Singapore: Smart grid city | Singapore International Energy Week
The Intelligent Energy System (IES) pilot will be conducted in two phases. Phase 1 (2010-2012) will focus on the implementation of the enabling infrastructure for the IES. The key infrastructure components are the advanced metering infrastructure (commonly referred to as “smart meters”) and the communication system. Smart meters are equipped with communications capabilities, and provide both energy providers and consumers with detailed information on how much electricity is being used and fed into the grid. A good communications network is crucial for such information flows to be handled...
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For folks who are wondering how your monthly utilities bills come about. It is the power of this meter. Electricity power meter from SP Assets . Here’s how it goes. A surveyor comes by every 2 months to take the readings of your meter – probably using this black handheld computer and keying in the readings before loading them into the data servers back in office. Next question comes. Since they only take readings every 3 months, how do they figure out how much electricity you consume every month? I would believe within SP (Singapore Power), they have a set of algorithms for...
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