As highlighted by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), providing clean, reliable and affordable energy for people everywhere will require the reduction of gas emission in the energy domain by 90%, compared to 2010 emissions, between the years 2040 and 2070. In addition, to a change in choices, preferences and behavior of individuals and households in energy demand and consumption, to achieve a successful transition to a more sustainable energy system, the adoption of new metering solutions to foster a wide range of sustainable actions by diverse people across the globe will be required. In this paper, we discuss the development of an ultra-low-power energy meter exploiting a single current transformer (CT) sensor for harvesting energy from the same load under monitoring. Starting from the hypothesis that the node activation rate increases monotonically with the primary load draw, and assuming that the node consumes fixed energy quanta during each activation, it is possible to infer the load power from the interval between activations. With this approach, we can provide a device that lowers maintenance cost related to installation and battery replacement; does not need to deal with high main voltage; and does not introduce any additional energy consumption overhead as it draws zero-power under zero-load condition. Energy budget is guaranteed also thanks to the use of a LoRa radio for data transmission.

A battery-free non-intrusive power meter for low-cost energy monitoring / Dalpiaz, Giorgia; Longo, Alessandro; Nardello, Matteo; Passerone, Roberto; Brunelli, Davide. - ELETTRONICO. - (2018), pp. 653-658. (Intervento presentato al convegno 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, ICPS 2018 tenutosi a Sankt-Peterburg nel 2018) [10.1109/ICPHYS.2018.8390784].

A battery-free non-intrusive power meter for low-cost energy monitoring

Nardello, Matteo;Passerone, Roberto;Brunelli, Davide
2018-01-01

Abstract

As highlighted by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), providing clean, reliable and affordable energy for people everywhere will require the reduction of gas emission in the energy domain by 90%, compared to 2010 emissions, between the years 2040 and 2070. In addition, to a change in choices, preferences and behavior of individuals and households in energy demand and consumption, to achieve a successful transition to a more sustainable energy system, the adoption of new metering solutions to foster a wide range of sustainable actions by diverse people across the globe will be required. In this paper, we discuss the development of an ultra-low-power energy meter exploiting a single current transformer (CT) sensor for harvesting energy from the same load under monitoring. Starting from the hypothesis that the node activation rate increases monotonically with the primary load draw, and assuming that the node consumes fixed energy quanta during each activation, it is possible to infer the load power from the interval between activations. With this approach, we can provide a device that lowers maintenance cost related to installation and battery replacement; does not need to deal with high main voltage; and does not introduce any additional energy consumption overhead as it draws zero-power under zero-load condition. Energy budget is guaranteed also thanks to the use of a LoRa radio for data transmission.
2018
Proceedings 2018 IEEE Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, ICPS 2018
Piscataway, NJ
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
9781538665312
Dalpiaz, Giorgia; Longo, Alessandro; Nardello, Matteo; Passerone, Roberto; Brunelli, Davide
A battery-free non-intrusive power meter for low-cost energy monitoring / Dalpiaz, Giorgia; Longo, Alessandro; Nardello, Matteo; Passerone, Roberto; Brunelli, Davide. - ELETTRONICO. - (2018), pp. 653-658. (Intervento presentato al convegno 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, ICPS 2018 tenutosi a Sankt-Peterburg nel 2018) [10.1109/ICPHYS.2018.8390784].
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