Self-powered smart meter with synchronized data

In this article, a notably advanced meter with real-time data detection capability, high reliability, self-powered and low fabrication cost is presented. It is intended for use in smart grid applications. Compared with the old local grid, knowing the system status in real time is achieved as a first step to control a smart grid reliably. Our framework provides insights about an energy harvesting sensor network to monitor the smart grid's power distribution. This provides the information needed to make a compromise between efficiency and reliability of the whole grid system. The meter design shown in this paper operates automatically and is considered with installation difficulties and environmental effects such as position displacement due to weather, electrical and magnetic field interaction and so on. Each meter collects current, voltage and associated phase angles and proceed to carry a two-way communication to form a sensors net using XBee-PRO DigiMesh 2.4 which is a RF commercial communication module.