Abstract
The Home Area Market is now emerging within the smart grid sector to serve home with digital application solutions and energy management. Home Area Network has high implications for homeowners, utilities and smart grid vendors, as utilities are seeking means to implement demand side management programs. The installed base of smart home networks globally is expected to increase from 1.5 million homes in 2009 to 14.7 million in 2014. [1] The next big thing after smart meters is sending messages from those meters to in-home displays, smart thermostats, and smart appliances. These messages contain the usage, pricing, and control information that enable consumers to capture the desired smart meter and Smart Grid benefits of demand response, energy efficiency, renewables integration, distributed generation, and electric vehicle charging. The main goal of this project is to study the behavior of the HAN using Direct Propagation Model and the Path loss model. The Path loss model used is the project is Gauss Siedel Model. The path loss model was used to see the difference in attenuation when there is free space and when the obstacles/materials from boundary walls are introduced. Various simulation studies were performed by varying the transmission parameters, such as loss coefficients of materials, and graphs were generated to compare results. The results give us better understanding of the how the HAN networks work along with measuring the loss of signal during propagation from transmitter to receiver.