Smart meter based energy management system

Abstract

The number of smart meters reached over 40 millions in Europe at the end of 20081. Far beyond the simple energy metering, these devices enable companies to inform the customers, to control the load and to increase the energy consciousness. The standardisation of the smart functionalities is in progress. The households for lack of knowledge and information do not care for the energy retrenchment. New central software applications have been developed that can perform remote energy management functions through communication to the distributed smart meters (specific value calculation, trend monitoring, limit violation alarm, etc.). The paper gives an overview about the existing remote energy management systems and makes recommendations which functions would be useful in the Hungarian environment, too.