3 research outputs found
Upgrading of Traditional Electric Meter Into Wireless Electric Meter Using ZigBee Technology
Since the electric generating, distributing and marketing has been
possible; the Electric Meter was introduced and developed along the years, but
never like this time. The digital technology, the wireless communication, and
the computer systems have dramatically changed the Electric meter generation
from Traditional Meter to Automatic Meter and now to Smart Meter. Their
differences lie in how to collect and process information, and the amount of
information they can provide. Even so the traditional meter reading has been
long used, and it is still one of the most common ways for meter reading. This
method, however, has their disadvantages which are the result of human basis
reading method that uses. If the reading problem is solved by adding a simple
circuit, which makes it automatic it will be still useful method of reading. In
this paper it is described a prototype for Automatic Meter Reading (AMR)
system that uses a Traditional meter, ZigBee modules, and Mesh network. As
result the system gives, full capability of automatic meter even some features of
smart meter too. This experiment has an important result for developing country
like Ethiopia, which almost 99% its meters are the Traditional meter