Towards Remote Monitoring of Power Use: A Case for Smart Meters

Much effort is underway on issues related to the development of tools and services to reduce worldwide energy consumption. In this paper we focus on identifying ways for power energy reduction, more importantly, our drive is to propose ways for making power energy users aware of their consumption, which in turn it could help assist them in taking informed decisions towards the reduction of their possible wasted energy. Within this context, we discuss possible technologies, which could be incorporated as well as present models depicting requirements for a future application.