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.

Multi-meter character recognition system and multi-meter character recognition method based on machine vision

Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-meter character recognition system and a multi-meter character recognition method based on machine vision. The system comprises an image acquisition module, a network storage module, and a software processing module. The software processing module comprises an electric meter group segmentation unit, an image preprocessing unit, an image tilt correction unit, an image enhancement unit, a character area positioning unit, a character segmentation unit, an image normalization unit, a character feature extraction unit, and a BP neural network identification unit. The image acquisition module comprises a grayscale processing unit, a binary processing unit, and a morphological processing unit. Multiple electric meter images can be identified at the same time, and human resource and work time are saved greatly. As an FTP cloud is used to store electric meter images and electric meter identification data, resource sharing is saved, the problem on storage of a lot of images and a lot of electric meter data collected in real time by cameras in a production field is solved, the memory of PC is released, and the efficiency of electric meter identification is increased.

Revenue class power meter with frequency rejection

Abstract: A power meter for measuring power parameters on one or more electrical power lines/loads is configured to include a revenue class metering module and a power quality metering module. The revenue class metering module and the power quality metering module may use the same measured voltage and current signals to generate revenue accurate power consumption information and power quality information, respectively. The power meter may also include a plurality of filters configured to attenuate high frequency signals included in the voltage and current signals. Each of the filters may be configured with a corner frequency, gain and signal propagation delay that is substantially equal. The filtered current and voltage signals may be received and processed by the revenue class metering module, and the power quality metering module to generate revenue accurate power consumption information and power quality information, respectively. Alternatively, the filtered current and voltage signals may be received and processed by the power quality metering module to generate power quality information, and unfiltered current and voltage signals may be received and processed by the revenue class metering module to generate revenue accurate power consumption information.

An automatic testing system and an automatic testing method of a continuous wave radio frequency power amplifier

Abstract: The invention relates to an automatic testing system and an automatic testing method of a continuous wave radio frequency power amplifier. The method comprises contents 1 that a computer is used for via a communication bus comprehensively managing devices such as an instrument power supply, a signal source, a power meter, a spectrum analyzer, a network analyzer, a radio frequency management and interface control unit, and a power amplifier, and automatically measuring power characteristic, saturation power, gain characteristic, output stationary waves, flatness characteristic, harmonic suppression, spurious suppression, cross modulation characteristic, group delay, and AM/PM characteristics of the radio frequency power amplifier, 2 that calibration of a radio frequency input access and a radio frequency output access is achieved; 3 that the radio frequency management and interface control unit provides all radio frequency accesses, cables are not required to be detached and radio frequency ports are not required to be replaced when indexes are tested, and TTL level, 422 level, relay driving, a serial port, and a LAN bus remote control interface are provided for different power amplifying single machines, and power amplifying transmission and reception, wave band remote control, and state monitoring are achieved; 4 and that system software modular design is achieved.

Digital energy meter

Abstract: A digital energy meter for providing energy measurements of nonsinusoidal waveforms. Voltage and related current components of a digitally sampled waveform are multiplied to form a product representative of instantaneous power. The products are summed or accumulated over a first time period, and the sums then accumulated over a second time period to form a second sum representative of total power over the second time period. An energy measurement is then obtained by an algorithm which requires only a simple division by a power of two.

Gemini: A Non-invasive, Energy-Harvesting True Power Meter

Abstract: Power meters are critical for sub metering loads in residential and commercial settings, but high installation cost and complexity hamper their broader adoption. Recent approaches address installation burdens by proposing non-invasive meters that easily clip onto a wire, or stick onto a circuit breaker, to perform contact less metering. Unfortunately, these designs require regular maintenance (e.g. Battery replacement) or reduce measurement accuracy (e.g. Work poorly with non-unity power factors). This paper presents Gemini, a new design point in the power metering space. Gemini addresses the drawbacks of prior approaches by decoupling and distributing the AC voltage and current measurement acquisitions, and recombining them wirelessly using a low-bandwidth approach, to offer non-invasive real, reactive, and apparent power metering. Battery maintenance is eliminated by using an energy-harvesting design that enables the meter to power itself using a current transformer. Accuracy is substantially improved over other non-invasive meters by virtualizing the voltage channel -- effectively allowing the meter to calculate power as if it could directly measure voltage (since true power requires sample-by-sample multiplication of current and voltage measurements acquired with tight timing constraints). Collectively, these improvements result in a new design point that meters resistive loads with 0.6 W average error and a range of reactive and switching loads with 2.2 W average error -- matching commercial, mains-powered solutions.