Smart cities require interactive management of water supply networks and water meters play an important role in such a task. As compared to fully mechanical water meters, electromechanical water meters or fully electronic water meters can collect rea...
Solar energy is a green and sustainable source of energy which can be converted to electrical power through photovoltaic (PV) panels. In an electrical network system, electrical energy is supplied to end consumers through utility networks. Smart Grid...
Since the past few years, the smart city paradigm has been influencing sustainable urban water resources management. Smart metering schemes for end users have become an important strategy for water utilities to have an in-depth and fine-grained knowl...
The modernization of the distribution grid requires a huge amount of data to be transmitted and handled by the network. The deployment of Advanced Metering Infrastructure systems results in an increased traffic generated by smart meters. In this work...
The typical current meter reading method used by power distribution companies is outdated and complex since it relies on a manual process of capturing images of meter values by a human and then manually updating a server with the new readings. This p...
With the rapid development of the information age, smart meters play an important role in the smart grid. However, there are more and more attacks on smart meters, which mainly focus on the identity authentication of smart meters and the security pro...
Smart meters often fail to measure or transmit the data they record when measuring energy consumption, known as meter readings, owing to faulty measuring equipment or unreliable communication modules. Existing studies do not address successive and no...
Many tasks that require a large workforce are automated. In many areas of the world, the consumption of utilities, such as electricity, gas and water, is monitored by meters that need to be read by humans. The reading of such meters requires the pres...
A real-time smart metering system has strict requirements, since every piece of data gathered from various meters every hour is of importance, and each component consisting of metering infrastructure should be sustainable. Therefore, it is necessary...
Smart metering is advancing rapidly and consumption feedback from smart meters is expected to help residents to reduce their energy and water consumption. In recent years, more critical views have been expressed based on theories of social practice,...
After the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in 2011, many types of survey meters were used, including Geiger–Müller (GM) survey meters, which have long been used to measure β-rays. Recently, however, a novel radiation survey mete...
Ultrasonic clamp-on meters have become an established technology for non-invasive flow measurements. Under disturbed flow conditions, their measurement values must be adjusted with corresponding fluid mechanical calibration factors. Due to the variet...
A meter network is a set of meters installed throughout a water distribution system to measure system variables, such as the pipe flow rate and pressure. In the current hyper-connected world, meter networks are being exposed to meter failure conditio...
Smart sensors are emerging as a promising technology for a large number of application domains. This paper presents a collection of requirements and guidelines that serve as a basis for a general smart sensor architecture to monitor electricity meter...
Despite the rapid advancement of smart-grid technologies, automated pointer meter reading in power substations remains a persistent challenge due to complex electromagnetic interference and dynamic field conditions. Traditional computer vision method...
One of the unknowns in the instrumentation for water measurement is what degree of influence other hydraulic elements exert on the velocity profile and, consequently, on the measurement errors. In this work, the measurement errors of a horizontal-axi...
To handle the task of pointer meter reading recognition, in this paper, we propose a deep network model that can accurately detect the pointer meter dial and segment the pointer as well as the reference points from the located meter dial. Specificall...
Ocean current is one of the most important parameters in ocean observation, and ocean current measurement based on electromagnetic induction is becoming more and more important because of its advantages such as simple structure and high measurement a...
The efficiency of seepage meters, long considered a fixed property associated with the meter design, is not constant in highly permeable sediments. Instead, efficiency varies substantially with seepage bag fullness, duration of bag attachment, depth...
The blackout in North India due to the failure of the central grid has led to the need for intelligent power system state estimation, where optimal location is necessary to understand. State estimation meter placement plays a major role in the smart...
In this study, the personal glucose meter (PGM) was first used as a fast and user-friendly meter for analyzing catechol (CA) based on the reduction of the mediator K3[Fe(CN)6] to K4[Fe(CN)6] in the glucose test strip. Then, an easy, low-cost, and con...
Efficient energy consumption is essential for the development of a smart grid in the power system. As a response, reliable monitoring and management of energy usage is a main priority for the smart grid. The existing energy meter system has a host of...
The introduction of Smart Meter Gateways (SMGWs) to buildings and households creates new opportunities and challenges for energy management systems. While SMGWs provide interfaces for accessing recorded information and enable communication to externa...
Blending hydrogen into the natural gas infrastructure is becoming a very promising practice to increase the exploitation of renewable energy sources which can be used to produce “green” hydrogen. Several research projects and field experiments are cu...
Chlorophyll meters are portable devices used to assess and improve plants’ nitrogen management and to help farmers in the determination of the health condition of plants through leaf greenness measurements. These optical electronic instruments...
The term “Industry 4.0” refers to a new phase of the Industrial Revolution that emphasizes interconnection, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. Reading gas meters is not an easy job and walking to and from the meter can be i...
The ongoing upgrade of electricity meters to smart ones has opened a new market of intelligent services to analyze the recorded meter data. This paper introduces an open architecture and a unified framework for deducing user behavior from its smart m...
The current manual reading of substation pointer meters wastes human resources, and existing algorithms have limitations in accuracy and robustness for detecting various pointer meters. This paper proposes a method for recognizing pointer meters base...
At present, the remote meter reading problem for a large number of existing domestic diaphragm gas meters has not been reliably solved. The diaphragm gas meter uses a physical structure to measure gas consumption, so the main problem of remote meter...
Most available smart meters sample at low rates and transmit the acquired measurements to a cloud server for further processing. This article presents a prototype smart meter operating at a high sampling frequency (15 kHz) and performing energy disag...
Traditional destructive fruit assessment methodologies are currently being replaced by non-destructive alternatives. The Kiwi-Meter™ is promoted as a non-destructive device for assessment of kiwifruit maturation and ripening. In this study, thr...
The operation state detection of numerous smart meters is a significant problem caused by manual on-site testing. This paper addresses the problem of improving the malfunction detection efficiency of smart meters using deep learning and proposes a no...
Most flow metering methods used in industrial applications produce results sensitive to the local velocity profile. In response, manufacturers often implement correction algorithms; however, these are rarely supported by rigorous uncertainty evaluati...
A computer vision method for measuring multiple pointer meters is proposed based on the inverse perspective mapping. First, the measured meter scales are used as the calibration objects to obtain the extrinsic parameters of the meter plane. Second, n...
At present, the error calibration of electricity meters in operation generally adopts an off-site method; that is, the electricity meter is taken out of operation and then calibrated in the laboratory. Off-site calibration, while beneficial, may not...
Electricity smart meter consumption data is enabling utilities to analyze consumption information at unprecedented granularity. Much focus has been directed towards consumption clustering for diversifying tariffs; through modern clustering methods, c...
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the applications of smart meters in the control and optimisation of power grids to support a smooth energy transition towards the renewable energy future. The smart grids become more complicated due to th...
The stability of radiance measurements taken by the Sky Quality Meter (SQM)was tested under rapidly changing temperature conditions during exposure to a stable lightfield in the laboratory. The reported radiance was found to be negatively correlated...
Smart meters play a significant role in power systems, but their condition assessment faces challenges such as inconsistent evaluation criteria and inaccurate assessment results. This paper proposes feature engineering including feature construction...
Measurement error in an electromagnetic flow meter appears if magnetic and electric properties of admixtures are different from that of the fluid. Expressions of the error, which depends on volume concentration, permeability, and electric conductivit...
River ecosystems are integral to sustainable environmental development, playing a crucial role in understanding suspended solid matter (SSM) transport dynamics and soil conservation. Accurate monitoring of SSM concentrations in watersheds is foundati...
Due to the increasing demands of today’s society on visual quality and patient comfort, and due to the growing interest in the implantation of new and more complex intraocular lens (IOL) designs, determining the IOL position occupies an importa...
In this paper we demonstrate a compact ready-to-use micro Coriolis mass flow meter. The full scale flow is 1 g/h (for water at a pressure drop < 1 bar). It has a zero stability of 2 mg/h and an accuracy of 0.5% reading for both liquids and gases....
The rapid development of smart technologies and data analytics empowers most industries to evolve their systems and introduce innovative applications. Consequently, smart metering technology, an internet of things-based application service, is diffus...
With the increasing demand on grid modernization for improving environmental sustainability and grid security, the topic of smart meter adoption has attracted much attention, especially with regard to the roles of public policies. However, there is a...
This paper presents a design of a flow meter based on a programmable logic controller (PLC). The new construction of a flow meter controlled by PLC increases the possibilities for the control and automation of fluid flow. Additionally, the didactic p...
This study presents a novel low-cost and low-power prepaid water meter system that combines tokenization and LC sensors to monitor water consumption accurately with mobile application via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connectivity compared to convention...
Meter reading is an important part of intelligent inspection, and the current meter reading method based on target detection has problems of low accuracy and large error. In order to improve the accuracy of automatic meter reading, this paper propose...
The evolution of modern power distribution systems into smart grids requires the development of dedicated state estimation (SE) algorithms for real-time identification of the overall system state variables. This paper proposes a strategy to evaluate...
The water content in fuel–water emulsions can vary from 10% to 30%, and is under control during the process of emulsification. The main task of this study was to obtain near-linear static function for a water-cut meter with capacitive sensors,...
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