Energies 2017, 10(3), 398; https://doi.org/10.3390/en10030398
Experimental Results on a Wireless Wattmeter Device for the Integration in Home Energy Management Systems
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C-MAST, University of Beira Interior, R. Fonte do Lameiro, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
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INESC TEC and Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
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INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
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Received: 4 December 2016 / Revised: 23 February 2017 / Accepted: 13 March 2017 / Published: 20 March 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Methods for Smart Grids Planning and Management)
Abstract
This paper presents a home area network (HAN)-based domestic load energy consumption monitoring prototype device as part of an advanced metering system (AMS). This device can be placed on individual loads or configured to measure several loads as a whole. The wireless communication infrastructure is supported on IEEE 805.12.04 radios that run a ZigBee stack. Data acquisition concerning load energy transit is processed in real time and the main electrical parameters are then transmitted through a RF link to a wireless terminal unit, which works as a data logger and as a human-machine interface. Voltage and current sensing are implemented using Hall effect principle-based transducers, while C code is developed on two 16/32-bit microcontroller units (MCUs). The main features and design options are then thoroughly discussed. The main contribution of this paper is that the proposed metering system measures the reactive energy component through the Hilbert transform for low cost measuring device systems. View Full-TextKeywords:
power meter; energy consumption; monitoring; ZigBee; sensors
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Rodrigues, E.M.G.; Godina, R.; Shafie-khah, M.; Catalão, J.P.S. Experimental Results on a Wireless Wattmeter Device for the Integration in Home Energy Management Systems. Energies 2017, 10, 398.
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