A practical approach of smart metering in remote monitoring of renewable energy applications

Renewable Energy is our future trend to reduce the CO2 emission from the power generation. Although, it may not cheap from the construction cost at the moment but we should try every effort to reduce the impact due to climate change. Naturally, if we can use energy efficiently, we will be in a position to minimize our power generation as well. In this paper, the authors propose a Smart Metering System to remotely access the data from renewable PV energy system. The authors focus the GPRS/3G application in which the architecture can be scaled up to a large system if the fixed communication link is not available such as in some developing countries or remote area. A practical scheme is proposed and demonstrated in real-life.