402 results about "Wattmeter" patented technology

A lighting control system is operable to control the amount of power delivered to a plurality of electrical loads. The lighting control system includes load control devices (such as digital electronic dimming ballasts), motorized window treatments, controllers, processors, and personal computers. The personal computer is preferably executing a graphical user interface (GUI) software, which allows a user to configure and monitor the operation of the lighting control system. The lighting control system offers a load shedding functionality without using power meters. Each load control device transmits its current intensity level to the personal computer, which is operable to determine a total power consumption of the lighting control system. If the total power consumption exceeds a predetermined power threshold, the personal computer causes the load control devices to shed loads.

A power meter reader system for automatically reading an indication on a power meter unit having a cyclical property that varies at a rate indicative of power consumption. The system comprises a detection unit that includes a sensor unit for monitoring the cyclical property of the indication and generating a consumption detection signal, a processing unit for generating an information signal based on data related to the consumption detection signal, and a transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal based on the information signal. The processing unit also generates a sensor enable signal to enable the sensor unit for only a portion of the cyclical property of the indication. The system further includes a display unit located remotely with respect to the detection unit for receiving the transmission signal and displaying the power consumption. The detection unit may also employ a prediction model for reducing power consumption in the detection unit.

A power meter for measuring power parameters on one or more electrical power lines / loads is configured to include a revenue class metering module and a power quality metering module. The revenue class metering module and the power quality metering module may use the same measured voltage and current signals to generate revenue accurate power consumption information and power quality information, respectively. The power meter may also include a plurality of filters configured to attenuate high frequency signals included in the voltage and current signals. Each of the filters may be configured with a corner frequency, gain and signal propagation delay that is substantially equal. The filtered current and voltage signals may be received and processed by the revenue class metering module, and the power quality metering module to generate revenue accurate power consumption information and power quality information, respectively. Alternatively, the filtered current and voltage signals may be received and processed by the power quality metering module to generate power quality information, and unfiltered current and voltage signals may be received and processed by the revenue class metering module to generate revenue accurate power consumption information.

A power meter reader system for automatically reading an indication on a power meter unit having a cyclical property that varies at a rate indicative of power consumption. The system comprises a detection unit that includes a sensor unit for monitoring the cyclical property of the indication and generating a consumption detection signal, a processing unit for generating an information signal based on data related to the consumption detection signal, and a transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal based on the information signal. The processing unit also generates a sensor enable signal to enable the sensor unit for only a portion of the cyclical property of the indication. The system further includes a display unit located remotely with respect to the detection unit for receiving the transmission signal and displaying the power consumption. The detection unit may also employ a prediction model for reducing power consumption in the detection unit.

The computational resources of a digital power meter can be reduced by utilizing an interrupt requested in anticipation of interrupt latency to perform real-time tasks, an approximation of a root mean square load current at an earlier time to compensate for a phase shift between the load current and the current transducer output, and an amplitude that is neither zero nor maximum to distinguish the cycles of a harmonically distorted waveform.

A current sensor for measuring the load in a fiscal power meter has conductive paths connected between an inlet and an outlet for guiding the load currents through the sensor, and operates by sensing local magnetic fields generated around the conductive paths by the current flowing there through, thereby providing a current measure indicative of the magnitude of a given load. The sensor is distinguished by plural current coil elements arranged in a substantially common plane so as to be substantially insensitive to remotely generated magnetic fields but responsive to local magnetic fields for generating the current measure. The coil elements are disposed in zones having more than two effective centres and exhibiting mutually opposing responses to the remote field.

A system, method and device for determining load profile of a power line conductor supplying power to a plurality of power customers is provided. In one embodiment the system comprises an automated meter reading system configured to receive meter data comprising data of the power consumed by each of the plurality of power customers as measured by the power meters; a phase detection system configured to determine one of the plurality of power lines to which each of the power meters is electrically connected; a meter grouping system configured to determine groups of power meter that are commonly connected to the plurality of power line conductors; and a load profile system configured to determine a load profile for each group of power meters by combining the meter data from each meter of each group over a plurality of time periods.

A power meter has a measuring circuit composed entirely of analog components that measures the instantaneous current draw of one or more electrical devices, such as home appliances. The power meter may be in the form of a hand-held device that includes elongated connections that allow a homeowner to measure the current draw of an electrical device without significant displacement of the electrical device. In addition to measuring current draw, the power meter may provide an estimated wattage consumed by the measured electrical devices.

The disclosure relates to a meter for monitoring usage of power provided by a power transmission system to a site. The meter comprises: a meter module connected to a power feed associated with the power transmission system to provide readings relating to the power; a messaging module to provide messages to the power transmission system; a connection to an alternating current (AC) power supply; a rectifier circuit connected to the AC power supply to generate a direct current (DC) power signal; a capacitive circuit connected to an output of the rectifier circuit, the capacitive circuit including a capacitor for storing a voltage for temporarily providing replacement power for the rectifier circuit; and a switching regulator circuit connected to the output of the rectifier circuit and the capacitive circuit, the switching regulator converting the DC voltage signal to a stepped down voltage signal for the meter module.

The present invention relates to a signal processing apparatus and a signal processing method, an encoder and an encoding method, a decoder and a decoding method, and a program capable of reproducing music signal having a better sound quality by expansion of frequency band.A sampling frequency conversion unit converts a sampling frequency of an input signal, and a sub-band division circuit divides the input signal after the sampling conversion into sub-band signals of sub-bands having the number corresponding to the sampling frequency.A pseudo high band sub-band power calculation circuit calculates pseudo high band sub-band powers based on low band signals of the input signal and coefficient tables having coefficients for the respective high band sub-bands. A pseudo high band sub-band power difference calculation circuit compares high band sub-band powers and the pseudo high band sub-band powers to each other and selects a coefficient table from plural coefficient tables. In addition, a coefficient index which specifies the coefficient table is encoded and set as high band encoded data. The present invention can be applied to an encoder.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for evaluating load power consumption utilizing a power meter are provided. A power line signal for a structure associated with a power meter may be measured by the power meter. The power line signal may be decomposed by the power meter into respective power consumption data for a plurality of individual loads powered by the power line signal. The power consumption data for a load included in the plurality of individual loads may be compared by the power meter to expected power consumption data for the load. Based at least in part upon the comparison, the power meter may determine whether the load is operating within one or more desired parameters.

Methods and systems are described for determining a phase of transmitted voltage. In one embodiment, a power distribution system may operate to transmit voltage and an injected signal. The system may also include a power meter that may receive the voltage and injected signal. The power meter may determine a phase of the received voltage based on the received voltage and the injection signal.

The invention provides a power calibration test system. The power calibration test system comprises a system setting device for setting target power and a target frequency band, a power meter connected with the system setting device and used for measuring output power in cooperation with a power sensor, a microwave vector network analyzer connected with the power meter and used for generating microwave signals, a frequency multiplier connected with the microwave vector network analyzer, a three-port directional coupler connected with the frequency multiplier, and a harmonic mixer connected with the microwave vector network analyzer and the three-port directional coupler. By means of a closed loop feedback loop, real-time closed loop monitoring and adjustment on input power of the reference plane of an input port of a component to be tested are achieved, real-time closed loop calibration on power within any frequency band and accurate measurement on circuits and devices can be achieved, and the universality, effectiveness, consistency and accuracy of the power calibration test system are largely improved.

An intelligent electronic device (IED) integrating a power metering unit (PMU) and a merging unit that combines signals from both analog transformers and digital transformers into a set of merged digital samples. Analog current / voltage signals from analog CTs / PTs are received at the IED's analog inputs and converted to digitized samples. Digital current / voltage samples from digital CTs / PTs are received via point-to-point connections at digital inputs of the IED. A tagging unit applies metadata tags to the digitized and digital samples. The metadata tags include the transformer providing the input signal, sampling rate, primary and / or secondary timestamps, scaling values, calibration values, and / or the location of the IED in the electrical system. The PMU performs metering and / or power quality calculations on the samples, and the calculation results are formatted and transmitted via a master-slave protocol to a requesting master. A grouping unit groups the merged samples into default or custom groupings, which are formatted and transmitted over a network via a publish-subscribe mechanism.

The invention provides a server integration method oriented to minimum energy consumption. The server integration method oriented to minimum energy consumption includes that resource states and performance data of servers and virtual machines on the servers are periodically obtained, and meanwhile, energy consumption of the servers is periodically measured by an external-connected wattmeter on a physical server to be stored; resource state data of the servers, resource state data of the virtual machines, performance data of the servers and the performance data of the virtual machines are periodically collected, and data pre-processing is performed; a server energy consumption model is established; a virtual machine transfer cost prediction model is established; transfer cost prediction value of each virtual machine is obtained; virtual machine comprehensive assessment is performed by means of an improved analytic hierarchy process; service stability index of the servers is calculated; a server integration scheme is determined; server integration is performed. According to the server integration method oriented to minimum energy consumption, the virtual machines are transferred to proper servers by means of a dynamic packing algorithm according to virtual machine resource required quantity and server resource surplus, and the number of starting servers is the minimum under the condition of stable service operation.

The invention relates to a multimode support parallel multichannel fast frequency sweeping method and a multimode support parallel multichannel fast frequency sweeping system. The system consists of four parts including a broadband radio frequency part, a multimode medium frequency part, a baseband frequency sweep algorithm part and a software configuration module, wherein the broadband radio frequency part is mainly used for carrying out analog amplification, filtering, frequency mixing, analog-to-digital (A / D) conversion and the like on the received radio-frequency signals; the multimode medium frequency party is mainly used for carrying out down-conversion treatment on digital intermediate frequency signals, wherein digital frequency mixing is carried out on the signals before down-conversion; the baseband frequency sweep algorithm part mainly comprises a frequency point detection module and a power calculation module; the frequency point detection module is used for rapidly and accurately judging frequency points, and the power calculation module is used for determining a main base station frequency point and a neighbor cell site frequency point; the software configuration module is used for carrying out online configuration on radio frequency and intermediate frequency by an upper computer, so that broadband radio frequency and multimode medium frequency are realized, and multiple communication systems are compatible. The multimode support parallel multichannel fast frequency sweeping system is capable of realizing rapid frequency sweeping of multiple communication modes such as global system for mobile communication (GSM), code division multiple access (CDMA), wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA), line termination equipment (LTE) and the like; the system is high in flexibility, rapid in speed, wide in application scope and cost-saving.

The invention contemplates an electrical power meter and method of operating the electrical power meter. The inventive power meter includes a power supply for converting alternating current (AC) voltage to a direct current (DC) voltage for powering the electronic components, and an optical diode in series with the power supply. The meter may also include an optical communications port in communication with the optical diode and / or a switch (e.g., a transistor) in communication with the optical diode. The switch may be in parallel with the optical diode, and allow DC current to bypass the optical diode when a request for communication is received by the meter. The DC current provided to the optical diode represents communication of data with an optical communications port. The switch may be controlled by a microprocessor device.

The invention relates to an online calibration method for a radio frequency front-end receiving-transmitting link, including radio frequency signal receiving calibration and radio frequency signal transmitting calibration. The radio frequency signal receiving calibration comprises the following steps: calibration setting is initialized; an internal calibration source enters a directional coupler at an input end and obtains a power meter reading of a receiving link; and signal power of a signal processing unit is compared with a power meter measurement result to obtain a power calibration factor. The calibrated radio frequency input signals can be measured by switching a single-pole multi-throw switch to a radio frequency input path, testing the calibrated frequency band and compensating corresponding calibration parameters. The radio frequency signal transmitting calibration comprises the steps of generating transmission baseband signals, calibrating I, Q imbalance of a transmitting link, calibrating output power, and compensating calibration parameters. In the module designed by the invention, radio frequency signal transmitting and receiving can be calibrated in real time without need for external equipment. The calibration of a portion of devices can be omitted in the production process of modules and time for module production can be shortened.

The invention contemplates an electrical power meter and method of operating the electrical power meter. The inventive power meter includes a power supply for converting alternating current (AC) voltage to a direct current (DC) voltage for powering the electronic components, and an optical diode in series with the power supply. The meter may also include an optical communications port in communication with the optical diode and / or a switch (e.g., a transistor) in communication with the optical diode. The switch may be in parallel with the optical diode, and allow DC current to bypass the optical diode when a request for communication is received by the meter. The DC current provided to the optical diode represents communication of data with an optical communications port. The switch may be controlled by a microprocessor device.

The error of a measurement system can be corrected even if the frequency of an input signal of a device under test is different from that of the output signal. A signal output acquiring section acquires the power of the input signal by means of a power meter not shown in the drawing. Thus, errors due to frequency tracking can be separated depending on the direction in a signal flow graph. Since a receiver measures the parameter concerning the received signal when a signal source is directly connected to receiving means, the measurement system error factor of the receiving means can be acquired. The parameter of a device under test can be measured while the error is corrected when the results of measurement, concerning the device under test of receivers are combined.

A processing machine processes a work and repeats processes on the work, thereby consuming energy. Within the consumed energy, room for improvement is computed by an energy monitoring device and is referred to as an amount of energy that can be improved. An energy monitoring device includes a power data acquirer that acquires a time-series power data measured by a power meter, a cycle detector that detects a single-cycle power data from the power data acquired by the acquirer, a divider that divides the single-cycle power data detected by the detector into an added-value creating portion and an unproductive portion, and a computing unit that computes an amount of energy consumed in the unproductive portion divided by the divider and defines it as the amount of energy to be improved.

An electric power management system includes a power meter connected to a power system of a commercial power source and a power conditioner connected to the power meter, a power generating device and an electric appliance. The power meter and the power conditioner are configured to exchange power information through a communications part at the side of the power meter.

A power meter for monitoring current in a power cable annunciates an alarm if the current transgresses one or more alarm current limits. False alarms are avoided by delaying the activation of the alarm for a delay interval following determination that current is flowing in the monitored conductor.

A current detector includes a plate conductor (4) that is folded in one portion in a longitudinal direction to have two parts parallel to and facing each other having a predetermined width (w1) therebetween, so as to compose a looped current path (2a) in the conductor, and a magneto-electric transducer (2) that is placed between the two parts of the conductor (4; 4a, 4b) so that a magnetic sensing axis is parallel to a width direction of the conductor (4), of which a length (a) in a direction of the magnetic sensing axis is smaller than the width (w1) of the conductor.

A power meter is disclosed. The power meter may be used to determine the electric power being delivered by a conductor. In one such power meter there is a substrate, an inductive pickup coil attached to the substrate, a conductor, and a detector. The pickup coil may be printed on the substrate.

A method for power load management is provided in the present invention, wherein two different standard values are determined to be a basis for regulating power consumption. When power consumption exceeds a first standard value, a monitoring procedure is started to monitor consumption status. If the power consumption exceeds a second standard value, an unloading procedure is processed to reduce the power consumption of electrical devices under operation. In another embodiment, the present invention also provides a system for power load management comprising a control unit coupled to at least one electrical device and a power meter. By means of real-time recording of power consumption in the power meter, the control unit is capable of determining the power consumption status and determining whether it is necessary to unload or reload the at least one electrical device.

The invention discloses method for testing sensitivity of a wireless communication product in an ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) frequency band, relating to methods for testing the sensitivity of the wireless communication products and solving the problem of low accuracy in a sensitivity test because the traditional method cannot simulate an actual condition. In a system I, signals emitted by an emitter are input into a receiver through an adjustable attenuator and a fixed attenuator. In a method I, the error rate from the adjustable attenuator to the receiver is adjusted to determine whether a preset error range is reached, and the sensitivity of the receiver is calculated. In a system II; the signals emitted by the emitter are input into the receiver after being processed by the adjustable attenuator I, a power distributor, a combiner and N adjustable attenuators II. In a method II, the reference attenuation values of the adjustable attenuators are respectively adjusted, the length of a transmission line is adjusted to make the receiver in a critical state, and a power meter is adopted to test the received signal power of the receiver and calculate the sensitivity of the receiver. The systems and methods disclosed by the invention are suitable for testing the sensitivity of the wireless communication products in the ISM frequency band.

A power meter having fault tolerance enhances the monitoring of electrical power by increasing the reliability of data output by the power meter having fault tolerance. The power meter having fault tolerance may enhance the monitoring process by transitioning from a faulty power monitoring device to a non-faulty power monitoring device without losing or corrupting power management data.