Round Trip Time Measurement of Embedded Proxy Gateway Communication between IEEE1888 Smart Energy and IoT Cloud Smart City Platforms

In the effective management of energy information in various cities, it needs to connect with the Smart Energy Platform (SEP), which is under the Smart City Platform (SCP) while both platforms have different communication protocols. Therefore, in this research, the development of a system to link the two platforms together to be capable of exchanging information with each other is proposed. This developed system is capable of supporting data communication between SEP and SCP using the IEEE1888 and NETPIE/ThingSpeak platforms, respectively. In this system, there are ESP8266-based proxy gateway installed between the two platforms to work collaboratively by starting with the proxy devices that read data from IEEE1888 data storage and forward to NETPIE/ThingSpeak platforms to report data from various sensors to create the connection of the system as mentioned above. As for findings in the research, the duration of data processing of communication is measured to investigate for the performance of equipment in connecting the systems and to be used as a guideline for further development to be truly practical in the future.