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.

Wireless data and image double-acquisition anti-electricity theft monitoring system and method thereof

Abstract: The invention discloses a wireless data-image dual acquirement anti-electricity-theft monitoring system and method which uses a microwave body sensor to conduct the real time detection to activities of people around an electricity meter box. Based on the method of the image shooting of a camera, the monitoring system provided by the invention uses a camera to continuously shoot and store the images of the activities of people around the electricity meter box and can real time transmit alarming information, electricity meter data and image information to a motoring server through GPRS network; and then, the motoring server can send the received alarming information to the mobile phones or computers of users in time, and users can read the alarming information from the mobile phones or computers of users in distance. Besides the functions of remote electricity meter data acquiring, the anti-electricity-theft monitoring and real-time alarming, the monitoring system also can transmit field images in time and obtain images stored by field equipment later for providing convincible proofs during handling the electricity theft of illegal users.

Electronic electricity meter configured to correct for transformer inaccuracies

Abstract: The present invention, in one embodiment, is an electronic electricity meter which includes voltage sensors configured to generate measurements of voltage at voltage elements, current sensors configured to generate measurements of current through current elements, a microcomputer coupled to the current and voltage sensors and configured to control operation of the meter, and a memory coupled to the microcomputer including calibration constants to compensate for instrument transformer ratio and phase angle errors, the microcomputer configured to use the calibration constants, when so instructed, to correct for measurement errors that occur based upon instrument transformer ratios and phase angles, to correct metering quantities calculated by the microcomputer.

Electronic electricity meter having configurable contacts

Abstract: A three-phase electronic electricity meter that includes configurable voltage sensing blades such that the electricity meter can be configured for use with various electrical service types. The electricity meter includes a base having a configuration to correspond to standard ANSI-type sockets. The meter base includes a plurality of individual voltage sensing blades that are received by the ANSI socket. At least one of the voltage sensing blades is movable between a first and a second position such that the voltage sensing blade contacts different areas on a meter circuit board in the first and second positions. A common circuit board can be utilized for different electrical service types and the contact arrangement can be selectively configured by moving the voltage sensing blades between their first and second positions.

Auxiliary power supply for supplying power to additional functions within a meter

Abstract: An electronic meter for measuring electricity consumption is provided that includes extra functionality without significantly increasing cost or complexity of the meter. The meter includes a capacitor for storing energy during normal operation of the meter. The output voltage of the capacitor is used as the input to an auxiliary power supply that is used to power the meter during a power outage. The auxiliary power supply may provide sufficient power to enable the meter to transmit a power outage signal to alert a utility of the power outage. Service disconnect circuitry is also included within the meter to disconnect or reconnect service to the load when desired. The energy stored on the capacitor can be used to energize a relay within the service disconnect circuitry to open or re-close the line to the load. Thus, the single capacitor is used to provide power to two different meter functions.

Electric meter cover

Abstract: An electric meter cover of an integrally molded construction which reduces cost of manufacture and increases performance by reducing number of seals required. The cover of the invention includes provision for an optic probe, a viewing window and a reset arrangement allowing the meter to be reset without removing the cover and in a one movement operation, which simplifies the reset operation.