Design of Real-time Electricity Prices and Wireless Communication Smart Meter

Hongling Xie, Ping Huang, Yanqing Li, Liang Zhao, Feilong Wang

Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment Security Defense, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China.

DOI: 10.4236/epe.2013.54B257                

Abstract

Under the background of smart grid’s real-time electricity prices theory, a real-time electricity prices and wireless communication smart meter was designed. The metering chip collects power consumption information. The real-time clock chip records current time. The communication between smart meter and system master station is achieved by the wireless communication module. The “freescale” micro controller unit displays power consumption information on screen. And the meter feedbacks the power consumption information to the system master station with time-scale and real-time electricity prices. It results that the information exchange between users and suppers can be realized by the smart meter. It fully reflects the demanding for communication of smart grid.

Keywords

Real-time Electricity Prices; Wireless Communication; Smart Meter; Freescale

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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