network transmission protocol. After receiving the message, a monitoring terminal on the line or on the electric wire performs corresponding detection on the electric wire, and sends detection information, namely a report message, to the transmission device 130. The transmission device may perform related processing on the report message, for example, screen information in the report message, and send a processed message to the power system control center 110 using the network device 120. In this way, an objective of intelligent detection may be achieved.
Optionally, the first network transmission protocol may be a wireless local area network WI-FI protocol.
To be specific, the system terminal 140 sends the first report message using the WI-FI protocol, or receives the second control message that is transmitted using the WI-FI protocol.
Optionally, the first network transmission protocol may be further a 6LoWPAN protocol or a ZIGBEE protocol.
To be specific, the system terminal 140 sends the first report message using the 6LoWPAN protocol or the ZIGBEE protocol, or receives the second control message that is transmitted using the 6LoWPAN protocol or the ZIGBEE protocol.
It should be noted that a specific communications protocol used by the system terminal is not limited in this embodiment of the present disclosure. For example, because a personal area network constructed based on the 6LoWPAN protocol can meet a requirement of a system terminal of low power consumption or a low rate, in the information transmission system, a system terminal, such as a smart meter, that has a low requirement on a transmission rate may communicate with the transmission device 120 using the 6LoWPAN protocol. Because some detection terminals need to report detected information in real time, the detection terminals may communicate with the transmission device 120 using the WI-FI protocol.
The network device 220 belongs to a wide area network. The wide area network may be a cellular network, or may be a cable Internet.
For a specific form of the cellular network, refer to a network form used by the network device 120 in the system shown in
Similarly, for a specific form of the system terminal 250, also refer to the system terminal 140 in the system shown in
Some or all system terminals of at least one system terminal 250 may send at least one first report message to the first transmission device 240. The at least one first report message is transmitted using a first network transmission protocol. The first transmission device 240 may send at least one second report message to the second transmission device 230 based on information in the at least one first report message. The at least one second report message is transmitted using a second network transmission protocol. The second transmission device 230 may send at least one third report message to the power system control center 210 using the network device 220 based on information in the at least one second report message. The at least one third report message is transmitted using a third network transmission protocol, and the first network transmission protocol, the second network transmission protocol, and the third network transmission protocol are different from each other.
For example, when the system terminal 250 is a smart meter, a power consumption status of a user that is monitored by a plurality of smart meters may be first reported to the first transmission device 240. The first transmission device 240 may process a reported message, and then transmits the reported message to the second transmission device 230 using the second network transmission protocol. The second network device 230 may directly perform protocol conversion on the reported message, and then send the reported message to the network device 220. The network device 220 may send, to the power system control center 210, the message sent by the second transmission device 230. In this way, the power system control center may know the power consumption status of the user based on the message reported by the second network device to achieve an objective of intelligent monitoring.
According to the information transmission system in this embodiment of the present disclosure, the first transmission device receives report information sent by a plurality of system terminals and processes the report information, then the second transmission device processes information sent by the first transmission device, and the second transmission device communicates with the power system control center using the wide area network. This can avoid relatively heavy load of the wide area network due to direct communication between the system terminals and the wide area network, increase a network throughput, and therefore meet requirements of communication between the plurality of system terminals and a power system terminal. In addition, according to the present disclosure, when the information transmission system is constructed using the wide area network, because the system terminals do not need to be directly connected to the network device, a quantity of network devices can be reduced, for example, a quantity of base stations can be reduced, thereby reducing network construction costs.
Optionally, the first transmission device 240 may process the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain first processed information, generate the at least one second report message based on the first processed information and the second network transmission protocol, and send the at least one second report message to the second transmission device 230.
For a specific manner in which the first transmission device 240 processes the first report message, refer to the manner in which the transmission device 130 processes the first report message in
Optionally, the second transmission device 230 may process the at least one second report message based on content or a report time of the at least one second report message to obtain second processed information, generate the at least one third report message based on the second processed information and the third network transmission protocol, and send the at least one third report message to the power system control center 210 using the network device 220.
For a specific manner in which the second transmission device 230 processes the second report message, refer to the manner in which the transmission device 130 processes the first report message in
Optionally, as shown in
Optionally, the first information processing device 260 screens the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain the first processed message. In addition, the first information processing device 260 may further aggregate the information in the at least one first report message based on the report time of the at least one first report message to obtain the first processed message.
For a specific manner in which the first information processing device 260 screens or aggregates the information in the first report message, refer to the foregoing manner in which the transmission device 130 screens or aggregates the at least one first report message. For simplicity, details are not described herein again.
Optionally, as shown in
Optionally, the second information processing device 270 screens the information in the at least one second report message based on the content of the at least one second report message to obtain the second processed message. In addition, the second information processing device 270 may further aggregate the information in the at least one second report message based on the report time of the at least one second report message to obtain the second processed message.
For a specific manner in which the second information processing device 270 screens or aggregates the information in the second report message, refer to the foregoing manner in which the transmission device 130 screens or aggregates the at least one first report message. For simplicity, details are not described herein again.
Optionally, as shown in
Optionally, the third information processing device 280 may screen the information in the at least one second report message based on the content of the at least one second report message to obtain the first processed message. In addition, the third information processing device 280 may further aggregate the information in the at least one second report message based on the time of the at least one second report message to obtain the first processed message.
Optionally, the second network transmission protocol is a wireless local area network WI-FI protocol.
Optionally, the first network transmission protocol is a 6LoWPAN protocol or a ZIGBEE protocol.
The foregoing describes in detail the information transmission systems according to the embodiments of the present disclosure with reference to
Step S310. A transmission device receives at least one first report message sent by some or all system terminals of at least one system terminal, where the at least one first report message is transmitted using a first network transmission protocol.
Step S320. The transmission device sends at least one second report message to a power system control center using a network device based on information in the at least one first report message, where the at least one second report message is transmitted using a second network transmission protocol that is different from the first network protocol, and the network device belongs to a wide area network.
According to the information transmission method in this embodiment of the present disclosure, report information sent by a plurality of system terminals is received, and the report information is processed, and then the transmission device communicates with the power system control center using the wide area network. This can avoid relatively heavy load of the wide area network due to direct communication between the system terminals and the wide area network, increase a network throughput, and therefore meet requirements of communication between the plurality of system terminals and a power system terminal. In addition, according to the present disclosure, when the information transmission system is constructed using the wide area network, because the system terminals do not need to be directly connected to the network device, a quantity of network devices can be reduced, for example, a quantity of base stations can be reduced, thereby reducing network construction costs.
Optionally, in step S320, when the transmission device sends the at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device based on the information in the at least one first report message, the transmission device may process the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, then generate the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, and finally, the transmission device may send the at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device.
Optionally, when processing the at least one first report message based on the content or the report time of the at least one first report message to obtain the processed message, the transmission device may screen the information in the at least one first report message based on the content of the at least one first report message to obtain screened information, and generate the at least one second report message based on the screened information and the second network transmission protocol.
Optionally, when processing the at least one first report message based on the content or the report time of the at least one first report message to obtain the processed message, the transmission device may further aggregate the at least one piece of first report information based on the report time of the at least one first report message to obtain aggregated information, and generate the at least one second report message based on the aggregated information and the second network transmission protocol.
For a specific manner in which the transmission device screens or aggregates the at least one piece of first report information, refer to the foregoing manner in which the transmission device 130 in the system processes the at least one first report message. For simplicity, details are not described herein again.
The receiving module 410 may be configured to receive at least one first report message sent by some or all system terminals of at least one system terminal. The at least one first report message is transmitted using a first network transmission protocol.
The sending module 420 may be configured to send at least one second report message to a power system control center using a network device based on information in the at least one first report message.
The network device belongs to a wide area network. The wide area network may be a cellular network or a cable Internet.
The at least one second report message is transmitted using a second network transmission protocol that is different from the first network protocol.
The information transmission device 400 in this embodiment of the present disclosure receives report information sent by a plurality of system terminals, processes the report information, and then communicates with the power system control center using the wide area network. This can avoid relatively heavy load of the wide area network due to direct communication between the system terminals and the wide area network, increase a network throughput, and therefore meet requirements of communication between the plurality of system terminals and a power system terminal. In addition, according to the present disclosure, when the information transmission system is constructed using the wide area network, because the system terminals do not need to be directly connected to the network device, a quantity of network devices can be reduced, for example, a quantity of base stations can be reduced, thereby reducing network construction costs.
Optionally, in the aspect of sending at least one second report message to a power system control center using a network device based on information in the at least one first report message, the sending module 420 is configured to process the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, generate the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, and send the at least one second report message to the power system control center using the network device. Correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, the sending module 420 is further configured to generate the at least one second report message based on the screened information and the second network transmission protocol.
Optionally, in the aspect of processing the at least one first report message based on content or a report time of the at least one first report message to obtain processed information, the sending module 420 is further configured to aggregate the at least one piece of first report information based on the report time of the at least one first report message to obtain aggregated information, and correspondingly, in the aspect of generating the at least one second report message based on the processed information and the second network transmission protocol, the sending module 420 is further configured to generate the at least one second report message based on the aggregated information and the second network transmission protocol.
It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present disclosure, the receiving module 410 may be implemented by a processor 530 by invoking a receiver 510, and the sending module 420 may be implemented by the processor 530 by invoking a transmitter 520, or the receiving module 410 and the sending module 420 may be implemented by the processor 530 by invoking a communications interface (having functions of both the receiver and the transmitter) as shown in
Components of the information transmission device 500 are coupled together using the system bus 550, where in addition to a data bus, the system bus 550 further includes a power bus, a control bus, and a status information bus.
The information transmission device 400 shown in
It should be understood that in this embodiment of the present disclosure, the processor 530 may be a central processing unit (CPU), or the processor 530 may be another general purpose processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), or another programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware component, or the like. The general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor 530 may be any normal processor, or the like.
A person of ordinary skill in the art may be aware that, in combination with the examples described in the embodiments disclosed in this specification, units and algorithm steps may be implemented by electronic hardware or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether the functions are performed by hardware or software depends on particular applications and design constraint conditions of the technical solutions. A person skilled in the art may use different methods to implement the described functions for each particular application, but it should not be considered that the implementation goes beyond the scope of the present disclosure.
It may be clearly understood by a person skilled in the art that, for the purpose of convenient and brief description, for a detailed working process of the foregoing system, apparatus, and unit, reference may be made to a corresponding process in the foregoing method embodiments, and details are not described herein again.
In the several embodiments provided in this application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus, and method may be implemented in other manners. For example, the described apparatus embodiment is merely an example. For example, the unit division is merely logical function division and may be other division in actual implementation. For example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be ignored or not performed. In addition, the displayed or discussed mutual couplings or direct couplings or communication connections may be implemented using some interfaces. The indirect couplings or communication connections between the apparatuses or units may be implemented in electronic, mechanical, or other forms.
The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one position, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units may be selected based on actual requirements to achieve the objectives of the solutions of the embodiments.
In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present disclosure may be integrated into one processing unit, or each of the units may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit.
When the functions are implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as an independent product, the functions may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on such an understanding, the technical solutions of the present disclosure essentially, or the part contributing to other approaches, or some of the technical solutions may be implemented in a form of a software product. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium, and includes several instructions for instructing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to perform all or some of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present disclosure. The foregoing storage medium includes any medium that can store program code, such as a universal serial bus (USB) flash drive, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.
The foregoing descriptions are merely specific implementations of the present disclosure, but are not intended to limit the protection scope of the present disclosure. Any variation or replacement readily figured out by a person skilled in the art within the technical scope disclosed in the present disclosure shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the protection scope of the present disclosure shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.
This application is a continuation of International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2015/099329 filed on Dec. 29, 2015, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
| Number | Date | Country | |
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| Parent | PCT/CN2015/099329 | Dec 2015 | US |
| Child | 16022200 | US |
