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Discover how SATEC’s web-enabled smart meters integrate with cloud energy management platforms for real-time monitoring, power quality analysis and automated reporting across Australian facilities.

The rise of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and the emergence of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology are revolutionising energy management across Australia. With more Australians choosing EVs, the potential for these vehicles to help stabilise the energy grid is growing.

SATEC has developed a Raspberry Pi interface to the popular EM133-XM and BFM136 instruments.

Every SATEC meter includes a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). The PLC can be used for various applications such as: Substation Automation, Demand Side Participation, Demand Response, Load Control, and a variety of specialist requirements.

The new Power of Choice (PoC) reforms implemented within Australia work to provide benefit to consumers combined with the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) expanding competition in metering and related services review.

Electricity meters come in many forms. Understanding features and capabilities, as well as the requirements of an application, can ensure that today’s meter will meet tomorrow’s requirements.

There is a significant difference between low cost metering solutions and advanced smart meters. Subsequently, there is a wide gap between how more advanced solutions can serve applications best instead of traditional low cost metering implementations.

Days of analogue instruments are fading, as is the use of ‘pulse only electrical meters’, or to the lesser extent, real-time-meters without internal memory and an internal clock. The evolution of multi-function electrical meter sees a wide gap in technology by vendors.

Electricity meters, energy meters, multi-function metering and any power metering incorporating internal clocks for date/time stamp resolution must comply with NMI electrical metering standards to ensure the clock time does not drift.