What are Smart Meters?
How Smart Meters are becoming part of electricity use?
How Smart Meters collect Data and support the Home Area Network?
How Smart Meters will influence energy use and efficiency
2. Smart Meters
• What are they?
• How they are becoming part of electricity use?
• Smart Meter Data and the Home Area Network?
• How will they influence energy use and
efficiency?
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3. Smart Meter: Defined
• A smart meter identifies consumption and communicates via a
network back to the local utility
• Advanced digital meter communication channels
− Utility lines
− Two way radio
− Wi-Fi enabled
• Key component of the Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI)
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4. Smart Meter Deployment
• AE 410,000 smart meters installed (90% of customers)
• DOE report
• 13 Mil today (US)
• 50 Mil by 2014 (US)
• 212 Mil by 2014 (Worldwide)
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5. Smarter Buildings
• Data and Home Area Network (HAN)
• Dashboard
• Mobile device
• Time of Use Billing
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6. Smarter Displays
• Data and Home Area Network (HAN)
• Dashboard
• Mobile device
• Time of Use Billing
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7. Smarter Energy Technology
• Data and Home Area Network (HAN)
• Dashboard
• Mobile devices
• Time of Use Billing
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8. Smarter Saving
• Data and Home Area Network (HAN)
• Dashboard
• Mobile device
• Time of Use Billing
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9. How Smart Meters will influence
energy use and efficiency
• Data will create Awareness in real-time
• Energy Efficiency remodeling
Cost saving equipment – appliances
Conservation – Habit Change
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10. Smart Meter Extras
•Smart Meters are a key component in the Smart Grid
•Federal Funding of smart meter deployment got a $3.4
billion boost from economic stimulus grants in the U.S.
this year.
•Data privacy - Texas Law, customer owns the data, NIST
•Smart Appliances
•HAN
•Site generating Electricity - PV, Wind
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