Solutions

Advanced Metering

Metering is just one source of sensor information provided to the Smart Grid.

For decades after the birth of the electricity industry, the electricity meter was a simple technology with a simple purpose. Its job was to measure the amount of electricity used by a customer, primarily in terms of total consumption (kWh) or highest instantaneous use. Such meters do not allow the recording of usage by time of day and, thus, do not enable time-based pricing.

While these conventional meters automatically measure and record usage data, the reading, or collection, of such data is not automated.

Automatic Interval Metering systems allow the collection of consumption measurements automatically having the potential to reduce labour costs and directly relate the energy to the timeframe it was used.