Advanced electricity metering based on event-driven approaches

This study shows a more efficient method of transmitting electricity consumption information from the customers to the utilities. Current electricity metering strategies either work with too few data points, which are only suited for billing purposes, or too many of them, overwhelming communications systems with lots of redundant information. Our strategy tries to strike a balance between the two opposing strategies, by reducing the amount of information transmitted, while at the same time improving the 'usefulness' of each data point. The consumption information obtained in this way can be useful to improve the quality of the data used to plan and schedule the electricity generation, leading to a more efficient usage of resources, hopefully driving down the monetary and environmental costs of electricity generation.