Technology

Frequency

Coverage Rate

Data Rate

Application

Application Areas

ZigBee

915 MH and 2.4 GHz

30 - 100 m

Up to 250 Kbps

HAN

Energy Monitoring, Automatic Meter Reading, Home Automation

PLC

24 - 500 KHz

1 - 3 Km

2 - 3 Mbps

HAN

NAN

Automatic Meter Reading, Low Voltage Distribution

Bluetooth

2.402 - 2.48 GHz

1- 30 m

1 Mbps

HAN

Home Automation

Fiber Optic

100 - 1000 THz

AON: up to 10 Km

BPON: up to 20 - 60 km

EPON: up to 20 km

AON:100 Mbps up/down

BPON:155 - 622 Mbps

EPON: 1 Gbps

WAN

AMI, Metering reading, Distribution automation, Service switch operation

Demand response, Wide-area monitoring

WiFi

2.4 and 5 GHz

Up to 1 Km

Up to 600 Mbps

HAN, FAN

NAN, BAN, WAN

AMI

WiMAX

2.3 - 2.7 and 3.4 - 3.6 GHz

Almost 10 - 100 Km

Up to 75 Mbps

HAN, NAN

FAN, WAN

Wireless Automatic Meter, Reading, Outage Detection, AMI

GSM

850 - 1900 MHz

1 - 10 Km

14.4 Kbps

HAN

AMI, Demand Response

Satellite

1 - 40 GHz

100 - 6000 km

Iridium: 2.4 - 28 kbps

Inmarsat - B: 9.6 up to 128 kbps

BGAN: up to 1 Mbps

WAN

AMI, Remote generation plants, Electric Vehicles

Remote automation, Distribution Automation

GPRS

800 - 1900 MHz

1 - 10 Km

179 Kbps

HAN

AMI, Demand Response

Z-Wave

868 and 915 MHz

30 - 100 m

40 Kbps

HAN

Home automation, energy automation

DSL

4 KHz - MHz

ADSL: up to 5 Km

ADSL2: up to 7 km

ADSL2þ: up to 7 km

VDSL: up to 1.2 km

VDSL2: 300 m - 1.5 km

ADSL: 8 Mbps down/1.3 Mbps up

ADSL2: 12 Mbps down/ 3.5 Mbps up

ADSL2þ: 24 Mbps down/ 3.3 Mbps up

VDSL: 52 - 85 Mbps down/16 - 85 Mbps up

VDSL2: up to 200 Mbps down/up

HAN

NAN

WAN

Smart Grid City

Smart Metering

LTE Mobile Network

0.41 - 2.1 GHz

5 - 30 Km

75 Mbps - 300 Mbps

HAN

AMI

Demand Response