Electricity meter

About: Electricity meter is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7894 publications have been published within this topic receiving 42430 citations. The topic is also known as: electric meter & electrical meter.

The Building Data Genome Project 2, energy meter data from the ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III competition.

Abstract: This paper describes an open data set of 3,053 energy meters from 1,636 non-residential buildings with a range of two full years (2016 and 2017) at an hourly frequency (17,544 measurements per meter resulting in approximately 53.6 million measurements). These meters were collected from 19 sites across North America and Europe, with one or more meters per building measuring whole building electrical, heating and cooling water, steam, and solar energy as well as water and irrigation meters. Part of these data was used in the Great Energy Predictor III (GEPIII) competition hosted by the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) in October-December 2019. GEPIII was a machine learning competition for long-term prediction with an application to measurement and verification. This paper describes the process of data collection, cleaning, and convergence of time-series meter data, the meta-data about the buildings, and complementary weather data. This data set can be used for further prediction benchmarking and prototyping as well as anomaly detection, energy analysis, and building type classification. Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13033847

Noncontact Power Meter

Abstract: Energy metering is increasingly important in today's power grid. With real-time power meters, utilities can efficiently incorporate renewables and consumers can tailor their demand accordingly. Several high-profile attempts at delivering realtime energy analytics to users, including Google Power Meter and Microsoft Hohm, have essentially failed because of a lack of sufficient richness and access to data at adequate bandwidth for reasonable cost. High performance meters can provide adequate data, but require custom installation at prohibitive expense, e.g., requiring an electrician for installation. This paper presents hardware and signal processing algorithms that enable high bandwidth measurements of voltage, current, harmonics, and power on an aggregate electrical service (such as a residential powerline) for nonintrusive analysis with hardware that requires no special skill or safety considerations for installation.

External transformer correction in an electricity meter

Abstract: A method compensates for measurement errors of an external transformer coupled between an electricity meter and one or more power lines. The method includes a first step of obtaining at least one error rating for the external transformer. The method also includes the step of storing data representative of the at least one error rating in a memory within the meter. At some point the electricity meter is coupled to the external transformer. The method further includes the step of employing the meter to obtain at least one electricity consumption measurement value, the at least one electricity consumption value comprising either a sampled current value or a sampled voltage value. Finally, the method includes the step of causing the meter to adjust the at least one electricity consumption measurement value using at least a portion of the stored data.

@scale: insights from a large, long-lived appliance energy WSN

Abstract: We present insights obtained from conducting a year-long, 455 meter deployment of wireless plug-load electric meters in a large commercial building. We develop a stratified sampling methodology for surveying the energy use of Miscellaneous Electric Loads (MELs) in commercial buildings, and apply it to our study building. Over the deployment period, we collected over nine hundred million individual readings. Among our findings, we document the need for a dynamic, scalable IPv6 routing protocol which supports point-to-point routing and multiple points of egress. Although the meters are static physically, we find that the set of links they use is dynamic; not using such a dynamic set results in paths that are twice as long. Finally, we conduct a detailed survey of the accuracy possible with inexpensive AC metering hardware. Based on a 21-point automated calibration of a population of 500 devices, we find that it is possible to produce nearly utility-grade metering data.