Apparatuses including utility meter, power electronics, and communications circuitry are provided. The utility meter circuitry is configured to measure usage of electricity supplied by an electric utility to a premise of a customer of the electric utility. The power electronics circuitry is configured to regulate a voltage level supplied to the premise of the customer. Moreover, the communications circuitry is configured to provide communications with a first electronic device of the customer at the premise of the customer and to provide communications with a second electronic device that is upstream from the apparatus. Related methods of operating an apparatus including utility meter, power electronics, and communications circuitry are also provided.

A metering device for monitoring power flow at a premises includes a metering module that measures power flow on powerlines at a premises and provides power flow data characterizing the power flow on the powerlines. The metering device also includes a communication module coupled to the metering module that transmits power flow data to a node on a meter network. The metering device further includes an energy storage element coupled to the metering module and the communication module. The energy storage element provides backup power to the metering module and the communication module in response to a voltage on the powerlines dropping below a first threshold for a time interval exceeding a second threshold, such that the metering module measures the power flow on the powerlines and provide the power flow data for a backup interval of time.

A power-measuring device serves to measure the power of a three-phase system. It comprises a measuring unit for measuring a power of a first phase of the three-phase system, a display unit for displaying measured results and an operating unit for the operation of the power-measuring device by a user. Furthermore, it comprises a communications unit by means of which it can communicate with one or more further power-measuring devices. In this context, the power-measuring device is embodied, jointly with the one or more further power-measuring devices, to measure a power of several phases of the three-phase system.

A method of adjusting an energy usage of a usage area including a step of providing a gateway device for the usage area wherein the usage area comprises at least one electrically powered device and a step of determining an energy usage of the at least one electrically powered device. The method also includes a step of creating a user energy profile and a step of adjusting the energy usage of the at least one electrically powered device in the usage area based on the energy usage of the at least one electrically powered device and based on the user energy profile.

A system that detects energy resource outages includes: resource monitors, each disposed within radio range of resource meters that transmit corresponding radio signals indicative of meter identifiers and current readings, where the resource monitors are configured to receive and decode the radio signals to obtain one or more of the meter identifiers and current readings, and where the each of the resource monitors transmits the one or more of the meter identifiers and current readings over the internet cloud; and a resource server, operatively coupled to the resource monitors via the internet cloud, configured to receive the one or more meter identifiers and current readings from the resource monitors, and configured to employ the current readings to detect an outage within a geographic area, and configured to send alerts to a resource provider that correspond to the outage.

This power management device: receives, at predetermined intervals for each certain time period, an integrated value that is obtained by totaling power flowing between a power system and a consumer facility within the certain time period from a smart meter that measures the amount of the power flowing between the power system and the consumer facility; receives, at shorter intervals than the predetermined intervals, the measured value of the power flowing in the consumer facility from a power sensor provided separately from the smart meter; and calculates complementary information that complements the integrated value on the basis of the measured value.

An integrated circuit and/or sensing circuitry assists in determining the thermal capacity available at a given and future time. In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a number of channels connected to any number of components having differing thermal capacities. The integrated circuit may provide information relating to available thermal capacity on a per-channel basis as well as on a system-wide basis.

An appliance includes an operation unit that is mounted in a case of the appliance that is supplied power by an external power supply and that includes at least one of a motor and a heating member. The appliance further includes a control circuit mounted in the case of the appliance and configured to control the operation unit to perform appliance functionality that is different than measuring power. The appliance further includes a power meter coupled to the control circuit, built into the case, and configured to measure power consumed by the appliance in performing the appliance functionality.

A system and method that enable analysis and visualization of disparate data to provide actionable insight regarding a smart meter network are disclosed. In some implementations, smart meter grid dashboard functionality may provide an improved and integrated data view and enable dynamic investigations and actions based on smart meter analytics. A method of aggregating and displaying data relevant to operations of an AMI network may provide actionable insight into operation of the network, predict failures, and recommend remedial actions.

A packet intercept system includes probes along the field area network. A portion of the probes are mobile probes configured to receive and process a global positioning system signal. Intercepting by the mobile probes includes implementing a global positioning tag in each packet in the traffic data stream intercepted by the mobile probes, the global positioning tag includes a timestamp and global positioning system coordinates, derived from the global position system signal. The packet intercept system backhauls the traffic data stream to an additional network that is distinct from the field area network. Processors on the additional network obtain the traffic data stream and process the stream into a live traffic data stream by ordering each packet intercepted by the mobile probes in the processed live traffic data stream, based on the timestamp. The processors analyze the processed live traffic data stream.