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YoMo: the Arduino-based smart metering board

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Smart meters are an enabling technology for many smart grid applications. This paper introduces a design for a low-cost smart meter system as well as explaining fundamentals of smart metering. The smart meter platform, provided as open hardware, is designed with a connector interface compatible to the Arduino platform, thus opening the possibilities for smart meters with flexible hardware and computation features, starting from low-cost 8 bit micro controllers up to powerful single board computers that can run Linux. The metering platform features a current transformer which allows a non-intrusive installation of the current measurement unit. The suggested design can switch loads, offers a variable sampling frequency, and provides measurement data such as active power, reactive and apparent power. Results indicate that measurement accuracy and resolution of the proposed metering platform are sufficient for a range of different applications and loads from a few watts up to 5 kW.

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  1. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  2. http://yomo.sourceforge.net.

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  12. Only presented for appliances having a reactive power quantity.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Lakeside Labs GmbH, Klagenfurt, Austria and funding from the European Regional Development Fund and the Carinthian Economic Promotion Fund (KWF) under grant KWF-\(20214\mid 22935\mid 24445\).

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  1. Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Christoph Klemenjak, Dominik Egarter & Wilfried Elmenreich

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Klemenjak, C., Egarter, D. & Elmenreich, W. YoMo: the Arduino-based smart metering board. Comput Sci Res Dev 31, 97–103 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-014-0290-8

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