A DSP based electricity meter with remote reading

Author

Zhang, J. ; Oghanna, W. ; Bai, C.L.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng. & Phys. Syst., Central Queensland Univ., Rockhampton, Qld., Australia

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

1581

Abstract

The paper introduces a DSP based electricity meter system with multi-user and automatic meter reading capability. It consists of a PC based master meter in the control station and a reasonable number of slave meters in the local residential area. The power line carrier (PLC) technique is implemented so that bi-directional communication can be conducted between master and slave meters. Each slave meter was designed to replace fifteen or more conventional meters, significantly reducing the construction material and installation space for electricity meters. Experimental results show that the accuracy of remote meter reading between 2-4 am each morning is quite satisfactory

Keywords

automatic meter reading; digital signal processing chips; power meters; power transmission lines; DSP based electricity meter; PC based master meter; PLC technique; bi-directional communication; control station; installation space; local residential area; multi-user capability; power line carrier; remote reading; slave meters; Automatic control; Automatic meter reading; Bidirectional control; Building materials; Communication system control; Conducting materials; Digital signal processing; Master-slave; Programmable control; Watthour meters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Proceedings, 1998. ICSP '98. 1998 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4325-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOSP.1998.770928

Filename

770928