The Electricity Meter is Not an Energy Saving Tool That Can Be Seen as Soon as They Are Installed

The combination of smart meters such as multi-user meters and prepaid meters and smart grids is theoretically an effective way to save energy. Smart meters can more accurately distinguish the time period of household electricity consumption.

The multi-user meter is not an energy-saving tool that can be effective as soon as it is installed. Its role at the current stage is to allow people to change their living habits and optimize the way of electricity consumption. Due to the high meter reading rate of the remote meter reading system, about one meter per second, meter reading and billing can be performed in different time periods. According to different instructions, the central control room can perform designated periodic reading of each meter in the network once a month, once a day or several times a day. my country's power companies simply and rudely install and do not popularize user guides, which inevitably leads to smart meters becoming an image project and a gold-absorbing tool.

If smart meters can really be used to build a smart grid covering the United States, electricity consumption across the United States will be reduced by more than 4% by 2030, which also means that consumers and power companies can save 20.4 billion US dollars. The remote meter reading system directly implements the remote automatic meter reading function in the central control room and can form a regional meter reading network centered on the central control room. Since the antenna fixed-point communication is used, after the installation height is completed according to the technical requirements, 24h communication can be carried out, and it is not affected by the fluctuation of the power grid. But these predictions are predicated on consumers being fully educated about smart meters.