Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) is based on the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), which provides smart meter data collection and analysis. One of the keys to managing dwindling energy resources is accurately measuring energy usage. Measurement is one of the first steps toward effective management and refining consumer behavior. AMI includes three major parts: smart meters, a control center, and a communication center. Current practice requires using power embedded computers as data concentrators to collect meter data from households and then send the data back to the control center for further analysis. The analysis can be used for demand management, implementing differential electricity rates, and for determining if new power plants are needed. Currently, electricity loss is higher than 40% in some developing countries; AMR can be expected to reduce this loss to less than 10%.
An AMR system requires some meters that can handle meter reading from home appliances and some power computers that can handle more complicated tasks, such as data acquisition, data computing, and data analysis. By integrating these meters, computers, and software programs, a smart solution can be created to establish an intelligent and distributed architecture for efficient meter reading and management.
Existing electric grids rely on staff in the field to manually read and record electricity use from physical meters. This is time-consuming and imposes significant labor costs on system maintenance. An Automated Meter Reading (AMR) system would increase the efficiency and response time of the entire grid.
Moxa's RISC-based W325A computer is the ideal AMR data concentrator to connect the digital meter with the computer in the control room. It helps collect the data from the digital meter and is a front-end controller that can handle complicated tasks such as protocol conversion and data computing, offering an intelligent data concentrator platform to generate readable analytical information for the computer at the control center.
The W325A comes with the ready-to-run Linux OS pre-installed. System programmers can easily develop the required application software on this open and familiar platform so that the AMR system can be quickly deployed. The W325A also features a built-in GSM/GPRS wireless module, which provides a convenient integrated wireless communications system. This is particularly helpful for AMR field site applications, where wired communications is unavailable or prohibitive in cost.
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