POWER METER BASED ON SYSTEM ON CHIP

• US 20100100341A1
• Filed: 01/08/2009
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Korea Electric Power Corporation (Government of South Korea)
• Original Assignee: Korea Electric Power Corporation (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: JOO, Sung Ho, MYOUNG, No Gil, KIM, Young Hyun, PARK, Byung Seok, CHOI, Moon Seok, CHOI, In Ji
• Application Number:
  US12/350,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20100100341A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/62
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 22/063 related to remote communication
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 22/10 using digital techniques

Abstract

Power meter based on a system-on-a-chip (SoC) is disclosed. The power meter provides all necessary functions related to power metering, power information processing and power information transmission on the basis of a system-on-a-chip enabling power meter functions to be mounted in a single chip in a manner that hardware resources can be recombined to implement hardware logics ensuring portability according to customer needs. The SoC-based power meter includes: an A/D converter converting an analog signal corresponding to a voltage and current supplied to a customer into digital data; a digital signal processor performing power metering by processing digital data from the A/D converter; a micro controller unit processing power meter information using data from the digital signal processor; a memory storing processed power meter information; and interfaces sending power meter information stored in the memory to external appliances, and forwarding signals received from external appliances to the micro controller unit.

Claims

1. A power meter based on a system-on-a-chip (SoC), comprising:

an analog-to-digital converter converting an analog signal corresponding to a voltage and current supplied to a customer into digital data;

a digital signal processor performing power metering by processing the digital data from the analog-to-digital converter;

a micro controller unit processing power meter information using data from the digital signal processor;

a memory storing the power meter information processed by the micro controller unit; and

interfaces sending power meter information stored in the memory to external appliances, and forwarding signals received from external appliances to the micro controller unit,

wherein the micro controller unit controls and manages the digital signal processor, memory and interfaces, and additionally classifies the power meter information into objects with common properties, assigns identification numbers to the objects, and stores the power meter information in the memory for management and processing.

2. The power meter of claim 1, wherein the interfaces are one of a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) controller, universal serial bus (USB) controller, Ethernet controller, serial communication controller, infrared communication controller, keypad controller, touch pad controller, and liquid crystal display (LCD) controller.

3. The power meter of claim 1, wherein the analog-to-digital converter, digital signal processor, micro controller unit, memory, and interfaces are integrated in a single system-on-a-chip.

4. The power meter of claim 1, wherein the objects are configured on the basis of the Object Identification System (OBIS).

5. The power meter of claim 4, wherein OBIS codes for object identification comprise a value group A describing data properties, a value group B describing channel numbers, a value group C defining physical quantities, a value group D defining processing results of physical quantities, a value group E describing tariffs, and a value group F describing data times.

6. The power meter of claim 1, wherein the micro controller unit reads, in response to an information request from an external appliance through one of the interfaces, the power meter information in the memory, and sends the power meter information in a format conforming to a meter communication protocol to the external appliance.

7. The power meter of claim 6, wherein the meter communication protocol comprises a physical layer for media access control, a data link layer for frame structuring, and an application layer supporting packet transmission over the data link layer.