Data collecting from smart meters in an Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Author

Popa, M.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Autom. & Comput., Politeh. Univ., Timisoara, Romania

fYear

2011

fDate

23-25 June 2011

Firstpage

137

Lastpage

142

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES), 2011 15th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Poprad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8954-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INES.2011.5954734

Filename

5954734