The functionsof Data SourceSimulationSystem are designedandrealizedin this paper. With an electric power networkexample, the functions of Data Source Simulation System are verified.
The change came as Itron's research group in Paris realized it could exploit inexpensive new wireless chips and open-source software to create a so-called mesh network of electric meters that passed information among themselves, like firemen in a bucket brigade, instead of relying on expensive and less reliable individual connections to the Internet.