Current Smart Meter Research Articles

Current Smart Metering System in Ghana: Challenges and Mitigation Techniques

Current Smart Metering System in Ghana: Challenges and Mitigation Techniques

A Data-Based Approach for Smart Meter Online Calibration

Smart meter has been considered as the key element in the smart grid and current smart meter verification method failed to coverage all deployed meters. Online calibration for is a novel approach which calculate meter error by analysing meter reading data. This paper presents a comprehensive survey and basic model of smart meter online calibration and proposed a recursive algorithm to estimate meter error. Concrete steps have been illustrated and testing case shows the higher accuracy of the method. Finally, some issues of online calibration in application were discussed.

An Extensible Approach for Non-Intrusive Load Disaggregation With Smart Meter Data

Appliance-level load models are expected to be crucial to future smart grid applications. Unlike direct appliance monitoring approaches, it is more flexible and convenient to mine smart meter data to generate load models at device level nonintrusively and generalise to all households with smart meter ownership. This paper proposes a comprehensive and extensible framework to solve the load disaggregation problem for residential households. Our approach examines both the modelling of home appliances as hidden Markov models and the solving of non-intrusive load monitoring based on segmented integer quadratic constraint programming to disaggregate a household power profile into the appliance level. Structure of our approach to be implemented with current smart meter infrastructure is given and simulations are performed based on public datasets. All data are down-sampled to the rate that is consistent with the Australia smart meter infrastructure minimum functionality. The results demonstrate that our approach is able to work with existing smart meters to generate device level load model for other smart grid research and applications.

Smart meter data and equitable energy transitions – can cities play a role?

ABSTRACTThe ability of smart cities to address multiple priorities is currently receiving a great deal of attention from governments, industry and academia; however, there are relatively few explorations of how smart cities will be enacted and the equity implications of various elements of the agenda. This paper aims to begin to address this by considering the case of smart meter data in Great Britain and reviewing the potential for public interest benefits to be realised at both a national and city-scale. In order to interrogate how societal benefits of smart metering might be enabled or constrained at different scales, both transition management approaches to understanding the intricacies of transforming socio-technical systems, and urban governance literatures which explore the problems in aligning “smart” and “sustainable” agendas, are engaged with. The case suggests that there is great potential for smart meter data to deliver public interest benefits and in doing so contribute to equity in energy transitions through promoting the accrual of benefits to collective rather than solely individual or commercial interests. Despite this, under the current smart metering framework city-scale actors are largely excluded from utilising smart metering data unless they partner with a large incumbent company. This suggests that the configuration of national smart metering arrangements could be further embedding a marketised approach to smart cities and demonstrates the complex interlinking of socio-political processes operating across multiple scales in energy transitions.

Towards a User-Centered Feedback Design for Smart Meter Interfaces to Support Efficient Energy-Use Choices

Based on interviews of users’ experience with current smart-meter technologies the authors propose, implement and evaluate a user-centered design of an energy-use information system that assists private households in making efficient energy consumption decisions. Instead of providing disaggregated data, the envisioned system automatically calculates the monetary savings from replacing an appliance or by changing the operational behavior of an appliance. The information provided is personalized with respect to appliance use and also comprises information from external databases. A prototype is implemented and evaluated in a use case with white goods household appliances. The study concludes with directions for further interactivity improvements and research into the structures of an openly shared appliance database.

Towards a User-Centered Feedback Design for Smart Meter Interfaces to Support Efficient Energy-Use Choices: A Design Science Approach

Based on interviews of users’ experience with current smart-meter technologies we propose, implement and evaluate a user-centered design of an energy-use information system that assists private households in making efficient energy consumption decisions. Instead of providing disaggregated data, the envisioned system automatically calculates the monetary savings from replacing an appliance or by changing the operational behavior of an appliance. The information provided is personalized with respect to appliance use and also comprises information from external databases. A prototype is implemented and evaluated in a use case with white goods household appliances. The study concludes with directions for further interactivity improvements and research into the structures of an openly shared appliance database.

Smart Metering for Intelligent Buildings

Intelligent buildings are based on the use of smart metering devices. Smart metering provides instantaneous and accumulative metering information to the service providers on electricity, gas, water etc. This information is also given to the customers for the purpose of reduction of costs, energy consumption and emission of CO 2 . The customers’ saving of energy can be adapted dynamically using smart metering devices: this helps that the power generation and consumption are equally distributed in the smart grid. Liberalization of the metering market requires few strong security and privacy requirements for the metering data. Governmental organizations are responsible for the permanent correct delivery of metering data and are able to control and maintain the metering devices. The status of current smart metering progress in different countries is given in the paper with examples of successfully managed smart metering projects.

The Portable Device for Detecting Smart Meter Fee Control Functions

In view of the current smart meter fee control functions heavy task, work intensity and other issues, we designed a new type of portable smart meter fee control functions test device. The device includes a parallel communication, automatic features such as card issuers, small size, light weight, easy to carry, to achieve automatic control function detects meter fees, enhanced energy meter test bench, between the host computer and the inspector who machine interaction capabilities, improve the detection efficiency of the staff, reducing the misuse rate, and enhance the flexibility of the testing work. The device is able to meet the needs of the current smart meter automatically detects work. Guarantee the accuracy and reliability of the energy meter testing.

Development and Demonstration of Decentralised Power Systems Culminating in a Future E-Energy MarketplaceEntwicklung und Demonstration dezentral vernetzter Energiesysteme hin zum E-Energy-Marktplatz der Zukunft

Abstract The introduction of smart meter solutions — especially within the residential and commercial customer segment — will lead to new opportunities for customer interaction with the energy market and for boosting consumer awareness for electricity consumption. Both of them help to increase end user energy efficiency. Within the BMWi project E-Energy the E-DeMa consortium with the members RWE, Siemens, ef.ruhr, Stadtwerke Krefeld, Miele and ProSyst draws on the capabilities of current smart meter solutions and extends them to a future marketplace for all services and products around demand side management, flexible tariff structures or network services. The subscriber as prosumer (simultaneously producer and consumer) develops to become an active market player. The aim of this project is to create conditions for the efficient handling of energy resources.