Smart meters are the next generation of electricity and gas meters and are being installed and connected to always-on Mobile Broadband via an Energy Supplier MVNO.
Meter Readings and energy consumption statistics are displayed both on an in-home display panel and using mobile telephones, PDA’s, the home PC or mobile laptop via the Energy Suppliers Internet Portal – linked to consumption monitoring and energy management software.
Smart meters will bring about the end of estimated meter readings and bills - and provide customers and energy suppliers with accurate information about the amount of electricity and gas being consumed.
Smart meters will empower customers to make choices on how much energy they use. Suppliers will install two-way communication systems using MVNO Platforms that display accurate real-time information on energy use both in the home and business, available to both to the consumer and to the energy supplier.
A smart meter is an electronic device
that records information such as
consumption of electric energy, voltage
levels, current, and power factor. Smart
meters communicate the information to
the consumer for greater clarity of
consumption behavior, and electricity
suppliers for system monitoring and
customer billing.
An electricity meter is a device for measuring the amount of
electrical energy used by consumers. Where electricity
companies install these meters at every subscriber, such as
homes, factories, administrative and government buildings and...,
after the electrical network is connected to their units to supply
loads such as lighting systems, fans, adaptations, office
appliances and any other equipment with electricity .
These meters may be mono or three-phase depending on the
nature of the contracted loads and electrical power. They may
also be connected directly to the electrical network or be
connected through auxiliary transformers ( current and / or
voltage transformers)
IoT Based Smart Energy Meter using Raspberry Pi and Arduino Bilal Amjad
This project, design and implemented a low-cost IoT based energy monitoring system (smart energy meter) for real-time monitoring of all electrical parameters i.e. AC voltage, AC current, active power, total energy consumption, power factor, frequency, and tariff. The design is based on a low-cost PZEM-004T, using a non-invasive Current Transformer
(CT) sensors, Arduino and Raspberry pi. Electrical measurements are done by PZEM-004T and CT sensors through Arduino. Raspberry pi communicates with Arduino through serial communication to retrieve these sensor’s data and send it to the server via internet. As a result, the developed energy monitoring system can successfully record the voltage, current, active power, power factor, frequency, accumulative power consumption and tariff. Consumers will be able to
see their electricity usage and the tariff according to the energy usage in real-time through web and mobile application. In case of any fault e.g., short circuit or power supply cut off, the consumer will receive a text message on his mobile number. Moreover, consumers will be able to receive the tariff on a weekly or monthly basis.
A smart meter is an electronic device
that records information such as
consumption of electric energy, voltage
levels, current, and power factor. Smart
meters communicate the information to
the consumer for greater clarity of
consumption behavior, and electricity
suppliers for system monitoring and
customer billing.
An electricity meter is a device for measuring the amount of
electrical energy used by consumers. Where electricity
companies install these meters at every subscriber, such as
homes, factories, administrative and government buildings and...,
after the electrical network is connected to their units to supply
loads such as lighting systems, fans, adaptations, office
appliances and any other equipment with electricity .
These meters may be mono or three-phase depending on the
nature of the contracted loads and electrical power. They may
also be connected directly to the electrical network or be
connected through auxiliary transformers ( current and / or
voltage transformers)
IoT Based Smart Energy Meter using Raspberry Pi and Arduino Bilal Amjad
This project, design and implemented a low-cost IoT based energy monitoring system (smart energy meter) for real-time monitoring of all electrical parameters i.e. AC voltage, AC current, active power, total energy consumption, power factor, frequency, and tariff. The design is based on a low-cost PZEM-004T, using a non-invasive Current Transformer
(CT) sensors, Arduino and Raspberry pi. Electrical measurements are done by PZEM-004T and CT sensors through Arduino. Raspberry pi communicates with Arduino through serial communication to retrieve these sensor’s data and send it to the server via internet. As a result, the developed energy monitoring system can successfully record the voltage, current, active power, power factor, frequency, accumulative power consumption and tariff. Consumers will be able to
see their electricity usage and the tariff according to the energy usage in real-time through web and mobile application. In case of any fault e.g., short circuit or power supply cut off, the consumer will receive a text message on his mobile number. Moreover, consumers will be able to receive the tariff on a weekly or monthly basis.
Smart Meter's are a part of Smart Grid,which display the consumption of electricity to end use customer as well as communicate to the utility side for demand side management.
Microgrids, Electric Vehicles and Wireless ChargingJeffrey Funk
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled analyzing hi-tech opportunities to analyze how electric vehicles will become economic feasible if the right design decisions are made to benefit from the falling costs of electronics. One key decision is the use of micro-grids to enable direct charging of the batteries, which is more efficient. A second key decision is the number of recharging stations and thus the frequency by which users can recharge their vehicles. More frequent recharging means smaller batteries can be used and thus the slow rate of improvements for energy storage densities can be overcome. A third key decision is wired vs. wireless charging. Wireless charging eliminates the time consuming maintenance and fitting problems of wires and thus enables faster hookups. It also benefits from the rapidly falling cost of electronics; the falling cost of ICs, power electronics, and thin-film coils means that wireless charging is likely to become economically feasible in the near future and allow the problem of low energy storage densities of batteries to be solved.
seminar on SMART GRID is the best seminar of my branch
technology based on smart to integration of information technology on traditional power system
It may be best to understood Smart Grid as the overlaying of a unified communications and control system on the existing power delivery infrastructure to provide the right information to the right entity (e.g. end-use devices, transmission and distribution, system controls, customers, etc.) at the right time to take the right action. It is a system that optimizes power supply and delivery, minimizes losses, is self-healing, and enables next-generation energy efficiency and demand response applications.
To have connections between suppliers, distributors and consumers.
In definition, Smart Grid is a form of electricity network utilizing digital technology.
Its delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using two-way digital communications to control appliances at consumers' homes; which in deed will saving the energy, reduce costs and increase reliability.
A key feature of the smart grid is automation technology that lets the utility adjust and control each individual device or millions of devices from a central location.
A Smart Grid must functions as followings
1. Be able to heal itself
Smart Grid is designed with a control system that self-analyzes its performance using intelligent autonomous reinforcement learning controllers that are able to learn new strategies and successfully implementing such strategies to govern the behavior of the grid in the face of an ever changing environment such as equipment failures.
2. Motivate consumers to actively participate in operations of the grid
If consumers have freedom to control own usage of energy, they will be motivated to participate and be part of the system. They can monitor their usage and manipulate by the assistance of “smart appliances” and “intelligent equipment” in homes or businesses. Advanced communications capabilities equip customers with tools to exploit real-time electricity pricing, incentive-based load reduction signals, or emergency load reduction signals.
3. Resist attack
Most important issues of resist attack is the smart monitoring of power grids, which is the basis of control and management of smart grids to avoid or mitigate the system-wide disruptions like blackouts.
4. Accommodate all energy generation and storage options
Smart Grid integrates two power generation source; traditional power generation likes fossil fuel powered power plant with renewable power generations either generates from residential, commercial, and industrial customers that will improves reliability and power quality, reduces electricity costs, and offers more customer choice.
5. High quality power
Outages and power quality issues is common for any country especially for major industrial-based countries. Smart Grid provides more stable power provided that will reduce downtime and prevent such high losses because of
Water Service Providers (WSPs) in Kenya face insurmountable challenges due to rising cost of production of clean water. Water treatment chemicals, rising cost of electricity (used to pump water), high UFW (Unaccounted For Water) among other challenges make the water companies operate in a tight cash flow environment.
WSPS have to adopt technologies and strategies that will increase efficiency and reduce the cost of production. Meter reading is an area that the WSPS can use low cost android phones for real time meter reading that will allow the units consumed to be sent real time to the server via GPRS connectivity. They can also use POS that can compute and print instant water bills ad customers can pay for their bills real time using MPESA thus increase the company's cash flow as opposed to waiting till the amount of days taken to produce bills.
The solution can integrate to GPS data in the company for better management reporting tool.
Smart Meter's are a part of Smart Grid,which display the consumption of electricity to end use customer as well as communicate to the utility side for demand side management.
Microgrids, Electric Vehicles and Wireless ChargingJeffrey Funk
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled analyzing hi-tech opportunities to analyze how electric vehicles will become economic feasible if the right design decisions are made to benefit from the falling costs of electronics. One key decision is the use of micro-grids to enable direct charging of the batteries, which is more efficient. A second key decision is the number of recharging stations and thus the frequency by which users can recharge their vehicles. More frequent recharging means smaller batteries can be used and thus the slow rate of improvements for energy storage densities can be overcome. A third key decision is wired vs. wireless charging. Wireless charging eliminates the time consuming maintenance and fitting problems of wires and thus enables faster hookups. It also benefits from the rapidly falling cost of electronics; the falling cost of ICs, power electronics, and thin-film coils means that wireless charging is likely to become economically feasible in the near future and allow the problem of low energy storage densities of batteries to be solved.
seminar on SMART GRID is the best seminar of my branch
technology based on smart to integration of information technology on traditional power system
It may be best to understood Smart Grid as the overlaying of a unified communications and control system on the existing power delivery infrastructure to provide the right information to the right entity (e.g. end-use devices, transmission and distribution, system controls, customers, etc.) at the right time to take the right action. It is a system that optimizes power supply and delivery, minimizes losses, is self-healing, and enables next-generation energy efficiency and demand response applications.
To have connections between suppliers, distributors and consumers.
In definition, Smart Grid is a form of electricity network utilizing digital technology.
Its delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using two-way digital communications to control appliances at consumers' homes; which in deed will saving the energy, reduce costs and increase reliability.
A key feature of the smart grid is automation technology that lets the utility adjust and control each individual device or millions of devices from a central location.
A Smart Grid must functions as followings
1. Be able to heal itself
Smart Grid is designed with a control system that self-analyzes its performance using intelligent autonomous reinforcement learning controllers that are able to learn new strategies and successfully implementing such strategies to govern the behavior of the grid in the face of an ever changing environment such as equipment failures.
2. Motivate consumers to actively participate in operations of the grid
If consumers have freedom to control own usage of energy, they will be motivated to participate and be part of the system. They can monitor their usage and manipulate by the assistance of “smart appliances” and “intelligent equipment” in homes or businesses. Advanced communications capabilities equip customers with tools to exploit real-time electricity pricing, incentive-based load reduction signals, or emergency load reduction signals.
3. Resist attack
Most important issues of resist attack is the smart monitoring of power grids, which is the basis of control and management of smart grids to avoid or mitigate the system-wide disruptions like blackouts.
4. Accommodate all energy generation and storage options
Smart Grid integrates two power generation source; traditional power generation likes fossil fuel powered power plant with renewable power generations either generates from residential, commercial, and industrial customers that will improves reliability and power quality, reduces electricity costs, and offers more customer choice.
5. High quality power
Outages and power quality issues is common for any country especially for major industrial-based countries. Smart Grid provides more stable power provided that will reduce downtime and prevent such high losses because of
Water Service Providers (WSPs) in Kenya face insurmountable challenges due to rising cost of production of clean water. Water treatment chemicals, rising cost of electricity (used to pump water), high UFW (Unaccounted For Water) among other challenges make the water companies operate in a tight cash flow environment.
WSPS have to adopt technologies and strategies that will increase efficiency and reduce the cost of production. Meter reading is an area that the WSPS can use low cost android phones for real time meter reading that will allow the units consumed to be sent real time to the server via GPRS connectivity. They can also use POS that can compute and print instant water bills ad customers can pay for their bills real time using MPESA thus increase the company's cash flow as opposed to waiting till the amount of days taken to produce bills.
The solution can integrate to GPS data in the company for better management reporting tool.
English version presentation VREG Round table 2010-10-5 smart metersDirk Van Evercooren
Introductory presentation for the round table on smart metering in Flanders. Survey results for households and small and medium business energy customers.
Jon Bentley, energy & environment, leader, smarter energy, IBM Global Business Services UK & Ireland at the CBI's energy conference. London, September 2010.
Smart revenue mgt. makes utilities smarter interview feb 2015Iraklis Pilatos
The utilities industry is one of the fastest growing M2M/IOT verticals, bearing high expectations for optimized services, reduced costs, and customer satisfaction. This article outlines how smart pricing and advanced customer management - empowered by the predictions and trends brought by purpose-built analytics - can effectively address the utility market challenges ahead.
Scaling Up Smart Meter Operations: Challenges and the Way Forward for UK Ener...Cognizant
With smart meters being implemented at a rapid pace, energy utilities need to be prepared to make the best use of this opportunity. Here's a guide to possible shortfalls in the journey, and to the technical, operational and organizational capabilities utilities need to thrive in the digital smart metering era.
Training Module on Electricity Market Regulation - SESSION 8 - PricingLeonardo ENERGY
Once the revenue requirements are established they should be converted into tariff systems. This session explains the major economic principles of electricity pricing and the general pricing models using average and marginal costs. Moreover the session explores the major pricing models for the electricity activities including: generation, transmission, distribution and retail activities.
Pricing principles : economic efficiency - cost recovery
General pricing models : average cost pricing - marginal cost pricing
Cost allocation issue
Pricing for different activities in the electricity industry : generation pricing - transmission pricing - distribution pricing - retail supply pricing
This report gives a comprehensive overview of the potential benefits of the smart meters and how they can save billions of rupees to Pakistan over a short period of time. Furthermore, it convinces the reader how the world is actively allocating its resources towards smart meters and how Pakistan is in desperate need of efficient use of energy which can only be facilitated b smart meters.
THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE. The way that we think about the future must mirror how the future actually unfolds. As we have all learned from recent experience, the future is not a simple extrapolation of linear, single-domain trends. We now have to consider ways in which the possibility of random, chaotic and radically disruptive events may be factored into enterprise strategy development, threat assessment and risk management frameworks and incorporated into enterprise decision-making structures and processes.
Abiliti Smart Cities Of The Future Programme 1st Contact Pre Nda[2007] FinalNigel Tebbutt
SMART CITIES OF THE FUTURE PROGRAMME
The sudden proliferation of pervasive Smart Devices communicating with the Cloud indicates that we may have just witnessed the beginning of a startling new episode in technology driven consumer behaviour – the advent of the always-on digital connected society – Smart individuals living in Smart households within the Smart Cities of the future.
A strategist must see the big picture and understand the future. They must track and anticipate the major future trends impacting on business and develop strategies that overcome challenges and grasp new opportunities before the competition does so - Frank Feather
Abiliti Thinking About The Future Of Energy 1st Contact Pre Nda[2007] WipNigel Tebbutt
• THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE • Given the high stakes and uncertainty surrounding the future, there is an urgent need for structured ways of thinking about how the future may unfold. The next 25 years will be full of surprises. Strategic Foresight can help us better prepare for, and even anticipate, those surprises.
Future Objectives
•Managing business uncertainty may involve introducing, developing and implementing Strategic Enterprise Management Frameworksfor the following subject areas –
–Corporate Foresight and Business Strategy Framework
–Business Planning and Forecasting Framework
–Business Transformation Framework
–Programme Management Framework
–Enterprise Architecture Framework
–Enterprise Risk Management Framework
–Enterprise Performance Management Framework
–Enterprise Governance, Reporting and Controls Framework
–Social Enterprise Architecture and Triple Bottom Line Framework
•This paper describes an approach fprintroducing, developing and implementing such Strategic Enterprise Management Frameworks
The Management of Uncertainty
•It has long been recognized that one of the most important competitive factors for any organization to master is the management of uncertainty.
•Uncertainty is the major intangible factor contributing towards the risk of failure in every process, at every level, in every type of business.
•Managing business uncertainty may involve introducing, developing and implementing strategic enterprise management frameworks for –
–Corporate Foresight and Business Strategy
–Business Planning and Forecasting
–Business Transformation
–Enterprise Architecture
–Enterprise Risk Management
–Enterprise Performance Management
–Enterprise Governance, Reporting and ControlsEAEA
9. Smart Metering - Market Participants Meter Operators Siemens, Actuate, Landis & Gyr, Kent Strategy Houses and Business Advisory Consultants Energy Suppliers Centrica, EDF, E-on, RWE, Tesco, Virgin Mobile Network Operators Vodafone, T-mobile, Orange, O2, 3, BT Systems Integrators and Business Process Outsource Vendors
44. Broadband or ISDN 30 Fire walled DMZ CC-ICS Internet ISP E-Mail Message Connection Servers SMART Metering Infrastructure Architecture Enterprise Data Cloud Remote Users Enterprise Data Cloud Cluster Local / Remote Hosted Users Mobile Users Mobile Users VPN Internet Feature Net WAN B a y N e t w o k s S D B a y N w o r k s B a y S t a c k A c c e s s P n t 6 5 0 W r e s s Remote PABX Voice Gateway (CISCO 2640) QSIG DPNSS Westell Protocol Converter D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D Voice Connection Servers D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D CTI and Content Cluster D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D Reporting Database Cluster 10/100 MBit Switched Ethernet LAN / WAN MVNO 3 rd Party Managed MVNO Platform Legacy Systems D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D EAI Hub D H E W L E T T P A C A R D CISCO Call Manager D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D D H E W L E T T P A C A R D Remote Users Local Users