Smart meter based energy management system
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24084/repqj09.585Abstract
The number of smart meters reached over 40 millions in Europe
at the end of 20081 . Far beyond the simple energy metering,
these devices enable companies to inform the customers, to
control the load and to increase the energy consciousness.
The standardisation of the smart functionalities is in progress.
The households for lack of knowledge and information do not
care for the energy retrenchment.
New central software applications have been developed that can
perform remote energy management functions through
communication to the distributed smart meters (specific value
calculation, trend monitoring, limit violation alarm, etc.). The
paper gives an overview about the existing remote energy
management systems and makes recommendations which
functions would be useful in the Hungarian environment, too.