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Smart Meters, but Data Overload

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Tue, 2012-11-06 12:32 — sisi.the.shan

 A recent trend to help deal with the problem
of energy consumption is the rollout of smart meters, devices that can record
and send information about a particularly house’s real time electricity usage. Typically,
the smart meters will collect information on things like usage, voltage, and
power losses every couple of hours, in contrast to analog meters which were
only read once a month. The claim is that these meters will provide data that
will help power companies manage the electrical load and grid to avoid power
losses, which in theory save the customers money.

 

However the
implementation of these smart meters hasn’t been very successful because of
lack of an organizational structure and staff with skills necessary to manage
and process the huge amount of data. The data doesn’t get to the right
managers, and then not much can be done about what was collected.

 

There’s also
a huge inefficiency in the amount of data gathered versus the amount of data
used. In the end, the survey found that the smart meters themselves needed
improvement, as well as how the information can be used to increase managers
abilities to make smart decisions based on the incoming data. 


http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/so-much-data-from-smart-meters-but-who-can-analyze-it/