COST AND COMPLEX REDUCTION OF

SMARTMETERS USING IOT

One of the most challenging Imperatives
for

Smart Home Stakeholders

The energy challenge:

Energy use is a big challenge

for ours and the next Generations!
The same way
of thinking that
got you into
trouble wont get
you out of it.

Definition of Smart Cities

The ISO Technical Management Board (TMB) in its 63rd meeting
held on 17-18 June 2015 passed a resolution and approved the
working definition of a Smart City in ISO as follows:
''Smart City'' should be described as a city that:
dramatically increases the pace at which it improves its
sustainability and resilience, by fundamentally improving how it
engages society, how it applies collaborative leadership
methods, how it works across disciplines and city systems, and
how it uses data and integrated technologies in order to
transform services and quality of life to those in and involved
with the city (residents, businesses, visitors)

smart
grid

The smart grid deployments !!!

The Key Economic & Social Driver for SMART
GRID Initiatives Globally
Energy Efficiency.

is

nothing

but

The goal is to create a smart grid that will

change the way power is deployed
sustainable energy around the world.

for

It will transform the way we use

Energy

Defining the IoT Systems:

Internet of Things is all about

heterogeneousand aware devices
interacting to simplify peoples life
in some way or the other

Hurdles in fast growth of

IoT:

It is difficult for innovation to happen

across disjointed platforms &
technologies

Creating the opportunity for ecosystem partners to work across

common open platforms facilitates faster innovation

IoT Paradigm & challenges ! ! !

Global Neural Network of Networks

Homogeneous Network of

Heterogeneous Devices
Industrial IoT v/s Consumer IoT
Services v/s Applications
Infrastructure v/s Enterprise v/s
Homes
End to end Security in the Signal
Chain

Smart Infrastructure ! ! !
System of Systems ..

Smart Grids
Smart Buildings..
Smart Homes
Smart Cities
M2M or IoT
homogeneous & Secure paradigm for heterogeneous
devices, systems & solutions..

The shifting paradigms

The rise of new paradigms:

The rise of new paradigms:

EFFECTIVE SMARTMETERS
in
Smart Homes, Smart Buildings, Smart Grid &
Smart Cities
for
smart, sustainable & secure communities

The Smart Meter:

A chain is only as strong as its weakest Link

currently the weakest link in the Smart Grid Signal Chain is our
Smart Meter.
A robust Communication & IT Infrastructure shall be no good if
we continue to use the Meters, which are not Equally Secure. So,
the new imperative for the Metering Industry is to Design not
simply a Smart Meter but a Smart & Secure Meter.

The
Imperatives:
It is imperative to explore these crucial aspects of
our new Electricity Infrastructure; the challenges,
the
current
Practices
&
Technologies,
Architectures, Interfaces & Protocols.
And, identify the way forward for
Unified &
Secure Communication Architecture to provide a
Scalable, Versatile & Robust
Communication
Backbone for the Next generation Electricity
Infrastructure.

From a SMPLE approach

Transportation

Gas

Water

Power

Servers &
other ICT
Infra

Servers &
other ICT Infra

Servers &
other ICT Infra

Servers &
other ICT
Infra

Sensors

Meters

Servers & other

ICT Infra

Other City Services

and Departments

Meters

Waste
Management

Meters

Sensors

Challenges in Existing Smart

meters
Challenges on the grid's edges arise from the limitations of traditional electric meters that
dont make power consumption information available until a meter reader manually enters
the information into a database.
Today, electrical utilities want to track power consumption in real time to better manage
and optimize power generating sources and the transmission and distribution network.
Another advantage of real-time tracking, is the time crews could save restoring power after
an outage by quickly and easily determining which parts of the distribution network were
operating and which were not.
Finally, traditional meters measure only the electricity that is consumed while today its
increasingly becoming necessary to also track power generated by users through other
methods such as rooftop solar that are fed onto the electrical grid.

How to migrate the above

challenges??
Electrical utilities are addressing these challenges by migrating to smart
meters with wireless communications capabilities that continuously transmit
bi-directional energy flows at the individual user level.
Understanding how demand is changing minute-by-minute or second-bysecond helps utilities manage power generating, transmission and
distributing resources more efficiently.
Utility restoration crews can see the status of the electrical network in near
real time so they can pinpoint the location and crews can see the status of
the electrical network in near real time so they can pinpoint the location and
extent of outages, resolve problems on the first visit, and avoid unnecessary
truck rolls.

SMART METER TO BE DESIGNED

with FOLLOWING FEATURES

Connects different types of generation sources

Decides which source to utilize
Ensures network synchronization
Manages reselling of excess power
Monitors energy status
Interfaces with the smart load shedding panel
Interfaces with external environment (energy provider,
weather forecast, )

HOW IT LOOKS (or) WORKS

ROLE OF IOT WITH SMART

METERS
End-users assistance to provide the means to operate and maintain

their installation efficiently

A plan for energy savings backed-up by audits carried out by our
experts
Advice on improvements to existing installation in order to increase
efficiency of the sites utilities while preserving existing level of comfort
24/7 remote monitoring via internet
Long term guaranteed performance contract handled by experienced
professionals