Smart-metering for monitoring building power distribution network using instantaneous phasor computations of electrical signals

Abstract

This paper presents a smart-metering framework based on computations of instantaneous phasors of voltage and current signals measured at a given node. The idea and requirement of electrical transparency inside a building is presented initially. Then the implementation of phasor estimation algorithm is discussed for the purpose of smart-metering. The capability of the smart-meter to do detailed power quality analysis is also presented. The ongoing work of hardware implementation and real-time testing of such smart-metering is also mentioned in the paper.