Methods of determining if it is safe to restore service to a gas meter remotely are provided. The method includes determining if any pre-existing conditions are present in the gas meter responsive to issuance of a restore command to restore service from a remote location. The pre-existing conditions indicates that safety test results are unreliable. If it is determined that no pre-existing conditions are present, a valve on the gas meter is opened to fill the gas meter with gas until the gas meter reaches a predefined fill state. It is determined if pressure in the gas meter is stable at the predefined fill state and the valve on the gas meter is closed if the pressure is stabilized. A pressure decay test is performed after the valve on the gas meter is closed. The valve to restore gas flow is opened if the pressure decay test passes.

There is provided a temperature data-based gas usage correction method for a gas data platform. According to an embodiment, an energy usage correction method may collect gas meter reading data, may calculate energy usage based on the gas meter reading data, may collect temperature data, and may correcting the calculated energy usage. Accordingly, when it is impossible to obtain temperature in reading a gas meter, temperature compensation may be performed by linking temperature data collected separately and gas usage, and gas usage may be more exactly measured by correcting gas usage by compensating for temperature variation caused by a difference in seasons, installation regions in a gas data platform.

A fluid meter has a first communication interface and is connected to the cut-off unit having a communication interface. If the fluid flow rate remains greater than a first predetermined flowrate threshold for at least a first predetermined duration, to detect that there is a leak of fluid and to transmit an internal command frame incorporating a closing command to the communication interface of the cut-off unit. Following closing of the electromechanical valve, to acquire a first external command frame incorporating an opening command produced by the cut-off unit following manual action on an actuator member of the cut-off unit, to produce an internal command frame incorporating the opening command, and to transmit said internal command frame via the first communication interface to the communication interface of the cut-off unit in order to reopen the electromechanical valve.

The disclosure is directed to a novel utility meter with an integrated backup power transfer system. In some embodiments, the system is capable of sensing and switching between multiple power sources. In some embodiments, the system is configured to supply power from multiple backup power sources in parallel. In some embodiments, the system is configured to execute artificial intelligence locally on the utility meter to avoid sending large amounts of raw data to a central computer through a network. In some embodiments, the local AI includes one or more AI models configured to execute load forecasting, anomaly detection, and/or energy optimization. In some embodiments, the local AI is configured to analyze the raw electrical data collected by sensors in communication with the utility meter computer. In some embodiments, the local AI is configured to execute control commands for one or more load devices based on the analysis.

A method for linkage alarm between a gas alarm and a gas meter is provided. The method comprises: obtaining a detection signal through electrical connection with the alarm; in response to the detection signal meeting a preset alarm condition, determining a target alarm event corresponding to the detection signal; when the target alarm event is the abnormal gas concentration in the target area, closing, by the gas meter, a gas valve of the gas meter; when the target alarm event is the abnormal operation of the alarm or the abnormal connection of the alarm, receiving a reset instruction; determining a reset alarm event corresponding to the at least one reset operation; determining a credibility of the target alarm event; determining whether to send a control closing instruction to the gas meter based on the credibility; and closing the gas valve of the gas meter based on the control closing instruction.

A method, apparatus, and system for disconnecting loads from the electrical grid are disclosed. An application programming interface (API) frontend of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) load shedding system may receive a load shedding activation command; in response to receiving the load shedding activation command, the API frontend may deploy a load shedding token to one or more electricity meters of the AMI load shedding system, and cause the one or more electricity meters to disconnect corresponding loads from the one or more electricity meters.