Event-Based Electricity Metering

This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the event-based metering strategy proposed by Simonov et al. This strategy is an alternative to the traditional periodic (time-based) metering where the power demand is average in fixed time periods (e.g. every 15 minutes). The event-based approach considers two thresholds that trigger an event, one related to the (instantaneous) power demanded, other to the accumulated energy consumed. The original work assumed these thresholds fixed for the measurements. Our present contribution relaxes this assumption by proposing a method to set the thresholds from the percentage of the peak power consumption over the period under analysis. This approach, in contrast to the time-based and the fixed thresholds, better captures the actual power demanded when different households with diverse power demand profiles are studied. In this sense, our method provides a more efficient way to store electricity demand data while maintaining the estimation error (in relation to the real-time power demand) under acceptable values. Numerical examples presented to illustrate the advantage and possible drawbacks of the proposed method.

de Castro Tomé Mauricio, Nardelli Pedro. H. J., Alves Hirley

A4 Article in conference proceedings

87th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2018

M. d. C. Tome, P. H. J. Nardelli and H. Alves, "Event-Based Electricity Metering: An Autonomous Method to Determine Transmission Thresholds," 2018 IEEE 87th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Porto, 2018, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/VTCSpring.2018.8417870

https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2018.8417870 http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2018121350729