How to monitor electricity consumption and improve energy efficiency

The energy management developed by Urmet TLC is a complete system for the rational and conscious management of energy. Through the analysis of consumption and the continuous monitoring of electricity it’s possible to optimize this precious resource. This control becomes absolutely essential in the presence of self-production systems such as photovoltaic panels or in the presence of electrical appliances sensitive to the interruption of electric current such as refrigerators or pumps for draining rainwater.
In these cases, the real-time alarm of any blackouts can protect against serious damage to health and buildings.

Urmet TLC is careful to reducing consumption and enhancing energy resources. Given this need, we propose Duel, a device that allows the display of consumption data and the reception of notifications against alarms generated by second-generation electronic meters.

Duel, the simple device that communicates with the electricity meter and controls electricity consumption in the home

Duel is a device capable of receiving data sent to domestic users by second-generation intelligent low-voltage meters. 

Duel uses the Power Line Carrier (PLC) communication channel on band C (channel called “CHAIN ​​2” according to resolution 87/2016 / R / eel ARERA) existing on these meters. The meters are those normally installed by the service provider for consumption counting.

Duel manages to dialogue with these devices and detect the measurements they send, such as:

1

data on energy consumed and generated

2

notifications in real time indicating the exceeding of the pre-set power thresholds

3

exceeding the available power

4

exhaustion of prepaid credit

5

notification of power failure and duration

The device is equipped with WIFI / NB IoT interface through which it sends the data received from the meter to a management platform. Here they are appropriately processed and made available to the user (in multi-platform mode on the APP and WEB portal).

It also has a Wall Cube design and does not require any installation costs and is totally plug & play, since, thanks to the use of the PLC channel, it requires only the insertion of the device in any electrical outlet in the home. You can check the data sent by the device through an application.

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Duel App: the application to control domestic consumption in real time

The Duel app is a simple application available for both Android and iOS operating systems. Dialogue in WiFi with the Duel device and allows you to view all data made available by the consumption meter on your smartphone or tablet.

Among the possible measurements it is possible to detect:

⇒ current data such as energy from the last quarter of an hour and instantaneous power

⇒  historical data with the configuration of the reference period for energy and power measurements

⇒  notifications in real time such as alerts on exceeding available power or the time remaining before the intervention of the limiter

⇒  immediate notification in the event of a blackout and storage of the relative duration

Customized consumption thresholds can be checked and then planned to rationalize energy consumption. For example, you can set:

1

average absorbed power:

a notification will be activated if the average power absorbed in a configurable interval of n hours exceeds the set value
2

energy consumed in 24 hours:

a signal will be activated when in a 24 hour interval (starting from midnight) the amount of energy consumed exceeds the set value.
3

energy absorbed over the billing period:

a notification can be activated if the amount of energy consumed during a billing period exceeds the set value.

To use the application just configure the Duel device and enter the contractual data required by the wizard during registration. The steps are very simple and within minutes electricity consumption will be just a click away.

Thanks to this application it is possible to constantly monitor daily or specific consumption to avoid wasting energy and high bills.