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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.


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TL;DR: The authors propose, design, and implement a low-cost universal smart energy meter with demand-side load management and its effectiveness, flexibility, and versatility are experimentally demonstrated.
Abstract: The authors propose, design, and implement a low-cost universal smart energy meter (USEM) with demand-side load management. The meter can be used in the postpaid and prepaid modes with flexible tariff plans such as time of use, block rate tariff, and their combination. The smart meter comprises of a potential transformer, current transformer, and microcontroller unit with an embedded communication module. The connectivity among the utility authority, the smart meter, and consumer is established by authority identification number, meter identification number, and user identification number using the cellular network. The load management option of the meter controls electrical loads and provides emergency power during the power shortage. The USEM can be configured and reconfigured remotely simply by short message service without changing hardware. Besides, energy consumption status, meter tampering, and fault at the distribution end can be monitored with the proposed metering system. Here, a prototype of the smart meter is presented, and its effectiveness, flexibility, and versatility are experimentally demonstrated.

32 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Dec 2016
TL;DR: The design and implementation of an energy meter using Arduino microcontroller which can be used to measure the power consumed by any individual electrical appliance and can take further steps to control them and thus help in energy conservation.
Abstract: Energy monitoring and conservation holds prime importance in today's world because of the imbalance between power generation and demand. The current scenario says that the power generated, which is primarily contributed by fossil fuels may get exhausted within the next 20 years. Currently, there are very accurate electronic energy monitoring systems available in the market. Most of these monitor the power consumed in a domestic household, in case of residential applications. Many a times, consumers are dissatisfied with the power bill as it does not show the power consumed at the device level. This paper presents the design and implementation of an energy meter using Arduino microcontroller which can be used to measure the power consumed by any individual electrical appliance. Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging field and IoT based devices have created a revolution in electronics and IT. The main intention of the proposed energy meter is to monitor the power consumption at the device level, upload it to the server and establish remote control of any appliance. The energy monitoring system precisely calculates the power consumed by various electrical devices and displays it through a home energy monitoring website. The advantage of this device is that a user can understand the power consumed by any electrical appliance from the website and can take further steps to control them and thus help in energy conservation. Further on, the users can monitor the power consumption as well as the bill on daily basis.

32 citations

Patent
13 Sep 1999
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a simple construction of an electricity meter consisting of a highly integrated input module (3a, 3b, 3c) in which an analog-digital converter (5a, 5b) and an output module (7a) are integrated.
Abstract: In order to obtain a simple construction of an electricity meter (1), the invention provides that the meter comprises a highly integrated input module (3a, 3b, 3c) in which an analog-digital converter (5a, 5b) and an output module (7a) are integrated. A multiplying means (21) can optionally be integrated. Such an input module (3a, 3b, 3c), in combination with conventional components, especially microprocessors, makes it possible to produce an electricity meter which comprises a simple construction and which is of a single-phase and multi-phase type (also for a plurality of consumers).

32 citations

Patent
06 Nov 2009
TL;DR: An electrical power consumption measuring system that is capable of determining and presenting the power consumed by individual appliances at a home or premises is described in this paper. But the system is limited to the use of a single power line.
Abstract: An electrical power consumption measuring system that is capable of determining and presenting the power consumed by individual appliances at a home or premises. The system collects operational state information about a plurality of appliances, each connected to a power line to which is also attached a power meter, and it can determine which applies are on or off, and how much power each of the appliances consume.

31 citations

Patent
29 Apr 1988
TL;DR: A low-powered remote sensor is achieved by capacitively isolating a long duration perpetual timer which is powered by removing inductively coupled AC power from telephone lines or other long lines as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A low-powered remote sensor is achieved by capacitively isolating a long duration perpetual timer which is powered by removing inductively coupled AC power from telephone lines or other long lines. Three embodiments are described using this concept. The first embodiment is a remote utility sensor designed to periodically dial and transmit data to a central site via telephone lines and report its functionality on a periodic basis. The second embodiment of the remote utility sensor is used for reporting utility usage for common utilities such as gas meters, water meters, electric meters and water softeners on a periodic basis over telephone lines. The third embodiment is a remote utility sensor which continually records utility usage and can be read by a portable recording device through a remote cabled interface.

31 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202396
2022222
2021142
2020411
2019607
2018719