YoMo - The Arduino based Smart Metering Board
Abstract
Smart meters are an enabling technology for many smart grid applications. This paper introduces a design for a low-cost smart meter system as well as the fundamentals of smart metering. The smart meter platform, provided as open hardware, is designed with a connector interface compatible to the Arduino platform, thus opening the possibilities for smart meters with flexible hardware and computation features, starting from low-cost 8 bit micro controllers up to powerful single board computers that can run Linux. The metering platform features a current transformer which allows a non-intrusive installation of the current measurement unit. The suggested design can switch loads, offers a variable sampling frequency, and provides measurement data such as active power, reactive and apparent power. Results indicate that measurement accuracy and resolution of the proposed metering platform are sufficient for a range of different applications and loads from a few watts up to five kilowatts.
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@article{arxiv.1409.3404,
title = {YoMo - The Arduino based Smart Metering Board},
author = {Christoph Klemenjak and Dominik Egarter and Wilfried Elmenreich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.3404},
year = {2014}
}