Smart Grid Energy Monitoring

[TiffanyFogarty]

Description	Products Used
Smart Grid Energy Monitoring Smart Meters are the future of utility conservation by allowing real-time monitoring of water, gas or electric consumption providing end users and utility companies a way to better conserve and plan their use of these limited resources. This demonstration is a scaled version of a home water system with distributed water meters provided by Neptune Technologies which are controlled by a CompactRIO (cRIO) embedded system from National Instruments. Real-time water consumption is sent wireless from the four water meters to a National Instruments PXI system with a PXI-5661 vector signal analyzer. A PXI-5671 vector signal generator is used to simulate a water meter for display on the PXI system as well as a hand-held meter reader as provided by Neptune Technologies.
	Products used: cRIO - relay and digital modules PXI-1045 chassis with 2 PXI-5661 VSA and PXI-5671 VSG Complete plumbed water way with automated meter readers (AMRs) from Neptune Technologies including a flow based quadrature encoder UHF antennas are connected to the PXI-5661 and PXI-5671 for communication with the AMRs