Title :
Data collecting from smart meters in an Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Autom. & Comput., Politeh. Univ., Timisoara, Romania
Abstract :
The classical solution for collecting data from energy meters, based on displacements of peoples, tends to be replaced by modern solutions: drive-by and Automated Meter Reading (AMR). AMR means to automatically collect data from meters and send them to a central computer. An Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is an AMR infrastructure with bidirectional smart meters - gateway communication, this leading to extra facilities. This paper describes an AMI based system. Smart meters are connected to a gateway through power lines and the gateway communicates with a central computer through GSM. The power line communication is implemented with an industrial bus, LonWork. The paper focuses the data collection solution.
Keywords :
automatic meter reading; carrier transmission on power lines; cellular radio; data acquisition; field buses; internetworking; metering; power meters; GSM; LonWork; advanced metering infrastructure; automated meter reading; bidirectional smart meters; central computer; data collection; gateway communication; industrial bus; power line communication; Computers; EPROM; Logic gates; Meter reading; Microcontrollers; Protocols; Software;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES), 2011 15th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Poprad
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8954-1
DOI :
10.1109/INES.2011.5954734
