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Commodity Monitoring Network
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An electronic electric meter for use in a networked automatic meter reading environment is described in this article, which includes a meter microcontroller, a measurement microcontroller and a communication microcontroller.Abstract:
An electronic electric meter for use in a networked automatic meter reading environment The meter includes a meter microcontroller, a measurement microcontroller, a communication microcontroller and spread spectrum processor, and a plurality of other communication interface modules for communicating commodity utilization and power quality data to a utility The meter measures electricity usage and monitors power quality parameters for transmission to the utility over a spread spectrum local area network (LAN) to a remotely located gateway node The gateway node transmits this data to the utility over a commercially available fixed wide area network (WAN) The meter also provides direct communication to the utility over a commercially available network interface that plugs into the meter's backplane or bus system, bypassing the local area network communication link and gateway noderead more
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