Power quality issues relating to power line carrier automated meter reading technology

Author

Smallwood, Cameron L.

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Abstract

Many utilities today are utilizing automated meter reading (AMR) technologies to increase efficiency and to improve customer service. One type of AMR, power line carrier based (PLC), is a very useful technology due to its use of the wires already in place for the purpose of serving power to the customer. Additionally, power quality (PQ) issues are ever more increasing in today´s electrical industry. Several different PQ issues exist which can play havoc on PLC AMR systems. It is the intent of this paper to provide the following: a brief overview of AMR technologies, most specifically PLC AMR, a brief overview of PQ issues and their causes, and a somewhat detailed discussion of the major PQ issues that United Cooperative Services (UCS) has dealt with relating to its PLC AMR system

Keywords

automatic meter reading; carrier transmission on power lines; power supply quality; AMR technologies; PLC AMR; United Cooperative Services; automated meter reading; customer service improvement; power line carrier; power quality issues; Automatic meter reading; Customer service; Frequency; Interference; Land mobile radio; Meter reading; Power industry; Power quality; Programmable control; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rural Electric Power Conference, 2001

Conference_Location

Little Rock, AR

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7012-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/REPCON.2001.949513

Filename

949513