Development and Calibration of an Open Source, Low-Cost Power Smart Meter Prototype for PV Household-Prosumers
Smart meter roll-out in photovoltaic (PV) household-prosumers provides easy access to granular meter measurements, which enables advanced energy services. The design of these services is based on the training and validation of models. However, this requires temporal high-resolution data for generati...
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| author | F. Sanchez-Sutil A. Cano-Ortega J.C. Hernandez C. Rus-Casas |
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| description | Smart meter roll-out in photovoltaic (PV) household-prosumers provides easy access to granular meter measurements, which enables advanced energy services. The design of these services is based on the training and validation of models. However, this requires temporal high-resolution data for generation/load profiles collected in real-world household facilities. For this purpose, this research developed and successfully calibrated a new prototype for an accurate low-cost On-time Single-Phase Power Smart Meter (OSPPSM), which corresponded to these profiles. This OSPPSM is based on the Arduino open-source electronic platform. Not only can it locally store information, but can also wirelessly send these data to cloud storage in real-time. This paper describes the hardware and software design and its implementation. The experimental results are presented and discussed. The OSPPSM demonstrated that it was capable of in situ real-time processing. Moreover, the OSPPSM was able to meet all of the calibration standard tests in terms of accuracy class 1 (measurement error ≤1%) included in the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards for smart meters. In addition, the evaluation of the uncertainty of electrical variables is provided within the context of the law of propagation of uncertainty. The approximate cost of the prototype was 60 € from eBay stores. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-efcb6a27b07f4b2a9c85acff2a45be092022-12-22T04:23:43ZengMDPI AGElectronics2079-92922019-08-018887810.3390/electronics8080878electronics8080878Development and Calibration of an Open Source, Low-Cost Power Smart Meter Prototype for PV Household-ProsumersF. Sanchez-Sutil0A. Cano-Ortega1J.C. Hernandez2C. Rus-Casas3Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Jaen, 23071 Jaen, SpainDepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of Jaen, 23071 Jaen, SpainDepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of Jaen, 23071 Jaen, SpainDepartment of Electronic and Automatic Engineering, University of Jaen, 23071 Jaen, SpainSmart meter roll-out in photovoltaic (PV) household-prosumers provides easy access to granular meter measurements, which enables advanced energy services. The design of these services is based on the training and validation of models. However, this requires temporal high-resolution data for generation/load profiles collected in real-world household facilities. For this purpose, this research developed and successfully calibrated a new prototype for an accurate low-cost On-time Single-Phase Power Smart Meter (OSPPSM), which corresponded to these profiles. This OSPPSM is based on the Arduino open-source electronic platform. Not only can it locally store information, but can also wirelessly send these data to cloud storage in real-time. This paper describes the hardware and software design and its implementation. The experimental results are presented and discussed. The OSPPSM demonstrated that it was capable of in situ real-time processing. Moreover, the OSPPSM was able to meet all of the calibration standard tests in terms of accuracy class 1 (measurement error ≤1%) included in the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards for smart meters. In addition, the evaluation of the uncertainty of electrical variables is provided within the context of the law of propagation of uncertainty. The approximate cost of the prototype was 60 € from eBay stores.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/8/8/878advanced metering infrastructuredata acquisitionIEC standardslow-costopen sourcepower measurementsmart meteruncertainty evaluation |
| spellingShingle | F. Sanchez-Sutil A. Cano-Ortega J.C. Hernandez C. Rus-Casas Development and Calibration of an Open Source, Low-Cost Power Smart Meter Prototype for PV Household-Prosumers Electronics advanced metering infrastructure data acquisition IEC standards low-cost open source power measurement smart meter uncertainty evaluation |
| title | Development and Calibration of an Open Source, Low-Cost Power Smart Meter Prototype for PV Household-Prosumers |
| title_full | Development and Calibration of an Open Source, Low-Cost Power Smart Meter Prototype for PV Household-Prosumers |
| title_fullStr | Development and Calibration of an Open Source, Low-Cost Power Smart Meter Prototype for PV Household-Prosumers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development and Calibration of an Open Source, Low-Cost Power Smart Meter Prototype for PV Household-Prosumers |
| title_short | Development and Calibration of an Open Source, Low-Cost Power Smart Meter Prototype for PV Household-Prosumers |
| title_sort | development and calibration of an open source low cost power smart meter prototype for pv household prosumers |
| topic | advanced metering infrastructure data acquisition IEC standards low-cost open source power measurement smart meter uncertainty evaluation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/8/8/878 |
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