Aggregator to Electric Vehicle LoRaWAN Based Communication Analysis in Vehicle-to-Grid Systems in Smart Cities

Hicham Klaina; Imanol Picallo Guembe; Peio Lopez-Iturri; Jose Javier Astrain; Leyre Azpilicueta; Otman Aghzout; Ana Vazquez Alejos; Francisco Falcone

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007597

IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

Aggregator to Electric Vehicle LoRaWAN Based Communication Analysis in Vehicle-to-Grid Systems in Smart Cities

Hicham Klaina,
Imanol Picallo Guembe,
Peio Lopez-Iturri,
Jose Javier Astrain,
Leyre Azpilicueta,
Otman Aghzout,
Ana Vazquez Alejos,
Francisco Falcone

Affiliations

Hicham Klaina: ORCiD; Department of Teoría de la Señal y comunicación, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Imanol Picallo Guembe: ORCiD; Electric, Electronic and Communication Engineering Department, Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain
Peio Lopez-Iturri: ORCiD; Electric, Electronic and Communication Engineering Department, Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain
Jose Javier Astrain: ORCiD; Institute of Smart Cities, Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain
Leyre Azpilicueta: ORCiD; School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Otman Aghzout: SIGL Laboratory, ENSA-Tetouan, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
Ana Vazquez Alejos: ORCiD; Department of Teoría de la Señal y comunicación, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Francisco Falcone: ORCiD; Electric, Electronic and Communication Engineering Department, Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007597
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8
pp. 124688 – 124701

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Recently, there has been growing attention to the power grid management due to the increasing concerns on global warming. With the advancement in electric vehicles (EV) industry and the evolution in batteries, EVs become an important contributor to the grid with capability of bidirectional power exchange with the grid. In this context, Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) systems enable multiple functionalities between EVs and the corresponding aggregator. Thus, reliable, long-range communication capabilities between aggregator and EVs is compulsory. In this paper, wireless channel analysis for aggregator and electrical vehicle communication using Long-Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) technology in V2G is presented, in order to test a low-cost solution with large coverage and reduced power consumption profile. Wireless channel and system-level measurements have been performed in a real urban scenario between EV’s charging station in Pamplona (Spain) and a vehicle in motion using LoRaWAN 868 MHz devices. Wireless channel characterization is performed by implementing a full 3D urban scenario model, including elements such as buildings, vehicles, users and urban infrastructure such as lamp posts and benches. By means of in-house developed 3D Ray Launching algorithm with hybrid simulation capabilities, estimations of received power levels, signal to noise ratio and time domain parameters have been obtained, for the complete volume of the scenario under test in dense urban conditions. V2G end to end communication has been validated by implementing an intra-vehicle Controller Area Network-BUS (CAN BUS) data gathering system connected to the vehicle LoRaWAN transceiver and subsequently, to a cloud-based web service. The results show that the accurate deterministic based radio channel analysis enables to optimize the network design of LoRaWAN networks in a vehicular environment, considering inter-vehicular and infrastructure links, enabling scalable, low cost end to end data exchange for the deployment of ancillary V2G services.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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