On-line web accessed energy meter
First Claim
1. A system for collecting electrical metering data from at least one monitored point of an electrical power distribution system and wirelessly providing the collected electrical metering data to a remote operator, the system comprising:
- at least one computing device for initiating a request for data;
at least one first communications device for connecting the at least one computing device to a communication infrastructure, the communication infrastructure including a wide area network and at least one wireless access point; and
at least one metering device comprising;
a digital sampler configured for sampling voltage and current at the at least one monitored point of the electrical power distribution system;
at least one processor configured to collect the sampled voltage and current and generate power consumption data from the sampled voltage and current, wherein the at least one processor is configured to act as a server for the at least one metering device and is further configured for formatting the collected and generated data in at least one of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and/or Extensible Markup Language (XML); and
a wireless communications device coupled to the at least one processor and for wirelessly connecting the at least one metering device to the wide area network via a wireless communications protocol, the wireless communications device connects to the wide area network via the at least one wireless access point,wherein the wireless communications device receives a request from a first computing device and wirelessly transmits the collected and generated data to the first computing device initiating the request via a web browser, and the wireless communications device receives a second request from a second computing device and wirelessly transmits the collected and generated data to the second computing device initiating the request via Modbus TCP.
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Abstract
An electrical metering system capable of performing multiple metering functions, collecting data, and wirelessly provides the collected metering data to a utility operator. In the electrical metering system, at least one computing device for initiating a request for data. A first modem connects the computing device to an infrastructure. A wireless embedded modem for wirelessly connects an electric meter to an infrastructure, and the wireless electric modem receives a request from the computing device and wirelessly transmits the metering data to the computing device, thereby initiating the request.
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32 Claims
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1. A system for collecting electrical metering data from at least one monitored point of an electrical power distribution system and wirelessly providing the collected electrical metering data to a remote operator, the system comprising:
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at least one computing device for initiating a request for data; at least one first communications device for connecting the at least one computing device to a communication infrastructure, the communication infrastructure including a wide area network and at least one wireless access point; and at least one metering device comprising; a digital sampler configured for sampling voltage and current at the at least one monitored point of the electrical power distribution system; at least one processor configured to collect the sampled voltage and current and generate power consumption data from the sampled voltage and current, wherein the at least one processor is configured to act as a server for the at least one metering device and is further configured for formatting the collected and generated data in at least one of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and/or Extensible Markup Language (XML); and a wireless communications device coupled to the at least one processor and for wirelessly connecting the at least one metering device to the wide area network via a wireless communications protocol, the wireless communications device connects to the wide area network via the at least one wireless access point, wherein the wireless communications device receives a request from a first computing device and wirelessly transmits the collected and generated data to the first computing device initiating the request via a web browser, and the wireless communications device receives a second request from a second computing device and wirelessly transmits the collected and generated data to the second computing device initiating the request via Modbus TCP. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 28)
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14. An electrical metering device for measuring electrical metering data from at least one monitored point of an electrical power distribution system, the device comprising:
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a digital sampler configured for sampling voltage and current at the at least one monitored point of the electrical power distribution system; at least one processor configured to collect the sampled voltage and current and generate power consumption data from the sampled voltage and current, the at least one processor includes a web server that formats the collected and generated data via at least one programming language, the at least one programming language includes at least one of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and/or Extensible Markup Language (XML) ; and a wireless communications device for wirelessly connecting the metering device to a communication infrastructure via a 802.11 protocol, the communication infrastructure including a wide area network and at least one wireless access point, the wireless communications device connects to the wide area network via the at least one wireless access point; wherein the wireless communications device wirelessly transmits the formatted collected and generated data to an external computing device on the communication infrastructure via Modbus TCP. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29)
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30. An electronic metering device comprising:
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a digital sampler configured for sampling voltage and current at the at least one monitored point of an electrical power distribution system; at least one processor configured to collect the sampled voltage and current and generate power consumption data from the sampled voltage and current, wherein the at least one processor is configured to act as a server for the electronic metering device and is further configured for formatting the collected and generated data in at least one of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and/or Extensible Markup Language (XML); and a wireless communications device coupled to the at least one processor and for wirelessly connecting the electronic metering device to a wide area network via a 802.11 protocol, wherein the wireless communications device receives a first request from a first computing device on the wide area network and wirelessly transmits the collected and generated data to the first computing device initiating the request via a web browser, and the wireless communications device receives a second request from a second computing device on the wide area network and wirelessly transmits the collected and generated data to the second computing device initiating the request via Modbus TCP. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32)
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