Burdened by your rising electricity bills? Wondering where and how you can cut your daily power consumption to get some respite? Well, think no more! Here comes the Intelligent Power Meter that helps you monitor your power consumption and act accordingly.
In most cases, we have our power meters installed outside our houses or flats and so the only way we get to know our power usage is when we get the electric bill at the end of the month. But by then, it is too late to act and the only thing that we can do is wish that we had been more of an environmentalist and saved more power which in turn would have saved our pockets!
With the advent of science and technology, the demand for power is only going to rise by the day. Newer gadgets and fancier appliances will continue to emerge and will find their places from the shelves of stores to our houses faster than they can be replaced by newer and better ones. But be it the new LCD television set, laptop or the electric oven, it would require power to operate.
So what exactly is an Intelligent Power Meter and how does it benefit us? It is a device to which the appliance is plugged in so that the power consumption of the appliance can be instantaneously monitored in real-time. Hence, we can get an estimate of the energy consumption of the various appliances that we use in our day to day life and act more prudently. We may limit our energy uses in certain cases and remember to switch-off equipments or appliances that consume greater amount of power, when not in use. Once we have a feedback right in front of our noses, it is bound to go a long way to help in reduction of household energy consumption.
Standing in the 21st century, where the demand curve for power is rising exponentially on one hand and there are huge concerns about conservation of the environment in the other, we must ensure that there is optimization of power usage and minimize the losses. A lot of research has gone into development of smart grid systems which are envisioned to replace the ordinary power grid systems that are in use today. Smart meters are an important component of these systems and they seem to be the way forward. The Intelligent Power Meter is one simple way, among many others, that shows us the way to be a more responsible citizen of the Earth!
Via: igreenspot
