Wireless energy metering

Power Measurement has introduced the ION 6100 wireless energy metering system. Suitable for tenant sub-billing or cost allocation applications in commercial environments, the system uses a network of wireless energy meters to monitor energy usage throughout large multi-storey buildings and automatically relay the readings by radio signal to a central data server.

Providing time-stamped, interval-based consumption data and coincident demand readings accurate to the ANSI C12.16 Class 1 standard, the system lowers overall installed costs by avoiding the need to lay communications wire and the associated conduit throughout a facility.

The system includes: wireless metering devices small enough to attach to almost any existing enclosure; split-core current transformers for non-intrusive current measurement; and a PC-based gateway that gathers, aggregates and logs all meter data, then makes it available for export in industry-standard XML format.