Worked on Advanced Metering Infrastructure for Smart Grid Implementation

日期 : Feb 2017 - 现在

The recent growth in demand for clean and safe energy has led to a new paradigm in Energy distribution and generation techniques. A more distributed generation system is the reason for a progressive decrease in carbon footprint in the last decade, and to keep up with such a change, utilities must enhance their management and energy distribution so as to achieve and maintain high efficiency. This is the core concept of the Smart Grid (SG). The Smart Meter is one of the most essential parts of the SG. It is a next generation Energy Meter with enhanced communication and metering capabilities. Smart Meters integrates an ability to obtain information from the energy consumer’s load devices and measure the energy consumption of the end users while also having the added ability to allow for Bidirectional metering and Bi-directional communication. Data is directly communicated between utility and end users via Radio Frequency (RF) or Power Line Communication (PLC) technologies. In this paper we will look at the design of a Smart Meter which will provide 3-phase AC power reading while also integrating Power Quality Analysis and Home Area Network using Arduino platform in conjunction with Raspberry Pi 3.