Communications field trials for total utility metering

Author

Newbury, John

Author_Institution

Power Commun. Res. Group, Open Univ., Milton Keynes, UK

Volume

11

Issue

2

fYear

1996

fDate

4/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

690

Lastpage

695

Abstract

The privatisation of the water, gas and electricity utilities under United Kingdom Government legislation has led to new developments of these industries in a new competitive market. Metering systems for all these utilities has developed into a very innovatory market with all three utilities investigating novel and cost effective metering communications systems. This paper discusses current field trials within the London Electricity Board in conjunction with Thorn-EMI for providing metering services to the residential customer

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; electricity supply industry; power measurement; power system measurement; project engineering; telecommunication channels; telemetry; LV communication channel; UK; communications field trials; competitive market; cost effective metering; electricity metering services; mainsborne communication; projects; residential customer; Attenuation; Automatic control; Communication system control; Control systems; Costs; Customer service; Frequency; Gas industry; Government; Legislation; Low voltage; Privatization; Spread spectrum communication; Water heating;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/61.489324

Filename

489324