Advanced Metering Infrastructure Collects Detailed Metering Information Throughout A Utility's Service Area Through Two-Way Communication

 

Advanced Metering Infrastructure

One of the Smart Grid solutions that enables two-way communication between service providers and customers is called Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). Smart metres installed in a variety of sectors, including residential, commercial, and industrial, are used by this system to collect data. These systems assist in reducing energy waste and cost control.

A utility metering arrangement called Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) enables two-way communication between various apps and their respective service providers. The programme often has an IP address that it uses to connect to the server and relay information about its status. AMI stands apart from other energy monitors despite the fact that there have been many of them since it can accurately display how much energy is being spent as well as its cost in almost real-time. A smart metre is another name for advanced metering infrastructure.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure, as its name implies, is a sophisticated method of keeping track of consumer energy use (from homes, offices and factories). The use of this metering technique is expanding across the country. Due to a number of integrated technologies that enable calculations, display, storage, and connection with a central server, the metres are referred regarded as "smart." Every hour (or more frequently), data is recorded, and the data is forwarded to the utility provider for ongoing monitoring and invoicing. It is simpler to report issues remotely because to this two-way communication between the metre and the service provider's central system, which is accomplished through cellular telephone technology.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure allows real-time, on-demand interrogations with metering endpoints and is often automated. "A metering system that records customer use hourly or more regularly and that permits for daily or more frequent transmittal of measurements across a communication network to a central collection point," is how the FERC defines AMI.

The DRAM Coalition offers the following definition of advanced metering: "a programme that, on demand or according to a predetermined schedule, gathers time-differentiated energy usage from advanced metres using a fixed network system. Preferably, the programme is two-way. The system enables energy users, utilities, and other parties to engage in and/or deliver demand response products, services, and programmes by providing usage information to them at least daily. In addition, the system includes extra features and capabilities for system performance and customer support, such as outage management, connect/disconnect, etc."