Digital Energy Meter
Digital Energy Meter
Digital Energy Meter
Working principle Electric energy meter can be divided into two types of induction meter and electronic meter. Induction
meter mainly is composed of the driving components, rotating components, braking components, bearings, gauges and
auxiliary components. It is operated by the force between a fixed alternating magnetic field and an electric current which
is induced of the movable part of the conductor. Electronic meter consists of current converter, voltage converter,
multiplier, voltage frequency converter, counter and so on. Electronic meter is widely used because of its good linearity,
stability and high precision. The working principle of the electronic meter is shown in Figure 1. The multiplier is the main
component of the electronic meter, also is the main source of metering error. At present, time-division multiplier is the
most widely used, so this section mainly discusses the error of time-division multiplier
The pulse width modulation circuit, as the main component of the time-division multiplier, main types are: triangle wave
comparison, dual level comparison, the beat square wave control voltage integration, etc. This digital meter is analyzed
metering error based on triangular wave compared type of timedivision multiplier, the working principle is shown in
Figure 2. Where X and Y are the input signal, T is the high frequency triangular wave modulation signal. The working
principle can be described as: the input signal X and triangular wave signal T through comparator, then can get the pulse
signal S. The signal S is used to control the switch to turn on the input signal Y to make the pulse amplitude modulation,
so that the signal amplitude is equal Y. Then use the filter to smoothing filtering to get the DC signal, and the amplitude is
equal the power value.
Multifunctional Smart Meter
Multifunctional Smart Meter is a high-tech product developed in recent years on the basis of electronic meter. Its
composition and working principle are very different from the traditional induction meter. The intelligent electronic meter
is mainly composed of electronic components, its working principle is through the real-time sampling of user power
supply voltage and current, and then use special electric energy meter IC Processing of sampled voltage and current
signals, and converted into electrical energy and pulse output is proportional to the final processing, control through the
microcontroller, display for electric pulsequantity and output.
We usually get smart metering of electricity when the A/D converter makes the pulse number called pulse constant, for
intelligent electric meter, which is a more important constant, because the number of A/D converter pulse generated in a
unit of time, will directly determine the meter measuring accuracy. The design principle of the current smart meter mostly
adopts a A/D converter, but also some users of intelligent electric meter manufacturers with more households sharing a
A/D converter, this measurement can only power the time to line up, will inevitably cause the decline of measurement
accuracy, this work should be paid attention to the features of intelligent the meter smart meter not only adopted the
design of electronic integrated circuit in the design selection, coupled with remote communication function, can connect
with computer and the software control, so compared with the induction meter, smart meter no matter in the performance
or operation function has a great advantage.